Jerza

Jerza is the het ship between Erza Scarlet and Jellal Fernandez from the Fairy Tail fandom.

Pre-series
Jellal and Erza met after both were enslaved and forced to construct the Tower of Heaven, made to revive a deceased person. Erza didn't remembered her surname, so Jellal suggested "Scarlet" because of her hair. After that, Jellal and Erza started to develop a strong bond. Jellal always protected and defended Erza from tortures, and Erza admired him for that.

One day, Erza and her friends tried to scape from the Tower of Heaven, but they whre trapped by the guards and Erza accused herself of being the one who led the escape. Jellal was going to asumme the guilty, but the guards assumed that it was Erza and she ended up being tortured, to the point that she lost one right eye. Jellal rescued Erza, but he ended up being captured. Eventually, Erza stagged a reovolt in order to save Jellal. Erza went to save Jellal while the rest of slaves where waiting for the two, but he was already (supposedly) possesed by Zeref, who twisted his kind and righteous personality to a violoent and evil one. Jellal afirmmed that the only way to research freedom was completing the tower to revive Zeref, and Erza refused to help him. Jellal exiled Erza from the tower and told her to keep the Tower of Heaven as a secret from the government, threatening to kill everyone in the tower if she did otherwise.

Tower of Heaven Arc
8 years after Erza left the Tower of Heaven, the slaves of the tower kidnapped erza to sacrifice her and thus revive Zerf, now that the tower is done. Erza freed herself and went to fight Jellal. Once they met, Jellal and Erza began to fight, and Erza tried to keep Jellal busy while the Etherion was activated so they would die together. Later she realized that the tower is not complete and that it needs a huge amount of magic, and that made her cuestion Jellal's actions. The Jellal confesed that he was possessed by Zeref all this time, he affirms that freedom an heaven don't exist, he was just a marionette and his destiny is dying. Jellal begs Erza to finish him off, but she refuses because the Etherion have been actived and it will already kill both. In the end it turned out that the Etherion's attack was what the tower needed to be complete and that Jellal tricked Erza while the attack was activated. Then the two started fighting again, but he ended up capturing her and and sumerged her in the Lacrima in order descompose her body and revive Zeref. At that very moment, he told her that he always loved her. Natsu rapidly saved Erza from being sumerged in the Lacrima and fights Jellal, defeating him and saving Erza.

Fanon
Jerza is one of the most popular ships within the Fairy Tail fandom, alongside NaLu, Gruvia and Gajevy. It is also the most popular ship for both characters, though it rivals ships like Natza and Grayza. Despite it's popularity, there is a few fans that accused it of being toxic because of Jellal's actions towards Erza. However, since Jellal was possessed by Ultear from the start, most of fans agree that the pairing is not toxic at all.

Fandom
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