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"If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have."

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So 1) To Be Hero X has gripped me, and 2) Queen gave me some Erza vibes and I became consumed by the need to see Erza in Queen's hero outfit and then I wanted to draw Queen too, sooooo... the classic outfit swap! Erza has too many to choose from but ya know. This one may or may not have provided me the excuse to make scar headcanons for Queen...

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Top 3 best things a fictional character can do:

Pass out from pain or exhaustion.

Be captured/kidnapped (+ bound and gagged).

Be comforted by their loved ones after a traumatic event.

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English Dubs are amazing lol.

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and that’s how the monkey king joined the scripture seeker (real and true) (100% accurate)

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i understand why people like the queue and i do respect you guys for using it but that is just not how i roll. if i think these 37 posts are funny you’re seeing them right fucking now

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Hi there I am. Feral about Bickslow and his babies and those microshots. I have Thoughts about subject one and the lacrima they still have and aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA I'm so excited for more microshots of Bickslow's backstory

Thank you!! Honestly those microshots are so self-indulgent cause they're pretty much my OCs so it also tickles me extra when they get some love. Also Bickslow my baby. I fit so much trauma in him.... And others, ehe~ Like "Subject One" :) *smiles knowingly whilst twirling my hair*

Fortunately I have the last two babies in the works. And editing the first three a bit. It started as a fun prompt fill but uhhh these babies (pun intended) became a bit load-bearing, so I'm going to put them all together into a proper mini-fic on AO3, with the remaining two plus a bonus.

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Can bickslow see the dragon's soul, or do the slayers own soul block him from see them?

Great question! The short answer: kind of. The long answer? I'm using your ask as an excuse to attempt to explain souls as Bickslow sees them, and his magic, because Bickslow doesn't ever want to do full breakdowns of it in his pov lmao, and also since it's hard to explain in general, by design. (I have a oneshot coming that gets close, but just in case Bickslow keeps fighting me, here's the infodump with visuals lol.)

So. Bickslow doesn't always see souls: he has to look, but it's very easy for him to look. Sometimes he does it on accident. It blinks in and out of vision and sort of blends together for him. If he's not trying, it's all very faint anyway, obscured by the flesh and whatnot.

Every soul is very unique. They have their own mix of colors, their own textures, their own patterns, and they move. With emotion, with change, with just being alive. They're wriggly things like that. This combination does mean that there are very few "rules" for how things are supposed to look. Doubly so when magic gets involved, because that also gets reflected in it. Different species have different "shapes" in a way, and that's solely because of how they interact with their own bodies and they're magic. The soul is the essence of character, sure, but it's also life magic. It's all of the above.

For example, humans—which is the default for Bickslow's magic, but he can see and to an extent control anyone now thanks to the uhhh *ahem* conditioning—have a very basic structure. They are flexible above all else, and they're magic doesn't really affect their bodies as much, so Bickslow would normally see the soul essence concentrated in the chest, the hands and feet, and eyes. Pretty standard for everyone. Demons are similar but theirs also spread out a little more, because their bodies hold more magic and in turn is more affected by it; their core areas are connected by more prominent areas, following the magic channels.

For mages, it gets extra complicated. In the diagram above (I was lazy with these don't hold them as *too* canon or anything), the lefthand side are non-mages, so their soul qualities are purely reflective of them. On the right, we have... let's say ice mages. Their souls are brighter, with brighter spots, solely because of magic, but also those spots may look like little ice flecks—snowflakes and icicles and frozen surfaces. The more they practice, the more it reflects.

History can also reflect. Physical scars, emotional scars...

(Erza was such a bad example to use because her armor effect makes it hard to see lol, but I committed.) Not every scar is reflected in the soul, for instance. In Erza's case, ones she received during her stint being literally tortured by cultists (and thus "causing" Jellal to trade and go "crazy") cut deeper than some scratch by a wild animal. It varies.

As for dragons... well. They are very magic, and thus very dense. Their core areas are nearly indistinguishable, because they (like celestials/spirits) have a very direct relationship between soul and body.

Bickslow might not have known what Acno was at first, but he knew he was big. Or very powerful. Or both. (The answer was both.)

Acno has to condense himself into his human body, and it works, but he's not sacrificing his dragon body either, so sometimes Bickslow can see the flare of where the rest of it should go. (Which, sometimes, really powerful people also have that bigger than life flare, like Gildarts. It's the literal aura, and whatnot.)

So, for a dragon that, say, pretty much sacrifices their body to completely condense themselves? In another soul? A bit tricky to spot.

Bickslow can mostly notice because they are extra dense and move differently, but dragon slayers are like mini dragons, although with some base species in there too, so there's a lot going on. Now that Bickslow knows they're there, it's more noticeable, of course, and even more so if they become more active and Bickslow can see the big imprint behind the very smol dragonlings. These things certainly don't come with a visual manual, though, so Bickslow spends a lot of time guessing and ignoring. Especially when it comes to *wild* bodies like whatever Natsu is. And it's all on fire, because he's a fire guy. (I drew the fire badly because I was too lazy to change brushes, shh.)

So uh. Yeah. Bickslow can see them. Bickslow sees a lot more than he tells people, usually.

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Take two cuz im forgetful - Genuine question

please rb im so curious

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:] <- smile with unknown intent

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Have you ever written about other people's reaction to learning about dragon tamer magic? especially the dragons? I imagine they must have learned of it at the same time as the kids when Acno was explaining the cause of his rampage and what made him stop. I'd be interested to read about people's reaction to the true cause of the dragon war.

As pertinent as that plot point is, it's true that I have never found a good opportunity to slide it in naturally, yet. It very much was part of the Acno Backstory Dump convo, as you guessed. The truth is that the dragon war isn't really something that affected the kids all that much, directly. Natsu a bit, because of Desia, but he doesn't know enough to be able to tell what mental state that dragon was in. Perhaps it shall be revealed eventually :)

Although yeah it's a very disturbing concept for all of them. One of those things to sit on and hope it's no longer relevant. (Honestly, if anyone gets a fic worthy reaction, it would be the dragons, and anyone actually alive for the war. I have one such example planned, ehe~) That said.... This is a plot point so it absolutely *will* come up in story, and then there is more room for natural contemplation, whether in flashback or in present.

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Man, Pencil... I just remembered something. Edolas arc. Mystogan left in canon. Now I'm afraid of what your arc has in store for us ;-;

I won't say anything concrete for the people who don't want spoilers but. Remember I love Mystogan. I am holding your hand gently. I love Mystogan so much.

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[In your HTRYDS AU]

Look I know there's a good chance it won't happen, but I can't help but imagine Eileen getting pulled into the dragon family somehow. I feel like Wendy would be thrilled to have a big sister (though is the big sister Eileen herself or Erza? 🤔). Also, after all she's been through Eileen deserves something nice.

(Sometimes I forget that Eileen is another translation of Irene, although it makes a lot of sense how that happened.)

It'll take a bit but Irene is definitely going to be in the fic series. We have a lot of drama to address, of course, especially between Irene and Erza, but I will say that ultimately this is the good ending, still. (I have plenty of ~other~ sources for antagonists, mwuahaha--)

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As an adult with adhd who still takes a child’s dose of her medication, and used to put away like a pot of STRONG coffee a day, I think Eric and Acno may have accidentally made like: an insane concoction that I would like to try. Okay but picture this: Acno is reading some old book in Midian in the kitchen before going to take a nap or garden or something. Eric comes down and gets himself a cup of his literal death coffee, Natsu tríes like One™️ sip. Eric fears for the chaos of a caffeinated Natsu. Natsu, after a short conversation, glances at the book Acno left out. Cut to like three hours later and Eric is watching the lacrima tv nervously because he was afraid to leave Natsu unattended as the strange caffeinated demon child with adhd energy has discovered how interesting this ancient, nigh unreadable text is. Acno comes back into the room and is perturbed.

LMAO yeah honestly you're so right, between funky demon biology, a fire-fueled metabolism, and the power of ADHD, Natsu could totally also drink the The Death Coffee.

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1D OMEGAVERSE NONCON was what took out AO3

so, we all suffered through ao3’s recent downtime:

so i got curious, because i was bookmarking things when the site went down and wouldn’t it be funny if i was the one who broke it lmao (😔no it wasn’t me but i helped)

https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/2147483647 is this

absolutely iconic 10/10 no notes good job team 😂