Summary[]
Gray Fullbuster is an ice wizard who is fierce rivals with Natsu because of their opposing personalities and magical elements. Orphaned by the Etherious Deliora at age eight, Gray is tutored by Ur Milkovich to use Ice Make, which instantly produces ice in the form of any weapon or object he imagines; during his training to withstand cold temperatures, he also gains the habit of subconsciously stripping his clothes, something that Mashima based on a personal habit of his own. He joins Fairy Tail after Ur sacrifices herself to save his life when he recklessly attempts to kill Deliora. Later in the series, Gray inherits Ice Demon Slayer Magic from his reanimated father, Silver Fullbuster, becoming a Demon Slayer to carry out Silver's will to destroy E.N.D. The corruptive influence of his demonic powers compels Gray to irrationally fight Natsu upon discovering his identity as E.N.D., but he ultimately uses his powers to help strip Natsu of his identity as an Etherious so he may live normally as a human.
Powers and Stats[]
Dimensionality: 3D
Threat level: Tiger+ || Demon- || Demon+ || Demon+ in base, Dragon- with Devil Slayer Mark || Dragon normally, Dragon+ with Lost Iced-Shell
Powers and abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Skilled hand-to-hand combatant (he has shown extremely good display of skill in hand to hand), Enhanced Senses (he can sense magic), Danmaku, Magic, Ice Manipulation, Sealing (with Iced Shell and Lost-Iced shell), Forcefield (with Ice-Make: Shield), Flight (Type-5. Using Ice-Make: Kite) Weapon Creation (he often creates weapons with his Ice-Make), Weapon Mastery (he has mastery with many weapons he creates with Ice-Make such as Lance, Sword, Bow, Cannon, etc...), Ice Absorption (he can eat ice via being an ice devil slayer), Presence Concealment (he can conceal his presence to steal objects with his Ice-Make: Thieving Hand), Berserk Mode (Devil Slayers will have their hearts seeped with Darkness until it takes over and makes them go berserk), Transformation (with Devil Slayer transformations), Statistics Amplification (Lost aspect in a magic increases it's potency by several hundreds of times), Limited Power Mimicry (Slayer type wizards mimic the powers that they absorb, we see it when Gray mimicked Invel's magic), Limited Mind Manipulation (all the memories regarding Gray will be erased once he casts Lost-Iced Shell), Extremely High Resistance to Ice based attacks, Creation (his Ice-Make revolves around creativity, he can create moving soldiers with his Ice-Make), Resistance to Illusions, Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Resistance to Curse Manipulation (the Tartaros curses don't work on Gray by the virtue of them being demonic, this grants him resistance to curses that have properties of Existence Erasure (he blocked Mard Geer's Memento Mori), Mind Manipulation (Macro), Pain Manipulation (Kyoka's enhancement curse), Soul Absorption (Franmalth's absorption curse), Explosion Manipulation (Jackal's Bomb curse), Poison Manipulation (Torafuzar's Tenchi Kaimei), Power Nullification (can resist magic barrier particles due to physiology), Weather Manipulation, etc...)
Physical strength: City Block level striking (Comparable to his attack potency, and is on par with Natsu) || City Block+ level striking, Multi Block level striking with Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance (Defeated Fukuro) || At least Town level striking, likely higher (his striking is at least comparable to his extremely casual attack potency) || City level striking in base (much stronger after second-origin, should be comparable to Natsu), Mountain level striking (On par with Dragon Force Natsu) || Island level striking (easily shattered Invel's armor and defeated him, competed with E.N.D.)
Attack potency/Destructive capacity: City Block (Can make Ice constructs spanning several meters long and high continously), higher with Ice Cannon (Defeated Lyon in one-shot) || City Block+ (Froze Juvia's water body, which grew stronger since then), Multi Block with Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance (Defeated Fukuro, who overwhelmed Natsu) || At least Town (Has a casual feat of this level), City with Gungnir (Managed to defeat Ultear) || City (Unlocked his "Second Origin", which makes him significantly stronger than before, should be comparable to Natsu, defeated Rufus Lore), Mountain with Devil Slayer mark (Stronger than Base Mard Geer Tartaros, fought his Etherious form along with Natsu Dragneel) || At least Island, likely far higher with Devil Slayer mark (Stomped Invel Yura, fought on par with END), At least Country with Lost-Iced shell (Lost aspect increases the magic power of a spell by several hundreds of times, he was going to seal Zeref with it)
Durability: City Block (comparable to Natsu, they frequently go at it with each other and are rivals) || Multi Block (Could tank flames of Fukuro, which are essentially Natsu's) || At least Town, likely higher (Took attacks from Ultear Milkovich) || City (took attacks from Silver Fullbuster and his shields are at least this strong), Mountain with Devil Slayer mark (Took attacks from Mard Geer Tartaros. Absorbed his strongest spell) || At least Island in base (took attacks from Invel, should be comparable to base Natsu), higher with Devil Slayer Mark (tanked attacks from E.N.D)
Speed: At least Supersonic+ (Faster than Happy who can dodge bullets from close range) || Hypersonic (Fought and defeated Fukuro) || Massively Hypersonic (Fought Ultear neck to neck) || Massively Hypersonic (Unlocked second Origin which boosts overall stats considerably, kept up with Rufus and should be comparable to base Natsu), higher with Devil Slayer mark (Fought on par with Mard Geer Tartaros) || Sub-Relativistic in base (kept up with Invel Yura and he should be comparable to base Natsu and Erza), higher with Devil Slayer Mark
Intelligence: Above Average
Stamina: High || High || Very High || Very High
Key: Upto Galuna Island Arc || Upto Tower of Heaven Arc || Tenrou Island Arc || Post Time Skip || Post Second Timeskip
Arsenal[]
- Miniature Communication Lacrima: Gray used this device to communicate with Erza while doing an undercover mission.
Noteworthy Attacks and Technques[]
Ice-Maker magic
- Ice-Make: Lance: Gray extends his arms forward, creating long, curved ice lances that he shoots toward his enemy, impaling them. This makes for a powerful ranged attack.
- Ice-Make: Freeze Lancer: Gray creates larger ice lances that he attacks his enemy with.
- Ice-Make: Wall: Gray uses one hand to create a small or a large wall of ice in front of him that shields everything behind it.
- Ice-Make: Shield: Gray creates a large shield made of ice in front of him, whose shape is vaguely reminiscent of a flower, which shields everything behind it. Originally, Gray's shield was identical in appearance to Ur's. When fighting Rufus, however, it took a new unique shape, reminiscent of both Ur's and Lyon's shield.
- Ice-Make: Hammer: Gray creates a large ice hammer that floats above his opponent before dropping on them with great force. The first time Gray used this against Lyon, he was blocked.
- Ice-Make: Ice Hammer: Gray creates a giant spiked hammer made out of ice and hammers it onto the target.
- Ice-Make: Ice Impact: Gray creates an intricately-designed hammer made of ice, which he brought down onto the targeted area, creating a great impact.
- Ice-Make: Floor: Gray simply freezes the floor, which makes anyone in the area slip. Gray is also capable of freezing water with this spell, and slide on the resultant floor.
- Ice-Make: Arrows: Gray creates one or more arrows out of ice, which are subsequently shot at high speed to enemies through the use of an ice bow. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Super Freeze Arrow: Using Ice-Make: Ice Geyser and standing on top of the resulting ice formation, Gray can rise up to a high point to shoot his arrow; after the shot, the speed of the arrow increases with gravity and air pressure, making this attack much deadlier than usual.
- Ice-Make: Battle Axe: Gray creates an axe out of ice for melee combat and swings it around him. The first time he used this was against Juvia, but it was ineffective.
- Ice-Make: Sword: Gray creates a sword out of ice for melee combat. The sword is very durable, being capable of cutting and parrying other weapons as if it were made of metal. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Cold Excalibur: Gray creates a massive great-sword out of ice for melee combat. As with its smaller version, the weapon is very strong and sharp; in addition, its slashes seem capable of leaving behind large wakes of ice which can damage the opponents.
- Ice-Make: Ice Bringer: Gray generates two swords of ice in his hands and rapidly moves them forward in an X motion to slash his opponent.
- Ice-Make: Ice Geyser: Freezing the ground in front of him, Gray creates a tower of ice spikes that impales opponents, greatly damaging them. The first time Gray used this was to attack Lyon, but he failed.
- Ice-Make: Ice Wall: An alternative version of "Ice-Make: Ice Geyser," which freezes the opponent instead of impaling them.
- Ice-Make: Prison: Gray creates a large square cage out of ice to trap opponents. The first time he used this was to stop Lyon's ice animals from attacking him.
- Ice-Make: Clone: Gray creates a copy of himself made out of ice. The copy is perfectly identical to him, being revealed as made of ice only after a close, careful inspection, and thus coming in useful to avoid enemy attacks or to create a distraction for Gray to attack on his own. Gray has shown the capability to form at least two copies at a time. (Unnamed)
- Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance: After creating ice blades jutting back from both of his forearms, Gray displays his swordsmanship by rapidly slashing his enemy seven times. This is often used as a finishing move, causing heavy damage to the enemy.
- Ice-Make: Fireworks: Gray is able to shot small beams of ice from his hands, forming ice fireworks that looks like snowflakes in the sky.
- Ice-Make: Stairs: Gray makes stairs out of ice, so that he can get to previously unreachable places. The stairs, despite the nature of the material composing them, don't seem to be slippy at all. The first time Gray used this was to find Lyon. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Slide: Gray makes a slide out of ice, so that he can get to previously unreachable places. The first time Gray used this was to find Lyon.
- Ice-Make: Rampart: Gray creates an extremely massive and high wall out of ice, which can stop his opponents in their tracks, but uses up a lot of Magic. The first time Gray used this was to stop Racer.
- Ice-Make: Grappling Hook: Gray creates two four-pointed grappling hooks with chains connected with the Ice-Make auras around his hands, which can be used to hold grasp of higher surfaces or objects, allowing him to lift himself.
- Ice-Make: Death Scythe: Gray first creates a large scythe made out of ice, and then jumps into the air. When he's high enough, he swings the scythe at his opponent.
- Ice-Make: Key: Gray is able to create an identical key to that of the Dragon Chain Cannon's device and a copy of Zash Caine's vault key made of ice. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Gungnir: Gray releases a gigantic lance out of ice which traps the opponent in it.
- Ice-Make: Knuckle: Freezing the ground under his opponent, Gray creates a tower made of large ice fists which strikes his opponent.
- Ice-Make: Saucer: Gray creates a large, spinning ice disk, capable of cutting through like a buzz-saw, which he launches at his target.
- Ice-Make: Fishnet: Gray releases an icy wind from his hands, which takes on a fishnet-like shape, and allows him to freeze his opponent.
- Ice-Make: Cocoon: Gray surrounds his body with a cocoon of ice, which has spikes jutting outwards, to protect himself from enemy attacks. It has a similar purpose to Ice-Make: Shield, but protecting Gray on every side instead of one. It's unknown, though, if this spell is durable like its standard counterpart. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Kite: Gray creates a kite under which allows him to fly in the air.
- Ice-Make: Ocean: Gray, after joining both of his hands, slams them on a large body of water, completely freezing it in few seconds.
- Ice-Make: Crescent Blades: Gray fires a barrage of crescent-shaped ice projectiles, allowing him to attack multiple targets at once. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make Unlimited: One Sided Chaotic Dance: Gray creates a large number of big Ice Swords, which he can command to attack one or more enemies.
- Ice-Make: Thieving Hand: Gray forms a hand out of ice, which resembles a human hand; sporting five fingers and a palm. The hand's long branch enables Gray to sneakingly steal items, such as small bottles, without the owners noticing.
- Ice-Make: Platform: Gray creates a platform of ice for which he can use to maintain his footing. Multiple platforms can be made, and can also be used as a means of giving himself the necessary momentum to perform a powerful follow-up attack. (Unnamed)
- Ice-Make: Cannon: Gray crafts a small, ornate cannon from ice, with which he can use nearby rubble as ammunition to fire against his target; multiple cannons can be created and fired simultaneously.
- Ice-Make: Ice Cannon: Having created a large, bazooka-like hand-held cannon, Gray fires a cannonball made of ice to deal massive damage to his opponent. The first time he used this was to defeat Lyon.
- Ice-Make: Vambrace: Gray creates a large gauntlet-like sculpture made of ice around their arm, in order to dramatically enhance their throwing strength and speed. The Vambrace was capable of being used to throw a steel ball with enough force to pierce through Silver Fullbuster's chest, defeating him.
- Ice-Make: Silver: Summoning his Ice Devil Slayer Magic, Gray boosts the power of his Ice-Make. Gesturing with his right hand, he is then able to freeze a humongous area in front of him. This Spell allowed him to easily freeze and destroy Ajeel Raml's Sand Golem.
- Ice-Make: Wheel: Gray molds ice to form replacement parts of a broken wheel.
- Ice-Make: Juvia Freeze: Gray freezes Juvia's liquid form while she is part of Metro's body in order to incapacitate him.
- Ice-Make: Juvia Geyser: Gray uses Juvia's liquid form to create a geyser of ice spikes to attack his target.
- Ice-Make: Juvia Hammer: Gray uses Juvia's liquid form to create a large hammer made of ice, floating above his target and dropping it with great force.
- Ice-Make: Heavy Knights: Gray creates multiple-sized knights made of ice, these knights are composed of multiple large knights wielding spears and giant knights wielding a pair of lances and shields. The giant knights would then rush towards their target, piercing it with their lances and the large knights would finish it off by slashing their target with their spears.
Ice Devil Slayer Magic: A form of Devil Slayer Magic that Gray can manifest at will which allows him to produce, manipulate and control the element of ice. Like other Slayers, Gray is able to consume external sources of ice in order to replenish his strength and enhance his power while at the same time granting immunity to it. This form of Magic is extremely powerful and effective against Demons. Gray was given his father's Magic following his defeat and departure. To some degree, it appears that Devil Slayers have the ability to resist the effects of Curses (or at least the "Ultimate Curse" Memento Mori). It has also been suggested that Devil Slayer Magic is a very fickle Magic, and that learning it too quickly and making use of its properties in rapid succession have had adverse effects on Gray, causing him to become afflicted with black markings that have thus far spread across half of his body on two occasions Nevertheless, Gray himself said that with some help of Porlyusica, was able to gain control over it. He has become proficient enough in this Magic to be able to encase an enemy in a spiked cocoon of ice, roll him across a field of enemies and manipulate it into an immense burst of ice in a matter of seconds. Gray also can use this Magic to boost the power of his Ice-Make. One of the most effective aspects of this type of Magic is its ability to completely freeze everything within a large radius with a mere flick of the wrist. In one instance, Gray, who recently inherited his father Silver's Magic, was able to completely freeze multiple twisters from Tempester who was in his Etherious Form. In year X792 after training, Gray is able to freeze people solid, as shown when he froze Gômon, before he could harm Lucy.
- Ice Devil's Rage: Gray releases a large beam of cold air, ice and snow from his mouth, directing it towards his target. The girth of the beam easily dwarfed Mard Geer, but the power of Gray's spell is unknown as Mard was able to dodge it easily.
- Ice Devil's Zeroth Long Sword: Gray creates a ethereal long sword from his palms that he uses to slash at his opponent(s) with, inflicting a deep cut into his opponent's body severely damaging them and having the added effect of freezing his target(s) solid. Gray was shown using this spell which was shown to be powerful enough to defeat the Etherious and Nine Demon Gates member Tempester in his Etherious Form with a single strike.
- Ice Devil's Zeroth Destruction Bow: Gray creates an intricate bow made of ice and fires an arrow from it at high speeds. When the arrow makes contact, it turns into a spiky array of ice that heavily damages the target's body. The spell was shown to greatly damage the pseudo-leader of Tartaros: Mard Geer Tartaros.
- Ice Devil's Zeroth Destruction Fist: Gray, after using his Ice-Make to mold and shape the ice from Invel's True-Ice Kamui, creates a pair of destructively powerful gauntlets with the same properties as the aforementioned spell, and uses them to brutalize his target.
- Ice Devil's Laughter: Gray creates shards of ice in the air and releases it onto his target.
- I Will Stop You: Gray creates a circular barrier of ice, followed up with an ice shard attack in the middle of it.
Ice Magic: Ice Magic allows the user to manipulate or create the element of ice. Little is known about Ice Magic, as there have only been a few spells used so far. An inherent property of the magic, Gray is capable of freezing objects he comes into contact with. Gray, with his great mastery of ice spells, has proven himself capable of freezing even burning things such as Juvia's boiling water and Fukuro's flames, as well as to freeze an object faster than Sugarboy's Rosa Espada could soften it.
- Iced Shell: Gray also has knowledge of this forbidden, extremely dangerous and powerful Magic, and has expressed the certainty that he could use it, if he were forced to.
- Lost Iced Shell: Gray initiates this spell by forming a stance which will then create a large amount of Magical power to surround him before being stopped by Natsu from activating it.
Unison Raid: Gray is capable of using this ability, although he has only performed it alongside Juvia till now.
- Water & Ice-Make Spell: Gray and Juvia were able to fuse their Magic together, causing massive amounts of water and ice needles to erupt all over Magnolia Town, instantaneously destroying Daphne's Lizardmen.
- Shotgun: Gray utilizes water provided by Juvia in conjunction with his Ice-Make Magic to solidify the water, which is then aimed at the target and released as sharp, thick spears of ice.
- Water Nebula & Ice-Make: Ice Geyser: Juvia and Gray hold hands and combine Juvia's Water spell and Gray's Ice-Make spell to attack their targets.
- Ice Wave: Gray utilizes water provided by Juvia in conjunction with his Ice-Make Magic to solidify the water, creating a large wave of sharp ice spikes, hitting his target and freezing them in the process.
Quotes[]
| “ | Everything doesn't have to be decided by life and death. Just think about the future for once. | ” |
– To Kageyama | ||
| “ | Sorry, but it doesn't matter if you're a woman or even a child. I don't go easy on anybody who hurts my comrades. | ” |
– To Juvia Lockser | ||
| “ | Ice can even stop the time of life itself. So, you'll never be able to catch up, for eternity. You'll always be stuck there, staring at the fairy tail. | ” |
– To Sawyer | ||
| “ | I'm after the book of E.N.D. That's the only reason why I am here. That book... As long as I can get my hands on that book... I could give a damn about anything else. I have forgotten about my guild a long time ago. I exist to get that book... or rather I exist to crush E.N.D. | ” |
– To Jerome | ||
| “ | Don't be so glum, you can't have a guild without Magic you say? As long as you have friends, You will always have a guild. | ” |
– To Fairy Tail (Edolas) members | ||
| “ | If it's my family on the line, I'll be as dark and black a villain as I need to in order to protect 'em | ” |
– To Invel Yura | ||