Laxus Dreyar

Laxus Dreyar (ラクサス・ドレアー, Rakusasu Doreā) is Makarov Dreyar's grandson and heir to the position of guild master. The character's name is derived from the word "lux", a unit of measurement for light.[vol. 27:184] He is an expert lightning wizard capable of generating and transforming into bolts of electricity. He is also a second generation Dragon Slayer whose father, Ivan Dreyar, implanted a lacrima crystal within him as a child that enables him to use Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic (雷の滅竜魔法, Kaminari no Metsuryū Mahō).[ch. 128] As a teenager, Laxus feels overshadowed by his grandfather and eventually rebels following his father's expulsion from the guild,[ch. 106, 119] growing into a strength supremacist at the start of the series.[ch. 24] When Fairy Tail's reputation began to falter after the war with Phantom Lord, Laxus organized an intra-guild battle royal called the "Battle of Fairy Tail" in a bid to seize control of the guild from Makarov and reestablish its strength by rooting out the guild's "weaklings".[ch. 107] After his plans fail, Makarov expels him for endangering his guildmates, although he leaves on friendlier terms with them.[ch. 128] He later joins Fairy Tail's battle against Hades on Sirius Island,[ch. 244] and is reinstated into the guild by Gildarts Clive during the latter's brief period as guild master.[ch. 260]