Gray Fullbuster

> I won't run, I will stand and look ahead to what I must do, I must face the fear, I won't let it control me anymore, I will use my heart that holds my courage and my bravery to move me forward to what I must do.
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## Description

Gray Fullbuster (*alt. Grey Fullbuster*) is a member of Fairy Tail and one of the four main characters of the series *Fairy Tail.* He has spiky, dark blue hair and black eyes. His guild mark is on his left pectoral, right underneath his collarbone and is dark blue. He almost always wears a silver necklace with what looks to be a small sword dangling from it. Besides that, he usually wears black pants with a belt, and prefers to go topless (a running gag is that he impulsively and randomly takes off his clothes, sometimes even without noticing, due to the harsh training he had to endure in extremely low temperatures).

## Backstory

In the world of Fairy Tail, there is a country far up north called Fiore, Gray Fullbuster was once a boy who lived happily with his two beloved parents. Everything changed one day when a kaiju-like demon made of ice called Deliora destroyed his whole village, making Gray the only survivor of the attack. Unlike Erza who became a slave in a similar event (kinda), Gray was found by Ur and Lyon Vastia. Ur was an Ice Mage investigating the destruction alongside with her first pupil Lyon, taking Gray as her second pupil after finding him. Being a second mother to Gray, Ur trained him and Lyon in the ways of Ice Magic in the mountains, which where the training also included stripping your clothes.

Months passed, and then Gray fought Deliora for revenge despite Ur and Lyon warnings of not fighting him. Gray was easily defeated alongside Lyon, and Ur fought the demon herself.

In the final moment of the battle, Ur sacrificed herself by using the move Iced Shell, killing herself to become the ice itself and sealing Deliora. Before she died, she told Gray to step into the future, and to tell Lyon the same since he was knocked out. Lyon sadly hated Gray, blaming him for Ur’s death, and parted ways.

Gray went west soon after to find strong wizards and try to bring back Ur. He fails in bringing back Ur. But, he ended joining the Fairy Tail Guild instead. Now one of the strongest members and being a teammate for Team Natsu, Gray found a new family, and one that he will protect no matter what.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Ice-Make Magic:** Gray’s signature type of magic, Ice-Make, was taught to him by his mentor Ur. With this Molding Magic, Gray can create ice out of thin air and mold it however he sees fit. There are two variations of Ice-Make Magic, Static, which creates inanimate objects to use as weapons, and Dynamic, which creates living creatures out of solid ice. While Gray specializes in Static Ice-Make, he’s skilled enough to use Dynamic Ice-Make as well. According to Gray himself, Ice-Make Magic allows him to create pretty much anything he wants, and given his insanely versatile arsenal, we’re inclined to agree with him.
	+ **Lance**: Gray’s bread-and-butter technique, this attack summons multiple frozen spears to impale the opponent. He also has an enhanced variant known as Ice-Make: Freeze Lancer.
	+ **Wall**: Gray creates a large wall to block incoming attacks. He has an enhanced version called Ice-Make: Rampart.
	+ **Floor:** With this spell, Gray freezes the ground, slipping up any oncoming opponents and leaving them easy targets.
	+ **Stairs:** Gray creates a staircase so he can reach higher ground.
	+ **Slide**
	+ **Shield:** Gray’s go-to whenever he needs to go on the defensive. This technique creates a frozen barrier to block an on coming attack. He has a variation called Ice-Make: Cocoon that surrounds him on all sides.
	+ **Sword:** Gray makes a frozen sword that’s as solid as any real metal. He also has the greatsword, Cold Excalibur, and the twin Scimitars Ice Bringer.
	+ **Battleaxe:** Gray creates a battleaxe out of ice.
	+ **Hammer:** With this spell, Gray creates a massive hammer made of solid ice that he drops on the opponent. He has an even bigger version called Ice-Make: Ice Impact.
	+ **Death Scythe:** Gray creates a massive scythe made of ice, before slashing at the opponent.
	+ **Cannon:** Gray forms a massive amount of artillery that he can load with surrounding rubble or his own ice to blast apart enemies. He has a hand-held variation in the form of a bazooka called Ice-Make: Ice Cannon.
	+ **Arrows:** Gray creates a frozen bow out of ice, before firing off a storm of ice shards at the opponent.
	+ **Ice Geyser:** Gray punches the earth, before summoning a massive pillar of ice that freezes or impales the opponent. He can also use this to gain higher ground against an opponent if need be. There’s also a variation called Ice-Make: Ice Wall that freezes the opponent instead of impaling them.
	+ **Super Freeze Arrow:** A combination of Ice-Make: Arrow and Ice-Make: Ice Geyser, this is a devastating attack fired from a high point. A single shot was able to one-hit KO the time manipulator Racer.
	+ **Prison:** Gray creates a jail made of solid ice to entrap the opponent. It was able to hold the likes of Natsu Dragneel for a good amount of time even though that guy’s whole deal is making lots and lots of FIRE.
	+ **Grappling Hook**
	+ **Clone:** Gray makes a copy of himself out of solid ice that is near-identical to the original. Gray can use this spell to distract an enemy or to avoid an oncoming attack. He can make up to two of these clones.
	+ **Key:** Gray creates a key out of ice in order to unlock locks.
	+ **Thieving Hand:** Gray’s only shown Dynamic Ice Make spell, he creates a set of grabby hands to sneak items off of an unsuspecting opponent.
	+ **Gungnir:** Named after Odin’s spear of legend, Gray erects a massive frozen spear, trapping the opponent within the spear’s tip.
	+ **Knuckle:** Gray summons a flurry of fists from underneath the opponent to pummel them relentlessly.
	+ **Vambrace:** Gray creates a massive gauntlet out of ice that greatly increases his punching and throwing power.
	+ **Saucer:** Gray launches a giant spinning chakram/saw-blade to slice into an unsuspecting opponent.
	+ **Fishnet**
	+ **Kite:** This spell is Gray’s main method of air transport, granting him a kite that lets him glide through the air
	+ **Ocean:** Gray freezes an entire body of water. Used to ruin water parks.
	+ **Crescent Blades:** Gray shoots forward a massive amount of moon-shaped blades to attack multiple targets at once.
	+ **Seven Slice Dance:** Gray forms two blades on his arm, before rushing the opponent and slicing into them. Typically used as a finishing move. He also has an enhanced version made with his own blood.
	+ **Unlimited: One-Sided Chaotic Dance:** Gray creates a massive amount of Ice-based weapons at an insane speed, all connected by a single icy chain. Gray then charges forward, grinding up the opponent with a blender of swords, axes, spears, and other weapons.
	+ **Silver:** Gray freezes a massive area with his ice powers with a single gesture.
* **Ice Magic:** Alongside his signature Ice-Make, Gray has access to several general Ice Spells. Most of the time, this is used to create ice or freeze over things, but he does have two notable spells in this magic family.
	+ **Iced Shell:** An incredibly risky maneuver, using Iced Shell completely encases the victim in a block of ice. This ice is nearly unmeltable, and has also been shown to gradually wear away the victim’s body until it’s broken into pieces, as shown with the demon Demigra. However, it does have a high cost. Using this spell destroys the user’s spirit and body in order to become the ice itself, meaning that it can only be used once. Gray’s attempted to use this against enemies quite a few times (as the image implies), though someone tends to punch him before he does.
	+ **Lost Iced Shell:** An even more powerful variation of Iced Shell, this spell has one major difference. It is of the ‘Lost’ Attribute. In other words, after using this spell, Gray’s physical form will not only disappear, but also his very existence from the memories of anyone who knew him. The counterbalance, however, is that it is even more powerful than its previous incarnation. While Natsu punched Gray before he could use it, Gray has been shown he’s at least knowledgeable about the spell.
* **Ice Devil Slayer Magic:** Much like his rival, Natsu Dragneel, Gray is a wielder of a ‘Slayer’ style of magic. In his case, Devil Slayer. Devil Slayer Magic is a form of Caster Magic specifically created to slay demons, and Gray gained this power after his father, Silver Fullbuster, passed it onto him after Gray defeated him. With its power, Gray is not only able to eat ice in order to boost his own power, but also to be immune to ice completely. However, it has the drawback of risking the user to turn into a demon themselves and losing their sanity. Despite this, the raw power Gray gains is not to be trifled with, able to freeze giant tornadoes, and even massive areas of land with his power.
	+ **Rage:** Gray’s counterpart to Natsu’s Fire Dragon’s Roar, Gray fires off a massive storm of purple ice from his mouth, freezing over anything unfortunate enough to be in its path, causing a crapton of destruction.
	+ **Zeroth Long Sword:** Gray creates a massive longsword out of ice, before slashing into the opponent while simultaneously freezing them solid.
	+ **Zeroth Destruction Bow:** Gray creates an intricate bow made out of Devil Slayer ice, before firing off a massive arrow at his opponent, encasing them in jagged and spiky ice.
	+ **Zeroth** **Destruction Fist:** Gray creates a set of incredibly powerful gauntlets made out of ‘unholy’ ice, which can even freeze other kinds of ice and even those who are otherwise immune to ice and cold.
* **Combat Skill:** Due to the nature of Gray’s magic, Gray, much like fellow Fairy Tail combatant Erza Scarlet, is an incredibly skilled warrior, and master of many different types of weaponry. He tends to favor bladed weapons such as swords, but he is also an incredible crack shot, able to snipe targets from hundreds of meters away with his bow skills. Even unarmed, Gray is skilled in hand-to-hand, even defeating the Thunder God Tribe in unarmed combat by himself.

## Feats

### Strength

* Scales to Invel, who created a massive blizzard (390 teratons of TNT)
* Scales to a weakened Erza, who destroyed Irene’s meteor (101-262 teratons of TNT)
* Scales to his father, Silver Fullbuster, who froze an entire village and the Eternal Flame (25.8 megatons of TNT)
* Created a big explosion with his ice cannon
* Capable of freezing flames
* Froze most of a water park
* Froze rain in midair in an instant
* Froze Tempester's whirlwinds
* Froze a large sand monster
* Punched Natsu away
* Clashed with Natsu’s fire
* Froze END Natsu’s leg
* Clashed with Juvia
* Covered an entire countryside in a blizzard
* Clashed with Silver's ice
* Blasted back a large serpent with an ice bazooka
* Blasted away a large monster
* With Natsu, punched through a massive pillar of roots
* Threw an iron ball through Silver's torso

### Speed

* Dodged lasers
* Scales to Natsu dodging Laxus’ lightning (Mach 1381.66)
* Scales to Erza intercepting Irene’s meteor at sub relativistic speed (6.38% the speed of light)
* Scales to Natsu moving faster than eyesight
* Created a large number of weapons faster than the memory mage Rufus could keep track of
* Blitzed Invel in his Demon Slayer Mode
* Made a Shield to intercept Racer
* Made an ice shield to intercept a blast
* Killed Tempsta by blizing him
* Instantly created an ice trap to catch a Snow Tiger
* Jumped several meters up off of walls
* Ran across water
* Froze a man solid in mid-strike
* Casually dodged crossbow bolts
* Stopped Ultear's sword swing

### Durability

* Tanks hits from Natsu daily, who’s strong enough to pick up a 135-ton stone slab
* Tanked a hit from Natsu
* Withstood an ice volcano
* Withstood ice that froze Natsu's flames,
* Withstood Invel’s magical ice.
* Tanked a hit from a large ice dragon
* Tanked being smashed through a brick wall
* Got hit by Lyon's ice magic
* Tanked waves of boiling water
* Got thrown several meters into a rock
* Got blasted through ruins
* Was inside the Fairy Tail guild building when it was blasted repeatedly by cannon-fire
* Got a sword shoved through his stomach
* Tanked Erza's Thunder Empress Lightning
* Survived getting stabbed
* Tanked Silver’s Ice Demon Rage

### Skill

* Became one of the strongest members of the Fairy Tail Guild
* Rival to Natsu Dragneel, who he defeated a few times
* Defeated skilled water user (and future girlfriend) Juvia Lockster
* Is shown to be an equal to Erza Scarlet, who is one of the strongest Fairy Tail Members
* Defeated several skilled cryomancers, such as his fellow pupil Lyon Vatista
* Defeated Ultear Milkovich.
* Made 600 kilotons of ice
* Duped Silver Fullbuster with an ice clone
* Defeated his father, Silver Fullbuster
* Defeated the Spriggan 12 member, Invel Yura
* Defeated Rufus Lore
* Matched the memory of his former mentor, Ur
* Thawed the Eternal Flame.

## Weaknesses

* **Limited Mana:** While he can replenish it, he still has a limited amount of Mana.
* **Ice-Make Limits:** Ice-Make magic requires two hands for object stability and mana conservation. While he can use it with one hand, it’s a lot less stable and accelerates fatigue.
* **Ice Magic Last Resorts:** His two Ice Shell spells are ultimate last resorts that kill him (though he quite often attempts to use them when the situation doesn’t even call for it).
* **Devil Slayer Magic Drawbacks:** Repeated usage of his Devil Slayer Magic causes him to lose sanity with each usage, causing irrational decisions, which isn’t helped by the fact that he is (ironically) quite hot-headed, though not as much compared to Natsu.
* **Low Durability:** Gray has a habit of stripping. This doesn’t really affect his battle abilities, but this does mean that Gray never uses any type of armor as a defense, and heavily relies on his own abilities to avoid getting damaged.