User blog comment:Ultraprime2/Fairy Tail Wikia Podcast 23/5/2014/@comment-7418318-20140525172846/@comment-4829046-20140525174648

And another thing, speaking of tragic romance endings. I remembered the conversation with B4's bro and it got me thinking. Why shouldn't there be tragic endings of that nature? I know all of them are more or less inspired by Romeo and Juliet but that's the point really. Life isn't supposed to be so idyllic. I myself want happy endings all the time, but then there wouldn't be as much diversity. As a writer, I have the need to explore all aspects of human psychology but my hopeless romantic side wants me to give happy endings so my works are littered with various character stories each with their own unique kind of love and how it affects different people and that includes how death or separation or even insanity or general trauma plays in it. So, long story short, as much as they pain and cauterize me, such endings are necessary for storytelling as well. At the end of it all though, I want my stories to have a bittersweet ending. Not enough to make you decide whether it was good or bad, but to wonder what it was that you just saw. Was it really a good ending? Was it mediocre? Or was it.... something else? Like, there IS no more to this.