Ophis

**Ophis** is the Dragon God who represents Infinity, Chaos, and Nothingness, known as the **Ouroboros Dragon** and the **Infinite Dragon God**. She is one of the most powerful Dragons and beings in existence, aside from Great Red and her little brother Satoru Mugen.

## **Appearance**

Ophis' current appearance is that of a cute young girl with long black hair down to her hips and black eyes (gray in the anime). Her ears differ from a normal human's as they have pointed tips, although her long black hair makes this feature difficult to notice. Her dark grey eyes have reptilian slitted pupils. Azazel stated that Ophis had the appearance of an old man in the past before changing it. Her body measurements are [B66-W53-H70]; height is [137 cm] and body weight is [31 kg].

Her attire consists of a black Gothic Lolita fashion.

However, Ophis is a true shapeshifter, able to freely manipulate her body shape and size to assume any form that she chooses, regardless of her age, race, or gender. Unlike the other Dragons that have large reptilian-like bodies, Ophis is a human-shaped Dragon.[2]

## **Personality**

Born from nothingness, Ophis has little-to-no emotions, to the point of being viewed as apathetic. Her sole desire was to return to the Dimensional Gap, and reobtain "silence" through getting rid of Great Red, who she has shown the most, if the slightest aggression towards. Outside of that, Ophis doesn't care about the people or things around her; helping the Khaos Brigade as long as they helped her. Despite her superior powers, Ophis never boasts about it; however, Ophis didn't kill Cao Cao despite his betrayal, because she could kill him whenever she wanted.

Over time, Azazel indicated that Ophis changed due to spending time around and interacting with the Human World, which later started being shown. Issei himself stated that she was a pure and honest dragon, her powers caused people to fear her and tricked into leading the Khaos Brigade.[3] After befriending Issei, she abandoned the Khaos Brigade and her original goals.

Her deep naiveté caused her to act childish, often mimicking the actions that catches her attention and often wanders off to anything she finds interesting. Ophis is also honest, while coming off as rude, to the point of being brutal without being aware about it; as noted when she described Koneko as "Cat", and Ravel as "Bird".[4] Another time was when she had commented she was stronger than Michael, after Irina questioned whether or not it was fine to pray to her.[5] Whenever she is asked a question she seems to take interest in, she goes into "? Mode" which is where she goes into deep thought about the question asked. Ophis loves eating sweets (a trait passed down to Lilith) as well as bananas.

## **History**

Sometime in the distant past, Ophis was born in the Dimensional Gap and lived there as its home. Eventually, long ago, Ophis left the Gap, but when she attempted to return, she found that the Great Red had taken up residence there. Before assuming her current form, she used a different guise in the form of an elderly man. At some point before the start of the series, Ophis became the leader of the Khaos Brigade.

## **Powers & Abilities**

**Immense Strength:** As a Dragon God, Ophis is the strongest being in the world not counting Great Red or Satoru, exceeding the Heavenly Dragons in their prime combined, with Ddraig stating her power is infinite. In fact, despite losing a large portion of her power due to Samael and becoming “finite”, it was stated that she was still twice as strong as Ddraig and Albion, with her stating that she felt "weak" despite that level of power. Since losing her original strength, her powers became unstable, releasing destructive power that had annihilated everything. Ophis in her prime would be equivalent to the likes of Great Red and Trihexa. It is stated that if Ophis and Lilith fight together, they can access all of Ophis' former power; with their power being infinite.

**Immense Durability:** Being an existence with the power of infinity, Ophis' durability borders on the point of near absolute invulnerability as shown when Ophis was stabbed by the True Longinus, an immensely powerful Sacred Gear capable of slaying Gods, and was completely unaffected when Issei stated that Ophis did not even shed blood.Even after being engulfed in Samael's extremely deadly Dragon Slayer poison for several minutes, Ophis was seemingly only disabled & left vulnerable to having her power stolen, emerging from the ultimate dragon slayer's grasp without any apparent injury.

**Shapeshifting:** Ophis is a true shapeshifter, able to alter her size, apparent age, physical attributes and characteristics, and even her apparent gender. She can also perfectly recreate the voice of any person.

**Snakes:** Ophis can manifest her powers in the form of snakes, which can increase a person's power after being consumed. She can create snakes, which could bring out the full potential of Sacred Gears, letting them achieve Balance Breaker far quicker, but this could break their Sacred Gear killing them.

**Blessing:** Similar to other gods, Ophis can 'bless' people, granting them certain advantages and abilities, having no negative effects on Devils. Her blessings made Asia more compatible with Dragons; increased Irina's luck; in addition to letting others tap into their potential, as Issei tapped into the infinite power he gained, while Vali could tap into Lucifer's and Albion's powers.

**Telepathy:** Ophis can sometimes communicate through the minds of others, doing so during Issei's battle with the Emperor Diehauser Belial and Rizevim Lucifer. During this ordeal, she also mentally chanted alongside Issei and Ddraig to activate the Diabolos Dragon form, despite being unconscious at the time from Niðhöggr's assault.

**Flight:** As a dragon, Ophis can fly, but unlike other dragons who use their wings to do so, Ophis can simply float in midair without effort.

## **Quotes**

* "*He wasn't a bad person. He was my first friend.*" (Volume 11, Life 5)
* "*I, like doughnuts, cookies.*" (Volume 12.5, My First Errand [Ophis Volume])
* "*I, went under for 30 minutes.*" (Volume 14, Life 2)
* "*I, appear from the closet. Ehem.*" (Volume 14, Life 3)
* "*I, shall swim.*" (Short-Story, Let’s Go to Onsen!)
* *"…I'm still here. I, regardless of whether it's one thousand years, or ten thousand years, I will stay by Ise's and Vali's side."* (Volume 21, Life 5)

## **Trivia**

* Ophis' birthday is on the 31st of December and 1st of January; this representing her being an "infinite" being.
* Ophis' name means "snake" in Greek, referring to her powers revolving around snakes, and part of her basis' full name.
	+ The nickname "Ouroboros Dragon" refers to **Ouroboros ophis** (Greek: *οὐροβόρος ὄφις*, lit. tail-devouring snake), the Infinite Snake first appearing in Egyptian and Indian mythology. Its Norse counterpart is Jörmungandr, the serpent son of Loki.
* The members of the Occult Research Club have built a shrine for Ophis at the top of the Hyoudou Residence.[9]
	+ Ophis likes sunbathing there.
	+ There is a donation box in the shrine where the Occult Research Club members living in the Hyoudou Residence place money as offerings to Ophis, which is treated as pocket money for her to spend.