User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 531: Pegasus vs. Black Dragon/@comment-130.105.140.184-20170419083830/@comment-31.132.65.56-20170421222616

Whenever he does it intentionally or not, is of little revelance to me.

As for the historical part. If it worked for Caligula then he wouldn't have been assassinated after less than 4 years of reign. Nero was demonized by the historians. The Roman ones for being the last ruler of the highly disliked Claudian dynasty. The Christian ones for the presecutions. The truth is that Nero was a spoiled sheltered kid that his mom got him the job of the emperor. Let his family and subordinates rule the state instead of him, because he had no talent for it. Was finnaly taken down from power, fled Rome and comited suicide, because if he showed himself in the capital he would have been killed in the streets and his body dumped in the Tiber.

Zeref on the other hand created and was developing a country for 400 years. Has the approval of the majority of his subjects. Has a bunch of lemmings (Spriggan 12) that are willing to do whatever he says. Now that the plot demands Zeref to act like villain, he throws everything he build to dump, started a pointless war, lead soliders to their deaths just for kicks. Mashima wants us to feel sorry for him by convincing that Zeref has a mental disorder? This is a bad joke.