User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 435 & 436: The Cry of Victory & Memoirs, Review and Commentary/@comment-5840892-20150518130422

I am just going to pretty much copy and paste what I said about the second chapter in chat:

shit HOLY SHIT Mashima just dropped a mega bomb of mind-fuck

This whole back story kinda well: Explains a lot. Very well I might add. Plus well you can't deny they do look alike and the hints were there, so Mashima had this planned from day one (in hindsight I mean it is obivious to me)

As for what I think of Zeref's deal:

It's unique. I have personally have never seen this used before, outside of my own story which involves a girl "Blessed" by Death. Zeref is essentially a tragedy emobided. And well, I like it.

And I am now going to steal what Kuro said as it explains my thoughs on it:

He's a villain the same way Kisuke Urahara and the Vizards in Bleach are - they were labelled as such by the world they live in because of perceived evils. Everything Zeref does is a means to end himself. He wants to die. Even though he plans to annihilate humanity, he does so in the hope that somebody (Natsu) will rise up to stop him.

And damn I like this angle.

Good work Mashima.

As for the other chapter: LOL.