#daphne arc

[pencilofawesomeness]

Question how would Daphne be treated in the papalogia au? Because in the story it would be a 100% confirmation that the dragon she say is acno. Also with how obsessed she was I am shocked she didn't have a dragon slayer lacrima.

I've been overthinking this ask for a week now lol.

Okay so. In terms of the Magnolia area, and really all of Fiore, I don't think anything would change. Acnologia is still the only dragon to be spotted, and even though he's flying around, he does make an effort to not be seen. Arguably, he's making more of an effort that canon-Acnologia, who simply did not care. That said, there may or may not be other dragon sightings in other parts of the world, so Daphne may be bolstered in her obsession with dragons all the same.

I don't think it would equate to her getting a lacrima though. Not only are those suckers hard to find and risky, her fascination strikes me as... a mix between scientific and fanatic. Her love and obsession with dragons and learning about them, as well as proving them real, supersedes most rational thought and morals. I mean, she was totally cool in using Natsu as a battery, and given the opportunity, she would have poked at him more I am sure. She seems to me like the Mr. Crocker of Fairy Tail, except with the room to be really amoral and scary for it.

Some peeps know this already but I have flirted with, and sometimes am still flirting with, the idea of a mini arc involving Daphne, except if fanaticism was just a bit more dangerous. The fact that there is a bit more evidence of dragons out there, but the dragon slayers are more tight-lipped about dragons and their own magic in Magnolia, is enough to drive someone like that bonkers. I still don't have solid ideas for this so it may or may not happen in htryds at all; I just... really like mad scientist psycho antagonists, so if I ever get struck by inspiration and want to hit a dragon slayer or three with a really spiky stick... Consider this a forewarning >.>

[grayluforever]

one of juvia's worst traits in the show is how she defended gray's betrayal of fairy tail for daphne even when it's the truth. juvia doesn't even care one bit that natsu is in danger or the fact that gray has hurt one of his friends.

[gruviasilversblog]

Past Wounds and Grudges (Heridas y Rencores del pasado-English Version) - GruviaSilver - Fairy Tail [Archive of Our Own]

Hi!

Here I leave you the link of my fanfic "Heridas y Rencores del pasado" translated into English by @sorceress-botan .

This one is on AO3.

It is set in the Daphne arc.

[booasaur]

Thuis - 2023-12-14

[laughingsour]

The (Laugh?) Sad Tale of Joy Boy

(Spoilers ahead, don’t read if you haven’t caught up with the manga)

This analysis came about from me remembering the ending of Wind Waker and the line from Amphibia’s true colors: “That’s the thing about friends isn’t it? The more you love ‘em the more it hurts when they go”

I don’t think a lot of people have caught on to the truly heartbreaking irony in the title of Joy Boy. That, despite his cheery name, his story did NOT have a happy ending.

We already know that the 20 kings (and Imu, most likely) won 800 years ago and destroyed most of what Joy Boy and his allies and friends accomplished.

This not only means that the many races of the world were doomed to persecution and racism by humans but it also means that the technology of the world was regressed to the point that they can only begin to catch up after 800 years (and largely because the man responsible is said to be 500 years ahead of his time) and the people don’t even know what they have lost.

Think about it, in the Jaya arc Robin examines a skull from the fallen galleon and deduces that they medically relieved him of a tumor by making a hole in the skull, without anesthesia. It’s a forgotten practice by the present time, but it still proves that medicine had to evolve to resort to less gruesome methods. And in the East Blue they mentioned that scurvy was only recently fully understood. None of these things are an issue for us because of current medical knowledge.

Of course not every technological advancement is good and some of them have actually caused horrific results both in the One piece world and real life. But people have an unfortunate tendency to take for granted the good things science has given us.

Back to the original topic though, if the Ancient Kingdom had won the One piece world would be unrecognizable to the one we’ve come to known. We don’t know how much for the better, but the 20 kings were very much afraid that such a world could have existed and of a man who‘s implied to have had a pretty innocent dream

When someone who doesn’t make sense to the rest of the world appears there’s two things that can happen with them. Either the world destroys them and who they are at their core, or the world is forced to change to make sense of them.

Joy Boy was definitely one such person in the past like Luffy is in the present. But unlike Luffy, when met with the violent nature of the world, he couldn’t beat it because of some cruel twist of fate. (Or perhaps betrayal? I think Imu knew the first Joy Boy or they wouldn’t keep the frozen straw hat).

Even if (when) Luffy wins and fulfills the original Joy Boy’s dream, the original Joy Boy didn’t, no matter how hard he tried.

But the 20 king were still unable to destroy who Joy Boy was at his core: a dreamer. The very reason that he had friends who loved him. And because of that, Joy Boy had to dream even further than thought posible and imagine that someone else would appear in the future who was like him. Surprise, surprise, that came true.

But he still died without fulfilling his promise. And he and his friends, like all people eventually do one way or another, had to part ways.

But no matter how much Joy Boy may think he failed his friends, they love him no matter what and believe in him. And go on to make sure Joy Boy’s dream of a new person like him appearing comes true. (And adopt the name D. as one of their methods?)

Even so, Joy Boy himself lost and his loss is felt by all who knew him because he is no longer there. Which isn’t the same as the memory of a person. Luffy may be the heir of Joy Boy, but he isn’t Nika (or whatever his real name was).

Imagine if Brook didn’t have the Revive fruit. Laboon would have kept waiting for someone who wouldn’t come back; and even if Luffy gave him a new reason to keep waiting, it still would be a very different person than the perverted-dad (skull?) joke telling-musical gentleman that Laboon knew, wouldn’t it? In this regard Brook is luckier than Joy Boy was.

That always was one of the most horrible things about the World Government, thinking people are expendable. They are not. Galley-La couldn’t make a new Going Merry even if they had the original blueprints because the crew that sailed her would notice small things that are not there anymore.

Although his memory and dreams for a new Dawn in the world are very much alive, the fact he lost so long ago after giving it his all cannot be undone. Similarly the 800 years of abuse the Government, the Celestial Dragons and Imu have inflicted cannot be undone either and many people who dreamed to see themselves free did not live to see it happen.

Is it any wonder then that a piece of the Rio Poneglyph, one of the only means of the Ancient Kingdom to communicate and perhaps the most crucial historical document in the One Piece world, is an apology letter from Joy Boy?

His dream will come true after all in such a way that will be mind-boggling to the point of it being funny, no matter what the world has thrown his way, which may be why Roger laughed.

What I mean to say is that I’m sure Joy Boy’s story will be extraordinarily tragic and yet triumphant somehow. And in line with who Luffy is, he’s not unbreakable.

But he’s not finished yet.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

If they're going to turn Francesca into a martyr wallflower so Penelope could rescue her as Whistledown and score brownie points, I won't be surprised. I'll be angry, I'll be disappointed, but not surprised. I mean, what would it be if not another attempt at throwing other characters under the bus just so they could make certain favourites look better?

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

this rewatch of sdmi has so far been a combination of skipping around and watching straight through from the beginning, and my feelings are increasingly that shaggy, daphne, and marcie are precious and oh my god someone please get these poor kids away from everyone else in this cast

[lucy-moderatz]

She does have seven years of fantasy to live up to.

[ask-thedaydreamers-omori]

So, Sunny, got any OTHER friends besides good ol' Omor?

Sunny: If you're talking about in White Space, though.. no, there's no else here but the three of us.

[the-maverick-asian-restaurant]

Maverick what if they hurt your sister?? What if that's why they know what she looks like??

Oh god... I don't want to think about that...

@welcome-to-the-bank-of-bread Is everything okay..?

[damsul]

listen there is a bunch of reasons why i dislike the velma 2022 series but the main one has to be that they completely disregarded daphne's upbringing n how she was overlooked by her whole family because she never sought out a path for herself from the age of 12 -_-

[widowshill]

@hcrnblwer for r/v au.

❝ YOU'RE FREEZING ! ❞

she'd bolted down to the beach of LOOKOUT POINT in fear and desperation, the bile in the back of her throat tinged with the PREMONITION that it would be a corpse –– and not a survivor –– washed up once again on their shores. a shipwreck on these rocks has little chance. a FOOL'S CHANCE. and thus the mistress of the house finds herself pitifully empty-handed to greet the living, breathing face of the sea that crawls from the receding tide. neither blanket, nor cup of soup, not even a flask of brandy to comfort the dripping sailor, no more than driftwood himself. ( and no pinker in the cheeks, either. ) WITHOUT THINKING, Victoria takes her trench coat from her shoulders at once and wraps it around him –– although pitifully small, it will suffice for now. the wind nips at her; though, as Roger claimed she someday would be, she is used to it by now. fearsome though its wail, its BITE is as harmless and familiar as a PUPPY gnawing on the skin of its mother.

❝ come with me up to the house –– we'll put you in front of the fire. ❞

a quiet, menacing voice whispers in her ear that there ought to be more of them ––  that there will be no comfort to be had unless more of his shipmates are found. but she SILENCES such moroseness with a stern reminder that that is what her husband is doing even now, alongside the sheriff and the coastguard, searching. if he has lived there is no reason to believe everyone else hasn't. not until bodies –– warm or cold –– are found.

❝ can you walk ? it isn't far, but it is uphill ––  lean on me, if you need to. ❞

[gruviasilversblog]

Fanfic: Past Wounds and Grudges(Heridas y Rencores del pasado-English Version), Fairy Tail | FanFiction

Hi everyone.

Here I leave you the link of my fanfic "Heridas y Rencores del pasado" translated into English by @sorceress-botan .

It is set in the Daphne arc.

It is Gajuvia Brotp.

[booasaur]

Thuis - 2023-12-22

[steel--fairy]

so daphne has three 'rivals' (silver, sparrow, maggie) and each corresponds to the sort of main subplots for her (silver-team rocket/gym challenge, sparrow-legendaries, maggie-making friends)

she also has three 'siblings' (kris, ethan, lyra) who also correspond to the arcs. kris-legendaries, ethan-making friends, and lyra-team rocket/gym challenge

ive got most of their involvement down except for lyra. i have a backstory for her but like....its basically just there for one gym and thats it compared to the more frequent involvement of literally everyone else. i want to have her involved more but idk how?? bc she actually doesnt like battling so she has no reason to be involved except for that one moment. plus, that moment comes p late in the story so narrative wise itd probably feel like it came from nowhere. i just dunno how to work it in earlier

......typing things out usually helps me come up with a solution but not this time. rip.

[fleuve-des-etoiles]

Out of curiosity, what do you all consider the best and the worst arcs of Fairy Tail? 

I’m wondering if there is any sort of consensus on this in the fandom...