#ft ivan

[dragon-toad]

HOT TAKE : Makarov was a bad father (and a bad grandfather)

I'm expecting a big wave of hate with this one... BUT LET ME EXPLAIN

We can dive into the generational trauma theory : we know Yuri has been profoundly hurt by his wife's death (giving birth to Makarov) and this is a thing we should consider. In most cases, people live with the burden of the death of their partner until they die, which could have been Yuri's case. And the idea that somehow his wife died for his son... Well, angst potential.

Now : death of a loved one + wife who dies giving birth to his son = difficult father-son relationship

And even if Yuri didn't do it intentionally, there could have been a distance between the father and the son, and it has repercussions on the futur.

So yes, it maybe happened completely differently, but let's consider this hypothesis to understand what comes after :

Makarov was raised in the guild, where everybody is friendly. The only thing is his daddy issues. He ends up considering the guild more important, so the thing to cherish and protect at all cost.

Everything is fine.

Then, Ivan enters the game.

I know it's very fun to have an antagonist in the family of the master, the man presented as the most loving, a father for all the lost children, etc. BUT maybe we can go a little deeper.

We sometimes have this idea that some characters are born meaner than others, it allows us to ignore psychology and sociology, but it's not fun.

We can suppose Ivan was born in the guild, like Makarov and certainly Laxus. And as it's shown every single second that Fairy Tail is a very healthy environment, a "big family", so even if Ivan was a bit twisted, he would not have been so mean with his colleagues, provoking his exclusion, and he would have not tried to destroy the guild.

Unless he have daddy issues too. Let's consider : Makarov has a son and the mother is nowhere to be found. Doesn't it remind you of something ? But Makarov know his relationship with his father wasn't awesome, so he tries differently.

So two possibilities can be explored :

1- Ivan is a spoiled child. Being the master's son allows him to do reprehensible things and not be punished after, or not too much, and Makarov wants to give him all the freedom he didn't have. Until he almost kills another member of the guild. Then Makarov is forced to expel him. He takes away the thing that gave Ivan an almost unlimited power, and he doesn't like it. So if he can't have Fairy Tail, nobody will.

2- Makarov prefers the guild to his son. He doesn't know how to raise a kid, what if he screws like his father ? (Spoiler : he does) So when Precht makes him the new master, he puts all his soul into his job. But Ivan wants a father. So he does everything to make his father notice him, to make his father proud. It leads him to dark places, and thus, being strong = being good enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, because he ends up expelled. So, by pure rage, he decides to destroy the thing his father loved more than him. (It's my favorite version)

In both cases, Ivan manipulates his son into believing that being strong is the only way for him to be respected, to be seen.

Which leads us to the Laxus part (finally)

It's canon that Ivan pushed his son to be the strongest (to the point he put a lacrima in his body) so yeah, Laxus has daddy issues. But he has gampa issues too.

Let's continue with the theory we built on this post : Makarov doesn't really raise his son, why would he raise his grandson ?

But we see Makarov taking care of a very young Laxus. Thus, Laxus once loved his grandfather. Except Ivan didn't. So we can suppose he decided to keep his son under his control by manipulating him into thinking he has to be the strongest.

Then Ivan was banned.

The problem with an abusive relationship is that the victim thinks the abuser is on the right, which explains why Laxus was all but happy his father was expelled. But he stayed in Fairy Tail, because despite everything, Fairy Tail is his home. But this home is controlled by the man who banned his father (his abuser)

Laxus becomes a rank-S mage, which means he's the strongest. He has all the rights to make Fairy Tail his home, not Makarov's.

Well yes, but no.

Because there's Mirajane, a prodigy so fucking strong she becomes a rank-S mage too. But Lisanna dies, and suddenly everybody loves Mirajane. She even becomes the right arm of Makarov, because she's too weak now to create problems now.

And there's Natsu and Gray, Makarov's little boys. They're noisy, annoying, but they have potential. They have the potential to become stronger than Laxus. And Makarov loves them.

But more important, because there's Erza, who is so strong, so kind, so nice... Who is his grandfather's favorite. The same grandfather who did nothing when Ivan imprisoned Laxus into a psychological jail and who banned Ivan for somebody else's weakness. And Laxus knows it : she is the future master of Fairy Tail. She will steal his home and make it even weaker.

So he has to take Fairy Tail now, even if his grandfather dies in the process. Better, it will make things easier !

But in the end, Laxus loves Fairy Tail. He loves the guild enough to not betray everybody by joining his father's guild.

Laxus broke the cycle. And I don't think it was thanks to Makarov. If Laxus broke the cycle, it's because despite everything, he has weirdos to stick with. The Raijinshuu are a safe place for Laxus, they are strong enough to be his friends colleagues, they don't call him "psychotic" when he tells them he wants the guild, and more important, they care for him.

Laxus broke the cycle thanks to people who cared for him. They even wanted to follow him when he was banned ! But he said no, because he care for them and he knows they will be better in Fairy Tail.

Now, let's consider : travelling must have felt like therapy for Laxus : he's not part of Fairy Tail anymore and he's sure he will never have the possibility to come back, but he will not join his father because he doesn't want to put his friends in danger. So he has to do something by himself, not under the influence of his father. And I believe this emancipation was beneficial for him. He could learn what it means to be himself, not Ivan's son or Makarov's grandson.

I don't think he fully forgave Makarov for his inaction and for loving other more than him, and he's not completely out of Ivan's philosophy, those things need time, but he escaped the cycle.

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

He sliced open his boy and dropped a rock in him when no one else would 😔✌

[floertoer]

[freedjustineappreciation]

we be seeing u in hell lol

[possessedbydevils]

I love how Kirillov is sweet and nice to everyone except for Pyotr. truly someone in love ❤️

Inspired photo/reference undercut

Credits to @mohich for it!

[thegreenstripes]

Trio da P*taria

[reivun]

@quiiscnt: chico liked for a smol starter!

"do you have a lemon cake slice to go with the triple shot expresso?" he didn't see it, but that didn't mean they didn't have it.

[ghostcond]

doodles while i continue to figure out csp

[musebluebird]

𝒍𝒚𝒅𝒊𝒂 & 𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒏│closed starter for @cursivebloodlines

He'd like to know how the hell he'd ended up in that position. He knew how it had happened. Not that he liked to admit that it had been his mistake, but it was. Of course everyone or almost everyone in the business knew Lydia's family, especially Lydia's father, what he didn't imagine is that his daughter would witness how Ivan murdered a guy. Ivan internally blamed her, the curiosity killed the cat as they said but he also knew that it was not imperative to marry her. Her father had told him several times that she wouldn't say anything, but Ivan wasn't going to leave loose ends. Lydia was a volatile loose end who could hand it over whenever she wanted, even though she had no proof, Ivan didn't want to appear on the police radar.

The ceremony was fucking slow and eternal. No, he had a fucking migraine from having to listen to all that bullshit. Ironically, even tho he was a man with low standards he still attended church sometimes. He preferred less show and would have simply married in the court house but her father had wanted to use that as leverage for his benefit so Ivan had had to make concessions. He was almost sure that Lydia would have preferred the court house too, but the reality was that he hadn't talked much with her since the day they had arranged the marriage.

When the priest finished, Ivan took her cheek as the older man allowed him to kiss the bride. Honestly he didn't expect her lips to feel so good. They were soft, they were warm and they tasted like cherry. As Ivan pulled away from her, he found himself wanting more. "You should smile," he murmured softly before pulling away from her and offering his arm. Happy married life for both of them.

[rebouks]

we caught him 🎵

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Hey phoenix how have you been this is scar anon if you still remember me! Anyways I just have your laxus fanart rotating in my brain again and I am having so many thoughts like,,,I wonder how he got that scar yknow it's such a prominent part of his character but as far as I can recall (which is admittedly not very much considering I haven't watched or read ft in a hot minute) mashima never explained where he got it? God I wish there was an angsty backstory to his scar (or honestly more laxus backstory in general) but if we're being honest he probably just ran headfirst into a pole or smth.

Anyways sorry for my ramblings this was a poorly disguised request for some laxus headcanons if you have the time! (Can you tell he's my blorbo? That fanart you did genuinely restructured something in my brain and I still can't stop thinking about it to this day) Aight that's it from me have a good day! 👍🏼

Finally i can get around to answering this lol

With regards to Laxus' iconic eye scar I don't really think there was any deep reasoning or logic behind it on Mashima's end (from a character design stand point at least) other than having it be a visual tell that yup, this guy's got lightning powers so he's got a lightning shaped scar to let the audience have a clue about that. It's a similar thing with like, giving your fire characters flame printed clothing, or your evil characters red eyes or your yugioh character crazy hair to let the audience know that this is the protag.

It's more of an element to add some interest to his design and key readers into his magic before the big reveal than something i think was definitely added to tie into any backstory related thing.

And if it is connected to anything backstory related that was revealed later down the line a la 100yr quest i dont care because i dont care about anything to do with the sequel lol.

That being said, i've had this old ass concept regarding Laxus' scar that i've always meant to get around to and you've given me the perfect opportunity to talk about it.

So like, in my head and my tweaked version, Laxus' scarring is instead of a random cool looking lighting scar it's literally lightning scars.

Like scars you get from being struck by lightning. Lichtenberg figures.

(Took off his tattoo and guild mark for the sake of clarity)

Enter Phoenix- verse Laxus lol

Reasoning for this is because I've always figured that the operation that dropped that lacrima in him was a botched one. A sorta test run of making a 2nd gen slayer to work out the kinks down the line for better and smoother operations.

So that being said, in the initial months after the operation the lacrima did not adjust smoothly to being in Laxus' body and adapting to work with his natural ethernano so the lacrima would often times send out shocks through his body during that time as the dragon lacrima's and his ethernano particles would slowly sync up and work in unison

Hence resulting in the all over lichtenberg scarring starting from his chest (i always hc the lacrima's somewhere in the chest near the heart or so) and going through the head, arm and leg as exit points for the electricity when he used to get those shocks.

And the scarring would sorta wrap around his head too! If you shaved his head (sorry King) you would see that it would stretch across the scalp as well.

This whole thing also left his right eye slighter weaker than the other (not enough for him to be completely blind in it but it goes kinda fuzzy sometimes).

The whole full body scarring never really raised much questions though, a lot of people who see it just assume that it was a really bad magic accident (I hc that some elemental magics are more volatile and trickier to master due to the danger they could pose to the user so stuff like lighting and poison for eg are less commonly used than say water or air related magics). But those who know, know (Hello Makarov and Thunder Legion).

So uh, yeah. My headcanon and slight redesign regarding Laxus' scarring lol. Probs a lot more extra than you were bargaining for but i wanted to be able to visualize my idea properly 😅

Also bonus the scarring glows when he uses his magic :]

[gremlins--motel]

A bitch finally does their tattoo headcanons for a character and it’s when they’re cranking it

[entrepy]

📷 for a post of your muse on my muse’s instagram, @bokketo wanted bucky and eva ( template. )

[8blud]

“   and  i  don’t  want  to  see  that  happen.   ”   /   starter  call.

𝚒𝚗𝚝.     𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚔𝚒  𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚜,   𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎  𝚗𝚘  𝚘𝚗𝚎  𝚌𝚊𝚗  𝚜𝚎𝚎.

‘   then  leave.   ’     a  duo-syllabic  response   thrown  over  her  shoulder,   without  a  spare  glance  at     @identitics     from  her  passionless  eyes.     a  cold  device  tucked  into  the  crook  of  her  elbow,   creating  a  bone-deep  warmth  in  her.     burying  there,   in  the  leaden  rib  below  her  heart.     bare  skin  couldn’t  feel  this;   inhuman  in  its  delivery.     and  what  lies  underneath?     her  immortality  yearns,   discreetly,   for  another.     (   why  wouldn’t  it?     but  why  would   she?   )     a  warmth  of  which  she  is  capable.     lines  of  code  and  her  calculation   –   formulas  beholden  to  humanity’s  synthetic  child   –   which  belong  in  her  hands  alone.     that  heated  need  to   control.     an  untouched  inflection:   eternally  emotionless.     ‘   you’ve  sniffed  around  for  long  enough,   go  back  to  your  kennel.     they  miss  you  dearly,   i’m  sure.   ’

[ccmpletemess]

closed starter for @artefactvm ( rafe & ivan ! )

It had been a long, boring day at work, with Rafe idly rambling to Ivan in an attempt to pass the time. At first, he'd found his new co-worker rather intimidating, but he'd rather quickly fallen into a routine of chatting the other's ear off while they worked. He'd turned to make conversation with the other, when Ivan had reached down for a tool, Rafe's eyes drawn to the way the other's shirt barely stretched around the other's biceps. Without thinking, he took a step forward, smacking his face against the side of the plane. "¡Mierda!" He yelped, taking a step back as he rubbed at his face.