User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 407: All for My Demise, Review and Commentary/@comment-3075024-20141101161821/@comment-25111584-20141103192004


 * 1) I know that Jellal and Sasuke's responses are vastly different. But the same goes for Gray. That's why I have been stressing the fact that Gray as well as Jellal have only some basic facts in common with Sasuke.
 * 2) By having a 'thing', I mean most of Sasuke's stuggle in the story has been centred around Itachi (though it has ended now); most of Jellal's has been centred around Zeref (and will most probably also end when the story ends). That's the similarity. Gray's has not been centred around Deliora. Not to mention that Sasuke's trauma resulted in hate while Gray's might seem hate at first sight, but his reactions to Doriate, the Devil's Egg (in IT, which I don't think you read XD) show that his resulted in fear. And what Silver did was nowhere similar to what Itachi did. He tried to bring Gray out of a trauma to help him, Itachi created a trauma for Sasuke to overcome and become better. Gray's trauma already existed. Not to mention this is a similarity between Silver and Itachi, not Gray and Sasuke as Gray saw through Silver's ploy. Silver having a bit of a basic similarity to Itachi (the fact that they made their loved one believe they were evil, unsuccessful in Silver's case, to help them, everything is different from there) is not being discussed, just like I'm not saying Itachi is similar to Zeref. I don't know why you would mention this. And I already said that I'm not comparing Jellal to Sasuke because he wants revenge: My basic point about the Zeref thing is not about Jellal being vengeful I have no idea why you're bringing the thing with Ultear up ... unless you're responding to the light statement where I actually praised Jellal. :D
 * 3) Gray saw through Silver's ploy even before the battle ended. He averted the similarity to Sasuke there. And, as I said, Silver's ploy was similar to Itachi's on a basic level, but we aren't discussing Silver's similarity to Itachi.
 * 4) You are misunderstanding what I'm saying. Sasuke will be seen by the world as a criminal. Independent Mage is not a term recognized by the Magic Council; for them, Crime Sorciere is a Dark Guild and Jellal is a Dark Mage and an escaped convict. So, in the eyes of the world, he is a criminal. As I already said, the similarity ends here, this is the only basic similarity they share regarding this trait. I stated myself that their reasons are completely different, just the basic fact that they will allow the world to believe that they are 'dark' to achieve their goals is the same. That's where the similarity ends. And why would you bring the speech to OS up? The OS is hardly the world. Bringing that up makes no sense.
 * No, I'm not sugarcoating it. Would you say Jellal is being cocky? By your definition, he is. Heck, he even smiles bitterly when the Oracion Seis asks whether he's going to put them in jail. Saw Gray smile even when he said that he'd end Tempesta quickly? But he lives up to his words, I'd say he was just extremely determined. He had his own reasons to fight them alone. Gray also has his own reasons to wanting to destroy Tartarus, and he hasn't told anybody not to get involved in his fights. Not to mention that he has lived upto his words so far. Neither of them is cocky, they are just determined, they have a steadfast resolve.
 * Yes, the basic fact that Gray wants revenge is true. But, just like you said that Jellal has basic similarities with Sasuke but has vastly different responses, so does Gray. Sasuke doesn't care about his near ones in his quest for revenge. Although Ur died while killing Deliora, at that time, Gray would have preferred that he die and Deliora live than Ur sacrifice herself to defeat Deliora. And, again, Gray saw through Silver's ploy, not to mention that, though Gray does have a grudge against Tartarus, that's where the similarity with Sasuke ends.
 * 1) I've already said that I don't think Jellal is like Sasuke: doesn't mean I'm saying that he is like Sasuke. And, just like Gray, Jellal does have some basic traits similar to Sasuke, as I keep stating. I didn't bring Jellal out of nowhere. In fact, my main point in making Jellal's comparison with Sasuke is to show that saying a character is similar to another by just stating some common basic traits without looking at their details is ridiculous. Comparing Gray or Jellal to Sasuke is ridiculous; but if one uses the logic stated above to compare Gray to Sasuke, then Jellal can be just as easily compared to Sasuke.
 * 2) ... I only turned Jellal hater because he used to be my 2nd fav char and then he disappointed me tremendously in the GMG and then his first actual fight after he became good was extremely boring for me.

@Johnny: I agree completely, neither Jellal nor Gray are similar to Sasuke in any way other than the most basic, and it's ridiculous to compare them to Sasuke because of that. I just got annoyed how people do just that to compare Gray to Sasuke, so said that the same can be said about Jellal.