User blog:Mangetsu20/Hypothetical Mang: August's Potential

Since his introduction, he's been a pretty badass character. He nullified a big "Fuck-off" blast of lightning that lit up the horizon by Laxus Dreyar the Man himself! It was his true debut and he chastised mister mouth-off Azir for being afraid (which honestly, he was) of an attack he might not have survived from. Lightning and Sand don't mix, so he'd been glassed if it wasn't for him. So we already know one thing about him, he's got highly advanced barrier spells and/or nullification of magic of high caliber, both of which are not good signs for an enemy mage.

What else? Makarov heralded him as being far more experienced and skilled in the magic arts than even Zeref, an immortal who's seen more shit than anyone in his league of OP Mary Sues and Gary Stus. So by then you already know that if a Wizard Saint of arguably incredible power already, both in terms of power and brawns, says he's outmatched makes this guy pretty threatening. Barring the Eileen debate (which I may make another Blog about her depending how much traction this gets, so please comment!), August is the strongest Spriggan that we know of, especially since Serena got the axe by Acnologia the Hip Crusher.

He's named after the dreaded month of -gasp- AUGUST! (fuck it's going to be miserably hot this year by that month's time rolling by...). Anyways, the point is that August for Araki...er...Alvarez Empire is one of prayer because of how it pretty much embodies tragedy and everything that Monday can wrought in a month's time but every single day. So yeah, he's dread incarnate, so he's got lore behind his own name as to why he's feared. Even though Brandish grew up with this guy, he's compassionate to his own kin (a nice standard that differs from the usual 'fuck you, comrade!' villain we see in Fairy Tail) but because of his staunch loyalty, he'd probably not yield when an order from Zeref is issued out. Kinda right now...Brandish, what was the plan? Say pretty please? This guy isn't your grandpa, he's not going to succumb to the puppy eye look...

So yeah, given how many fucks August does not give about this asinine plan of theirs, what do you think he'll do? What are his capabilities in a real fight? Will it be one-shots? Will it be disabling his enemies? Or will he muster up a "Fuck off" explosion that'll atomize (most likely not, but it's fun to imagine) his enemies? At this point, we can only speculate, which is the FUN (definition of FUN in a Mang produced Blog) of this debate.

What do you, my fellow Dirt Balls, think of this? Please post your ideas and comments below (be nice) to let me know what you think. Until next week, see you Dirt Balls later!