Nalu_slayer

Chapter 1

Some days I act like I’m alright but deep down I just want NaLu to officially be a couple in the main story.

Mashima be like hold my beer:

1.) Trust in each other:

2.) Protecting each other:

3.) Hugs:

4.) Funny Moments

5.) Forehead Touches and Hand Holding:

6.) Natsu preferring Lucy’s apartment over his own home:

7.) Natsu granting Lucy’s wishes:

8.) Natsu being jealous:

9.) Natsu carrying Lucy:

10.) Lucy calming Natsu down:

That brings us to two questions: Why does he play the clueless fool and what will make him acknowledge his feelings and, eventually, act on them?

First, it is my interpretation that what terrifies Natsu more than anything else in the world is loss. He cannot so much as entertain the possibility of losing the people he loves. Let alone accept its inevitability. It is why he adheres to a maladaptive coping style where he simply avoids difficult situations and feelings. Instead of facing the reality of Igneel's death and allowing himself to be supported by his friends, he chose to isolate himself from everyone with only Happy for company. Natsu would sooner bear the burden of the entire world than share his own with his friends.

When the situation is under control and whatever crisis they're facing is averted, he wilfully regresses to his childish ways, content with the knowledge that he wouldn't have to face his feelings or address them. That everything will be how it always has been.

For Natsu to experience growth, he will have to experience a loss from which he can neither escape nor avoid. It shouldn't be a permanent one but it needs to last a while and end with the realisation that life is too short to not be savoured in its entirety. That he needs to break out of the shell he so stubbornly clings to and let people in.

Then there are his feelings for Lucy, who, I daresay, is in an entirely different category from the rest of his friends.

His words to Lucy at the end of the manga, that they will always be together, are not so much a statement, as they are a promise, both to her and to himself for when he believed that he had lost her forever, the outcome was frightening. Much like his brother Zeref, whose whole tragedy was triggered by his inability to come to terms with losing the one he loved most, Natsu's intense devotion for Lucy can bring out the worst in him.

I think this scene is underrated like Natsu and Happy were going to watch Lucy be quite literally tortured and Natsu might’ve had to watch Lucy be killed again (by literally being chopped in half) also I like how you can tell how more desperate he gets as the scene progresses and the way he calls her name a lot

You know what? At this point, the Fairy Tail fandom deserves a movie completely Nalu centric like what Naruhina got.

If you're not gonna develop their relationship in the main storyline, then end 100 Years Quest with a next gen reveal. Then give us the movie with Natsu realizing he's in love with Lucy and Lucy realizing she's in love with him. Give us a situation where there's a chance they may never be together again, give us the emotional push the two of them need. Then have them confess. Make it happen.