User blog comment:B214/General Discussion/@comment-9595671-20160923043213

I just noticed in Ophis' trivia section this following piece of trivia: "In the Afterword of Volume 12, the author indicated that Ophis was originally not meant to join Issei's Harem, but after seeing her on the cover, they decided to make her a mascot character." So that tells me Ophis is considered a memebr of Issei's harem, and while she's technically genderless I think due to meeting Issei her current appearance will likely be considered so important to her she'll keep it.

Yet there's no sign of her being romantic, and Lilith's probably the closest thing to her and Issei having a child (who knows, maybe she counts as one of the atleast 20 kids in the EX timeline, but could come for the same reasons Ophis and herself in the present can't), so that piece of trivia felt odd...

But now I wonder if it's not that different than why Irina was unable to really progress in the harem for a long time. Irina has the risk of falling if she's not careful, it wasn't till Volume 18 that she began to work around that issue, and Ophis is still kidna naive so...

Perhaps she just doesn't know what love is yet, she sees Issei as her first friend but she also listens to what he has to say, like not fighting when Crom asked her to have a fight. It'll be interesting for her to eventually realize what she's actually feeling and where it'll go from there.

What does everyone thing about this?