User blog comment:Tutles/Episode 117: Thunder Crashes Review/@comment-1454981-20120211162023/@comment-3987368-20120211172543

@GM, I don't really think the Toshiro/Shunsui dynamic really applies to Erza-Laxus given that in the former case, Shunsui outright stated that Toshiro could surpass him in time. He was the only one to say this and there is a more visible age gap between them than there is with Erza and Laxus.