User blog:Bato of the Heavy Iron Rock Hammer/Irene's loss of senses

You know, I find the revelation kinda weird behind Irene's tragic backstory that led to her madness and insanity after becoming a Dragon in motherly defense of her unborn daughter Erza and stayed that way for 400 years until Zeref came along and enchanted her into re-assuming her previous human form but he claimed she is no longer human due to her Dragon physiology now.

If Irene really DID lose her senses as she claimed them to be: how come she was able to see, touch, and hear just perfectly fine? Of course she can't taste or probably smell too when it comes to food or people if she wanted to track them by scent down like most Dragon Slayers would do.

I would bet that Irene had lost her senses to extreme PTSD that she had suffered by the heavy abuse, torture and humiliation from her husband and her own people of Dragnof. Plus it could be the intense nervous system damages that greatly numbed her senses into almost complete null and void due to the trauma she couldn't take.

As for her sleeping problem, I think it was also due to trauma by being tortured and humiliated while in her sleep at an isolated cell.

The Dragon and Dragon Slayer's senses are enhanced above normal human ones after all. It won't make sense for a Dragon Slayer transformed into a Dragon to lose their senses unless I'm proven wrong.

Acnologia didn't seem to have a problem about being a Dragon himself since I noticed.

Sounds like a Plot Hole to me, Mashima. Almost too familiar with Erza losing ALL of her five senses to Kyoka's curse yet managed to fight and beat her down with no goddamn reason at all. Because she's Erza (said in sarcasm).

Any thoughts and opinions about this?