[Discussion] When does Aquarius get humbled?

[u/Gloomy-Bridge148]

Need her to get it or humbled once. Just ONCE

[u/LovelyLadyLucky]

Lucy makes contacts with the spirits. She uses them only during the agreed times. Aquarius doesn't always arrive when called and when called sometimes, she leaves and does absolutely nothing. Sorano and GMG are only two of many instances.

She's not always in the right, and I have no idea why you would even think that.

[u/GreyghostIowa → u/LovelyLadyLucky]

Aquarius is a hand me down spirit from her mother meaning lucy not only didn't have proper contract with her (hence why she can actively hurt her "master" ) but it also made aquarius technically her not blood related aunt and now imagine trying to order your sassy latina aunt around like your boss when not even properly paying her.

Secondly,until she got Virgo,Tarus and aquarius are her only two non-pet spirits meaning,she spam her call like ash chunking Pikachu at any problem.And considering how time works between human and spirit releam,that means aquarius gets a call from her almost every hour for pointless things.

At some point,her personality will clash with her.And every time she doesn't involve,Lucy actually solves the problem herself and she always comes without calling every time Lucy is genuinely in danger (other then times like magic tournament via plot so that natsu can actually have serious motivation).

So no,I don't think that bit is that much of a wrong.

[u/LovelyLadyLucky → u/GreyghostIowa]

You can think what you want, you're still wrong thinking aquarius is perfect and has never been in the wrong.

She's not her aunt. She's a Celestial Spirit under a mage's contrac. It's literally their job to be at the beck and call of the holder mage upon the agreed conditions. Period.

Layla, and practically every single Heartfilia since Anna has inherited the golden keys. The only reason Lucy didn't inherit them all was because Layla gave her keys to her friends for safekeeping, and when she went to open the Gate without them, she died. Layla caused a LOT of problems because of that.

Virgo wasn't Lucy's strongest or most used spirit before she got Virgo and Leo. It was Taurus. Taurus was utilized 95% more of the time when Lucy only had the two gate keys and even after Lucy got more keys, she still rarely used Aquarius.

They are not paid because what is a spirit going to do with money. That's not even remotely comparable especially considering the contracts made between the spirits and the holder and how Lucy deeply cares for the contracts as promises.

There is no excuse for Aquarius's behavior except that she's a Tsundere, and that's not much of an excuse, that's a personality problem.

No. She has not been right by abandoning the contract she *agreed to with the person holding her key.

[u/GreyghostIowa → u/LovelyLadyLucky]

She's not her aunt. She's a Celestial Spirit under a mage's contrac. It's literally their job to be at the beck and call of the holder mage upon the agreed conditions. Period.

Like I said,she never did proper contract with her.Infact,Lucy never do proper contract with any of her Spirits at all.Spirits with normal contract can't even talk back to their masters and fully dependent on them for any commands and you take a look at Lucy and see all of her spirit are fully independent.Lucy intentionally made her contacts that flimsy bcs she treats them as their friends , probably even more so with aquarius's case bcs she made that one with her when she was like five.

SHE herself treat aquarius like her friend.So of course,the spirit will also treat her like her niece.

Virgo wasn't Lucy's strongest or most used spirit before she got Virgo and Leo. It was Taurus. Taurus was utilized 95% more of the time when Lucy only had the two gate keys and even after Lucy got more keys, she still rarely used Aquarius.

That's bcs by the time we see Lucy on screen, aquarius is already in "I have enough of your shenanigans you little miss!" Phase.It is implied enough in her backstory that Lucy spammed her called through out her enitre childhood to teenage phase and only when she starts complaining that she stopped and switched to Tarus.

And also,Both Tarus is nowhere as strong as aquarius lol,both in terms of raw strength and bond power with Lucy.Even in this post,that above scene is when she showed her bond with Lucy is as strong if not even stronger than that with natsu's.

Btw,you do have to paid mama to summon spirits,and large amount at that.Lucy looks weak bcs she's in team with freaks of nature but she's quite a monster in terms of spirit summoners with that boatload amount of mana pool. I have to point this out since you took the word "paid" literally in your last reply.

[u/LovelyLadyLucky → u/GreyghostIowa]

No. Stop making stuff up.

Lucy has proper contracts with ALL of her spirits. She's said she's made contracts with all of her spirits, numerous times, Aquarius included, very early on in the series. She says it again several times in fact, how she broke that contract when she broke her key. Aquarius reaffirms the same terms of the original contract when Lucy finds her key. This is Celestial Spirit Law.

Also, no, they aren't slaves. They never ever were. Karen mistreated them, so did Sorano because they were just absolutely awful people. Leo literally tried to sacrifice himself to prevent Aries and others from getting mistreated. He did not do whatever she asked. That's not how that works. It is a mutual coworker type relationship. Lucy is kind enough to treat them like friends, not just coworkers, or slaves in the case of Karen and Sorano.

As for Aquarius, she's never been in a phase of "I'm done with your shenanigans. She is a Tsundere. She's been a Tsundere the entire time. She did so with Lucy when she was small, and she did so with Brandish. That's just who she is. Do you even understand what a Tsundere is? It's her personality type. That's it.

You made the claim she used Aquarius often, and that's not true. Again, Taurus was used more often and Lucy even calls Taurus her strongest spirit. Her strongesr bond is with Aquarius which is how she summoned the Spirit King. However, Aquarius's power is water. Taurus is brute strength.

"now imagine trying to order your sassy Latina aunt around when you're not even properly paying her." Don't lie now. You weren't talking about mana stores otherwise that sentence would not make any sense whatsoever. If Lucy didn't have the magical ability to summon/pay her then she wouldn't have been able to be summoned.. Period.

Staying on topic. There is absolutely zero reason for Aquarius not to come during a summons, and not to stay when needed in a fight. That is wrong. What Aquarius did is wrong. There is absolutely zero excuse to ever do that and you're reaching heavily to find an excuse that doesn't exist. Like the character if you want, I do, I like Aquarius, but stop lying.