I don't think I've made anything up about her character to be honest. I think you are just in denial.
She is arrogant.
You're telling me she is not mocking the black dragon of the apocalypse here?
Her tone and response is the epitome of an arrogant person, especially when Acnologia is the superior one here and she is the inferior one.
In the next 2 panels, she is talking to Acnologia as if she is his equal, which she clearly is not.
If you don't get the context, she is practically talking down to him
because she believes she can be or is worth a challenge to Acnologia, when again, she clearly isn't.
And this...
Lol, it's possible that Zeref > Acnologia?
Zeref himself admitted he created all of Alvarez and the Spriggan 12
just to match Acnologia.
Please Irene, if you don't know what you are talking about, just go back to what you do best... arguing with Zeref all the time.
And last but not least,
I lol'ed at this one:
Before she casted Universe One, she said, "
The name's Irene, I hope I'll see you again Acnologia".
Like please, at this point it is just ridiculous.
Bitch, does Acnologia care to know your name, let alone who you are?
No, you are an insect to him, don't try make yourself bigger than him.
She's giving herself bragging rights when she has no grounds to speak to somebody of Acnologia's caliber like that.
If anything, Acnologia should be the one saying that,
but it sounds so retarded to the point that even he doesn't say that.
To be honest, if I was ever Acnologia, the annoyance would irritate my ears so much I would just oneshot her right then and there to shut her up.
I think you get my point here.
I'm not asking you to dislike Irene's character.
If you like her gigantic oversized boobs and ass, then by all means, be my guest.
But I think I have reasonable evidence and ground to nail Irene for having a cocky, arrogant, and immature attitude.
P.S.: Extra panel of Irene being cocky, arrogant, and immature in nature.
I honestly can't wait until Irene eats her own words in this war....
Phew, that's a long post, I'll try to reply even though I doubt we're going to convince each other differently
In Proof 1, she's not displaying any sort of arrogance, rather she's displaying the attitude of someone that knows she is facing someone greater than her, but she has a plan. She didn't boast, she didn't act like she was superior, just that she was willing to face off with him. She most likely knew she would be casting Universe One, so all she had to do was stall him for a few mins and cast the spell. Arrogance would be if she actually wanted to face Acnologia head on and defeat him, but she didn't want that.
In Proof 2 &3, refer back to the above. She doesn't plan on taking him on, she never did. Her plan was meet Acnologia, stall a bit, cast Universe One, buy Zeref time to get FH. She doesn't believe herself to be able to defeat him or challenge him, she knows that she has to remove Acno from the battlefield somehow, or it's over because he'd just wreck everyone.
How can she think Zeref>Acnologia, when a few panels later she admitted that
Zeref himself was still inferior to Acnologia? It would be stupid of her to think she's worthy of Acno, when she knows Zeref (who taught her) is still inferior.
Proof 4: Read what Acno said, he asks "Are you saying the Warlock
could surpass me". Keyword is could, as in a future possibility. So yes Zeref is assembling an army and getting FH to have the possibility of surpassing Acnologia, and Irene thinks this COULD happen IF he gets his hand on FH.
She didn't say "certainly", she said "it's possible", not right now, but after Zeref has acquired FH, is that really such a delusional or arrogant thing to say?
Here, Irene retorts to Acnologia "Huh... I thought you were once human yourself, Am I wrong?".
Like, no fucking shit Irene, obviously Acnologia was talking about eradicating the fodder humans in the war... not himself...
She states the obvious in an attempt to make Acnologia look stupid when she is the one that doesn't know what she's talking about and who she is talking to.
The "Am I wrong?" part is pure condescending towards Acnologia, especially when that question was directed at Acnologia himself.
You don't see August saying these things. There is a clear difference and fine line between wisdom and arrogance.
There is a noticeable difference between August and Irene.
While August knows his boundaries, Irene is just plain immature.
No, she asked the bolded part because she's wondering why Acnologia would want to kill all humans when he was once a human himself, like why would you want to kill something you once were yourself?
I don't think it was to make Acnologia look stupid, but to understand what exactly he's doing.
"Am I wrong" was nothing more than a rhetorical question, not sure how that makes her arogant
Yeah you're right that August wouldn't say those things, because August wouldn't face Acnologia alone to begin with, because August is the kind of person who sticks to the plan 100% and is blindly loyal. Irene on the other hand is a bit of a rebel, she will deviate from the plan if she thinks it will still achieve the same objective. She felt Zeref was not being serious, so she went off plan to make him serious. Is Irene wrong for going against Zeref's plans? Probably, but at the same time she got him to his objective faster.
So it depends on who you think is better. Someone who 100% follows orders, or someone who disobeys orders a bit, but still wants to achieve the main goal.
Before she casted Universe One, she said, "The name's Irene, I hope I'll see you again Acnologia".
Like please, at this point it is just ridiculous.
Bitch, does Acnologia care to know your name, let alone who you are?
No, you are an insect to him, don't try make yourself bigger than him.
She's giving herself bragging rights when she has no grounds to speak to somebody of Acnologia's caliber like that.
If anything, Acnologia should be the one saying that, but it sounds so retarded to the point that even he doesn't say that.
To be honest, if I was ever Acnologia, the annoyance would irritate my ears so much I would just oneshot her right then and there to shut her up.
If you read the Crunchyroll translation, you'd see that Acnologia due to the fact that he was amazed at the nature of the magic she just used, asked "who are you?". That's why she said her name, I don't think she just thought, oh yeah I'd tell him my name just because lollzzzzzzz, he actually asked
So there's nothing to be mad about at her for that.
I think you get my point here.
I'm not asking you to dislike Irene's character.
If you like her gigantic oversized boobs and ass, then by all means, be my guest.
But I think I have reasonable evidence and ground to nail Irene for having a cocky, arrogant, and immature attitude.
P.S.: Extra panel of Irene being cocky, arrogant, and immature in nature.
I honestly can't wait until Irene eats her own words in this war....
I understand your posts, but you haven't provided evidence for anything you said tbh, you seemed to be interpreting her words differently, which I guess comes from the fact that you dislike her.
Lol, gigantic boobs and ass are not really my thing actually
On proof 6, yes she was cruel in that panel, I'm not going to disagree if anyone thinks that
And yes she's a bad guy, so at some point she will be defeated and eat her words like every other member of the 12, like every other bad guy, and yes even Acnologia, by the time the series is over.