#ranting ideas

[fairytailaustories]

I am quite curious on what the relationship between Jellal and Erza would be if Erza stayed trapped in the Tower of Heaven by Jellal instead of thrown out.

This is just me going off on one so you can just ignore the post.

But what if Erza stayed by Jellal's side instead of being pushed away? What if she was manipulated and had her mind broken by the maniputive torture that Jellal put her through?

Like Erza won't be the woman we all know her to be, she would be a trapper, mentally broken woman, who only knows how to follow the orders of her master.

Considering she never met Fairy Tail, thus never met Natsu or any one from the guild (aside from Grandpa Rob), no one would have been able to defeat Jellal and "kill" him (in other words), so Erza is forever trapped to be by Jellal's side.

I would also believe that the plan (I cannot remember what it's called) would have been a success. The magic council would be too late to realise that Earthland would be destroyed and all.

Erza would remain by Jellal's side until her last breath. Like a Puppet to a puppeteer.

I also don't know where I was going with this. This is just me pouring my thoughts into a post because it was something I just thought of. Sorry if this makes no sense, I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to Fairy Tail.

[loolilyumm]

Agent 3 interrupts the Octo Expansion character selection screen (not clickbait)

[zorangezest]

Shockwave somewhere off in the corner with starscream watching this personality swap unfold that he caused somehow

HOLD ON. YOU’RE RIGJT. SHOCKWAVE DEFINITELY CAUSED ALL OF THIS

you inspired me to make this comic why is this becoming an actual au why does this stupid blucking au have lore I’m going to cry

[go-star-sailor]

transfem wirt truthers wya

[secretsimpleness]

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

[bluerosefox]

BREAKING NEWS! Youngest Wayne's Secret Lovechild?!

Teenage Ellie taking care of deaged Danny and moving to Gotham to hide from Vlad because Lady Gotham offered them sanctuary and will keep Vlad out.

BUT

Chaos is set into motion when during a Rogue attack, Damian Wayne (not as Robin at the moment) saves him and returns Danny to Ellie...

The internet/news happen because of course it did.

And people mistake Danny as his kid and Ellie his baby mama.

[alligaytorswamp]

Rosaria is fighting for her life

[fidenciocryptidcreechur]

Good sebek thread tbh

Sebek appreciation thread

https://x.com/suiseihalations/status/1875756936895037740

Also pardon the screenshot quality

[anghraine]

It's interesting (if often frustrating) to see the renewed Orc Discourse after the last few episodes of ROP. I've seen arguments that orcs have to be personifications of evil rather than people as such or else the ethics of our heroes' approach to them becomes much more fraught. Tolkien's work, as written, seems an odd choice to me for not wrangling with difficult questions, and of course, more diehard fans are going to immediately bring up Shagrat and Gorbag.

If you haven't read LOTR recently, Shagrat and Gorbag are two orcs who briefly have a conversation about how they're being screwed over by Sauron but have no other real options, about their opinions of mistakes that have been made, that they think Sauron himself has made one, but it's not safe to discuss because Sauron has spies in their own ranks. They reminisce about better times when they had more freedom and fantasize about a future when they can go elsewhere and set up a small-scale banditry operation rather than being involved in this huge-scale war. Eventually, however, they end up turning on each other.

Basically any time that someone brings up the "humanity" of this conversation, someone else will point out that they're still bad people. They're not at all guilty about what they're part of. They just resent the dangers to themselves, the pressure from above, failures of competence, the surveillance they're under, and their lack of realistic alternative options. The dream of another life mentioned in the conversation is still one of preying on innocent people, just on a much smaller and more immediate scale, etc.

I think this misses the reason it keeps getting brought up, though. The point is not that Shagrat and Gorbag are good people. The point is that they are people.

There's something very normal and recognizable about their resentment of their superiors, their fears of reprisal and betrayal that ultimately are realized, their dislike of this kind of industrial war machine that erases their individual work and contributions, the tinge of wistfulness in their hope of escape into a different kind of life. Their dialect is deliberately "common"—and there's a lot more to say about that and the fact that it's another commoner, Sam, who outwits them—but one of the main effects is to make them sound familiar and ordinary. And it's interesting that one of the points they specifically raise is that they're not going to get better treatment from "the good guys" so they can't defect, either.

This is self-interested, yes, but it's not the self-interest of some mystical being or spirit or whatnot, but of people.

Tolkien's later remarks tend to back this up. He said that female orcs do exist, but are rarely seen in the story because the characters only interact with the all-male warrior class of orcs. Whatever female orcs "do," it isn't going to war. Maybe they do a lot of the agricultural work that is apparently happening in distant parts of Mordor, maybe they are chiefly responsible for young orcs, maybe both and/or something else, we don't know. But we know they're out there and we know that they reproduce sexually and we know that they're not part of the orcish warrior class.

Regardless of all the problems with this, the idea that orcs have a gender-restricted warrior class at all and we're just not seeing any of their other classes because of where the story is set doesn't sound like automatons of evil. It sounds like an actual culture of people that we only see along the fringes.

And this whole matter of "but if they're people, we have to think about ethics, so they can't be people" is a weird circular argument that cannot account for what's in LOTR or for much of what Tolkien said afterwards. Yes, he struggled with The Problem of Orcs and how to reconcile it with his world building and his ethical system, but "maybe they're not people" is ultimately not a workable solution as far as LOTR goes and can't even account for much of the later evolution of his ideas, including explicit statements in his letters.

And in the end, the real response that comes to mind to that circular argument is "maybe you should think about ethics more."

[arrowheadedbitch]

New idea: Shinsou is supposed to be babysitting Eri but he has to do something so he leaves Denki in charge for a little bit, he comes back expecting the house to be burnt down but instead he finds Eri begging Kaminari to let her re-dirty up her room so they can clean it together again

[hawkinsunderground]

-crack me open and all that's left inside is what's been done to me-

[fairytailaustories]

The difference between my 1st AU and my 2nd AU

(Spoilers in this)

1st AU is more towards canon. The events go from the beginning of Fairy Tail to the end of the main series. No 100 year quest because, I am no where near there. It focuses on the canon ships (or close canon or mostly looks canon/I ship). This AU has the Next Generation stuff involved. It is what I mostly focus on, anyway.

2nd AU is more towards my bullshit mind. This au has no actual proper direction. I mostly call this 'Trans Mystogan AU' because it does mostly focus on Mystogan (My favourite character). In this AU, I have changed multiple things, including ships.

1st AU Ships:

Bickslow X Lisanna Strauss Happy X Carla Elfman Strauss X Evergeen Gajeel Redfox X Levy McGarden Gray Fullbuster X Juvia Lockser Siegrain/Jellal Fernandes X Erza Scarlet Erik/Cobra X Kinana Leo/Loke X Cana Alberona (I find this ship cute in my head) Lyon Vastia X Meredy Milkovich (I like the idea she has Ultear's surname) Laxus Dreyar X Mirajane Strauss Macbeth/Midnight X Sorano/Angel Natsu/END Dragneel X Lucy Heartfilia. Rogue Cheney X Kagura Mikazuchi Romeo Conbolt X Wendy Marvell Sting Eucliffe X Yukino Agura Doctor/Acnologia X Irene Beleserion Jellal/Mystogan De Edolas X Erza Knightwalker Natsu Dragion X Lucy Ashley Gray Surge X Edo-Juvia

2nd AU Ships:

Gajeel Redfox X Levy McGarden Gray Fullbuster X Leo/Loke Erza Scarlet X Juvia Lockser Siegrain/Jellal Fernandes X Ultear Milkovich Natsu/END Dragneel X Lucy Heartfilia Freed Justine X Mirajane Strauss Laxus Dreyar X Jellal/Mystogan De Edolas. Bickslow X Lisanna Strauss Elfman Strauss X Evergreen Erik/Cobra X Macbeth/Midnight Rogue Cheney X Yukio Agura Sting Eculiffe X Miverna Doctor/Acnologia X Irene Beleserion.

Mostly the ships are the same. The 1st AU mostly focuses on the Next Generation. The 2nd AU mostly focuses on my ideas.

Here are a few examples of how I change things: Mystogan in the 1st AU goes to Edolas and stays in Edolas, Mystogan in the 2nd AU goes to Edolas and returns back to Earthland.

Laxus in the 1st AU tries to overthrows but gets kicked out of the guild, Laxus in the 2nd AU is stopped by Mystogan before he could even try.

Mystogan in the 1st AU doesn't look for Wendy before the Oracion Seis, Mystogan in the 2nd AU finds Wendy and brings her to the guild.

In the 1st AU, the 7 year gap happens but in the 2nd AU, it doesn't happen. I find the whole trapped in time for 7 years silly and it just confuses me. They do meet Mavis but Acnologia doesn't show up. Instead Acnologia is with Irene as she calms him down.

The war with Zeref happens in the 1st AU, in the 2nd AU, it doesn't. As Zeref knows Natsu never died on Tenrou Island (I probably spelt that wrong), Zeref's mind doesn't head down the direction it does.

In the 1st AU, Crime Sorcere exists and Ultear dies. In the 2nd AU, it doesn't. Mystogan had paid for all their bails before they even got arrested. Mystogan had made a deal with the Council to have them be under Fairy Tail's supervision and make them do their sentence by saving and helping people, people similar to those they hurt in the past. Ultear doesn't die

In the 1st AU, Mystogan doesn't interact with the guild and stays hidden. In the 2nd AU, Mystogan interacts with the guild more but he prefers to be in a place where he can relax (such as the S class floor). Sometimes when he's in the mood, he'll be a complete menace.

[jaytalking]

Was ranting and literally had to pause being angry to contemplate this more, that's how I get all my ideas btw they're born from the pits of anger and frustration. Kinda like revenge plots.

[skullzy20]

Hold on everyone I'm gonna be sick thinking about this

The fact the Drifter doesn't even feel like they belong in the Origin System is honestly painful. The fact they feel like everyone likes the Operator more because it's originally their timeline, and they've just grown to already accept that. The fact they feel actually at home in the fucking year of 1999.

The fact they feel like they were essentially being used when being sent back to 1999, but they end up staying and feeling more at home in the year despite being sent there like an errand boy. Feeling at home in a place you've barely been in for too long compared to everywhere else you've been for the rest of your life? That must feel wild, y'know? And exciting, but also terrifying.

They just have never felt like they belonged anywhere, basically, but when being sent off on a mission by the Lotus they end up actually feeling like the place they ended up felt like home. People finally care about them, and even love them. Friendships were formed and maybe even a true and genuine heartfelt relationship. Sure, they're still surrounded by daily threats like the Scaldra and Techrot, but there's people who actively care about their well-being now.

Imagine it, no longer actually being alone for most of your life? Having people who worry about you, for the first time in who knows how many years? Getting genuine human (as 'human' as the protoframes get) interaction instead of being called around to do jobs? To simply just exist in such a place? It must feel like a huge breath of fresh air

It's so human and it's so real. You finally begin to heal from the trauma that's been a part of essentially most- if not all your life before arriving. It's such a stark contrast to how things are in the Origin System. I wouldn't want to leave either.

Yeah I like the 1999 update a normal amount (lying)

[stiffyck]

I WISH ARO HEADCANONS WERE MORE POPULAR IN FANDOMS