User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-5303512-20161007210649/@comment-7418318-20161008074648

But the kicker is, if she saw all of Fairy Tail as her children to the extend that Makarov did, wouldn't that trigger her curse and send out death waves left, right and center?

So in that regard she has no other choice than to see them as soldiers, similar to how Zeref does with his army.