#yami rambles

In a very "this is the fanservice ship" way. Bc I think something the movie failed to portray is the shippings happening within the groups (Huntr/x too, but polytrix is very healing to see tbh lol)

And maybe I'm just biased bc I love Baby and Jinu, and I think Abby x Baby is kinda... Meh. Or maybe it is the fact that my first mlm ship in general and in kpop was "main vocalist who's a little flirty but absolutely weak in the knees when it comes to the not-so-innocent maknae" vs "maknae who feigns innocence but absolutely isn't and uses their cutesy looks to terrorize people"

Not just sorrowful.

Not just self-sacrificing.

Or self-punishing.

But furious at what was done to him. At the life he lost. At the way he’s expected to carry the weight of actions he wasn’t fully conscious of, with grace and silence.

He’s always shown as composed in his guilt, patient in his atonement—which is admirable. But sometimes it feels like it’s flattening him into a symbol of repentance, and erasing the complexity of what he endured.

He was a child. He was manipulated. He bled, he hurt, and he was twisted into something he didn’t choose.

He lost YEARS of his life in containment, upon containment, upon containment.

Years he’ll never get back.

Jellal is one of the characters who objectively suffered the most in Fairy Tail, but the narrative rarely lets the audience sit with that. His pain is shifted away, reframed through others, or skipped over entirely.

We never really get to see him process it on his own terms.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: I don’t want Jellal to be a parable.

I want him to be a person.

Let him feel what was done to him. Let him process that he was wronged, too—that he’s not just someone who caused pain, but someone who experienced it, deeply. It’s not about removing accountability—it’s about letting him grieve and exist outside of guilt.

He doesn’t need to be calm and noble all the time. That’s not healing. That’s just another kind of silence.

Let Jellal scream. Let him ask why. Let him mourn the life he never got to live—not as a villain, not as a saint, but as someone who deserves that emotional space.

I have a lot of thoughts on Jellal and how his character was handled, and I already have a breakdown/long post coming up which tackles another topic but I might make one for this sentiment too.

But as of now, I just needed to get this part off my chest.

Thank you for listening. EDIT : Beneath is the breakdown I mentioned I would get around to doing for anyone interested:

Let Him Sin, Let Her Speak Meta Series

(+ another Jellal focused post that I made shortly after the analysis breakdown!)

Jellal's Story: What Was Mashima Trying To Do?

Day 22: Makesweet gif shenanigans

I feel kinda tempted to make a Yttd analogue horror series……

So, we know that RWBY tends to put a lot of Emphasis on teams and partners, on groups of two and four.

And yet, they give us The Ace-Ops. A group of FIVE. Which means... That one of them doesn't have a partner.

Who else doesn't have a partner?

Qrow.

Clover is looking to be an important character to this vol/arc and with all of his luck motifs, his importance is probably going to be related to Qrow- The resident 'Bad Luck Charm'

Also, we all remember Ozpin's most famous and important line of dialogue: "The first person you make eye contact with, will be your partner for the next four years"

Well...

Coincidence?