User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 453: A Father's Job, Review and Commentary/@comment-26287497-20150920142614/@comment-31.132.65.53-20150921194113

@Sane Lunatic Many good points. I also can't take Zeref seriously as a villain, or a character. I'm no psychologist, but the way I see it Zeref immortality led to some sort of psychological depravation. And I can't feel sympathetic for him, because he brought it on himself and he is aware of what he is doing.

I thought Zeref researched immortality because he wanted to prevent aging or to give relief to people that struggle with it. But no. He never experienced old age, disease, hunger, poverty, or any other everyday problem people have. Such a person imagines the world completely different than the rest of us. He distanced himself from other humans and is unable to understand their everyday lives. He become immortal at a very young age and you can see it by how childish he behaves. He blames everything but not himself for all the bad things that happened, gets angry whenever things go not the way he wants, he doesn't consider/care for the consequences his actions can bring, he wants to destroy humanity but still he doesn't want to be left alone. Now when he wants Fairy Heart instead of trying to reach an agreement he wants to take it by force.

Zeref is more detached from his own reality than UE politicians.

As for Alvarez. It was not explained how such a large swing empire/union maintained its structure. I don't to venture to deep into it,mainly because I doubt Mashima will ever do it himself. But I'm guessing Alvarez has a much better administration than Ishgar kingdoms and that the elements that creates a state naturally were preserved. Just like it was done with the american union (that later evolved into the United States). I also imagine August governing the country for most of the time when Zeref was busy sightseeing.