User blog:The Fallen Robin/Is Acnologia actually a legitimate bad guy?

This is gonna sound crazy.

I don't think Acnologia is a true villain in the sense that he just wants to destroy everything even though he acts like it. I think he's like Itachi from Naruto, he plays the role of a villain so that the world can move forward. Honestly, from my point of view he's a lot like Zeref. I think when he said "I'm bored of this world Black Magician." he meant he's lived long enough, and finally wants to die. I think he's fed up of living a dragon's lifespan given he seems to prefer the human side of himself.



As to him going after the dragons, I think it was more out of fear than anything else. Igneel did say he'd been waiting for the day he could kill Acnologia, that implies he'd hunted Acnologia for a long time, which is possibly how he lost his soul. Acnologia has shown fear, as Igneel managed to identify him going after E.N.D to alleviate.

When Igneel hypothetically started hunting him, Acnologia was quite possibly still very young, maybe barely an adult given Dragon Slayers have been commonly trained from childhood. If that's the case, I think he was afraid of Igneel and lashed out when he was scared, stealing away the dragons' souls in the process.

When he later went after them at Tenrou and during the Tartaros incident, I can imagine his thought process being 'Stop hunting me, I'm already being punished for my actions by living this long!'. My theory is he began to feel guilty for what he did at some point, and came to see his long life as his punishment or sentence for doing what he did. I can also imagine him thinking in regards to the dragons 'Spend what little time you have left with your children, not trying to kill me. They've always loved you, I'm just a criminal, they deserve for you to spend your final moments with them.'

Another crazy idea of mine is that he lost himself to the dragon side of himself when he wiped out dragons, but later regained his humanity. And since that day, he's lived so that he can be punished for his crimes against dragons and humanity. Now I think he's going to Natsu and Zeref's battle to get Natsu to kill him, to do what he should of let Igneel do a year prior.

So overall, I think he's more human that most people believe, and he just wants to die a human, so that his crimes can be forgotten and he can finally atone for all he's done. His destructive and 'evil' demeanour seems to be a mask he wears so that he can push someone with the power to kill him to do just that, end his life. What I think is going on in his head is he knows he should of died long ago, and as shown when he blamed Irene what Dragon Slayer Magic had done to him, he hates what he's become. I don't think he ever wanted to be a dragon, he wanted to live and die as human.