Gourry Gabriev
| Gourry Gabriev | |
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| Slayers character | |
Gourry in Granblue Fantasy
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| First appearance | Slayers (main series) Vol. 1 (1989) |
| Created by |
Hajime Kanzaka Rui Araizumi |
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| Profile | |
| Relatives | Rowdy Gabriev (ancestor) |
Gourry Gabriev (ガウリイ・ガブリエフ Gaurī Gaburiefu?) is a fictional character from the Japanese media franchise Slayers. In it, he is a mighty yet dimwitted warrior who becomes a travelling companion and self-appointed guardian of the protagonist sorceress Lina Inverse. Despite being one of the most prominent character within the series (along with Lina and Naga the Serpent from the prequel stories), he provides comic relief even within a series that is already primarily a comedy to begin with.
Gourry is portrayed as heroic, having a calm demeanor and a chivalrous attitude that serves as a foil to Lina Inverse's fiery temper tantrums and greedy disposition. He also characterized by his lack of intelligence and his tendency to put things bluntly without any tact, occasionally hurting the feelings of others or humiliating his Lina without meaning to. It has been implied his relative lack of development is due to the fact Gourry probably is not very proud of his past.
Gourry is the tallest of the main cast (6'3" or 191 cm, which is considered quite tall by Japanese standards) and the oldest human of the party. He is handsome and well built, with long blonde hair and blue eyes, and notorious for his poor memory and also limited intelligence. He is one of the few characters who can eat almost as much as Lina Inverse, even accounting for the fact he is much taller and structurally larger than she is.
Gourry is first seen when he finds Lina (with Naga the Serpent in Kadokawa Shoten Tsubasa's paperback edition) confronting the surviving members of the Dragon's Fangs gang (she had previously decimated most of their band, killing their leader, and took a fair chunk of their treasure for herself). Believing Lina to be "a luscious damsel in distress," Gourry steps in and defeats the bandits. When Gourry discovers that Lina is not the beautiful maiden he had thought but merely an underdeveloped teenager he is in disappointment, much to the embarrassment and humiliation of Lina (who was not even in any danger given her powers as a sorceress). Assuming that Lina is a lost little girl, he offers to escort her "home", but she plays along with his misconception and he vows to escort her there at any cost. Along the way Gourry shifts gears into the more familiar nice guy persona that would define him for the remainder of the series.
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