r/fairytail • u/Mandalorian_Ronin • 11h ago

Seriously, what is wrong with Carla? [discussion] Main Series

Currently on the Infinity Clock arc of my rewatch and I gotta ask, why is Carla so quiet about everything?

Nothing good has come from her keeping her mouth shut. More than once, Carla gets some kind of premonition and every time someone asks what's wrong, she's all "Nothing, its ok."

You'd think that after the whole event in Edolas, she's know better than to dismiss her visions. Even if she has no clear cut explanation, she should be smart enough to at least let everyone know she's seeing things.

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u/Agreeable-Willow-101 10h ago edited 10h ago

???

Your last paragraph makes no sense. If anything, Edolas told her to not trust her visions as much without further information. Those same visions lead to the team getting captured when trying to sneak into the kingdom and these same twisted her memories into getting an order to kill the Dragon Slayers despite that not being the case.

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Carla did mention her visions during the Grand Magic Games as well but it was so unbelievable. She told Porlyusica but they both brushed it off as a bad dream. Carla stays quiet about her visions cause they are often bizzare and could cause more of a hassle by confusing everyone rather than helping them or distracting them from the task at hand. For example, if she had told Wendy that she saw a vision on how to disable Face and that there's no further future... it could've lead to another decision where they don't disable Face or get distracted during the fight against one of the Demon Gates.

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u/Tsukkatsu 10h ago

I suspect that she didn't really believe it herself and she wasn't sure she could describe it. Perhaps she didn't want to alarm the others in case she was mistaken or by doing so it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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u/Ninja_SurgeFairy 10h ago

I agree with u/Agreeable-Willow-101 (I guess that makes sense given the "Agreeable part of their name). With Edolas, she trusted a vision without knowing more information and it gave her a completely incorrect idea of what was going on. I do feel she could say more at times (and she does say stuff at others), but without more information, she can never be too sure. 

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u/Ryuuji_Gremory 9h ago

You'd think that after the whole event in Edolas, she's know better than to dismiss her visions. 

You mean the time she relied on her visions to lead her friends into a trap, making her seem like a traitor and nearly get them all killed? If anything that would stop her from ever relying on it again.

I don't remember that specific arc as I have seen/read less often than the rest of the series (due to it not being in the manga) but in the material adapted from the manga her visions are often fragmented and abstract not giving her a clear picture what is happening just bits and pieces that could mean a thousand things. And as already mentioned, the last time she trusted those fragmented bits and pieces she nearly got the whole guild killed.

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u/LovelyLadyLucky 8h ago

I agree with everything everyone said i mentioned this in another discussion about GMG quite a while ago but to recap,

She has a hard believing her visions because she mistook her previous visions has a message from Edolas that ended up being completely wrong.

She's also quite young herself. I know exceeds view time differently but her and happy at that point in the story were only hatched 6 years prior. She's still learning not just magic, but also herself. She comes off arrogant and a bit pompous and I imagine that bothers her when she does end up being wrong so she doesn't say anything yet because she doesn't know how to handle not knowing everything when she comes off as quite a know-it-all.