User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 410: Memento Mori, Review./@comment-4449950-20141123060745/@comment-25111584-20141124093348

@Nick:
 * The panel you showed was before he assumed his Etherious Form. Also, Mard got severely injured by it. But when he went Etherious, all his wounds got healed and he said that Gray's Magic wouldn't work on him ... Which just probably means that Gray's normal IDSM infused punches and kicks won't work on him. None of Gray's techniques have connected.
 * I just like this format, always have liked lists. ^_^" ... Is it really that annoying? I apologize, but, as I said, I just like lists, so I prefer using this format. Really sorry, I don't mean to offend. /(__)\

@Carrot:
 * Erza's basic Magic isn't Requipping armour, it's Requipping and manipulating weapons. I don't deny that she later supplemented her Magic by learning to Requip armour.
 * Also, though her friends were on one side of the field and the Magic Corps on the other, the weapons she used to massacre the latter were strewn all over the battlefield. Yet she managed to use a load of weapons to completely obliterate her enemies while not one of her friends was even scratched. I'd hardly call that 'randomly throwing weapons around'. It would need quite a lot of expertise to control so many of them and not harm allies while you're taking down your enemy.
 * Mira didn't even know what was happening to her, she had to train. For Erza ... she just got the Magic, and not even from somebody, and then improved it, but had complete control over the basic Magic ever since she got it.
 * I guess the things that sets apart the Gray and Erza situations is that Gray's is Creation Magic, so he can start showing off his moves immediately, while Erza first needs to have the weapons around her or in her pocket dimension to use them. That's why she won't be able to show off any spectacular weapons or armour at once. But the fact stands that both have shown complete proficiency in their Magic since the start.
 * I didn't include Lucy because that was a Spell and it was Hibiki's Magic. Lucy's subsequent casting of Urano Metria is because she learnt the Spell herself, not because Hibiki allowed her to use it once, though it might have had some influnce on her decision to learn it in the first place (maybe Hibiki told her what happened when she went into a trance?).
 * Cana's was also just a Spell. Btw, Cana's use of the Spell was supposed to be flawless. It's just that it was supposed to hype Buenote's (and Gildarts') strength. Even with such a powerful Spell and all her latent potential, she couldn't defeat Bluenote. Cana herself says that she didn't have enough power, not that she failed to cast it. But, still, it's just a Spell, not a whole Magic, so ... And it was temporary.
 * I just used the Wendy example to show that Natsu shouldn't have been able to to perform his New Dragon Slayer Art ... but he did. ... Looks like it's not that good an example if you consider that bad too. XD
 * Ultear wasn't actually manipulating Jellal directly, you know. More like planted an imperative in his head and gave him some powerful Magic, knew he was intelligent and capable enough to distract the Magic Council by himself, then went to destroy cities and get Zeref's keys. She likely joined the Magic Council to make the job of distracting them much easier and also to keep a closer eye on Jellal and manipulate him into thinking she was his subordinate. If she had direct control, she could have just used him to get whatever she wanted from the Magic Council without ever revealing herself. So it wasn't Ultear using the Magic through Jellal. He was using it himself, she just gave it to him. Though one could say that Jellal lost much more than Gray to gain his Magic (Gray just lost his father who was already dead, Jellal's very mindset was completely overturned), that doesn't change the fact that they both attained complete mastery over their new Magic because somebody gave it to them. His case is actually closest to Gray's in this term.
 * Gray also got knowledge of his Magic from Silver, how to use it and all. Also his body is already resistant to cold, so no problems there. That only leaves the question why people don't just transfer their Magic instead of teaching. It could range from 'very difficult' to 'unless you use Arc of Time, you have to give up your life/Magic to transfer Magic'. So won't give it much thought.
 * Finally, I'm not defending Gray's expertise or even obtaining of his new Magic, just pointing out that there a lot of precedents.

*hates extended project season, too much free time.* >.<