User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 511: The Hell of Starvation, Review/@comment-2214433-20161120003125/@comment-7418318-20161120170848

No they didn't barely even talk to each other. At the time when this ship was popular they had NEVER talked to each other. The only "interaction" or rather "reaction" between them was Sting being heartily amused about Lucy being tortured by Minerva.

But that didn't stop the shippers from coupling them up.