#grand magic games

[fairytailfairiess]

Before

After 💙

And people still say Gray doesn't care about Juvia 🤭

[bumblebeehug]

never forget how laxus, gajeel, gray, juvia and erza won over sting through pure aura in the gmg

[tamibae]

“We feel so inevitable-

I’m confident we have transcended the laws of physics and found each other in every parallel universe.”

[awesomenikie]

Me after any inconvenience: let’s rewatch the grand magic games arc.

[celestialspiritbabe]

found this list on r/fairytail, so I thought it would be cool to fill it out🫶🏻

[threeletteredname]

Aww happy🥺

[missdeepend]

7 in Fairy Tail

"What's with all the 7's man?" Thats really what I'm curious about because I find it funny how July 7, x777 all the dragons disappear. We have known that since the very beginning. But also the fact, the guild members were gone for 7 years. You wouldn't think that this has much significance until...

The Eclipse Gate, which opens once again 7 years after the guild members left after slowly absorbing magic from the Grand Magic Games (which was its intended use). I believe they say that the games started right after the members left and so it could be a possibility that if the guild members were there it would absorb magic faster since Natsu and co are extremely strong so they have an abundance of magical energy.

I like to think, however, that it was meant to be opened 7 years later and I believe it was supposed to be opened more likely on July 7th once again, since we find out a full moon disrupts the magic flow in the gate, which would be July 6th.

Also, I realized there are 7 members of team Natsu. That probably doesn't hold any significance but its really funny to think about. Mashima just likes his 7s.

[cecebookworm]

Okay so here’s the thing: I LOVE Fairytail, and by that I mean I rewatch the first season over and over again and bergrudingly manage to force myself to watch new arcs every once in awhile.

Recently my older sister convinced me to finally start the Grand Magic Games arc because it’s her favorite arc and she said it’s worth how long it is. I reached “Lucy Versus Flare!” and A: I relate to Lucy so much it hurts, B: Omg the Nalu in this episode; the moment when Natsu saves Asuka so Lucy can kick ass and then Natsu comforts her after loosing.

I love Natsu sm.

[oryu404]

Hi, I loved your Sting analysis and I 100% agree with all of it so allow me to send you my "how the Sting/Rogue Vs Natsu/Gajeel fight should have happened" propaganda, because I spend way too long thinking how to fix it and I love my version:

So basically, since Sabertooth was presented as the unchallenged 7 year running victors, strongest guild in Fiore and they are amongst the also seemingly unchallenged top 5 of that guild, I think they *need* to be shown to be stronger than Natsu to live up to the hype. (And the most annoying thing is that Mashima *can* write 'Natsu goes against a stronger opponent and win' satisfyingly, exhibit A: Laxus) Like come on, Natsu is a badass but he was never before shown to be an undefeatable super powerhouse, and Sting/Rogue are the current antagonist that got hyped up a lot, story wise they have to be stronger! If the twist is actually every other guild except FT is kinda weak and therefore so is Sabertooth that's a bad twist! And it's not even satisfying to watch!

But they still need to lose, so how? Imo the most satisfying would be: due to their own overconfidence, it's fun and it works with the themes too!

So the way I would write it, (first by forgetting the 'Gajeel and Natsu weren't starting full strength' BS, like since when??? This is FT, where no one ever holds back, not Dragon Ball) but I distress so:

Sting/Rogue are winning handily, throwing unison raid like candy so Sting decides to solo them, goes into Dragon Force and keep winning, even if not as easily and Natsu, who does tend to overestimate himself if it's not life and death, still goes all 'I don't need you Gajeel, I'm gonna win by myself' but he doesn't kick him out of the arena, because that was terrible, and Gajeel is staying around like 'fine go get your ass kicked, I'll laughs'

And 2v1 was hard enough, 1v1 Natsu is losing fast, only Gajeel isn't stupid and he wants to win so he had a plan: while Rogue was distracted and not paying attention to him, having kinda disregarded him as a threat, he jumps him and doesn't let him use Dragon Force, maybe Rogue is the one who get kicked down a mine shaft even.

And then Gajeel somehow creates an explosion to give fire to Natsu and rejoins the fight. Gajeel is still relatively fresh while Sting has just been burning through a ton of magic between Dragon Force and unnecessarily showing off and so Gajeel/Natsu show that they can in fact fight together decently and they win, preferably with an unexpected unison raid.

That way the fight is hard won and thus satisfying to watch, Sting/Rogue were defeated by their own hubris (and separately!) even though they actually were stronger, illustrating the whole 'the strength of friendship beat being personally strong and is more important' theme (AND it gives more weight and more anticipation for Rogue Vs Gajeel future fight, but that would be a whole other essay) AND *it's not the only duo showing the power of friendship who loses* because genuinely, I think Mashima might have forgotten who he was trying to make us root for? (Why give Sting the Power of Friendship tm AND an emotional motivational flashback and then make him lose like that???)

Anyways, so sorry this got incredibly long, but I don't want to erase it now that I wrote all that ^^' Please do ignore me if I was bothering you

Hi! I'm so glad you liked my Sting rant analysis! Also, uhm...Hell Yes to your version of the dragon slayer tag battle! It hits a couple of points that I think are very satisfying, and that would make a lot of sense.

- Sting and Rogue being defeated separately, and directly thanks to their own arrogance: The Twin Dragons have insane teamwork and amplify each other's strengths. Separating them should be step 1 towards defeating them. Plus, they've shown arrogance (Sting) and indifference (Rogue) from the beginning. Having those attitudes be their downfall would fit very nicely into their humbling and later character improvement. And the scenario you posed works really well: Sting showing off and blowing through his MP, and Rogue letting his guard down when he lost interest. Mistakes neither of them care to make again on the last day (especially after the beating from their master). Sting now saves up all his strength for the final confrontation, while Rogue focuses on settling his score with Gajeel.

- Natsu and Gajeel teamwork: These two are rivals who never had the friendliest dynamic, so showing them put all that aside and win this battle for FT? If that ain't power of friendship, I don't know what is.

- Rogue getting kicked down the mineshaft....Now that would be very interesting considering what he'd find there. He and Gajeel wouldn't be able to really finish their fight so it would absolutely up the anticipation for their second encounter on the final day. Still trying to figure out what it would mean for the stuff with Zirconis, but I'm very intrigued by the idea.

Thanks so much for this message, I absolutely loved it!

[fairiesheart]

Lucy deserved so much better during the GMG arc. Not only was she put against Flare (who was openly cheating during their match) and another one of Flare’s members intruded in that match to help Flare win going against the one on one rules. But Natsu also called the bs that was going in the match literally at face value to the judges and they DIDN’T disqualify Flare making Lucy the winner.

She was also heavily humiliated by Minerva without any consequences done towards saber tooth during that moment of the match for that (making her unable to continue fighting). Happy that Erza ended up giving Minerva what she deserved during that time tho.

Just hate how the overall GMG arc robbed Lucy of showing off how much she’s grown either due to torture, humiliation, or other people breaking the rules and trying to use her as some example

[luckyrave]

Fairy Tail Discussion: Lucy Heartfilia is an Amazing Character!

There have been many female heroines in anime, and some more than others don't get the recognition that they deserve. Lucy Heartflia is one of those many female leads that starts from the bottom and slowly grows into becoming one of the most strongest and powerful female characters by the end of the original series. Even when you look at the sequel series, Lucy Heartfilia continues to grow as a character both mentally and physically from an intelligence stance that defines her as a truly amazing character.

[bumblebeehug]

um yeah so remember how natsu's fighting rogue, and as he's about to finish him off, there's this flashback of future natsu and future lucy fighting against the 10 000 dragons? for the longest time i've assumed that it's rogue's memory we're watching, he's kinda watching it all happen and he realises that natsu won't give up in this world either. but it hit me that it's natsu who's seeing this vision. like, rogue sees it too, but in the plethora of magic power they're both exchanging, maybe it's enough for natsu to "connect" with rogue.

and that makes me think about how heartbreaking it must have been for natsu to realise that he couldn't save lucy in the future and live. he got eaten by a dragon in that last scene, and that's what prompted future lucy to go back in time, just for her to get murdured by future rogue. i'm convinced that that final vision was enough for natsu to put in his last magical energy in that blast to beat f!rogue. he couldn't lose. he didn't afford to lose.

and i imagine it was that determination that gave enough power (combined with the 12 zodiacs) to break the eclipse gate. not even the power itself, but the intent behind it. hadn't he seen that vision right before they crashed into the gate, it wouldn't break. he needed that reason for it to work. the intent behind the magic determines the results of the blast (also why no one in fairy tail kills people, despite their extreme powers. unless the intent to kill is behind the blast, people can make it out alive.) (that's just a headcanon though)

[natsu7art]

[awesomenikie]

Doing very important things at work.

[dailygraylu]

He is very worried for her, as usual! And look where he puts his hands, if it's not cute