User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 369: The Place Prayers Reach, Review and Commentary/@comment-24367018-20140131124547/@comment-7418318-20140201120354

But unlike Zero and Will Neville, Face isn't and never was alive as far as we know. So it's more likely like Nirvana, which only started to move when Brain took control of it and input the instructions.