User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail's Ending/@comment-4449950-20140626081503/@comment-85.221.190.231-20140626143835

Nick, I don't agree it was selfless. I think he knows she loves him. I think he realizes well that he loves her back, and that they would be great for each other. Then it's not selfless that he pushes her away - he denies her something beautiful and precious with that, even if only temporary. And this decision is self centered - it's because he feels guilty. It's because of his sins. It's because of burden he must carry. He doesn't do this for her, but for himself, because it's himself who wants redemption first, she doesn't feel he needs it to start relationship with him.

FTGM - she doesn't get depressed, but he couldn't know about it beforehand, and also I think she suffers inwardly, but she is not the person to show such feelings openly. I don't think she would have suffered from him having a fiance, I think she does suffer because she misses him, and because she wants this relationship too. And actually, Juvia doesn't get depressed either, she doesn't even take this seriously. And also I think in Gray/Juvia scene might be some kind of understanding - I think she might have understood by this point that he is acting harsh sometimes out of fear to show his feelings. This whole scene when I first read it brought to my mind a fragment from Cortazar's Hopscotch (lol, sorry for bringing too much literature here :P) in which one lover says to another "you are so funny when you say you don't love me" (and they both know he does...).

So yeah, this dickness... so not obvious :P