I'd love for more people to talk about how the only reason Fairy Tail isn't declared a terrorist group (or a dark guild, as per canon terms) is that someone at the council knows that giving them half a chance to retaliate is a fantastic way to ruin your entire month. If you can't exterminate them all in one swift strike then you'd have a better go at things by just charging them whatever fine you want and make them foot the bill of reconstruction efforts, since 'you break it you buy it' is a policy they can understand, unlike things such as 'due process' or 'respecting authority'. They might even accept to spend a short (a very short) stint in prison to appease anyone who needs appeasement, but that's about it. All of them, to a man, would rather be labeled an enemy of the state than accept government interference in their internal affairs.
They're the good guys by virtue of a technicality and a fit of whimsy
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I can no longer normal
This hangout was the perfect mix of cute shit, character moments from those we rarely get to see, elucidating a character’s thoughts on the world around them, and also dropping hints for what is to come. The fact that this hangout was for Kaeya, who is both one of my favorite and one of the most mysterious characters in the game, makes it all the more better. And also THAT ENDING SCREEN WITH KLEE IS GOING UP ON MY WALLS. SORRY BEIDOU YOU GOTTA MOVE THIS IS THE NEW MASTER BEDROOM PORTRAIT. YOUR HOTNESS CANNOT TRIUMPH OVER KLEE BEING THE CUTEST AND KAEYA BEING A GOOD BIG BROTHER AND IT LOOKING LIKE KAEYA AND I ARE RAISING KLEE TOGETHER WE LOOK LIKE HER PARENTS OH MY GOD.
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She’s not stupid, okay. She knows that no one trusts the Traveler—Artagan, whatever— no matter how much they all say We’re with you, Jester. She’s seen them in their little worried huddles off to the side, Beau and Fjord and Caduceus, and she knows when they’ve been talking about her and the Traveler because they all have That Expression on their face. That pursed-lips Mmmm I don’t like this but I am keeping my mouth shut right now expression. That Mmmm my god is a real god and a lot better than Jester’s fake god expression. (And of course the Traveler is still basically a real, almost-god, even if he doesn’t want to be as much of a god anymore! Jester just knows that that’s kind of what they’re thinking when they have That Look on their faces.)
And they’re her friends, and Jester loves them, and she knows they love her and they want her to be safe.
But. But. The Traveler was Jester’s first friend, and her best friend, and for a long time her only friend, so it hurts that the rest of Jester’s friends don’t… see that.
And Fjord’s one to talk, too— wasn’t he doing stupid things for Uk’otoa (Uk’otoa) not too long ago? But he follows the Wildmother, so obviously he knows everything now!
All right, Jester knows that’s a little mean. She remembers him promising her Mama that he would protect her. He just wants to keep her safe, and he’s said as much; he’s been burned by his own experiences and he doesn’t want her to get hurt the same way.
(And she has been hurt. Is hurt. There are a few things that she’s never going to draw out in her sketchbook, the kind of things that she just wants to cry out while curled up in her Mama’s lap like she’s little again. The kind of things that she can’t even tell the Traveler, because right now he needs her help, so he needs her to be strong and he needs her to be happy.)
But even so, she KNOWS the Traveler, knows him better than Fjord ever knew his stupid snea snake, even if she didn’t know him as well as she thought she did. He may be tricksy, but she still trusts him, because he’s promised time and again that she is his first, his favorite, and he will not leave her, not forever. And none of her friends seem to believe her when she tells them this!
“I’d like to be there to help you walk the path you’re on, and…keep things from getting out of hand,” says Caduceus’s slow, deep voice.
“Sure, Jester,” says Beau, “but you know you’re the one who does all the amazing stuff, right? Not him.”
“Arch means evil, doesn’t it?” Nott’s worried, reedy voice says. “It’s only used in bad things!”
The silence from everybody but Caleb after the Traveler says, “As long as you have her around, you’ll have me around,” speaks volumes and volumes. A whole Cobalt Soul library.
And that hurts just as much.
If Artagan told her, right this second, that he was going to go off to travel through the planes and he wanted her to come with him…
She isn’t sure she would tell him no.
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I feel like Matt and Phoenix would be best friends
they both wake up and worry about how they're going to afford rent, go to court to defend someone who totally looks like they did it, have an insanely homosexual moment with their best friend, think about that one time that they hooked up with She-Hulk, not think about how their type is people that scare them a little, get the shit beat out of them and then come out kind of fine, find a big important corrupt guy to send to jail when everyone else is too afraid to touch him, and then they go to sleep alone because their martyr complex extends to avoiding romantic connections.
They also care less about the word of the law and are willing to break it for the sake of actual justice and push through injuries through sheer willpower.
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