User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-95.51.118.58-20151019180255/@comment-95.51.118.58-20151020140312

Well, I would've been more surprised if she hadn't cried, because crying is her thing in this manga, and I'm not hateful - I'm simply honest. So what's pissing me off most isn't that she cried, even if it is irritating, makes little sense and no plot development, it's that while THE WHOLE GUILD had been disbanded and others must have felt even worse, it's only Lucy who actually shows some emotions... and she cried so many times ever since the beginning of manga that it isn't touching anymore - it's boring and irritating. I want to see that other characters have feelings too, and I don't get much of that.

You're missing the point: Lucy did have a home before she joined Fairy Tail - neglected or not, it was a home, and she didn't lost it, she ran away herself, so it was her choice. She was in her late teens then. Other characters, like Erza, Gray, Natsu, Lisanna, Elfman, Mirajane, probably Levy, Jet and Droy as well, also Cana (to some extent) were orphans most of their lives, lost their whole families and thus lost their homes very early, or, like Strauss siblings, were forced to leave it... duh, Natsu didn't even have a home to begin with, since he lived in forests with Igneel - so his home was when Igneel was, the only guardian he has any memories of... now dead. Fairy Tail is where all of them spent most of their lives, while Lucy spent there one year. "Her only other family gone"? I don't think this argument makes sense, since, as I have already mentioned, pretty much all of Fairy Tail younger guild members are orphans - they spent way more time in the guild than Lucy did, so expecting them to be more affected by losing that home makes sense.

Lucy was about ten years old when her mother died, and from what we've seen, her father was a caring person before Layla's death; so Lucy DID have loving parents who showed her affection before her mother died. If her mum hadn't loved her, I doubt Lucy would have ever written any letter to her, and she wrote plenty of them. So your argument is invalid.

I repeat: Fairy Tail has been Lucy's home for about a year, maybe a little bit longer, while most of her guildmates had grown up in the guild (Cana was about six years old when she joined, Gray was eight, Erza probably eleven, Natsu... I guess mentally he was about eleven too; Strauss siblings were eleven-twelve-thirteen, and they had lost their parents several years earlier) and knew no other place they could go to. They only reason fans look at Lucy as if she was the most affected by the guild's disbandment is because Mashima totally ignored other characters. I've had enough. I don't see Lucy as a legitimately interesting character - I would love it if she appeared less than she does know or if she finally showed being more than a crybaby which, as I have already said in the first comment, did happen in this chapter... after 200+ chapters, but hey :P