Torafuzar

**Torafuzar** is an Etherious of the Dark Guild Tartaros and a member of the Nine Demon Gates.

## Physical Appearance

Torafuzar is a massive, extremely muscular Intherious who shares the many characteristics with a shark, but also vastly resembles a Lizardman in both build and posture. His toned body is dark pinkish in color, while the plate covering his flattened, angular head, sporting a single fin-like protrusion on its front, is dark red, as are the rhombus-shaped markings adorning the back of his neck; similar markings are also found on the plate's back end, but white in color. Small scales are present around his eyes and at the ends of his head, he lacks a visible nose, and has a golden, elongated armored plate covering his chin (furthering his resemblance to a Lizardman). One of his most notable traits are his massive, long arms, each sporting an arched-backwards, fin-like bladed protrusion on the outer side; paired with his somewhat small legs, Torafuzar's arms effectively reach down to his feet. The fact that he appears to be slightly hunched, alongside his flattened head and ground-touching arms, gives him a stocky look.

Torafuzar's outfit is entirely colored brown, in varying shades. He wears a dark brown, open short-sleeved shirt, adorned by a number of light brown triangles and trimmed by thick beige fur, over his muscular chest, which is crossed by two dark brown bands, each secured on the front by two small, light grey metallic links. He dons loose, whitish brown pants, possessing prominent dark hems, with an orange-brown band circling his waist, alongside simple brown shoes, with darker toe boxes extending in a stripe towards the ankle.

As an Etherious, Torafuzar has shown the ability to transform into a much larger form, further enhancing his aquatic characteristics. He becomes even more muscular, gaining larger and sharper teeth, showing more defined lips and growing two small fins at his head's sides, whereas the darker section on top of it takes on the appearance of a single, massive webbed fin. His chin plate becomes more prominent and squared, now sporting a vertical line of studs on each end. In this state, he loses his arm blades, but in turn gains much larger forearms and hands, the latter ones bearing resemblance to gauntlets due to their segmented appearance; the same could be said for his now exposed lower legs, which have taken on a more beastly appearance, sporting talons. He gains multiple series of holes aligned in a linear fashion on his upper body, and grows a small, pointed segmented tail getting smaller near its tip. His clothes disappear, leaving him clad in a short pair of dark baggy pants with light knee sections, and he dons light metallic bands sporting massive studs on his biceps, wrists and below his knees, plus a plain one around his waist. His arms' extreme growth, coupled with his legs' moderate one, makes him retain roughly the same posture and proportions as his usual form.

## Personality

Torafuzar appears to be the most serious member of the Nine Demon Gates. He displayed a strict code of duty, carrying out his missions because he's been tasked with them, and not because of the prizes they may award him with. He is also concerned about his team's "dignity" (in stark contrast to his colleague Ezel, who went on to claim that Demons have no need for something like that), urging Franmalth to stop laughing out frantically to avoid tainting it, and triumphantly called out his guild's name while fighting Gajeel Redfox and Lieutenant Renji Abarai, showing his pride in being part of it. Unlike the majority of his guildmates, who rejoice in torturing their opponents for fun before killing them, Torafuzar is prone to finish them off quickly, preventing any future hindrances. He appears to be reasonable and quite patient, and doesn't anger easily. He is, however, very confident in his skills, describing his Curse with magniloquent words and claiming his defense to be the strongest among the Nine Demon Gates; at the same time, he's fully capable of acknowledging his opponents' power and giving them indirect praise, doing so with both Gajeel and Renji on two separate instances.

## Abilities

**Tenchi Kaimei**: Torafuzar utilizes this form of Curse that enables him to summon large tides of black water out of nowhere, strong enough to make both Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and all forms of Alchemy unusable inside of it; the water's uniqueness, however, resides in it being poisonous, having carbon as one of its most abundant and dangerous components, killing anyone who swallows it in five minutes, and eventually affecting those who avoid doing so by mere exposure, even if they somehow coat their body. The liquid, which he refers to as as "*black water of darkness*", engulfs and floods everything within its range of vicinity, creating a vast watery space which Torafuzar describes as "*The Deep Seas of Hades*". By altering the surrounding environment with this Curse, Torafuzar creates his ideal battlefield: he can maneuver within the black waters freely, unaffected by their lack of oxygen and noxious traits, and instead moving faster, whereas his opponents are greatly hindered, having their movements slowed, being deprived of air and risking drowning, and eventually succumbing to the poison; all while subjected to the Etherious' brutal pummeling. Torafuzar's mastery over this type of Curse, as noted by Gajeel, allowed him to flood the entirety of the building he was in, with the water pouring outside to cover the surrounding area as well.

**Demon Physiology**: Torafuzar, being an Etherious, possesses some traits which, among the shown members of his race, appear to be exclusive to him.

* **Blade Arms**: The fin-like protrusions on Torafuzar's arms are sharp to the point where they can easily cut into a person, such as cutting through Loke despite the Celestial Spirit defending with Regulus. They also possess considerable hardness, enough to be used defensively, capable of blocking the weapons generated by Gajeel's Iron Dragon Slayer Magic, and the powerful swings from Renji's **Zabimaru** in it's Shikai state with ease.

**Etherious Form**: Torafuzar, as an Etherious, has shown the ability to enter his true form: his Etherious Form.

* **Underwater Breathing**: True to his aquatic traits, in this form Torafuzar is proven capable of breathing underwater, showing no discomfort in spending a long time submerged in his Tenchi Kaimei, and instead becoming an even more formidable opponent. Whether such skill extends to his normal form as well is unknown.
* **Enhanced Strength**: True to his enlarged proportions, Torafuzar's strength increases exponentially while in this form, remaining evident even as the Etherious fights underwater: while submerged in his Tenchi Kaimei, Torafuzar was shown easily sending both a Dragon Skin-enhanced Gajeel and a Bankai-enhanced Renji flying away over long distances with commanding punches, causing him to shatter rock with huge impacts whenever he contacted a surface.
* **Immense Durability**: Torafuzar's durability is augmented exponentially in this form, even without the seeming use of his hardening powers. He could withstand a barrage of attacks from Gajeel while the latter was in both his Iron Shadow Dragon and Dragon Skin: Living Weapon forms, as well as his destructive Dragon Skin-enhanced Iron Shadow Dragon's Roar performed at close range, and recover with little to no damage in mere seconds. He also endured several slashes of Iron Dragon's Sword on the back, as well as taking the full brunt of Renji's Hikotsu Taihō at a long distance without as much as flinching, scoffing at his assailants and counter-attacking immediately afterwards.
* **Enhanced Swimming Speed**: This form further increases Torafuzar's already formidable ability to move around in water, making him exceedingly fast despite his bulk, as noted more than once by Gajeel. Similarly to his normal state, the Etherious swims by only relying on his legs, leaving his huge arms free to pummel his opponents. Inside Tenchi Kaimei, he was able to overwhelm both Renji and Gajeel, even with the latter in his Dragon Skin-clad armor, in terms of speed, bombarding the two of them with swift blows while making it impossible for them to attack him in return; it wasn't until the Iron Dragon Slayer resolved to use his dragon-enhanced shadow that he was able to directly attack Torafuzar, giving Renji time to prepare for a powerful attack.
* **Carbide Armor**: Torafuzar is capable of changing his bodily surface's hardness at will, an ability which, by his claim, grants him the strongest defense of all the Nine Demon Gates. In order to achieve greater hardness, he was shown emitting air from the holes on his upper body: these very holes, following the hardening, are hidden from sight by stud-like protrusions, with the rest of his body (save for his eyes, mouth and facial fins) becoming covered in a multitude of squared, reflective plates, somewhat reminiscent of Gajeel's Iron Dragon's Scales. Through this natural armor of him, Torafuzar easily negated both the punch of the Dragon Skin-clad Dragon Slayer, and the strike of the Bankai-enhanced Shinigami Lieutenant, leaving both of their arms injured in the process; his hardened skin, however, wasn't strong enough to endure both Gajeel and Renji's attacks after the latter enhanced his techniques with the carbon from Torafuzar's own poisoned water, turning iron into steel, while Renji charging up his remaining Reiryoku into his Shikai for one powerful blow.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Torafuzar possesses remarkable skill in unarmed combat, employing it as his main fighting method, seeing as he only resorts to unleashing his powers if pitted against particularly powerful opponents; his melee prowess received praise from Renji and Gajeel, who described him as a "*tough shark*" following their first close quarters confrontation. His blade arms make for effective natural weapons, with him using them to attack opponents with powerful swipes and defend against both armed and unarmed attacks. Through the use of this style, he was able to equally clash with both Gajeel and Renji in both speed and power, despite the former's use of Iron Dragon Slayer Magic and the latter's strikes from both his Shikai and Bankai, for a decent amount of time. However, he is shown to be just as capable of fighting without using such otherworldly appendages, assaulting both the Iron Dragon Slayer with an elbow and the 6th Division lieutenant with a swift kick to his ribs before either opponent could react. While fighting in tandem with Jackal, Tempester and Franmalth, he could swiftly land an attack on Natsu, Gajeel, Naruto, Sting, Ichigo, Renji, Edward and Greed at the same time, sending all eight crashing into two separate walls. Torafuzar becomes much more dangerous when engaged underwater, especially in his Etherious Form despite this depriving him of his arm blades. In this state, he was shown performing an acrobatic motion to kick Renji and Gajeel away at the same time, in contrast to his usual, upper body-based fighting style.

* **Deep Impact**: After entering his Etherious Form, and having relocated to a watery environment of considerable proportions (quite possibly the one generated by his Tenchi Kaimei), Torafuzar maneuvers high above his floating opponents before rushing at them, fully extending one of his enlarged arms to deliver a devastating punch, which sends the unfortunate victim plummeting down towards the ground at high speed, generating a huge impact once they make contact with it. The Etherious employed this technique on Gajeel after dodging his assault.

**Immense Strength**: One of the largest members of the Nine Demon Gates, second only to Ezel, Torafuzar is considerably strong, being completely unaffected by Aquarius' crashing waves, instead swimming through them to assault the Celestial Spirit directly (displaying the strength of his apparently small and squat lower limbs), and sending Natsu, Gajeel, Naruto and Sting flying away from him and crashing into a wall with a single arm swipe while in tandem with Jackal, who'd sent Ichigo, Renji, Edward and Greed with an explosion-enhanced flying kick.

**Enhanced Speed**: Even on dry land, and in spite of his massive build, Torafuzar has proven to be remarkably fast, rapidly leaping to lunge at Rukia and Lucy from a great distance and managing to parry both Renji and Gajeel's attacks on Tempester, interposing himself between the two in an instant, as well as to outmaneuver the Mage and Shinigami, covering the meters between them and landing a blow on both the Iron Dragon Slayer and 6th Division Lieutenant before the latter could react, as well as moving fast enough to dodge an attack from Renji's Bankai.

**Enhanced Durability**: Torafuzar, specializing in close, brutal confrontations, is hardy and durable, with an iron-enhanced strike from Gajeel doing nothing more than stopping him in his tracks to attack a weakened Hinata, Rukia and Lucy, sending him flying backwards only for the unscathed Etherious to regain his balance. He even withstood a **Hadō No. 31: Shakkahō** at point-blank range when the former was tied by Renji's Zabimaru.

**Master Swimmer**: Torafuzar is an exceedingly capable swimmer, seeing as fighting in an underwater environment is his specialty. Rather than being swept away by Aquarius' Water Magic, he was instead able to swim up the current with impressive speed, much to the Celestial Spirit's dismay. The Etherious reaches his surprising underwater speed by merely relying on his legs, without the need to use his arms.

**Immense Curse Power**: