Not that this comes as a surprise but back when Larcade was revealed to be their child, I felt like Mashima wasted a huge chance for a really good and interesting character. After all, he's the son of Mavis and Zeref... But he's just as boring, cliched and one-dimensional as every other uselss minor villain. His powers were the absolute worst and his personality and design are so uninteresting, it's just too sad...
I guess Mashima didn't want/ couldn't make him a good villain or at least more interesting since that would have required Larcade to get some more screentime + development...
And to squeeze in another badly handled parent-child part right now at this point, is just unbearable for me to read.
I couldn't drop Fairy Tail after I invested so much time in reading the last 524 chapters during the last 5-6 years, it wouldn't make sense for me to quit right before the end, but I wish Mashima would hurry up and finish it for good.
The ending's gonna be bad either way, don't make me suffer even more by wasting time with this