Jude Heartfilia

Jude Heartfilia (ジュード・ハートフィリア Jūdo Hātofiria) was the husband of Layla Heartfilia, the father of Lucy Heartfilia, and the former owner of the Heartfilia Konzern.
==Appearance==
thumb|left|200px|Jude's appearance after the bankruptcy
Jude is a relatively tall middle-aged man with black eyes and slicked back blond hair and a matching, extremely trim mustache, and a rather firm, square jaw. The man's hair is kept extremely neat and trim, and he has a penchant for wearing rather expensive tailored suits.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 68, Pages 5-13 However, after his konzern was bought out, his appearance becomes extremely ragged and disheveled: his hair becomes long and wavy, ultimately reaching past his shoulders; his mustache becomes slightly longer and faded into a long, scraggly and unkempt beard. His clothing, on top of all this, becomes patchy and worn, and he wears a simple hooded traveling cloak that he used to hide his appearance.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 129, Pages 11-19 By the year X791 he returns to his old appearance.Fairy Tail Anime: Episode 145
==Personality==
Originally a cold-hearted man, Jude neglected his daughter and put all his time and effort into his company, which resulted in Lucy running away from home.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 67, Pages 5-7 According to Lucy, her dad never cared for her. Contrary to this, Jude did at one point love and cared his family, but his wife’s passing likely pushed him to his work and neglect his daughter.Fairy Tail Anime: Episode 150 However his current attitude towards his daughter seemed to change once she confronted himFairy Tail Manga: Chapter 68, Pages 10-18 and later when he lost his fortune, and he appeared to become more kind to his daughter, regretting his cold demeanor.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 130, Pages 12-16 On an unrelated note, Jude's monetary sense is extremely poor, as he believed he needed 100,000 to get from Magnolia Town to Acalypha when it was possible to get there on foot.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 130, Page 11
==History==
Years ago, Jude met Layla Heartfilia at the Love & Lucky Merchant's Guild. The letter "K" had fallen off of the sign, which had left an impression on the two parents-to-be, deciding that if they had a daughter, her name would be Lucy. Once Lucy was born, Jude and Layla left the guild and he established his own business, the Heartfilia Konzern.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 130, Page 13
At some point, Jude and Layla gifted Lucy a doll for her birthday, whom she loved like a sister and would play with all the time.
When Lucy was still in her younger years, Layla died and Jude became cold and neglected his daughter, so much that Lucy felt it necessary that she run away. A year after his daughter left, he hired Phantom Lord to find Lucy and bring her home for an arranged marriage, which ultimately sparked the war between the Fairy Tail and the Phantom Lord.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 50, Page 15
Over the years however, his company came under poor financial condition, resorting him to use his own personal money to desperately keep the company’s budget going.Fairy Tail Manga: Volume 16 Q&A
==Synopsis==
===Phantom Lord arc===
Jude is revealed to be responsible for requesting a job from the Phantom Lord Guild to find his missing daughter, Lucy. Jose Porla, Phantom Lord's Guild Master, planned to use Jude's job request to cut Fairy Tail's ever-increasing power short by kidnapping Lucy.
After the defeat of the Phantom Lord Guild, he is visited by Lucy, where he tells her that he wants her to marry Duke Sawarr Junelle to merge the Heartfilia's wealth with that of the Junelle's, although Lucy only met Sawarr as a child. Lucy rejects his command and states that she can make her own decisions and live her own life, and she will not forgive him if he attacks Fairy Tail again before destroying her fanciful clothes in an effort to prove that she has cut all ties with him. When Lucy runs off with her friends, Jude sadly looks out the window of his study at his smiling daughter.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 68, Pages 6-18
===Battle of Fairy Tail arc===
Jude appears as a spectator at the Fantasia Parade, where he watches Lucy perform.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 128, Page 7
Lucy later finds her father as a disheveled, bearded man with a tattered sheet of cloth to conceal himself; he explains to her that the Heartfilia Konzern is no more and that he has lost everything that was once in his name.
Saying that he's going to start all over again and work in a Merchant's Guild in Acalypha, Jude begs Lucy for 100,000 Jewels, to which she replies that she doesn't have that sort of money. Feeling rejected, Jude throws a tantrum, but Lucy yells for him to go away, which he does rather angrily.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 129, Pages 11-20
The next day, Lucy tries to rescue her father after hearing that the guild he was trying to get into was taken over by Naked Mummy.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 129, Pages 23-25 After defeating the bandits, she finds out that her father hadn't even arrived at the guild because he walked all the way from Magnolia to Acalypha.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 130, Pages 9-11
Jude then realizes that Lucy came because she was worried for him. He thanks her but then she walks away, stating that she still hasn't forgiven him. He stops her by saying that the guild they're at was the one where he first met her mother and reveals that the name "Lucy" came from the guild's name, Love & Lucky which, at that time, was missing the letter "K" from the sign, thus causing it to read "Lucy". After, the rest of Team Natsu finds Lucy and takes her with them, Jude is left alone, thinking to Layla that he was a fool all this time.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 130, Pages 9-16
===X791 arc===
Some months before Lucy's return, an archaeologist named Jean-Luc Neville places a hand of the Infinity Clock in Jude's possession. Jean-Luc wraps the hand in a Magic Cloth, as its high levels of Magic are easily trackable. Jude then promises Jean-Luc that he will seal away the hand in another place before bidding him farewell. Jude would later meet a young girl under the name Michelle Lobster who assisted him in his work on business negotiations in the west. Michelle was there for Jude in his final moments, telling her that not only he believed that Lucy is still alive, to pass the clock hand onto her and stating that she can be her sister again, revealing that he knew Michelle’s real identity.
Jude passed away peacefully one month before Lucy's return to Magnolia, Lucy is told this heartbreaking news by the receptionist at the Love & Lucky guild.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 256, Page 20 Later, it is revealed that Jude sent birthday presents to Lucy every year, even after she disappeared, and also wrote letters, hoping that she'd read them one day. He expressed his desire to see her again and called her his pride, finishing off the last letter by telling her that he had always loved her.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 257, Pages 15-17
==Trivia==
*Jude's name is derived from the song, "Hey Jude" by The Beatles.Hiro Mashima's Twitter, 22 Feb 2015 https://twitter.com/hiro_mashima/status/569493464448004096
==Quotes==
*(To Lucy Heartfilia) "You are mine and Layla's pride. All I want is that you live strong down whatever path you believe in. I hope I can see you again soon. Lucy... I've always... loved you."Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 257, Page 17
==Battles & Events==
*Lucy Heartfilia's Resolution
==References==
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