[quote=@Crimson Raven]
<Snipped quote by Lugubrious>

Ferrin has S-class power in his own right. Don't underestimate him...>:}

Edit:
Ferrin: [color=silver]"Wiseass. I am a wiseass. Don't confuse me with some two-bit smartass.[/color]

What's the difference?

[color=silver] Magnitude. Like a bomb to a nuke. One just mouths off. The other mouths off [i]well[/i].[/color]
[/quote]

Ferrin is 'Hesitant', though, and Nero's curses activate instantly.  Doesn't matter if you can make stars fall from the sky if it only takes a split second to give you a cocktail of diseases, reduce your body mass so much that you collapse instantly, manifest your magic into a solid object and then steal it, or turn you into a magic-deficient child.

Nero doesn't do direct damage at all.  His curses alter and debilitate.  In any straight-up fight, he'd lose quickly if not instantly.  Nero doesn't fight straight-up fights.  He seldom engages in any kind of fight.  In fact, in the course of this RP so far he's used a curse in anger exactly twice: once to make Prince vomit and once to turn Gabriel into glass, and both were really asking for it.

Nero chooses to be annoying with his magic rather than use it to try and be some cliche anime badass.  Magic fighting and badassery isn't what he's about.  I don't want to just have a fighty badass character.  If he were forced to use his magic in self-defense, there are very, very few people who could beat him, but he doesn't.  Funnily enough, the guy who's both a dark mage and a mischievous genie is one of the more responsible wizards in the Fairy Tail universe.