✠┊accepting.

100 Palette Challenge | The song of Achilles in #36 

I’m going to be the first

“I’m the violence in the pouring rain.”

✠┊accepting.

He stood, body stilled as if cut from stone. His thumb idly tracing the hilt of his sword, the only movement issued. Time had passed, and he remembered. Two years without it, and yet it was his again; his past.

     ❝ I remember.        You need not convince me; I believe you.        I felt it with each strike, the power that         drove the Lady of Sabertooth.

        The events that followed aside,        I do not think you weak. A victory over        a strong opponent does not make me ULTIMATE        any more than it makes you, who stood as formidable        before me, WEAK. You are not. To underestimate         you would be a fool’s decision, and I am not one. 

        That power, more so the the desire to         manipulate it, I understand it.        You and I, we’re not as different as you        might wish to believe. A fine line, indeed. ❞

MODERN FC: Kenneth Bek

“These days I can’t seem to get along with anyone.” ~ from Mira

✠┊accepting.

When it came to these things, at times, the logical ▬ perhaps, the  only ▬ problem truly existed in the person. If so many were at odds, then perhaps she was the problem, right?

And yet, he could not see it as such, ever. This was Mirajane ▬ Mira ▬ and Ezra recognized the inner workings of her mind; the way the subtle shifts of her body told tales of the inner turmoil she faced, often alone. He knew her, in ways he’d known few others.

❝ Then, perhaps, these days there is no one worth getting along with. ❞

“Last I was aware, I could come and see to my business with this guild so long as I report myself accordingly to the Guildmaster -- which I’ve done, and that is not you.”

                              @titanxkommandant

                     “What the fuck are you doing, Asstard?”

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◑ █ ＡＢＤＩＣＡＴＥ ⇉ I’ll FIGHT ((  ℱ o r e v e r )):

He has lost so much, both his memory and the fight, but this does not destroy his resolve; a resolve that transcends. In his first waking hours, instead of focusing on what was lost, Ezra focuses on what could be done to better himself. He understands that the events that took place on that battleground, his loss against Mordred, are all a part of a greater game. One he intends to win. Titan rises again.

◑ █ ＤＯＷＮ with the ℱallen ●●● (( AGAIN )):

Like with Erza and Mord, Ez will have a verse tag tied to Minerva. Ezra loses his memories in his fight against Minerva, but he stands victorious. He defeats the Lady of Sabertooth. He does not mourn his loss of memory. All that he focuses on is getting stronger. If he was broken once, then he will fight now to not be broken a second time.

◑ █ ΙnsΙdﾼ the ＢＥＡＳＴ รтill gяσwร (( CHEWING тняσυgн the RѺPЄՏ )):

This is a version of his story where instead of Mira/Malik being the one that’s taken by Tartaros and experimented on, it’s the other way around. Kyouka takes Mira, and Lamy sets her eyes on Ezra (not a surprise). I headcanon that the process of becoming a demon is a hit or miss. If the person does not possess the necessary amount of darkness within, they will not survive the transition. Ezra survives.

((( REDIRECT TO EZRA’S ABOUT PAGE )))

((( REDIRECT TO HEADCANONS )))

((( REDIRECT TO ALTERNATE UNIVERSES )))

TIMELINE TAGS:

┊♘┊ The CAUSE:

This is kid!ra. Everything from his childhood (Tower of Heaven events) and its early days falls here. All events leading up to when he first joins Fairy Tail.

┊♘┊ The ANTIDOTE:

Everything from his first days as Fairy Tail’s Titan to his fight in the Grand Magic Games.

┊♞┊ The SINKING Ship:

He wakes up, and is definitely suspicious of faces he does not recognize. While he lacks my Erza’s hatred and depth of inner turmoil, he has ten times the doubt and suspicion. More so in the verse where he defeats Minerva. It is his understanding that, victory only means one thing: you have something to lose. So he guards and trains against what might stand to strike him down.

┊♞┊ DROWNING (he is alive):

From the point where he regains his memories, onward. (Ezra is without recollection of his past for the entirety of two years.)

ABOUT THE MUSE :

Like I’ve done with my Erza, I’ve decided to make one post where I’ll address the most significant/defining moments/details of my character. Basically, what you’ll need to know before interacting with him. That kind of stuff. This way, you can search through headcanons and other such posts at your leisure, but you’ll still know the fundamental bits. (I will give word of any updates done to this post.)

ONE. Unlike with my Erza, who lost against Minerva, EZRA stands victorious. He defeats her, though not without pushing himself to his absolute limits. His wounds, while not nearly as life-threatening as Erza’s own, are still not something to be taken lightly. Equipping the Nakagami Armor still took quite the toll, taking with it his memory. While he doesn’t struggle nearly as much as she does, he does struggle. Minerva might’ve lost, but she did not go down easy. In fact, shortly after his victory was announced, he collapses, unable to stand for that last fight. Fairy Tail is marked as victorious there, but does not receive full points because he does fall.

TWO. Ezra does not partake in the Dragon part of that arc, nor does he take part in the celebration after the GMGs. During this time Ezra is hospitalized. He wakes up with no memory, but is told of his final moments, of defeating Minerva. While he has no recollection of past events, he feels that if he risked so much, then that victory was well earned. (NOTE: Even in the verse where he does lose, against Minerva’s male counterpart, Mordred, he does not take such a dive as the one Erza falls to.)

THREE. Comparing pre!GMG Ezra to pre!GMG Erza, he is much less compassionate, quieter, and less willing to show mercy. He is methodical, organized. He will give you a chance to back off once. If you do not take the exit when he signals it, you are fair game. He is more serious than Erza is, keeping mostly to himself and immersing himself in work. He trains. A lot. And he ENJOYS the fight, comes alive when he is able to display the extent of his skill. Though this should not be mistaken for over-confidence. Defeating an opponent once is not enough to make him think himself GRAND. Defeating someone once merely means that he wants to fight them AGAIN, see if it he can achieve it a second time. Like with his rivalry with Mira (or her genderbent ). Sometimes he won, sometimes he didn’t. It’s not about that to him. It’s about the skill. About improving, about having something to better in himself. It’s about the rush. He’s a competitive bastard (IF it catches his interest).

FOUR. Hate does not consume him in the way it does for his female counterpart. It merely gives him something to look forward to, an opponent that will put his strength to the test. He enjoys being able to use that strength, to display all that he has made of himself in all these years. So even without memory, the man trains, and does so obsessively from the first moment he can, so that he can have something to show for himself during that time. Because even though he lost his memory, the way he sees it, he risked this for a reason. And that’s the point, not the outcome. It means that his past self chose to stand for something.

FIVE. As with my AU!Erza, Ez CAN feel love. His emotions are way more limited than her, but he does have the capacity to feel things. And quite strongly if the circumstance provided him reason to. He is just a bit harder to show it. And often, when he does, it’s either in full force or very subtle, not often does it land in the middle.

SIX. Due to being the victor of his fight, Ezra does heal in time to help FT in Tartaros. (He is not around for the dragons, the celebration, or Flare’s part of the story. And he does not arrive in the first wave to Tartaros. He comes much later). Now, he does not yet have his memory. But he does fight. It is here that he meets Minerva again. And it is she who saves him (though not out of compassion) from Kyouka, using his own blade to strike the woman.

SEVEN. His female counterpart saves Hisui during her healing phase in Crocus. Ez saves Hisui during the same time. For him, however, it is on his way back from the fight in Tartaros. On his return trip, diving into the chaos of the ‘after’ is when he retrieves her. This is how he gains her respect, which will add to influences that he will have later. It is as a Knight of sorts to her, that he spends the time-skip.

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