Why did Natsu play the largest role in these arcs? I would say because he's the hero of the story and the main character, because that's what Hiro himself says he is. Sherlock Holmes is the main character of Sherlock Holmes. The narrator is Watson and the story is told through his perspective. However, there story itself is about Holmes. Likewise, Lucy is the narrator of Fairy Tail, and we are meant to see the story through her eyes. However, the story itself is about Natsu. Even if we are meant to see the story through Lucy's eyes, Natsu is still the hero of the story - because Natsu is Lucy's hero.Why did Natsu play the largest role in these arcs, though? It's because he's a main character (but secondary) who is very strong and is supposed to beat the bad bosses. I acknowledged all that, but Lucy is still the one narrating the story and getting quite a bit of non-fight focus. How often do we see Natsu out of missions without Lucy? It's usually when he and Happy are walking and discussing something, otherwise we almost always see them with Lucy. We see Lucy a lot, especially in her everyday life. We have even seen her residence and her landlady. I can't recall seeing Natsu's residence, if he even has any, or even where he sleeps. We get more focus on Lucy's life out of fights and missions, whereas Natsu gets more focus in missions and/or fights as he's the other main character who's strong and is supposed to get stronger and all. If Natsu and Lucy weren't friends, Natsu would probably not be as much focused-upon character or main character, except for fights and missions, just because Lucy wouldn't know him much. FT isn't told solely through Lucy's view, unless she has knowledge or omnipotence.
After the timeskip, Lucy not only got the first focus, but she also "talked" to us. Just seems we get more from her point of view, and that she's central to the story much like Watson is as without them, we may not get the respective work as we do. Does that make sense?
We don't really see Lucy going on any missions without Natsu either. Actually, we don't see many missions because they are not part of the main story. They are usually implied off screen, or shown in the omakes. We do see Natsu's house. He just doesn't use it often because he always crashes at Lucy's. Honestly, we should not be judging who the main character is based on how much we see of their house. The main character should simply be the one that has the largest role in the main plot, which in a shounen action manga is usually taking down the bad guys. Natsu plays the largest role against the main antagonists, which are Zeref and Acnologia. Zeref and Acnologia shape the Fairy Tail world.
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