User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 526: My Name Is..., Review/@comment-25111584-20170312223358/@comment-7418318-20170316081808

I think most of our disagreements comes from you arguing out of universe while I take a look at it from inside the universe. ^^

It makes sense for Natsu to stop Gray because that's just how Natsu is. He does what he thinks is best regardles of whether the recipient of his "help" wants it or not... and he doesn't really think matter through completely either (like when he tried to "help" Erza when she was on trial for busting the meeting place of the guild leaders). In this regard he's been consistent throughout the entire series.

But that's due to Natsu's personality. It doesn't mean that everyone else has to act the same way. Gray is not Natsu so isn't it fine if they handle similar situations in differnet ways?

As for Carla's premonitions... yeah no argument there. I've critizies this aspect myself on numerous occsions.

Would it really be okay to try to reverse Last Ages, without getting Ultear's consent first? That's certainly something Natsu would do, but would it really be in character for Gray to just go ahead without knowing whether Ultear even wants it?

As for Jellal & Co: They didn't recognize the old woman to be Ultear, so they most likely don't even know about Last Ages or any potential need to reverse it. They only know that Ultear worte them a letter telling them that she wants to quit CS and life in peace from now on. Though I think it wouldn't matter much even if they knew for the following reason:

CS is all about finding redemption. It's not about getting forgivenes from others, but forgiving themselves. That's the sole reason why they formed CS in the first place. Ridding the world of Zeref is just a means for this end. Jellal even argued that he was walking in darkness and thus couldn't be with Erza because she was walking in the light.

Ultear managed to forgive herself and attain a measure of peace that's still denied to the other CS members. Or to put it in Jellal's words, she reached the light. Thus it makes absolute sense for me that Jellal wouldn't want to drag her back into the darkness in which he and Meredy still walked in his opinion.

Personally I think Ultear had a beautiful exit from the story both in and out of universe.