User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 254: Year 791- Fairy Tail, Review./@comment-96.236.25.231-20111008220334/@comment-3290324-20111009194419

Simple really. If we are told there will be a timeskip, and they show a character who is drawn exactly like another character, then it's that character. Now I can understand if it was Alzack staring out to sea because he looks different than his pre time skip self, but Romeo is literally only taller and in different clothing. If you (you being all those who didn't think it was Romeo) would've looked at his previous drawings and compared them to the boy staring out to sea then you would've seen that they were drawn without the slightest difference. Speculation would've been saying that the two characters look similar and so they must be the same person. As fans of the show, we are expected to know certain things without them being told. For example, if Levy were to show up with a different hairstyle, then we wouldn't have to wait for it to be explicitly said to say it was Levy because the character with the new hairstyle would be drawn exactly like Levy.