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Summer greeting card. (Google Translate)
(โฌ๏ธ after all the other tweets & their repetitive captions under the cut)
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That's all for now for the Hot Summer Festival [greeting] series. Since the magazine is currently in the midst of the FT Festival, this was a one-week series to make you enjoy it even more. Tomorrow's magazine will also have three episodes at once! Yoroshikudesu.* (DeepL Translate)
*it's been a pleasure/best regards/etc?
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Ngl it's honestly incredibly funny how much Zeref hated anyone who happened to be seeking his approval at any given time over his hundreds of years of existence. Like from what Fairy Tail's readers/viewers are given to understand, this guy's usually moping--unless he's running a whole-ass empire OR unless he happens upon a cult of murderous shitheads formed in his honor. In which case he goes full edgelord, kills them, and is like "that's it. Fuck it. Fuck you. I'm burning this world to the ground and reinventing it to be not annoying. Existence is agony. You're welcome."
Natsu and Mavis were his favorites ever and all either of them did was roast the absolute shit out of him. They hated him almost as much as he hated anyone who wanted to please him. Or Larcade, who was the greatest abomination in the universe, as far as he was concerned. also his designer son.
Unreal character. Five stars.
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Zeref: So basically, Natsu never grew up... *very nonchalant as he sits at the bar in the guildhall*
Erza: (โฟโ โฟโ )*** *as tables and people are flying all around them* I'm so sorry this had to be your first Fairy Tail experience... *CRASH!* (โฟโ โฟโ )********* So very, very sorry... *barely restraining herself from Brawl Defusal at this point*
Zeref: *chuckles* My first experience...? You do realize I taught your guild's founders?
Erza: Y-Yes, well...!
Zeref: Not to mention, you were the ones to raze my empire. Alvarez has never been in such shambles. It's all in Invel and Ajeel's hands over there. Dimaria's retired... Brandish moved to Ishgar, apparently?
Erza: ......... *CRASH!* *SHATTER!* *SCREAMS OF "Uncle!"* (โฟโ โฟโ )*** You do realize you were literally asking for that ass-whooping...?
Zeref: *watches a barstool narrowly miss his nose as it flies past* Oh, I won't dispute that point. However, I'm pointing out the flaw of your apology.
Erza: Yes, well... *sees telltale lightning charging up in the atmosphere... too much to be from one mage alone* (โฟโ โฟโ )*** We weren't expecting you and our First Master to be sticking around, reincarnated. So technically, this IS your first experience... You're not an enemy anymore.
Zeref: Mmm... I suppose not. *watches Erza nearly bolts out of her seat once Natsu is blasted through a new hole in the ceiling* โโฟโ But truly... You need not apologize. You act as if this is my first rodeo with Natsu.
Erza: You knew him as a babe!!! ... And a little kid. (โฌโ_โ)
Zeref: *gestures at the steady stream of lightning-flames spewing through the hole in the ceiling and nailing Laxus down below* And my original point that I labored toward...?
Erza: ......... (โฌโ_โ)(โฌโ_โ)(โฌโ_โ) He's not... ALWAYS this bad.
Zeref: n__n *Gajeel and Natsu bash into each other midair, Dragon Force activated* He could be sweet, it's true. Well, I'm speaking of the boy who died... I assume that kind nature passed onto the Etherious Natsu, but I can't say I've had the distinct pleasure of confirming that...
Erza: ... You're exaggerating.
Zeref: He absolutely refused to listen to a word I said. It took Igneel to get him to learn reading and writing.
Erza: (โฌโ_โ) I beg your pardon, but *I* taught him reading.
Zeref: And as Irene's offspring, that makes sense. :3
Erza: (โฌเฒ ็เฒ )I am not-
Zeref: โโฟโ I have several ways to confirm your lineage, Erza. It's useless burying your head in the sand.
Erza: (โฌโ_โ) ... Regardless, I fail too see how my lineage has anything to do with me teaching Natsu valuable life skills.
Zeref: (โโขโฟโขโ) Simple. Natsu won't bring himself to heel without overwhelming force to make him respect you. Igneel knew your pains long before you ever did, but you're to be commended for guiding him down the right path.
Erza: And you couldn't "overwhelm" him on your own...? You HAD to dump him on a dragon? (โฌโ_โ)
Zeref: Unfortunately, with the Curse afflicting me, the options were "love him to death" or take a compassionate Fire Dragon King up on his offer to teach Natsu. (โโขโฟโขโ) It fulfilled several objectives anyway.
Erza: *whole guild is shaking from everyone going all-out on each other by now* *huffs* (โฌโ_โ) I just... There must be SOME way to calm him down. Surely we can't let him remain this way forever? *mostly irate about property damage and broken bones from these brawls*
Zeref: ... Well, I COULD suggest a possible stratagem. *nonchalantly sips tea*
Erza: (โ_ โ) ......... *bolts up to her feet and Requips Purgatory Armor, brandishing a sword towards Zeref* You KNOW a way to tame his reckless tendencies?! (โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ
Zeref: ... From a certain point of view. (โโขโฟโขโ) Lord knows I must do the same with Mavis whenever she gets... mischievous. Yearning for new adventures. (โโขโฟโขโ)
Erza: Zeref, I will not ask you again. (โฌโโฟโ) What is this "stratagem"? I must know this. This could change EVERYTHING!
Zeref: Well, I certainly hope it would... Because you'll need to get...intimate with him. VERY intimate. โโฟโ
Erza: ... Now when you say "intimate"... You mean head pets and hugs? (โ_ โ)
Zeref: He's not a little boy anymore, Erza. โโฟโ You'll need to consult your "books" for those kinds of tips, I'm afraid.
Erza: Why would you even SUGGEST such debauchery?!?!?! (โโโโ ) Are you suggesting you and our First Master have been...?!
Zeref: Oh, we crossed that bridge over a hundred years ago, Erza. I'm told that's how August was born. ... And how his very belated siblings are on the way, as we speak.
Erza: *scandalized* (โโโโ ) Sh-SHAMELESS!!!!! Y-You have to be joking!!!
Zeref: *shrugs* Believe what you will. ... Just know that I'm a little sore at the moment, so I can't reel Mavis in. Apologies.
Erza: What are you...?! *whips her head around, seeing Mavis whip up a war strategy board* Who the hell is First Master going to war with?!
Zeref: No one. She's just making the brawl more strategically organized. (โโขโฟโขโ) ... If chaos can even be "organized". (โโขโฟโขโ)
Erza: *drops sword and hurries over to Mavis, waving arms frantically* F-First Master, please, no...! (โโโโ ) The guild is already in the red...!
Mavis: (เนโนฯโนเน ) *tuning Erza out effortlessly* Zeref's going to need to punish me BAD for all the strategies I've got in mind for you guys...
Erza: ...
Zeref: Still sore, Erza. So. Good luck~ (โโขโฟโขโ)
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Was thinking about Fairy Tail again and I fucking love how the wider guild lore is handled:
Oh, yeah. These magical nukes obviously had a role during wartime. And some unspecified business people started some truly devastating wars (as business people do) that magicians got roped into, because it was their litteral job to go and blow up the oposing forces. Who also had magicians. And so on. Which meant things eventually got so fucked that the assorted governments decided enough was enough (imagine how fucked things would have to be for a bunch of governments to agree about that) and created a bunch of regulations and a task force who's specific function was to make sure the human nukes more or less follow those new regulations. We are told about this fundamental bit of world building in basically three sentences during a small prequel spin off.
And one of the new rules was "human nukes cannot spontaneously declare war" which is quite a sensible rule, so even if they're a bunch of party poopers you can't really consider the magical cops as the villains. Because they're not. Because they're hardly relevant to the plot. Because it's not about them.
The protagonists (the human nukes in question) go about doing their thing, saving the world, causing ludicrous amounts of property damage and such. And the magic cops are there only to tell them "jesus christ, can you tone it down a little? Can you at least pretend you know what a law is? For the love of god, I'm begging you". Understandably, though, Fairy Tail does not take the magic cops too seriously, seeing as it was founded at a time where the magic cops did not exist yet (did Makarov's dad live long enough to know they were created at all? Just to put into perspective how new the whole set up is), and never got quite used to the idea that there was a superior authority to obey. They fuck shit up on the regular because they genuinely tend to forget that magic cops are a thing that exists, let alone matters. They have a hard time remembering what does or doesn't count as a crime. Because their guild and its practices are things that predate the existence of these specific laws.
(I mean. Come on. Their first master was a war strategist. By the time the story begins the guilds may be softcore mercenaries but they actually started as straight up mercenaries. Some of that got entrenched in their world view from very early on)
And I love how much this explains about Fairy Tail as a whole, and I think it's hilarious how little importance this has in the plot
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