Hello to all.
Ok, this article is going to be short and sweet (or not, given how long my rants historically have been), but with the first anniversary of the debut of Chapter 545 of Fairy Tail coming up in seven weeks, as well as the debut of the FT spin-off involving the Hundred Year Quest in the coming months, I decided to make a review on where NaLu and GrayLu currently stand
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Even to this day, I still have no fucking clue of how GrayLu came to be. My only guess is that a deluded fangirl saw a panel of Gray and Lucy standing next to each other, thought they looked kind of cute together, and started creating fanart of them, and thus the delusion that Gray and Lucy could end up together was born.
I'm probably beating a dead horse by saying this at this point, but two characters looking good/cute together does not a legitimate pairing make. Never has; never will. There also needs to be a foundation in place that would suggest that a romantic relationship between the two characters in question can plausibly happen, and quite frankly, GrayLu's foundation does not exist. This is because Mashima gave Gray and Lucy basically no emotional development even in the early chapters, and any moments that they were given were at best friendzone moments.
Most of the arguments that ZN-Lover and other flamethrowers used to defend their pairing were already bullshit to begin with, but by the GMG arc, it was clear as day that they were fueling their pairing with high octane delusion. One common argument that GrayLu fans used to justify their crap is that Juvia imagines that Gray and Lucy hit on each other. While it is true that she has these fantasies, the fact that these "moments" are taking place in another character's imagination was enough to invalidate them. The other common argument they use is that Gray and Lucy fight together. So fucking what? Two characters fighting together isn't grounds for a romantic relationship, and even if it was, Natsu and Lucy have fought together more often, so much that they're called "the strongest team" by their peers due to their compatibility. And this isn't counting shit like AhmedGreat2005's so-called "list" of reasons why Gray and Lucy are compatible. While said list has since been deleted, it was pretty obvious that he was overhyping Gray's qualities.
When you compare GrayLu's development to that of NaLu, there was basically no competition. The closest thing we get to a GrayLu "moment" was when Gray patted Lucy on the head when they were partying in the Spirit World, and even so, this "moment" does fuck all to develop their emotional bonding a way that is meaningful for a relationship. Comparatively, in those same 545 chapters, NaLu had received strong emotional development that is based on faith and trust, the bedrock in which a romantic relationship can be built on. Let's think about this: If Natsu and Lucy didn't have feelings for one another, then why was it that Natsu opted out of a GMG tournament to go and rescue Lucy after she was arrested by the royal guard? Or how about when Lucy hugged him in a more or less intimate manner at the end of the GMG arc? If Lucy had feelings for Gray, then why was it that during the one year timeskip after Tatarus, the one person that was most on her mind and who she missed the most was Natsu? Or how about when Natsu was broken out of END's curse and Lucy had to put her naked breasts on him to keep him warm? Would Lucy have consented to this if she and Natsu weren't emotionally close? And finally, in the very last chapter, it is Natsu and not Gray who tells Lucy that "we'll be together forever".
Even after Fairy Tail ended, Hiro Mashima has still been an avid supporter of the NaLu ship, going so far as to draw a sketch of what Natsu and Lucy's daughter might look like at last years Comic-Con at NYC, and when asked who Natsu should end up with, Mashima responded by holding up a sketch of Natsu and Lucy and telling the audience that Lucy would be more suitable for him. And indeed, a large portion of his Fairy Tail art that he drew after the manga ended and posted on Twitter have been NaLu pics, indicating that he's teasing us on how their relationship would unfold.
With all that out of the way, while we didn't get the big sloppy kiss and confession that we were hoping for, Natsu's statement of them staying together forever (which has a lot of romantic and special meaning in Japanese culture, mind you), coupled with the teasing through interviews and sketches on Mashima's part, has convinced me that NaLu is canon, just... in its own way. And that is far, far more than what I can say for GrayLu.
TL;DR: NaLu is canon. GrayLu is dead. Deal with it. Game Over.
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Besides that, feel free to enjoy this pic of Natsu fucking Lucy in the ass.
I should probably note that I originally wanted them to be kissing in the pic, but the artist said that it would look too awkward in this style, so I went with this expression for Lucy.
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Fairy Tail is (c) 2006-2018 Hiro Mashima
All unit(s) are Lv18 and above.
This pic was made by GaggedDude32. Go here and here to view his stuff.
Have a nice day.
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