User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 514: Dragon Seed, Review/@comment-24102956-20161214082849/@comment-9595671-20161215122637

@Nick: I think Igneel's appearance and personality actually even reflect about the West invading the East's literature, or rather how modern times are bringing the two together and even making some cases of evil Eastern Dragons.

Igneel by appearance is definitely a Western Dragon, and when you remember Natsu is how he began learning to love humans, that shows his transition from a Dragon with or close to a "western" mindset to one with an "eastern" mindset.