Gajeel Redfox

**Gajeel Redfox** is an Iron Dragon Slayer, a member of the Fairy Tail Guild, and a former S-Class Mage of the disbanded Phantom Lord Guild. He is also the secret love interest of Levy McGarden.

## Physical Appearance

Gajeel is a tall and muscular young man with light-tan skin and long, spiky black hair, which is usually kept slicked back, revealing his forehead. He has red eyes with slitted dark pupils, and has no visible eyebrows. Most of his exposed body is covered in sets of simple, round studs. The most visible studs are on his face, with three of them above each of his eyes (acting as "eyebrows" of sorts), three on each side of his nose, and two on his chin, just below his mouth. His ears are adorned by two sets of five earrings each.

He also sports four studs on each of his forearms, with his right one being covered in scars. His black Fairy Tail mark is located on his left arm, just below his shoulder. Being a Dragon Slayer, Gajeel's canine teeth are distinctively sharper than normal.

Gajeel's attire consists primarily of a dark blue trench coat, whose tail reaching down to his upper-calves, with a green short-sleeved shirt worn under it that has light- and dark-colored patterns on the front and collar, along with loose, beige pants, with a grey belt around his waist, and a pair of black, studded boots. His hair remains the same, albeit with strands of hair on the side of his head, hiding his ears, and wearing a dark yellow bandana on his forehead. He also wears fingerless dark brown gloves, with studs on the knuckles.

## Personality

When Gajeel first appeared in the *Fairy Tail* series, Gajeel is quite cold, uncaring and apathetic, not hesitating to injure his own allies if irritated, and isn't quick to make friends at all. However, Gajeel is completely and genuinely dedicated to whatever guild he is affiliated with. In fact, he instigated the Fairy Tail-Phantom Lord Guild War simply because, as long time-rivals, he believed that the Fairy Tail Mages were enemies. Upon his recruitment to Fairy Tail, his sense of comradeship seemed to increase, though has the same attitude as before. He even went as far as reprimanding Laxus Dreyar, whom he admits to be a more powerful Mage than he is, for attempting to kill Natsu with his Lightning Magic when they were supposed to be allies.

Despite saying that he doesn't wish to make friends, he ironically forms them through his tenacious and gruff personality. He believes himself to be a great musician, regardless of what others think of him, and enjoys showing off his metal grinding, glass cracking, and ear destroying voice, like when he chains Mirajane Strauss to a wall to steal her spot as the performing artist for the night. He's also displayed a sense of honor, despite his actions while a part of Phantom Lord; when Shadow Gear confronts Gajeel for the heinous act he committed upon them, he makes himself an open target, acknowledging the terrible act he had done to them, and gave them the opportunity for vengeance. He even protected Levy McGarden after Laxus shot a blast of lightning at her, showing both his compassion for his guildmates, as well as some initial hidden hatred for Laxus.

Gajeel is short-tempered, as seen when he and Natsu bicker over callow things. Like Natsu, Gajeel lives for the thrill of combat, and is visibly frustrated when faced with circumstances where he is denied the opportunity of fighting a skilled adversary, as seen during the S-Class Trials. Despite his cold demeanor, he has shown a humorous side of himself, as seen when he was shocked to see Mirajane transform her face into his.

Despite his tough exterior, Gajeel is as emotionally vulnerable as any other person. He was noticeably upset upon realizing that he was the only Dragon Slayer that didn't have a cat as a partner. He then desperately tries to find a cat in the alleys, but ends up becoming heavily exhausted. Later on in Edolas, Gajeel finds the partner he is looking for in Pantherlily. Upon arriving back in Earth Land, he cries tears of joy when he discovers Pantherlily also made it, despite his reduced size.

Gajeel has a unique way of laughing: "Gi Hi Hi Hi". And, like quite a few other Dragon Slayers, Gajeel suffers from severe motion sickness, although his case does not develop until the 2nd Day of the Grand Magic Games in X791 during the Chariot event.

## Abilities

**Iron Dragon Slayer Magic**: Gajeel was taught how to use **Iron Dragon Slayer Magic** by Metalicana, **The Iron Dragon**. As its name implies, Gajeel's particular **Dragon Slayer Magic** deals with the manipulation of iron. Gajeel eats iron to regain his own strength, and his teeth and jaw muscles are powerful enough to gnaw through solid metal with ease, even allowing him to eat the Magic-canceling metal of the Dorma Anim. Gajeel's Magic deals with producing multi-sized iron rods, as well as changing parts of his body into steel. Most of his attacks involve transforming his arms into blunt, metallic weapons, which he can do at will. Additionally, Gajeel may turn his iron into steel if he somehow becomes able to absorb trace amounts of carbon; said process is still toxic and harmful to his body as it would be to others, but the addition of the natural element changes the composition of his spells, allowing him to deal enhanced damage and/or break through defenses that his iron could not. His mastery of **Iron Dragon Slayer Magic**and becoming one of Fairy Tail's strongest S-Class Mage Candidates, has earned him the infamy, "**Black Steel**" Gajeel (Japanese translation for *Iron Dragon Gajeel*).

* **Iron Dragon's Roar**: Gajeel's exclusive, metal-based *Dragon's Roar*. After gathering Magic Power in his mouth, Gajeel shapes it into a powerful tornado which he subsequently emits and sends towards his foes. Such tornado possesses immense force, being capable of generating powerful explosions and inflicting heavy blunt damage, but also releases sharp shards of metal in the process, shredding the opponents' body.
* **Iron Dragon's Club**: Gajeel transforms his arm or leg into a large steel club, increasing his punching and kicking power. He can also create multiple, smaller clubs from the end of the original, hitting many enemies at once. The clubs can be elongated at Gajeel's will, making them powerful ranged weapons. He is also apparently capable of increasing their size dramatically and to detach them from his body: several of these clubs, enlarged to gargantuan size, were the main cause of the original Fairy Tail Building's destruction. Also, for added maneuverability and to take opponents off-guard, the club can be rapidly turned into the similar **Iron Dragon's Sword**.
* **Iron Dragon's Sword**: Gajeel transforms his arm or leg into a large, jagged steel blade, similarly to Iron Dragon's Club, but, rather than blunt power, this spell has cutting power, thereby making it deadlier. The spikes along the blade's edge make its slashes more painful and dangerous, and the weapon's length can be increased to reach enemies who are far away from Gajeel. The blade is also sturdy enough to function as a shield of sorts. In the *Fairy Tail* anime, the sword also functions as a chainsaw, effectively increasing its damage.
* **Iron Dragon's Scales**: Gajeel covers part of his body (or the entirety of it) in steel scales, dramatically increasing his offensive and defensive abilities. When punching and kicking while covered in these scales, Gajeel is capable of creating powerful gusts of wind through mere kinetic force. When confronted with Natsu Dragneel's flames, the resulting clash generated a powerful shock wave which heavily damaged the area surrounding the two of them. These scales are strong enough to shatter bone and rock alike, are resilient against regular flames, and much harder than normal iron, as shown when Pantherlily's Bustermarm Sword wasn't able to cut through them.
* **Iron Dragon's Lance: Demon Logs**: Gajeel extends one of his arms towards his turns his target's direction, with his fingers outstretched, turning it into a large spearhead, from which a large number of steel spears are fired towards his target in rapid succession.
* **Iron Dragon's Kunai**: Gajeel creates small, kunai-esque knives that can be thrown with pinpoint accuracy.
* **Iron Dragon's Foot Blade**: Gajeel sprouts a sharp, harpoon-like blade from the sole of each of his feet. By planting these blades in the ceiling, he's capable of remaining suspended and to move around as if he were walking normally.
* **Iron Dragon's Hard Fist**: Gajeel punches the target while covered in **Iron Dragon's Scales**, greatly enhancing his punching power that could shatter both rock, metal, and bones alike.
* **Dragon Slayer's Secret Art**:
	+ **Karma Demon: Iron God Sword**: Seemingly one of his most, if not the most powerful spell in Gajeel's possession, being acknowledged as one of the **Secret Arts** attainable by the **Iron Dragon Slayer**. Gajeel claps his hands together above his head, creating a gigantic iron sword. He then proceeds to swipe the sword down, destroying a substantially large area in front of him.
	+ **Karma Demon: Iron Spiral**: Seemingly his second ultimate move, Gajeel transforms his legs into a giant drill, which rotates at high speed, heavily damaging and piercing through whatever it strikes. He used this spell to destroy the Dragonoid's core and to free Natsu from his imprisonment. Although it did what it was intended to do, Gajeel stated that he still had a long way to go, since he "*planned*" to destroy the whole Dragonoid, along with Natsu.

**Iron Shadow Dragon Mode**: After eating Rogue Cheney's shadows, Gajeel gained the ability to use his **Iron Dragon Slayer Magic** enhanced with shadows. Gajeel can, also, turn his body into a shadow, granting him intangibility. Furthermore, as a shadow, Gajeel is unimpeded by things that would otherwise slow his physical body down, such as being in a large body of water. It greatly enhances his physical abilities as well, granting him enormous speed, monstrous strength and greater resilience towards attacks.

* **Iron Shadow Dragon's Roar**: Gajeel's alternate, shadow-enhanced version of his **Iron Dragon's Roar**. Gajeel quickly gathers and releases a large amount of iron and shadows from his mouth, generating a very large, powerful, destructive blast that can be seen throughout an area at least the size of Crocus.
* **Iron Shadow Dragon's Club**: Gajeel attacks his target with a shadow-cloaked **Iron Dragon's Club**. The damage dealt is increased by the addition of the swirling shadows.
* **Iron Shadow Dragon's Sword**: Gajeel gathers shadows and iron around his arms, creating a menacing jagged swords of iron, coated by shadows. Unlike his regular **Iron Dragon's Sword**, Gajeel is capable of making the blade become intangible, thus passing any defenses and going straight for the kill without any delay. Along with that, Iron Shadow Dragon's Sword has boasts greater cutting power, and can extend in a mere instant, and like it's iron counterpart, mass produce itself on Gajeel's body.
* **Dragon Slayer's Secret Art Revision**:
	+ **Karma Demon: Iron Shadow God Sword**: Gajeel's alternate, shadow-enhanced version of his Karama Demon: Iron God Sword. Gajeel claps his hands together above his head, creating his signature Iron God Sword, except with the sword now covered in smoke-like, black shadows. Like the original, he swipes the sword down, destroying a certain amount of area in front of him and severely damaging his opponents with destructive force.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: In battle, aside from his Iron Dragon Slayer Magic, Gajeel is known for extensively employing unarmed combat, and to possess great proficiency in doing so. His style is a brutal one; consisting of powerful, direct moves such as devastating punches and headbutts, complemented by his high physical ability, with his strength making his blows highly damaging, and his speed allowing him to land them in extremely fast succession. When employed alongside his Iron Dragon's Scales, his unarmed blows become far deadlier. During his battle with Pantherlily, he was shown able to engage in midair confrontations, reaching the flying Exceed with a leap and then bombarding him with a barrage of punches, and his clash with Rogue Cheney during the Grand Magic Games proved him able to block and even counter-attack assaults from behind without the need to turn his back.

**Immense Strength**: Gajeel has shown, on different occasions to be quite strong, boasting strength that is unparalleled to normal humans, and considered downright monstrous: during his time under Jose Porla, while he was tormenting the captured Lucy Heartfilia, Gajeel casually head-butted a fellow Phantom Lord member with enough force to crack the stone floor the man crashed upon. His physical might is enough for him to clash with Natsu on even terms, to block and shatter Pantherlily's gargantuan Bustermarm Sword, and to pin down and hold still the gigantic Dorma Anim all by himself, allowing Natsu to finish it off. He's also capable of performing very high leaps, as shown from him reaching Pantherlily, who was floating in midair because of his Aera, from the ground, which was located several meters below him. Furthermore, he was capable of delivering several powerful blows to Rogue Cheney while blocking his Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic bare-handed.

**Enhanced Durability**: Even without his Dragon Slayer abilities, Gajeel has consistently proven himself to be a very resilient man: when he was confronted by Shadow Gear after joining Fairy Tail, he was able to shrug off the combined attacks from Jet and Droy without retaliation and only resorted to covering his body in his metal scales to protect Levy from Laxus' lightning. Also, during his battle with Laxus, he took an attack which would have, otherwise, killed Natsu and remained conscious. During his time in Edolas, Gajeel used his metal scales to fight Faust's mechanical Dragon, where he took extremely powerful hits and continued to fight.

**Enhanced Smell**: Gajeel has an incredible sense of smell, which he shares with other **Dragon Slayers**. He uses this for tracking purposes as apparently, nothing can escape his nose, best seen when he tracked down Lucy, who had escaped from Jose's imprisonment. It is also heavily implied that Gajeel used this skill to track down Levy, who ran away from him during the S-Class Trials out of frustration. He is also capable of identifying different scents, including blood, and tell whether it's fresh or not. Even if blinded, or in complete darkness, Gajeel can use his sense of smell in order to locate his foe, recognizing their scent, and differentiating it from other scents, finding his opponent, and managing to fight even if blinded.

**Enhanced Speed**: Gajeel's overall speed and reflexes are impressive, enough for him to intercept attacks like Laxus' Lightning Bolts and reach Levy in time to save her from an ambush consisting of two Grimoire Heart Mages. He is even capable of easily avoiding attacks, and immediately countering, as well as dodge any attacks before he could find an opening.

**Immense Magic Power**: Even though he was a former S-Class Mage back at the Phantom Lord Guild, Gajeel still boasts an immense amount of magic power, equal to that of an average S-Class Mage. His level of magic energy easily makes him one of the strongest S-Class Mage Candidates of his guild. His magic color is grey with a shade of green to it.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Fairy Tail Guild
	+ Team Natsu
		- Natsu Dragneel (Best friend and arch-rival, also former enemy)
		- Happy
		- Lucy Heartfilia (Close friend)
		- Gray Fullbuster (Good friend)
		- Erza Scarlet (Good friend)
	+ Wendy Marvell (Close friend)
		- Carla
	+ Pantherlily (Exceed best friend, sidekick and partner-in-combat)
	+ Juvia Lockser (Best friend and younger sister figure)
	+ Strauss Siblings
	+ Shadow Gear
		- Levy McGarden (Best friend and former S-Class Trail partner, also secret love interest)
		- Jet
		- Droy
	+ Gildarts Clive
	+ Makarov Dreyar (Guild master)
* Lamia Scale
* Sabertooth
	+ Twin Dragons of Sabertooth
		- Sting Eucliffe
			* Lector
		- Rogue Cheney (Protégé, sworn brother and friendly rival)
			* Frosch
* Renji Abarai
* Greed

### Rivals

* Natsu Dragneel (Arch-rival)
* Rogue Cheney (Friendly rival)

### Enemies

* Ryuha Armament Alliance
	+ Shin Uchiha
	+ Sho Uchiha
* Acnologia
* Zeref
* Future Rogue Cheney
* Balam Alliance
	+ Grimoire Heart
* Raven Tail
* Legion Platton
* Edolas Royal Army
	+ Faust
* Fairy Tail (formerly)

## Quotes

* *That's what happens when you mess with the Iron Dragon Slayer!*
* *Messing with Fairy Tail is the biggest mistake you ever made in your life!*