#tower of heaven

[ace-of-fairytail]

The tower of heaven characters

[mystycor]

Rewatching Fairy Tail with my sister and was reminded how much I love them

[siesporamor]

Please point me to one (1) occasion when the Magic Council did something against a threat that was actually effective. No, arresting criminals after they'd already been defeated does not count.

[moltensmusings]

Posting these to break up the oc posts. I'm thinking I might make Wally look more like a Marionette/ventriloquist dummy in his first appearance because my idea is that the tower crew disguise themselves as circus performers to kidnap people as sacrifices for the tower.

[thesirenwithnovoice]

"Sweet dreams are made of this"

Just a silly idea I had been playing with ♡ I'm embarrassed help

Btw, this is 99,9% traditional (except for the lettering because no one deserves to be forced to decipher my ugly handwriting, lol).

[the-dragon-hearted]

The Tower of Heaven Kids Dynamic RN

So in the fanfic, Erza, Jellal, Simon, and Erik are all in Fairy Tail post the Tower Heaven and I just realized this is literally their dynamic:

These kids are not alright, guys. They're coping best they can. I love writing them so much

[captainuranium543]

Between Erik, milianna and kinana what the fuck where they doing in that tower that kept turning children into animals

[yamishika]

In celebration of Jellal Day! (25.06.23)

Tale of the two Jellals with mine & @xhusu interpretations/HCs on young Jelly 🫐 💫

[reachzodact1]

pressure cooker, luna ascension

[ermbehindyou]

i guess i’m just becoming a juvia fan account now?? but i can live with that.

let’s please not forget how devoted juvia always has been and always will be to fairy tail. i mean, during battle of fairy tail arc, it took her literally less than a second to decide to sacrifice herself because she’d rather risk her life than harm another member of fairy tail, even if she didn’t know cana that well at the time.

also, the fact that at her core she truly loves the other members of fairy tail? i think people act like juvia genuinely dislikes lucy or hate on her for calling lucy a “love rival”, but i think of their relationship more like natsu and grays. at least in the sense of “they fight and there’s hostility- but actually they love each other.”

despite being cursed during tower of heaven arc (again, right after she’d joined the guild) she was able to partially break through that to reach out to lucy, where they performed the first unison raid in the series. amazing, that’s sisterhood.

finally, on her’s and grays relationship, i feel like people get wayy to mad about her “stalker” gag. calling juvia an abuser or a manipulator or saying gruvia is toxis is shockingly normalised, but if i said gray was a sex offender people would call me insane. rightfully so, by the way, because his stripping is a gag. it’s not meant to be taken seriously, and while other character yell and express discomfort that’s supposed to be the punchline, whether or not you find it funny.

when you boil it down, gray has always carried the blame that he killed ur, and has become convinced he is unlovable because of it, yet juvia has continuously shown gray unconditional love, and slowly made him feel like he is worthy of love.

anyway, stan juvia and have a nice day

[void0mega]

Tower of Heaven

[10/12/22]

[ace-of-fairytail]

Erza inside Etherion (1,000 year quest AU)

[kaleilaart]

Inktober Days 3 and 5: Vessel and Blade

Tower of heaven arc will always be one of my all time favorites ❤️💙

[princeash28]

Natsu's perspective of Erza's sacrifice in the Tower of Heaven

Natsu forced his eyes open when a horrible sense of wrongness flooded him at the sound of Erza’s pained cry.

His hazy brain couldn’t make sense of all the blue around him until jagged edges dug into his skin beneath him. He blinked to clear up his swimmy vision, his body pulsing in time with the rumblings all around him.

It all came flooding back. The Tower of Heaven. Eating ethernano. Feeling it ignite his insides and then mix with something previously dormant in him.

The fight with Jellal. Collapsing into the arms of—

Erza.

He could smell her. He heard her quiet, pained grunts.

He dragged his eyes over and his mind tripped on the sight of her arm being sucked into gelatinous ethernano.

‘Wait… What?’

His arms burned with the effort to push himself up; his head spun as he got to his knees unsteadily.

“E-Erza?” He croaked, his throat raw along with everything else. His body felt burnt from the inside, ripped apart and soldered back together. His muscles trembled like they would unravel at a moment’s notice. Something in his mind whispered that he had felt like this in a dream before, but it didn’t matter, because—

Erza jumped at the sound of his voice, and her horrified expression revealed itself when she whipped her head to look at him with wide eyes.

“Natsu—!”

“H-hey…” Natsu managed, his heart sinking as the sense of wrongness in the air grew. “I don’… don’t get it… What’re you doing…?”

Erza’s arm sunk deeper into the ethernano, but it looked like she…

His voice was much too close to a whimper when he asked, “Are you… try’na to go back inside that thing?”

After he had already pulled her out? After he had beaten Jellal? After they had won?

“I don’t have a choice—it’s the only way I’ll be able to stop it.” The panic in her eyes was mounting his own.

“What are you talkin’ about? Stop what?”

The shaky tower of crystallized ethernano shuddered, and chunks of it rained down around them. Something foreign yet familiar in Natsu’s veins simmered as light pulsed in all of the gemstones—a warning.

A countdown.

It was going to blow.

“Now you see,” Erza said as Natsu craned his head to watch cracks spiderwebbing all around them. “It’s the ethernano. If it continues to gain power, the Lacrima won’t be able to contain it, and the whole place will explode.”

She winced before adding, “Nnngh—But if I fuse my body with the magic energy, I think I can prevent that from happening.”

Natsu stared dumbly for a second as his exhausted brain digested what she was saying.

Fuse her body with…?

Panic sunk its teeth into Natsu, relentless and visceral. “I’m not gonna let you do that! There’s gotta be another way to stop it!”

But the tower began to pull Erza in, and she cried out in pain even as she allowed it to do so.

“Erza!” Natsu scrambled forward on limbs numb with exhaustion, but his feet wouldn’t work, and he couldn’t stand up. He could only stumble towards her and collapsed just in front of the giant stone taking Erza.

“I-I… I promise I’ll stop it,” she grunted out, “There’s no need to worry. I’m determined to save all of you!”

“No!” Natsu shouted desperately.

Gray’s enraged eyes flashed in Natsu’s mind; his ragged voice, his trembling hands. Pushed into a corner he couldn’t see a way out of. “I’m ready to die if that’s what I gotta do!”

Except there had been a way out. Because Natsu had been there.

“Don’t do it,” Natsu pleaded, and dragged himself closer. Black was edging into his vision. His muscles spasmed but wouldn’t lift him. He couldn’t move.

Erza’s eyes crinkled with hurt, and there was an awful resignation that didn’t belong in her eyes.

“I have to,” she whispered, and Natsu’s heart broke.

Her free hand came to cradle Natsu’s cheek even as he stared, slack-jawed and devastated and useless.

“I can’t even imagine what my life would’ve been like without Fairy Tail,” Erza said with the tenderness of a big sister. “If it weren’t for you and the others, I probably wouldn't be here today.”

Her voice became choked, then. “I hope you know… how important you all are to me. I care for you so much.”

“…Erza…”

She let him go. Her hand gently came away from Natsu’s face, and his cheek was cold.

His breath hitched minutely as she pulled away, disbelief stealing the air from his lungs at her absence.

“That’s why I’m willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. If it means my loved ones will be spared, I’ll gladly give my life—” Her face sunk into the Lacrima, sealing her from the outside world—from Natsu. “—so that you may live!”

This was happening.

His sister was going to—

Just like Gray had almost—

Just like Lisanna had—

Panic and adrenaline finally got his body working again. Natsu’s fists struck the Lacrima like two pebbles trying to break apart a mountain.

“No! No way! Come out of there right now!”

He hit it again and again and again, breaking bones, sending blood spraying from his knuckles, but he didn’t care.

He had saved her. They were supposed to go home together.

“You can’t leave us! NO! Plea—” His own desperate sob interrupted him, and spittle flew from his mouth. “Please!”

She drifted further into the Lacrima as if she were simply sinking into the sea, submerged by the blue around her and taken captive by the Tower that had once kept her a slave. Natsu was weeping, unable to see anymore and unable to regain his composure.

His sister—his sister—

White burned everything away as Natsu roared in grief. In defiance.

That familiar foreign simmering in Natsu’s veins turned to a boil. His body coiled and his muscles thrummed with the last dregs of power the ethernano had given him. The tower, packed full of the same magic churning in Natsu, lit up at the same time his heart ignited in pain like a chemical fire was enveloping it.

In demand.

“Erzaaaa!”

His fists slammed into the Lacrima.

The Tower of Heaven cracked.

Read the rest in Chapter 4 of Don't You Dare (Make me Fall in Love with You): A Grastu fic with lots of angst and fluff 💖

[danithenerd]

Luna Ascension (2025 vs. 2023 vs. 2018)

[thesirenwithnovoice]

On Siren being a huge nerd today's episode, there's an example of how details can change or add to the overall meaning of an image that I find pretty interesting:

In the anime, it's a cute scene in which we can see a bit of how Erza sees Jellal and how he used to always encourage his friends. In the manga, it's also sweet, but there are some subtle differences:

The change in details allows us know a little more about the dynamics between the kids, specially the older two: Wally and Simon realize Erza's shy reaction when Jellal talks to her, and both have different reactions to it - Wally making a teasingly gesture and Simon being the only one looking unpleased (details that we know will be very relevant later in the story).

(Noting that I'm just comparing one frame isolatedly, what doesn't necessarily mean you can't get the same conclusion in the anime throught other scenes! My point here is just to highlight how simple expression changes can add meaning and different information to a single image, what I do not only find interesting as a reader, but also very useful as an artist as a way to enrich our drawings. If we only had this single scene to compare, maybe in the anime version Simon's jealousy wouldn't be so clear, nor Wally's awareness of Elza innocent crush.)

Now, one might think I'm criticizing Simon's character for loving how the manga reinforces it, but actually, it's an aspect that I appreciate a lot: in Fairy Tail, there's no dicotomy, or saint. Even the man that bravely sacrificed his life to save Erza, has always suffered from one sin: envy.

And poetically, I think in his death, Simon finally became the man he always wished to be; Erza said Jellal used to be admired for his leadership qualities, and he was always ready to sacrifice his well being for his friends without a hinge of hesitation - however, it had never been an easy role to play. We can't blame Simon, or anyone, for having not been like him; after all, being a hero comes at a high cost: for Jellal, his sanity, and for Simon, his own life.