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The Fairy Tail manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Hiro Mashima. The series takes place primarily in the Kingdom of Fiore, a country in the fictional universe Earth-land, where several of its residents perform various forms of magic. Those who practice magic as a profession, referred to as Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr join guilds where they share information and do paid jobs for clients. The series' storyline follows a group of wizards from the rambunctious titular guild.
The main protagonists are Natsu Dragneel, a longtime Fairy Tail wizard with the powers of a dragon, and Lucy Heartfilia, a celestial wizard who joins the guild at the series' outset. In the early part of the series, they form a team including: Happy, a flying cat and best friend of Natsu; Gray Fullbuster, an ice wizard; and Erza Scarlet, a knight who specializes in using various magic weapons and armors. Throughout the series, Natsu and Lucy interact with and befriend other wizards and guilds in Fiore. They also encounter various antagonists from illegal "dark" guilds, and Zeref, an ancient wizard who is the series' main antagonist.
When creating the series, Mashima was influenced by Akira Toriyama, J.R.R. Tolkien and Yudetamago and based the guild on a local bar. He also used people as references in designing other characters. The characters have been well-received overall.
Creation and conception
When Hiro Mashima was creating Fairy Tail, he cited Akira Toriyama, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Yudetamago as influences on his work.[1][2] He based the titular guild on a local bar he was visiting at the time.[3] He based Natsu Dragneel on his early years as a junior high school student.[2] Natsu's motion sickness is based on one of his friends, who gets sick when they take taxis together. He has said that his father's death influenced the relationship between Natsu and the dragon Igneel.[1]
Del Rey Manga, the original North American publisher of Fairy Tail, explained that Mashima provided them with official English spellings for "just about all" the characters in the series.Template:Gnr When Funimation Entertainment acquired the license to release the Fairy Tail anime in North America, Mashima's worried about actor Todd Haberkorn's voice since the Natsu character did a lot of yelling throughout the series.[4] Tyler Walker, the voice director for Funimation's adaptation, revealed that there was a "Fairy Tail tea" that the voice actors drank after each recording session to protect their voices.[4] Walker likens Fairy Tail to the Scooby-Doo franchise: "it's got a core group of characters, with one talking animal, sometimes two...they travel, it's episodic...you know, we've seen this kind of thing before with the core group that's affiliated in some way going through adventure after adventure".[5]
Fairy Tail
The series focuses on the titular guild, Template:Nihongo, with the main protagonists comprising what their fellow members regard to be the guild's most powerful team due to their high magical strength and teamwork.Template:Gnr It initially consists of Lucy Heartfilia, Natsu Dragneel, and Happy at the suggestion of the celestial spirit Plue shortly after Lucy's induction into the guild,Template:Gnr and later expands to include Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet after several shared missions together.Template:Gnr Wendy Marvell and Carla are also considered to be members of the team.
Natsu Dragneel
Template:Nihongo is the main pink-haired protagonist of the series. He is raised from a young age by the dragon Igneel to become a Template:Nihongo, a wizard with dragon-like physiology whose powers are designed to combat dragons. Using his Template:Nihongo, Natsu is immune to flames and capable of consuming them to fuel his attacks, which include breathing fire and igniting any part of his body for use when striking; however, he suffers from motion sickness when he is in a vehicle of any sort.Template:Gnr Following Igneel's disappearance on July 7, X777, Natsu searches for the dragon and is subsequently inducted into Fairy Tail, where he eventually becomes one of the guild's most destructive members known as Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Eventually, it is revealed that Natsu is a demon known as "Etherious Natsu Dragneel" (E.N.D.) who was sent 400 years from the past by his brother, Zeref Dragneel, as part of a larger conspiracy to kill both Zeref and the evil dragon Acnologia.Template:Gnr
Lucy Heartfilia
Template:Nihongo is the series' main female protagonist. She is the seventeen-year-old daughter of the wealthy Heartfilia family who embarks on a journey to join Fairy Tail, which she fulfills after Natsu Dragneel rescues her from a slave trader posing as a Fairy Tail member under his own moniker of "Salamander".Template:Gnr She performs paid guild missions together with Natsu and Happy to fund her rented house in Magnolia,Template:Gnr and is often exasperated when her teammates inadvertently reduce their reward due to their destructive antics.Template:Gnr She is also an aspiring novelist who eventually publishes her debut novel based on her experiences at the guild at the end of the series.Template:Gnr As a Template:Nihongo, she uses magical keys that summon celestial spirits, collecting ten out of twelve rare golden keys that summon the powerful zodiac spirits as the series progresses. She is also proficient in battling alongside her spirits with a whip,Template:Gnr and eventually gains the ability to don magical Template:Nihongo that give her direct access to her zodiac spirits' powers.Template:Gnr
Happy
Template:Nihongo is a blue furred six-year-old anthropomorphic cat who is Natsu Dragneel's best friend and only traveling companion at the start of the series.Template:Gnr Using a magic ability called Template:Nihongo, Happy can transform into a winged cat and fly at great speeds.Template:Gnr He uses this form to carry Natsu in the air, and is the only one Natsu rides without succumbing to motion sickness.Template:Gnr Before the beginning of the series, Happy is hatched from an egg found by Natsu and Lisanna Strauss, who name him "Happy" after his birth quells an argument the rest of the guild were having.Template:Gnr Eventually, Happy discovers his origins as an Exceed from Edolas,Template:Gnr where he is separated from his parents Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo before birth as part of their queen's plan to evacuate 100 Exceed children to Earth-land before their kingdom's destruction.Template:Gnr
Gray Fullbuster
Template:Nihongo is an eighteen-year-old ice wizard who is a brothers in arms with Natsu because of their same personalities and magical elements.Template:Gnr Orphaned by the Etherious Template:Nihongo at age eight, Gray is tutored by Ur to use Template:Nihongo, which instantly produces ice in the form of any weapon or object he imagines;Template:Gnr during his training to withstand cold temperatures, he also gains the habit of subconsciously stripping his clothes, something that Mashima based on a personal habit of his own.[6] He joins Fairy Tail after Ur sacrifices herself to save his life when he recklessly attempts to kill Deliora. Later in the series, Gray inherits Template:Nihongo from his reanimated father, Silver, becoming a Template:Nihongo to carry out Silver's will to destroy E.N.D. The corruptive influence of his demonic powers compels Gray to irrationally fight Natsu upon discovering his identity as E.N.D.,Template:Gnr but he ultimately uses his powers to help strip Natsu of his identity as an Etherious so he may live normally as a human.Template:Gnr
Erza Scarlet
Template:Nihongo is a nineteen-year-old red-haired S-Class swordswoman of Fairy Tail who is nicknamed Template:Nihongo for her notoriety as the guild's most powerful female wizard,Template:Gnr referencing the Fairy Queen from A Midsummer Night's Dream.Template:Gnr She uses magic called Template:Nihongo to instantaneously Template:Nihongo—exchange and equip—various weapons and armors that alter her already tremendous strength and magic ability.Template:Gnr Left at infancy by her mother, Irene Belserion,Template:Gnr Erza is enslaved at the Tower of Heaven befriends Jellal Fernandes, who gives her the surname "Scarlet" after her red hair.Template:Gnr She first activates her magic power while leading a slave revolt, only to be betrayed by a brainwashed Jellal and forced to escape from the tower alone.Template:Gnr Her experiences lead her to join Fairy Tail and become a serious-minded but compassionate disciplinarian who temporarily becomes the guild's seventh master in Makarov Dreyar's absence when the guild is reformed one year after Tartaros's demise. Over the course of Fairy Tail, Erza grows fond of her friends during their adventures.Template:Gnr
The character is named after Eru from Mashima's one-shot manga Fairy Tale, which served as a pilot for Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr Mashima initially designed her to only shed tears from one eye due to a defect with her artificial eye, but he eventually abandoned this aspect after accidentally drawing some scenes where Erza has tears flowing from both eyes.Template:Gnr He also said that he often forgets what Erza's armor looks like, and changes the design every time she appears.Template:Gnr Erza has the largest breasts in the series.
Wendy Marvell
Template:Nihongo is a blue-haired young Dragon Slayer adopted and trained by the dragon Template:Nihongo to perform Template:Nihongo, which draws power from clean air to heal others' injuries and ailments,Template:Gnr and can temporarily relieve Dragon Slayers' motion sickness.Template:Gnr Together with Natsu, she is part of a group of Dragon Slayers sent 400 years from the past through Eclipse as children to combat Acnologia.Template:Gnr When the group is scattered upon arrival, Wendy travels the world with Mystogan until he leaves her at the Template:Nihongo guild, where she comes to be known as the Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Seven years later, Wendy represents her guild in an alliance with Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, and Lamia Scale against the dark guild Oración Seis.Template:Gnr After the Seis are defeated, Wendy discovers her guild's true nature as an illusion created by their master, the elderly spirit Template:Nihongo, to care for her; she is then left to join Fairy Tail after her old guild vanishes.Template:Gnr Wendy comes to admire Natsu as an older brother figure,Template:Gnr inspiring her to use her magic's combative functions, which include manipulating wind and augmenting her and her allies' abilities through enchantment.Template:Gnr
Mashima designed Wendy to be a 12-year-old girl after one of his staff members commented that young girls "just don't appear" in the series, and noted the character's popularity among his associates.Template:Gnr His original concept for her was that of a "Water Dragon" based on the Japanese name for Template:Nihongo, which Mashima derived her name from.Template:Gnr
Carla
Carla is a white-furred six-year-old Exceed who acts as Wendy Marvell's partner and caretaker;Template:Gnr her name is Template:Nihongo in Japanese, spelled "Charle" in Funimation subtitles, which was changed to "Carla" in countries where readers would interpret "Charles" as a male name.Template:Gnr Years before the series' present, she is evacuated to Earth-land as an egg along with Happy and 98 other unborn Exceed when her mother, the Exceed queen Chagot, has a premonition of their kingdom's destruction; to prevent a panic, the queen conceals the evacuation as a mission to kill Dragon Slayers.Template:Gnr Carla is born with the unconscious power of precognition inherited from her mother, which causes her to misinterpret visions of Chagot's ruse as her real mission;Template:Gnr despite this, Carla decides to protect Wendy. Although annoyed with Happy's obliviousness to their mission, Carla reconsiders after he ignores the Exceeds' orders.Template:Gnr Eventually, after realizing her precognitive ability, Carla practices to consciously control her visions and, during her one-year membership with Lamia Scale, assumes a humanoid form to further hone her powers.Template:Gnr
Guild masters
Mavis Vermillion
Template:Nihongo is the first and founding master of Fairy Tail,Template:Gnr nicknamed the Template:Nihongo as a child prodigy with vast military and illusory skill.Template:Gnr Mavis also has knowledge of the Template:Nihongo, a trinity of spells that can only be used by members of her guild;Template:Gnr besides Fairy Law, these spells include Template:Nihongo, an attack that eradicates any enemy,Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, an impenetrable force field that suspends time for those inside.Template:Gnr She is later revealed to possess the same immortality and life-stealing curse as series antagonist Zeref Dragneel, her former friend and lover, which also halts her outward physical maturity when she is first afflicted at thirteen years of age,Template:Gnr but retains her physiology as an adult woman in later life.Template:Gnr
Raised on Sirius Island by a harsh guild master who takes her shoes away, Mavis develops the habit of walking barefoot.[7][8] At age 13, she encounters a group of treasure hunters who later become her co-founders of Fairy Tail.[7] While accompanying them on a journey to recover a stolen artifact, Mavis befriends a wandering Zeref, who teaches her a forbidden prototype of Fairy Law that triggers her curse when she performs the spell to save her friends' lives.[9]Template:Gnr Eleven years later, Mavis continues to empathize with Zeref and falls in love with him, causing Zeref's curse to unwittingly send her into a deathlike state following a brief period of intimacy that results in the conception of a son, August.Template:Gnr Her body is preserved in a lacrima crystal beneath Fairy Tail's guild hall, where it produces a source of limitless magic known as Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr codenamed Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr with Precht Gaebolg building a false grave on Sirius Island to hide this secret.Template:Gnr Mavis consequently appears as an astral projection that can only be seen and heard by those marked with Fairy Tail's emblem.Template:Gnr She is eventually revived by the destruction of her stasis crystal to personally confront Zeref, and lifts their mutual curse by accepting her love for him despite also hating him, which enables both of their deaths.Template:Gnr One year later, a girl who shares Mavis's appearance named Template:Nihongo surfaces and encounters a young man named Alios, who resembles Zeref.Template:Gnr
Mavis's background was included in the very first concepts of the series.Template:Gnr Mashima conceived her as an elderly male character, later changing her into a young girl after being informed that "Mavis" was a female name.[10] He also expanded the character's involvement in the story because of her "immense popularity", remarking that he had "no idea" she would become so popular.Template:Gnr Mashima said that many readers were surprised by Mavis's relationship with Zeref, which he had decided on "quite a long time ago" before revealing it.Template:Gnr He intended to draw a detailed kissing scene between the two characters, but amidst concerns regarding Mavis's appearance, he decided that depicting the scene in a silhouette would be "more beautiful and effective".Template:Gnr
Precht Gaebolg
Template:Nihongo, primarily known under the alias of Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr is one of Fairy Tail's co-founders and the master of Grimoire Heart. His first name is based on that of a literary scholar,Template:Gnr while his surname comes from the mythical Irish spear Gáe Bolg.Template:Gnr Succeeding Mavis Vermillion as second guild master upon her deathlike state caused by Zeref, Precht becomes engrossed in black magic when his attempts to resurrect her inadvertently produce Fairy Heart,Template:Gnr which spurs him on a quest to uncover the source of magic power.Template:Gnr Upon tracing the source back to Zeref, he becomes obsessed with obtaining this singularity for himself and founds Grimoire Heart, assuming that he must awaken Zeref's dormant power to achieve his goal.Template:Gnr Hades practices powerful spells such as Template:Nihongo, a dark version of Makarov Dreyar's Fairy Law,Template:Gnr and the artificial Template:Nihongo beneath his eyepatch, which gives him access to even greater dark powers developed by Zeref when opened.Template:Gnr His signature magic allows him to produce chains from his hands to grapple and throw opponents.Template:Gnr Using a mechanical "heart" on board his guild's airship that is based on his knowledge of Fairy Heart,Template:Gnr Hades overpowers Fairy Tail's attacks until the heart is destroyed by Happy and Carla.Template:Gnr He is spared by Makarov upon his defeat, only to be killed by Zeref shortly afterward for summoning Acnologia through his actions.Template:Gnr
Makarov Dreyar
Template:Nihongo is the son of guild co-founder Template:Nihongo, and serves as the third and incumbent master of the Fairy Tail guild throughout the series; Mashima came up with the character's name because he wanted it to sound Russian.Template:Gnr He is an old, diminutive man who is registered as one of the Template:Nihongo, a title given to those recognized by the Magic Council for possessing the highest magical power and skill of any wizard on the continent of Ishgal.Template:Gnr He has knowledge of numerous forms of magic, including the ability to vastly increase his size using the magic Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr He is a grandfatherly figure who looks upon his guild's members as his own children,Template:Gnr although he is beleaguered by the problems they cause him with the council.Template:Gnr A running gag in the series is Makarov's inability to secure a permanent successor,Template:Gnr resulting in him holding the position of sixth and eighth guild master after Gildarts Clive and Erza Scarlet, respectively.Template:Gnr He eventually sacrifices his life to annihilate the Alvarez Empire's army using his ultimate technique, Template:Nihongo, which reduces the caster's lifespan to eliminate anyone they consider to be an enemy without harming their allies,Template:Gnr although Mavis Vermillion later resurrects him as a paraplegic upon her own death.Template:Gnr
S-Class wizards
Fairy Tail's Template:Nihongo are the guild's highest-ranking members who are recognized by the master for their strength, skill, and conviction.Template:Gnr Erza Scarlet, one of the protagonists, holds the S-Class rank at the start of the series.Template:Gnr Mashima has stated that the "S" stands for words such as "super", "special", or the Japanese phrase Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr
Mirajane Strauss
Template:Nihongo is the guild's barmaid and administrator with white hair,Template:Gnr who also works as a pin-up girl for the fictional Template:Nihongo magazine.Template:Gnr Gaining infamy as Template:Nihongo, Mirajane is the older sister of Lisanna and Elfman who use a variety of the transformation-based magic Template:Nihongo. Her variety is called Template:Nihongo, which allows her to assume the forms and powers of various demons she has defeated.Template:Gnr Before the beginning of the series, Mirajane resents her magic after enduring constant ridicule, but reconsiders when her siblings learn their own Takeover varieties to comfort her. After her sister, Lisanna, disappears when she is 18 years old, she develops a cheerful personality while posing as a "pretty naive girl".Template:Gnr Because of the trauma she suffered from that incident, Mirajane also restricts her Takeover magic to only mimic others' physical appearances and voices, and retires from active S-Class work. She eventually regains her Satan Soul variety to rescue her brother, Elfman, during the Battle of Fairy Tail two years later.Template:Gnr Mashima named the character after the username of a friend he met in an online game. He also settled on her family's backstory "a very long time" before including it in the story, saying that "the chance to tell it just never seemed right", and that he was happy when the opportunity arose.Template:Gnr
Mystogan
Template:Nihongo is a masked Fairy Tail wizard who hails from the parallel universe of Edolas as the counterpart of Jellal Fernandes.Template:Gnr Unable to use magic on his own, Mystogan employs staves infused with magic power for many effects, such as to create illusions and draw magic circles to attack his opponents.Template:Gnr Before revealing his physical appearance, Mystogan usually casts sleeping spells on his guildmates whenever he visits, in order to prevent them from uncovering his identity.Template:Gnr He originally arrives in Earth-land to close inter-dimensional anima portals used by Faust, his father and Edolas's king, to siphon magic energy from Earth-land and convert it into lacrima crystals.Template:Gnr Unable to prevent Magnolia from being absorbed along with Fairy Tail,Template:Gnr he returns to Edolas and restores the crystallized city by sending it through another portal after his allies prevent Faust from ramming it into the Exceed kingdom.Template:Gnr He then reverses the portals' effects to return all of Earth-land's stolen magic, expecting to be sentenced to death for this by his childhood friend Panther Lily to quell the ensuing panic.Template:Gnr When Natsu Dragneel takes responsibility instead, Mystogan earns his people's support by defeating him in a mock battle, and remains in Edolas to replace his father as king.Template:Gnr
Laxus Dreyar
Template:Nihongo is Makarov Dreyar's grandson and heir to the position of guild master. The character's name is derived from the word "lux", a unit of measurement for light.Template:Gnr He is an expert lightning wizard capable of generating and transforming into bolts of electricity. He is also a second generation Dragon Slayer whose father, Ivan Dreyar, implanted a lacrima crystal within him as a child that enables him to use Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr As a teenager, Laxus feels overshadowed by his grandfather and eventually rebels following his father's expulsion from the guild,Template:Gnr growing into a strength supremacist at the start of the series.Template:Gnr When Fairy Tail's reputation began to falter after the war with Phantom Lord, Laxus organized an intra-guild battle royal called the "Battle of Fairy Tail" in a bid to seize control of the guild from Makarov and reestablish its strength by rooting out the guild's "weaklings".Template:Gnr After his plans fail, Makarov expels him for endangering his guildmates, although he leaves on friendlier terms with them.Template:Gnr He later joins Fairy Tail's battle against Hades on Sirius Island,Template:Gnr and is reinstated into the guild by Gildarts Clive during the latter's brief period as guild master.Template:Gnr
Gildarts Clive
Template:Nihongo is an S-Class wizard who is regarded by Fairy Tail to be their most powerful member.Template:Gnr He can break any object or spell he touches down into blocks using the magic Template:Nihongo, which requires Magnolia's streets to reconfigure into a single, narrow path towards the guild to prevent him from stumbling into buildings by mistake.Template:Gnr Because he embarks on missions that have never been completed for up to a century,Template:Gnr he only visits the guild on rare occasions for short periods of time;Template:Gnr during one failed mission, he loses his left limbs and several internal organs after getting mauled by Acnologia.Template:Gnr He is also the widowed father of Cana Alberona,Template:Gnr but is unaware of his relationship with his daughter due to his deceased wife Cornelia divorcing him and giving birth while he is away on a six-year mission.Template:Gnr Gildarts discovers the truth from Cana twelve years later after Fairy Tail's battle with Grimoire Heart on Sirius Island, and subsequently begins doting on her in a comical fashion.Template:Gnr After returning from the island, Gildarts is elected by Makarov as the guild's fifth master after Macao Conbolt,Template:Gnr but resigns from the position almost immediately to leave on another journey.Template:Gnr He returns one year later to participate in the war against the Alvarez Empire,Template:Gnr remaining at the guild in the series epilogue.Template:Gnr Mashima described the character as "a dumb-looking old guy", and considered his first appearance to be "a really big event" within the story.Template:Gnr
Other members
Cana Alberona
Template:Nihongo is a alcoholic woman who drinks entire barrels of liquor at a time,Template:Gnr consuming 30% of the guild's alcohol.Template:Gnr Her name is derived from the tarot term "arcana".Template:Gnr She uses Template:Nihongo either as projectile weapons or to perform a variety of spells,Template:Gnr including fortune-telling.Template:Gnr As the most senior guild member of Lucy Heartfilia's generation,Template:Gnr Cana joins Fairy Tail at the age of six after her mother's death to search for her father, Gildarts Clive. Unable to reveal her relationship to him because of her own timidity and his seldom presence, Cana motivates herself to become an S-Class wizard, but fails four qualification tests in a row and falls into depression.Template:Gnr During her fifth test on Sirius Island twelve years later,Template:Gnr Cana abandons her guildmates in Grimoire Heart's attack to complete the trial of finding Mavis Vermillion's grave, inadvertently endangering her test partner, Lucy.Template:Gnr Upon realizing her own treachery, Cana rejects her chance for promotion in favor of saving her friends,Template:Gnr and eventually reveals herself to Gildarts as his daughter after the trial's cancellation.Template:Gnr Later, Cana becomes proficient at using the Fairy Glitter spell occasionally provided to her by Mavis,Template:Gnr which she uses to revive her physical body by destroying her astral projection with the spell.Template:Gnr
Loke
Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr better known as Template:Nihongo, is a humanoid celestial spirit and a playboy who is regarded as a popular bachelor in the wizard community;Template:Gnr his name is derived from the Norse god Loki.Template:Gnr His finger ring Template:Nihongo can generate blinding or damaging light at will.Template:Gnr Under the ownership of Blue Pegasus member Template:Nihongo, Loke remains in the human world on behalf of his fellow spirit Aries to protect her from Karen's abuse. After Karen is killed by Oración Seis member Angel after Loke refuses to accompany her on a mission, the Celestial Spirit King permanently exiles Loke to the human world, where he relies on magic-infused finger rings besides Regulus to perform magic.Template:Gnr When Loke is on the verge of dying three years later, Lucy Heartfilia convinces the king to let him return to the spirit world.Template:Gnr Loke later serves as one of Lucy's contracted spirits, openly expressing romantic feelings for her after having avoided her out of guilt for Karen's death,Template:Gnr and occasionally summoning himself through his own power to aid her and the rest of Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr Loke is also the leader of the twelve zodiacs as stated by himself and Gray.
Elfman Strauss
Template:Nihongo is the brother of Mirajane and Lisanna. Mashima developed his name to sound "somewhat cute".Template:Gnr He is a hypermasculine, muscle-brained wizard who spouts nonsensical speeches about manhood,Template:Gnr but is also kindhearted and emotionally sensitive.Template:Gnr He employs the Takeover magic Template:Nihongo to assimilate the powers and forms of monsters, although his transformations are limited to his right arm using the Template:Nihongo ability due to his lack of proficiency.Template:Gnr His first attempt at achieving a full-body transformation at age 13 causes him to go berserk and seemingly kill Lisanna in the process, resulting in him adopting his masculine personality to cope with his guilt.Template:Gnr Two years later, Elfman gains control over his Beast Soul form to rescue Mirajane from Phantom Lord, after which he employs his full strength more frequently.Template:Gnr
Levy McGarden
Template:Nihongo is a cornflower blue-haired member of Template:Nihongo, a three-wizard team that also includes Jet and Droy. She becomes one of Lucy Heartfilia's friends over their shared love of books, encouraging Lucy to let her be the first to read her novel.Template:Gnr Using the magic Template:Nihongo, Levy transforms written words into three-dimensional objects that take on the attributes of whatever is written. She is also proficient at translating and decoding ancient languages and runic magic. Gajeel Redfox frightens Levy after he wounds her and her team during his membership in Phantom Lord, leading to a war between their guilds.Template:Gnr She initially avoids Gajeel when he joins Fairy Tail, but reconsiders after he defends her from a disgruntled Laxus Dreyar.Template:Gnr She subsequently begins to develop romantic feelings for Gajeel,Template:Gnr with the two becoming temporary officers of the Magic Council's custody and arrest unit during Fairy Tail's one-year dissolution, and later committing themselves to each other while battling the Alvarez Empire. In the series epilogue, Levy is overheard by Lucy and Wendy Marvell telling Gajeel something about a baby.Template:Gnr Mashima designed Levy to be a background character in the series, but grew to "really [like] her".Template:Gnr He subsequently expanded her role in response to her rise in popularity, which he said defied his expectations.Template:Gnr
Gajeel Redfox
Template:Nihongo is a Dragon Slayer whose Template:Nihongo allows him to transform his limbs into iron weapons, cover his skin with impenetrable iron scales, breathe gusts of wind containing metal shrapnel, and consume iron objects for nourishment.Template:Gnr Transported 400 years from the past through Eclipse as a child in the surviving dragons' plan to kill Acnologia,Template:Gnr Gajeel is separated from his fellow Dragon Slayers and forgets his childhood besides being raised by the dragon Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr He resents Metalicana for his disappearance,Template:Gnr becoming a delinquent member of Phantom Lord nicknamed Template:Nihongo, whose act of defacing Fairy Tail's guildhall and assaulting Levy McGarden's team instigates a war between the two guilds.Template:Gnr After Phantom Lord's dissolution, Gajeel reluctantly accepts Makarov Dreyar's offer of membership into Fairy Tail to atone for his actions,Template:Gnr gaining the guild's trust and acceptance after helping Natsu Dragneel defeat Laxus Dreyar in the Battle of Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr He subsequently develops protective feelings for Levy,Template:Gnr eventually confessing his love for her while being nearly killed during the war with the Alvarez Empire.Template:Gnr In the series epilogue, Gajeel has an implied conversation with Levy about a baby.Template:Gnr
Gajeel was the first of several Dragon Slayers besides Natsu to be introduced in the series, an idea Mashima considered upon creating the "Dragon Slayer" concept, creating him to be an "extremely scary" rival for Natsu.Template:Gnr The character's name is derived from the word Template:Nihongo and the onomatopoeia for eating, Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Similar to Natsu, Gajeel's age is listed as "unknown",Template:Gnr which became a subject of questions from readers following a scene where he and Natsu are caught in a runic trap designed to contain those over 80 years old, to which Mashima asserted that this was not their actual age.Template:Gnr Gajeel's backstory with Magic Council member Belno was a "simplified" version of what Mashima had initially planned, with the author's original intent being that Belno would be Gajeel's catalyst for joining Fairy Tail before changing it to Makarov.Template:Gnr
Juvia Lockser
Template:Nihongo, spelled "Loxar" in the Funimation dub, is a blue-haired wizard originating from the Element 4, Phantom Lord's S-Class team that specializes in magic related to the four classical elements Template:Gnr. Her magic, Template:Nihongo, allows her to manipulate and turn her body into water at will, rendering her immune to physical damage, and gaining her notoriety as Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr She also speaks in third person; But in the English Dub, she speaks in first person. As a child, she is ridiculed as a "rain woman" because of the downpours she has caused.Template:Gnr Her participation in the guilds' war over Lucy Heartfilia leads to an encounter with Gray Fullbuster. She duels with Gray, but loses and the rain around her stops for the first time in her life.Template:Gnr After Phantom Lord dissolves, Juvia joins Fairy Tail in pursuit of Gray's affections, and considers anyone he interacts with to be a romantic rival.Template:Gnr Eventually, Juvia becomes more cheerful and changes her appearance several times to suit her new personality, although her feelings for Gray remain unrequited for some time. After rescuing Gray at the cost of her own life, she is healed by Wendy Marvell.Template:Gnr Mashima does not remember the origins of her name, but really loves it.Template:Gnr
Porlyusica
The human counterpart of Grandeeney from Edolas, Template:Nihongo is Fairy Tail's elderly medicinal advisor who lives in the forest on the outskirts of Magnolia. She remedies all sorts of ailments and injuries, but resents humans and often forces visitors out of her house unless they are in need of help.Template:Gnr She is a longtime friend of Makarov Dreyar, whom she nurses to health when he is drained of his magic, and later when he falls deathly ill during Laxus Dreyar's rebellion.Template:Gnr Seven years after Sirius Island's disappearance, she meets Wendy Marvell and instructs her on advanced Sky Dragon Slayer Magic spells relayed to her by Grandeeney; she fails to teach them to Wendy before her disappearance.Template:Gnr
Lisanna Strauss
Template:Nihongo is the younger sister of Mirajane and Elfman who can shapeshift into different animals at will with her Template:Nihongo Takeover variety. She is one of Natsu Dragneel's childhood friends and also love interest who helps him hatch Happy's egg.Template:Gnr When Lisanna is 16 years old, she is seemingly killed by Elfman in his berserk full-body takeover form;Template:Gnr in truth, Lisanna survives and is absorbed through an anima portal into the parallel world of Edolas, where she quietly assumes membership within Edolas's version of Fairy Tail after being mistaken for her own counterpart. Two years later, she is forced to return to Earth-land when Mystogan reverses Anima's effects, reuniting Lisanna with her siblings.Template:Gnr Mashima conceived the character's name because he felt the suffix "-anna" made it sound cute.Template:Gnr
Raijin Tribe
The Template:Nihongo, renamed the "Thunder Legion" in Funimation's anime dub, is a trio of wizards who act as Laxus Dreyar's personal bodyguards and followers. They were created by Mashima after he "suddenly" thought the series' story arc focusing on Laxus.Template:Gnr The three help carry out Laxus' plans to restructure the guild by participating in the Battle of Fairy Tail,Template:Gnr but become friendlier towards their guildmates after his expulsion.Template:Gnr Aside from their own unique abilities, the three members each share the ability to cast magic by making eye contact with their opponents.Template:Gnr
Fried Justine
Template:Nihongo, also called Template:Nihongo, is the a color between pale green and green-haired founder and leader of the Raijin Tribe.Template:Gnr He specializes in creating Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr barriers formed by magic runes that cannot be passed unless those trapped inside follow what is written.Template:Gnr He also uses the magic Template:Nihongo to write runes on others' bodies with his rapier to inflict pain, Template:Gnr or on his own body to create wings and transform himself into a demon.Template:Gnr He is characterized by his idolization of Laxus, and initially distances himself from the rest of his guild. He imposes the rules of the Battle of Fairy Tail with his Jutsu-Shiki,Template:Gnr and reluctantly carries out Laxus' orders to kill their guildmates. This leads him to question Laxus' morality.Template:Gnr After being overpowered by Mirajane Strauss' reawakened Satan Soul form, Fried temporarily shaves his long hair as a form of atonement for his misdeeds.Template:Gnr His name is derived from the Japanese phrase Template:Nihongo, reflecting the character's initial concept of attacking with archaic words.Template:Gnr His name was originally going to be Template:Nihongo, but Mashima shortened it to balance out his teammates' longer names.Template:Gnr
Evergreen
Template:Nihongo, named after the tree of the same name,Template:Gnr is a vain young woman, obsessed with fairies, who joins Fairy Tail because of the guild's name. She covets Erza Scarlet's title of "Fairy Queen, Titania". At some point, she joins the Raijin Tribe as its sole female member.Template:Gnr Her primary magic is her Template:Nihongo, with which she can petrify others through eye contact after removing her eyeglasses.Template:Gnr She can also produce golden dust to cause explosions as well as an endless barrage of needles.Template:Gnr During the S-Class qualification trial, she partners with Elfman Strauss, after being passed over by Fried Justine in favor of Bickslow, and gradually develops feelings for him.Template:Gnr
Bickslow
Template:Nihongo, spelled "Bixlow" in the English dub, is a wizard who practices Template:Nihongo called Template:Nihongo to implant up to five wandering souls within inanimate objects and control them.Template:Gnr He refers to his puppets as his "babies" with the names: Template:Nihongo, Template:Nihongo, Template:Nihongo, Template:Nihongo, and Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr His eye magic is called Template:Nihongo, which allows him to take control of others' bodies through eye contact, wearing a grilled visor to contain this magic.Template:Gnr According to Mashima, the character's name is a combination of the words "big" and "throw".Template:Gnr
Panther Lily
Template:Nihongo, spelled "Pantherlily" in the Funimation version, is a black-furred Exceed born and raised in Edolas. While a division commander of the Edolas Royal Military, he is exiled from his homeland Extalia after rescuing a young Mystogan.Template:Gnr As opposed to most Exceed, Lily has a large, humanoid body resembling an anthropomorphic panther. Using the magic sword Template:Nihongo, it can extend up to four times his size;Template:GnrTemplate:Gnr after this sword is destroyed battling Gajeel, he replaces it with the similar Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr that he steals from a member of Grimiore Heart. He duels with Gajeel Redfox while defending the lacrima crystal created from the residents of Magnolia as part of Faust's plan to exterminate the Exceed with it, but has a change of heart after seeing the Exceed gather to push the crystal away alongside Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr After being sent to Earth-land through the reversed anima portal, he joins Fairy Tail as Gajeel's partner.Template:Gnr In Earth-land, Lily's body shrinks to his species' typical small size, though he assumes his original form for limited periods of time in addition to using his Aera ability.Template:Gnr Lily's name is a play on "a famous character from a certain fairy tale".Template:Gnr Mashima commented on the character's popularity, saying, "I guess he's more popular now that he's small? Yeah."Template:Gnr
Mest Gryder
Template:Nihongo is a wizard who possesses a memory alteration charm called Template:Nihongo, and the power to teleport across long distances with the spell Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Initially depicted as an intelligence operative of the Magic Council named Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr spelled "Doranbolt" in the English dub, he uses his Memory Control to disguise himself as Mystogan's disciple in Fairy Tail to search of incriminating evidence that may result in the guild's dissolution.Template:Gnr Seven years after growing fond of the guild and allying himself with them against Grimoire Heart, however, Mest is informed by Makarov Dreyar of his true identity as a longtime Fairy Tail member who altered his own memories in a haphazard attempt to extract information on the Alvarez Empire from the council.Template:Gnr Upon remembering his past, Mest leaves the council's service and fully rejoins Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr Before unveiling Mest's role as an undercover council agent, Mashima considered making the character a legitimate Fairy Tail member, as well as a member of Grimoire Heart or Tartaros.Template:Gnr Mashima later said that the reveal of Mest's legitimate membership was planned long in advance, but he never had the opportunity to foreshadow it, receiving complaints from readers who felt the character was retconned.Template:Gnr
Touka and Faris
Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo are members introduced in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest. Touka is an Exceed girl who is possessed by Faris, a human shrine maiden who pretends to be the White Wizard with her ability to steal others' magic and erase it or control their minds. Both Touka and Faris are originally from a parallel universe called Elentear, which Faris attempts to save from the dragon god Selene by erasing powerful sources of magic in Earth-land, including Fairy Tail and the Five Dragon Gods, using Touka's "Aqua Aera" magic to travel between worlds. Touka appears to be enamored with Natsu, who unknowingly saved her from bandits during his training journey, but is later revealed to be in love with Happy, having mistaken Natsu's name as his.
Minor members
Between the primary guild members' seven-year disappearance and return from Sirius Island, the guild is temporarily reduced from over 100 members at the beginning of the series to fourteen.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a man who creates purple-colored flames that adhere to objects and cannot be doused by water or wind;Template:Gnr he serves as the guild's fourth master in the interim of Makarov Dreyar's absence.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is Macao's son who joins Fairy Tail over the course of the series, learning from Phantom Lord member Totomaru to produce up to seven colors of flame with varying properties.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is Macao's friend and eventual guild master advisor who manipulates smoke from a pipe.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo are two western immigrants who later marry and have a six-year-old daughter, Template:Nihongo;Template:Gnr Alzack uses guns that shoot magical bullets,Template:Gnr while Bisca equips various firearms similarly to Erza Scarlet.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo are Levy McGarden's teammates from Shadow Gear, both of whom have unrequited feelings for her; Jet's magic gives him super speed,Template:Gnr while Droy grows magic plants.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is the guild's public event manager who manipulates sand,Template:Gnr and is friends with telepathic member Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a procrastinator who never embarks on a mission for the entirety of the series, and can enhance his physical abilities using the spirits of animals.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a man who adjusts others' fighting power by dancing.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a girl with a bizarre vocabulary whose Template:Nihongo produces wooden objects similarly to Gray Fullbuster's Ice Make.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a man with a magically inflated body who can bring anything he draws to life.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is the true form of Cobra's snake, Cubellios, who is restored to human form by Makarov Dreyar and becomes a guild employee and later wizard;Template:Gnr she is based on Kina Kobayashi, one of Mashima's assistants.Template:Gnr
Antagonists
Zeref Dragneel
Template:Nihongo is the central antagonist of Fairy Tail who is mentioned early in the series as the most evil wizard in history called the Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr He makes his first appearance at the end of volume 24, although he is not identified until the following volume.Template:Gnr Eventually, it is revealed that Zeref is Natsu Dragneel's centuries-old elder brother, made immortal and unaging by a curse called the Template:Nihongo, which randomly kills everything around him whenever he cherishes the value of life. Years before the series' present, Ankhselam curses Zeref for trying to resurrect an infant Natsu, who is earlier killed with the rest of their family in a dragon attack. Becoming suicidal, Zeref eventually succeeds in reincarnating Natsu's dead infant body as a so-called demon dubbed "Etherious Natsu Dragneel" (E.N.D.) in the hope that Natsu would be capable of killing him.Template:Gnr He then places Natsu under Igneel's tutelage and sends them 400 years forward to a magic-rich era through the time machine Eclipse in order to properly cultivate his powers.Template:Gnr He eventually befriends Mavis Vermillion 300 years later, which develops into romance after she acquires the same curse until he inadvertently steals her life.Template:Gnr
Living in solitude on Sirius Island, Zeref becomes disillusioned by the atrocities committed by Grimoire Heart in his supposed name as a mass-murdering embodiment of evil, leading him to spend the next seven years contemplating the eradication of humanity.Template:Gnr One year later, he resurfaces as the emperor of the Alvarez Empire, a military nation he has constructed over a century under the alias of Template:Nihongo to counter the threat of Acnologia.Template:Gnr Zeref leads a large-scale invasion of Ishgal in order to obtain Mavis's limitless power of Fairy Heart with which to perform Template:Nihongo, a spell that would enable him to relive his own life and undo the actions caused by himself and Acnologia, while also erasing the existence of countless people in the present.Template:Gnr Zeref succeeds in absorbing Fairy Heart after Natsu's failure to kill him, but Natsu incapacitates him after negating his attacks with his own fire magic, after Mavis took the E.N.D. book away from Zeref and give the book to Lucy, Gray and Happy.Template:Gnr Zeref then dies after Mavis rekindles her love for him, allowing their mutual curse to kill them both.Template:Gnr By the end of Fairy Tail, a young man identical in appearance to Zeref named Template:Nihongo appears and encounters Mio, a girl who resembles Mavis.Template:Gnr
Mashima had not given the character a name upon his first physical appearance in the story, and considered several possible choices before deciding to make him the previously unseen character Zeref;Template:Gnr he intentionally avoided providing any hints to his identity beforehand, wanting it to be a "complete surprise" to the readers.Template:Gnr Aiming to avoid portraying Zeref as "a typical bad guy", Mashima cultivated and inserted numerous elements into the character that made him "really highly complex".[11] Mashima stated that Zeref "has really become a popular character" after the revelation of his identity, also calling him a "really dark" character who would "never make a silly face."Template:Gnr
Phantom Lord
Template:Nihongo is an official wizard's guild of Fiore led by Jose Porla.Template:Gnr Jose boasts his guild's superior numbers and magical prowess, which includes a mechanized guildhall armed with the destructive magic cannon Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr and which transforms into a mecha capable of casting Template:Nihongo, a forbidden spell powered by magic of the four classical elements.Template:Gnr Other members of Phantom include Gajeel Redfox and the Template:Nihongo, a quartet of wizards equivalent to Fairy Tail's S-Class wizards who each specialize in magic based on one of the four elements.Template:Gnr Lucy Heartfilia's father Jude has Phantom retrieve her after she runs away from home.Template:Gnr However, Jose is concerned about Fairy Tail's plans to monopolize the Heartfilia family's fortune and plots to hold Lucy for ransom.Template:Gnr Deciding to demonstrate Phantom's supremacy to Fairy Tail, Jose sends Gajeel to destroy their guildhall and injure Levy McGarden's team, provoking them into an inter-guild war forbidden by the Magic Council.Template:Gnr Eventually, Fairy Tail emerges victorious after Makarov Dreyar defeats Jose;Template:Gnr Phantom is later disestablished by the council and Jose's title is revoked.Template:Gnr Gajeel and Juvia leave following the guild's defeat and later join Fairy Tail.Template:Gnr
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- Jose is one of the Ten Wizard Saints who specializes in creating ghostly apparitions to act as soldiers.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Aria, the leader of the Element 4, is a large man who uses air magic to produce invisible attacks and drain wizards of their magic;Template:Gnr he wears a blindfold to keep his enormous power in check.Template:Gnr
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- Sol is a French-speaking man who manipulates earth and can assume a malleable state.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Totomaru is a black-and-white-haired samurai who uses fire magic to manipulate any type of flame at will, and produces different-colored flames with varying properties.Template:Gnr
Tower of Heaven
The Template:Nihongo is a tower designed to bring a deceased individual back to life through a form of magic called the Template:Nihongo, also known simply as the R-System, which is activated after the Magic Council fires their ultimate weapon Etherion at the tower, which absorbs the attack's energy and reveals its true form as a giant lacrima crystal.Template:Gnr It is originally built using slave labor by a cult of evil wizards for the purpose of resurrecting Zeref.Template:Gnr Among the slaves forced to build the tower are Erza Scarlet and Jellal Fernandes. Jellal takes over construction of the tower while brainwashed by Ultear Milkovich, who poses as Zeref's spirit.Template:Gnr Jellal tricks his friends into thinking that Erza betrayed them to save herself from the tower, but they turn on him after realizing his deception.Template:Gnr Following Jellal's defeat, Erza's remaining friends decline her invitation to join Fairy Tail and go their separate ways.Template:Gnr
Also serving Jellal at the tower are Template:Nihongo, a trio of assassins from the Template:Nihongo guild.Template:Gnr Mashima introduced them "at the last moment" after he "started feeling really sorry for [Erza's childhood friends]" while planning their battles with Erza's group.Template:Gnr Each member's is named after a different type of bird.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Shō is one of Ezra's former friends who wields a magic deck of cards containing pocket dimensions to trap others inside.
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- Simon is a large man with a metal jaw who uses telepathy and shrouds areas in darkness. He harbors romantic feelings for Erza, remaining faithful to her despite Jellal's lies,Template:Gnr and later dies while protecting her from him.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Wally is a gangster-like gunslinger with an angular body that he can separate into blocks.
Trinity Raven
- Template:Nihongo
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- Ikaruga is the leader of Trinity Raven. She speaks in haiku and wields a katana capable of cutting through any material.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Vidaldus was originally introduced to his teammates as Jellal's stoic attendant,Template:Gnr but is really a rock musician whose hair can absorb liquids. He uses an electric guitar to brainwash his opponents.Template:Gnr
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- Fukuro is a man with an owl's head and a jet pack who performs the same magic his opponents use by swallowing them.Template:Gnr
Raven Tail
Template:Nihongo is a dark guild that acts independently from the Balam Alliance,Template:Gnr and becomes an official guild shortly after Fairy Tail's return from Sirius Island.Template:Gnr The guild is led by Ivan Dreyar. Disguising himself as an armored wizard named Template:Nihongo, Ivan leads a five-wizard team in the Grand Magic Games that consists of Obra, Flare Corona, Kurohebi, and Nullpudding. The five use underhanded tactics to win challenges and battles in the tournament, but are defeated single-handedly by Laxus and disqualified.Template:Gnr Raven Tail dissolves entirely following the games.
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- Ivan is the leader of Raven Tail, Makarov Dreyar's estranged son, and Laxus Dreyar's father. He is obsessed with acquiring Lumen Histoire,Template:Gnr an act resulting in his expulsion from Fairy Tail six years earlier.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Obra is an imp who operates a humanoid puppet and drains wizards of their magic.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Flare is a young woman with prehensile hair that can transform and ignite.Template:Gnr After Raven Tail disbands, Flare makes amends with Fairy Tail and assists them in saving the Template:Nihongo, her adopted hometown populated by giants.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Kurohebi is a snake-like humanoid who mimics others' magic.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Nullpudding is a hunchback capable of growing spikes on his body.Template:Gnr
Balam Alliance
The Template:Nihongo, translated as "Baram Alliance" in the English anime dub, is a triad of Fiore's most powerful dark guilds—Oración Seis, Grimoire Heart, and Tartaros—which control all other dark guilds in the series except the independent Raven Tail.Template:Gnr The organization is described as a "non-aggression pact" whose guilds act independently from one another in spite of their designation as an "alliance".Template:Gnr After all three guilds are defeated by Fairy Tail and their allies, the alliance is considered to have dissolved.
Oración Seis
Template:Nihongo is a guild consisting of six members led by Brain that are considered to be no less dangerous for their command of multiple other dark guilds. Brain's followers are slaves from the Tower of Heaven whom Brain "adopts" to aid his plan to annihilate the world's official guilds using the morality-switching magic Template:Nihongo. Seven years after their arrest, the five are released from prison along with Brain, whom they leave for dead before Jellal convinces them to join Crime Sorcière.Template:Gnr
The guild shares its name with a group of antagonists from Rave Master; Mashima originally used the name as a placeholder, which he ultimately kept by the release deadline.Template:Gnr Mashima decided on the members' background as slaves early in their development, but struggled to incorporate it into the story.Template:Gnr Mashima specified Cobra as one of the characters whose popularity defied his expectations, although he could not determine any reason why.Template:Gnr
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- Brain is the leader of Oración Seis, a codenamed superintelligent wizard and Jellal Fernandes's mentor from the Tower of Heaven, who uses a sentient staff named Template:Nihongo to perform dark magic.Template:Gnr Brain possesses an omnicidal split personality that serves as the guild's true master, Zero, which he suppresses with magic sealing marks on his body that are undone by the guild's defeat.
- Template:Nihongo / Template:Nihongo
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- Cobra is a second-generation Dragon Slayer with poisonous abilities and hyper-sensitive hearing; he commands a giant, winged snake named Template:Nihongo.
- Template:Nihongo / Template:Nihongo
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A member of Oración Seis under the codename . He is a speed-maniac capable of slowing time around himself to appear faster than the naked eye.
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- Hoteye is Wally Buchanan's money-obsessed older brother who can see through solid objects and liquify the ground around himself.
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- Sorano is Yukino Agria's cruel older sister and a celestial wizard contracted with the zodiac spirits Gemini, Scorpio, and Aries; after her spirits abandon her, she gains the ability to summon angelic beings.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo / Template:Nihongo
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- Midnight is a lethargic wizard who can deflect others' magic, distort objects, and create illusions.
Grimoire Heart
Template:Nihongo is the most powerful guild of the Balam Alliance.Template:Gnr Led by Hades,Template:Gnr the guild assumes Zeref to be in a weakened "sleeping" state and aims to "awaken" him, which they erroneously believe would bring about an apocalyptic world where wizards may thrive while non-magic users—who make up over 90% of Earth-land's population—would be annihilated.Template:Gnr They travel the world on their airship and commit countless atrocities to produce "keys" necessary to their goal,Template:Gnr resulting in a war with Fairy Tail upon their discovery of Zeref on Sirius Island.Template:Gnr Grimoire Heart ultimately disbands after Zeref kills Hades and condemns the guild for provoking his rage and summoning Acnologia through their actions.Template:Gnr
The guild's sub-commander is Template:Nihongo. Beneath Blue Note are the Template:Nihongo, an elite group of wizards who are trained by Hades in the use of Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr ancient spells that are noted as being lost to history because of their enormous power and terrible side effects when misused.Template:Gnr Besides their leader Ultear Milkovich and her surrogate daughter, Merudy, the Seven Kin consist of Zancrow, Zoldio, Rustyrose, Kain Hikaru, Azuma. Other guild members include Kawazu and Yomazu.
Mashima revealed that Kain Hikaru's name is shared with one of his staff members' nicknames, while Rustyrose's name is derived from a cocktail, and Azuma's is based on television actor Azuma Mikihisa; he was "surprised" that he could not remember the origin of Zancrow's name.Template:Gnr Mashima particularly pushed for Kain Hikaru's popularity among young readers, but was informed the character was disliked because "he isn't cool".Template:Gnr
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- Blue Note is a man capable of generating powerful gravity fields and black holes.
- Template:Nihongo
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- Zancrow is a God Slayer who uses divine black flames.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Zoldio is a human wizard who fused with the celestial spirit Capricorn. His original magic allows him to command human slaves.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Rustyrose is a wizard who can materialize anything from his imagination.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Kain is a sumo wrestler who practices the voodoo-like ushi no koku mairi.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Azuma is a wizard who harnesses magic power accumulated within the earth via his control of trees.Template:Gnr
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- Kawazu is an anthropomorphic rooster who fires eggs from his mouth.Template:Gnr
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- Yomazu is a doglike samurai who performs an Eastern variety of Levy McGarden's Solid Script with a katana.Template:Gnr
Tartaros
Template:Nihongo is a guild consisting mostly of Etherious demons summoned from books written by Zeref. E.N.D., Zeref's ultimate demon and Natsu Dragneel's alter ego, is falsely purported to be the guild's master;Template:Gnr the guild is secretly commanded by Mard Geer Tartaros. Their base is located inside the floating Template:Nihongo headquarters, which transforms into the monster Template:Nihongo by Mard Geer's power.Template:Gnr The guild's aim is to unseal E.N.D.'s soul from his book and exterminate humanity by detonating Face, the Magic Council's cross-continental pulse bomb network designed to neutralize Ishgal's magic, while having no effect on the demons' ability to use Template:Nihongo, a counterpart to magic that draws purely from negative emotions.Template:Gnr Mard Geer commands the elite Template:Nihongo led by the avian demon Kyōka. The other Demon Gates include Jackal, Franmalth, Torafuzar, Ezel, Seilah, Keyes, Tempester, and Silver Fullbuster. After Tartaros is defeated by Fairy Tail, the surviving demons eventually die together with Zeref as part of a measure devised by the dark wizard.Template:Gnr
Mashima stated that Kyōka was a character he "really [enjoyed]", and that she would do "a bunch of cruel things".Template:Gnr He was surprised by Jackal's popularity among readers despite the character being "an awful guy", and added that he had difficulty writing Jackal's "half-baked Osaka-area accent".Template:Gnr The story arc between Silver and Gray was something Mashima had determined before the former's appearance, yet Mashima had to change large portions of their planned battle scene upon noticing a "vital" setup mistake.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- Mard Geer is the commander of Tartaros. As Template:Nihongo, he is the keeper of E.N.D.'s book, whose curse powers include producing endless thorn brambles and deadly plants.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- The leader of the Nine Demon Gates. She is a sadist who reinforces people's strength and increases their sensitivity to pain with her curse.
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He is Gray Fullbuster's deceased father and a Demon Slayer with ice magic, who is also included among the Demon Gates after being reanimated by Keyes and disguised as a human vessel for Deliora.
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He can detonate anything on contact and can assume a lycanthropic form.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He is a cyclops who absorbs others' souls and copies their abilities.
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He is an aquatic demon capable of flooding areas with poisonous water and turning his body harder than iron.Template:Gnr
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He can cut through anything with his multiple sword-like arms.
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. She can control people's bodies.
- Template:Nihongo
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He is a skeletal necromancer who reanimates human corpses.
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- A member of the Nine Demon Gates. He is a bestial demon who utters imitative words that invoke natural disasters.
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- A bunny girl demon who runs a facility where deceased members are resurrected and human recruits are transformed into demons, including Ziemma and Minerva Orland.
Acnologia
Template:Nihongo is one of the series' overarching antagonists, known as the Template:Nihongo for driving the dragon race to near extinction in Earth-land's historic Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Originally a human Dragon Slayer who resents dragons for slaughtering his family and other innocents,Template:Gnr he transforms into an immortal black dragon as a side effect of his magic;Template:Gnr despite this, he is capable of alternating between his human and "dragonified" forms at will.Template:Gnr Acnologia possesses no elemental Dragon Slayer trait, which grants him immunity to all forms of magic.Template:Gnr Overtaken by bloodlust and considering himself to be invincible, he gains notoriety for the next four centuries as a harbinger of destruction who disregards all life,Template:Gnr speaking only to those he acknowledges as his enemies.Template:Gnr After nearly obliterating Sirius Island following Fairy Tail's battle with Grimoire Heart,Template:Gnr and later losing an arm in a battle with Igneel that results in the latter's death,Template:Gnr Acnologia participates in the war between Ishgal and the Alvarez Empire, aiming to achieve the extinction of dragons by killing the surviving Dragon Slayers.Template:Gnr When he is lured by Blue Pegasus and Anna Heartfilia into a "space between time", a void dimension they attempt to permanently trap him In,Template:Gnr Acnologia eats his way out and attains godlike power; this act also separates his human soul from his physical dragon body, which ravages Earth-land while the former imprisons the other Dragon Slayers in the void with himself to maintain his power.Template:Gnr After Lucy Heartfilia seals his body within Fairy Sphere, Natsu Dragneel kills him by destroying his immobilized soul.Template:Gnr Mashima regretted not giving more time to develop the character in the manga, envisioning a "deeper setting" that he felt unable to include from the protagonists' perspective, which he hoped he would have the opportunity to explore "at some point".[11]
Alvarez Empire
The Template:Nihongo is a massive military nation led by Zeref that is located in the continent of Alakitasia west of Ishgal.Template:Gnr Comprising the strength of 730 guilds over Ishgal's 500,Template:Gnr the empire's main objective is to forcibly obtain Mavis Vermillion's power of Fairy Heart to use against Acnologia.Template:Gnr Zeref's personal guards, the Template:Nihongo, possess powers that surpass Ishgal's supreme Wizard Saint, the eight-element Dragon Slayer God Serena, who defects to join the group.Template:Gnr
Mashima considered the Spriggan 12 to be the strongest characters in the series,Template:Gnr describing their abilities as "cheating magic" that other authors would generally avoid using to preserve the framework of the story.Template:Gnr While determining the number of members, Mashima argued against his editor's suggestion of using five or six members as opposed to twelve, citing "a bit of a secret reason for it".Template:Gnr He designed Jacob after an actor he "really liked", and bemoaned that the character's role was smaller than he had initially planned.Template:Gnr Mashima also commented on the popularity of the 12's female members, particularly Brandish, while considering Jacob to be his personal favorite.Template:Gnr Irene's role as the "mother of Dragon Slayers" was determined by Mashima "well before" her debut, but he did not decide on her relationship with Erza until after the former's confrontation with Acnologia, which he noted created holes in the story.Template:Gnr Following the conclusion of the series, Mashima specified Brandish as the character he would miss drawing the most.[11]
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. She is Erza Scarlet's centuries-old "dragonified" mother and the inventor of Dragon Slayer magic,Template:Gnr who infuses magic power into any object or person.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is an Etherious convinced that he is Zeref's child,Template:Gnr whose magic exploits humans' cardinal desires.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. She is a young woman who can alter the size and mass of anything.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is an ice wizard who serves as the groups chief of staff and can "freeze" people's minds to control their thoughts.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. She is a swordswoman whose "God Soul" Takeover contains the form and time-stopping abilities of the god Chronos.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is a sand wizard who produces city-engulfing sandstorms.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is a robotic alchemist who constructs mechanical soldiers that exploit others' weaknesses.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is a shinigami-like being who shares the same powers as the elite members of Tartaros.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He uses invisibility and spatial magic.Template:Gnr
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- A member of the Spriggan 12. He is able to create lifelike fabrications of deceased people from others' memories.Template:Gnr
Five Dragon Gods
The Template:Nihongo are a group of dragons who survived the Dragon King Festival by fleeing to Guiltina to hide from Acnologia. Since then, they are each considered to have become as strong as Acnologia, and are viewed as deities by Guiltina's citizens. Several of the dragons have the ability to assume humanoid forms. To prevent them from causing a potential catastrophe, the object of the 100 Years Quest is for wizards to seal the dragons away.
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- The Template:Nihongo and Igneel's biological son, who is notorious in Guiltina for burning down countless countries. Having trained himself to defeat Acnologia as a test of strength, he becomes determined to turn Natsu into a worthy opponent for himself upon learning of his foster brother's victory over Acnologia, disappointed by Natsu's reliance on his friends' power.
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- The Template:Nihongo, worshiped by the people of the seaside town Ermina for his power over the ocean. He is a peaceful dragon who abandoned his cruel and violent nature after befriending a human girl named Karameel, whom he lives with. However, his diminishing control over his magic causes the tide to submerge Ermina at night, leading him to transform its citizens into fish to help them survive.
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- The Template:Nihongo, whose gargantuan body serves as the foundation of Drasil,{{efn|The name is derived from "Draseal", a portmanteau of "dragon" and "seal". Guiltina's largest city. Each of Drasil's five towns houses an orb that seals his destructive power, with Faris and Diabolos being misled by false claims that destroying the orbs would weaken him. He is protected by humanoid trees called "God Seeds" that possess various powers, with the strongest serving as Aldoron's brain and avatar.
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- The Template:Nihongo, who possesses power over the moon and stars, as well as the ability to freely travel between different parallel worlds. She desires to be reborn as a human, and manipulates Faris and Diabolos into helping her eliminate the other Dragon Gods to achieve her goal, entertaining herself with the ensuing destruction in the process.
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- The Template:Nihongo, who has the power to turn everything around him into gold. He exists as a concept after sacrificing his physical form to merge his will with the alchemist guild Gold Owl.
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- A sixth Dragon God whom Elefseria defeated prior to issuing the 100 Years Quest. As the Template:Nihongo, his remains are the source of an underground labyrinth called the Great Labyrinth of Dogra, which is made of indestructible stone.
Diabolos
Template:Nihongo is a guild of "fifth-generation" Dragon Slayers called Dragon Eaters who gain their abilities by consuming dragons. Their strongest force is the Template:Nihongo, a team of four Dragon Eaters who were given the powers of dragons killed by their master, Georg.
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- The master of Diabolos.
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- One of the Dark Dragon Slayer Knights. Suzaki is a swordsman with archaic speech patterns who uses sword techniques that move faster than the naked eye.
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- One of the Dark Dragon Slayer Knights. Misaki is a woman with the telekinetic ability to tear objects.
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- One of the Dark Dragon Slayer Knights. Haku is a young boy who manipulates yarn and transforms others into plush dolls.
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- One of the Dark Dragon Slayer Knights. Kirin is a man who controls air and carries a coffin on his back.
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- A woman who creates magical blades that cut through anything.
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- An armored man with an indestructible body.
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- A man who uses ash-based magic to create and disintegrate objects.
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- A bestial man with spider-like abilities.
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- A spirit who is imperceptible to anyone except other Dragon Slayers.
Moonlight Divinities
The Template:Nihongo are Selene's allies in the world of Elentear. They use an ability different from magic and curses known as Template:Nihongo, which cannot be countered by magic. The members include:
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- A young woman who can summon an infinite army of yōkai to fight for her. She is also able to turn others and herself into yōkai.
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- A muscular woman with tremendous physical strength.
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- A woman who manipulates snow and is able to freeze anything, including the sources of other forms of power.
Gold Owl
Template:Nihongo is an alchemist guild founded by the real Duke which is later taken over by Viernes's disembodied will. Among its members is an alchemically created duplicate of God Serena.
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- Elefseria's apprentice. An apparition of Duke serves as Viernes's voice and the master of Gold Owl.
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- A pair of sisters who transmute the world around themselves. The younger sister, Template:Nihongo, specializes in abstract psych pop locations, while the older sister, Template:Nihongo, creates hellish landscapes.
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- Two artificial humans who transmute materials into smoke and steel, respectively.
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- A man who is capable of switching people's bodies with others' as a means of sealing their power.
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- An emotionless doll made by Duke to replace the original Athena using stolen Dragon Slayer Magic.Template:Ref
Fire and Flame
Template:Nihongo are a Dark Guild on Guiltina, their Guild Master being Ignia. The Signario Sisters are members and were only in Gold Owl due to being controlled by Viernes.Template:Ref They are seeking to cause a "True Dragon King Festival."Template:Ref
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- Ignia's armored second-in-command and Guiltina's strongest sword fighter.Template:Ref
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- A man who uses Fire Make Magic.Template:Ref
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- A man who can sprout mouths on different parts of his body, allowing him to eat fire.Template:Ref
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- An illusionist who uses fire to create illusions.Template:Ref
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- A fiery cat who can take on the appearance of a firebird. She has friendly interactions with Happy.Template:Ref
Earth Land Faris
This Template:Nihongo is the Earth Land counterpart of the Faris from Elentear. Having gained power from Acnologia's left arm which Igneel ripped off during their battle, Faris became the embodiment of Acnologia's destructive will, the new Template:Nihongo, and the Black Magic Dragon, seeking to fulfill the same role in Ignia's True Dragon King Festival as Zeref did in the previous Dragon King Festival.Template:Ref
Supporting characters
Blue Pegasus
Template:Nihongo is one of Fiore's official guilds consisting mostly of attractive men and women.Template:Gnr Its master is a cross-dressing man named Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Blue Pegasus is usually represented by its ace member and black sheep, Template:Nihongo, a stout, handsome man who uses magical perfumes that produce a variety of effects such as superhuman strength and speed.Template:Gnr He is joined by the Template:Nihongo, a trio of host wizards who cater to women.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo uses magic resembling a computer terminal that can archive and telepathically transfer information to others;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo can magically produce blizzards;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo is a tanned wizard who manipulates air and later marries the Lamia Scale member Sherry Blendy.Template:Gnr Ichiya and the Tri-men participate in the Grand Magic Games with two other members: Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr a fashion model capable of using a variety of Takeover magic called Template:Nihongo to record machinery and transform into outfits with the same functions;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, an Exceed guard captain from Extalia and Ichiya's counterpart from Edolas.Template:Gnr Other members of the guild include Laxus Dreyar and the Raijin Tribe, who temporarily join Blue Pegasus during Fairy Tail's dissolution;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, a celestial wizard and Loke's first owner, who is killed by the Oración Seis' member Sorano three years before he meets Lucy Heartfilia.Template:Gnr
Lamia Scale
Template:Nihongo is one of Fiore's legal guilds, led by a cantankerous old woman named Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr It is famous in the kingdom for its ace member Template:Nihongo, a member of the Ten Wizard Saints who turns soil into iron-hard rock columns.Template:Gnr A trio of defectors from the guild oppose Fairy Tail as Lyon Vastia's followers to take revenge against the demon Deliora for killing their families: the love-obsessed woman Sherry Blendy;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo, a man with large eyebrows who produces magic-nullifying pulses from his hands;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, a dimwitted man dressed like a dog who has extendible, paralyzing claws.Template:Gnr During Fairy Tail's disbandment, Wendy Marvell and Carla temporarily join Lamia Scale, with the former partnering with Sherry's God Slayer cousin Template:Nihongo as the Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr
Lyon Vastia
Template:Nihongo, spelled "Bastia" in the English anime dub, is Gray Fullbuster's rival and senior disciple under Ur. He practices Ice Make magic like Gray, using a variation that produces "living" ice golems he controls on command.Template:Gnr He initially uses a single-handed casting gesture that allows him to conjure ice faster,Template:Gnr but makes it weaker and imbalanced.Template:Gnr Lyon resents Gray for causing Ur's sacrifice against the demon Deliora, ruining his childhood dream of surpassing their teacher.Template:Gnr Operating under the name Template:Nihongo, Lyon brings Deliora to Galuna Island to release the demon, intending to defeat it and prove his superiority over Ur.Template:Gnr After discovering Deliora's death upon its release,Template:Gnr Lyon decides to move on by joining Lamia Scale,Template:Gnr becoming a cornerstone member of the guild.Template:Gnr He also adopts the two-handed casting gesture Ur and Gray use, as well as Gray's stripping habit.Template:Gnr Seven years later, Lyon humorously falls in love at first sight with Juvia Lockser, forming a love triangle with her and Gray;Template:Gnr he later concedes her feelings for Gray after the latter is killed and resurrected by Ultear Milkovich.Template:Gnr Following the character's initial role, Mashima commented that he enjoyed drawing Lyon again after his absence.Template:Gnr
Sherry Blendy
Template:Nihongo, spelled "Blendi" in the English anime dub, is a love-obsessed woman whose romantic interest she feels for Lyon Vastia is unrequited.Template:Gnr She also owns a giant rat named Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr Sherry's magic Template:Nihongo, renamed "Marionette Attack" in the English anime dub, allows her to manipulate non-human objects and beings, including Celestial spirits.Template:Gnr Once a member of Lamia Scale, she leaves the guild to be one of Lyon's followers to take revenge against the demon Deliora for killing her family.Template:Gnr Sherry later cleans up her act and rejoins Lamia Scale alongside Lyon,Template:Gnr only to eventually leave again when she becomes engaged and then married to the Blue Pegasus' member Ren Akatsuki.Template:Gnr
Saber Tooth
Template:Nihongo is a guild that replaces Fairy Tail during their seven-year disappearance as the most powerful guild in Fiore.Template:Gnr Led by its master, Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr the guild is represented by its five most powerful wizards for much of the Grand Magic Games: Minerva Orland, Ziemma's daughter;Template:Gnr the Template:Nihongo team formed by Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney, third generation Dragon Slayers who are raised by dragons and given lacrima implants;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo, a God Slayer who produces black lightning similar to Laxus Dreyar;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, a masked man who uses Template:Nihongo to create new spells based on those he memorizes.Template:Gnr After Saber Tooth is defeated by Fairy Tail in the Grand Magic Games, Sting replaces Ziemma as guild master.Template:Gnr One year after the battle with the Alvarez Empire, Yukino's older sister and Oración Seis member Sorano joins Saber Tooth to reunite with Yukino.
Sting Eucliffe
Template:Nihongo, also called Template:Nihongo, is a Dragon Slayer and one of the Twin Dragons with Rogue Cheney.Template:Gnr He performs Template:Nihongo, which gives him the ability to produce attacks of sacred light and fire laser beams from his mouth. He can also activate Dragon Force at will.Template:Gnr He appears to use this magic to kill his dragon guardian, Template:Nihongo, at the dragon's behest, to prove himself a "true" Dragon Slayer;Template:Gnr Weisslogia later appears alive with the other Dragon Slayers' guardians, explaining that Sting had been given false memories of killing him to provide him with experience.Template:Gnr To fulfill a vow to his Exceed friend Template:Nihongo, Sting aims to defeat Natsu Dragneel and prove to others that he killed a dragon.Template:Gnr During their two-on-two fight alongside Rogue and Gajeel Redfox, Sting is defeated by Natsu and gains new respect for Fairy Tail,Template:Gnr succeeding Ziemma as Saber Tooth's master to improve his guild's image.Template:Gnr During the Alvarez war, Sting is revealed to be part of the five dragon slayers msent through Eclipse from four hundred years ago to defeat Acnologia. Template:Gnr
Rogue Cheney
Template:Nihongo, also known as Template:Nihongo, is Sting Eucliffe's partner.Template:Gnr His Template:Nihongo techniques include turning himself into a shadow to become intangible and firing shadows from his mouth.Template:Gnr Like Sting, Rogue can activate Dragon Force at will, and has false memories of killing his own dragon guardian, Template:Nihongo. He is accompanied by Template:Nihongo, a green Exceed who wears a pink frog costume.Template:Gnr During Gajeel Redfox's membership in Phantom Lord, Rogue apprentices himself to him under the name Template:Nihongo out of distaste for his own name, but becomes disillusioned when Gajeel joins Fairy Tail. After losing to Gajeel in the Grand Magic Games seven years later, Rogue acknowledges that Saber lacks the camaraderie Fairy Tail has, and joins Sting in improving his own guild.Template:Gnr
During the tournament, a version of Rogue appears through the time travel gate Eclipse from an alternate future, corrupted by his inner evil after Frosch is killed by Gray Fullbuster in his timeline. "Future" Rogue combines his shadow magic with Sting's White Dragon Slayer Magic forcibly acquired after killing him in the future.Template:Gnr He tricks Hisui E. Fiore by advising her to use the time travel gate Eclipse as a weapon to save the kingdom from a dragon invasion,Template:Gnr setting the gate to allow seven dragons from the historical Dragon King Festival to appear in the present to be used against Acnologia.Template:Gnr While Rogue's present self helps fight the dragons, Future Rogue's battle with Natsu ends with Eclipse's destruction, returning Rogue and the dragons to their original time periods, but not before Rogue helps Natsu avert his own future by warning him of Frosch's fate.Template:Gnr
During the Alvarez war, Rogue is revealed to be part of the five dragon slayers sent through Eclipse from four hundred years ago to defeat Acnologia. Template:Gnr
Yukino Agria
Template:Nihongo is a novice Saber Tooth member and Celestial Wizard who owns the zodiac spirits Pisces, Libra, and Ophiuchus.Template:Gnr She is humiliated and temporarily expelled from the guild by Ziemma after losing to Kagura Mikazuchi in the Grand Magic Games,Template:Gnr but is reinstated by Sting after the tournament;Template:Gnr in the interim, Yukino aids the kingdom's Eclipse Project as a provisional sergeant, hoping to prevent the childhood abduction of her older sister, Sorano.Template:Gnr Yukino later reunites with Sorano during the war against the Alvarez Empire.
Minerva Orland
Template:Nihongo is Ziemma's daughter, who endures harsh training from her father at childhood to become Saber Tooth's most powerful wizard, giving her the same superiority complex as him.Template:Gnr Her Template:Nihongo magic grants her the ability to teleport and attack anything in her field of vision;Template:Gnr she also practices a set of highly destructive spells called the Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr She leaves Saber Tooth to exact revenge against Erza Scarlet after losing to her in the Grand Magic Games,Template:Gnr which eventually leads her to be inducted into Tartaros as a demon named Template:Nihongo.Template:Gnr After realizing the pointlessness of her rivalry with Erza, a reformed Minerva is rescued by Sting and Rogue, restored to her original form, and reinstated into Saber Tooth.Template:Gnr
Crime Sorcière
Template:Nihongo is an independent guild formed during the disappearance of Sirius Island. Its stated goal is to root out Zeref, and suppress anyone who attempts to use his power for evil. It acts under the Magic Council's radar. It initially consists of its three founding members—Jellal Fernandes, Ultear Milkovich, and Merudy—as a means of atoning for their lifelong misdeeds.Template:Gnr After Ultear's departure, the guild recruits Brain's followers from the Oración Seis as members.Template:Gnr The guild is later legally pardoned of their past crimes by Hisui E. Fiore following the battle with Alvarez Empire.Template:Gnr
Jellal Fernandes
Forced to work in the Tower of Heaven as a slave by a cult of Zeref worshipers who aim to revive the black wizard, Template:Nihongo is manipulated by Ultear Milkovich into serving Zeref under the guise of his spirit,Template:Gnr prompting Jellal to turn on his childhood friend Erza Scarlet and takes over the tower's construction.Template:Gnr At some point, he is appointed a member of the Magic Council and one of the Ten Wizard Saints as Template:Nihongo, a psychic projection of himself.Template:Gnr Using Template:Nihongo techniques, Jellal can boost his speed to imperceptible levels, and produce powerful energy-based attacks akin to falling meteors.Template:Gnr Masquerading as Jellal's good twin brother, "Siegrain" tricks the other Council members into firing Etherion at the tower, allowing it to absorb the weapon's magic energy to become operational.Template:Gnr He then attempts to sacrifice Erza to reincarnate Zeref, killing their friend Simon in a duel against Natsu Dragneel. He is defeated after Natsu consumes Etherion's residual energy to achieve Dragon Force, and is seemingly killed after the tower's destruction.Template:Gnr He is later found alive by the Oración Seis and revived to serve the dark guild, but suffers from amnesia and is shocked to learn of his past misdeeds from Erza.Template:Gnr Despite fighting the Seis with Fairy Tail to atone for his actions, Jellal is arrested by the Magic Council and detained.Template:Gnr He eventually regains his memories before being liberated by Ultear and Merudy, who join him in penance by forming Crime Sorcière.Template:Gnr Reconciling with Erza afterwards, she expresses her feelings for him which he does reciprocate. Jellal, however, decides to not enter a relationship with her as he believes he is unworthy of her due to his past sins. He is eventually pardoned of his fugitive status by Hisui. Hiro Mashima created Jellal as a "self-parody" of his previous series Rave Master, modeling the character's appearance after Sieg Hart.Template:Gnr
Ultear Milkovich
During her early childhood, Template:Nihongo is taken to a magic research facility by her mother Ur. She is subjected to unethical experiments and assumes that Ur has abandoned her, unaware that her mother thinks she has died.Template:Gnr Ultear joins forces with Grimoire Heart to modify her magic with Zeref's power to travel to the past and exact revenge on Ur.Template:Gnr Ultear eventually gains infamy as the leader of the guild's Seven Kin of Purgatory and adopts Merudy. As part of Grimoire Heart's plan, she manipulates Jellal Fernandes into becoming the dark wizard's servant, feigning loyalty to him as a member of the Magic Council.Template:Gnr Later, Ultear and Merudy capture Zeref on Sirius Island, and the two attempt to flee with the dark wizard.Template:Gnr Eventually, Ultear realizes the truth about her mother while dueling with Gray Fullbuster, prompting her to help Fairy Tail defeat her master Hades and leave Grimoire Heart with Merudy.Template:Gnr Seven years later, when Rogue Cheney's future self uses Eclipse to orchestrate a dragon attack, Ultear contemplates killing the present Rogue. However, she casts the forbidden time spell Template:Nihongo, which reverses time and allows her allies to foresee the dragons' moves within this critical time frame, preventing the deaths of several wizards.Template:Gnr The spell also rapidly ages Ultear into an elderly woman, and she leaves Jellal and Merudy to assume that she has been killed in the attack.Template:Gnr
Merudy
Adopted and raised by Ultear Milkovich as a survivor of her hometown's destruction, Template:Nihongo, spelled "Meldy" in the English dub, becomes one of Grimoire Heart's Seven Kin of Purgatory.Template:Gnr She uses the Lost Magic Template:Nihongo to synchronize the physical senses and emotions of two or more people,Template:Gnr and the spell Template:Nihongo to produce blades of light that directly affect their target's sense of pain.Template:Gnr She participates in her guild's hunt for Fairy Tail's members on Sirius Island, making Gray Fullbuster her primary target, blaming him for hurting Ultear through Ur's death.Template:Gnr After dueling Juvia Lockser to a stalemate, Merudy threatens suicide to kill Gray through her sensory link, but Juvia convinces her to stay alive for Ultear's sake.Template:Gnr Merudy later learns of Ultear's role in her hometown's destruction from her guildmate Zancrow,Template:Gnr After rescuing Ultear from attempting suicide, Merudy leaves Grimoire Heart with her.Template:Gnr Mashima designed Merudy to be the weakest of the Seven Kin, and was surprised to find the character had become "extremely popular" with the series's younger readers.Template:Gnr He wrote that the character's name "just sort of came to [him]"; he later realized that it was the same as a character from "an old RPG [he] used to play".Template:Gnr
Mermaid Heel
Template:Nihongo is an all-female official guild in Fiore. The members of the guild include: the swordswoman Kagura Mikazuchi;Template:Gnr the cat-lover Template:Nihongo, who befriends Erza Scarlet as a slave of the Tower of Heaven and can conjure magical ropes capable of incapacitating a person;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo, a spider-themed wizard capable of generate webs from her hands;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo, an overweight woman who can alter her own gravity and body mass using her magic;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, a country girl whose magic allows her to sprout vegetables and fruits from the ground and fight with them.Template:Gnr
Kagura Mikazuchi
Template:Nihongo is the most powerful member of Mermaid Heel.Template:Gnr In her childhood, Kagura is rescued by Erza Scarlet during a raid on her hometown Template:Nihongo, caused by a bunch of Zeref's followers responsible for enslaving not only Erza but her older brother Simon at the Tower of Heaven.Template:Gnr She deeply resents Jellal Fernandes for murdering Simon, and vows to avenge him by killing Jellal;Template:Gnr she forges her katana Template:Nihongo for the single purpose of assassinate him, as it can create shockwaves powerful enough to destroy landscapes.Template:Gnr Kagura is also able to manipulate the gravity of an area with ease using her Template:Nihongo magic.Template:Gnr During the battle with Alvarez Empire, Kagura abandons her resentment for Jellal and rescues him from drowning.Template:Gnr
Millianna
Template:Nihongo is a cat-loving girl who uses a rope to bind other wizards' magic.Template:Gnr She joins Mermaid Heel to take revenge against Jellal and improve her magic skills.Template:GnrTemplate:Gnr
Other characters
Kingdom of Fiore
The Template:Nihongo is a country in Ishgal that serves as the primary setting of Fairy Tail. Its king is Template:Nihongo, who also works incognito as Template:Nihongo, the pumpkin mascot of the kingdom's annual Grand Magic Games tournament.Template:Gnr Toma's daughter, Princess Template:Nihongo, organizes the confidential "Eclipse Plan" that entails using Zeref's time travel gate Eclipse to travel back in time and kill him in his mortal state.Template:Gnr Participating in Hisui's plan are Template:Nihongo, captain of the kingdom's Cherry Blossom Holy Knights, who publicly masquerades as the project's mastermind to protect Hisui; defense minister Template:Nihongo, who opposes the plan for its ramifications on the timeline. Also in the kingdom's service are the Template:Nihongo, a unit of wizards who execute prisoners sentenced to the city's labyrinthine dungeon. The designs for Hisui and the Hungry Wolf Knights sans their leader were submitted by readers as part of a character design contest in the book Chotto Moorimashita, with Hisui's design being the winner.Template:Gnr Following Fairy Tail's battle with the Alvarez Empire, Hisui succeeds Toma as the kingdom's monarch.
Magic Council
The Template:Nihongo is an organization that administers the legal guilds in Ishgal.Template:Gnr Initially chaired by Template:Nihongo, the council's members have little tolerance for Fairy Tail's property-damaging tactics, despite their role in handling criminals and monsters that threaten the peace.Template:Gnr Members of the council include Jellal Fernandes and Ultear Milkovich, two of its younger members.Template:Gnr Another councilor, Template:Nihongo, is Makarov Dreyar's longtime friend who speaks in Fairy Tail's defense.Template:Gnr Other members include Template:Nihongo, Template:Nihongo, Template:Nihongo, and Template:Nihongo. After Jellal and Ultear disgrace the council by tricking them into using the superweapon Etherion to activate the Tower of Heaven,Template:Gnr the council is reformed under chairman Template:Nihongo to institute a tighter regime over the guilds.Template:Gnr Members of the reformed council include Template:Nihongo,Template:Gnr an officer who commands one of the Rune Knights' custody units,Template:Gnr and Mest Gryder, who operates under the name Doranbalt.Template:Gnr Seven years later, Crawford betrays the council and informs Tartaros of Face, a cross-continental network of pulse bombs designed to eliminate all magic in Fiore.Template:Gnr Tartaros assassinates most of the incumbent and retired councilors, three of whom serve as Face's unwitting wards; Crawford is killed after replacing Jellal as the last required seal. The open seats are filled by the Ten Wizard Saints, Makarov Dreyar and God Serena, consisting of vampiric wizard and chairman Template:Nihongo; Template:Nihongo, a diminutive man who turns into a hulking monster; Warrod Sequen; and Jura Neekis. Fairy Tail members Gajeel Redfox, Panther Lily, and Levy McGarden also enter the council's service as custody officers during the guild's temporary disbandment.
Celestial spirits
Template:Nihongo are beings that are contracted by celestial wizards to be summoned using enchanted keys called "Gatekeys" to battle and performed other tasks. They are governed by an all-powerful spirit called the Template:Nihongo, and are each named after and based on one of the 88 modern constellations. They are immortal and possess various magic powers and abilities, but lose their power when they remain outside their realm for extended periods of time, which is fatal to them.Template:Gnr
Numerous spirits are summoned using store-bought silver keys,Template:Gnr including Template:Nihongo, a breed of "dog" spirits kept by celestial wizards as pets;Template:Gnr Lucy keeps a Nikora that she names Template:Nihongo, who is identical to the character of the same name from Hiro Mashima's earlier work, Rave Master. There are also twelve golden Gatekeys that summon more powerful spirits that are based on the zodiacal constellations,Template:Gnr including Leo, the true form of Loke. Template:Nihongo is a cold mermaid who uses an urn that unleashes massive torrents of water on her target.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a perverted minotaur who wields a giant, double-edged battle axe and has superhuman strength.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a humanoid hairdresser with six crab legs protruding from his back.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a masochistic woman dressed like a maid who burrows rapidly underground.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a tall man who wears a horse costume and possesses superb archery skills.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a timid young woman with sheep horns who conjures wool clouds that subdue her opponents.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo are small twin spirits who mimic the appearances and abilities of others,Template:Gnr and can also read their minds.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a man with a scorpion tail-shaped cannon that produces gusts of sand.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is an anthropomorphic goat and martial artist who dresses like a butler.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a pair of mother and son fish who attack their opponent in tandem,Template:Gnr and can assume a humanoid form.Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo is a belly dancer who manipulates gravity using a pair of weighing scales.Template:Gnr Another spirit called Template:Nihongo, which takes the form of a giant mechanical snake, and is considered the "thirteenth" zodiac spirit.Template:Gnr
Edolas
Template:Nihongo is a parallel universe that exists separately from Earth-land, the universe in which Fairy Tail takes place. It is inhabited by counterparts of Earth-land's residents, each with opposing personalities or traits such as age and species.Template:Gnr It is also the home of several characters in the series, including Jellal Fernandes's counterpart Mystogan, and Exceed such as Happy and Carla. As opposed to Earth-land, magic is a limited resource in Edolas and cannot be used as a natural ability by humans, who instead use items combined with magic-infused lacrima crystals;Template:Gnr the Earth-land wizards are similarly only able to perform magic in Edolas after taking pills provided by Mystogan for this purpose.Template:Gnr
The kingdom is ruled by King Template:Nihongo, Mystogan's father,Template:Gnr who replenishes his world's magic using inter-dimensional Template:Nihongo portals that absorb magic power from Earth-land and crystallize it as lacrima.Template:Gnr A version of Fairy Tail exists in Edolas as a dark guild because of Faust's abolition of wizard guilds. Among its members are Template:Nihongo, Natsu Dragneel's timid counterpart and the guild's vehicle expert;Template:Gnr Template:Nihongo, a boyish and intimidating version of Lucy Heartfilia; Template:Nihongo, an overdressed version of Gray Fullbuster who harbors unrequited feelings for Juvia Lockser's counterpart; and a teenage version of Wendy Marvell.Template:Gnr They are hunted by Edolas's royal military, which includes Panther Lily, commander of the first division; the second division's Template:Nihongo, Erza Scarlet's ruthless counterpart who wields a transforming spear based on Haru Glory's Ten Commandments sword from Rave Master;Template:Gnr the third division's Template:Nihongo, who controls Faust's indoor amusement park attractions with a baton;Template:Gnr the fourth division's Template:Nihongo, whose sword can turn anything into liquid;Template:Gnr chief of staff Template:Nihongo, who carries various magical potions;Template:Gnr and Template:Nihongo, Byro's young, barefoot aide.Template:Gnr After the Earth-land wizards prevent Faust from committing genocide against the Exceed race using a giant lacrima formed from Magnolia's residents, battling the dragon-shaped mecha Template:Nihongo manned by the king,Template:Gnr Mystogan restores the city and reverses the anima's effects to return all of the stolen magic, permanently depleting Edolas's supply.Template:Gnr
Exceed
The Template:Nihongo are a race of anthropomorphic cat-like beings from Edolas ruled by Queen Template:Nihongo, who has precognition. Residing on a floating island called Template:Nihongo, they are the only residents of Edolas capable of possessing magic as a natural ability, which they use to produce wings and fly with the spell Aera. Because of this, they are seen as angels by the humans of Edolas, with Chagot revered as a god who passes judgment on humans.Template:Gnr Most of the Exceed population resent humans, casting out any Exceed who sympathize with them or ignore their queen's orders.Template:Gnr Despite this, they are actually a weak race with a history of being abused by humans, and their divinity is a ruse devised by Chagot's court to protect their people.Template:Gnr Before their births, Happy and Carla's eggs are sent to Earth-land along with 98 other unborn Exceed under the pretense of hunting and killing Dragon Slayers,Template:Gnr which is later revealed to be a cover for a discreet evacuation effort after Chagot foresees Extalia's eventual destruction caused by Edolas's loss of magic.Template:Gnr The entire Exceed race is transported to Earth-land after Mystogan reverses Edolas's anima and, realizing their mistake in judging humans, decide to live in harmony with them whilst searching for the missing Exceed children.Template:Gnr
Others
Igneel
Template:Nihongo, the Template:Nihongo, is a dragon and Natsu Dragneel's adoptive father. He raises Natsu from infancy, teaching him language, culture, and the ability to use Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.Template:Gnr When Natsu witnesses Igneel's disappearance on July 7, X777, he begins a search for the dragon.Template:Gnr His search results in him encountering several other Dragon Slayers who have similarly lost their own dragon guardians on the same date. Fourteen years later, when Acnologia arrives at the battle between Fairy Tail and Tartaros, Igneel is revealed to have magically sealed himself inside Natsu's body all along,Template:Gnr as are the other dragons with their respective children, for the triple purpose of preventing them from turning into dragons as a side effect of their Dragon Slayer Magic, waiting to personally eliminate Acnologia after the Dragon Slayers are fully inoculated,Template:Gnr and prolonging their own lives since they have lost their souls to Acnologia.Template:Gnr However, Igneel is brutally killed by Acnologia and ascends back to a higher plane of existence with his fellow dragons to watch over mankind. He also passes down the "Fire Dragon King Mode" to Natsu Dragneel after his death.Template:Gnr
Ur
Template:Nihongo is Ultear Milkovich's mother and Gray Fullbuster and Lyon Vastia's teacher. She is a renowned Ice Make wizard whose power is said to be worthy of the Ten Wizard Saints'.Template:Gnr Before meeting Gray and Lyon, Ur brings her sickly daughter as a child to a magic research facility to save her life, only to later be told that Ultear has died while the doctors perform unethical, secret experiments on her.Template:Gnr She then takes on Lyon and Gray as her pupils in an effort to move on. When Gray attempts to kill the Etherious Deliora, Ur sacrifices herself to save him by performing the forbidden spell Template:Nihongo, transforming her body into ice to permanently freeze the demon. She remains alive in this form until Lyon melts her with the Moon Drip spell to release Deliora, essentially killing her as she drifts out to sea as water. Later, Ultear falls into the sea while dueling with Gray, causing her to experience her mother's memories. She realizes the truth of what transpired at the research facility, and that her assumption that Ur had abandoned her there is wrong.Template:Gnr
Jude Heartfilia
A wealthy business tycoon and president of the esteemed Heartfilia Konzern, Template:Nihongo is Lucy Heartfilia's father. Like Lucy, his name is based on a Beatles song - in this case "Hey Jude".[12] After Layla's death, Jude's relationship with Lucy becomes fractured, which eventually leads to Lucy running away from home.Template:Gnr Years later, he recruits Phantom Lord to bring her home for a business opportunity. However, his actions inadvertently involve Fairy Tail in a guild war to protect her, resulting in Lucy breaking ties with her father.Template:Gnr Shortly afterward, Jude becomes bankrupt and loses his estate, and takes up work at a merchant's guild, mending his relationship with Lucy.Template:Gnr He dies toward the end of Lucy's seven-year disappearance, but demonstrates his love and faith in his daughter's well-being by leaving her seven years worth of rent money and birthday gifts.Template:Gnr
Anna Heartfilia
Lucy and Layla's ancestor from 400 years in the past.
Elefseria
Template:Nihongo is the master of Template:Nihongo Earth-land's first wizard guild, who appears in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest. He serves as Fairy Tail's client for the 100 Years Quest, which he issued following a failed attempt at defeating the Five Dragon Gods by teaching himself Dragon Slayer magic, resulting in his transformation into a dragon. As such, he has remained alive for the 160 years since making his request, using magic to assume his original human appearance. As the Template:Nihongo, he possesses knowledge of all things in the world.
Karameel
Template:Nihongo is a resident of Ermina who was saved from a shipwreck by Mercphobia when she was young, serving as the latter's assistant. She has a close relationship with the Water Dragon God, and as such, is wary of any visitors out of concern for if they pose a threat to her master. In searching for a way to allow Mercphobia to live as a normal human, she made contact with the White Wizard.
Athena
Template:Nihongo is a mechanical wizard created by Duke as a weapon against the Five Dragon Gods, becoming known as the Template:Nihongo of the Magic World for the destruction she caused. She is known in Ishgal as the Template:Nihongo, the founder and figurehead of the white magic cult Template:Nihongo foot for which she is thought to be as dangerous as Zeref, the Black Wizard.Template:Ref Founding Rebellious was an unintentional impact of her travels to try to gain emotions and live as a human, a goal which also caused her to temporarily join Gold Owl when the fake Duke promised to help her achieve it in order to use her power for his own goals. Template:Ref
Zalam and Iruha
Template:Nihongo is the Guild Master of the Alchemy Guild Template:Nihongo.Template:Ref His supposed father is a genius Alchemist named Template:Nihongo. The two can fuse into a young girl named Iruzala which boosts their Alchemy powers.Template:Ref However, it is later revealed that Zalam is the real Duke Barbaroa, somehow surviving his apparent death, and Iruha disappears, making it unclear what he was.Template:Ref
Reception
The characters of Fairy Tail have received both praise and criticism from publications dedicated to anime, manga, and other media.
Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network describes the characters' styles as having a "strong 'bite me' vibe" and compared the visual style to that of One Piece author Eiichiro Oda.[13] In his review of the second volume, Kimlinger said that Cancer's fighting style "is a kick".[14]
In reviewing the first DVD/Blu-ray volume of Fairy Tail, Carlo Santos of Anime News Network says "with a lead character as pumped-up as Natsu, it's hard not to get caught up in his energy". Santos also praises Happy, citing his character as an "entertaining diversion, proving that animal sidekicks can be fun to listen to and not just a necessary annoyance".[15]
In his reviews of the Blu-ray/DVDs, Neil Lumbard of DVD Talk mentions the "strong likeability factor of each of the main characters".[16]
Anime News Network writer Rebecca Silverman, in her review of the 20th volume, said, "Mashima still manages to get some action and laughs in as well, including one especially funny subplot involving Gajeel. Wendy takes over from Lucy as the primary female of the series for most of this volume, and how you feel about that will probably depend upon which character you prefer." Silverman also thought that readers "may have had mixed feelings about Jellal's return earlier in this arc, but the bond between him and Erza has been underlying their scenes for most of their page time together [in chapters 162 through 164]." However, she said that "for the romantics in the audience, Jellal is still a criminal, and the government wants him. And so they come for him," and pointed out that "Erza fans and detractors will find it deepens her character a little while still finding it sad."[17]
References
Fairy Tail manga
Entire series
- Mashima, Hiro, translated and adapted by William Flanagan. Fairy Tail. 63 vols. New York City: Del Rey Manga/Kodansha USA, 2008–2018.
- Mashima, Hiro. フェアリーテイル [Fairy Tail] (in Japanese). 63 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2006–2017.
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