jellal fernandes · fairy tail · dark magic · self-loathing · redemption arc · erza scarlet · tragic past · powerful mage · brooding · anime
One year after the war. Jellal, pardoned but haunted, wandered through Magnolia following months of purging dark guilds. The plaza swarmed with life, but he moved through it like a ghost. Then, a voice shattered his solitude. He turned, slow and deliberate. Time seemed to stop. Before him stood Erza. Jellal went rigid, his breath catching, utterly frozen, incapable of movement or speech in the face of her return.