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Kingdoms and Regions: Kingdom of Fiore | Edolas | Alvarez Empire
Other Characters: Main Villains (Zeref) | Celestial Spirits | Dragons | Magic Council | Criminals | Others
Prequels, Sequels, and Spin-Offs
Main: Zero | 100 Years Quest (Five Dragon Gods | Aldoron | Viernes | Rebellious & White Mage | Diabolos)
Other: Ice Trail | Blue Mistral | Fairy Girls | Gaiden | Happy's Heroic Adventure | City Hero
Other Media
Anime: Series 1 | Series 2 | Series 3
Films: Phoenix Priestess | Dragon Cry
Warning: Due to the White Mage's true nature and identity being relevant to many plot twists, all spoilers are unmarked.
Rebellious is a counterpart cult to Avatar that follows the will of the White Mage.
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In General
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Anyone who's "dyed white" by the White Mage becomes enthralled to her will, which includes the majority of Fairy Tail's named members and Jellal, leaving them with no issue attacking former guildmates or each other for failing to uphold the White Mage's desires. Despite this shift in allegiance, their personality traits remain generally unchanged, and they still regard anyone from Fairy Tail as a friend so long as they don't stand in the way of the White Doctrine.
- Cult: It is a gathering of Brainwashed folks that follow the "White Doctrine", which amounts to helping the White Mage erase powerful sources of magic until the entire world is reduced to a Blank White Void.
- Face–Heel Turn: Through no will of their own, all of Fairy Tail's named members and Jellal join the cult and face off against Natsu's team, with the exception of Juvia (who is freed by Touka's influence beforehand), Gildarts (who's unaccounted for), and Cana (who it turns out is just plastered out of her mind).
- The Ghost: The real White Mage was missing, allowing Faris to take over Rebellious and pose as its founder. Nonetheless, this is no longer the case following The Reveal of the real White Mage being Athena.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The name can be alternatively translated as both "Rebellious" and "Liberius".
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Those freed of the White Mage's control are unable to recall what they did while under it. This is best shown with Jellal (who can't remember any of the Ship Tease "battle" with Erza) and Laxus (who doesn't remember his titanic clash with Erza and doesn't realize he's the one who so grievously injured her).
- Oddly Small Organization: Despite being a cult with some considerable presence and influence on Earth Land, there were no other actual members of Rebellious shown aside from the brainwashed members of Fairy Tail and Jellal, and Faris posing as the White Mage.
White Mage
The Original & Her Successor
The Original
Athena the White Mage
The true White Mage and the founder of Rebellious, currently working with the master of Gold Owl.
- Artificial Human: She is a Doll created through the power of Alchemy.
- Become a Real Girl: One of her goals is to become a human mage and alchemist.
- Cheerful A.I.: She’s a living Doll, and is introduced being very polite and friendly with both Singularity Sisters and Gold Owl’s Guild Leader. However, Duke notes that she has no emotion and thus any friendliness she shows is a product of her desire to affect humanity.
- Dragon-in-Chief:
- She refers to Barbaroa as "Master", but she is the most powerful non-Dragon God bar none and will be the one dominating and subjugating the Dragon Gods for the boss to lord over, plus Rebellious worships her and either doesn't know or care about Gold Owl.
- Massively subverted when "Barbaroa" is revealed to be the concept of a human avatar for Viernes, explaining why he punches right through through her with zero effort.
- Dragon with an Agenda: The cult of Rebellious is all hers, not Duke's. She formed it when she left Gold Owl for a time, implying she may have a god complex. Although she is very friendly with her Master and Creator, she will leave at any time if she feels the need to pursue her own goals, something which she has done in the past.
- The Dreaded: She's mighty enough that her abilities and reputation rival Zeref's.
- Emotion Bomb: One of her many powers allows her to cause her victims' emotions to go out of control. She uses this as her opening display of her might, forcing actual tears out of Natsu, Lucy, Sting, Yukino, and Happy.
- Eye Beams: Hers are so powerful that she can level various mountain ranges without needing any time to charge up, not even requiring movement.
- A God I Am Not: She states that she never preached anything to her cult, never really cared about being worshipped by Rebellious and never forced anyone to do so. It was all their choice. She's not even the one who formed it.
- Magitek: She's made of it.
- Heel–Face Turn: She joins forces with Fairy Tail and Sabertooth after Lucy helped her discover her emotions and Duke betrayed her.
- Informed Ability: She possesses Dragon Slayer Magic as it allowed her to slay lower-class Dragons and stand up against the Five Dragon Gods once she is completed. However, she never displayed a Dragon Slayer spell in combat once or even reveal the element of her Dragon Slayer Magic.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: It is implied from her robotic appearance that she is a Machias just like Wall Eehto of the Spriggan 12.
- Negate Your Own Sacrifice: In order to make Viernes manifest, Athena has to use her body as a vessel for the Dragon God, which will guarantee her death once Viernes is killed. However, she manages to get around this by transferring her mind into the body of Athena II.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: She gets blasted and smashed around by Lucy and Yukino's Star Dress attacks… but straightens herself up without a scratch, merely expressing annoyance that they won't simply let her conduct her business. Viernes, however, is far superior to her and punches a hole through her while only using a human avatar and she temporarily shuts down.
- Person of Mass Destruction: She levels the whole mountain range around her with just a single casual use of her Eye Beams.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Her face is more feminine human-looking and expressive.
- Super Prototype: She is the first Doll ever made by Duke and outshines all her successors in power with the implication being that she can rival the Dragon Gods themselves. However, Duke notes that she's imperfect as a "human", hence her desire to Become a Real Boy.
- Token Robot: She is the only mechanical member of Gold Owl.
- Torso with a View: Even after getting a hole punched through her by "Barbaroa", she still decides to go and fight Viernes and ends up dueling Athena II without bothering to fix said hole in her torso. This bites her hard when Athena II drops her off-panel.
- Walking Spoiler: The ultimate weapon that both Selene and Barbaroa want to use is a sentient being - and she's the real White Mage.
- What Is This Feeling?: During her fight against Natsu, Lucy, Sting, Yukino she seems to develop her First Time Feeling (specifically anger and frustration against them). The feeling is bemusing to her at first to be sure, but she proceeds to use it as fuel for her magic. However, Lucy thinks she can use this aspect of her to her advantage.
- The Worf Effect: She is on both ends of this trope, effortlessly tanking two examples of The Worf Barrage from Lucy and Yukino, but later getting a hole punched clean through her by "Duke" (actually Viernes).
- Worf Had the Flu: She tries to take on her successor, Athena II, without giving herself time to recover from or repair the hole punched in her stomach. It goes as well as you'd expect. Their rematch shortly afterwards when she gets her second wind is a bit more inconclusive, if only because Natsu defeats "Barbaroa" and saps Athena II of her stolen magics before it can really get going.
- World's Strongest Woman: As she will presumably be more than capable of forcing all the Dragon Gods to bow to her once upgraded to her full potential, she will eventually rival Selene as the most powerful woman in the franchise. She's not there yet as shown by how easily "Barbaroa" dispatches her and Athena II surpasses her.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The moment Athena displays a budding sense of actual emotions and expresses them in front of her maker, Barbaroa directs her to approach him, and promptly maims Athena by punching a hole through her chest, and remarks that she was another "dud". He has her replaced with Athena II, a Superior Successor.
The Successor
Athena II
A new version of Athena designed by "Duke" (actually Viernes) to surpass both the original one and the Dragon Gods. She utilizes the abilities of Dragon Slayers whose data she has obtained.
See her entry on the Viernes page.
The Imposter(s)
Touka / White Mage (Faris)
However, it is revealed that the White Mage who possessed Touka is actually an imposter from an alternate world named Faris, whilst the real Touka is an Exceed.
Shared Tropes
- Convenient Coma: After being hit by Wendy's Separation Enchantment, both Touka and Faris fall unconscious for the rest of the Wood Dragon God arc, and in-universe three days after the battle of Draseal are still out of it, which necessities Fairy Tail to remain in Dramil in order to interrogate her once she wakes up and find out her motives and goals. Faris wakes up first at the end of Chapter 64, ominously muttering to herself the name of a place called "Elentear".
- Cool Crown: She wears a circlet with a decorative rose design, ribbons, and a small jewel in the center.
- Dimensional Traveler: Both the White Mage and Touka are from an Alternate Universe called Elentear, using a trans-dimensional spell called Aqua Aera that uses water as a medium.
- Eye Color Change: The visual distinction between her Touka and White Mage personalities is made by shifts in her eye colors, with the latter's irises and pupils turning pure white.
- Fusion Dance: An unintentional one; Faris had wanted to use Touka's power to go to Earthland, but the process of her Whiteout accidentally fused the two. Faris was in control for the most part, but Touka's personality popped up now and then. They're eventually defused during the Wood Dragon arc thanks to Irene and Wendy.
- Little Bit Beastly: She possesses a striped, furry tail that only Gajeel, Juvia, and Panther Lily are able to see. This is a hint to Touka's Exceed nature.
- Making a Splash: Double Subverted. Touka claims to be a user of water-type magic, but it's implied it's actually stolen from Mercphobia, the Water Dragon God. And then both the White Mage and Touka do cast the water-based spell Aqua Aera to transport themselves and the strongest team to Edolas long after Mercphobia is freed from her control, revealing Touka really does naturally possess water magic and the White Mage can also use it even after their bodies are separated.
- Put on a Bus: With the completion of the Elentear arc, which sees the fluctuating magic of the eponymous world stabilized, both Touka and Faris' primary motivation satisfied, and they elect to remain in Elentear.
- Sharing a Body: Touka and the White Mage are two separate entities, with the latter having taken over the former's body, and both sides struggling for dominance over the other: the former is a pure-hearted girl who is hopelessly in love with Natsu; the latter is a Knight Templar who wants to eradicate all magic in the world. It later turns out that Touka's true form is an Exceed, and her human form is the White Mage/Faris' true appearance. The reason for the whole "sharing a body" experience was because Faris used her Whiteout on Touka to gain access to her dimension-crossing magic and ended up merging them together.
- Thinking Up Portals: They can create portals made of water by using Touka's magic Aqua Aera.
Touka
- Accidental Misnaming: When she meets Natsu in person for the first time since her rescue, it's revealed that the "Natsu" she's been fawning over is actually Happy, and a huge case of Mistaken Identity led to her getting their names and roles in her rescue totally backwards. This adds to double the irony when she thinks this trope is in effect when she calls Natsu by his real name in a disoriented state. Once Natsu and Happy set her straight, however, she immediately switches to using their real names.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the Betty to Carla's Veronica. Happy has been crushing on the Tsundere Carla with little to no success in getting her attention for a while now. Then he finds out Touka is a sweet Exceed who openly loves him because she mistook him for her rescuer. While Happy still likes Carla, he also thinks Touka is cute and doesn't resist her affections.
- Forgotten First Meeting: She claims to have met Natsu during his training journey roughly one year before the sequel's events, shortly prior to Fairy Tail's battle with Avatar. However, because she was trapped in a barrel, Natsu had no idea he saved her.
- Helpless Good Side: She's just an innocent girl possessed by an evil witch that makes her complicit in the potential destruction of the world. Though the motives of the "evil witch" become murky, it still stands that Touka is still an innocent dragged into this.
- Hopeless Suitor: This is the expected outcome of her crush on Natsu because, as Lucy points out, Natsu is not the type to be interested in romance. This gets subverted when it's revealed she's actually crushing on Happy, who not only does reciprocate, but finds himself juggling affection for her and Carla.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: While rattling off a list of people who've fancied Gray in the past, she name-drops a high-ranking member of the short-lived Avatar cult, which alarms Gajeel to the point of starting an investigation.
- I Will Wait for You: When Touka learns of Natsu's absence due to the 100 Years Quest, she declares she will patiently wait for his return as a testament of her love.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: Relating to her catlike tail, she's actually an Exceed who's forced to assume the White Mage's human form at all times, since the White Mage doesn't very much like Sharing a Body with a cat. Touka is only able to return to her true form when the White Mage is completely dormant.
- Jerkass to One: Touka is normally pleasant towards everyone, but acts as a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis to Juvia, whom she feels must not have much faith in Gray if she always worries some other woman will steal him away. This isn't exactly inaccurate, but Touka frames it as though her own love for Natsu is superior. She drops her attitude after Laxus calls her out for tossing unprompted insults at Juvia while Touka herself is under suspicion for plotting against the guild.
- Loving a Shadow: She fell for Happy because of a misunderstanding that made her think he was a powerful hero who saved her from bandits when all he did was carry Natsu, her real rescuer.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs when Touka finds out she confused her beloved Happy's name with Natsu's, which she declares to be the second biggest mistake of her life behind letting the White Mage take control of her.
- Nerves of Steel: Despite being terrified by the power of Fairy Tail's wizards, she opts to remain at the guild to meet "her sweet darling" Natsu.
- Rescue Romance: According to her, her attraction to Natsu is because he rescued her from bandits over the one-year Time Skip between the Tartaros and Avatar arcs. Ironically, the "Natsu" she fell for is actually Happy, whom she mistook for her real rescuer while "riding" on the real Natsu's back, and confused their names when Happy introduced Natsu in his place.
- The Rival: She becomes one for Juvia, not because Juvia thinks she's after Gray's affections like her other "romantic rivals", but because she brags that her own love for Natsu is far stronger and more secure than Juvia's love for Gray.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She quickly starts a contentious relationship with Juvia after insulting her relationship with Gray. However, any serious animosity between them ends after she helps free Juvia from the White Mage's control.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: She's called out on how her lovesick behavior towards Natsu (actually Happy) is a lot like Juvia's towards Gray.
- Spanner in the Works: She throws a wrench in the White Mage's plans by freeing Juvia from her brainwashing once they reach Draseal, allowing Juvia to warn Natsu's team.
- Temporal Theme Naming: The "tou" in her name can be written as the Japanese word for "winter", and she's obsessed with a guy whose name (Natsu) is Japanese for "summer".
- Transformation of the Possessed: The White Mage uses Transformation Magic to force Touka's body to resemble her own human form, not having any interest in walking around as a talking cat.
- Water Is Womanly: Like Juvia, Touka uses water-type magic and is a feminine lady who is completely devoted to the one she loves.
Faris
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: Selene shoots her through the gut with a beam of magic from her finger while Faris is pleading with her not to destroy Elentear, with the Dragon God rubbing it in Elentear is already destroyed, and it's only Wendy's presence that saves her from an agonizingly slow death.
- Arc Villainess: Subverted. She's built up as the supreme threat of the sequel early on, but is taken out during her attempts to steal Aldoron's magic. She later reveals her true intentions (to save Elentear) and has a Heel–Face Turn.
- Bathing Beauty: She's the one in control during the bath scene, where readers can get a lovely view of her barely-obscured cleavage.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Despite brainwashing the Fairy Tail guild and her intentions to control the dragon gods, Faris ultimately is the least threatening antagonist in the sequel as she turns out to only be an Unwitting Pawn in Selene's scheme to destroy the other Dragon Gods.
- Broken Tears: She cries when asking Selene to leave her world alone, and again when she states that she deserves to be punished properly for her past actions but instead Natsu playfully fist bumps her forehead, causing her to absolutely lose it and question why he's being so kind to her. He states that he's actually thanking her for pulling everyone into this adventure to begin with.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Her original plan upon using her powers on Fairy Tail was to just kill them all. However, when Natsu and company defeat Mercphobia, whom she originally intended to use against the other Dragon Gods, she changes her plans and decides to use the guild to defeat the other Dragon Gods.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has silvery blue hair and eyes.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The White Mage is set up as the ultimate antagonist of the sequel, and is said to be just as dangerous as Zeref, the Big Bad of the original series, was. After she gets defeated and her plan to take control over Aldoron ends in failure, Faris reveals she's not even the real White Mage.
- Easily Forgiven: Discussed by Faris herself, who is upset about this, and believes that she deserves punishment for what she did to the guild and to Touka. Natsu doesn't agree.
- Heel–Face Turn: She wasn't truly evil to begin with, but she officially pulls this after the heroes join forces with her to stop Selene.
- Inconsistent Dub: Her title in Japanese is "Shiro Madōshi", with madōshi being almost universally translated in official Fairy Tail materials as "wizard". However, Kodansha has opted to translate her title as "mage", which is more frequently used among fans and media outlets, despite otherwise continuing to use the word "wizard" for the sequel.
- Jerkass Façade: She acts like a smug, haughty, and arrogant villainess for over 50 chapters, only for it to be revealed that if she didn't play the part to perfection, Selene would destroy her world.
- Knight Templar: She states that her goal is to get rid of powerful sources of magic to prevent the world from falling into chaos and destruction, name-dropping Zeref as an example to justify her cause. However, her magical thefts have left people dead, or at least on the verge of it, and her attempts to control one of the Five Dragon Gods to subjugate the others causes copious destruction anyway. Even with The Reveal she was using Rebellious for her own ends, she was still willing to put countless lives at risk in a desperate attempt to save her home dimension via nullifying all magic in Earthland.
- Light Is Good: Becomes this in the end, using her White-Out magic to cleanse Elentear of all its dangerously excessive magic along with her fellow priests.
- Light Is Not Good: She has silver hair and wears a frilly white dress. Unlike Touka who is harmless, she brainwashes almost the entire Fairy Tail guild to turn them into her minions. She becomes an example of Light Is Good after joining forces with Fairy Tail.
- Magic Is Evil: Zig-Zagged. She believes magic power is only dangerous in excess, which she points out to anyone who tries calling her a Hypocrite for using magic to destroy magic. To this end, she seeks to root out any source of what she believes to be too much magic, whether it's large congregations of powerful wizards like Fairy Tail, or ungodly powerful individuals like the Five Dragon Gods. Even with The Reveal of her true identity, Faris still believed nullifying Earthland's magic was the only way to save Elentear from Selene.
- Masquerading As the Unseen: Faris isn't truly the White Mage, but since the real one is currently missing with no one apparently the wiser as to their true identity, she was able to insert herself as the leader of Rebellious using her White-Out magic and the resulting More than Mind Control to sell the deception alongside espousing the White Doctrine with no one the wiser.
- More than Mind Control: Once someone has been "dyed white" by her power, they become enthralled into serving her. However, the rest of their personalities, including quirks and priorities, remain intact, as is seen when Natsu's group are confronted by the rest of a brainwashed Fairy Tail and each member acts much the same as they do normally.
- Mystical White Hair: She has silver hair, and has a mysterious past and an unusual, secret magical nature.
- No Name Given: The White Mage doesn't have any name beyond her title. Even with The Reveal of her actual name, Faris, it still applies since no one knows who the real White Mage is. This is finally subverted when the real White Mage is revealed to be Athena.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Played with. Despite being one of the biggest threats Fairy Tail has faced, she almost exclusively uses her magic to drain other wizards, rather than for direct combat. She's ultimately defeated after abruptly finding herself De-Powered, leaving her defenseless against Wendy's separation enchantment. Her Offscreen Moment of Awesome, however, hints that she's actually far from helpless when backed into a corner.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She manages to break Gajeel's cuffs and seems to be preparing to attack him, Levy, Juvia, Panther Lily and Jellal. Her next scene shows her drinking a cup of tea in the Fairy Tail's guild hall, surrounded by the entire guild beaten and unconscious, without her having any signs of fatigue or injuries.
- Orcus On Her Throne: She spends the entirety of the Wood Dragon God arc either slouching on a cathedral chair or touring the city, letting her brainwashed slaves do all the work destroying Aldoron's orbs. Justified by the fact that she can't touch the orbs herself, something she admits to Natsu before trying to turn him into another slave, and shown in full when Happy in a panic grabs the orb and throws it at her back, which causes her to scream in agony as her body starts turning to wood from contact as she forces herself away from it and, while she's able to go back to normal afterwards, is left in a heavily weakened state when Mest finds her.
- Power Nullifier:
- Her Whiteout power initially seems to be some form of Power Parasite ability in that it steals her victim's magic, but Karameel elaborates that what she actually does is steal the victim's control of their magic, which allows her to restrict or amplify their access to their power at will while controlling them another way. It's also suggested there are limits to how and who she can use her power on, as she only got Mercphobia due to manipulating Karameel and taking it while his guard was down, she was unable to touch and destroy the five orbs on Aldoron's body herself, and when Aldoron goes on an awakened rampage she's more fearful than anything, suggesting a fully aware Dragon God is beyond her capacity.
- It's eventually revealed by Faris herself that her magic is supposed to be used to erase the overabundance of magical energy that Elentear builds up within itself, as otherwise without usage of this several times a year in certain spots of Elentear, the entire world would erupt in an explosive cataclysm.
- Put on a Bus: She and Touka stay in Elentear to help the others that live there, although Fairy Tail make it clear that they want to meet again.
- Regal Ringlets: She's a refined-looking girl in a frilly dress and has multiple ringlets at the end of her hair. She also has Ojou Ringlets since her sidelocks curl into ringlets too.
- The Reveal: She's not actually the White Mage, but Faris, an inhabitant of Elentear that used her White-Out powers to pass herself as the White Mage to Rebellious with the intent of nullifying all magic in Earthland to stop Selene from destroying Elentear.
- Slouch of Villainy: The way she sits on her cathedral chair just screams this.
- Tragic Villain: She only acted evil because Selene threatened to destroy her world if she didn't play her part in stealing the magic of the other Dragon Gods.
- Unwitting Pawn: Moon Dragon God Selene played her like a fiddle, giving her the task of stopping the other Dragon Gods in order to spare Elentear Selene's wrath, but Selene also deliberately lied about breaking Aldoron's Power Limiter orbs successfully controlling him rather than letting him on a rampage, all because Selene wanted to watch Aldoron try and destroy everything For the Evulz. Also, she lied about sparing Elentear in the first place, just wanting see some chaos in Earthland from the Dragon Gods getting up in arms while always intending to reside in Elentear and kill the humans there.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Reveals she was just trying to find help to combat Selene, but went the forceful route about it. Touka and some of the Fairy Tail members are a little miffed at her once things settle down but are willing to hear her out.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: All she wanted was to save her world from destruction at the hands of Selene. Seeing her break down in tears of despair and self-loathing more than once after her Heel–Face Turn can be utterly heartbreaking.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Played With. She has silver hair and plays the role of an antagonist early on in the sequel, but she turns out to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist acting on desperate circumstances.
