#The twin dragons of Sabertooth

[bringerofdeathandtheapocolypse]

This time it's a Tumblr post that's got me talking but here's the thing

Shibano writes Mashima's characters better than Mashima himself.

In the twin dragons of Sabertooth he actually managed to give more personality to Yukino, Orga and Rufus.

Yukino has a more feisty side to her and is shown as very capable and although both Orga and Rufus are only there for a couple of scenes with the one most of note being their interaction with Rogue, we still get to see Orga showing that he is actually quite smart where he identified that the spots on Frosch's suit were different than usual when Rufus -the guy who prides himself on remembering everything- didn't (this scene is the main reason I see them as being best friends if not a couple outside of them always being put together in any shots they both are in including that one cover. Orga taking note of small details absolutely came from Rufus' influence and I love that)

Sting and Rogue also get really developed personalities as well because they don't get much of that in the main story really. Like Rogue getting mad at Sting for hurting Frosch's feelings and disbanding the team over it is just so petty to me. It adds on to the pettiness that the first thing Rogue does when they team up again and Sting is in direct danger is Rogue just slapping him and then just going "yes I feel much better now" which was probably one of the best things I could have ever seen.

The Rhodonite manga is great too because not only does Levy get her time to shine of actually showing why she was nominated S-class but we get the Juvia I actually like in this one. Yeah she still has her quips about Gray as jokes but it isn't her whole thing. And she's actually got other reasons for being there besides tailing Gray which is great. Plus we get Gajeel backstory and more asshole Gajeel which was fun to read. Then in the second half we get to see his interactions with Cobra and how he begrudgingly teams up with him to save the kids (delving into Gajeel's love of children because it isn't touched on much except a couple lines in the series and one or two in a character moment in the game)

Then the Lightning god one which I already adore for the additional Freed content (and Ponytailed Freed had me desperate to draw it) but also the way it handles Laxus and Freed's relationship is chef's kiss.

Half the time Freed's attachment to Laxus is made into a joke (which is probably why some compare him to Juvia in that regard although thankfully Freed hasn't been character assassinated yet) but here it's tackled with a serious tone. The first half is mostly a rescue mission and the thunder legion aren't too important in it since it's mostly Laxus although Freed does try to encourage Laxus to understand Blue Pegasus.

The second half is the real heavy hitters. The villain of that half tricks the Thunder legion into thinking she's Laxus and gaslights them by telling them that they call themselves his body guards and yet they stand behind Laxus, letting him take the damage. To which Laxus reminds them why that happens (also small backstory to how they formed a team with Laxus and I'm a sucker for a good bit of backstory. Plus I love looking at teen Laxus because he's so scrawny compared to what he is in present canon and it's funny to me to see that the second muscliest guy in the guild was a scrawny teen. Even Elfman was decently bulky meanwhile Laxus was lanky and I love it)

It's the best iterations of a lot of these characters outside or their original arcs where the got introduced and grew. I desperately wish the main story (I guess 100 yrs quest) was written with this same level of care and detail.

Hell, the author actually apologises in a note for a mistake he made in one of the chapters in the Rhodonite manga (if I remember right, he got the amount of years that Gajeel had been away from Denish wrong and saying a year that wouldn't have worked as Gajeel would still have been with Metalicana.) And I love his little sketch at the end of the Rhodonite manga.

[celestialrayna]

What do you think, Rogue?

An artwork with the Twin Dragons. Sting and Rogue walk through Gazania discussing something. I wonder what it is about that Sting wants Rogue's opinion...

[realclever]

Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest Coloring

[meatloafzzz]

Welcome to: What random white things can Sting eat?

First item: an entire stick of light butter…

[ohtobearandomftblog]

Howdy! Could you write rogue x male s/o headcanons of how he would confess his love to you (or how you would confess to him)

And if you were willing to you could just include random fluffy headcanons you have in your head. Thank you!

his self esteem is so shot he would never confess first

you probably would after months of little dates and deep conversations that probably never started off all that deep

you two already kinda acted like you were dating anyway

youd hold hands in crowded and isolated places. whether it be bc of people or shadows didnt matter

youd go to cafés a lot. rogue liked sweet coffee and even if you didnt like coffee at all hed make sure there was teas or lemonades or somethin for you to have

youd talk about your early lives, some funny stories, what wouldve happened if you two had different magic, what the ramifications of the etherion blast would have on the environment, etc.

whenever one of you was overwhelmed the other would drag them away. sometimes there would be an excuse. most of the time there wouldnt be

it was probably after a late night walk through the town that you confessed

hedve been confused at first. then hed think youre playing a joke on him. then hed think youre angry at him about something and thought this was the way to get his attention

youd have to peck his lips to get his little mumbling to cease

and then hed be gone. not mentally or emotionally. physically. bc he melted into the shadows and is probably either in his apartment or the guild, wherever sting was. and sting was probably laughing his ass off at the clearly very flustered shadow dragon slayer who was probably panicking about abandoning you

the thought would make you laugh. rogue would ooze out of the shadows a bit away from you and youd barely see through squinted eyes

hed apologize, of course. both for his accusations and for his reaction. youd say that it was fine. expected, even. hilarious and cute, as usual.

youd have to drag him out of the shadows again before he abandoned you again for that comment

after that, hed be shy. embarrassed, even, whenever you kissed him or held his hand or embraced him. alone or in public

itd take him months to get used to it all

and itd be when hestheyre holding you in bed, rubbing your back or your arm or something to help you go back to sleep. itd be when your breathing levels out and your heartbeat calms. and thats when hed confess. aloud. for the first time.

youd done that enough times that you figured he was just going to mumble praises about you again. but those words tipped you just enough into a more comfortable state that you didnt hear anything else and fell asleep

[nezuko-kamad]

••Happy Sting Day 🤍💛••

[mrsbrandoxxx]

MY BELOVED STING WILL ALWAYS BE THE LOML AND MY NUMBER 1 ✨💜 8 YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG ✌🏻<33

[crystaldawnsworld]

Anyone like Rogue from Sabertooth or is it just me. I feel like he'd be a great brother figure.

[acnologias-ass]

Twin Dragons of Sabertooth

[happilychee]

sabertooth headcanons pt. 1

I feel like mashima could've made sabertooth just a smidge less flat... they all had so much angst in them and the potential to evolve and grow as people... or they could all turn nice in the span of an episode. that works too.

♡ sting is a sweetheart. he's a genuine, caring, and kind boy who grows up to be a charming and earnest young man. that is, unless he's on the battlefield. old sabertooth sting makes an appearance in those moments. his smirk is cruel, his taunts are like daggers, jabbing away at the opponent. he's cocky and arrogant, and maybe he has the right to be so because his attacks are so powerful they blow the enemy away.

♡ lector is the kind of friend who talks major shit about whatever you're doing as he's helping you. he tells sting how dumb it is to go on a mission alone in mid-flight to their destination. ride or die? nah, lector is fly or die.

♡ rufus loves tea brewing. this is one of the few areas of knowledge that he chooses not to use his magic on. he loves sitting down with a good book and reading about the history of tea, tea cultivation, the proper culinary techniques to brew the perfect cup of tea.

♡ orga is the reason sabertooth has open-mic nights. the (second) strongest guild in fiore turns into a comedy club on tuesday nights, and surprisingly, it's good. orga serenades whoever comes to mind that night: it's been sting, rogue, yukino, all the usual suspects, and on one memorable occasion, mr. yajima. yukino tells the most wholesome, funny stories while frosch and lector act out the scene behind her. in what was probably the most fever dream moment of sting's life, minerva took the mic and delivered such a seething, deadpan stand-up that she got the entire guild cheering for her.

♡ minerva goes all out for halloween. besides just being into arcane magic and the history of magic, she loves spooky things. also, she's a bit fucked up, and this is a good outlet for her. sabertooth will gladly take minerva's scarily detailed sculptures of severed limbs over her lashing out any day of the week. to her guildmates' surprise, she also organizes a family-friendly haunted house in the guild hall for the kids of gazania.

♡ in my heart of hearts, sting does not become sabertooth's guild master. I headcanon him as a healer, so I think he would establish an infirmary in sabertooth and oversee it. unsure if rogue or minerva becomes guild master. I think minerva would be better suited for the role, but there's also recency bias against her because of jiemma. and she needs time to process everything that went into sabertooth's upheaval.

♡ which sabertooth member do you never want to piss off? you might think it's minerva or rufus or even the twin dragons. no. it's yukino. she is the sweetest, kindest member of sabertooth by far, and also the most patient. if you offend yukino, she's unlikely to do much about it, but celestials forbid you hurt her friends, especially minerva. she'll send her spirits after you, and no one will ever find your body.

♡ sabertooth, despite their efforts to become a kinder place, is still a hard guild to get into. they're not like fairy tail where anyone can just join. the core members argue for a long while about what kind of entrance test they should have. ultimately they decide on a test of strength, but not just physical ability. minerva says that it's in the eyes, whether someone has the drive and tenacity to always improve themselves and make sabertooth proud. she tries to be subtle, but she's also staring at yukino the entire time. one eyebrow wiggle from lector turns minerva as red as the cat's fur.

[zai-doodles]

Hey, in your Fairy Tail story, when natsu and gajeel fight the twins, could the natsu and gajeel lose? honestly, I was disappointed Natsu defeated those two easy, I get it was supposed to be a "comeuppence", but it wasn't as fun as the fight between Elfman and Bacchus. In fact, is the whole tournament arc going to be reworked, the whole dragon situation seems overkill and pointless.

I was thinking abt rouge and sting so here

I want to hammer home the power of friendship and themes of celebrating differences and second chances

So to me, sabertooth was a v uniform guild, they all were trained in their specific magics and paths but it's v ridged and by the book ig?

V military esque

Bc of sting and rouges magic being so niche and so similar while being opposites, they were only ever taught to fight together in near perfect unison

Their moves sets are all the same and any combos are predictable after the first few times and if you separate them, they fall back on very basic moves

They're a set that need to be together in order to win

Meanwhile natsu and gajeel work together *because* of their differences

They make random plans on the fly and barely practice anything together, they don't train together at all but due to heightened dragon slayer senses they're good at staying out of the others way or figuring out what the other is planning

They embrace their differences and once they figure out all of sting and rouges' movesets gajeel is fr like damn it's not fun if I know what they're gonna do, I'm gonna sit this out

Bc go me gajeel is more adrenaline junkie, he liked crazy unpredictable fights, nothing boring

So natsu is like damn ur gonna make me do all the work??? Fuck u???

And by then sting and rouge r tired bc they aren't good at pacing themselves in fights, they threw out their strongest moves first and the ones that hit didn't do as much as they're use to on normal wizards

It all comes down to them not being as experienced and relying too heavily on each other, leaving no space for imperfection so they aren't adaptable like natsu or gajeel

So natsu kinda just separates them with a fire wall type thing and clocks them individually

He starts with rouge since he can't do much with shadows with so much light and by the time sting and get to him he's already done

So that just leaves natsu w sting and he cleans up easy

Gajeel laughs at him like I could have taken them out without separating them loser and natsu gets all huffy like EXCUSE U

And yeah I hate the second half of the gmgs arc, it's lame I'm sorry idk how I'm gonna rewrite it but so much of it gets overhauled in my mind

[fairytail-whathesays]

do you have some sting eucliffe/twin dragons headcanons?

Most of Sting's and Rogue's scars actually come from fighting each other. It's a gay guy thing, you wouldn't get it.

Sting has had naturally flawless skin all his life. Even the scars somehow heal over just right to be aesthetically pleasing. Combine that with his dress sense and perfectly done hair and sassy little bisexual earring, and it drives Rogue crazy--Rogue's teen acne was nightmarish and he's still a little self-conscious about it.

Speaking of appearance, the reason Rogue's hair is allowed to cover his face most of the time is because he's light-sensitive. It's easier on his eyes to be staring out from under his hair.

Sting is definitely the more dominant of the two personality-wise, but it's probably Rogue you want to stay on the good side for--you know what they say about the nice, shy guys. Rogue is actually stronger than Sting when he digs deep into his power reserves, and you'll know you're about to get your ass whooped when you see red glowing eyes and fangs sharper even than the average dragonslayer's.

The whole shadow-possession thing is not supposed to happen. Rogue's shadow magic is not 'unholy' or 'darkness' element the way certain other magics are--it's really just a dragonslaying version of Kageyama's magic, a simple elemental magic unassociated with evil. This happened primarily because of unforeseen side-effects of dragonization bleeding over into his shadow magic, which did not benefit from Rogue's antibodies.

We're going to charitably correct canon and say that Rogue and Sting actually drew even with Natsu (AND GAJEEL) at the Grand Magic Games fight. Still not a win, so everything else can proceed accordingly, but not an embarrassing loss either, because why murder hype in its sleep if we don't have to?

Rogue's magic feels very cold and empty, while Sting's magic is white-hot to the touch.

Sting can't get tattoos. The magic in his body bleaches them of color over time and eventually dissipates/evaporates them completely. He has to get his Sabertooth guild mark re-stamped every so often. This is because his body is naturally held to a specific stasis-like level of "purity" and his magic seeks out and purifies foreign agents. This also makes it very difficult for him to get sick.

[celestialrayna]

To the mission

An artwork with Sting and Rogue going to a new mission.

I wish you all a Happy New Year's Eve!

[mythical-fangirls]

In my heart, Yukino being Sabertooth's Master would've made more sense as opposed to the Twin Dragons or Minerva

A guildmaster doesn't need to be strong to lead and tie the guild together. They just need to be a good leader that inspires trust and loyalty among the guild members. Yukino has the heart to be Guild Master, and it only makes sense for Sabertooth to start anew by instating the one kicked out for her heart as Master

Would've Pissed Jiemma off to have someone "weak" be in charge of "his" guild as opposed to his daughter or someone else he considers "above" Yukino

[meatloafzzz]

Morning Sting and Lector✨

[ohtobearandomftblog]

Any specific headcanons for the twin dragons of sabertooth?

i have two separate vibes/aus that change the headcanons for them but you dont get the family au that im still workin on bc im nowhere near sabertooth just yet so take this in whatever format happens as i write

birthdays literally 6 months apart to the DAY but ONLY on the years that have that extra day. leap year? they dont remember what its called

because of that and the "twin" in their duo name they just decided that fuck it that one day every like four years is their birthday. regardless that its a day after stings and six months (minus a day) before rogues

they genuinely dont remember whos older. its gotta be someone. they have no damn clue. one of them either looks older than they are or looks younger than they are and the people who bother commenting on it flip flop between em every time

yknow that dumbass "one room for opposite twins with one half all bright and bubbly and the other all dark and emo" trend? yeah thats their apartment

sting is the only one rogue cant really see much of with his shadows no matter how close or far he is. its cause o how fuckin bright he is.

rogue is the only one sting can hear without the hearing lacrima. sure its not crystal clear like his sight but he can sure understand what hes sayin eventually. he genuinely has no clue why

weisslogia and skiadrum lived really close to one another compared to all the other dragons and their slayers. whenever one loses sight of their slayer they just go to the other dragon and boom the kids are playin together in the forest

sting cant handle sleeping in pure darkness unless he sleeps next to rogue. rogue also cant handle sleeping in the light unless its right next to sting. theres a night light in their room on sting's side and rogue just pulls a hand towel over his face to block it out.

in a universe closer to canon, after jiemma nearly killed lector and sting killed jiemma, rogue tried to convince sting that maybe they should just join fairy tail at the soonest opportunity. minerva was just like jiemma and the only person who really showed they cared was yukino, who had been exiled earlier that fuckin week. sting was close to doing that after he got lector back, but then he became master instead of minerva, and suddenly they were too busy to think about joining fairy tail

after sting became master rufus and orga tried to be all buddy-buddy but rogue shot them down real fucking fast. it took many months before rufus and orga could earn the actual trust and respect of the dragon slayers and not just the "yeah i know them they joined same time as me. fuckin pompous pricks is what they are" that they always thought of them as

sting actually found frosch's egg and rogue found lector's. they were raised together but once the exceeds were able to start going on quests and were allowed out of the little hammock they slept in they had to swap primary parents. frosch was only comfortable in the dark and needed that pink frog onesie otherwise and lector was only comfortable in the light or hed get so anxious and have insomnia

sting and rogue have opposite personalities

everyone who never met them and had that as their only warning figured that oh the white dragon slayer was all bubbly and optimistic and the shadow dragon slayer was all emo and pessimistic

no

no no no no no its the EXACT opposite

sting is the one that talks about the macabre and is all "we're gonna die" 100% seriously about every little thing in a light voice and assumes the worst of everyone all the time

rogue is the one thats into shit like harajuku fashion and hello kitty and always says "of fun" to stings death talks in a serious voice and assumes the best of everyone all the time

lector. people assume hes either 100% sting or 100% rogue personality wise. no. he likes the macabre and dresses all jock n shit like sting but assumes the best of everyone like rogue

frosch is the opposite of lector. dresses all bright and bubbly but will say the most depressing shit youve ever heard

all four of them are siblings. they will beat the shit out of anyone who thinks sting and rogue are boyfriends

sting is like a toned down juvia but to natsu

rogue is like a toned down juvia but to gajeel

sting will say the most hypersexual shit to natsu half as a joke half seriously and natsu either doesnt realize it or is like "oh thats SO something i should say to lucy to make her pissed off". sting has accepted his position as the forever pining side character and he finds it hilarious

rogue will do everything he can to not speak to gajeel unless theyre both in a fight. not even to ask for a fuckin pen or somethin. the few times gajeel spoke to him (even to ask for a fuckin pen) short circuited him and he either stumbled his way to an answer or sting answered for him. hes also accepted his position as the forever pining side character but hes sad about it

after sting became master they kicked out so many assholes in sabertooth the guild was less than half of what it was in the gmg when they were done

honestly all of the new members still think rogue's the master. even when rogue specifically refers to sting as "master" so they can get in the habit of doing the same they still think people saying "master" means rogue and not sting.

sting makes fun of him for having ducklings

rogue makes fun of him for making him have ducklings since sting was the one that assigned him the position of "showing newbies around"

sting just laughs