One of the protagonists of Fairy Tail is none other than Lucy Heartfilia the Celestial wizard. She parted ways with her wealthy family to find her own destiny, and she was welcomed into the Fairy Tail guild when she met Natsu Dragneel, the fire wizard. It has been her home ever since.

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One of the Fairy Tail veterans is Erza Scarlet the sword master, and her strength is near the top of the entire guild, if not all of Fiore. Erza is the powerhouse of Lucy and Natsu's team, and she has had many dramatic and exciting scenes all to herself. All told, who is the real star of Fairy Tail, Lucy or Erza, and why?

10 Lucy: Making Her Own Fortune

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This is one of the first things that viewers will ever learn about Lucy: that she walked out of her wealthy household in order to take control of her own destiny. It would have been so easy for Lucy to stay with her father Jude and rely on his money, but that would have been a rather stifling life.

Instead, Lucy decided to part ways and create her own destiny, and she would succeed or fail entirely on her own merits. That includes finances, and she had to get used to earning money and paying her own rent. It was a formative experience.

9 Erza: Young Hero

Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)

Erza Scarlet was a hero before she even hit her tenth birthday party. In her girlhood, she was kidnapped and sent to the R-project, along with Millianna, Kagura Mikazuchi's brother Simon, and a certain Jellal Fernandez. They were little more than slaves in that project.

But one day, Erza and Jellal rose up in rebellion, and with her courage and strength, Erza helped free herself and the other children, shutting down the project temporarily. Not just anyone could take up a sword and fight for freedom like that.

8 Lucy: Writing Career

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Not all of the characters in Fairy Tail have a hobby outside of their work, though Juvia Lockser the water mage makes a hobby of following Gray around and daydreaming about him. Lucy, meanwhile, is working on her writing skills.

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She likes to write letters of correspondence and she keeps a journal, and most of all, Lucy eventually landed a reporter job for the Weekly Sorcerer magazine. She also once won an award for her authorship skills later on, in one of Fairy Tail's last scenes.

7 Erza: Funny Theater Hobby

erza scarlet from fairy tail in normal clothes (red blazer and glasses)

Lucy isn't the only one with a cool hobby. Erza has a few interests outside of fighting too, such as her passion for dramatic theater. What's so funny about it is that she gets stage fright and flubs her lines, but that won't dampen her spirits at all.

It's great fun to see Erza get so excited about theater, and then she puts on a princely costume and prances right onstage. Even if Erza is Fiore's worst actress, it's difficult to not appreciate her love of the art. At least she's having a good time.

6 Lucy: Lucy Kick

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This technique, the Lucy Kick, is on the border between comic relief (the kind that involves girls knocking annoying people away) and a real combat move. Fairy Tail's humor blurs a few lines, and this is one such case.

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Is Lucy's power coming from the power of friendship, or the power of comic relief (like Sakura Haruno and Nami)? Some of both, and a few bad guys have been blasted high into the sky when Lucy cries "Lucy Kick!" and gives them a piece of her mind. They won't be coming back.

5 Erza: Heaven's Wheel

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For the most part, Erza is a sword fighter, and she can handle most other sword masters in a traditional duel of blades. But sometimes, she needs some ranged firepower, and she can get it when she uses the right armor and technique.

This is the Heaven's Wheel technique, and with it, Erza summons hundreds of swords, then flings them with great force all over the place. It's a terrifying show of force that few members of the Fairy Tail guild can match.

4 Lucy: Flexible Spirit Arsenal

lucy heartfilia with spirits

Lucy is a "summoner" type of wizard, and in many works of fiction, summoners like her stand back and let their minions do the fighting. Heroes and villains alike can do this, and in Lucy's case, she's a heroic wizard who uses spirits based on the western horoscope.

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Lucy's combat technique can easily adapt to the situation, from Taurus the melee master to Sagittarius the archer to Virgo, the master of earth. And in case of emergency, Lucy will summon the temperamental master of water, Aquarius.

3 Erza: Swapping Armor

Erza Scarlet's Transformation Sequence

Lucy is flexible on offense, while Erza is flexible on defense. Erza isn't just a sword master; she can use spatial magic that can reach into another dimension, where her dozens of armor suits are stored. At will, Erza can use magic and access that entire arsenal.

Some of Ezra's suits are generic, while others allow her to fly on wings, and yet others can grant her elemental resistance to fire, water, and more. Erza has a few suits that are entirely focused on offense, at the expense of defense. Sometimes, that's necessary.

2 Lucy: Creative Mind

Lucy Heartfilia winking in Fairy Tail.

In the Fairy Tail guild, it's Levy McGarden who has the book smarts and Makarov who has the talent for leadership. But Lucy is pretty brainy too, even if she acts silly most of the time. Her mind is as resourceful and creative as her magic is.

It was Lucy who found a way to turn the tables on the Tartaros guild and free herself from that guild's magical effects, and she also exploited Jacob's aversion to nudity by crying out and pretending that Natsu was getting naughty with her. Jacob refused to look, so that left him open to attack.

1 Erza: Stopped Natsu & Gray

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During the climax of the story, Natsu was outed as the demon E.N.D., the brother of Zeref, and Gray had a big problem with that. These two friends ended up coming to blows, and they used the full extent of their power against one another, fire vs ice.

It seemed like nothing could stop this tragic feud, but Erza proved otherwise when she stepped between them and embraced them as friends. At once, Natsu and Gray stood down, their hate forgotten. Only Erza could pull that off.

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