#chapter 499

[elijangiloveyou]

ptj you sick sick man (Spoiler Warning!)

i will always miss them

[emleeeeeeeeee]

WE FINALLY SAW HIS HAPPY SMILE😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 (but at what cost)

also why does goo collect trash as his secret friends. like i love him but im questioning his taste. i also love samuel tho (idc how broken he is we can still fix him). its just...the other two🤮🤮🤮🤮 i also dont like the idea of logan getting stronger. bc like ykyk plot gotta be some character development but why waste that on the likes of logan and taejin

 😭 

[righteousenjoymentofthunder]

shit. either hades or persephone is dead, aren't they. if we're going by parallels, i think it would be hades to complete that cycle - kim dokja gets both of his fathers killed.

[everykillerbee]

[algumaideia]

The juxtaposition of they having fun in the park with the slaves

He is going to force the woman to marry him????

Zoro will start a mess

Oh I liked Bonney

People from east blue really know shit about the world

[sscarletvenus]

flowers bloom the prettiest before they fall and smell the sweetest before they rot...

[aiphosss]

PTJ WHEN I CATCH YOU PTJ

[beaulesbian]

absolutely love this weird luck or instinct that zoro has, that even if he gets completely lost, or is going in the wrong direction, he ends up where he needs to be (*cough*and usually close to luffy)

in the sabaody archipelago arc, this was really my favorite subplot, of just zoro being lost (enjoying his walk in a completely new place where he can't attack anyone who hurts him or others, and can't draw too much attention to him) but ending up at the place they all were moving towards:

they docked the ship at grove 41 and decide to meet there after finding what they needed to find.

zoro decides to go for a walk

and all he has to remember is the grove's number. easy enough, right? well...

because something in their universe really wants him to end up at a different place, so he sees only #1 instead #41.

later when camie gets kidnapped and then after some time the rest of the strawhats, who are scattered around the island, know the information that she would be at grove #1, zoro still doesn't know that - he just knows he needs to get to grove #1 bc he thinks that's where their ship is.

they're all just separately hurrying to the location, while zoro's asking for directions and then searching for the wrong (right) grove.

and ofc the person that he meets first from their crew is luffy, flying on the fish, about to wreck into the building

(i saw the anime version too, but i really like the fast pace of this part in the manga)

it's just so funny that luffy and zoro met before this building, the grove #1, and luffy yelled at zoro to hold on and they both crashed inside.

zoro still not knowing why he isn't at the place where the sunny should be, but at a completely different location - but still a location that he needed to be at, at the right time right place with this whole crew (and just before things get much worse).

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

Lookism: *one of the most tragic chapters yet*

The music: *heartbreakimg swells*

Goo, showing up out of nowhere: hi bitch!!!! :D

[lookismfanfics]

These Chapter 499 spoilers are 101% real (I’m a liar)

I didn’t know where to post these 😭 but an angsty art idea came to mind where Hudson finally understands Jay… and realizes they don’t feel the same way.

[starsfic]

Summaries:

Finish my time travel Spicynoodles

Azure sees a ray of sunshine when he visits Tang Sanzang. Vampire AU

When tagging along to one of Xiaojiao's less legal street races, a dark horse rider appears out of the blue, and Xiaotian is starstruck. Spicynoodles smut.

Episode 1 of my TMNT

Azure Lion and Lady Bone Demon are in the void. They aren't alone.

Macaque's memories are twisted when he is revived. Very AU.

My Scooby Doo: The gang find themselves trapped after a bad car crash.

Xiaojiao and Xiaotian discuss Red during "bestie bonding time". Smut

Spicynoodles want to date. Unfortunately, Red's hand has been promised...to several hundred suitors, leaving the duo to work on untangling a diplomatic mess. (Uncle Ruyi is fired from matchmaking.)

Vanessa and Glamrock Freddy track down rumors of Help Wanted getting published, unaware that a little girl is being lured by Gregory's voice.

[killcount]

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[gralunaisland]

pros always focus solely on the 'canon' part of certain gruvia moments. Ch 499 especially, they deliberately ignore how forced the scene is since gray & juvia have abilities that SHOULD allow them to escape. Instead they focus on the Japanese translations and go 'See it's canon! Gray loves Juvia!! Double suicide is used in Japan to show love!' Like yeah, congrats you got your canon via contrivances & poor writing, what a win.

The Double Gray and juvia Su*cide Was NOT Romantic

Ugh, I am feeeeling your salt right now, Anon.

"Congrats, you got your canon via contrivances and poor writing, what a win".

I am with you in the amount of sarcasm in this statement. Everything about gr///via is contrivances and poor writing, with an ample portion of toxicity and abuse to boot.

The stupid scene where Gray and juvia must perform a double su*cide is so dumb, I agree. To be completely honest, I never really pored over the scene, either in anime or manga, I just know generally what happens. So, if I get something wrong, someone feel free to correct me. But anyway, it's so dumb how juvia's OP power of being made of water is practically never used, especially for the sake of it being a gr///via plot point. juvia (I presume, I'm still unsure of the nature of the binding magic) should've been able to escape it by liquifying herself.

This isn't even the only time she hasn't used her power when she totally could've! Let's think back to her fight with Gray alllll the way back in the Phantom Lord arc, when she fell off the castle and was acting like she was going to die or some baloney. You're literally water; you hit water, you'll just turn into water, and you'll be fine. Idiot. Moron. Imbecile.

And my goodness, Pros who say "See it's canon! Gray loves juvia!" just because of the double su*cide thing are so grasping at straws because Gray has time and time again tried to sacrifice himself for his friends.

juvia isn't special.

Are Pros really going to pretend like if it was Natsu on the other end of that magic, or Lucy, or Erza, or heck even a supporting character like Max, that he wouldn't throw away his life for them in a heartbeat?

That's literally one of his main issues that he struggles with throughout the show that's literally addressed by other characters, how Gray needs to live for his friends, not to die for them. And then at the end of it, all Gray says is he'll take her feelings seriously for once so don't die instead of "Oh my gosh juvia I love you so much for no reason now."

Honestly, it's such a dumb, brain-dead plot point that presumably Gray starts to fall for juvia just because she killed herself for him. I've already addressed this better in another post of mine, but he didn't even decide to love her, he was just bargaining with her corpse out of misplaced guilt, and then was gaslit and manipulated into thinking these feelings of being indebted to her were feelings of love.

Also, their claims of “ha it’s canon” really do nothing for their ship. Canon≠Admirable ship, which I go through thoroughly in this post linked here.

Anyway, thank you so much for your insight, Anon. You brought up such good points! The double su*cide thing is far from romantic; it's just contrived and construed bs.

[righteousenjoymentofthunder]

THE MASTERS ARE HERE!!!! 🎊

[everykillerbee]

[every-luffy-smile]