Azazel

**Azazel** is the former Governor General of the Fallen Angels and Grigori. He also previously served as a Chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy and as the advisor of the Occult Research Club before the

## **Appearance**

Azazel is a tall man appearing to be in his twenties with an average build, black hair, golden bangs and black goatee. He also possesses twelve jet-black feathered wings that grow out from his back. It is described by Vali to be a never ending black.

During the Summit, Azazel wore a V-neck maroon long-coat with a wide, open high-collar that opens up at the hem. The long-coat also featured two black belts around the waist and four black bands on each arm, two of the bands at the wrist and the other two near the elbow. He wore grey slacks and brown shoes.

After the events in Volume 2, he loses his left arm but replaces it with a prosthetic arm made from his Sacred Gear research.

When he served as a Chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy, Azazel wore a knee-length dark blue blazer with a lighter blue dress shirt, a black waist coat, and a red tie. He wore faded-purple slacks and black dress shoes.

## **Personality**

It is hard to determine Azazel's personality as he is laid-back yet serious, while also wise and insane at the same time. His character seems to reflect upon the situation at hand. Azazel loves to collect things, (shown when, after Issei introduced him to video games, he collected every console) and a research fanatic, especially on Sacred Gears. He is also shown to be pacifistic, preferring to talk his way out of troubles rather than resorting to violence. He has been shown to care deeply for his fellow Fallen Angels, Shemhazai and Baraqiel.

Azazel has also been shown to be extremely charismatic, being able to endear his Fallen Angel followers. Azazel has complicated feelings about the fact that many of his friends and acquaintances are all married and have a family. Azazel is also perverted because of his fondness for breasts, and also due to the fact that he has stated to have had hundreds of harems over the millennia. Not to mention that his stated reason for becoming a Fallen Angel all those millennia ago was lust. Even before he became a Fallen Angel, he was already a pervert as he would fantasize about touching/seeing Gabriel's breasts, the most beautiful woman in Heaven as evident when he encouraged Issei to use Dress Break on her.

Azazel is also very compassionate as he would do whatever he can to help people in need. The most prominent example is when he adopted both Vali and cared for them as his own sons, after learning of the immense abuse and cruelty Vali and Riki suffered by their father and grandfather.

However, there seems to be a hidden former side to Azazel as Shiva told him that he is the most sinister of the Fallen Angels, despite wanting to spread peace.

## **History**

Originally an Angel from Fifth Heaven, during his time there, Azazel had once written a report on his Artificial Sacred Gear, the Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade, which was published by Michael during the war much to his embarrassment.

Azazel later lost his place in the Heaven after having sex with a human woman and became a Fallen Angel as punishment from God. Shortly after that, he created the Fallen Angels' organization, Grigori, and became its Governor General. During the Great War between the Three Factions, the Fallen Angels were the first to retreat due to Azazel's order after he had lost many of his subordinates. After retreating from the Great War, Azazel started to research Sacred Gears, creating Artificial Sacred Gears and other objects related to them.

He also made a contract with one of the Five Great Dragon Kings, Fafnir, during his research and created his own Artificial Sacred Gear: the Down Fall Dragon Spear.

At some point, before the series begins, Azazel found the young twins Riki and Vali Lucifer who had been abandoned by their parents, took them to Grigori and taught him how to properly use their powers along with their Sacred Gear while raising them.

## **Powers & Abilities**

**Immense Light Power:** As a Fallen Angel, Azazel has the ability to use light power to create various effects. As the Governor General of Grigori, it is noted that his light powers are serious among other fallen angels.

**Immense Strength:** As the First Governor General, Azazel has immense strength rivaling Satan-Class Devils, being superior to Shemhazai, Baraqiel, and Kokabiel, rivaling the Archangel, Michael. During the Three Factions Conference, he fought against Katerea, an Ultimate-Class Devil and a Leviathan descendant even without using his Down Fall Dragon Spear. Donned in his Dragon Armor, he fought Cao Cao, the Strongest Longinus user; and in Vol 11, Pluto, an Ultimate-Class Grim Reaper. In Vol 16, Azazel has shown incredible physical strength able to destroy the nearby wall using a single punch.

**Immense Durability:** Azazel has remarkable durability and pain tolerance, showing no reaction to cutting off his own left arm after freeing himself from Katerea's tentacle arms who planned on self-destructing. He later survived a surprise attack from Vali before casually emerged relatively unharmed following his betrayal. Azazel endured a light blast from Cao Cao's True Longinus with only slight burns.

**Immense Speed:** Azazel is capable of moving at God-like speed, being able to appear behind his opponents without them noticing.
**Master Combatant:** Azazel is an extremely masterful combatant, having centuries worth of combat experience as the leader and founder of Grigori since the time of the Great War. He was confident enough to fight against Katerea Leviathan, one of the Old Satan Faction leaders and an Ultimate-Class Devil empowered by Ophis' Snake with minimal effort before dominating her donned in his Down Fall Dragon Armor. Azazel also fought against the Strongest Human who owns the most powerful Longinus and the Ultimate-Class Grim Reaper, Plutodonned in his armor.

* **Master Spearman:** Azazel has shown to be extremely proficient in spearmanship, which he is shown to most use in combat rather than light swords or bows. He was skilled enough to fight against Cao Cao, a fellow master spearman himself using the True Longinus, the Strongest among all the Longinus Sacred Gears donned in his Dragon Armor.

**Genius Intellect:** As one of the greatest minds aside from Ajuka, Azazel has near impeccable intellect, memory, and knowledge measuring almost from his centuries of experience. He nearly knows almost all about the various mythical items, beings, secrets, and histories around all the other world's factions.

* **Master Inventor:** He is regarded by several people as a passionate inventor and researcher who enjoys investigating, studying, and inventing various items, the most notable being Sacred Gears. A testament to this, he created Artificial Sacred Gears such as the Down Fall Dragon Spear and others, most of them being handed off to the Sitri Team. Azazel is considered the leading expert in Sacred Gears able to help others in mastering theirs and using items he created to handle them. Even as a pure angel, Michael has long since acknowledge his talents as an inventor and researcher.
* **Master Tactician:** Azazel is also an expert battle tactician able to lead the entire Gremory Group into an assortment of dangerous battles against powerful opponents following the incidents involving the Khaos Brigade. He acted as one of the battle tacticians alongside the Norse, Greek, and Hindu Factions during the Diodora incident in defeating the Old Satan Faction and their last two leaders. Cao Cao credited him as being a scientist-based warrior who studies his opponents until his battle strategies are flawless to the point where he'd be in a dangerous position in a third battle. After the formation of the D×D, aside from being the adviser of special technology, Azazel acts as the strategist and their tactician commander.
* **Master Adviser:** Despite his laid-back nature, Azazel is one of the wisest men alive partly to his intellect and centuries worth of experience. He's primarily known for training several powerful Sacred Gear users who were initially novices such as Vali, Tobio, and other members of the Slash/Dog Team. Azazel would later teach members of the Occult Research Club about using their powers and defeating enemies, who'd all become some of his greatest students, the most notable being Issei.
* **Master Politician:** As the former Governor General of Grigori, Azazel is a highly skilled and experienced politician, particularly in diplomacy. He could maintain friendly relationships with the former chief deities of the Norse and Greek Factions Odin and Zeus as he could enlisted their help in dealing with terrorist threats from the Khaos Brigade.

**Master Magician:** Azazel has considerable magic knowledge and is a master of using various magics and spells. He can various magics such as summoning magic, transport magic, defense magic, fallen angel magic, and Dragon Gate magic circles with ease. Azazel can also force students of Kuoh Academy to sleep while casting barriers over the girls.

* **Defensive Magic:** Azazel showed the ability to create barriers, being able to create the strongest protective barrier around Kuoh Academy alongside Sirzechs and Michaelpreventing the school from being attacked by the Khaos Brigade. He can use defensive magic circles to protect himself, defending himself against Katerea Leviathan or defending the Occult Research Club members from the Anti-Monsters light attacks.
* **Sealing Magic:** Azazel is also skilled in sealing magic, first using it in an attempt to keep Vaatu from being released, however, it proved ineffective.
* **Teleportation Magic:** Azazel showed the ability to teleport himself and others.
* **Summoning Magic**: Azazel is skilled with summoning magic as he manages to make a pact with the legendary Gigantis Dragon: Fafnir and summon him by using a Dragon Gate. He later tutored Asia Argento in the use of summoning magic.

**Stealth Expert:** Azazel is very skilled in hiding his presence, something even Rias and Yuuto was unable to detect.

**Flight:** Being a Fallen Angel, Azazel can fly using his wings.

## **Equipment**

### Inventions

Having founded the Grigori organization; that has done various research on Sacred Gears, Azazel has developed a number of inventions. The notable ones are below:

* **Down Fall Dragon Spear**: An Artificial Sacred Gear that has one of the Five Dragon Kings, Fafnir, sealed inside of it after he made a pact with him. It has the appearance of a golden short spear which has a purple ball at its end.
	+ **Down Fall Dragon Another Armor**: Balance Breaker of Down Fall Dragon Spear, which equips Azazel with a Golden Dragon Armor, which he made based on Riki and Vali's Scale Mail. It increases Azazel's offensive and defensive capabilities and allows Azazel to summon a two-pronged Spear of Light. However, the armor isn't as powerful as genuine Scale Mail armor as Cao Cao noted that Azazel can't reflect Fafnir's power with it.
* **Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade**: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a sword with a mixture of light and darkness with high destructive powers.
	+ **Blazer Shining or Darkness Samurai Sword**: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a katana sword. Like the original, it possesses the same destructive powers as well as the ability to cut down spirits without physical forms. It was later given to Tomoe Meguri.
	+ **Blazer Shining or Darkness Blade - Kitchen Knife Type**: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of an ordinary kitchen knife that releases a slight golden aura. It can basically cut almost anything including evil spirits. It is later confiscated by Grigori.
* **Mechanical Arm**: An all-purpose prosthetic arm that can be loaded with light power-style laser beams and tiny missiles. It can also fly on its own.
* **Sacred Gear Scanner**: A scanner that can tell the type, abilities, and weakness of a Sacred Gear. One was given to Gasper prior to the Hero Faction's small-scale assaults.
* **Gender-Swap Raygun**: A raygun that changes the gender of a person. It is later sealed due to its inappropriate capability.
* **Definite Body Change Driver:** A handgun that fires a "Body Change Beam" that can swap the souls of the humans who are closest to each other. Riki mentioned that it was tested it on him and Vali.
* **Bracelets:** Azazel has created several bracelets with magical characters engraved on them. He handed two of them to Issei during the Three Factions Meeting, one which could allow Gasper to control his Forbidden Balor View and Issei to let him use Scale Mail instead of sacrificing a part of himself like before. A second model assisted Akeno in awakening her fallen angel powers thus entering her Fallen Angel Mode.