#ft 428

i felt like gray knew that he deserved a slap from lucy which is why he didn’t retaliate or try to dodge. obviously he expected to be punched my natsu (because what else did they do to each other when they were in ft?), but notice how he didn’t attack with his ice magic?

argh this obsession with e.n.d. is leaning too close to sasuke uchiha territory and i don’t like it.

there were lots of slight looks gray had, like when natsu mentioned juvia, or when jerome had the sword to lucy’s neck (his eyes were closed and he looked very conflicted by his body language). idk maybe we are all reading into it too much but let me live in my fantasy land where gray is not evil ok pls.

fucking mary tho, that bitch messed with the wrong mage. argh i hate how lucy is always the leverage, or tortured for whatever reason (like in gmg by minerva). mashima pls get some new ideas.

the gale (gajevy) moment was nice, but we need backstory.

ok secondly gray insulting ft is what really riled me up. not that he erased his guild mark (he would have to do that for obvious reasons if he was joining avatar).

‘stop with the whole bff act’

that started a fking shit storm. like seriously gray shut the fuck up. what the fuck is wrong with you. at that moment i wanted lucy to use her celestial magic to fuck shit up. i wanted her to do more than just slap him.

i wanted her to punch him to the floor and not stop until her stomachache caused her to. im glad gray’s eyes turned back to normal for a sec though.

GRAY YOU THINK IT’S AN ACT!??!??! AFTER ALL THEY’VE BEEN THROUGH WITH YOU??!?!? WHY WOULD YOU EVEN??!!?? I DONT EVEN HAVE THE WORDS MY MIND IS JUST ???????????????????

ok but let’s talk about juvia for a sec. in this chapter, and the one before this, we saw a frail, broken shell of the juvia that was once a part of ft. and the reason for it?

gray. not just gray leaving. gray growing distant, getting demon marks, everything. gray is TOXIC for juvia. but she loves him too much to notice. gray is the reason juvia is lying sick in that bed. i want juvia to get passed her obsession with gray - her DEVOTION to him, and i want it to evolve into genuine love and affection that is REQUITED.

i’ve always seen juvia as gray’s light. as we saw her at the end of the tartaros arc, gray leaned on her for support.in my opinion that’s the REAL gruvia. that’s the ship im sailing.

she is probably the only one other than natsu who can save him at this point. but i just dont want gray mistreating and USING her love for him in some twisted way to get her on his side. then all hope for a real gruvia will be thrown out the window, and it will be reduced to a toxic relationship.

i want to see her like she was in the last chapter of the tartaros arc, with gray broken in her arms. when she’s the strong one and it’s him who needs her.

that’s the gruvia that i ship - where they both need EACH OTHER, not some lovesick girl pining after a boy who can’t love her back.

One of the biggest complaints about Levy is that her relationship with Gajeel is making her neglect Shadow Gear. If you have seen my post about favorite shippings, I did recognize this. However, I think that this chapter has brought this issue in a new light.

I think it’s awesome that Levy and Gajeel are in the council together. But what does this mean about Shadow Gear? Did Shadow Gear disband with Fairy Tail or is Shadow Gear still alive? We know from chapter 418 that Jet and Droy are together. Was Levy kicked out of Shadow Gear or did she leave of her own will? 

Ultimately, we don’t know. While it would be easy to blame Levy for caring for more about Gajeel than Jet and Droy, they are not free from fault. In last week’s episode, they chose to do a job without Levy. A job, mind you, that Gajeel and Pantherlily were already working on. 

Does this mean they are all to blame? No. I do agree that Gajevy does put tension on Shadow Gear. I believe this is more the reason she is in the council than feelings for Gajeel.