Who aimed for the top and got Number 1?
@Lenny said:
My OTP. I have rewatched FT several times, and Jellal’s arrest in episode 68 never fails to make me cry.
@Jko said:
It would've better if they spent more time together instead of Jellal spontaneously saving Erza, and Erza stopped acting like schoolgirl when she saw him.
@Emperor Spriggan said:
I wasnt a huge fan of this in the beginning due to primarily shipping Natsu x Erza and thinking Jellal was in the way, but the GMG really made me warm up to them. Plus they got some really good moments in the last arc with Neinhart and Acnologia stuff
@Takuan said:
My personal favourite ship. I didn't place them first because, i mean, JELLAL DO SOMETHING ALREADY jeez.
#1
Jellal Fernandes and Erza Scarlet
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Since Nalu and Jerza are the two most fairy tale like to me,
I am also going to write this post as a story.
Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful Dragon Queen who had a baby....
But because of circumstances beyond her control, she had to give that daughter up.
Leaving her soon after birth at a village where the girl grew in happiness until tragedy struck and the village was attacked by zealots of dark cult, which enslaved all the children.
And where the girl saw the dark side of humanity.
But she also saw the light. There she met a boy, kind and gentle Jellal. He decided to give her the surname "Scarlet" after her scarlet hair so they would never forget it. Despite the harsh conditions of her enslavement and labor, Erza became close friends with the other children.
The kids eventually planned to escape. They were unfortunately caught by the guards, who decided to send the escape's mastermind to the tower's disciplinary chamber, while the rest would be deprived of food for three days. Seeing how fearful Shô was, Erza prepared to take the blame herself, but Jellal announced himself as the mastermind instead. However, the guards reasoned that Erza was the one responsible and sent her to the disciplinary chamber, where she was tortured to the brink of death and lost her right eye. Jellal rescued her, but was captured soon after. Finally fed up with their torment, Erza staged a revolt against their captors so they could escape and save Jellal
But the boy she knew and loved could not be saved.
Jellal was put under a spell - the kind and compassionate boy she knew him to be was suddenly twisted and violent. He had been possessed by what he claimed to be the spirit of Zeref, and decided that the only way for them to attain true freedom was to complete the Tower of Heaven and revive Zeref. Erza refused to help him, prompting Jellal to cast her out of the tower by herself, only letting her live because she helped take care of all the guards who would have opposed him. Before letting her escape, Jellal told Erza to keep the Tower of Heaven a secret from the government, as well as to never return to the tower, threatening to destroy the tower and kill everyone in it, including their friends, if she disobeyed.
He exiled Erza from the island and took control of the construction of the Tower of Heaven in order to resurrect Zeref, and thus create a world of "true freedom". He bombed the ship that was supposed to take the slaves off the island, and told them afterward that it was Erza's doing, as she had gone insane with her newfound Magic Powers. Believing that she had truly escaped on her own and thus betrayed them, the slaves helped him build the tower for the next eight years as a way of showing their gratitude for saving them from certain death.
While growing up, Jellal was taken under the tutelage of the Oración Seis leader Brain, cultivated to be a protegee and eventually creating an illusion that infiltrated the Wizard Council.
Years later they met again.
As enemies...
He wanted her to be his sacrificial lamb for his dreams. It has to be her.
Erza wanted to kill him and herself in the process.
But it was all according to his plan... He knew what she would do. Jellal was counting on that indomitable spirit, so full of love, to fall right into his trap.
Everything had been for this moment, to revive Zeref,
(Even though Zeref was really alive, of course)
And even after Jellal was defeated by Natsu and thought dead, Erza told Lucy that she thought Jellal was the one that saved Erza and Natsu from the tower by infusing with the tower himself.
Then Jellal returned...
No he didn’t return like that.
This is a shonen fairy tale not shojo.....
Oh wait..... maybe it is?
He lost his memory but his only memory was her...
They were together again, but everything wanted to tear them apart.
But in the end, they were still separated.
He was taken again from her.
So while Nalu might be the ship that wants to be together forever. Jerza is the ship that always symbolizes longing and that wish to see the other out though they might not see each other, they will always find each other. In Erza vs Azuma when Jellal was tortured in prison, the two shared a mutual vibe.
The Grand Magic games had the two reunited again.
The two reunited to fight along side each other as the main badass couple of fairy tail.
The two finally had some fun at a water part.
Wait didn't Natsu do the same thing to Lucy at one point and everyone freaked?
They almost kissed.... Or did they? This has long been debated by the fandom, but long before Zervis taught us how to kiss could lead to death and pregnancy, Jellal and Erza had their moonlight, shadow kiss.
He saved her (And I don't see why this is a bad thing).
And then this scene....
Ok..... that didn't really happen but it was totally implied...
When she was made small, she thought he may not be interested in her again.
He trusts in her to be the light to his darkness. The strength to his weakness.
And in the timeskip, she learned his magic as she was working for CS.
She gets flustered over how he sees her, just like a normal girl. He makes her normal. Not a monster that has to be strong and put up a front before everyone. She can be just like Levy, Juvia, or Lucy.
And he fights for her. Jellal wants to protect Erza.
Because this is what love is...
But will they ever be together?
I think they will....