#The Strongest Team

[bumblebeehug]

I like to think that everyone in team Natsu thinks that they + Lucy are the only normal ones on the team. Erza thinks Natsu’s too wild, Gray has got something wrong with him bc why else would he strip on habit, Happy and Carla: talking cats. Wendy is a freak of nature kid who’s too strong and too nice for her own good. But like. She thinks she’s naturally normal. Chill.

While if you ask ANYONE else on the team (except Natsu bc he thinks Happy is perfectly normal as well, so his normal-count is 3, ofc including himself and Lucy) they’ll say “Yeah no my team is kinda wild, I get what you mean. Not sure what they’d do without me and Lucy to calm things down.”

Meanwhile Lucy’s just like “I love everyone, but they’re all a bit too strong for everyone’s good. I could do without some of their quirks though. We don’t really need Gray to strip. Or Natsu to eat everything in sight. Or Erza to knock everyone out as soon as she gets the chance. Wendy is pretty calm! Until she goes dragon force on you… maybe the cats are the most normal…”

[mousecracker]

the strongest team :)

[fairydares]

when Team Natsu splits up whichever way and Gray and Wendy wind up partnered? that's just the group mom team. good way for everyone else to wind up in Situations. with no one to even run towards them all worried and bark, "Are you alright?!?!" at them afterwards or heal them or yell at them for being stupid or fuss over them. sad!

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[gallusgalluss]

some more art fight attacks! yahoo!!

for @tintoonz, @obscure-entity @antzinha, and @plutoons!

[ggghostem]

The osc after a long day of turning objects into cats: 🥱😴

[waffleydootdoot]

TPOT drawing for my art final! (This is on an 18x24 inch paper btw)

[beware-of-you-98]

i know, i know, jj is so fucking strong and she perseveres despite everything she’s gone through, i know, but fucking hell my heart is breaking over and over for her

the far away look in her eyes

the constant fidgeting to keep herself present

the way she only has the bare minimum amount of skin showing, even to where she’s covering her hands

my heart hurts for her so much and she’s forcing herself to deal with all of this alone

[cheebuss]

HEAVY TF2 TUMMY !! !! !!

DID SOMEBODY SAY HEAVY LGBT REP??? (ft. The Demon of Babylon aka Archimedes)

[art-parasi-te]

[sannin-three]

Imo, the argument of "which Sannin is the strongest" misses the point of the characters and their three way deadlock

The Sannin are of course references to the characters from the Japanese folklore story, The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya. However, they also reference the game of mushi-ken, which is basically an old variant of Rock, Paper, Scissors. In the game, Slug beats Snake, Snake beats Toad, and Toad beats Slug.

This is reflected in their interactions in canon.

Slug beats Snake

This one's easy - Tsunade famously beat up Orochimaru that one time.

Snake beats Toad

Now, some people argue that Jiraiya is more powerful than Orochimaru and would easily win if they were to fight. Most often I see people cite that Itachi easily trapped Oro in a genjutsu, but hesitated to face Jiraiya.

But power scaling is more complicated than that - if we're going to compare them fighting against other people then here's a different example:

Jiraiya nearly died trying to calm Four-Tails Naruto, while Orochimaru fought him directly and got away basically fine. And when we did see the two fight, Orochimaru easily penetrated Jiraiya's defenses.

Sure Jiraiya had been drugged not long before, but Orochimaru was arguably worse off, being tired, sickly, and not having use of her arms or chakra abilities. Orochimaru even points this out:

So while Jiraiya might be able to beat Itachi (we don't actually see it happen though so it's really just conjecture) that doesn't mean he can win against Orochimaru. After all, he's been following the snake for years but never fought/defeated them in all that time.

Toad beats Slug

Now this one could be a little controversial, but hear me out:

In terms of brute strength, Tsunade trumps both of her teammates easily; there's no question of that.

But strength isn't everything in a battle. And I think this moment says a lot:

Jiraiya states that he will kill Tsunade if she chooses to betray Konoha, and neither of them question that he has the ability to do so. So while she might regularly beat his ass when he's doing dumb shit, the implication here is that if they were to fight seriously and he genuinely wanted to hurt her, he could. Maybe not with strength alone but with technique and determination he could ultimately take her down.

Deadlock

And there you have the crux of their team - one might be able to defeat another, but no individual can beat both opponents. This is why the deadlock exists. They keep each other in check.

And this is also why they were always more powerful as a team...

[bumblebeehug]

I honestly like the anime adaptation slightly better in this case: in the manga they just fight and the lullaby demon gets beaten, but in the anime they fight a bunch of holes into the demon and then he can't play his flute. The anime adaptation was more creative, but I like how obvious it becomes in the manga that these three are the strongest together - even defeating one of zeref's demons

[mousecracker]

the strongest chaotic team

[littledigits]

This is old but I figure ill put it up here while im doing hilda stuff. This was back on season two when we hadnt settled on a bellkeeper design yet. I was def going down the like, shaggy/disconnected kinda professor lupin type vibes.

[sentientstump]

"Archers" by Koriakin Innokentii as Team Canada for @shepscapades hc character design week 3 prompt (no, im not late, everyone is just faster! >.<)

i went to his exhibition in 2021 with my mom and it was really great :D his works have the most familiar warmth vibe to me and im just "ghgfhhdfjj 👍🏼💥!!!" about it. You can check his ig page if you wanna see more!

original (there's no quality scan of it u_u and I couldn't figure out how to download from ig...) and rough designs i guess? thought process in alt text

[ravens-loft]

"You know nothing of the weight behind this power."