User blog comment:Am Shegar of the Fairy Tail/Silver's Demon form/@comment-4449950-20150614113524/@comment-1776824-20150614142826

See, now that I'm looking back at the Tartaros arc, it honestly could have gone either way.


 * 1) First example was during their meeting in chapter 357 where six of the Demon Gates were going all gung-ho over their mission to fulfill Zeref's ultimate desire, and Silver was just looking on with a blank expression, pretty much equating to, "M'kay guys."
 * 2) Next example was in chapter 368 when he stealthily left that Heat Blade for Natsu and Lisanna to use, and acted all chivalrous towards Lisanna. Right after this, in 373, Franmalth openly wondered if Silver was the one who allowed them to go, at least suggesting that more than just Mard Geer and Keyes knew about him, but never really beyond those two, or three if Franmalth did indeed know. It was kind of like Ezel said: demons really have no need for dignity; and they all pretty much scorn humans. An Etherious would have no need to give a human clothes, least of all if they were a member of Tartaros. They would've just let them freeze to death or something. XP
 * 3) Then there's his whole, "I only eat the souls of demons," spiel, and him apologizing for freezing the Sun Village on his quest to destroy demon-kind. Personally, if I was an Etherious, I would be pretty arrogant and wouldn't give the first actual shit if I accidentally froze a place. I'd just walk away be all like, "Lel sorry," and move on with my life.
 * 4) Let's not forget he has Devil Slayer Magic. I remember we changed it to Curse at one point (which we shouldn't have done without discussing it. What a fuckin' pain >__>), but even when we thought he was Deliora, Silver said he learned magic. A demon of Tartaros, a group who wants to destroy magic, has no reason to actually learn the stuff. They would have just found an equivalent, though we never really got the intricacies of Curse Power and whether or not you can use Magic off of Curse Power, but it's kind of hinted that demons can make use of magic but just elect to otherwise not. I digress.
 * 5) In 356, like this person says, Silver apparently does have a demonic form, one that would suggest that he has no less than half of Tartaros' Demon Gates fooled as to what his true race is, and he has assumed this form before. Hinted at specifically when Gray blocks Memento Mori and Mard Geer recognizes the black marks as once belonging to Silver, Natsu later speculates that Devil Slayer Magic also has the side effect of turning the user into a demon from overuse if not taken the time to properly master, which honestly isn't too far-fetched. Look at Dragon Slayer Magic. You will turn into a dragon if you use it too much, and the Slayers (all of them) have draconian features such as enhanced smell and sharp teeth; some even have eyes with slit pupils. If Silver did have a Demon Form, it wouldn't have been Deliora. That even now looks like a lie to me.
 * 6) After a lot of thinking, him being Deliora is weird (and I mean a lot; I used to think it was strange, too). Just doesn't make sense. It makes sense for a demon like Deliora to take over a body like Silver's, whom honestly was just collateral, and then start knowing his name and life story. It isn't hard to do research, honestly, especially if he was bent on revenge. He would want to know who thwarted him and who was close to them so he could make torturing them more enjoyable. However, it doesn't make sense for a demon who was, when those chapters were released, originally a member of Tartaros to start using the name of the man whom he killed. Especially to people who were his comrades and knew him as Deliora. I understand there's a mystery element to all of this, but Silver could have just been calling himself Deliora from the get-go and then used Silver's name to throw Gray off until the very beginning of their fight, just like what he originally did. It ruins part of the mystery, yes, but Hiro would have found a way to make that work. :/
 * 7) End of chapter 353. Silver was in a snowy land (which we later learn was actually Gray's village in Isvan) visiting a grave, which we later found out he erected in his wife and son's honor, not knowing that his son was alive at the time. Deliora would have no reason to have visited that grave.

Buuuut, then there's the inverse!


 * 1) Then we have him apparently knowing Natsu. Now, I know Silver watched the Grand Magic Games so he would have at least some idea as to who Natsu is, but why does he have to be so ominous about it? He says, "Natsu? No, it couldn't be..." like Natsu has some sort of significance in his life (ironically he does, but nobody knows it ;D). Well, Natsu doesn't (not in the immediate sense, anyway). The only way Silver would really need to be so cryptic as to whether or not that is Natsu is if he has vague memories of Natsu from when he was briefly alive as Deliora in X784, and he was unsure if this was one of the guys who gave him the shaft. You could try and link to this to whether or not he was trying to discern Gray's imminent arrival, but it's honestly pointless since then he would've mentioned something about Gray, such as, "That's Natsu? Then maybe he will be here too..." Yeah. You get the point. .-. This was just never explained and to this day I'm still confused as to how and why this entire panel was relevant.
 * 2) Before this was him smelling like Gray, with Natsu going, "...You, you smell just like Gray," which was something that immediately after got Natsu frozen more solid than the ice covering the land mass that is currently Antarctica. Silver then talked about how Natsu should never utter that "filthy" name in his presence. Maybe it was for appearances, but I'm pretty sure that nobody in Tartaros believed he was Deliora, excluding the no less than three Tartaros members who knew he was a corpse. Refer to the statement in the first section as to why I think Silver being Deliora is strange.
 * 3) The only way it could have made sense for Silver to be Deliora and have Deliora refer to himself as Silver was if there was a personality battle inside his head. But that assumes that Silver's personality would have still been inside his dead body, which honestly would have made no sense either. XP
 * 4) Bad parenting! :D

In the end, all I can say is that there was more evidence towards Silver not being Deliora, or even a demon at all for that matter, prior to the reveal that he was a reanimated corpse. Just that he had some, if not most, of Tartaros fooled as to his real race. What Hiro could have done was have Silver have been turned into a demon from overuse of his magic and been and it was up to Gray to get back what was left of his father. Much more interesting plot point and much less let-downs, but then we don't have Gray's character development, and power-up, that will lead to the ultimate fight with E.N.D. Honestly, looking at it now, from Gray's perspective it honestly could have been true, but for the reader it should have also been clear that he wasn't a demon at least, or that when he was revealed to be "Deliora," that it was a lie. But we were all too caught up in the hype to try and put stuff together, and even now a lot still have their doubts. I mean, the arc was Natsu/Gray-centric and the battle between Silver and Gray only served to build up to the inevitable fact that Gray will be forced to try and kill his best friend. Oh well. Take this as you will. ;o