Riyao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Riyao was a medical student and anime enthusiast in his previous world. After death and transmigration, he found himself in the Fairy Tail world as a three-year-old with Healing Magic granted by a goddess. Hungry and alone outside Magnolia, he adopted the name Riyao and pretended to be a lost child. Makarov found him, recognized his magical potential, and offered him a home at Fairy Tail 1 6 7 32.

His earliest healing experiments sent Makarov and Gildarts rushing to the bathroom. Concerned that improperly applied healing could harm someone, Makarov introduced him to Porlyusica. Riyao overcame her resistance by clinging to her leg and pleading until she agreed to teach him, on the condition that he stop experimenting and causing trouble. He completed five years of training by X772, although his habit of taking her herbs ensured that their parting involved her broom rather than a quiet farewell 2 3.

Much later, Riyao told Mirajane about his original world after she promised to keep his secret. By then, his memories of the later events of the original story had become hazy after almost twenty years of living in the magical world 229 465.

Appearance

Riyao has light golden hair, fair skin, and usually emerald-green eyes, with delicate features that initially help him pass as a helpless child 1 7.

• Hair: By age ten, wears his long blond hair in a high ponytail secured with a black hair tie 7.
• Usual clothing: A white shirt, black trousers, and his signature white lab coat; also wears loose casual clothing when training 7 16.
• Guild emblem: A golden Fairy Tail mark over his heart, with the Hundred Battles spell patterns beneath it 7.
• Hundred Battles markings: Golden, rune-filled lines spread across his body, forming symmetrical abdominal patterns, armband-like designs, and miniature sun totems on the backs of his hands 7.
• Forest-powered transformation: His hair stands on end, and intertwined golden and emerald light surrounds him 23.
• Celestial Spirit form: Has pink hair, deep-blue eyes, and star-chart markings across his robes and skin 84.
• Azure Dragon form: Develops dark-green hair, golden vertical pupils, horns, scales, and a dragon tail 354.
• Later dragon battle attire: Wears life-wood armor and carries a spear, with long dark-green hair and dragon horns 519.

Personality

Riyao combines genuine medical compassion with an aggressive appetite for mischief. With patients, he becomes calm, precise, and reassuring, earning Magnolia’s affection through inexpensive house calls. With guildmates, he picks fights, tests strange treatments, stages elaborate pranks, and photographs embarrassing moments. His experiments have caused diarrhea, impaired movement, and other alarming side effects, making some members more afraid of his treatment than their injuries 3 6 12 15.

He treats Fairy Tail as his new family and helps younger members settle into the guild, though his methods can be outrageous. He prepares Cana’s room, welcomes Gray, and treats Erza’s eye, while teasing all three relentlessly. His confidence includes a declared ambition to become Fairy Tail’s strongest mage and a fondness for dramatic poses and invented technique names 4 9 14 15 35 46.

Despite his bravado, Riyao is capable of caution. He attempts to withdraw and seek backup upon detecting an organized enemy force, but refuses to abandon civilians when Nildo Longra threatens nearby towns. Food and treasure are conspicuous weaknesses: he explores Crocus through its food stalls and becomes openly fascinated by the palace’s valuables 28 29 42 43.

His affection for Mirajane is equally conspicuous, and he often tries to secure time alone with her. Even after becoming a formidable mage, he continues playing pranks and staging dangerous-looking performances, including allowing a cultist to take him hostage for amusement 86 138 459 460.

Abilities & Skills

Healing and Life Magic

Riyao’s goddess-granted Healing Magic is fundamentally Life Magic, for which he has exceptional aptitude 16 32.

• Diagnosis: Senses abnormalities in living beings and identifies injuries, magical erosion, poison, and curses 6 44.
• Tissue repair: Repairs muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and wounds. His treatment of Erza revives damaged optic nerves and eye tissue 6 33.
• Detoxification: Forces poisoned blood from wounds and removes lingering toxins 6 45.
• Vitality restoration: Replenishes life force and exhausted magic, as demonstrated on Eker 25.
• Curse treatment: Purifies deathly energy and removes or suppresses curses. Leo’s intertwined curse and poison require three treatments and special ingredients rather than a single spell 25 45.
• Side effects: Excess concentrated life force temporarily turns Erza’s treated eye emerald green 36.
• Large-scale healing: Restores the injuries and depleted magic of people across an entire square within a few breaths 370.
• Life-force expenditure: Uses a mixture of magic power and life force to fuel spells, allowing him to sustain numerous enhancements, healing spells, and restraints 65.
• Life-form modification: Creates a life-form, prompting Makarov to warn him about the risk of Ankhseram’s curse. Later uses Life Magic to remove Larcade’s obsessive traits while restoring him to a childlike state 123 539.

Healing Magic: Hundred Battles

Hundred Battles combines Riyao’s modified versions of the Strength of a Hundred Seal and Strength of a Hundred Technique into a single combat spell 7 8.

• Stores excess vitality and magic in the guild mark over his heart, releasing them to stimulate cellular division and regeneration 9.
• Repairs severe fractures and lacerations within seconds, including associated nerve, muscle, and blood-vessel damage 8.
• Increases bodily toughness while sustaining rapid recovery during close combat 28.
• Can, by Riyao’s explanation, restore otherwise fatal injuries if sufficient reserves remain and his head is not instantly destroyed 9.
• Does not eliminate pain or prevent a stronger opponent from overwhelming him 8 39.
• Its restorative effect can be suppressed: an unidentified force nearly halts his healing after the woodland explosions 50.
• Its accumulated life-force reserves help him survive Nibu Longra’s ambush 52.

Monstrous Strength Mode and Martial Arts

Riyao uses Healing Magic to activate his cells and enhance physical power, supplementing the physique built through continuous healing 3.

• Combines Tai Chi from his previous life with Healing Magic to generate substantial force 5.
• Breaks a train carriage in two with a stomp while rescuing Gray and Cana from surrounding enemies 21.
• Uses throws, joint breaks, precise punches, and an opponent’s momentum against them 18 28.
• Employs the Great Mercy and Compassion Gatling Fist as a rapid barrage mixing healing and attack energy 49.
• Remains far below Gildarts in direct power during their demonstration fight 8 9.
• Later gains instinctive control over his monstrous strength, which he had previously struggled to regulate 64.
• Uses Healing Magic: Wild Growth to assume his projected physical state ten years in the future for five minutes. The technique greatly increases his strength and magical effects but requires enormous life energy 69.

Natural Life Force and Plant Magic

Riyao can resonate with plant life, drawing external vitality into his body and using plant-related magic 22 26 27.

• Emergency replenishment: Absorbs forest life force to rapidly restore nearly exhausted magic 22.
• Combat amplification: Combines absorbed vitality with Hundred Battles for his gold-and-green transformation 23.
• Battlefield control: Uproots trees to pin the Skeleton King’s legs 22.
• Purification support: Deploys purification trees while assisting plague-stricken settlements 27.
• Life-sign scouting: Sends magic through soil to detect living targets, a method he considers subtler and more precise than ordinary magical sensing 28.
• Limits: Absorption visibly withers nearby trees. Unfiltered wild life force contains impurities that can degrade his magic’s purity or cause loss of control 22 26.
• Precautions: Porlyusica prescribes seven days of purifying herbs and instructs him to filter outside power through his own magic 26.
• Plant growth: Accelerates the growth of medicinal herbs and bamboo, then nourishes plants through their roots to obtain life energy 66.
• Environmental dependence: His Weight of Life attack is weakened in the poisoned woodland because the destruction of nearby plants deprives him of available life force 52.

Healing Magic: Life Link: Modified

This spell releases jade-green chains that link others to the effects of a beating 39.

• Makes the guild members attacking him experience the blows themselves 39.
• Leaves everyone present rolling on the floor in pain; Gray takes double damage during the incident 39.
• Prompts Riyao to jokingly demand the name “Ri-soloed-the-whole-guild-yao” 40.
• Other applications of Life Link help him suppress Satan Soul’s will for Mirajane, protect Wendy during a fight, and monitor and heal Erza’s injuries at a distance 84 193 459.

Life Mimicry and Transformations

Riyao develops Life Mimicry from Life Magic and biological knowledge, progressing from an initial Celestial Spirit form to more versatile transformations based on multiple sources of life information 32 84 149.

• Celestial Spirit: His initial form draws on Virgo’s life information and can use her earth magic. He later uses the form to travel to Leo’s palace in the Celestial Spirit World 86 138 149.
• Demon: Combines life information from Mirajane and Natsu, whom Riyao identifies as the demon END, to fuse darkness and fire into black flames 119 149.
• Azure Dragon: Flies after Jellal, withstands Nine Thunder Stars, devours his Dark Paradise magic, and uses Azure Dragon’s Cang Roar. Riyao calls himself a Qing Dragon Slayer 149.
• Holy Shadow Mode: After entering Azure Dragon Form and healing his wounds, uses powers associated with Sting and Rogue, including a shadow whip, to counterattack them 354.
• False God Form: Retains this state while returning to his original appearance, then destroys the summoned Battle Bond statue with one punch 469.

Enchantment and Other Magic

• Enchantment buffs: Applies strength, speed, and defense enhancements to himself and Mirajane 84.
• Practical enchantments: Places Cold Air enchantments in the corners of his healing room 178.
• Earth and gravity: Uses earth magic, a stone decoy, stone armor, and gravity against Gray and Leo 284.
• Lightning: Catches Rufus in a five-meter lightning field during the Grand Magic Games 333.
• Spatial defense: Uses folded space to survive Irene’s attacks, including a meteor, crushing gravity, and a blazing stone furnace 498.

Dragon Force and Secret Arts

During the confrontation with Acnologia, Riyao uses life-wood armor and a spear and channels a mixture of Fire, Iron, Sky, White, Shadow, Sage, and Azure Dragon Forces 519 520.

• Concentrates Dragon Force into rapid spear thrusts capable of piercing Acnologia’s scales while regenerating from his counterattacks 520.
• Azure Dragon Spear of the Dark Firmament: Condenses an Azure Dragon phantom around himself and his spear to focus his attack 521.
• True Yin Wood Divine Lightning: Hurls his spear into the sky, where it becomes a vast magic array patterned after the eastern Azure Dragon’s seven mansions 524.

Medicine, Acupuncture, and Potion-Making

Riyao combines his previous medical education with Porlyusica’s instruction rather than relying on magic alone 2 6.

• Uses silver needles to relieve pain and clear toxin-damaged magic circuits and meridians 6.
• Prescribes restorative potions, herbs, and aftercare 6.
• Helps develop a plague-specific medicine when treating every patient individually would be too slow 31.
• Produces experimental hangover remedies and stamina enhancers, often alarming unwilling test subjects 6 15.
• Uses moonlight flower petals, stardew grass juice, and obsidian powder in Leo’s treatment 45.
• Supplies Loke with weekly potions for three years to ease his condition 138.

Magical Research

Riyao develops new applications of life magic to compensate for his limited offensive options 16 31 32.

• Life Mimicry: Drafts formulas combining Healing Magic with biological knowledge to imitate living beings, later developing Celestial Spirit, demon, and Azure Dragon forms 32 84 149.
• Enchantment Magic: Seeks complete teaching material and eventually obtains a basic textbook from King Toma 31 47.
• Other attributes: Can study other forms of magic, but initially finds their power inadequate against strong opponents because of his aptitude 16.
• Abandoned Eight Gates project: Cannot locate the corresponding meridians and acupoints in his body despite extensive study 3.
• Take Over Magic: Considers it as an offensive supplement, but judges ordinary takeover souls inferior to his existing physique 31.
• Symbiosis: Develops a method that allows a previously bodiless individual to form a body 465.

Equipment & Property

• Medical case and silver needles — Used for diagnosis, acupuncture, and conventional treatment alongside Healing Magic 6.
• Herbs and experimental potions — Includes restorative prescriptions, hangover remedies, and dubious flavored stamina enhancers 5 6 15.
• Hand-bound black notebook — Records Hundred Battles and other experimental medical-magic ideas 16.
• Photography equipment — Takes candid pictures of Gildarts, Gray, and Erza, sometimes considering their value for profit or future teasing 12 19 33.
• Five-acre garden — Located on Magnolia’s sunny southern hillside; grows fruit and medicinal herbs for his own use 31.
• Snowfield edelweiss seeds — Obtained for Porlyusica in exchange for a permanent medicinal-land tax exemption awarded for disaster relief 31.
• Complete basic Enchantment Magic textbook — A royal reward for curing Leo, received alongside gold and gems 47.
• Virgo’s Zodiac Key — Seeks the key after becoming an S-Class Mage; Virgo later accompanies him and Mirajane 71 76 86.
• Fire Poker — A staff he can lengthen and shorten, used both as a weapon and to lift himself out of attacks’ range 95 189.
• Riyao Manor and Parasol Tree — His manor becomes a gathering place for guild members. Its branches and vines later restrain the Underworld Beast, and he refines the Parasol Tree into a dragon-slaying weapon for the battle with Acnologia 229 271 425 514.

Relationships

• Makarov — Rescuer, guild master, and grandfather figure. Gives Riyao a home, arranges his education, and repeatedly disciplines his recklessness and pranks 1 2 9.
• Porlyusica — Medical teacher and continuing adviser. Riyao persistently visits despite her hostile remarks and broom attacks; later obtains rare seeds for her 2 3 26 31.
• Cana — Close friend, medical assistant, and traveling companion who initially sees him as a dependable older brother. He helps her settle into Fairy Tail and brings her connection to Gildarts to light 3 4 6 10 12 19.
• Gildarts — Senior guildmate and sparring partner. Praises Riyao’s potential while warning him not to depend on regeneration; briefly believes Riyao is his son during a prank 7 8 9 10.
• Gray — Junior guildmate, frequent challenger, and mission companion. Riyao helps interrupt his despair over Ur’s sacrifice, then continues provoking him through pranks and sparring 14 15 18 19.
• Laxus — Recurring brawling rival and former victim of Riyao’s healing experiments. Riyao also deliberately provokes him about his changed personality 3 13 18.
• Erza — Junior guildmate and patient. Riyao restores her injured eye and accompanies her on her first job 33 35 37 38.
• Jura Neekis — Fellow mage who thanks Riyao for treating injured Lamia Scale members and warns him about monsters in Crocus 42.
• King Toma, Hisui, and Leo — Royal clients and acquaintances. Riyao cures Leo, allows Hisui to observe treatment, and receives treasure and magical instruction from Toma 45 47.
• Mirajane Strauss — Riyao meets her in X777 and reassures her about her demon hand when bringing her to Fairy Tail. Their relationship becomes romantic, and they later marry; he confides his otherworldly origins to her 55 74 86 229 460.
• Lisanna and Elfman — Mirajane’s younger siblings. Riyao meets them in their village and later calls Lisanna his sister-in-law; he recalls saving her with an arrow fired through an Anima opening 55 87 239.
• Wendy — A fellow healing mage whom Riyao treats and advises about Lost Magic. She accepts his and Mirajane’s invitation to become their little sister 193.
• Loke / Leo — Riyao recognizes his identity through life sensing and supplies him with potions for three years. He later confronts Leo for leaving him and Mirajane off a resort-ticket list 138.
• Virgo — A Celestial Spirit associated with Riyao’s first Life Mimicry form. She assists him and Mirajane in the desert and shows him the way to Leo’s palace 84 86 138.
• Goddess — The unnamed deity who granted his original Healing Magic. After the battle with Acnologia, she restores his Life Magic and sends him back to the guild 1 526.

Major Story Arcs

Magnolia’s Guild Physician

• Becomes Fairy Tail’s sole mastered Healing Magic user at the time and takes its specialized medical requests 6.
• Earns local goodwill through low-priced treatment introduced by Makarov to thank Magnolia for tolerating the guild’s destruction 6.
• Demonstrates Hundred Battles against Gildarts, surviving a badly misjudged punch and astonishing the guild with his regeneration 7 8 9.
• Helps welcome Cana, Gray, and Erza, while repeatedly turning ordinary guild life into brawls and potion-related chaos 4 14 15 18 33.

First Journey and the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild

• Travels toward Hargeon with Gray and Cana for a medical commission, only to encounter a dark-guild train hijacking 19 20.
• Evacuates passengers, battles the Skeleton King, and discovers his ability to absorb forest life force 20 21 22.
• Defeats the leader by repeatedly breaking and healing his body, leaving him helpless and mentally broken 23.
• Completes the medical request by destroying a life-draining curse source and restoring Eker’s vitality 25.
• Seeks Porlyusica’s help with absorbed impurities and begins planning a cultivated source of cleaner life force 26.

X776 and the Black Light Society

• Spends two years taking commissions and saving for land. His healing reputation spreads across Fiore and beyond, attracting noble, Council, and royal attention 27 31.
• Investigates a plague and is trapped by Nildo Longra, whose Black Light Society wants his body as a vessel for Zeref 27 28.
• Abandons an escape attempt when Nildo threatens residents of three towns 29.
• Delivers the captured Nildo to the Council and stays to help develop medicine. The plague is eradicated within a week 31.

Erza’s Treatment and the Week of Bad Luck

• Restores Erza’s damaged eye, temporarily changing its color through excess concentrated life force 33 35 36.
• Endures seven days of accidents, including a disastrous monster-clearing trip with Erza, before suspecting his room is haunted 36 37 38 39.
• After his luck improves, retaliates against a guild-wide beating by unveiling Life Link: Modified 39 40.

Royal Commission and the Woodland Ambush

• Travels to Crocus and diagnoses Leo with a contact-transmitted combination of curse and poison that ordinary treatment cannot resolve 42 44.
• Cures Leo and receives royal treasure and a complete basic Enchantment Magic textbook 45 47.
• Follows Aris after an apparent plea for medical help, then defeats the Buried Love Family when they demand his valuables and attempt to recruit him 48 49.
• Is caught in explosions involving the defeated attackers. Poison gas destroys surrounding plants while a mysterious force suppresses Hundred Battles; a hidden figure approaches him as he lies severely wounded 50.
• Survives the ambush and tells Arcadios that Nibu Longra used the scene kids to kidnap him and avenge Nildo. He then returns to Magnolia and the guild’s customary brawling 52 53.

S-Class Exam and Mirajane

• Meets Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman in X777, and later brings Mirajane to Fairy Tail while reassuring her about her demon hand 55 74.
• Fights Gildarts during the S-Class Exam, using Wild Growth and his accumulated life energy. After the technique reaches its limit, he temporarily shrinks into a baby 69 70.
• Returns in a pink princess dress and is announced as Fairy Tail’s newest S-Class Mage. He decides to seek Virgo’s key 71.
• Travels with Mirajane and Virgo, develops his Celestial Spirit mimicry, and receives a goodnight kiss from Mirajane after their desert journey 84 86.

Life Mimicry and the Tower of Heaven

• Creates a life-form, leading Makarov to scold him for risking Ankhseram’s curse 123.
• Uses his Celestial Spirit form to confront Leo and obtain vacation tickets for himself and Mirajane 138.
• Reveals his Azure Dragon Life Mimicry against Jellal, pursuing him through the air, devouring his magic, and firing Azure Dragon’s Cang Roar 149.
• Helps make Ur’s recovery possible, allowing her to reunite with Ultear, and subsequently collects her medical bills 176.
• Heals Wendy, warns her about Lost Magic’s side effects, and invites her to become his and Mirajane’s little sister 193.

Edolas and the Grand Magic Games

• Confides his otherworldly origins to Mirajane. Their manor becomes a lively gathering place for Fairy Tail members 229.
• Meets Edolas’s Fairy Tail and explains that his Earth-land companions have been captured and turned into Magic Crystals. Lisanna recognizes him as the person who saved her two years earlier and accompanies him toward the capital 239.
• Tests Gray and Leo together, overwhelming them with transformed combat before declaring that they have passed 284.
• Dominates a Grand Magic Games match by repeatedly attacking and healing Nullpudding, driving Raven Tail’s score deep into negative points. He also stops Rufus with lightning 333.
• Fights Sting and Rogue alongside Natsu, using Azure Dragon Form and Holy Shadow Mode to turn the battle around 354.
• Defeats Future Rogue in a Dragon Force battle and hurls the Diamond Dragon into the Eclipse Gate, destroying it. Before vanishing, Future Rogue asks him and Natsu to prevent Gray from killing Frosch 375.

Celestial Spirit Conflict and Later Battles

• Returns bearing part of the Celestial Spirit King’s power, heals Mirajane and injured guildmates, and confronts Ophiuchus at the Celestial Globe 401.
• Finds Lucy mourning Aquarius and shows her that Aquarius’s key remains intact after the Underworld Beast falls. He and Mirajane prepare to seek out more demons 425.
• Leaves Life Link on Erza while spending time with Mirajane in Gazania, then lets a fleeing cultist take him hostage as a joke. The captors are terrified when they recognize him 459.
• Overwhelms Yalok, Erza, and Natsu during a confrontation and destroys the summoned Battle Bond statue while in False God Form 469.
• Offers to help Irene reunite with Erza, but Irene attacks when he asks why she abandoned her daughter. Acnologia interrupts their confrontation, and Irene and August immobilize both him and Riyao 498.

Acnologia and Aftermath

• Helps prepare the Parasol Tree as a dragon-slaying weapon and confronts Acnologia’s spiritual body with the Dragon Slayers in the Rift in Time 514 516.
• Battles Acnologia’s physical body using life-wood armor, a spear, and combined Dragon Force. He employs Azure Dragon Spear of the Dark Firmament and True Yin Wood Divine Lightning during the battle 519 520 521 524.
• Wakes after three days of recovery to learn that Alvarez has been defeated and Ishgar is rebuilding. He says his three sources of magical power remain, but abruptly falls asleep again near the guild 525.
• Meets the goddess in a white void, where she restores his Life Magic. He returns to Fairy Tail, demonstrates its restoration, and suggests a trip alone with Mirajane 526.
• Later uses Life Magic to give August and Larcade another childhood, removing Larcade’s obsessive traits in the process 539.

Notable Quotes

“Of course! I'm the man who's going to become Fairy Tail's strongest mage!” 9

“Don't mention it. We're family, so there's no need for thanks.” 35

“You haven't surrounded me. I'm the one who's surrounded you!” 49