#Aquarius fairy tail

[floertoer]

my fairy tail brain rot continues

[fairytail-rewritten]

I am in love with your version of ♓️ star dress ; do you have any more star dress redesigns ? If you don’t no worries XD

Hey! Sorry, I'm usually on mobile and I swear I never saw this ask in my notifs tab!

I was planning on saving these for a bigger post I have planned for Lucy, but since it’s been so long since I've posted, I'm happy to share some concepts now

Here’s what I got for Taurus and Aquarius

I'm a lot more confident in Taurus’ concept, Aquarius however is something I'm definitely still working on.

More details under the cut!

For Taurus specifically, his actual design and my redesign are very pro wrestler adjacent, so I tried mixing that in a touch with the cowpoke theme that I already quite liked about the original

I think for the most part, I’ll have her Star Dress forms retain a pink/red/white colour palette to show how the spirits are meshing with her person.

Aquarius is a notable exception. Not only do I just think the blues look better, given that she's meant to sacrifice herself to grant this power to Lucy, I imagine her soul is bound to the magic present, and so it's much more evocative of her palette.

I think having the silhouette of the dress, whether Lucy is on the ground or not, “float” is a good way to evoke that underwater feeling. I was also heavily referencing beta fish fins when thinking of the overall shape.

(Originals for reference)

[zqttixx]

please I am on my knees !! Do you have any more of character redesigns ? Your art is amazing !!(I especially love Aries redesign 🥰) also your art work of the characters role playing on Twitter looks so pretty 😍!! ( Yukino and Sting look so cool 😎)

Thank you so so much !! 🫶

i have a few doodles and references left that i haven’t posted so hope u like them !! 😋

[bumblebeehug]

what if aquarius hadn't shown up to save, Lucy from being a Nure-Onna, would Natsu have fought with her until she passed out? Or would he have stopped after a while, figuring that nothing is worth beating his best friend to a pulp for? Cuz he did tell aquarius that she saved him - from emotional damage perhaps?

[eebibly]

I don’t reaaaally like the stardresses

But not for the same reason I’ve seen others dislike them? The biggest argument I see against Lucy’s stardresses is that it’s too much like Erza’s requip. I don’t disagree with that specifically. The thing is, in a roundabout way, I would argue that the issue with Lucy’s dresses is actually more of a reflection of the issue with Erza’s power (which I may or may not make a post about). What I mean is, if Erza’s magic was better developed, Lucy’s magic would seem more original.

Much like almost every other magic in this lazy-ass written universe, I don’t like the ‘rules’ (or lack thereof) for summoning them. The power scaling in FT is infamously terrible, so I’m basically preaching to the choir, but brain rot takes over my typey fingees sometimes.

So I’ve been reading the manga because the anime recently upset me, therefore I’d now rather quickly read through FT: 100YQ than invest a lot of emotional energy in an adaptation that really slows the pacing of its printed counterpart. That being said:

Part 1: Aquarius

First of all, I don’t agree with the fact that Lucy can still use Aquarius’s stardress. I understand that it was gifted to her by the Celestial King during Tartaros, but that only should have lasted as long as that war. I think it undermines Aquarius’s sacrifice and I also believe it would have benefited Lucy and her goals as a character for 100YQ. Giving Lucy Aquarius’s stardress could have represented the end of an era but the start of a new one. And it does, ostensibly. Aquarius is basically Lucy’s first spirit, someone who has both a strong connection with Lucy and with her mother. It’s a difficult bond to break, but a testament to Lucy letting go of a piece of her past to protect her present bonds. As a reward for such a sacrifice, the Celestial King gives her one last chance to fight for her future with an old friend’s power. It’s a beautiful moment that acts as closure for Aquarius’s “loss”, but also a hint at the new possibilities for Lucy’s new abilities. And that’s all it needed to be.

However, despite the fact that her contract with Aquarius is, for that time being, null and void, Lucy now overuses ‘Aqua Metria’ at every turn instead of bothering to actually summon the spirits with whom she currently has contracts (and seriously, is there no reason she can’t use Regulus Impact? I feel like it accomplishes the same… impact). This paragraph is just me venting, I find it quite annoying… Not to mention that not having the dress until she gets the key back could be something else to look forward to! Also Aquarius’s dress is probably my least favourite… so boring and just another excuse for Mashima to draw as little clothes on Lucy as often as possible.

Part 2: Borrowed power

Or at least, I feel that her stardresses should be considered borrowing a part of her spirits’ powers. Celestial magic is unique in that the wizard doesn’t just need to understand the mechanics of it, or how the magic flows within oneself. It also requires an extra level of bond and trust for it to function at its fullest. It’s actually a really beautiful power, one that I really admire. Which is why I’m so sad that it’s so misrepresented by its own creator. This is my opinion, but considering that summoning spirits is the main facet of her magic, I strongly feel that summoning a stardress should cost more power than opening a gate as well as be less powerful than the spirit whose dress it belongs to. That way, it’s still more worth it to summon the spirit, but is also a testament to the wizard’s magic power and their bond with their spirit since they are willing to expend even more power just to be able to fight alongside them. Not only that, but it feels to me like the dresses should be the spirits sharing their power with Lucy. However, it feels more like Lucy is summoning an entirely different entity that scales purely on her own magic power. Doesn’t that make her spirits obsolete? She barely ever summons them anymore because it seems that choosing to summon a stardress and skipping the spirit is not only more cost effective, but also makes her combat more efficient. If she fights better by herself than with her spirits, why even have spirits?

Considering how poorly written the spirits are, I’d almost argue that the stardresses, and only the stardresses, should’ve been Lucy’s power from the start. If you can’t do it right, then don’t do it at all.

On that topic:

Part 3: Is he bored of them?

I’m genuinely wondering if Mashima grew tired of his own concept. And by that I mean, the spirits specifically. Because he clearly loves the moral behind them. You love and respect them even if they’re not human. A moral developed really well, at least as far as I’ve seen in the anime, in Edens Zero. I won’t spoil it because this is a post about Fairy Tail, but I really like how that moral is done in that story. But he made 2 major mistakes in Fairy Tail. 1) Celestial wizards are rare. How can you fight for a cause if there is no cause to fight for? He tries to make up for this by Lucy starting to connect with other characters in the way the other protagonists just can’t, like Eclair from Phoenix Priestess and Athena from 100YQ. Great, point for Lucy’s character, really well done. Why can’t she extend that to her spirits on-screen? 2) he seems to have decided that because the spirits aren’t human, they must be one-note?? And only one spirit can have depth at a time. When he needed Aquarius to matter, Loke devolved into the thats-my-wife-guy. Meanwhile Aquarius evolved from raging PMS b*tch to ‘well maybe I do love Lucy after all -3-’.

He has written so so so many characters into his canon, but the celestial spirits, nooo that’s too much to keep track of. Despite how much he hammers home that they matter as much as everybody else. Worst of all, most of the time that they’re summoned, Lucy just seems annoyed or disturbed. So which is it???

Part 4: Help

I wish I could let go, someone help.

If you got this far, thanks for reading ✌️

[chocor0se]

you know that scene in the tartarus arc where lucy breaks aquarius’s key? trick question of course you do.

i would like you to recognize that before she breaks the key, she says “i can’t sacrifice one friend to save others!”

and you know what this reminds me of? the phantom lord arc. lucy says (or at least tries to say) that she’ll leave and go with phantom lord to her father, so that no one would get hurt. no one accepts this anyhow, and they all strive to protect lucy and not sacrifice her for their own good.

just a little detail i noticed, that’s all

[akiravarts]

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Love those two 💙💛

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[cheerforrevenge]

13.

[favourite-character-competition]

Blue hair and pronouns competition

[celticcatgirl2]

“Uuuh thanks for helping me out…I couldn’t afford the water bill because if you can believe it Natsu blew all our money on Genshin Impact AGAIN….HAH HAH HAH HAH…”

[yourfavesaysfag]

Aquarius from Fairy Tail says fag!

[i-love-a-lot-of-things-a-bunch]

Some celestial spirits! 🐄🐏🦂🌊 (mostly Taurus!)

[fairytail-rewritten]

Here’s Aquarius!!!

She changed like, just barely. To be honest I don’t have much of a problem with her og design so this is mostly just personal preference. The vase is totally oc tho :->)

Im aware that Aquarius is an air sign but having the water bearer not use water feels silly to me. And to be honest I like the mermaid idea personally.

[zqttixx]

more ft doodle dumps

[bumblebeehug]

Happy and or one of the celestial spirits babysitting Nasha while natsu and Lucy are out on a job

Urgh I had written the longest answer to this with this huge scenario of every spirit coming to help Happy in his baby-sitting job, but ofc Tumblr deleted it mid sentence🙄 it went something like this:

Natsu Happy and Lucy go on a mission, plans to have Gemini-Lucy be the babysitter. Lucy gets mom-nerves last minute and makes sure that Happy stays behind (he still gets his share of the reward + he thinks it’ll be an easy job taking care of Nasha, so he gladly oblige)

Gemini and Happy are hopeless. Nasha won’t stop crying: H convinces G to switch places with Aries I’m hope that she’ll calm Nasha down. It only works for like 20 minutes, then her throat opens wide in cries again. Aries switches places with Loke who manages to figure out that they should change diapers on Nasha — yay! She’s still not happy though, Loke switches back to G (he wants to be on call for Lucy too).

Then Nasha starts rummaging around the apartment. It’s supposed to be child safe, but it’s more Natsu-safe. Nasha figures out the child locks, and in panic G calls for backup. First Lyra (she doesn’t get that they’re trying to calm Nasha down, so she plays an upbeat melody — no help), then Capricorn (he gets So Awkward with children that Happy has to face palm). Scorpio gives it a try — he just scares Nasha. Cancer enters but leaves as fast as he came (scissors and kids don’t work well together). Taurus comes in a clutch and gives Nasha a warm cup of milk (except she won’t take it from Taurus bc he’s scary — the milk helps calm her nerves though). Pyxis and Plue tries their best to entertain her, but quickly give up since she’s too shy to show appreciation. Meanwhile Virgo and Leo come in and do the occasional diaper change, but staying as much as the celestial world as possible so they can be by Lucy’s side when she needs them.

Happy and Gemini are sweating. Crux has been doing research about kids in the celestial world, but fell asleep before figuring anything out.

Happy calls out for Horologium in desperation. Turns out Nasha loves Horologium to death and sleeps her very best inside of him. Peace, finally. Happy goes to wash his face in the sink — in enters Aquarius, finally! Except she’s seething in anger about the spirits’ reckless treatment of Nasha. Why are they letting a child sleep in a clock? Insanity, she mutters.

Aquarius is GOOD at keeping an eye on kids. She managed Lucy, and she’ll manage Nasha too. Nasha absolutely adores Aquarius — like mother like daughter after all. One day, Nasha will get to summon Aquarius herself, and Aquarius will feel honoured to be in the hands of another kid with the Heartfilia bloodline.

[eebibly]

Spoiler warning I guess for 100 Years Quest? But more like I would like to be spoiled so if you don’t, then ignore this post.

I’m just starting the 100 Years Quest anime right now. I was hoping it would be a fresh start to Fairy Tail, but I’m only 2 episodes in and they’ve shipped themselves off to another continent and recycled the dragon plot again.

To those who know 100 Years Quest, do the celestial spirits even matter anymore? They’re what got me into Fairy Tail years ago but they just keep getting more and more neglected. I was hoping a sequel could be a good chance to see them more but it seems that Dragons are the most important part of the plot *again*. Are they ever significantly relevant anymore? (Not including her stardresses and also not including Aquarius). Basically, should I just not hold my breath?