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ostensiblywhump
11 months ago

Y'know what! Fira has inspired me so I'm gonna talk about my second-favorite Dragon Slayer headcanon, and it goes as such:

The more stress a Dragon Slayer's body goes through, the more it dragonizes. This is a really dry way to say that I think injuries a Dragon Slayer gets will scar over with scales, and also that mental stress can have consequences that are…interesting, to say the least, from a writer's perspective.

Let me bring in my favorite punching bag, Gajeel. In my headcanon appearance for him, the scars on his right arm are replaced by patches of iron scales—rusting iron scales, depending on how old those scars are, because I think rust would be really cool and mimic how human scars fade from age, and ruddy rust blends better with human skintones than silvery iron. But I also really like the idea of him having iron spines all the way down his back, for the aesthetic. Which could have the Watsonian explanation of him potentially being so distrusting of anybody to guard him in the past, that his magic responded to his paranoia and trauma by protecting his spine from a literal backstabber. Two headcanons all wrapped up in a neat 'what if dragonization responded to human fragility by dragonizing it away' bow! :D

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fairy tail gajeel redfox dragon slayers I'm still so freaking proud of all the headcanons we lobbed at each other in this post. just a constant creative back and forth plus it's whump! it counts! and now I'm wondering what specific traumas could lead to the other dragon slayers dragonizing just natsu's sheer eagerness for throwing himself into fights he can't win will give him a BUNCH of scales just to keep himself in one piec gives me the idea that his knuckles are positively crusted with scales because he has such a punch-happy fighting style oh! his scales would be red! so maybe he would look like he's constantly bleeding or something! I am far too excited by this prospect lol and sting! sting is super young for a guild master and sabertooth prob isn't doing so hot with losing their undefeatable reputation so he might get targeted a lot and rogue won't always be there to help him or maybe earlier for both twin dragons when they're younger and still proving themselves to jiemma oh HELL i just thought of something heartbreaking for wendy most animals don't cry like we do right? not for emotional release. just illness or if they get something in them im pretty sure birds and lizards aren't capable of crying like humans wendy has been abandoned by a LOT of her caretakers. maybe they had good reasons but at the end of the day it was abandonment grandeeney mystogan cait shelter—all of them left and in the edolas arc there was a scary moment where fairy tail seemed to be taken from her too (when the guild hall warps out of existence so i think wendy would have a lot of issues around abandonment and would get really stressed about her loved ones leaving her and maybe her magic would try to protect her by taking away her body's reactions to that stress if you're not reacting then it's not happening! you're not being hurt by it at all! right? so basically I think her magic would dragonize away her human ability to cry from emotional stress which. wow. I kinda like this ingenuity but I kinda hate what it's led to wendy marvell
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