Laxus

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Ivan’s Expulsion

Laxus’s father, Ivan, implanted a Lightning Dragon Slayer Lacrima in his body. Makarov later expelled Ivan from Fairy Tail publicly and refused to explain the decision to Laxus. The unanswered questions became a driving force behind Laxus’s pursuit of strength: he believed that becoming more powerful than everyone else—even the Ten Wizard Saints—would force the truth into the open 30 32.

Makarov remembered his grandson as a dazzling, confident prodigy, but worried that pride and obsession were gradually isolating him from the guild. On recognizing similar talent in Jiang Bai, he hoped the younger boy might understand Laxus’s loneliness 29.

First Battle with Jiang Bai

At ten, Laxus returned from a C-rank mission to hear that a six- or seven-year-old newcomer had defeated an entire Vulcan group on a B-rank quest. Disbelieving the reports, he accused Jiang Bai of deceiving Makarov and demanded a fight. When Jiang Bai suggested moving outside, Laxus instead attacked his back inside the guild hall. His lightning-charged fist stopped short against Infinity 30.

An invisible spatial cut drew blood from Laxus’s cheek, replacing his contempt with excitement. He broke through the guild wall to continue outside, where their battle lasted an hour. His lightning devastated the street but never reached Jiang Bai, while spatial cuts repeatedly wounded him 31.

Laxus staked the result on Lightning Dragon’s Roar. Jiang Bai’s barrier split the attack around his body, leaving him unharmed, though nearly exhausted. Laxus collapsed after expending his remaining magic and promised to break through that defense next time 32.

Six-Year Rivalry

The defeat gave Laxus a regular opponent and a goal to pursue. For the next six years, he dragged Jiang Bai to the mountain behind the guild for almost weekly duels. Their rivalry became a close friendship: Jiang Bai was the only guild member Laxus regarded as someone he could speak to as an equal 32.

By X777, sixteen-year-old Laxus had become widely known in Magnolia as the Thunder God, with some recognition elsewhere in Fiore. Nevertheless, Jiang Bai’s growing magic reserves widened the gap between them. Even Lightning Dragon’s Halberd failed to prevent a crushing sparring defeat 32 34.

Rather than take the S-Class Exam as soon as he was eligible, Laxus chose to wait two years until Makarov would allow Jiang Bai to participate. He wanted to defeat his rival directly, not secure the title ahead of him 34.

The Thunder God Tribe

While on a job, Laxus met Freed Justine, Evergreen, and Bickslow. The three insisted on following him to Fairy Tail. Unable to shake them off and unwilling to hit them, he brought them back and stiffly asked Makarov to admit them 41.

Their open admiration embarrassed him, but they remained his devoted followers, collectively identified as the Thunder God Tribe. Shortly after their admission, Laxus reminded Jiang Bai that only one year remained before their promised exam confrontation 42 43.

S-Class Mage Promotion Exam

Makarov selected Laxus and Jiang Bai as the year’s only candidates. Laxus chose Freed as his teammate and traveled with the examination party to Huonia Forest. Under the first-round rules, the candidates would fight on the King’s Path, while their partners cleared the Knight’s Path and powered the devices needed to activate the summit altar 46 48.

Laxus opened with Lightning Dragon’s Roar, then used Lightning Transformation to search for gaps in Infinity. When attacks from multiple angles failed, he deliberately charged into Blue, intending to exploit its attraction to accelerate a point-blank Crushing Fist. Jiang Bai countered with Red, throwing him through more than a dozen trees and into a mountainside 49.

Still refusing to fall, Laxus summoned his remaining power for Narumikazuchi. Jiang Bai absorbed the attack with Blue, and Laxus dropped to one knee, exhausted. Jiang Bai acknowledged his effort but explained that attacks without spatial properties could not overcome his defense unless Laxus first exhausted his magic reserves 49.

After the exam, Laxus declined to celebrate and vowed to resume training and defeat Jiang Bai next time. He later became an S-Class Mage, receiving his promotion without objection a year before X781 53 56.

Estrangement and Civil War

Despite his promotion, Laxus grew increasingly jealous as the gap between him and Jiang Bai widened. He openly disparaged guildmates he considered weak and insisted that Fairy Tail needed to become stronger. After Phantom Lord’s attack, he blamed vulnerable members for burdening the guild and declared that he would drive weaklings out if he inherited it 56 108 140.

During the Harvest Festival, Evergreen attempted to ambush the beauty pageant contestants. Laxus pulled her out of the path of Jiang Bai’s Blue, then announced a battle to decide Fairy Tail’s strongest. Evergreen threatened petrified hostages, while Freed’s enchantment trapped Makarov and others inside the guild. Laxus used a lightning Thought Projection to confront his grandfather and demanded the position of guild master 164 165 166.

From the cathedral, Laxus rejected Freed’s suggestion that they avoid hurting guild members. He also unleashed Thunder Palace, threatening Magnolia’s residents; the shock contributed to Makarov’s collapse. When Jiang Bai confronted him, Laxus attacked with his Dragon Slayer Magic but could not overcome the immense difference in their strength 167 168 169 170.

Laxus cast Fairy Law, but it did not hurt his guildmates. The result forced him to recognize the attachment he had hidden beneath his jealousy and arrogance, and much of the guild’s resentment toward him began to fade 171 172 173.

Expulsion and Reconciliation

In the infirmary, Makarov confronted Laxus over the danger he had brought to the town and the harm he had done to the guild. Laxus admitted his jealousy of Jiang Bai and his desire for his grandfather’s attention. Makarov reassured him that he wanted him to live safely and happily, but formally expelled him for his actions 173 174.

Laxus accepted the punishment, told the Thunder God Tribe to remain in Fairy Tail, and entrusted the guild to Jiang Bai. The guild members did not want him to leave. Jiang Bai proposed that Laxus stay and take jobs to repay the damage, and the others supported the arrangement. Moved by their willingness to pull him back, Laxus bowed to them 174 175.

Laxus later thanked Jiang Bai and vowed to protect Fairy Tail and every member of its family. The guild celebrated his change of heart with the Thunder God Tribe 177.

Later Examinations and Tenrou Island

Laxus returned to the guild for a later S-Class Exam and faced Freed and Bickslow on one of its battle routes. He held his followers to a demanding standard, recognizing their determination but overwhelming them with lightning and a powerful Roar 243 255.

On Tenrou Island, Laxus stood beside Makarov and the other guild members against Acnologia. His Lightning Dragon’s Crushing Fist joined the attacks of Fairy Tail’s strongest mages, although their combined assault only made the black dragon sway slightly 279 280.

Grand Magic Games and Aftermath

Makarov chose Laxus to lead Fairy Tail’s second team in the Grand Magic Games. Laxus welcomed the chance to compete with Jiang Bai under tournament rules, while maintaining that anyone who harmed Fairy Tail was his enemy 305 337.

Matched against Raven Tail’s Alexei, Laxus confronted Ivan and the other members of the rival guild. Ivan sought to use his son to force Makarov to reveal Lumen Histoire. Laxus rejected him, destroyed Obra’s magic-consuming familiar, and overwhelmed Raven Tail before striking Ivan into the arena wall 338 339.

Afterward, Laxus asked Makarov about Lumen Histoire and the “Fairy Darkness” Ivan had mentioned. Jiang Bai described it as a device with infinite magic power, and Mavis rejected the name Fairy Darkness, calling it a light of hope 341.

Later in the Games, Laxus fought Jura of the Ten Wizard Saints. He no longer resented being called Makarov’s grandson, but after a prolonged struggle he exhausted his magic and lost to Jura’s Supreme King Rock Crush 359 360.

When dragons appeared, Laxus joined the other Dragon Slayers in attacking them and later rained lightning on the dragons threatening the mages below 374 378.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Short blond hair and golden eyes, initially shown unruly and later neat 30 41 43 107.
• Build: Already larger than other children at ten, with a muscular physique visible during his first prolonged battle with Jiang Bai; later described as tall and muscular 30 31 107.
• Scar: A lightning-shaped scar runs over his right eye from his forehead to his cheek 107.
• Clothing: Wears a finely made leather jacket, initially shown bloodstained and scorched after a mission; Jiang Bai’s spatial cuts later reduce it to strips. He is later seen wearing a fur coat and carrying a coat marking him as leader of the Thunder God Tribe 30 31 174 255.
• Accessories: Wears an old-fashioned headset music player 107.
• Magical presence: Frequently surrounded by golden electrical arcs, with an oppressive lightning aura accompanying his arrivals 30 34 41.

Personality

Laxus is proud, aloof, and intensely competitive. His father’s unexplained expulsion leads him to treat power as the means to obtain answers and overcome others’ judgments. He initially dismisses Jiang Bai’s achievements as fraud, but changes his assessment immediately once the younger mage proves dangerous 30 31.

He respects demonstrated strength more than reassuring words. Repeated defeats do not end his rivalry with Jiang Bai; they turn it into friendship and motivate further challenges. By X777, he can accept Jiang Bai’s boasts without losing his temper because he recognizes them as statements of fact rather than empty insults 32 34.

His attachment to the guild is less obvious than his arrogance. Jiang Bai believes Laxus values Fairy Tail’s glory over personal fame. His handling of his three young followers also shows restraint beneath his irritation: despite their persistence, he cannot bring himself to hurt them 34 41.

As Jiang Bai continued to outgrow him, Laxus’s pride became warped by jealousy and obsession. He came to despise guildmates he judged weak, even while Jiang Bai believed that he still loved them. His desire to lead a stronger guild culminated in the civil war 56 108 165 166.

Fairy Law’s failure to harm his comrades exposed that hidden affection to Laxus himself. After accepting responsibility and receiving the guild’s forgiveness, he resolved to protect its members rather than purge them. He also came to accept his identity as Makarov’s grandson, which he had once regarded as a dismissal of his own accomplishments 172 173 174 177 359.

Abilities & Skills

Lightning Magic

Laxus combines destructive electrical output with extremely fast movement 30 31.

• Lightning-enhanced strikes: His opening punch against Jiang Bai carries enough force to pulverize a boulder 30.
• Area bombardment: Rains down thick lightning spears, shattering street paving and threatening nearby buildings with intense heat 31.
• Lightning Transformation: Turns his body into golden lightning to maneuver around an opponent and attack from changing angles 49.
• Thunder Pressure Raging Waves: Releases a vast wave of lightning magic against Freed and Bickslow 255.
• Lightning Thought Projection: Creates a projection of himself from pure lightning to address Makarov remotely 166.
• Thunder Palace: A forbidden magic with which he threatens Magnolia’s residents during the civil war 168 173.
• Limit: Neither speed nor electrical penetration allows his attacks to cross Jiang Bai’s spatial defense 30 49.

Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic

Laxus accesses Dragon Slayer Magic through the lacrima implanted by Ivan, making him a Second Generation Dragon Slayer 32 300.

• Lightning Dragon’s Roar: Releases a concentrated golden torrent from his mouth. Its first documented use lasts ten seconds and excavates a deep trench through the street. A later Roar overwhelms Bickslow’s barrage and shatters Freed’s dark armor 32 255.
• Lightning Dragon’s Crushing Fist: Concentrates lightning into a close-range punch. During the exam, he attempts to amplify its impact with Blue’s attraction 49.
• Lightning Dragon’s Halberd: A secret art used in sparring and again during the S-Class Exam 34 49.
• Lightning Dragon’s Jaw: Used in his cathedral fight against Jiang Bai. Against Raven Tail, Extreme Lightning: Dragon’s Jaw forms enormous lightning jaws that crush the opponents’ defenses 170 338.
• Dragon Slayer Secret Art—Narumikazuchi: Summons lightning from the heavens as his final attack in the exam duel 49.
• Dragon Slayer Secret Art—Narukami: Used alongside his other Dragon Slayer attacks against Jiang Bai in the cathedral 170.
• Magic consumption: His all-out Roar exhausts him in the first battle; Narumikazuchi consumes his last reserves during the exam 32 49.

Fairy Law

Laxus can cast Fairy Law, a super magic that drains nearly all his magic power when he uses it during the civil war. Although guild members are within its range, they are not harmed, revealing that he does not truly regard them as enemies 171 172.

Combat Instincts and Tactics

• Instinctive evasion: Reacts to Jiang Bai’s nearly imperceptible spatial attacks and avoids vital hits despite being unable to see their trajectories 31.
• Opponent analysis: Quickly recognizes that Jiang Bai’s defense blocks more than physical attacks 31.
• Calculated risk-taking: Develops a plan to turn Blue’s attraction into an offensive advantage, though he fails to account for the counterattack from Red 49.
• Persistence: Continues fighting after severe injuries and a devastating impact against a mountainside 49.

Equipment / Items

• Lightning Dragon Slayer Lacrima — Implanted in his body by Ivan; enables his Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic 32.
• Leather jacket — A finely made garment worn on missions and during his first confrontation with Jiang Bai 30 31.
• Headset music player — An old-fashioned player worn over his ears 107.
• Thunder God Tribe coat — A coat identifying him as the tribe’s leader 174.

Relationships

• Makarov Dreyar — Grandfather and guild master. Ivan’s expulsion creates resentment between them, while Makarov worries about Laxus’s isolation and welcomes his friendship with Jiang Bai. After the civil war, Makarov expels him, but the guild’s appeal provides a way for Laxus to stay; Laxus later accepts being known as his grandson 29 30 32 173 174 175 359.
• Ivan — Father; implanted Laxus’s Dragon Slayer Lacrima. His unexplained expulsion motivates Laxus’s determination to become stronger. Ivan later seeks to exploit Laxus to obtain Lumen Histoire, and Laxus rejects and defeats him 30 32 338 339.
• Jiang Bai — Closest friend, regular sparring partner, and principal rival. Laxus postpones his S-Class Exam specifically to face him. Jealousy later strains their relationship, but Jiang Bai helps arrange for him to remain in Fairy Tail, and Laxus thanks him 32 34 173 175 177.
• Freed Justine — Devoted follower and chosen exam teammate. Freed tries to stop Erza from enabling Jiang Bai’s advancement, then completes his assigned duty despite his own defeat. During the civil war he follows Laxus despite reservations, and later faces him in an S-Class examination battle 48 50 167 255.
• Evergreen — Thunder God Tribe follower who openly proclaims Laxus the strongest. Laxus saves her from Jiang Bai’s Blue during the pageant confrontation and later asks her to remain in the guild rather than follow him into expulsion 41 42 164 174.
• Bickslow — Thunder God Tribe follower who joins Fairy Tail to follow Laxus and later fights alongside Freed against him in an examination 41 42 255.
• Natsu Dragneel — A fellow Dragon Slayer who challenges Laxus and opposes his contempt for weaker guildmates. Despite their disputes, Natsu objects to his expulsion, and they later fight alongside one another 107 108 174 374.

Notable Quotes

“Power is the only language everyone in this world understands.”
— Laxus’s thoughts on obtaining the truth about Ivan 30

“I’ll wait two years for you. I don’t care about fame. At the S-Class Exam two years from now, I’ll defeat you fair and square!”
— To Jiang Bai 34

“From now on, I won’t let a single person who dares to bully Fairy Tail get away with it!”
— Laxus’s resolve after reconciling with the guild 177