Erza Scarlet

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Erza Scarlet is a female anime and manga character who features in Fairy Tail.

Biography

Origin

Erza Scarlet in Fairy Tail v1 #34.

Erza Scarlet (Japanese: エルザ・スカーレット, Hepburn: Eruza Sukāretto) was a human born in Earthland where she was the daughter of Irene Belserion and a general of a foreign country. She was actually conceived 400 years prior to the Dragon King Festival but was kept from growing in her mothers womb through the use of magic. Erza remained unborn when her mother was a dragon until Irene was returned to her human form at the hands of |Zeref. Her mother attempted to become a true human again by enchanting herself onto her unborn child but this failed with Irene considering her daughter Erza to be worthless where she discarded the girl in the back alleys of Rosemary Village. She came to grow up there where she met other children her age such as Simon and Kagura. Whilst still young, the village was attacked by a cult that worshipped Zeref where in the confusion of the attack Erza managed to save Kagura from being captured by hiding her inside a crate. However, she herself came to be captured alongside several other children who were all enslaved as they were brought to a remote island where they were used as slave labour to build the Tower of Heaven. The purpose of the structure was said to help in bringing about the resurrection of the Dark Mage Zeref. Among the imprisoned slaves, she came to encounter Jellal Fernandes, Shô, Simon, Wally Buchanan, and Millianna where she formed a friendship with them. At the time, she only went by the name of Erza with Jellal giving her the last name 'Scarlet' on account of her scarlet hair. Despite harsh conditions, she maintained a close friendship with the other children and a strong bond with an elderly mage named Rob who was from Fairy Tail where he taught her about magic along with his guild. In X776, Shô came up with a plan that would allow the then 11-year-old Erza and all their friends to escape from the tower. However, they would be captured by the guards who looked to punish the mastermind of this attempt with disciplinary action whilst the others would be deprived of food for 3 days. Erza came to see how scared Shô at the time and looked to take the responsibility on herself but Jellal did so before her. Despite that, the guards decided to place the blame on Erza who was taken away to the disciplinary chamber. Whilst there, she was tortured to the brink of death and came to lose her right eye in the process. Jellal looked to save her but was captured as well with Erza being tired of the torment leading to her staging a revolt in order to save him and escape with all the captives. At first, the revolt seemed to be a success the tower's mages arrived to repress the slaves causing many of them to retreat. In this time, Erza came to witness Simon's lower jaw get blasted away by a magic attack whilst Rob sacrificed himself to defend Scarlet from an attack. Succumbing to her rage, Erza's latent magical ability came to activate where she used all the discarded weapons and tools around her against the guards thus allowing them to triumph. Many of the slaves then boarded the ships in order to escape and it was then that Erza was re-united with Jellal but came to find a stark change in his personality. The once kind and compassionate boy was suddenly far more twisted and violent where he used his newly discovered magic to kill any defenseless guards around him. He claimed that he had been possessed by the spirit of Zeref and that the only way to attain true freedom was to complete the Tower of Heaven and use it to revive the dark wizard. Erza would refuse to help him leading to Jellal using a spell to cast her out of the tower where the only reason he let her live was because she helped take out any of the guards that would oppose him. He would tell Erza to never to return and forced her to keep the existence of the Tower of Heaven a secret by threatening to kill everyone she cared about if she disobeyed him.

In the aftermath, she came to leave the island where she found herself washed ashore on Fiore. She then proceeded to make her way to the Fairy Tail guild in order to join their ranks. Out of habit, she began to wear armor to protect herself and acted distant from its other members. Later on, the guild was joined by a boy who was around Erza's age named Gray Fullbuster who one day looked to pick a fight with the elusive Scarlet. However, he instead fond her crying by herself and began to question why she would be so sad. It was after this event that she began to be more open with her guildmates. Around this time, the Fairy Tail guildmaster Makayrov Dreyar brought Erza to the healer Porlyusica who gave her an artificial eye to replace the one she had lost years ago. With her eye healed, Erza began to shed tears of joy from her real left eye. Years later, the guild was joined by other young members including Mirajane Strauss and her siblings. Erza had tried to make Mirajane welcome and noted her strength but the elder Strauss refused to speak a word to Scarlet. Over the years, Erza became somewhat more strict and made herself responsible for discipline over her unruly teammates. This led to her often stepping in to break up the fights between Gray Fullbuster and Natsu Dragneel. She herself though came to be involved in constant fights and bickering with Mirajane Strauss. This only ended when Mirajane experienced the seeming death of her sister Lisanna Strauss causing her to mellow out as she grew older. By X780, Erza took part in Fairy Tail' annual S-Class Mage Promotion Trial where she became the youngest member of the guild to pass it being 15 years old at the time.

Fairy Tail

At some point, Erza took a mission to slay a colossal horned monster where she succeeded in her goal and looked to claim the horn as a souvenir. While returning home, Erza stopped at a pub where she overheard a group of Mages discussing a sealed Magic called 'Lullaby', with one of the members, Kageyama, claiming he will be able to break the seal. Scarlet did not give them much thought until she heard Kageyama mention Erigor, the 'Death God' and ace of the Dark Guild Eisenwald. Too late to act against them in time, she decides to enlist Natsu and Gray to help her fight Eisenwald and discover what the Lullaby was as well as what they intend to do with the spell. She returns to the guild with the intention of discussing the matter with Makarov, only to learn that he is away at a meeting with the other guild masters in the country. After ritualistically berating her guildmates for their poor conduct, she tells Natsu and Gray to accompany her on her mission, shocking the entire guild with the idea that she has just formed the strongest team in the history of Fairy Tail. They are joined by Lucy, the guild's newest recruit, who is requested by Mirajane to keep Natsu and Gray from bickering behind Erza's back. Before setting out the next day, Natsu challenges Erza to fight him after they return, which she accepted. Erza discusses her mission with Lucy and Gray of her mission on the train ride to Onibus; Natsu, however, is left in the dark since Erza knocks him unconscious to ease his motion sickness. They are so caught up with their discussion that they accidentally leave Natsu on the train, prompting Erza to temporarily stop the train via its emergency stop signal and chase after him on a borrowed Magic Four-Wheeled Car. Upon retrieving Natsu, he says that he briefly fought with Kageyama, who had escaped, prompting Erza to berate him for not stopping him and paying attention to their discussion. Natsu further explains that the Mage was holding a skull-shaped flute, which Lucy recognizes as the Lullaby, a mass-murder curse that kills anyone who listens to its music.

Desperate to stop Erigor from playing the Lullaby, Erza and the others rush for the nearby town of Oshibana, where they find Eisenwald waiting for them inside the local train station. Before escaping with the Lullaby, Erigor claims to use the Lullaby to kill everyone in the city. Erza sends Natsu and Gray to chase after him while she fights against the members of Eisenwald, easily taking them all out at once. Having used up much of her Magic Power in the fight and on the Magic Four-Wheeled Car, she goes outside to evacuate the citizens gathered around the station. However, Erigor reappears and casts a Wind Wall around the station, trapping Erza inside. She interrogates the defeated Eisenwald members in the station and realizes that Eisenwald's true target is Clover Town, where Makarov and the other guild masters have gathered. Remembering Kageyama's power to dispel Magic, she and Gray find Kageyama after he is defeated by Natsu and demands that he lift the Wind Wall, but he is stabbed in the back by fellow Eisenwald member Karacka to keep him quiet. Fortunately, Lucy acquired the key for the Celestial spirit, Virgo from Happy, allowing the team to burrow beneath the Wind Wall and escape; before doing so, Natsu brings Kageyama, not wanting him to die. Natsu sets out to fight Erigor while Erza and the others chase after him on another Magic Four-Wheeler with Kageyama in tow. By the time they catch up, they find that Natsu has successfully defeated Erigor. However, Kageyama steals the Lullaby and hijacks the vehicle, setting off for Clover Town to kill the guild masters himself. Erza and the others chase after him, but by the time they find him at the masters' meeting hall, they witness Makarov persuading Kageyama to stop his plan. Suddenly, the Lullaby comes to life and unveils a Demon that was sealed inside the flute. Together with Natsu and Gray, Erza battles and destroys the demon, reverting the Lullaby into an ordinary flute, but destroying the entire meeting hall in the process.

Alvarez Empire

Upon the return to Magnolia, they came to find all of Fairy Tails members gathered to reform the guild. Thus, they began to assemble the guild hall once more and decided to name Erza the new guild master as part of a formality with the Magic Council. This was intended to be a temporary measure until master Makarov was found and brought back to the guild. Around this time, Mest returned and was following orders from Makarov which was to take the new guild master to the Lumen Histore that was a closely guarded secret of Fairy Tail. Once there, he revealed a mission that Makarov had sent him on which was to infiltrate the Magic Council and learn everything about the Alvarez Empire. In the years that followed, Mest secretly reported back to Makarov and by the time of the Tartaros attack it was discovered that the mighty empire was preparing to invade Fiore. To stop this, Makarov decided to journey to the country and conduct negotiations to convince the empire against this course of action. Furthermore, he decided to disband Fairy Tail as he was aware that the Alvarez Empire sought out the Lumen Histore and that by breaking up the guild Makarov felt like he was protecting his children from being targets. After learning of this, Erza and a select number of Fairy Tail members decided to travel secretly into the Alvarez Empire in order to find and recover master Makarov.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Erza Scarlet was a young human woman with long, scarlet hair and brown eyes where she had a slender voluptuous figure that Lucy Heartfilia described as being 'amazing'. As a child, she came to lose her right eye but after joining Fairy Tail this came to be replaced by an artificial one that was created by Porlyusica. Originally, she went only by the name of Erza with the last name 'Scarlet' being given to her by Jellal Fernades who commented on her beautiful scarlet hair. Her beauty and skill led to her being known as Titania (妖精女王ティターニアTitānia).

She was shown as being a strict person within the Guild where she often criticised the bad behaviours and habits of her fellows causing them to apologise as they feared falling victim to her wrath. Erza was very impatient with her disliking people who did not answer her questions quickly enough.

Lucy had said that Erza was cool and beautiful, warm and full of passion.

Meanwhile, Erza had described herself as someone who was always crying, due to her experience of being unable to protect those dear to her.

She had said that she felt uncomfortable and insecure when she was not wearing armor.

Scarlet had said that for one to never be defeated then they must first learn their own weakness and had to always be kind.

According to Erza, her companions made her heart strong and she had said that as long as she was fighting for those she loved then she did not care what happened to her body. She said she cared little about being the strongest and instead wanted to have enough strength to help her friends. Despite that, she had also said that a person did not die for their friends but rather lived for them.

It was shown that Erza could not hold her liquor. While drunk, she acted in a very aggressive towards other people. She also seemed to have a problem recognizing people when drunk.

Levy had mentioned that Erza had a secret fondness for smut and erotic novels.

Erza Scarlet was the daughter of Irene Belserion (アイリーン・ベルせリオン Airīn Beruserion) who had been a queen of a nation over 4000 years ago and the creator of Dragon Slayer Magic. Meanwhile, her father was a general named Rung (ラング Rangu) that wed her as a political arrangement. However, her mother never raised her and instead abandoned her after giving birth to her child in the present. Thus, Erza was unaware of her heritage and effectively been raised as an orphan.

Whilst being enslaved at the Tower of Heaven, she came to meet Jellal Fernandes (ジェラール・フェルナンデス Jerāru Ferunandesu) who became her childhood friend as they remained close in this time. By adulthood, their feelings for one another had become more romantic.

Powers and abilities

Erza Scarlet was a human who possessed Magic Power (魔力 Maryoku) who came to hold the potential for Magic (魔法 Mahō) power where she came to learn to use some of it during her time as a prisoner in the Tower of Heaven. During that time, she came to meet an elderly mage named Rob who taught her how to use magic allowing her to become a Mage (魔導士 Madōshi). In that time, she came to lose her right eye as punishment for an escape attempt by guards at the Tower of Heaven. During a revolt, her latent magic ability first came to actvate in that time when she began to manifest swords and tools discarded in the battle. Later on, she joined Fairy Tail where Makarov took her to see Porlyusica who created an artificial eye for her. As a magic user, she came to be a wielder of spatial magic with her signature ability being Requip: The Knight (換装騎士ザ・ナイトKansō Za Naito). This stated to be a variation of the power of manipulating space and she came to attain a great level of mastery over it. This allowed her to swap weapons, armor and clothes at will giving her incredible versatility in combat. Such was her skill that she came to be the youngest mage to had passed through the S-Class Promotion Trial with her being 15 years old when she had done so.

She had also attained a mastery of Sword Magic (剣の魔法 Ken no Mahō) where she was able to manifest swords and use them offensively against her enemies. She was capable of using her swords to perform different kinds of magical attacks. This was usually done in combination with specific armors of hers, which made her a very deadly combatant. It was also shown that she could also combine different armors with other swords from other armors to either block or attack using deadlier force and mixing different elements together. Erza was also proficient enough to use Enchantment (付加術 Fukajutsu) with her capable of enacting 'High Enchant' (高位付加術ハイエンチャント Hai Enchanto) level of enchantment onto her swords.

In total, she was said to own 100 different types of armor and over 200 different types of weapons. Among the armours she used included:

• Heart Kreuz Armor (ハートクロス鎧 Hāto Kurosu Yoroi) : her most casual armor that she was usually seen wearing and made by the popular fashion brand Heart Kreuz specifically for her.
• Heaven's Wheel Armor (天輪の鎧 Tenrin no Yoroi) :
• Black Wing Armor (黒羽の鎧 Kureha no Yoroi) :
• Flame Empress Armor (炎帝の鎧 Entei no Yoroi) :
• Giant Armor (巨人の鎧 Kyojin no Yoroi) :
• Adamantine Armor (金剛の鎧 Kongō no Yoroi) :
• Purgatory Armor (煉獄の鎧 Rengoku no Yoroi) :
• Clear Heart Clothing (清心の衣 Seishin no Koromo) :
• Lightning Empress Armor (雷帝の鎧 Raitei no Yoroi) :
• Flight Armor (飛翔の鎧 Hishō no Yoroi) :
• Robe of Yūen (悠遠の衣 Yūen no Koromo) :
• Morning Star Armor (明星の鎧 Myōjō no Yoroi) :
• Armadura Fairy (妖精の鎧アルマデュラ・フェアリー Arumadura Fearī) :
• Sea Empress Armor (海王の鎧 Kaiō no Yoroi) :
• Seduction Armor (誘惑の鎧 Yūwaku no Yoroi) :
• Nakagami Armor (天一神の鎧 Nakagami no Yoroi) :
• Piercing Armor :
• Ataraxia Armor :
• Red-Black Twin Blades (紅黒の双刃 Kōkon no Sōjin) :
• Wind God Armor (風神の鎧 Fūjin no Yoroi) :
• Thousand Arms Armor (千手の鎧 Senju no Yoroi) :
• Celestial Armor :

From a young age, she came to join the ranks of the Fairy Tail (妖精の尻尾フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru) guild and eventually stood as one of its strongest members with her being an S-Class mage. At one point, she came to serve as the 7th Guild Master of Fairy Tail during a time when Makarov was missing.

Notes

• Erza Scarlet was created by Hiro Mashima where she featured in the setting of the Fairy Tail universe.

Alternate Versions

• In Edolas, she came to possess an alternate reality counterpart who was known as Erza Knightwalker.

In other media

Television

• In Fairy Tail, Erza Scarlet appeared in the anime television series adaptation where she was voiced by actress Sayaka Ohara and English voice actress Colleen Clinkenbeard in the dub.

Films

Video games

Appearances

• Fairy Tail:

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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