Fairy Tail Chapter 302 Discussion

Really awesome!

I really hope they go back in time and participate in the Dragon war.



I didn't expect that Arcadious guy to be a good guy.

TheYosei said:
Hmm i have a feeling that they had somehow already used that gate and fought Acno with Zeref's help (i rly can't see him as such evil character they make him) but they failed.

That's why Zeref knew Natsu and was looking for him.



Well i know it may sound too Steins'Gate like but that's just my 1st thought



Yeah the old man will fail and they will go back in time. It's the only explanation on how Zeref knew Natsu.

Wanting to change the past is silly though because you can make things a lot worse. You must be convinced that things are already as shit as they can get before doing something like that and i doubt their current condition is that bad even if they have Zeref and Agnologia in their world.



Fiji said:
Freak. Hiro Mashima now want to change the perspectives.

Arcadios seems like a good guy now, and the Minister of Defense is the bad guy.



I doubt many will see it like that. I don't. The old guy just tries to stop them from messing with time and he has a very good point. Messing with the past could unleash all hell. I don't see how he is evil for not wanting to mess with time travel.

Actually I think I have an idea. You know what the problem is with opening a giant gateway in time in the middle of a raging war? It works both ways. Dragons from the past may just come pouring through. I mean that gate is certainly BIG enough for a Dragon to fit through

macx12 said:
PirateKingz said:
macx12 said:
Kanic said:
^Maybe the DS have traveled FORWARD in time and that's why they were considered over80 years old? Meaning the 7/7-X777 was the day they were transfered from the past to the future and that's why it seemed like their parents abandoned them.



This explanation BY FAR makes the most sense to me. Cause of you think about it, the few times it showed natsu with Igneel it wasn't near civilization or anything, so that could be a clue as well.



But if that's true then that would mean that the scenes it's been showing with the dragons are from 400 years ago? If so that would be really interesting.

Or this could mean both Natsu and Gajeel are considered to be over 80 years old because they traveled to the past and are over 400 years old.



I think the time traveling to the future part makes more sense. If they went back then forward and back again their's too many things to account for.



Like: did they lose their memory? what happened to cause them to have to go back? And if it's them going back that's like an infinite loop because if you go to the past from the future to prevent the future fro happening when you come back you witness the result of it. Unless the result was zeref sleeping for 100 years as a result of what natsu did which doesn't correlate because they said the time frame is 400 years, so it makes more sense for the past to future theory because zeref said "you've grown" when he say natsu in chapter 209. Perhaps Natsu was like 4 when he was born in the past and the time-jump made his figurtive age like 400+ years while he only looked 4.





Wait, wouldn't this contradict a part of the manga though. If you guys recall Igneel and the other dragons were watching one of Natsu's fight when he was losing badly and at one point I believe Igneel helps him out on the fight somehow. I mean they haven't said anything about dragons being time travelers so how could Igneel have been watching Natsu if not in that present time.

If I could raise my rating for Fairy Tail any higher I definitely would after this chapter!! Time-travel has to be one of the BEST plot devices ever made xD

luffydragneel said:
I'm still thinking that the current Dragon Slayers are actually from 400 years in the past. OR, the slayers that participated in the games 400 years ago, were actually the current slayers.(Which would explain why the person in the mural fighting the dragon had Natsu's scarf on) There's a lot of complex stuff underlying all the time travel theories, and the time frame that we've followed until now, could be the alternate time frame. My head starts to overload when I think of all the possibilities. Once you throw time travel into the mix, then EVERYTHING that has happened before, could have been altered from the future. Meaning anything that may have seemed weird, or gone unexplained, could be explained now. I wonder if Mashima planned this since the beginning? If so, then there are likely many many clues that we missed.

Slightly confusing, but I like this theory!! Or maybe he's just making you think that so you'll go back and re-read the series, hahaha!

Too small, too damn small chapter. Ho boy.

Wow, I wonder how many assistants Mashima has.

Many answered questions, many new possibilities.  Let's see how this turns out.



I wonder how the Paradox theory will play out in Fairy Tail.  Rave handled it in a legendary way.