Lucy's Impact on Natsu(NaLu Analysis 01)
It has been established from time to time that Natsu and Happy are the closest people to Lucy. But people tend to debate a lot about Natsu holding Lucy as his closest(and also Happy). He met Lucy way later than the others yet she quickly made her special place in his heart.
He feels relaxed around her, he thinks she's nice and it was really thoughful of him to bring her pink dumbells so that she starts training with them. He stated in the last season that Anna and Lucy smell alike so feels comfortable around Lucy. People who interprete this sentence as "NATSU ONLY LIKES LUCY BECAUSE SHE SMELLS LIKE ANNA." are enough dumb who don't even try to understand the context.
Anna is Lucy's ancestor and as per Natsu himself, they both smell the same. It means he likes their positive aura, he likes the personalities these Heartfilia ladies have. Both of them are Celestial mages who love their spirits, smart, kind and loveable. He loved this personality back when he was young(400 years ago) and he loved Lucy's personality in present time. That leads to him initiating a lot of interactions with her even when she's not some sorta rival like Gray and Erza.
We all know that Natsu has a somewhat idiotic and forgetful personality. He tends to forget what he said or did before. Him remembering the day Lucy joined Fairy Tail is no less than the sweetest thing in the universe. Even if we do assume that Happy reminded him of the day, it doesn't change the fact that he cherishes the day in his life and mentioned it as her birthday and wanted to go on a job with her.
When she said she had a date so she can't go with them, he reaction was clearly a very dissapointed one. He could've gone without her happily because he's a strong boy who can protect his ass without her(she wasn't even that strong back then).
In the Rainbow Sakura Cherry Blossom Festival which comes only once in a year, Natsu instead of enjoying the party like the rest of the team and others the guild, was sulking like a child just because Lucy wasn't with them. He and Happy even went to pick her at her house. The boy literally was upset the whole time and didn't even smike for once. He uprooted the entire Sakura tree just for Lucy to see. Lucy was a completely a new friend for him compared to Happy Erza, Gray and Wendy.
So what if he would've done that for Gray or Erza(not necessarily)? They're his close friends from the time he joined the guild. But Lucy? It had only been less than 1 year she met him and he already uprooted the tree for her which was a prized possession of Magnolia.
Not to mention this panel, this reminds me of the time he was acting very concerned for Erza when she was arrested by the council. The state of his mind was somewhat different this time. When Erza was arrested, he was calmer than this time, he literally hatched a plan to escape the guild and free Erza by taking her place(idiotic plan lol). But this time they literally had to tie him down because he was freaking out without even thinking how his actions would cause trouble.
He straight forward said the word "PRECIOUS" and I'm not saying that Lucy is the only one in fact he loves his family more than his life but it's a matter of fact that he outright stated she's precious to him when he could've said something like "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO LUCY/WHY DID YOU TAKE HER LIFE" but no he said something differently.
And this scene, it was something which separated Lucy's status from Natsu's friends to someone closer. Even Happy, who's the closest to Natsu couldn't tell that he had been acting differently. He was not in control of himself and was talking about burning everything. Erza, Gray, Wendy were happy from him but only Lucy understood something was off about him and calmed him down. She was seriously hurt by the growing fire of Natsu(her StarDress was burnt) yet she didn't care about that. She was concerned about Natsu and she jept thinking about that later.
Zeref mentions Lucy and Happy like he's emphasizing on their importance particularly. If we assume that he was enphasizing on Lucy just because she's Anna's descendant then Erza's should be the same because she's Irene's daughter and Happy's name should also be said like "Happy, Erza, Wendy, Gajeel....." So if Happy gets more importance in Natsu's life according to Zeref then why did he describe Lucy like Happy(putting more significance in words). Zeref said he knows all about his major opponents.
Not to mention this panel lol. People were hitting on Lucy and Natsu burned them. His reactions were pretty much stating that he knew he was pissed at those boys and he even burned the exceeds and Lucy's clothes in the process. He could've ignored that because as long as Lucy was safe, it didn't matter whether people hit on her or not.
We all are familiar with this picture right? Yes, we are. Many people saying that Natsu was on a date with Lucy and he was having a flashback. But no, I think he was having these moments in his head which didn't happen but most likely he wants them to happen/imagines them like this. He was seeing Mira and Lisanna like they always act- Lisanna being a sweet friend and Mira doing bar chores. He saw Erza and Gray acting like usual- Erza patting him on the head or something and Gray was like saying something being annoyed at him. Wendy was also as usual, sweet and brightly smiling. But he didn't see Lucy doing something as usual. She was holding his hand and dragging him with her to some place. He didn't even see Happy flying above their head. So, we can't possibly say he was on a normal job with her without Happy. Because even in his crucial moments, he didn't abandon Happy. The colour palette was different than others and he was imagining her in a beautiful white dress which she normally doesn't wear, her earrings were also different than her usual ones. She was somewhat leaning closer to him and smiling brightly.
She has a really strong and great impact on him and it's getting more obvious day by day. At their current relationship level, any negative or positive thing can trigger him to act on his feelings(like Juvina played a positive role in making Gray admit he wants to get Juvia no matter what, not saying something will bring out Natsu's feelings easily but it was just an example). Not to mention he has something to tell her after this job and he said "Cause we'll be together forever" to Lucy alone.
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