User blog comment:Ultraprime2/My 10 Most Disappointing Characters in Fairy Tail/@comment-2214433-20131123153241

I'd like to comment about Zeref for now since he's the only one I've read so far, the lunch I'm trying to cook is calling. I guess each time he was mentioned prior to his appearance, everyone expected a badass guy causing disasters and killing people, simply a person who is evil. I thought the twist that Mashima chose to go with was interesting, you could say he tried to avoid the stereotype of a villain who is evil for the sake of being evil and to surprise or even shock us this way. Did it work? Well, that's up to every invidual to answer. At the very least, Zeref is showing a little of depth as a character, although the entire 'I forget the weight of a human life....' thing was a little weird, aha. But as you said, it's still early to judge him.