User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 356: Tartarus arc - Prologue, Review and Commentary/@comment-1534821-20131019090659/@comment-4829046-20131019174428

"It sounds as if you're killing them off in large numbers."

No not really. It kinda shocks me that most of them are still alive. It seems the plot goes in different directions subconsciously. I originally start with one draft for one section of the story and it later becomes part of the main story and for some strange reason, even though I didn't really intend it, I noticed that majority of the cast are orphans to some degree. I had a problem with that but then thought it would give better reason as to why their personalities were so strange in comparison to regular people of that world.