Template:RavenCoven/August 2015

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Hi there Fairy Tail Wiki! I've missed you! Well, not really. Guess what. It's time for this month's coven, and I'm more than happy to introduce to you...
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JELLAL FRIGGING FERNANDES!!!

Carry: HELL YES BITCHEZ ಠ◡ಠ

...Oh, did I say Jellal? My bad, we'll talk about someone who is actually liked by people and got more than 90 votes, who is...  ULTEAR FUCKIN' MILKOVICH!

Carry: Curl in a corner and die -_-

...She'll be okay ;D let's do it people.

DESIGN I like Ultear, I really do. However, I admit that her design is not particularly intresting. It can be summed up to "long black haired, young, beautiful woman with pink brown eyes." Her outfits do not consist of anything noteworthy either. She either wears dresses when she is plotting and scheming, or, when in combat, her ugly battle outfits that make her look fat ( ._.)
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6/10 STILL HOT

PERSONALITY

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You may remember me mentioning this in the past, or you may not, but I believe that Ultear and Jellal were the only villains whose characterisation did them justice. Usually FT villains and ex-villains suck, because they do a complete 180 and from totally evil guys they become totally good guys. There's no grey area, no moral ambiguity. Thankfully, Ultear and Jellal were spared from this.

How, you ask? Well, let's see Ultear's journey. She was a little kid who loved her mother, was forced to become a slave/weapon, and thought her mother abandoned her. She became evil and did a whole lot of mean shit, but she did so because in her mind she thought that once she would be able to unlock her true potential once she found the One Magic/Zeref, she would turn back time and undo all the things she did, and also be with her mother.

This doesn't excuse her actions though, far from it. All the villains have an excuse for their villainy in their minds. What makes Ultear special is that she's never really on the "good" side. Even after becoming good, she is morally grey most of the time, showing that the road to righteousness is actually a tough journey, and not something that happens automatically when you hear a nakama speech and get your ass kicked by a main character. That's why when Ultear considers doing shady and questionable stuff, like killing Rogue for example, it doesn't feel OOC for her at all.

In fact that's why I love Crime Sorciere so much in general; they are not self-righteous, they know they have fucked up in the past and that they need to atone for their sins. For Ultear, that atonement meant sacrificing her youth and more or less her life to save humanity. She showed that no matter what you've done, it's never too late to right your wrongs rather than wallow in self pity.

On a side note, I rooted for her when she was about to kill Rogue and was like

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Oh, and also the fact that she's really smart, manipulative and with a sick sense of humor really helps her case. In the beginning she looks like she's Jellal's puppet, but then you actually find out she's the mastermind behind a huge scheme. I love villains like this who hide their whole villainy until later on. I'll talk about this again later.

9/10 Best antihero ever

ABILITIES

I'm really conflicted when it comes to Ultear's abilities. I LOVE the fact that her Magic is Time, I generally like it in most media, but not in the way it's used in Fairy Tail. I particularly dislike its offensive use, and I explain below why.

Ultear manipulates the time of inaminate objects. Since everything changes with time, Ultear can manipulate the substance of the objects itself; for example, she can turn a sword back to the metal that produced it, rendering it useless. Which is really cool I guess, but Ultear almost exclusively uses it by throwing her crystal ball around. If the opponent breaks it, she can just restore it to how it originally was.

However, I can't imagine Ultear and her ball of doom being a threat to Zeref or Acnologia. Being hit by one (or even a thousand) balls can be annoying for sure, but it doesn't really pose much of a danger. Besides, there are some errors in her Magic;
 * Making inaminate objects multiply just doesn't make sense, even with the explanation that they are from a parallel universe.
 * If Ultear didn't also know Telekinesis, all those objects she produced or reproduced would just stand there, rendering her Magic useless.
 * Is anything really without life? Mashima seems to imply that only humans and animals are life forms. Ultear freely manipulates trees and plants, which she shouldn't be able to do. Also, even the inaminate objects she uses have tons of bacteria and other microorganisms on them, that are also life forms. Mashima should've just said that it doesn't work on humans instead of including all life in the restrictions when it comes to Time Arc.
 * Last Ages seems to not have the same restrictions; however, from her Magic not being used on any living thing, to a spell being used ON THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET, there's a huge leap. Well, perhaps that's why the user is supposed to die afterwards.

I'm just saying, for a "Lost Magic", Arc of Time is pretty lame and useless, at least offensively.

If you want to see a good way of Time Magic being utilized successfully for offensive purposes, just look at Final Fantasy's Ultimecia;

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Defensively though it's a whole different thing; she can neutralize anything you throw at her. Fire? Ashes. Ice? Water. Celestial Spirit? She just destroys the keys (something which I wonder if she's able to do. Since Tartaros we do know that they're not indestructible so it could be possible).

Thankfully, Ultear is supposed to be one of the strongest humans ever encountered in the FTverse; as a child her magic power was so out of the charts that it would kill her. So, it was easy for her as an adult to learn other forms of Magic to support herself better; she learned Ice-Make, which is good since she didn't really have other means for offense. She can generate a friggin' sword made solely out of her Magic Power. She also knows Transformation Magic, and more importantly, SHE CAN POSSESS AND MINDFUCK PEOPLE! I'm not even sure why she has to fight at all if she can just enter a mind and force opponents to become her allies, or tell them to kill themselves.

And let's not forget that she can unlock someone's true strength using the Second Origin.

All in all, while I have certain issues with Arc of Time, Ultear is saved by the fact that she's a fucking boss, knows a bunch of other Magics, and also can kick ass merely by hand-to-hand combat.

8/10 Pretty damn cool

SIGNIFICANCE TO PLOT

Another area where Ultear certainly doesn't lack. In the manga, there's a reason that Ultear is the first character we EVER see. She is behind the very plot of the manga. I mean, not in the way Zeref or Mavis are, but in her own way. From before the manga started until the S-Class exam, she's been behind almost every single villain plot, most prominently the Moon Drip plan in Galuna, and the whole R-System-Tower of Heaven business, via Jellal. And of course, she was also affiliated with Brain, and she was the right hand woman of Hades, as well as the leader of the 7 Kin of Purgatory.

Oh, and let's add to that that without her, everyone would be pretty much dead. Need I say more?

9/10 Significant is an understatement

ROLE IN THE MANGA

Ultear is directly related to Gray, and is the one mainly motivating him to keep on fighting when things get tough, which was evident in the Sun Village. Her role early on in the series is that of a mastermind/master manipulator; she looks like she's but Jellal's pawn, but by the end of the ToH arc you just know that the bitch is behind every single villain and that she fooled everyone. I think it's possible she'd even fool Hades and become a superboss had she not been stopped by Gray in Tenrou Island. Anyway, after she joins CS, she breaks Jellal out, and has him join her and Meredy, all three of them planning to stop Zeref together, and she was also the means to give FT a fighting chance in the Grand Magic Games.

All in all, her role was prominent early on, but then she became a mostly supporting character, and then she disappeared altogether.

6/10 Starts as a very prominent character, ends up disappearing on us.

All things considered, as a character Ultear scores...  7.6/10!!! This has her overthrowing Gray as the highest rated Coven character, something that I think she deserves.

By the way, here's a look at the past rankings of the Coven, in case anyone's wondering:

With this out of the way, I wonder what the others have to say about Ultear.

Ultear is da bomb!

Agreed.

...that was too obvious.

Me too T_T

Is this even supposed to make sense?

She still saved everyone so who cares :P

That's it for this month's coven guys. I hope you liked it. Don't forget to vote on the next character that should be featured!

Choose a Fairy Tail member! Cana Alberona Gildarts Clive Mirajane Strauss Mest Gryder Gajeel Redfox Laxus Dreyar

See you all in September!