User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 487: The Third Seal, Review./@comment-130.105.215.179-20160531081845/@comment-26389992-20160601165618

Yeah it's bland but he's been the main villain for majority of the series... what main villain doesn't wanna destroy everything? I agree with y'all though, he has been underwritten to a certain extent but that's cause he's usually MIA or ducked off somewhere. He dipped from Alvarez for a year just to sleep and I guess think about stuff, you could even say he's hasn't got that much screentime besides a few pop-ins in GMG and Tartaros. Looking at it from an in-series perspective, Zeref is just a guy who didn't know what he wanted to do with his life after he sent Natsu to the future and killed Mavis, the two biggest beneficiaries in his entireeee life. What would you do if you lost your brother and lover? I would find a cool little island, away from all humanity and just sleep there and meditate lol.

Must be me but his wishy-washy nature is refreshing for a "villain". That's if he's even the final villain which I don't think he is. Sometimes being fucked up in the mind can do things like this to you