User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 526: My Name Is..., Review/@comment-203.215.120.175-20170312224510/@comment-25111584-20170313070907

Tbh, anon, I would only respect your ability to draw such conclusions (no sarcasm intended). I would definitely agree with you if this was RM or maybe even pre-Tenrou FT. But now? I refuse to believe, even if Mashima explicitly confirms your hypothesis later, that Mashima thought anything beyond, "Ooh, let's contrast Irene abandoning her daughter with August being an abandoned child."