User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 425: Sabertooth X792, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20150323172459/@comment-24546844-20150323183140

Lol I regret nothing.

Okay Sting is a joke, but at least I used to try and take him as a serious character even though it looks like Mashima goes out of his way to make him look bad. I guess Mashima just wanted to add a random joke (so random that he just reverted him back to normal after that) but he could have chosen better.

Sting is supposed to have a role in the story somewhere in the future chapters so it would be strange seeing him like that. Think about it, six Dragon Slayers facing off against Acnologia while looking badass and a fat Sting standing there eating a sandwich.