User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 282: Ten Keys and Two Keys, Review./@comment-3987368-20120512140856

Rai, as much as I agree with your review, I have to disagree with your view that Gray is being a penis-less coward because he ignores Juvia's advances.

Gray isn't a romantic guy. It's simple enough. While we could've originally said he was blind to her love, we can now say, as of this chapter, that he's been aware for at least a while and simply chooses not to pursue her. Why does he not pursue her? She's so hot! Well, there are a ton of reasons I'm sure you could guess.

One major thing is, she's a stalker and is crushing on him massively. She's liked him ever since they first met during the war. Since then, she repeatedly followed him and watched him from the background during the Loke arc before finally showing herself in the Tower of Heaven arc. After that she joined Fairy Tail and went after him out in the open.

Would you want a girl who was super-obsessed with you? Who always threw herself at you? I sure as heck wouldn't. That can get messy real fast. She's likely to get jealous every time that you talk to another girl with a smile on your face. Maybe even when you talk without a smile on your face. Sure, there are different levels of being clingy and super-obsessed, but the underlying problem remains.

Also, she fell in love with Gray at first sight. Is that a tendency? What if she fell in love with someone else that way? She'd abandon Gray in that case. WOULD this definitely happen? Not necessarily, but it's possible. Happens on TV shows all the time. Would this be a reason to avoid a clingy girlfriend? I'd say so.

You don't need to be a genius to know that bad things could happen when your girlfriend is nuts. Gray isn't a genius but he's not idiot and he's not blind to love. At least, if he was, he's not blind anymore.

Now, if your comment about him being a penis-less coward was 100% a joke, then it's all good.