Exceed secondary abilities?
I was thinking about shagotte, charle and panther lily. So far the three of them see to have been exceptional because they have abilities which other exceed do not have. Charle and shagotte can see the future and panther lily has the ability to change into a battle form of sorts. I just couldn't help but wonder if rather than these being random occurrences they could have been merely part of a pattern.
What if all exceed have the potential to awaken powerful, secondary abilities, aside from the generic aera? Lily for all we know simply had her secondary ability turned on in edolas 24/7 for whatever reason and once in earthland he was able to access his actual true form.
No clue of why things would develop in such a way considering that the fact that there was less magic in edoras than i earthland would suggest that the opposite would happen. A world with more magic should have allowed him to stay in his true form more efficiently. My only cracked pot theory here is that contrary to humans exceed do in fact actually produce magic inside their bodies while humans merely take it in from their surroundings. Since lily entered earthland it is possible his magic production system relaxed due to the abundance in the air and he started relying on his magic containers which would work similar to those of humans. Since he started relying on other magical containers which were less developed than his personally produced magic then he has less magic power to stay in his battle form.
Now, setting aside my little crackpot theory back there the most interesting implication of this would be that happy could potentially have another ability. Perhaps even a battle form. Heck, mashima could even make him look dragonlike as a reference to natsu and lisana thinking he was a dragon's egg years ago lol.
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Another interesting thing about this would be that just about a few exceed among thousands would have the ability to naturally resort to their secondary abilities or gifts. This would perhaps explain why they would be potentially unaware of their potential to use other magical powers. The theory overall makes sense however there actually is little evidence to support it.