User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 506: The Broken Bond, Review/@comment-5303512-20161017131353/@comment-1359322-20161017145415

And having Etherious form changes Mard or Kyoka's personality? It changes how they act? It changes everything about them? They still stick to their personality and all. Nothing change, it's just the body transform. Gray getting covered by the black thing doesn't mean he's not Gray anymore. And Gajeel covering his body in iron scales doesn't mean he stops being Gajeel.