#fairy tail simon

[fairydares]

what always strikes me as so tragic about Simon’s death scene isn’t the love triangle (if you could even call it that, at this point) because truthfully i don’t think Simon did or would ever have had Erza’s heart. instead, it’s that we see quite plainly how Simon never glimpsed a life outside that hell. He grew up physically, but still only had any idea of what love meant from a childhood crush.

on that same tower, Erza would learn that “you don’t die for those you love, you live for them” but Simon didn’t get to experience that lesson. in fact, his life ended in self-sacrifice for the little girl he’d shared a cell with and held in his heart even after they’d both grown up. he never lived a full life. the tragedy wasn’t the love triangle, but the fact that he never got to have experiences outside of it.

[fanstuffrantings]

Posting these to break up the oc posts. I'm thinking I might make Wally look more like a Marionette/ventriloquist dummy in his first appearance because my idea is that the tower crew disguise themselves as circus performers to kidnap people as sacrifices for the tower.

[acacia-may]

Hello there! Not a request, I was just wondering. You love Jerza, I saw that, but when you first watched Fairy Tail, did you first shipped Erza with Simon shortly before it was with Jellal? Because that happened to me and while I love Jerza, I loved Simon too and I wouldn't have mind at first if he ended up with Erza. But well, he died tragically pretty soon and Jellal got his redemption, so...

Hello! Thank you so much for the ask! 🥰 Aww...poor Simon! Bless his heart. 💕 He was such a good person, and I really loved his character. I've been rewatching some of the Tower of Heaven arc recently and really remembering just how wonderful he was. 🥺 I can definitely see the appeal of a Simon and Erza ship. He had a lot of genuine care and devotion for her which is very sweet, and I think that the sacrifices that he made for her are incredible and very admirable.

Overall, I agree with a lot of what you said, and, like you, I also would not have minded if he and Erza had ended up together (if circumstances were different and that's what they both decided they wanted for themselves). However, I wouldn't say I shipped that first, for a couple of reasons which I'll discuss under the cut because of spoilers.

(Warnings: Spoilers for Fairy Tail).

(1) I didn't experience Fairy Tail in what I would I consider the "normal way." I actually watched some of it out of order including the entirity of the Tower of Heaven arc. I also had a lot of spoilers just in general going into the series, one which was that Jerza was an endgame (canon?) ship so I at least figured Jellal was headed towards a some sort of redemption arc somehow even though I had absolutely no clue what was going on with him until (I don't even know...) the Oracion Seis arc? Edolas? Somewhere in there... (Those spoilers would have probably been helpful, but I didn't actually know anything about his arc except that he and Erza would eventually end up together so there was a lot of theorizing and trying to make sense of that). But I think knowing that he would eventually end up with Erza, I gave him more of the benefit of the doubt than I would have otherwise, and I was always really fascinated with Jellal as a character. He was definitely one of the ones I was most interested in, especially early on, but I made a lot of jokes about how I didn't understand him at all.

(2) On kind of this same point, I had a very strange and compartmentalized view of Jellal and kind of saw Jerza as multiple different ships (in a way) because I really had this "there are actually several different people who we think are all Jellal but are not actually the same person" theory. I really ran with that for a while, and my sister and I were actually (jokingly) keeping track of the many different "Jellals." We got up to, I think, 7 or 8 different Jellals in total by a certain point, and we would make jokes about it like: "Oh I could imagine Jellal #6 and Erza together, but Jellal #3 is bad news. I don't ship that!" 🤣 My favorite iteration of Jerza at that point was probably Erza x Jellal #1 (that is the Jellal from Erza's flashbacks/childhood before he was brainwashed and whatever his adult counterpart was, of course). That said, my personal favorites of all of the Jellals (besides Jellal #1) were always Jellal #4 (that's Mystogan) and Jellal #7 (Tiny Mystogan who was such a good big brother to Wendy! So precious! My son!! 💙), but I never shipped Edo!Jellal (Mystogan) with Erza Scarlet. (Now Edolas Jerza is totally different story and I adore that ship but I digress...) Here are some actual screenshots just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about and to prove that I’m not just kidding… 😅😂

(A/N: Clearly some of my theories were incorrect 😂😅)

Of course, ultimately, there were not actually 7 different "Jellals," but I did feel very vindicated when it was revealed that I was at least partially right and that Jellal and Mystogan were in fact two separate people. But I think having this very compartmentalized and fractured view of Jellal as a character made it much easier for me to get behind the idea of Jellal and Erza as a ship (in a very weird way). In most basic terms, it was very much, "I ship her with the good Jellal not the evil one" in my mind because I genuinely thought they were separate people 😂😅 (A/N: I really am a goofball sometimes and my theories can be very out there...)

(3) I am not a usually a big fan of relationships that feel one-sided in general. In this case, for instance, it is clear that Simon has romantic feelings for Erza, but she is still kind of wrestling with these complicated feelings she has for Jellal and dealing with a lot of her own personal trauma that is preventing her from being ready and even wanting to pursue a romantic relationship at that point. That isn't to say that she couldn't have grown to love Simon had he survived, but at that particular moment in their lives (during the Tower of Heaven arc), it really felt like an unrequited love situation to me. It is usually a much harder sell for me to get behind those kinds of ships in general, and it definitely takes a while (much longer than we were given with Simon, unfortunately) if there isn't some (obvious) indication that that other person is at least open to idea of returning that affection. It's usually just a personal preference for me to kind of take a "wait and see" approach with those kinds of ships before jumping on board and actually shipping it. Unfortunately, Simon's arc was cut short, so I didn't really get the time to make up my mind about that ship before the story kind of made up my mind for me (by axing him and removing him as an option). So it is really only upon reflection and looking back that I truly appreciated what could have been between them.

But ultimately, I love Simon, Erza, and Jellal as characters, and I want nothing but good things for them. Obviously what happened to Simon is incredibly tragic, and I think in a certain way, we'll just never know what could have been and there is a tragedy in that. But I think in my mind, I prefer their friendship, and I do have lingering questions about whether or not Erza would have ever returned his romantic interest in her even if he had survived. (I can almost guarantee you, however, that no one would ship that harder than Jellal--my poor little guilt-ridden, self-deprecating boy. I can just see him urging Erza to pursue Simon instead of him because he is the type of man who is worthy of her (at least in Jellal's eyes). That said, I do not like love triangles/shapes so I am actually kind of glad this didn't happen).

Thank you so much for the ask and for indulging my ramblings! Please feel free to drop by any time with any more Fairy Tail questions. I've definitely got a bit of brain rot for it at the moment! Cheers!! 💖

[floertoer]

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Types of people attracted to Erza-

Ex-catholics:

Dom Women:

[captainuranium543]

lot of characters who deserved better in ft and they are number one on the list

[ll33c0ji1]

Knight lady is so strong and pretty.

Also i love drawing Mirajane (first time)

[lisannastraussisanangel]

Children of the Tower of Heaven Headcanons:

Shô and Wally end up joining Fairy Tail years later. Wally debated joining Crime Sorciere but he didn't wanna be around Jellal that much

Millianna pulls the “do you know who my sister is?” Card all the time. It always works

Shô is very gullible. He’s the victim of so many pranks

Wally and Gildarts use similar magic. A fact that terrified the Fairy Tail guild when they found out

Jellal is the strongest magically. Erza is the strongest physically

Simon had been planning a coup against Jellal for several years before ToH arc

Millianna’s nickname is Milly but only Shô, Wally, and Simon can call her it. Surprisingly she’s also okay with Meredy using it

Erza’s group and the Oracion seis were friends. They disappeared months before Erza’s revolt. She assumed they were dead and it took her way too long to realize the Oracion Seis were those kids

Shô has the most evil sounding laugh ever. He’s a freaky little dude

[feet010]

I'm truly disappointed there are no x readers of this show, there is so many characters and so much potential 💔

IT'S A GREAT SHOW, please. If you're interested in looking for something new, CONSIDER Thunderbirds are going. The characters are cutie patooties and, overall, just some lovable characters !

Also Scott is hot 🤷‍♀️

Hoping for this to reach an audience who might be interested 😭

[ace-of-fairytail]

Magic school children

[gruviaa]

[nashnathan]

I've been rewatching Fairy Tail the anime for a few months, and I noticed the tierlist I made in september 2023 is OUTRAGEOUS.

So, I decided to keep a new updated tierlist as the episodes go by. Here's how's it going:

(Episode 39/I have no idea)

Some characters are there already because I'm pretty sure about them still. (Just so you know, I watched FT last time in 2020)

If it's so long now I can't imagine what it will be like in the future 💀

Farwell and see ya soon!

[fairy-edits]

💙 Even in the midst of hard days, I felt a certain happiness ❤️

-Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest-

(#Coloring)

Credits: H.Mashima & A.Ueda's Arts.

Color by me.

[everyjuvia]

the fact that Gray asks Juvia whether they can really trust Simon (Erza is just way too far behind, and he clearly tries not to be heard by Simon) means that he already trusts her to some degree

[celticcatgirl2]

“…we talked about it Jellal..this isn’t team Jellal anymore….it’s team Erza…everyone knows I’m the coolest kid here…”

“But I have BLUE HAIR!!!”

“You don’t even have pronouns dude…don’t even try that…”

[fairydares]

"overprotective dad" trope but it's Erza about her son with Kagura's son and the standards she demands are ludicrous.