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Tales of Fairies is a collection of Fairy Tail one-shots by RicardianScholar Clark-Weasley. Most of the chapters are individual stories, though there are a few story arcs.

The fics are found on FanFiction.Net here.

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    In General 
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents:
    • While Cana cares for her father, Gildarts, his overly doting on her can drive her nuts.
    • Romeo gets easily embarrassed by his father's perverted antics.
    • The future kids of Fairy Tail usually get embarrassed by their parents (usually the wilder ones like Natsu, Juvia, and Erza) behavior.
  • Character Exaggeration:
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Juvia suspects anyone who gets close to Gray as a “Love Rival”, regardless of gender, species, or even age.
  • The Comically Serious:
  • Creator's Culture Carryover: RicardianScholar Clark-Weasley's British upbringing is quite evident, with references to pop culture such as candy like Rolos and Jelly Babies, boarding schools, and nativities.
  • Homage: Many one-shots are based on franchises the author enjoys, including Friends, RWBY Chibi, and Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Everybody Has Standards: Juvia is just as madly in love with Gray as she is in the source material, but she absolutely won't put up with his more dickish behavior and will call him out whenever he holds the Jerkass Ball, such as when he took advantage of Natsu's naivety to play a cruel prank on him that got him beat up.
  • Fan-Created Offspring: Many chapters take place after many of the guild wizards got together and had kids. These include Nashi Dragneel (Natsu and Lucy's daughter), Ur and Tulia Fullbuster (Gray and Juvia's children), Gilly Redfox (Gajeel and Levy's daughter), Edward Scarlet (Erza and Jellal's son), Ellie Strauss (Elfman and Evergreen's daughter), Stella (Happy and Carla's daughter), and Piper, Peter, and Pepper (Bickslow and Lisanna's triplets).
  • Generation Xerox:
    • Nashi Dragneel and Urey Fullbuster has a vitriolic relationship like their fathers, just with a big serving of Belligerent Sexual Tension.
    • Tulia Fullbuster can be as affectionate to her big brother as their mother Juvia is to Gray.
    • Nashi and Gilly Redfox are best friends like their mothers. Gilly is also short and loves reading like her mother Levy.
  • The Matchmaker: Mirajane is often plotting to match up her guildmates, usually Lucy with Natsu (though Consequences of Lying shows she’s not above shipping her sister Lisanna with either of them) and her brother Elfman with Evergreen.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits:
    • Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus do not tolerate random boys getting close to the youngest Dragon Slayer Wendy. Gajeel and Laxus are also unhappy when Wendy gets close to Romeo, though Natsu is more supportive of it since he gets along with the younger fire mage.
    • Elfman is adamant against men ogling his older and younger sisters.
  • Official Couple: In each chapter, the main pairing is usually Natsu x Lucy, Gray x Juvia, Erza x Jellal, Gajeel x Levy, Alzack x Bisca, Elfman x Evergreen, Mirajane x Laxus, Bickslow x Lisanna
  • Shipper on Deck:
    • Mirajane Strauss adores the various couples in her guild, and will do anything to get them together.
      • Lisanna is also supporting couples like Natsu and Lucy... just more levelheaded about the process compared to her sister.
    • Erza can be as passionate as Mira when it comes to getting Gray and Juvia together.
    • Meredy might be the biggest shipper for her guildmate Jellal and Erza, and will pay any price to help bring them together
    • Even as enemies, Zeref does enjoy the idea of his little brother finding with Lucy... course, this only when Natsu is a boy and not when she's a girl like in the Genderbend Omakes.
  • Story Arc:
    • Sleeping Beauty: Various one-shots where different couples have one half kissing the other.
    • In the Wild West: The Western one-shots where Mirajane runs the Fairy Tail saloon and Laxus is the sheriff.
    • Battle of the Roses: Based on the historic Wars of the Roses, with Gray, his canon siblings, and Natsu and Erza as the Yorks and Lucy and Loke as the Lannisters.
  • Trauma Button: Many chapters, such as Flashbacks and Forgiveness, show Natsu still has mental scars of seeing Future Rogue kill Future Lucy, driving him to be more protective of his partner and getting agitated by anything that reminds him of the event.

    Battle of Roses 
  • Heroic Bastard: Natsu and Erza are the illegitimate children of King Silver, though that doesn't stop them from wanting to protect their kingdom and loved ones.
  • Related in the Adaptation: Natsu, Erza, and Gray are half-siblings through Gray's father Silver, and Lucy and Loke are cousins. Additionally, since the story is based on the real Battle of the Roses, the five characters are distantly related.

    The Gender Bend Omakes 
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Like canon Lucy, Luca's polite and sweet mannerism does nothing to stop him from defeating his enemies.
  • Boyfriend-Blocking Dad:
  • Chick Magnet: Several girls crush on Luca because of his beauty and his princely charm. Even Juvia, who only has eyes on Gray, is briefly smitten after he hands her his jumper following their fight with Vidaldus.
  • Gender Flip: As mentioned by the title, the series is about Natsu as a tomboy and Lucy as a boy named Luca.
  • In Touch with His Feminine Side: Luca is frequently made fun of by his male guildmates for being just as feminine as his female counterpart, being a Pretty Boy who takes pride in his appearance and lacks the aggressive nature that's completely normal in most of the men within the guild.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits:
    • Gajeel is very furious when he sees Sting flirting with his fellow Dragon Slayer, Natsu.
    • Zeref is not happy about the idea of his little sister getting together with Luca. In chapter 519, he pushes it to Knight Templar Big Brother when he decides to kill Luca painfully, despite his vow to spare any of Anna Heartfilia's descendants, because Luca and Natsu were sleeping together.
  • Parental Substitute: While still as abrasive as ever, Aquarius has stepped up to be Luca’s parental figure between his mother’s death and his father becoming distant and business-obsessed.
  • Precocious Crush: Sting had a crush on Natsu before the seven-year timeskip, back when he was 12 years old to Natsu’s 17. When Natsu and the others return from Tenrou Island, he believes he has a chance since they’re closer in age, but Natsu is, one, only in love with Luca, and two, dislikes Sting for bragging about killing his dragon foster parent.
  • Unwillingly Girly Tomboy:
    • In the main story, Erza likes to pull her “little sister” Natsu into sisterly bonding, including forcing her into skirts and hairdos.
    • Natsu, like the other Fairy Tail girls, gets pulled into Mira and Jenny’s fashion face-off during the Grand Magic Games. She isn’t happy to have her clothes forcefully changed to bikinis and even a wedding dress

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    Therapy series 

    Individual Fics 
  • Adaptational Explanation: In episode 204, when Lucy and Yukino are granting their spirits requests as thanks for closing the Eclipse Gate, Loke requests a date with Yukino despite his usual attempts to woo Lucy. In chapter 127, it's explained that Loke did want to use the request to take Lucy on a date, but the rest of his fellow Celestial Spirits, particularily Virgo, Capricorn, and Aquarius; all oppose his intent to take advantage of the situation.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • Alternate Timeline Ancestry: Discussed in But Wait, Wouldn't That Mean regarding the case from canon where Mystogan (Jellal's Edolas Counterpart) is the son of King Faust (Makarov's Edolas Counterpart), with Gray asking if that means their guild master is Jellal's long-lost father. Carla suggests that might not be the case since Edolas is an alternate world, while Lucy points out that since their counterparts were perfectly identical, they would have to be the same genetically, ergo having the same parents. As it turns out, Makarov is Jellal's Absurdly Elderly Father thanks to an affair many years prior.
  • Always Save the Guy: A tragic gender-inverted version in More Than Fairy Tail, where Lucy turns on her teammates to protect the Book of the Fire Demon E.N.D. from being destroyed by one of them (particularly Gray), having to tell a heartbroken Natsu that she's doing it out of love for E.N.D. but unable to tell him that Natsu is E.N.D., implied to be unable to due to a vow to Natsu's brother Zeref.
  • Author Avatar: It Needs A Sequel has Mira and Cana commenting on unexplained events in Lucy's book, representing the author's questions for Fairy Tail
  • Baby's First Words:
    • In chapter 282, Natsu and Lucy are trying to have their daughter Nashi's first word be "Dada" and "Mama" respectively. Happy decides to intervene and pull Nashi away from their competition, only for Nashi to happily gurgle out "Happy." Natsu and Lucy lament that their daughter's first word is their teammate's name, while Alzack reassures them that it's at least a relatively normal first word compared to his daughter Asuka's, which was "gun".
    • A later chapter revealed that Romeo's first words were, much to his father Macao's horror, "Mother Fucker" after overhearing Gray curse when the latter and Natsu were fighting.
  • Beast and Beauty: Parodied in chapter 247 where during the next Grand Magic Games, where the commentary introduces the Fairy Tail guild as consisting of many beauty-and-beast pairs. While most of the couples are the traditional sense (Gajeel, Laxus, Jellalnote , and Cobra are all cases of Heel–Face Turn characters compared to their heroic love interests, and Elfman can turn into monstrous beast forms), Natsu doesn't fit the beast definition outside of his Implied Death Threat to anyone that tries to take Lucy from him, Romeo is considered a beast just cause he's in the way of the commentor's Wendy x Chelia ship, and Gray and Juvia are the odd last couple because Juvia is considered the beast to Gray's beauty.
  • Bros Before Hoes:
    • Gender-inverted in The Black Book of Boyfriends, where three of the guys from Lucy's book of potential boyfriends (Gray, Jellal, and Laxus) are crossed out for different reasons, with the fact that each of them is taken (respectfully by Juvia, Erza, and Freed) as the one reason shared between them.
    • A Played for Laughs gender-inversion in Bros Before Hoes, where the other guys think that Gajeel had violated this trope by not only inviting his long-time friend Juvia to their boys-only meeting but also sharing the private stuffs they discussed at those meetings with her. Gajeel argues that he is following the code, namely with Juvia as his "bro" while her own Love Interest Gray is the "hoe".
  • Closest Thing We Got: In The Swan Brothers, when the guys of Fairy Tail are turned into swans, Mavis arrives and tells the girls the boys can turn back to normal if a girl they all consider a sister takes a vow of silence and sewn shirts of needle for each of them. After telepathically checking with the boys, Mavis concludes that the "sister" to do this is the terrifying and dramatic Erza, much to everyone's confusion and especially to Mira's, an actual older sister to Elfman, frustration. Mavis secretly confides to Lucy that Erza was chosen because she was the only girl among her guildmates with whom they didn't have romantic or sexual attraction.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Twice in Cosplay:
    • As the rest of the guild is dumbstruck at Erza, Jellal, and Meredy's Team Rocket skit, Jellal is worried that his top is too short rather than the fact he's dressed as Jessie.
    • Freed worries that the guild will lose the cosplay contest because of Makarov's tone-deaf singing, and not because the old man is dressed as 10-year-old Ash Ketchem.
  • Crossover: Chapter 540 has the Fairy Tail wizards taking turns as the Defense of Dark Art teacher during Harry Potter's Fifth Year.
  • Crying Wolf: In The Boy Who Cried Dragon (taking place in the main character's childhood), Gray attempts to prank Natsu by pretending that he saw a dragon, earning the disapproval of his guildmates. He only stops when Erza tells him that he's been making fun of something related to Igneel, Natsu's dragon foster father, which he gets him to stop. Two weeks later, Gray sees a large dragon flying overhead when coming back from a job. But when he tries to tell the others, everyone else gets mad, thinking he's being an insensitive jerk to Natsu again, even after giving his word. This forces Gray to be quiet, and things get back to normal when he and Natsu start fighting over the usual matters. Of course, given that the dragon turns out to Acnologia, it was pretty fortunate that no one believed Gray this time.
  • Cue the Flying Pigs: Natsu tries to invoke this trope in chapter 549 when Lucy says she'll only let him into her bed when pigs fly: cue Happy (the flying cat) dressed as a pig. After stopping herself from laughing, Lucy points out that it doesn't count, only for Natsu to argue that if he found a talking, flying cat by accident, he can easily find a flying pig on purpose, making her give in.
    • Turns out Happy was the backup plan since Lisanna was supposed to be the flying pig, but she had already agreed to help Juvia get a date with Gray when he said the same phrase.
  • Debating Names: Chapter 349 has Elfman and Evergreen arguing on what to name their newborn daughter, with Elfman wanting a "manly" name (which are variants of his sisters' names) while Evergreen wants to give her a fairy-theme name. However, when their daughter gets sick and the infirmary refuses to take the infant in without a given name, the furious and frantic parents in fear of losing their few-days-old child, end up blurting out Ellie at the same time, which they pick as their daughter's name to get the doctor to start treating her (plus a threat to call Ellie's aunt Mirajane "She-Demon" Strauss if he continues to refuses). Of course, Elfman and Evergreen end up having another argument about what Ellie is even short for, while Mira and Lisanna sneak off to have their niece registered as Ellie Mirajane Lisanna Straussnote .
  • Deconstructive Parody: Why Gray Could Never Be A Girl is a comedic deconstruction on making Gray and Juvia the opposite genders than canon, particularly the double standards of their quirks.
    • For Grey (female Gray), the guild has to do an intervention on her constant stripping, since it causes frequent nosebleeds, she can't keep nice underwear, and Natsu can't fight her because people would think he's assaulting her.
    • For Juan (male Juvia), his different gender means he lacks the overlook his canon female self when she stalks Gray, so the police will often arrest who they see as a creepy guy following a naked girl. Grey herself doesn't consider his stalking as a problem until she finds out about a frequent arrests, mainly because of how few times she sees him and how fond of him she secretly is.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • How to Fix A Key is about Natsu trying to fix Aquarius's key for Lucy after the events of Tartarus. After many failures, Natsu tries to ask Gajeel for help. Gajeel points out that one, he doesn't have experience making items with metal, two, he has no idea how to work with Celestial magic, and three, he's likely to just eat the key rather than fix it.
    • The Problem With Love Meters, Mira buys a Love Meter that takes the name of two people and calculate how compatible they are. However, it turns out the results are random, such as Elfman and Evergreen jumping from 15% to 67% while Natsu and Lucy dropped from 99% to 1%. Her boyfriend, Laxus, has to point out to her the Love Meter was just another scam, pointing out that such a machine couldn't work with just people's names. After he helps get her money back, he has to stop her from buying another Love Meter based on one's birthdays.
      Laxus: How the hell will that help?! Half the guild doesn't even know when their real birthdays are.
    • In Why Not to Use Glue on Bar Stools, 13-year-old Natsu is plotting to prank Gray by putting glue on Gray's favorite stool. Lisanna points out that while Gray sits on that stool more often, that doesn't stop anyone else from sitting there. Natsu dismisses her concerns, but he soon regrets his decision when Erza sits down on the stool. The chapter ends with Erza chasing Natsu through Magnolia while the bar stool is still glued to her back.
    • Thrice-over in The Taming of the Beast
      • The entire plot happened because Lisanna needed to get some unwanted suitors off his back, so she gets help from her brother, Elfman. She forgot that Elfman is against any men getting with his sister, and she's barely able to stop him from making sure she's never married. Any relief she gets when Elfman declares that no one can marry Mira and Lissanna until he gets married quickly fades when she realizes no woman will be patient enough to look past his manly boasting.
      • The reason for Elfman's ultimatum? He first proposed (after Lisanna elbowed him for his "won't allow anyone to marry her" claim) that she can only get married when their older sister Mirajane gets married. He forgot that Mira is a beautiful barmaid slash model, so three-quarters of Lisanna's suitor immediately turn their attention to her.
      • After witnessing the events, Laxus and Bickslow, wanting to get together with Mira and Lisanna respectively, try to nudge their teammate Evergreen to "tame the beast" since they know she and Elfman are attracted to each other. They forgot that Evergreen is too stubborn to admit that she has feelings for him.
    • In Santa's Grotto, Lucy asks Natsu why he won't be coming to the Santa Grotto with their daughter Nashi and why it's best not to reveal she's a Fairy Tail wizard. Natsu tells them that when he was a little kid, a Jerkass Santa was dismissive of Natsu's wish to find his dragon father Igneel, which led not only Natsu but the other Fairy Tail wizards to beat him up. Neither parent considered making sure that Nashi was out of earshot, since, as a little girl, she doesn't know the Santa at a grotto can be different actors, leading her to set Santa's beard on fire, thinking that he's the same man that insulted her father.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: In chapter 111, Erza is enraged when she finds out that one of the guys that Lucy considered dating was her own Love Interest Jellal. Lucy tried to calm her down by showing that she's no longer interested in him, but the fact that the early written reasons were because of Jellal's actions under his Face–Monster Turn during the Tower of Heaven arc only infuriates Erza more, and pointing out that they've been crossed out, which makes it look like Lucy is reconsidering him. Erza is only convinced out of attacking Lucy when the last remaining reason he's crossed out is read: that Lucy considers that Jellal belongs to Erza.
  • Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: When Freed introduces his new boyfriend to the Fairy Tail guild, everyone is shocked to see the man is an exact copy of Laxus (who Freed has a crush on in the other chapters) save for a mustache. While it is a an awkward topic for the guild, ironically Laxus himself is okay with it save for a cliche "If he breaks Freed's heart I'll break him" comment.
  • Dramatic Irony: More Than Fairy Tail sees Lucy refuse to turn over the Book of END to her friends and instead attacking them, even Wendy, while claiming her love for END is more than that of her love for Fairy Tail. Natsu can't believe Lucy is doing this and thinks she's been brainwashed, especially when Zeref arrives and she leaves with him, and can only feel heartbroken thinking Lucy would betray them after falling in love with the demon in the book. None of them know however that Natsu is END though and the book itself is tied to Natsu's life, destroying it meaning killing Natsu too, and Lucy can't reveal such implicitly due to the promise she made Zeref and her "betraying" her friends being so she can save the man she loves among them.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Chapter 117, not only is Rogue mistaken for a girl by the rest of the Ichiya Trauma Support Group, he's mistaken for Gajeel's little sister thanks to a photo of his child self wearing a dress.
  • Evil Twin: In chapter 406, it's revealed that Zeref created an evil clone of Natsu as a failed attempt to bring him back. The clone wears leather, speaks fluently, and is Wicked Cultured, acts like a remorseless pervert, and has a goatee on his face. He wants to ruin Natsu's life because of how much Zeref told him that the real Natsu was much better.
  • Exact Words: Twice in And The Most Charming Prince is?:
    • Invoked at the beginning, when Bisca and Alzack put a job request for a Prince Charming for their daughter's birthday party with a thirty jewel reward and all the cake the prince can eat. When Erza sees the offer, she eagerly asks if it can be all the cake she can possibly eat if she takes the job. Alzack nervously says yes, before whispering to Bisca that they're gonna need a lot of cake.
    • The request itself was because Asuka asked her parents if she could have her Prince Charming come for her birthday. While her parents thought she meant hiring one of the guys from their guild to play the role, she actually meant if her Precocious Crush Panther Lily could come. After all the arguing about which of them is more charming, the guys (minus Laxus and plus Erza) are devastated that a talking black cat is considered more charming than any of them.
  • Family Disunion: Why Fairy Tail Can't Have Family Unions is essentially about Sting and Rogue trying to talk the Fairy Tail guild out of having one. This is because every time a Fairy Tail wizard had a reunion with a missing parent or sibling, it usually involved some sort of war or conflict. Once they realize this trope is in effect, Erza states that if they have a deliberate family reunion, they might end up causing a global war.
  • Fantastic Racism: Celestial Child sees Layla telling a young Lucy a story about a little girl taken to the Celestial Spirit Realm after all she knew was taken from her, given a new home provided she follow certain rules, one of the rules being that she absolutely never speak to a Demon since they were Always Chaotic Evil in the eyes of the Spirits. While exploring the Human Realm one day she met a young Demon boy and quickly befriended then fell in love with him, and tried lying about doing so but was caught and cast out of the Celestial Spirit Realm for it. She and the Demon, now grown and wed, tried to have children, but every time they did so the Celestial Spirits would abduct them to save them from being raised by a Demon unless she admit to her wrongdoing, refusing to do so every time. After the third time, the village accused the girl of eating her own babies and burnt her at the stake while the Demon was out of town, the spirits appearing one last time offering to save her if she admitted she was wrong and disavowed the Demon, only to be Defiant to the End and reaffirm that falling in love wasn't a sin, with a lone figure all but said to be Zeref granting her a Mercy Kill by tossing an accelerant into the flame so she'd die faster. It's only after her death and seeing the Demon, Natsu, filled with rage and sorrow over the loss of his wife and theft of his children do the Spirits have a Heel Realization, vowing to make things right when the girl, Lucy, is reincarnated, Lucy being reborn as the daughter of her own child and the last one they took, Layla.
  • Fountain of Youth: The De-Aged Cliche has Natsu spilling a bag of magic dust while fighting Gray and Gajeel, and Happy's attempt to grab it turned the main cast 7 years younger.
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: Parodied in chapter 520, where Natsu gets dared by his guildmates to steal Lucy's panties. His shoulder devil appears to tell him to steal them... then his shoulder angel appears to tell him the same thing. Unsurprisingly, Lucy finds out and kicks him out of her apartment and into a canal. Both his shoulder devil and angel blame the other for the mess, and when Natsu calls them out for telling him the same thing, they told him he was an idiot for listening to them and that he should have listened to Erza's shoulder angel instead.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Played for Laughs in The Consequences of Lying, in which Lisanna's attempt to get her sister Mira off her back about her love life leads to her claiming she was in love with Edolas Lucy, which leads Mira to try and set her up with their world's Lucy.
  • Gossip Evolution: In Chinese Whispers, Erza is trying to pass along an attack strategy to her guildmates, but can't speak out loud without alerting the enemy. So she has the plan passed to her guildmates through whispers, which leads to misheard phrases that only induce confusion, especially when, at the end, some wizards hear that Gajeel wants to bone Juvia and needs Laxus to power his "sausage".
    Erza: Right. I need Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel to launch a full frontal attack, Happy and Lily can lend back-up, while Lucy, Juvia, and Levy can take the right, and the Strauss siblings take the left, I need [Wendy] to hold the fort. With the distraction Laxus, the Tribe, and I can sneak in and take out their power source which can leave Cana to make a final assault.
    Happy (after Wendy and Carla pass it to him): Ne, ne, Natsu. Erza says that she needs you, Gray, and Gajeel to launch a full front attack, with me and Lily lending back-up, Lucy, Juvia, and Levy take the right, and the sausage siblings take the left. She needs you to all hold forks with distractions on them while Laxus powers up and Cana can make the final assault. Pass it on.
    Natsu: All right. Psst! Lucy! Erza says something about a full frontal attack with you, Juvia, and Levy taking right, and some sausages taking the left, she needs distracting forks powered by Laxus so Cana can make the final assault. Go on, pass it on.
    Lucy: Erm... right. Hey Gray. Erza says she wants a full front attack with me, Juvia, and Levy taking the right, and some sausages wielding distracting forks powered by Laxus take the left. Cana is to make the final assault.
    Gray: What the fuck?!

  • He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him: In chapter 191, after the events of Tartaros, Juvia cries for Gray, Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue after the deathof their parents, which floods the remains of the Dark Guild and nearly drowns her allies.
  • Hollywood Restraining Order: The Restraining Order has Lucy, remembering the advice from the Garou Knights in chapter 107, set up a restraining order against Natsu for her apartment after his last break in destroyed her skirt and kitchen, which makes him think it's a restraining order between him and Lucy. It also turns out that Gray has been repeatedly appealing and repealing a restraining order against Juvia. At the end of the chapter, Lucy and Gray decide to forgo their respective restraining order, in Lucy's case, because she worries Natsu will either attack her spirit Loke or the Garou Knights for "brainwashing" her or get into legal trouble when he inevitably violates the restraining order by breaking into her apartment. This also prevents Laxus from getting a restraining order against his teammates for some privacy, since the council believed he would just repeal the order in mere minutes like his guildmates.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
  • Insane Troll Logic:
    • In Juvia's Logic, Juvia brings up that she and Gray are meant to be together because before they met, Juvia's Power Incontinence caused her to make it always rainy around her. Therefore, Juvia's old habit of making the skies Gray (which went away when she met Gray) means that they are destined to be together. Of course, Gray leaves halfway to fight Natsu. And since Gray is currently naked between his stripping habit and Natsu stealing his boxers, Juvia freaks out thinking that the two of them are having hot boy love instead of fighting.
    • The aptly named sequel Insane Logic has Loke taking a page from Juvia's book and arguing that he and Lucy are meant to be together because he has the power of light and her name means light. Natsu argues that he's just as destined because his Fire Magic also makes light and his name means summer, which was the season that Lucy was born in. He even points out that he's using two of the same logic that Loke uses, so his claim is more valid. Annoyed at their arguing, Laxus calls them out for being morons and says by their logic any guy is destined for Lucy, sarcastically adding that he's destined to be with Lucy since they are both blonde... which causes Natsu and Loke to see him as another love rival.
      Laxus: The fuck?
      Freed: ...it's official. Juvia's insanity is contagious.
  • Irony: In Stripper Failure, Gray Fullbuster constantly strips his clothes off as a result of his Ice Magic training. However, when he gets hired to act as a stripper for a Hen Night, not only does Gray fail because he's a terrible dancer and hates doing so, but his instant stripping means he's already naked when he gets onto the stage, much to the disappointment of the audience. Many of Gray's guildmates laugh at the fact that his life long stripping means he'd be a terrible professional stripper.
  • It's a Wonderful Plot: Chapter 521 has a gypsy tricking Lucy into wishing a world where she made the wrong turn away from Hargeon and thus her first meeting with Natsu and Happy. This leads to a tragedy for everyone, ranging from Lucy getting captured by Phantom Lord and pushed into an abusive marriage, Fairy Tail disbanding because Laxus's coup destroyed Magnolia, and characters like Erza, Loke, and Cana dying without Lucy or Natsu to save them. This bleak timeline ends with the Magic Council firing Face to destroy an invasion of Dragons, which leads Natsu to become E.N.D. and take over the world with his demons.
  • Jerks Use Body Spray: Inverted for laughs in Never Believe Adverts. Natsu, Gray, Elfman, Jet, and Droy (who for the most part are Nice Guys) all bath themselves in Lynx bodyspray, but except Gray they end up repelling the girls with how strong and repulsive their overuse of the scent was (and in Gray's case, it's only because Juvia is so madly in love with Gray she can push through how the scent is burning her eyes). When Gajeel used the bodyspray, however, he used a more moderate amount compared to the other guys, and is better able to impress Levy while taking her to the nurse.
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: The Problem of Telepathy has Warren Rocko trying to overcome a painful hangover and the temporary loss of his mental barriers by focusing on the mind of one of his guildmates. Outside of anyone he ruled out for being too young (Wendy and Romeo), too violent (Erza, Mira, and Evergreen), or too confusing (Lucy, Bickslow, and Elfman), he is overwhelmed by Natsu and Juvia's thoughts of their respective Love Interest and Laxus singing to the lyrics of a pop song in his head.
  • Mistaken for Cheating:
    • Parodied in Cheater where Max fears that he cheated on his broom lover Bertha when he wakes up with a mop instead. Turns out that Natsu had swapped the broom with a mop as a prank.
    • In Elfman Secret's Affair, Elfman and Evergreen are in a seperation period, and Mira suspects that her little brother has been sneaking out to be with another woman. Trailing along (and inviting her husband Laxus so he can beat up Elfman for cheating on his best friend while Mira deals with the Shank), they follow him and the other woman to the Dreyar's home where they discover the other woman was Evergreen; she and Elfman had discovered that they still love each other even with their tubulent marriage and the seperation, but not wanting to get back to the status quo they choose to have a secretive affair.
  • Not Me This Time:
  • Not What It Looks Like: The trope is Defied in chapter 441 when Cana casually states to Lucy that her making out with Loke while she's without her top and he has his shirt unbuttoned is what it looks like. When Lucy points out that Cana is supposed to say this trope, Cana replies that neither she nor Loke has any shame in admitting what they are doing.
  • Opinion Flip-Flop:
    Cana: Oh but he's old enough to lose his virginity? Talk about double standards Macao.
    Macao: I was just bluffing! He's too young for that too! He's my baby!
    • As Zeref is lecturing his brother on why he shouldn't sneak into Lucy's apartment through the window, his girlfriend Mavis comments how climbing up into a girl's window is romantic. Later that night, Zeref prepares to climb into Fairy Tail towards Mavis's room, and shamefully admits his hypocrisy to his little brother.
  • Personality Swap: In Personality Transplant, Natsu reads a gag job request that causes everyone in the guild to swap personalities. These include Natsu and Wendy, Happy and Carla, Lucy and Juvia, Freed and Elfman, Cana and Erza, Bickslow and Levy, and Gray and Gajeel. Notably, it was only their personality and not their likes. For example, Erza, with Cana's addictive personality, acted carefreely and ate so much cake that she needed to stop eating sugar afterward, while Cana, with Erza's personalit,y went on a violent rampage when a brawl spilled her brandy. Meanwhile, Lucy acted completely lovestruck and possessive to the currently shy Natsu, just as Juvia normally does with Gray.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: If Team B is Back Together That Means focuses on Gajeel getting Team B together to compete with Team A during the Alvarez arc, particularly how they kidnap Jellal and bring him on the quest against his will.
  • Related in the Adaptation:
    Natsu: ...Was that horrible [Duke Everlue] really your uncle, Lucy?
    Happy: Are you really related to [Princess Hisui]
    Lucy: Of course I'm not... haven't you learn by know that nothing in this play is right?
  • Right-Hand Cat: Invoked by Zeref in The Bond Villain Cliche. As Zeref wanted to present himself as a proper villain, he offers fish to Happy the Exceed to sit on his lap and let him pet him while he monologues. Happy agrees, but Natsu doesn't want his Arch-Enemy and brother to hold Happy, so they get into a tug-of-war fight over the Exceed.
  • Secretly Wealthy: The High School AU fic, The Truth About Lucy, itself based on the second OVA, has Lucy's classmates finding out that not only is she from a wealthy family but that she is the daughter of a large transportation conglomerate and a rather famous figure in high society. She transferred to Fairy Academy because she was tired of having classmates that only cared about her status or wealth and desired to be "just Lucy" up to the point of requesting the school faculty to withhold addressing her by her last name.
  • Secret Test of Character: In Fairy and the Pea, Evergreen is invited by Mira to stay overnight at the Strauss house during a heavy storm and given a spare bed. Evergreen has difficulties sleeping that night because of an uncomfortable lump, but she shuts down the instinct to rip through the bed as she doesn't want to upset the Strauss siblings, especially her crush Elfman, after they invited her to stay. She even claims that she slept fine to Mira even with the clear signs of exhaustion. After Elfman escorts Evergreen to meet with her teammates, Lisanna wonders why Evergreen was having trouble as the youngest Strauss sister slept soundly before with the old mattress. Mira then reveals that she had cursed a pea to be as hard as a diamond and put it in the mattress while Evergreen was sleeping. Since Evergreen managed to get through the night and morning without complaining, this confirms to Mira that her guildmate can easily live with Elfman despite their frequent bickering. Lisanna, meanwhile, thinks that her sister has a rather skewed sense of logic when it comes to matchmaking.
  • Significant First Steps: Nashi's First Steps has Mirajane emphasizing that Natsu and Lucy need to be present to see their daughter's first steps. This means running interference so Nashi doesn't have her first steps while her parents are away on a job, to the point of begging Gray to freeze the floor when Mira is too busy with customers, which he refuses, as he doesn't want to harm the toddler. Luckily for everyone, not only do Natsu and Lucy arrive in time, but Nashi straights up runs to her parents' arms.
  • Standard Hero Reward: The premise of A Hero's Reward starts years prior with Natsu getting a kiss on the cheek from Lisanna as thanks for trying to save her from Vulcans, describing it as a "heroes get kisses as thank yous when they rescue a princess." While nothing romantic comes between them because of Lisanna's disappearance and reported death, Natsu remembers the phrase when he gets older and rescues Lucy from slavers when they first met. While initially against kissing a stranger, Lucy kisses him when he calls her ungrateful. For the rest of the chapter, the pair will have the rescuee kiss the rescuer in their usual adventures. That said, they never get together romantically until after they defeated all the villains at the end of the chapter.
  • Surprisingly Normal Backstory:
  • Took the Wife's Name: In chapter 499, Lucy reveals to Erza that the Heartfilia women always kept their last name while their husbands take theirs, hence why Lucy and Layla have a strong resemblance to their ancestor Anna Heartfilia. She suspects it was a way for Zeref to find them to help open the Eclipse Gate and bring the Dragons and dragon slayers to the present.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: In chapter 274, Natsu is furious to find Flare in Lucy's house and the blonde has become friends with her, as he can't forgive her for hurting Lucy during the Grand Magic Games. This is example is also Deconstructed for two reasons. First, as Gajeel and couple other pointed out, Natsu and Lucy had already forgiven him and other ex-enemies for causing more harm than Flare did (and in the case of the Thunder God Tribe, hurt more people), and by Natsu's policy toward Flare their forgiveness should withdrawn. Second, much of Natsu frustration towards Flare stems from how he was powerless to stop the Trauma Conga Line that Lucy was forced through during the Grand Magic Game, including the death of her Future self.
  • Trauma Button: Played for Laughs in ''Physical Examinations. After their run-in with Ophiuchus during the Eclipse Celestial Spirit arc, Natsu and Wendy are now afraid of medical treatments such as needles.
  • Trust-Building Blunder: Chapter 225 has Makaorov initiating a trust exercise session at Fairy Tail to imrpove cooperation in the guild. Needless to say, hijinks ensure, ranging from the Thunder God Tribe arguing who gets to catch Laxus (who hasn't fallen), Jet and Droy arguing who catches Levy, leading Gajeel to catch her instead; and Juvia jumping onto Gray as she doesn't want anyone else to catch her (plus not wanting Gray to catch any "Love Rivals"). When Makarov and Erza get Natsu and Gray to perform a trust exercise, there's success when Gray catches Natsu, but Natsu lets Gray hit the floor to catch Lucy instead, leading to the two rivals fighting and starting a guild-wide brawl.
  • Under the Mistletoe: In chapter 176, Mirajane sets up Mistletoes with runes to keep people from leaving until they kiss on the lips. This ends with Natsu and Gray getting trapped under one... specifically, the one under the guild's entrance.
  • Wham Line: In More Horrible Truths, which follows after The Reveal in chapter 465 of the manganote  has Natsu shares to the Fairy Tail guild and the other natural Dragon Slayers that he, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue came from 400 years in the past through the Eclipse gate because of Zeref. When Rogue wonders how they could come from the past if they remember learning about recent history back in x777 when they supposedly arrived. An unexpected answer reveals that the Fairy Tail guild was more involved than they thought.
    Wakaba: Well, it's rather obvious, ain't it? We taught you everything and then manipulated your memories.
    • After learning that Makarov and a few other Fairy Tail mages came to welcome the time-travelers following Mavis's promise to Zeref, then had Mest suppress all their memories of the event, Gajeel remarks that he should have Mest arrested for manipulating the minds of five children. Then Mest says something that sets up an even bigger reveal: the involvement of another child during the incident besides the Dragon Slayers.
      Mest: Six. I manipulated the memories of six children.

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