Lucy Heartfilia

Lucy Heartfilia is a female anime and manga character who features in Fairy Tail.

Biography

Lucy Heartfilia (Japanese: ルーシィ・ハートフィリア Hepburn: Rūshii Hātofiria) was a female human born the daughter of Jude Heartfilia (ジュード・ハートフィリア Jūdo Hātofiria) and his wife Layla Heartfilia (レイラ・ハートフィリア Reira Hātofiria). Her parents were originally members of a merchants guild named Love & Lucky which was where they met one another and later decided to go independent when her mother became pregnant. The couple decided to name their daughter after noticing that the merchant's guild was missing the letter 'K' in the name and became inspired by the name 'Lucy'. Afterwards, the couple made the Heartfilia family into a wealthy and powerful business empire in Fiore. Growing up in her family's mansion, Lucy had a good relationship with all the staff at her estate. She came to develop a love for her mother Layla's celestial spirits at an early age. However, when she was 10 years old, her mother passed away leaving only her father to care for her though he became obsessed with money and the business leading to him neglecting Lucy. Lucy came to inherit two of her mother's gold Gatekeys that summon powerful zodiac spirits with her later acquiring a third key by herself. Her estrangement from her father led to Lucy deciding to leave home with the intention of joining the Fairy Tail guild, which she admired despite the reputation of its members' inclination to cause unintended property damage. As such, she came to leave home when she was 16 years old and she set out to be an adventurer.

Later on, she came to be in Hargeon where she lamented on the lack of magic stores in the town. She came to find a single shop and attempted to get a discount on a Celestial Spirit named Nikora by using her sex appeal but even then could not afford the item. Whilst there, she came to be rescued from a criminal by Natsu Dragneel who was a fire wizard and Dragon Slayer who was accompanied by an Exceed named Happy. She later came to learn that he was a member of Fairy Tail where he invited her to join the guild after learning of her goals. The pair quickly formed a partnership as the two travelled to Magnolia where thy jointly paid rent for her house in the town that was home to Fairy Tail. Lucy came to quickly demonstrate her proficiency in summoning spirits and handling a whip in battle.

A day or so later, Lucy arrives at the Fairy Tail guild, in awe and mostly shocked at the many varied personalities of its members. A brawl develops in front of her, started by Natsu, and during that fight, she meets other members Gray and Mirajane. She also comments that none of the guild members are acting normal. The brawl is eventually stopped by Fairy Tail's Guild Master Makarov before it escalates into one with usages of Magic. Makarov initially begins to scold the members for their destructive actions, but soon breaks into an inspiring speech about following the way of Fairy Tail. Night falls, and Lucy opts to have her member stamp on the back of her right hand. Whilst there, Natsu looked for another job on the guild's request board, but overhears that Macao Conbolt, a Fairy Tail member, has been missing for a week, and his son Romeo wishes for Makarov to look for him, which the latter refuses to do. Natsu punches the board and leaves with Happy. Curious, Lucy asks Mirajane what is wrong with him, and she explains that perhaps, Natsu sees his own past happening with Romeo; in the past, his foster parent, Igneel the fire Dragon, suddenly disappeared. Out of curiosity, Lucy decides to go along with them into the furiously snowing mountains and begins to regret coming because of the sheer cold. Stealing Natsu's blanket and wrapping herself up in it, she then summons her Celestial Spirit Horologium, a clock spirit with a compartment where she can hide herself in for warmth. One Vulcan, a monster Macao had been subduing, suddenly appears and attacks Natsu before kidnapping Lucy, as it liked women. The Vulcan takes her to its cave, where it parades around her until Horologium disappears. As the Vulcan advances, Natsu catches up and demands to know where Macao is. Just as the Vulcan appears to confide Macao's whereabouts, he abruptly pushes Natsu off a cliff instead. Enraged and horrified, Lucy summons the (perverted) Zodiac Spirit, Taurus. Taurus and the Vulcan immediately begin to battle, but stop as Natsu reappears, having been saved by Happy. He knocks out Taurus, thinking it is another monster. Natsu then fights and swiftly defeats the Vulcan. Much to their surprise, the Vulcan is actually Macao, who had been "taken over" by the Vulcan's Magic. Having been smashed into the wall, Macao falls through a hole in the wall and is saved from falling down the mountain, thanks to the combined efforts of Natsu, Happy, Lucy and the revived Taurus. Macao, now back up, is found to be seriously wounded, and Natsu resorts to the extreme of burning one of Macao's wounds shut, which brings him back to consciousness. He tells them that he had successfully subdued 19 other Vulcans, but had been taken over by the twentieth one. At this, Lucy is in awe and feels she is no match for them. They then return to Fairy Tail's town, Magnolia, and Macao reunites with his son, Romeo.

As Lucy is settling into her new home, she finds out that Natsu and Happy have brazenly broke in. As she attacks and scolds Natsu, Happy sharpens his nails on the wall, distracting her from Natsu, who then peeks at her writings. She dives for them, keeping them away from Natsu, and demands that they leave, which Natsu refuses to do. Giving up, she offers the two a cup of tea. Lucy teaches them how the Celestial Spirit keys work and the fundamentals of making contracts with the Spirits. She summons the Spirit of her recently-bought Nikora key. His peculiar appearance stirs Natsu and Happy's pities, believing Plue to be a failure on Lucy's part. She argues that Nikora is a canine Spirit, and proceeds to contract with him. In a "language" that only Natsu seems to understand, Plue apparently suggests that they should form a team, to which both Mages adhere. Their first mission is to steal a book, which involves an owner looking to hire a blonde maid, and that makes Lucy think Natsu tricked her. Upon arriving in the Town of Shirotsume, Natsu complains about being hungry and goes off to a restaurant with Happy, while Lucy leaves them be to look around the town. She returns in a maid costume, shocking both of them, as they only meant it as a joke. Regardless, they go to Kaby's house to meet with their client and discuss the mission, and are stunned to discover the reward has been raised by ten times. Impassioned, they head to Everlue's mansion, where Lucy attempts to be hired, but is rejected for being too ugly for Everlue's taste. This infuriates her slight vanity. With infiltration no longer an option, they resort to invasion, and decide to come through the roof of the mansion. They try to sneak around to find the book, but are quickly found by Everlue's maids, who are instantly defeated by Natsu. They eventually come across a library, and, after a bit of searching, find the book they have been hired to destroy: DAYBREAK. Just as Natsu is about to destroy it, Lucy snatches it off him, claiming that it is a book by the famous author, Kemu Zaleon, and that she has never seen it before. She refuses to allow Natsu to incinerate the book. Everlue appears at this moment, diving up from the floor, and after a short appraisal of his own genius, summons the Vanish Brothers to deal with the Fairy Tail Mages. Amidst the commotion, Lucy skims the book and discovers something within the contents that makes her rush off. She asks Natsu to buy her some time, as she apparently decodes the hidden meaning of the book. She somehow makes it to the mansion's sewers and through the enhanced reading speed provided by her Gale-Force Reading Glasses, Lucy successfully discovers the secret within the book. Everlue abruptly reappears and ambushes her, grabbing her arms and threatening to break them unless she tells him her discovery. She refuses to say anything, and is released when Happy strikes Everlue in the face. Lucy and Everlue engage in battle. Everlue's selfish nature is revealed when he tells Lucy how he forced Kemu Zaleon to make that book about him. Lucy, however, tells him that the book contains a further secret which proves that Everlue does not deserve it. With this declaration, she summons the Celestial Spirit Cancer. Everlue summons his own Celestial Spirit, Virgo, in response, but Natsu accidentally arrives with her, because he was grabbing her before she was called. At Lucy's request, he punches Virgo into the ground while Cancer and herself defeat Everlue. They return to Kaby's mansion and Lucy returns the book. He initially wishes to burn it, much to Natsu's chagrin. Kaby then explains his past, as well as why he wishes to get rid of the book. However, just as he is about to proceed with incinerating it, the book bursts into life - the letters rearrange themselves with the book's title, becoming DEAR KABY. Lucy explains that Zaeleon placed a spell on the book and dedicated it to his son, Kaby. Much to her dismay, Natsu and Happy then say they cannot accept the reward because they did not specifically do what they were asked. On their way home, Natsu realizes that Lucy's earlier protectiveness over her writings is because she is writing a book herself. Embarrassed, she desperately asks for him not to tell anyone.

Back at the guild, Lucy looks for another request poster and while talking to Mirajane, learns about the organization of guilds and the existence of illegal guilds, called Dark Guilds. Natsu frightens her and then tells her to hurry and find a new job for them, as it is her turn to choose one. However, she no longer wishes to work with him. Gray explains that she should feel no need to team up with anyone anymore, complimenting her on her work, but she explains that Natsu did nearly everything. As Natsu and Gray begin to brawl, Loke flirts with Lucy, but quickly runs away when he finds out that she is a Celestial Spirit Mage - he then returns to tell Natsu and Gray that the S-Class Mage Erza Scarlet has returned. Erza accordingly arrives with the large horn of a Demon she has slain, and after scolding several members, turns to Gray and Natsu, who are acting like Happy, and asks them to help her with a mission. Although Natsu and Gray both refuse, it seems to have fallen on deaf ears, as Erza immediately sets forth. Mirajane heralds the creation of this team as possibly "The Strongest Team" in Fairy Tail. Mirajane also asks Lucy to tag along, in order to keep Gray and Natsu from getting into their habitual fist fights. On the day of their departure, in the train station, she keeps the two from breaking into a brawl by lying that Erza is approaching. Upon her arrival, Lucy introduces herself to Erza, and Natsu challenges Erza to a fight, once their mission ends, which she readily accepts. The team boards the train, and, after knocking Natsu out to relieve him from his motion sickness, Erza explains the mission to her teammates. On her last job, Erza has apparently overheard guild members talking about an accursed object called Lullaby, and a Mage named Erigor. She admits that she failed to recognize the gravity of the overheard conversation, and only realized her mistake upon returning home. She recalls that Erigor was a member of the Dark Guild Eisenwald, and claims that such people would be up to no good. The mission she planned is to walk into Eisenwald and destroy them.

Completely preoccupied with the mission briefing, the team disembarks from the vehicle. A moment too late, they realize that a still unconscious Natsu was forgotten in their compartment. They rush back to retrieve him, and Erza gets Happy to use an emergency stop signal lever to stop the train. They race towards it on a magical four-wheeled train. Just as they arrive at the train, Natsu crashes out of one of the windows and lands headfirst into Gray. After a bit of convenient amnesia, Natsu informs Lucy and the others that he got attacked on the train by a member of the Eisenwald guild who had a strange flute, displaying a skull with three eyes. This description reminds Lucy of a story about the cursed flute Lullaby, which kills anyone who hears melodies played from it. With this shocking revelation in hand, they rush towards the train station. On the way there, Happy mentions that he meant to tell Lucy something, but forgot, and as they try to enter the station, Lucy carries Natsu in - though she causes his motion sickness doing this as she is considered as a means of transport. Inside, they are confronted by Eisenwald and Erigor, who explains that his plan is to use the station's loudspeakers to broadcast Lullaby. Distracted by Erigor, Gray and Erza fail to notice one of Eisenwald's members, Kageyama, attacking Lucy. Natsu, however, manages to save her in the nick of time. Erigor then flees, and Erza orders Natsu and Gray to chase after him while she and Lucy deal with the rest of his Dark Guild. Using her Magic, The Knight, Erza quickly dispatches all of their foes, with assist from Lucy, who summons the Celestial Spirit Cancer. One member, however, escapes, and Erza calls upon Lucy to give chase to him. Lucy, along with Happy, loses sight of him and eventually reunites with the others beside a stabbed Kageyama. The two then find out that they have been trapped in a barrier of impassable wind, having been tricked by Erigor. At this moment, Happy finally remembers his message for Lucy—upon Virgo's request, the Maiden gold key previously owned by Everlue, was to be transferred to Lucy's ownership. Foregoing the usual process of contracting, Lucy summons Virgo and asks for the latter to use her superior digging powers to create a safe path of escape for them to use. Natsu immediately rushes ahead with Happy to defeat Erigor. Bringing with them the injured Kageyama, Lucy, Erza, and Gray continue to travel along the train tracks, and eventually stumble upon Natsu, who successfully defeated Erigor. As the team rejoices, Kageyama unexpectedly makes a break for it, taking the flute with him. He aims to complete Eisenwald's original mission, which was to assassinate all the Guild Masters present in the annual meeting held in the town of Clover. Team Natsu rushes to subdue him, however, they eventually discover that their assistance was not needed, as Master Makarov managed to sway Kageyama from his original purpose. The Guild Masters as well as Team Natsu begin to celebrate their apparent victory when all of a sudden, the flute begins to 'speak', and manifests as a gargantuan demonic form, which was said to be the true embodiment of the cursed 'Lullaby'. Erza, Natsu, and Gray engage it into melee and swiftly defeat the monster. Their battle, however, inadvertently destroys the regular guild meeting hall, prompting Lucy and the other Fairy Tail members to make a quick getaway.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Lucy Heartfilia was a female human with brown eyes and shoulder-length blonde hair that was typically tied by ribbons in a variety of colors in a small ponytail to the right side of her head with the rest of the hair loose. She had her Fairy Tail guild insignia located on the back of her right hand.

She had exceptional pride in her appearance and was very confident in her sex appeal with her exuding a certain amount of vanity.

It was shown that she was very kind to her Celestial Spirits and refused to utilize them as shields or think of them as such. Instead, she fought alongside them and treated them as her friends which was unlike other such mages some of whom treated them as tools instead of living beings.

Lucy Heartfilia was the daughter of rich businessman Jude Heartfilia (ジュード・ハートフィリア Jūdo Hātofiria) and a Celestial Spirit mage named Layla Heartfilia (レイラ・ハートフィリア Reira Hātofiria).

One of her distant ancestors was Anna Heartfilia (アンナ・ハートフィリア Anna Hātofiria) who lived over 400 years ago and was also a Celestial Wizard that was responsible for opening the Eclipse Gate long ago.

It was shown that she tended that she was often frustrated at the antics of her guildmates. Unlike them, she tended not to get excited by fighting and did not resort to violence as being a solution. Despite that, she did note that she liked being around her comrades in Fairy Tail who she found to be fun people.

Powers and abilities

Lucy Heartfilia was a human of the Earthlands who had a degree of magic power that allowed her to become a mage. She came to have a degree of physical skill that she could use in combat. One form of attack she made was the Lucy Kick (ルーシィ・キック Rūshi Kikku) which was actually a simple, non-magical melee move. She was shown as being proficient in the use of a whip as she demonstrated being skilled enough to grab opponents through it and to employ it as an effective weapon at short-to-mid range.

As a magic user, Lucy was skilled in the art of Celestial Spirit Magic (星霊 魔法 Seirei Mahō) that was a form of spatial magic that allowed her to summon Celestial Spirits (星霊 Seirei). These magical beings resided within the Celestial Spirit World (星霊界 Seireikai) with her able to summon them through the keys that opened their respective Gates. During the summoning, the Key was enveloped in a soft golden light as the Spirit was brought onto the field. Once a contract had been formed, the Spirit became available for use and could be summoned on certain days. They could be used for any task ranging from fighting her side to performing select tasks. Her Celestial Spirits varied in levels of power with different ones being more suited for certain tasks than others some of which were unrelated to battle. Over time, she gained the advanced skill of being able to summon multiple spirits at a time.

The spirits that she could summon included:

• Aquarius (アクエリアス Akueriasu) :
• Taurus (タウロス Taurosu) :
• Virgo (バルゴ Barugo) :
• Leo (レオ Reo) :
• Sagittarius (サジタリウス Sajitariusu) :
• Cancer (キャンサー Kyansā) :
• Capricorn (カプリコーン Kapurikōn) :
• Scorpio (スコーピオン Sukōpion) :
• Gemini (ジェミニ Jemini) :
• Horologium (ホロロギウム Hororogiumu) : a Silver Key Celestial Spirit

With Ultear's help, her Second Origin (二番原セカンド・オリジン Sekando Orijin) came to be awakened allowing her access to dormant magical power. In the case of her summoning's, she was shown to be able to maintain two active Celestial Spirit effortlessly.

Among the techniques known to her included:

• Force Gate Closure (強制閉門 Kyōsē Hēmon) : she was able to force the gate of a Celestial Spirit to close against their will prompting them to return to the Celestial Spirit World.
• Recompense Summoning (代償召喚術 Daishō Shōkanjutsu) : a technique that allowed the spell caster to summon the Celestial Spirit King. This could only be achieved by sacrificing one of the keys in the wizards possession which in turn could only be achieved if the summoner and spirit had a level of mutual trust with one another.
• Urano Metria (ウラノ・メトリア Urano Metoria) :

After further training, she was able to summon a Star Dress (星霊衣スタードレス Sutā Doresu) that was an extension of her Celestial Spirit Magic. This allowed her to incorporate the power of a Celestial Spirit into her body by placing the key of the respective being onto her chest. The result was the manifestation of a clothing that was centered around the Spirit in question.

Similar to other mages, she was able to perform a Unison Raid (合体魔法ユニゾンレイド Yunizon Reido) whereby she combined her abilities with another person's magic to create a single combined stronger attack against a target. She was shown to had performed Unison Raids with both Juvia Locksear and Wendy Marvell.

She also had Gale-Force Reading Glasses (風詠みの眼鏡 Kazeyomi no Megane) that were a pair of enchanted reading glasses which allowed her to read at an extremely accelerated rate. Another magical item in her possession was a Light Pen (光筆 Hikari Pen) that allowed her to write even on air and in various colours.

Her father once headed a powerful and rich company called the Heartfilia Konzern (ハートフィリア・コンツェルン Hātofiria Kontserun) which operated in Fiore. Lucy herself came to join Fairy Tail (妖精の尻尾フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru) that were a powerful magical guild which operated in the Kingdom of Fiore.

Notes

• Lucy Heartfilia was created by Hiro Mashima where she featured in the setting of Fairy Tail.

In other media

Television

• In Fairy Tail, Lucy Heartfilia appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where she was voiced by Japanese actress Aya Hirano and by English actress Cherami Leigh in the dub.

Appearances

• Fairy Tail:

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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