User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 531: Pegasus vs. Black Dragon/@comment-130.105.140.184-20170420080924

''"You know what? I can’t think of any good reasons for Zeref to have an empire.

Zeref spent all his time up until this arc portrayed as an extreme loner. He spent huge periods of time in isolation. His curse is literally the moral dichotomy of whether or not irrelevance for human life in order to preserve human life is superior to caring about the value of human life at the cost of killing everyone around him, and he largely chose to address that issue by going into hiding. Zeref’s suffering for the sins of his past at the cost of his humanity, but still routinely surrounds himself with people despite either not caring about them or being too afraid to be near them in case he slaughtered them. Not just a few people, but a lot of people. Why would you give a character that spent most of his time in publication as a hermit a kingdom?

What’s the point of him declaring war? Whats the point of him bringing millions of soldiers when we had arcs establishing him as one of the most powerful players in the game? Why would you use a tank to kill an ant when you could crush it under your heel? What did Zeref have to gain by bringing the Spriggans to Magnolia? The only reason Zeref ever gave for making the empire was to try and use them to defeat Acnologia, but he’s been making demons for that purpose anyway! His anti-Acnologia soldier was a demon! He never made any goddamn use of the humans in his army when it came to his supposed goal, not even the ones with the power to slay dragons! What’s the point of making an army to kill a dragon when the slightest slip into empathy could wipe them all out?

The Spriggans aren’t his moral tethers. He has no solid relationships with them. They worship him, but we aren’t told why. We don’t know how much they know about him, or how much they know about his goals. They give us no new insights into his character. We don’t know what they think about him, except that they love him. Why? Why do they love him? What did Zeref do to earn these people’s trust? They don’t know who he is, and they dont know what he’s fighting for. Why does Alvarez love Zeref when they don’t mean a damn thing to him?

If he doesn’t need an army to crush five guilds, and he isn’t using his army to combat Acnologia, and then what’s the point of surrounding himself with humans when he doesn’t fucking need them?!

And if the Spriggans, all of whom were introduced specifically to be his elite guards, don’t add anything to his character - not even the one that was his son or the demon that desperately wanted to be - then why the fuck would you include them?!"''

- ac-fairytail

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