Labian is the theater manager of the Selazade Theater Group who performs plays. He once hired Team Natsu to stage a play in Onibus Town for him.
Appearance
Labian has short, purplish hair that goes up to two very small, round "ponytails" at the top of his head and is slightly puffed up at the center. Matching his hair is a small, curvy mustache above his mouth. He has a seemingly long face with small, beady black eyes, a tiny rectangular nose and an equally small mouth. Labian wears a red orange suit with pink cuffs, yellow buttons on the shoulder blades, navy blue trimmings and two "shirt tails" with a white shirt underneath and a navy blue bowtie. His bottoms are dark green pants and his shoes are brown, pointed ones. For some reason, Labian usually talks to people while hiding behind some sort of curtain or pillar, with only his head poking out. In X791, Labian was shown to have grown a bigger mustache, with the two sides reaching down his mouth.
Personality
Labian has been shown to write outrageous plays with ridiculous plot twists like in "Frederick and Yanderica" where confusion after confusion ensued. This garnered him bad reviews for his plays and eventually the actors that performed for him left him. He seems, at first, quite emotional when he imparted his miserable story to Team Natsu. Later, he is shown to have a tendency to take things to excess, as seen when he made Team Natsu perform the same play three times a day for a week while withholding their pay. It is also ironic how Labian often says "Thank you very much!" after almost every sentence but treats his cast quite ungratefully, even commenting that Team Natsu, the cast who earned him tons of audience for a week, is composed of amateurs.[1]
History
His dream had been to manage a theater and create plays. Ten years prior to his meeting with Team Natsu, he quit his job in order to open up the theater. However, this ended tragically when his wife got fed up with him and left him. Likewise, his cast also left him due to the fact that he always obtained bad reviews for his plays and so the actors felt ashamed to be in them. Perhaps the only exception to his streak of miserable plays is the "Frederick and Yanderica" play put on by an overworked Team Natsu, who earned him a large, appreciating audience for a week.[1]
Synopsis
Loke arc
Onibus Theater
Team Natsu arrives in Onibus Town in order to take on a job suggested by Mirajane. This job requires Mages to perform tricks in order to attract people to a play, "Frederick and Yanderica", which was Labian's current play. However, when they arrive at the theater, Labian withdraws his request since he got into a dispute with his actors and they all quit. Pitying him, the team decides to take on the actors' job instead and he complies despite the fact that he thinks they're amateurs.[2]
Labian thrilled with the play's outcome
The team worked hard and a lot of people came to watch the play. On opening day, Labian watched the story performed quite destructively by the Fairy Tail Mages from the backstage, nodding in approval. Although Labian's play had a lot of ridiculous plot twists and the theater ends up getting destroyed, the people applauded and cheered, much to Labian's delight.[3]
Labian kept Team Natsu, to whom he commented that "bad actors of their standard are actually so good", performing the same play three times a day for a week which eventually exhausted them.[4]
Fighting Festival arc
He was watching the Fantasia Parade.
Daphne arc
Note: Events in this arc occur only in the anime and do not constitute canon material.
Labian's request
Wendy Marvell, willing to do a big job in a distant town, picks up a request suggested by Mirajane. It is a request from Labian, stating that his actors have once again left him and that his plays were a series of failures and he requests healing of his body and mind, apparently the perfect job for Wendy. Although the others advice her against it, Wendy accepts Labian's request.[5]
Labian ordering Wendy
To their dismay, upon arriving at Onibus, they see Labian is well again and in no need of treatment. It turns out Labian has made up with his performers and are able to put on a show once more. In fact, Labian even criticizes Lucy Heartfilia, Erza Scarlet, Freed Justine, Happy and Natsu Dragneel who all passed out in front of the theater in an attempt to help Wendy, saying that their sprawling out on the ground is bad for his business and orders Wendy to get rid of them, offering a reward for doing so.[5]
Grand Magic Games arc
Labian and his co-hosts at the Grand Magic Games on the fourth day
During the Grand Magic Games of X791, Labian is seen guest judging during the fourth day's events, saying that it's very fun to be there.[6]
After watching the Naval Battle event and witnessing Minerva's display of cruelty towards Lucy, Labian also watches as Team Fairy Tail A and Team Sabertooth have a tense moment and almost start a fight.[7] When the now combined Team Fairy Tail steps out for the battle portion of the fourth day, Chapati comments on how Sabertooth and Fairy Tail are pitched to fight each other. When Yajima comments on the previous tension between the guilds, Labian adds that is was indeed a very "hot" moment.[8] Later that day the tag battles begin, and when Nichiya (who is revealed to be the Blue Pegasus member in the bunny suit) is quickly knocked out to leave Ichiya in a 1 vs. 2 battle, Labian comments that there is still a chance of victory for the Blue Pegasus Mage.[9] When Labian is proved correct upon Ichiya's victory, the little man cries out, thanking everyone for the highly disgusting match.[10]
Lebian after Natsu's victory
Labian bangs his hands on the table as he calls the battle of the Dragon Slayers awesome. He also thanks them for giving him an amazing, as he calls it, battle.[11] Afterwards he stands alongside Yajima while he announces Natsu the victor of the battle.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 70, Pages 6-20
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 70, Pages 6-8
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 70, Pages 9-19
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 70, Page 20
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fairy Tail Anime: Episode 74
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 291, Page 4
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 292, Pages 3-5
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 292, Page 11
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 293, Page 12
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 293, Page 17
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 295, Page 3
- ↑ Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 297, Page 3