User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 450: Alone in all the World, Review./@comment-24800928-20150831123618

I'm sort of okay with the kiss

The way I looked at it is was that it wasn't love in the sense that it's been something that has lasted and grown for a very long time, but little puppy love that just really started. It all started on just liking each other at first. They only met on three occasions but from the start i think they at least began liking each other. Mavis one day was strolling through the forest and all of a sudden she finds a guy with a pretty good built bathing in the water. Then this guy ends up being really nice to her and teachers her magic. She probably grew a crush for him. As for Zeref, he meets a girls after not being around people in forever, and the girl is very nice to him. She is with him despite his curse and even shows him animal illusions so that he can feel like he's around life again. He started liking her too. In fact it would even make sense for Zeref to be in love since lacking in human contact for so long and no one has ever really been this kind to her. It makes sense for him to get attached so easily. I do think its possible that Zeref could have loved Mavis more ~he is the only one who said it~, and that it could play a part in her death but I digress. This third occurrence a lot of emotions ~pretty much a flood of emotions in which they were drowning in~ were going around especially pity and desperation and they then were caught in the moment. It was the start of love but then it ended as soon as it started, which sucks but yeah.