Discussion Fairy Tail Plotline Check List

[Ebony Maw]

I want to know about your backstory.Why you even though are an Etherious is following Zeref and doesn't want to kill him.

I like to think that Obra was pretty much a failure of an Etherious in the sense that instead of wanting to kill him, it loves him. Kinda cheesy, but I think it would be a sweet twist. It could also be intentional on Zeref's part, using Obra to change his outlook on life and kick-start the Curse.

True on Mard finding the book. The first image that popped in my head when Zeref said he found it randomly was Mard was on Tenrou island but that wouldn't make sense. I did like finding out Tartaros was created by him. They're basically the demon version of Avatar: Zeref groupies/followers like shit. On the 12 yeah it would be nice to see if it's something they have to be chosen. I think Irene basically shown you can be chosen since she met Zeref when he changes her physique. Brandish was there in Alvarez when she was little and she said she knew August since she was small which means Brandish could of been either inducted or brought to be a 12.

Good point about Irene, and especially Brandish, I love the idea of young children being inducted into it, adds a sort of brainwashing element to it. It's also incredibly likely given how Ajeel, DiMaria and Brandish are all relatively young (I would add Larcade, but his age is unknown and he likely would have joined the 12 regardless). The two that I'm most curious about are Bradman and Wahl. Bradman's strange in the fact that you'd think he was created by Zeref, but he mentions the Underworld like it's an actual place and if he was an Etherious, wouldn't he be trying to kill Zeref, not follow him? I don't know, it puts doubts in my mind. As for Wahl, was he persuaded to leave his people, was he taken by force or did he seek Zeref out?

 

[Arjuna]

I like to think that Obra was pretty much a failure of an Etherious in the sense that instead of wanting to kill him, it loves him. Kinda cheesy, but I think it would be a sweet twist. It could also be intentional on Zeref's part, using Obra to change his outlook on life and kick-start the Curse.

Good point about Irene, and especially Brandish, I love the idea of young children being inducted into it, adds a sort of brainwashing element to it. It's also incredibly likely given how Ajeel, DiMaria and Brandish are all relatively young (I would add Larcade, but his age is unknown and he likely would have joined the 12 regardless). The two that I'm most curious about are Bradman and Wahl. Bradman's strange in the fact that you'd think he was created by Zeref, but he mentions the Underworld like it's an actual place and if he was an Etherious, wouldn't he be trying to kill Zeref, not follow him? I don't know, it puts doubts in my mind. As for Wahl, was he persuaded to leave his people, was he taken by force or did he seek Zeref out?

Lel kek i wasn't talking about Obra even though he can be one because he uses Magic Nullification.


I was mainly talking about you which means Bloodman aka MLG Bradman.

 

[Linali]

Uh, at first I voted for Mavis's plan, but I changed for Larcade's origin. At the moment, as many of you, I'm disappointed in Mavis not delivering to her title "Fairy Tactician". I wouldn't be surprised, if there was no plan at all to begin with. At least I'm more interested in Larcade's backstory than Mavis' plan.

And second choice - Acnologia's origin. I would love a mini arc about Acnologia recalling the past events. Maybe this arc isn't be the proper time for his flashbacks, but this choice was stronger than me

And I'm thinking about one more plot, which is competely not relevant and doesn't fit to this arc, but I wouldn't mind, if Hiro would come back to it one day. I want to know, what in the world is this 100-years quest, that Gildarts failed, because he encountered Acnologia. Iirc, acording to Makarov Gildarts was the only one, who came back alive from this mission. May it be, that this quest connects in some way to Acno? And he was the reason, why no mage, who tried to complete the task, made it alive?

 

[Doughboy]

And I'm thinking about one more plot, which is competely not relevant and doesn't fit to this arc, but I wouldn't mind, if Hiro would come back to it one day. I want to know, what in the world is this 100-years quest, that Gildarts failed, because he encountered Acnologia. Iirc, acording to Makarov Gildarts was the only one, who came back alive from this mission. May it be, that this quest connects in some way to Acno? And he was the reason, why no mage, who tried to complete the task, made it alive?

I might be wrong but wasn't this quest when he fought Acnologia at Zonia?

 

[Ebony Maw]

Lel kek i wasn't talking about Obra even though he can be one because he uses Magic Nullification.


I was mainly talking about you which means Bloodman aka MLG Bradman.

LOL, sorry my bad.

I'm really curious about his backstory too, especially why he's following Zeref. If (I do have doubts) he's an Etherious, it may turn out that Bradman was some sort of experiment that ultimately failed but was still powerful, so Zeref decided to give him a place among the Spriggan 12. If he's not an Etherious.... well this opens a few doors, as he could just be a naturally occurring demon that Zeref discovered and recruited (later using him as an inspiration for the 9DG + Mard).
This is actually a prime reason I want to see the motive behind the 12, as it would potentially show the backstories of the current era Spriggans whilst showing more of Zeref's mindset. Too bad we likely won't get this....

 

[Linali]

I might be wrong but wasn't this quest when he fought Acnologia at Zonia?

Yeah, the same. He encountered Acno and that's why he failed the quest. But he was the only one, who came back alive, so he could tell about Acno being there. And Zonia again... You can reread chapter 166, where Gildarts tells Natsu about this event.

 

[kkck]

To me the most important thing that should be about to come is August. The revelation that Irene is a dragon slayer turned dragon has astounding implications. So far the manga has basically made the point that dragons > humans with the only plausible exception being a human dragon slayer. Barring that, any dragon is simply stronger than any human. Zeref might be a bit of an exception given his immortality as well though I wouldn't rule out any regular dragon surpassing him at least in terms of raw power which in this case would also include irene of course. August being a match or stronger than irene has a few possible implications:

1.- He is a dragon slayer
2.- He is something other than a human.

I don't think there is even a 0.0000001% of a chance of august being a normal human being otherwise he would simply be weaker than irene. So... what could he be that surpasses a dragon? Could he be related to ankseram?

 

[Woodenstool]

Do you really expect people to read that encyclopedia?

Idk, Acnologias origin.

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Yeah, the same. He encountered Acno and that's why he failed the quest. But he was the only one, who came back alive, so he could tell about Acno being there. And Zonia again... You can reread chapter 166, where Gildarts tells Natsu about this event.

He always told Happy that a human can't beat it, but one day Natsu....

 

[Doughboy]

To me the most important thing that should be about to come is August. The revelation that Irene is a dragon slayer turned dragon has astounding implications. So far the manga has basically made the point that dragons > humans with the only plausible exception being a human dragon slayer. Barring that, any dragon is simply stronger than any human. Zeref might be a bit of an exception given his immortality as well though I wouldn't rule out any regular dragon surpassing him at least in terms of raw power which in this case would also include irene of course. August being a match or stronger than irene has a few possible implications:

1.- He is a dragon slayer
2.- He is something other than a human.

I don't think there is even a 0.0000001% of a chance of august being a normal human being otherwise he would simply be weaker than irene. So... what could he be that surpasses a dragon? Could he be related to ankseram?

I honestly believe August is 100% human fam. Him being a dragon, demon would be silly as hell after Irene. It's easily possible he can just know every magic known to man. He super old so it's not out the question.

Do you really expect people to read that encyclopedia?

Idk, Acnologias origin.

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He always told Happy that a human can't beat it, but one day Natsu....

It's for cataloging lol

 

[Belserion]

Good point about Irene, and especially Brandish, I love the idea of young children being inducted into it, adds a sort of brainwashing element to it. It's also incredibly likely given how Ajeel, DiMaria and Brandish are all relatively young (I would add Larcade, but his age is unknown and he likely would have joined the 12 regardless). The two that I'm most curious about are Bradman and Wahl. Bradman's strange in the fact that you'd think he was created by Zeref, but he mentions the Underworld like it's an actual place and if he was an Etherious, wouldn't he be trying to kill Zeref, not follow him? I don't know, it puts doubts in my mind. As for Wahl, was he persuaded to leave his people, was he taken by force or did he seek Zeref out?

This is an interesting pov and one I never really considered before. I figured most or all of them were like Irene in that Zeref did something for them, or helped them in a way that they were either awestruck enough by his power to follow him or they felt indebted to him. They seem to have a pretty easy going relationship with him like we saw during the meeting. I liked this exchange:

Spoiler

It would be nice to see how each of the 12 met Zeref and why they chose to follow him. We already know why Irene and Larcade do, but mages like August for example who is way up there in power, I would love to know his reason, since he seems well aware of Zeref's plans and is content to be a "pawn".

 

[Doughboy]

Spin-off about Teenager God Serena and how he become the 1.Wizard saint.. God Serena hunted Acnologia for what reason exactly?? maybe his family was killed by Acnologia or something

God Serena hunted Acnologia simply the same reason Acnologia hunted him: he wanted to erase every dragon's presence. God Serena: "all dragons that are before me will crumble" or something along those lines

 

[Gryffindor]

What purpose the Tenrou Tree will serve now that it has been connected to the mainland(Hopefully Hiro forgot about it)
August's moral views
Why Ivan isn't a blonde.

 

[Doughboy]

What purpose the Tenrou Tree will serve now that it has been connected to the mainland(Hopefully Hiro forgot about it)
August's moral views
Why Ivan isn't a blonde.

Juice for FT Mages
True
Rita had dark hair, same as Ivan so genetics maybe or whoever Makarov's wife is

 

[Crescent Jinx]

I thought of that but it's more of whenever Acnologia comes through to the battle. I'll add when he comes though



Anna really has no backstory to be note of. She's important to CS mages and DS but she's really connecting people to each other.

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But I would like to know.

Maybe other people aren't interested but a case couldn't be made that allows Anna to tie up a few plot lines and not just connect people.

Spoiler: My rambles

I don't want to spam your nice thread so.

It's just....

We know that Zeref first designed the eclipse gate when he was at Midian Academy, because it was a way he could bring back his brother yet it took out the human sacrifice of the Tower of Heaven.

How did he know that the celestial world ran on a different time?

Sure, he could have read it in a book, but where's the fun in that? But even before Anna was introduced, I speculated that he must have had a celestial wizard close to him to know details that young in life.

Had he known Anna from a young age? Were they school mates? Did she somehow survive the massacre at the school brought on by his curse?

Is there a connection between the 12 zodiac and 12 Spriggans?

Also on a deeper level, why was Anna helping him in the first place?

We know that some celestial wizard a long time ago broke a key and fought Mard Greer when he had taken.

Was that before or after Natsu had been sent into the future?

Was it a new celestial wizard?

Was it Anna?

Did they fight over END's book?

Is that why CSK called Lucy "old friend" at beginning of story. Is that why Mard never saw Lucy was because he would recognize her as Anna?

Why did Anna and Igneel make Natsu's scarf? It was shown to protect Natsu from Zeref's curse.
Is there more to it?

How did Anna know Igneel?

Is there a connection between celestial magic and dragons that goes deeper than shippers dreams?

Also why are the book and scarf needed since it seems like these seeds would eventually grow and take over Natsu anyway?

Besides that.....

We also know that the only ones besides Mavis, Hades, Makarov, and Zeref that have been connect to the one magic subplot has been Layla, Lucy, and Anna. But Mavis and Fairy Hearts origins only date to 100 years ago. It would just be interesting to me to see if there is a concept of "one magic" that predates that time frame. Maybe "they" taught about it in Midian schools.

The filler arc made it seemed that celestial wizards were almost a religious thing. And even when Zeref talked about Layla calling on the worlds celestial wizard to find Aquarius key.... this seems like an organization.

I think it would be interesting to tie celestial wizards since they are usually female, as priestesses. And Anna was a high priestess of some ancient order. That precedes normal magic. One where ideas about "love" and "one magic" was passed down.

Even tenrou island, the placed hyped to be where fairies came from... is named after a Star... Sirius the celestial dog.

Maybe even tie the religious theme about one magic and the celestial theme into the stuff about gods. Maybe how the gods lost their position to dragons and Acnologia was a whole plot to destroy the dragon race so the Gods could return to earth as the rulers.

Even Midian.... which was connected to the gods is gone. So how would we know. Only the stars could tell us.

This totally all fanfiction right now. But I'm just saying. It could tie into an interesting plot if done properly.

 

[Doughboy]

But I would like to know.

Maybe other people aren't interested but a case couldn't be made that allows Anna to tie up a few plot lines and not just connect people.

Spoiler: My rambles

I don't want to spam your nice thread so.

It's just....

We know that Zeref first designed the eclipse gate when he was at Midian Academy, because it was a way he could bring back his brother yet it took out the human sacrifice of the Tower of Heaven.

How did he know that the celestial world ran on a different time?

Sure, he could have read it in a book, but where's the fun in that? But even before Anna was introduced, I speculated that he must have had a celestial wizard close to him to know details that young in life.

Had he known Anna from a young age? Were they school mates? Did she somehow survive the massacre at the school brought on by his curse?

Is there a connection between the 12 zodiac and 12 Spriggans?

Also on a deeper level, why was Anna helping him in the first place?

We know that some celestial wizard a long time ago broke a key and fought Mard Greer when he had taken.

Was that before or after Natsu had been sent into the future?

Was it a new celestial wizard?

Was it Anna?

Did they fight over END's book?

Is that why CSK called Lucy "old friend" at beginning of story. Is that why Mard never saw Lucy was because he would recognize her as Anna?

Why did Anna and Igneel make Natsu's scarf? It was shown to protect Natsu from Zeref's curse.
Is there more to it?

How did Anna know Igneel?

Is there a connection between celestial magic and dragons that goes deeper than shippers dreams?

Also why are the book and scarf needed since it seems like these seeds would eventually grow and take over Natsu anyway?

Besides that.....

We also know that the only ones besides Mavis, Hades, Makarov, and Zeref that have been connect to the one magic subplot has been Layla, Lucy, and Anna. But Mavis and Fairy Hearts origins only date to 100 years ago. It would just be interesting to me to see if there is a concept of "one magic" that predates that time frame. Maybe "they" taught about it in Midian schools.

The filler arc made it seemed that celestial wizards were almost a religious thing. And even when Zeref talked about Layla calling on the worlds celestial wizard to find Aquarius key.... this seems like an organization.

I think it would be interesting to tie celestial wizards since they are usually female, as priestesses. And Anna was a high priestess of some ancient order. That precedes normal magic. One where ideas about "love" and "one magic" was passed down.

Even tenrou island, the placed hyped to be where fairies came from... is named after a Star... Sirius the celestial dog.

Maybe even tie the religious theme about one magic and the celestial theme into the stuff about gods. Maybe how the gods lost their position to dragons and Acnologia was a whole plot to destroy the dragon race so the Gods could return to earth as the rulers.

Even Midian.... which was connected to the gods is gone. So how would we know. Only the stars could tell us.

This totally all fanfiction right now. But I'm just saying. It could tie into an interesting plot if done properly.

I really did read all of this lol and I added CSK Mard relationship, forgot about that. I think Anna is important but more regarding the events that happened 400 years ago. It would be nice to know but everything she did to cause the events of the present timeline might already be fulfilled.

 

[LordOTaco]

I voted for Acnologia's Origin and Gray's Trump Card. They seem like the ones that make the most logical sense at this point especially given that Gray is getting up and has been talking about it since the beginning of the arc. Acnologia's Origin may reveal a way to beat him especially since Natsu no longer has the Igneel Power Up and all the other dragonslayers are beat up pretty bad.

 

[Crescent Jinx]

I really did read all of this lol and I added CSK Mard relationship, forgot about that. I think Anna is important but more regarding the events that happened 400 years ago. It would be nice to know but everything she did to cause the events of the present timeline might already be fulfilled.

Lmao! Hope it wasn't too torturous to read all that. So thanks so much for reading.

The origins of tartaros and the original breaking of whatever key was used to summon Csk is fascinating. Which could have connections to the white and black angel fight.

Really we have two types of subplots running in the story right now. One being themes introduced this arc like Larcade. Plus what Mavis planned against Zeref. While other stuff like is connected to 400 years ago. And the idea of developing Anna comes from wanting her to be a character as oppose to a plot device or a power-up for our main girl.

 

[Doughboy]

The black and white heavenly maidens could refer to the angel saint (the angel saint is probably the white heavenly maiden) that Precht mentioned in Fairy Tail Zero. The only subplots that are going on right now are the Fairy Heart subplot, the END subplot, and the Larcade subplot. Also Mavis's plan to defeat Zeref isn't a subplot it's just something to help defeat.

@Vici wrote me a theory that Jinx would like. Anna was the white angel, Acnologia (which Irene said he's the manifestation of it) would be the black. I added it but the black/white angels could be closer to a folklore compared to someone like Ankhseram (who Hiro said is sorta the same but I'll believe it when I see it)

 

[Demon Hunter]

again with the chairs.

I have six chairs but there are only 5 of us.

there is really no need for another Dragneel. we have, like, 3 of them as it is.

 

[randimari]

First post been lurking for awhile and I'll try to comment more. This thread was very interesting. I love Brandish as she is my favorite character that I can't help but not to comment that you added Jacob's comment about her and Dimaria. I instantly remembered when Larcade made his comment on their friendship (I love that moment so much) that they are indeed close even if they have a childish hate for each other lol. I didn't think anyone would point that out. I chose Larcade's birth and Natsu's book, I really can't wait till we see his backstory and Natsu's book from the comments you guys have made are interesting to say the least.

Nice post doughboy I have seen (and lurked, sorry ) on your posts before in the chapter threads and you make some good ones