Jude Heartfilia

Mr. Heartfilia is the father of Lucy Heartfilia and was one of the wealthiest company owners known in the country of Fiore. His deceased wife is Layla Heartfilia. In the past, he neglected his daughter and poured all his time and effort into his company. Because of this, Lucy felt rejected and nurtured a grudge against her father and decided to run away.

Phantom Lord Arc
He was included in the Phantom Lord arc as the one who was responsible of requesting a job to find his missing daughter, Lucy, who ran away after a year. Jose Porla, Phantom Lord's guild master, planned to use Mr. Heartfilia's job request, to bring Fairy Tail's increasing power down, by kidnapping Lucy Heartfilia.

After the defeat of the Phantom Lord Guild, he was visited by Lucy. He then told Lucy that he wants her to marry Prince Sawalu of the Julenelle, to merge the Heartfilia's wealth with that of the Julenelles. Although Lucy only met Sawalu as a child. But Lucy rejects his command and stated: "I will walk my own path! You have no right to decide who marry! And don't you lay a finger on Fairy Tail again!" and rips off her clothes.

Love & Lucky Arc
His next appearance is in chapter 129 (Even so, I...) as a stalker of Lucy after the battle of Fantasia. Lucy busts him and finds her father as a long bearded man with a tattered sheet of cloth to conceal himself. He states that he lost all his money and the company of Heartfilia is no more. He then said that he's going to start all over again and work in a merchant's guild in Acalypha and tried to beg Lucy for a hundred thousand jewels. Lucy expresses she doesn't have that kind of money, and Mr. Heartfilia feels rejected and throws a tantrum. Lucy yells for him to go away, which he grits his teeth over and walks away.

The next day, Lucy tried to rescue his father after hearing that the guild her father was trying to get into was taken over by some Guerilla group. After defeating the bandits, she finds out that her father hadn't even got to the guild because he walked all the way from Magnolia to Acalypha. Mr. Heartfilia then realizes that Lucy came because his daughter was worried for him. He thanks her but then she walks away stating that she still haven't forgiven him. He stops her by saying that that guild was where he first met her mother. He reveals that the name "Lucy" came from the guild's name, Love and Lucky, which at that time, the letter "k" from "Lucky" was missing. Which spelled it as "Lucy". After Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Happy frantically find Lucy and takes her with them, leaving Mr. Heartfilia alone, thinking to Layla, that he was a fool.