User blog comment:SDPanthera/Fairy Tail Chapter 415 Review & Other Thoughts/@comment-1776824-20150111134714/@comment-87.165.105.238-20150112184710

i thought a little bit about the dragonslayers beeing orphans.

wendy, sting and rogue are around the same age (19). 14 of these years are known, more or less (x777 until now), which makes them around 5 when the dragons disapeared. giving them at least one year with the dragons means their parents died latest at 4 years. no parents right in their mind would leave their kids alone at 4 years if they had another option. screw that, no parents would leave their kids alone at all, if they had another options. this means: 1. they were not part of a guild or the magical council, but one of them was a mage (since that is inheirited, i think) 2. they were killed and were not able to give their kids to a friend or to an orphanage. which leads to: - there were no (mage-)guilds (since honestly, have you seen what money they make? look at lucys flat, i don't know any 18-year-old who could rent something like that!), since (mage-)guilds were already established over 100 years ago. - how could 6 (10) couples die and their kids dissappear without anyone noticing? if you were to blame the toh-guys: then surely someone would have noticed: either them themself, because there is a huge dragon in front of them taking exactly one child. another option would be the one survivor, but that would mean that the dragon watched a city get burned down, since in another case the council would be there before (they work fast, after all!) third option to this would be that the dragons were friends with the biological parents, but how could that happen, if noone knew the dragons even existed (remember that natsu was laughed at, when he told anybody he was raised by a dragon?). there were friendships between humans and dragons, but that was during the dragon-war. so: mage-guilds were established a long time ago. the parents died during a time where it was not unusual for people to die (perhaps a war?) or were friends with dragons, which was also during a war. i'd say there is a pretty good chance that the parents of the dragonslayers lived during the time of the dragon war. my guess is, that there was some time-traveling for the dragonslayers.

...but then again fairy tail has a ridiculous amount of orpahns. the only one who is said to have stil both of his parents is romeo - and even they are divorced!