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Analysis of the Rock Scene: idealisation and realisation

  AN: This is a purely personal point of view on this scene and on the characterisation of both Jellal and Erza. That is how I personally analyse them and, thus, comprehend this scene. I don’t see myself as an expert on those matters. I’m curious to hear your thoughts!

  It is in chapter 264: Only the Amount of Time Lost that the rock scene happens. The title itself guides us to an important thought on the matter. Erza and Jellal’s relationship is built on crossing paths and losing time. Fate is hard on them and the most time they spent together was as child slaves. It is unknown when they met exactly. In canon, we only know that Erza was banished at the age of 11 – I personally believe that they shared the same age; ergo, Jellal was 11 too.

We can suppose that the two children spent some years together at the time – my personal headcanon is two years as Erza arrived around the age of 9, this age was deduced by Mashima’s style when he draws children. When Erza saved Kagura who is 3 years younger than her, her appearance was similar to Sho and Millianna’s during the revolt, and the children were 9. It also coincides with Kagura’s ability to survive on her own at a young age, as she would have been 6. That is already quite young and unrealistic (I do not take August into account in this thought even if the man survived on his own since he was a mere infant).

Two years as children against eight where she was banished and pressured. They met sometime during those eight years at the Council while he was under the persona of Siegrain – it is said that she even attacked him at first, before believing the lie that he was Jellal’s twin. This is another important piece of information. It supposes that this lie was believable because she had no way to know if it was the truth or not. Therefore, Jellal never talked about his family before his enslavement to Erza – an important detail, that we will come back to later.

Of course, they meet in person, as themselves again, during the Tower of Heaven arc, the Nirvana arc and finally in this scene. Death is always the reason for their partings. In the ToH arc, Jellal fuses with Etherion and it is believed that he died doing so. In the Nirvana arc, he is arrested and it is stated that he will either have a life sentence or the death penalty. While I always thought that his sentence was open to interpretation, it is said in chapter 263 that he was indeed sentenced to death.

As I said, fate does not work on their side. Most of their relationship was built as children, from 9 to 11. Yet, during the rock scene, Erza is 19 and Jellal is 26. It had been 8 years for her, 15 for him.

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My favourite characters in media :) Thank you for the tag @whateversawesome!! This was harder than I thought lol.

I wasn't sure if it was just anime or everything but I thought everything would be a bit more fun. Jellal Fernandez - Fairy Tail Erza Scarlet - Fairy Tail Bucky Barnes (The Winter Soldier) - MCU Yor Forger - Spy x Family Loid Forger - Spy x Family Samus - Metroid Ushijima Wakatoshi - Haikyuu!! Itachi Uchiha - Naruto Brigitte Lindholm - Overwatch Common trait among the women really is just "women that can kill me" lmao. I love them for a lot more than just that though. All the men are just really tragic characters but good people at their core (except for the volleyball guy, I just think he's cool xD) I don't really have anyone to tag so that's it for me but I had fun thinking about this.

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Seems this reply I made back when chapter 118 released might become true after all.

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Anya probably only said that because she wanted to get rid of him, but she's right. Twilight doesn't enjoy anything.

Neither the nice fireworks show, nor any of the recreational activities on the cruise and he didn't look very entertaining when he went out with Anya and Yor either. It's kind of sad if you think about it

Unless he is actually having fun but is hiding it or he is one of those people that even though they are happy and having a good time, they usually have a face that looks serious.

he's like:

"I am having a lot of fun, I'm very happy right now"

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"Just relax and let go"

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A telepath’s best friend !! 🐶👧💖

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Yor & Anya

SPY X FAMILY CHAPTER 87

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oh team natsu how i love u

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The exalted bloodline

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They see me rollin'... they hatin'.

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arthur and merlin + scenery/space

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The Avengers. It’s what we call ourselves, sort of like a team.

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merlin the dragonlord requested by anonymous

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