User blog comment:GotMilk5101520/Silver Backstory & Tartarus and the Tower of Heaven/@comment-180.194.211.213-20140606131948

hi guys! been reading about the gray-silver son-father theory over the week now and i stumbled on this post today. well i have a few theories too, some are already the same as the other's posted here. but mine maybe farfetched, or too contrived in terms of the time line, or a little bit of it's-a-small-world-after-all, or a total fanfic.. but all your reactions are welcome :D so, here goes:

1. silver is a founding member of fairy tail - he looks like the guy among warrod, precht and mavis in the founding days of fairy tail, though the hair color is different, and his name then might have not yet been silver so to distinguish hm from the tartarus silver, i'll call him FTsilver - seeing how warrod and precht survived into the present, then FTsilver's actual human age maybe along theirs - warrod looked more tree-like in the present than his looks in the FT founding days. it maybe that his magic has affected him physically (well, the worst case i could assume would be like azuma's overuse of the great tree arc magic). the same might have happened with FTsilver, the reason why his human form have black hair - FTsilver's magic ever since was ice demon slayer magic - when precht's soul was freed after natsu's battle from franmalth, he relayed a message to be passed to makarov: to release the light. it could mean that someone in tartarus knows about lumen histoire and that someone is FTsilver/silver.

2. FTsilver is an ancestor (maybe father) of the strauss siblings - FTsilver's hair is light colored in the FT founding days, and so were the hair color of the strauss siblings - the grave he visited maybe that of the mother of the strauss siblings which is either silver's wife or his daughter - the demon takeover magic of mirajane may have originally stemmed from his ice demon slayer magic. it may have been the first takeover magic and it is originally a substitute magic for defeating demons since there are drawbacks to the ice demon slayer magic. other take over magic may have just been born from this. - the strauss siblings probably gained knowledge of FT from their ancestor (FTsilver) the reason why they ended up in FT when they became orphans in their youth - this could also be the reason why he called lissana as his princess, maybe lissanna looked like his wife or daughter

3. FTsilver was ul's mentor and later, her partner (husband) - FTsilver's outfit during FT's founding days looked like ul's. she may have adapted to his fashion sense, the way gray adapted her fashion sense when she adopted gray as her student - the union of FTsilver and ul's innate magic was the reason for ultear's magical illness. - when ul was battling deliora and lyon was feeling betrayed, she told lyon there were more stronger mages in the west. she could have been referring to FT where her mentor FTsilver came from - her student gray ended up in FT after her death

4. why ultear left FTsilver? - FTsilver's magic started to corrupt himself, slowly turning himself into an ice demon (i.e., assuming the same magical corruption caused warrod to look more like a tree). ul may have already been pregnant but not yet been obviously bearing ultear when she left FTsilver. or, FTsilver pushed ul away not knowing she was already carrying his child (ultear). ul may have promised to get stronger as an ice mage so she can one day "seal his darkness away". this might have been on ultear's thoughts when she was fighting deliora (she might have been seeing deliora like a representation of the half-human-half-demon FTsilver), but protecting her students became her primary reason to fight then. her words to gray: "i'll seal your darkness away" may have been only an iteration of a promise she originally intended for FTsilver. - FTsilver eventually evolved into half-demon-half-human, the first of his kind, and has no one to turn to. he eventually approached zeref for help. however, zeref summoned a demon from his book (this one originally named silver) and possessed FTsilver's entirety (very much like how zoldo posessed caprico, but this posession included FTsilver's knowledge, the reason it can wield ice demon slayer magic and recognize a princess in lisanna). - this demon silver decided to go for the most recent human form of FTsilver, the reason why silver these days sports the look of a dark haired young man - assuming zeref already knew of a young natsu when the half-demon-half-human FTsilver approached him for help, this could be the reason why silver seemed already familiar with the natsu in their encounter in the sun village

5. why silver seemed to hate gray's name? - the demon silver was a progeny (son) of deliora from zeref's book. deliora rose from the book of zeref because he could not find his son (the demon silver, who has now possessed the body of FTsilver). deliora has no reason, but it is his primal anguish of an unfruitful search of his son which has caused deliora to go on a rampage on isvan and gray's hometown. - the news of deliora's defeat may have reached silver, and gray being the reason why iced shell was preformed on dellora may have been his personal reason to disgust the name "gray"