Gray Fullbuster

Gray Fullbuster is one of the main characters of the Fairy Tail anime and manga.

Gray is a Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild, wherein he is a member of Team Natsu.

In the AWA fics, Gray is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Gray's most prominent feature is his spiky black-colored hair. He has dark blue eyes, and his body is toned and muscular.

After the mission on Galuna Island, he gets a scar on his forehead above his left eye that is partially covered by his hair. He also has a cross-shaped scar on his lower abdomen received from using Seven Slice Dance: Blood Version on Tenrou Island. His member stamp is below his collarbone on his right pectoral muscle and is dark blue in color.

Unlike almost all other characters, Gray does not consistently wear the same type of clothes (that is, when he is wearing some), though he is often shown wearing some kind of white coat.

Still, his most consistent pieces of clothing are his necklace, which resembles a sword with a stone in it, a metal bracelet and a chain which is attached to the belt loops on the right side of his pants. After obtaining Ice Devil Slayer Magic from his father, he gains a tattoo symbolizing the Magic on his right arm. Following his entry into the Avatar cult, he has seemingly erased his Fairy Tail mark, replacing it with Avatar's mark, but it turned out to be only an overlay on his black marks.

Personality
Gray has a laid-back personality, but will get serious when the time calls for it. He and Natsu have a friendly rivalry, and while they can often be seen fighting one another verbally or physically, the two are actually quite concerned about each other. Gray was quite obstinate and reckless when he was younger, but over time, he has attained a more cautious attitude towards life, and deals with problems carefully. He is very concerned about his comrades and is truly loyal towards his guild, but tends to trash talk every now and then. Also, he has a disturbing habit of unconsciously removing his clothes (including underwear) at inappropriate moments. Also, Gray is quite skilled in acting as an evil person, as shown in year X792, when he infiltrated Avatar on Erza's request, something that manages to prompt Briar to remark Gray's desire for "revenge" against E.N.D.has stained both his soul and skin.

Abilities
Ice-Make - A form of Molding Magic that allows the user to create ice at his will and to shape it into objects. In Gray's case, he uses Static Ice-Make, meaning he can shape his ice into inanimate things or weapons. Ice-Make is known as an extremely versatile form of Magic, coming in useful both in battle, for offensive and defensive purposes, and outside of it. Specializing in it and having been practicing it for years, Gray possesses extreme mastery over it, being capable of creating countless amounts of objects for a multitude of uses. Also, according to him, Ice-Make allows the user to produce virtually anything, granting the user an unmatched creation capability. As an Ice-Make user, Gray is an individual resistant to cold and as such is able to take damage from ice and snow-based attacks without sustaining major injury and is either completely immune to snow based attacks such as Eve Tearm's Snow Magic or is more resilient to it than other people.
 * 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: Block - Gray uses one hand to create a big block of ice that is able to block incoming attacks.


 * 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.


 * 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. The first time Gray used this was to defeat Racer.


 * 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.
 * 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: 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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: Ice Wall - An alternative version of Ice-Make: Ice Geyser, which freezes the opponent instead of impaling them.


 * 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.


 * 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


 * 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.


 * 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 Ramal's Sand Golem.

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.
 * Ice-Make: Wheel - Gray molds ice to form replacement parts of a broken wheel.
 * 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.

Trivia

 * Gray's boxers are much longer in the anime, and are usually always black, unlike the manga.
 * When Gemini transformed into Gray and Angel gathered information about Lucy from his mind, Gray's opinion of Lucy are as follows: "Newcomer to the guild, pretty damn cute, possesses some skill. More naive than she appears, and a celestial spirit wizard".


 * He is seen smoking in the first few chapters of the manga. This is not seen or mentioned in the anime.
 * Gray was ranked first in "Meredy's Most Important People to Kill" list.


 * Gray stated that ever since he bears the mark of Fairy Tail, he had never lost to the same opponent twice.


 * The necklace Gray wears was supposed to be Rave, but after bouncing around the idea of Gray being the 10th Rave Master among others, Mashima eventually rejected the idea.


 * Gray was originally planned to become the Ice Dragon Slayer, but it was ultimately rejected. Around the Tenrou Island arc, Mashima toyed with the idea again before finally settling on Gray becoming the Ice Devil Slayer just before he started writing the Grand Magic Games.