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Upon this land in which the white angel reigned supreme, a Black Dragon now descends... It's as if the malice of the black angel has been made manifest. But the one who will be laughing when all is said and done is I... The Scarlet Angel.
~ Irene Belserion to herself on Acnologia.
The white and black angels... I'm sure they were the spitting image of you girls. Which begs the question... If the two of you were to battle... Who would be the one to come out victorious? Shall we find out?
~ Irene Belserion to Juliet Sun and Heine Lunasea.

Irene Belserion is the secondary antagonist of the anime/manga fantasy series, Fairy Tail. She is the mother of Erza Scarlet and the creator of Dragon Slayer Magic. She is part of the Alvarez Empire, being regarded as the strongest female mage of the Spriggan 12, the protection guard of Emperor Spriggan. Within Alvarez, she is addressed by others as the Scarlet Despair, due to her peerless magnitude of power.

Like the majority of her fellow comrades, she leads her own personal squad known as the Irene Squad. Because of her high-ranking status in the Alvarez empire and her influence on major events and characters of the story, she can be considered the secondary antagonist of the series as a whole.

She is voiced by Takako Honda in the Japanese version, and by Rachel Robinson in the English dubbed version, the former of whom also voiced Hunter J of Pokémon.

Appearance[]

Irene is a seemingly tall, voluptuous woman with large amounts of scarlet hair thickly braided and located in the front and back of her body as pairs, all of which have bows near its ends. The frontal braids also have two golden ornaments near the upper sections. Also, the woman has two U-shaped earrings on her ears, while donning light-red lipstick. She has a c-section scar on her stomach (which is when she gave birth to Erza Scarlet).

Irene Dragon Form

Irene's Dragon Form.

For clothing, Irene dons a scanty version of the typical witch's garb. Her black top has a diamond-shaped opening, exposing a portion of her breasts, and a heart-shaped pattern around the borders. It extends down to the naval of her stomach where it meets a large angular scar, is draped over by a dark-colored cape with a light-colored inside and two medallion gold-like ornaments, and is held together by a golden chain. Not left bare, too, her neck is decorated by other small cloth-based accessories, including a wide bow.

Additionally, Irene wears an elongated black loincloth with the symbol of the Alvarez Empire emblazoned on its front, having white borders on its edges and being connected to another cloth piece with the very same heart-shaped design. She also wears black thigh-high boots with heels that have a white-colored border near the top and gloves of the same color and design, only having claw-like extensions. Her black witch's hat is much larger than her head and possesses dreadlock designs with white bandaging near its ends. It also has a fur lining near its edges. Despite being over 400 years old has the appearance of, she retains her youthful appearance, due to remaining in her Dragon Form and losing the ability to age.

As a Dragon, Irene has light-colored scales all over her body and a dark-colored fiery man on her back and arms, which appear to be connected to her wings. Her wings are also dark colored and a noticeable border above her nostrils that divides her mouth from her face, extending to the back of her head. She has jagged horns on the base of her skull and feather-like scales extending from the back of her knees.

Personality[]

Irene has shown to be very knowledgeable and intelligent, showcasing herself as a historian when revisiting a folktale of her birthplace, seemingly enjoying the counterbalance of a "wonderful story" of the two angels of Zonia. She is shown to have a humorous and hysterical side to her, as seen when she wanted to see Juliet and Heine do battle, only to later say it was a joke. In regard to her underlings, she is very attached to them, even referencing them as her "children", coming to their defense after their battle against Mirajane Strauss, painfully torturing the latter as collateral for defeating them.

When serious, she has shown to criticize and be honestly blunt to those even above her, such as the Emperor, for the latter treating the war as a game and also inviting naivety in his heart in regards to his former lover, wanting to be the one to correct him through it all. Besides all of this, she is very respectful, appreciative, complimentary, and oleaginous to those higher than her, still delivering high praise to the same Emperor who she claimed if he participated in the war against Ishgar that it would be over sooner after it began, while taking honor from the Black Dragon's compliments after engaging in battle with him, returning the favor by saying the rumors of his power don't do him any justice in person. However, she can be somewhat vain and egotistical to go along with her sly mouth, remembering that society has dubbed her the "Scarlet Despair", wishing for the title to be something "cuter" than her current alias.

Irene's insanity

Irene's descent into insanity.

In the past, Irene was a kind-hearted individual who believed in the cause that humans and dragons can live together in peace. It was this mutual feeling that lead her to create Dragon Slayer Magic in order to help her cause to win the war against the dragons that were against this idea. However, this would soon change when her body began forming her into a dragon. Due to the attempts on her life from her husband, Irene became obsessed with returning to her original body and it was this obsession that drove her into pure insanity. She became so determined that she attempted to use her own child as a sacrifice to regain her humanity. However, upon viewing her child, she couldn't bring herself to do it and instead left her behind in the care of others out of fear that such a feeling will subside. When they meet again, despite all her cruel taunts and ultimately triumphing over Erza, Irene ultimately chose to kill herself rather than kill Erza, showing how despite all her corruption, her love for Erza remained strong enough for her to choose death over killing her own daughter.

Powers and Abilities[]

Enchantment Fiore

The Magic Power of Irene expands throughout the Fiore region.

  • Universe One: Also known as World Reconstruction Magic, Irene, by firstly enchanting the land, can manipulate the very geography of the ground itself, with the ability of compressing the land to as much as five percent (or less) of its original size, thereby altering the entire landscape.The true purpose of this Magic is the power of bringing certain things or people to specific areas and locations, for example pushing the Emperor to the Fairy Tail Guild where Fairy Heart is located, while vanquishing Acnologia to deep into the sea. There are major side effects, however, as the new age Magic teleports all the inhabitants of the area (including Irene herself) and even structures and landmarks randomly all over the affected area. An indication to its power lies in the area of effect and Zeref's shock at the fact that Irene would cast it in the first place. Irene calls this Magic one of "a new era", indicating that it was created rather recently and would thus be unknown to someone who has knowledge of all Magics of old, such as Acnologia. She also noted that the casting she performed against Acnologia was her first ever time using Universe One.
  • Eye Magic: Irene has shown the ability to remotely view an area by summoning a giant eye in the sky over the location she wants to see and linking this eye with her true one. Both the giant eye and her real eye show a cross-shape pattern while the Magic is active.
  • Animal Transformation: Irene was shown to be able to transform people into the form of animals.
  • Enchantment: Irene has shown extremely high proficiency in the art of enchantment; so much that she's classified as a High Enchanter, giving her the ability to change and alter landscapes, climates, and the terra firma of the world, as well as manipulate the atmosphere, people, and objects "enchanting" them into any forms on however way she desires. Taught by Zeref, who commented on her prodigious talents in enhancements, Irene is able to perform incredulous feats such as shifting the entire climate of MT Zonia with ease and even detaching Fairy Heart from Mavis, something which should normally be impossible, though Fairy Heart's complex nature still makes the task complex and time-consuming. In combat, she can release extremely powerful shockwaves and explosions that were able to make even someone as powerful as Acnologia pushed back when he took her lightly and likewise force Erza and Wendy into the defensive. She was also shown as being able to manipulate all of Erza's swords of her Blumenblatt with ease to form circles and simply dissipate them.
  • Berserker: Irene can enchant her target(s) to this form; the ones enchanted take on a monstrous form with sharp teeth and flaming skulls, increasing their abilities, power, as well as their durability. However, she has noted that the ones in this form lose their ability to think as a cost to their new gained power.
  • Deus Zero: Irene has access to this enchantment, which allows her to extract Magic or other enchantments from someone. She originally used this to try and extract Fairy Heart from Mavis, and later used it on Wendy to detach her enchantment from Erza, but failed when Wendy also proved herself to be able to cast this particular enchantment.
  • Flight: Irene has shown that she can fly to any location.
  • Dragon Slayer Magic: Irene is able to use Dragon Slayer Magic and was the one who created it for the use of the Dragon Civil War.
  • Dragon Form: Like Acnologia, Irene transformed into a Dragon because of her Lost Magic but unlike Acnologia, Irene does not have control over her transformation and couldn't transform back into human without Zeref's help. As a result of staying a dragon for centuries, Irene was granted extreme longevity and lacks the ability to age despite being over hundreds of years old.
  • Immense Strength: Irene has immense strength as a Dragon, being able to easily break through stone structures, crush a human being to death, and effortlessly break both of Erza's legs and her left arm with a casual swipe of her hand.
  • Dragon's Roar: Being a Dragon, so long as she has assumed this shape, Irene can spout destructive blasts from her mouth like the rest of the race, which can easily decimate an entire castle.
  • Flight: While she can fly in her human form, Irene can also fly in this form, but in the more conventional sense.
  • Enhanced Magic Power: In her Dragon Form, Irene is the Sage Dragon (as Belserion gave her her power), and has her already immense Magic Power increased to much larger levels, which allows her to greatly increase the power of her enchantments.
    • Enhanced Enchantments: According to her, with the Sage Dragon's great power, Irene can increase the power of her enchantments to levels that no human could reasonably cast, something that transcends the land, the sky and the seas, and allows her to enchant the heavens themselves. These enchantments are of a higher rank than "High Enchants" and are thus known as "Master Enchants".
Deus Sema

Deus Sama.

      • Deus Sema: Using the immense power gifted to her by transforming into a Dragon, Irene enchants a rather large asteroid in space to come crashing down to earth as a meteor. If the meteor were to strike the ground it would annihilate the entirety of the area surrounding the new location of the Fairy Tail Guild. Deus Sema is a higher ranked, stronger version of Jellal Fernandes's True Heavenly Body Sema.
  • Immense Agility: Irene has proven herself to be very nimble, swiftly dodging Acnologia's attack by backflipping into the air several meters away from the explosion, while being still able to land on both feet, unharmed by the attack. She has shown herself to be extremely fast, being able to easily react to all of Erza's attacks to counter them all with her staff.
  • Immense Strength: Irene holds tremendous physical strength, as shown by how she could easily parry powerful attacks from the incredibly strong Erza when further enhanced by Wendy, whose slashes were able to even cut through air unaided and that was when she was much weaker than during their battle, and even push her back with a violent swing of her arm.
  • Immense Durability and Endurance: Irene has displayed vast amounts of durability and endurance, having endured over three years of excruciating torture, punishment and humiliation four hundred years past, and in the present, surviving a Dragon Force-empowered Sky Dragon's Wing Attack from Wendy, as well a powerful follow-up slash from Erza that left two deep gashes on her stomach. She also withstood a full-powered strike from Erza's combined Red-Black Twin Blades that hit her on the head, which left her with little more than a superficial head wound, and continued to fight on normally afterward. During this same encounter, Irene also parried Erza's sword strikes with her arms, and suffered no damage whatsoever.
  • Master Combatant: Despite preferring to use magic, Irene is extremely skilled in physical combat, both with her staff and bare limbs, as shown by how she was able to easily catch Erza's sword strikes bare-handed and parry all of her attacks with her staff with ease.
  • Master Sensor: Irene has shown to be able to sense presence of Mages to great extent and determine how strong they are without them being near her, as she could sense Crime Sorcière and Acnologia from a relatively long distance, unlike her subordinates.
  • Immense Magic Power: Even in the past, Irene had the magical power needed to become queen of an entire country. In the present, Irene's vast reserves of incredibly potent Magic Power made her the most powerful woman among the Spriggan 12 (which even Brandish μ acknowledged), and tying with the strongest individual, the "Magic King", August, as the strongest member overall. Neinhart, another Shield, even seemed somewhat afraid of Irene, sweating and trembling at the thought of Erza Scarlet being in some way related to her, as Erza's Magic Power is apparently of similar signature or potency to Irene's. Brandish has stated that Irene is the only mage capable of rivaling August and due to not having any personal connection to Irene, despite her own overwhelming power, even she would be incapable of doing anything against her. This was shown by how her aura and August's were capable of making Brandish uneasy and she was able to enchant Neinhart to where Brandish's magic had no effect on him. Her level of power and skill is such that she could affect vast areas, such as the climate of Mt. Zonia, and even the entire country of Fiore by reorganizing its landscape with ease. Even Acnologia, the self proclaimed Dragon King, was impressed by her power and even praised her. Even one of Fairy Tail's S Class Wizard's Mirajane Strauss, was terrified by her power and proclaimed hers (and August) defies common sense. Mavis Vermilion even sweats and trembles from simply being in Irene's presence.

Equipment[]

Staff: Irene wields a massive light-brown staff in her right hand, matching, if not surpassing, its owner's height, and being divided into two large, inwardly curved antlers near the top; considerably below those, the weapon begins to be overlaid with brown leopard-skin spots that extends up to the antler's tips. It has yet to be revealed if the staff fulfills a specific purpose. She has shown to use her staff in conjunction with her Magic, simply by tapping the ground or waving the wooden artifact as if it were a wand to induce her abilities.

Quotes[]

The white and black angels... I'm sure they were the spitting image of you girls. Which begs the question... If the two of you were to battle... Who would be the one to come out victorious? Shall we find out?
~ To Juliet Sun and Heine Lunasea.
Still you are correct. I do not want you to interfere. Inside, His Majesty thinks this is a game. I want him to be serious. I desire a swift end to this war.
~ To Acnologia.
Oh, I never imagine you would express such sympathetic feelings your majesty. This may come across a bit insolent, but I assure you I mean no disrespect. You won't beat Acnologia with mercy. Only with cunning and brute strength. He is the epitome of darkness. The true dragon king.
~ To Zeref Dragneel.

Trivia[]

  • Irene, Elefseria, and Acnologia are currently the only three Dragon Slayers to have transformed into dragons. However, unlike Acnologia, Irene needed Zeref's help to turn back into a human while Acnologia and the good-aligned Elefseria seem to have full control over their transformations.

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