Rias Gremory

**Bael Clan**

* Zekram Bael
* {Elenei Bael}
* Argilac Bael
* Misla Bael
* Ellyn Bael
* Sairaorg Bael
* Magdaran Bael

* King

Great War Powers (#16)

**Rias Gremory** is the main female protagonist of High School DxD. Sheis the heiress of the Gremory Clan after her older brother, Sirzechs Gremory, took the title of Lucifer.

She is the second daughter and youngest child of Zeoticus and Venelana Gremory, the aunt of Millicas and Norville Gremory, and the cousin of Sairaorg and Magdaran Bael.

She is known as the **Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess**. She is one of the childhood friend of Sona Sitri, Seekvaira Agares is two members of the Rookies Four. She is the best friend and arch-rival of Donna Lucifuge, the heiress of the Lucifuge Clan.

She is a first-year college student at Kuoh Academy, the former President of the Occult Research Club, and the school's number-one beauty, as well as one of Kuoh Academy's Two Great Ladies alongside Himejima Akeno. She is also one of Issei's harem.

## Appearance

Rias is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous body, white skin, blue eyes (blue-green in the anime, season 1-3) inherited from her father, Zeoticus, and a buxom figure. Her body measurements are [B99-W58-H90 cm] [B39-W23-H35 in]. Her body weight is [58 kg] [128 lbs].

Her most distinctive feature is her long, beautiful crimson hair which she also inherited from her father, that reaches down to her thighs with a single hair strand (known in Japan as *ahoge*) sticking out from the top. Her hair also has loose bangs covering her forehead and side bangs framing her face. Rias' height is 172 cm. (5 feet 8 inches), making her one of the tallest female characters of the series.

Although Rias has worn various types of clothing throughout the series, her most commonly worn outfit is the Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, which consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt (short sleeves for spring/summer), with a black ribbon on her shirt collar worn under a black shoulder cape and a matching button-down corset, a magenta skirt with white accents, and brown dress shoes over white crew-length socks. Rias also tends to wear seductive lingerie and thongs, especially when she has a desire to sleep with Issei.

On some rare occasions, Rias wears glasses when she's deep in thought, as she feels they make her mind work better despite having perfect eyesight.

## Personality

Rias is a very kind and compassionate, optimist, especially to her servants and people close to her. She gets angry and violent whenever people insult her or her peerage, showing a fiery side to her. This also plays into the fact that she dislikes cruelty towards people, as shown with her disgust over Marius Tepes, who abused his own sister for his own benefit, and how she killed the Fallen Angels, such as Mittelt, Dohnaseek, Kalawarna, and Raynare for their cruel treatment of Issei.

She is proud of her family's name, but she does not like being seen as Rias of the Gremory Clan. The reason for her living in the human world is because there, everyone sees her as Rias, not as a Devil or as the **Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess**. Due to this and the fact that the only men who showed interest in her were interested in her due to being the Heiress of the House of Gremory, Rias soured on the idea of finding a lover, until meeting and falling in love with Issei. According to Akeno, Rias originally said that all men looked the same to her as Rias said that Issei is the only exception due to her thinking of him as cute.

She thinks of Issei as a special person and always gets jealous when girls are around him, becoming a totally different person when she sees him and other girls together, or when it comes to training. Despite her mature stature like a woman, Rias tends to act her true age and becomes frustrated whenever girls flirt with Issei. While Rias is usually calm and mature in most situations, she loses her mature aura and presence when she sees any girl (especially Akeno) flirting with or seducing Issei.

She enjoys teasing Issei and Asia, but at the same time makes it clear (to Asia or any girl) that Issei is hers, and she does not want to share him at all (It is revealed in Chapter XXX of the Gremory Clan and their servants are beings with extraordinary affection among the Devils, so Rias is no exception). She has no problem with showing Issei her breasts or sleeping naked with him (which she always does according to her and she claims she can't sleep without being nude or without Issei). Despite being seductive like Akeno, both of the girls are still innocent to love, as both of them become their age whenever around Issei or on a date with him.

After becoming Issei's girlfriend, Rias begins to show more confidence in her relationship with Issei and is no longer jealous or angry when Issei is with other girls like she previously was, even accepting Issei's dream of having a harem and letting the girls have dates with him. However, Rias still shows some signs of jealousy such as when Issei doesn't spend enough time with her, but still believes in him and loves him. Due to being Issei's official girlfriend and later fiancée, the other girls acknowledge her as the "*Legal Wife*" as she manages the other women who are in love with Issei.

According to Ravel, the burden of Rias as the "*Legal Wife*" is greater than the burden of Issei as she has to manage the girls maidenly feelings towards Issei and balance out Issei's feelings towards each of his lovers/brides. Like Akeno, Rias shows a sign of dependence toward Issei (possibly lesser than the former) as Rias will lose her will to fight and lead.

She holds her older brother, Sirzechs, in high regard (despite her older brother's antics of being a siscon) because she deeply cares for him. When she was a child, she was entirely dependent on him and held him in admiration, while also feeling inferior to him at the same time.

Rias loves participating in Rating Games, as she dreams of becoming the Rating Game champion by defeating the current Rating Game champion; Diehauser Belial, with the help of her peerage. While Rias is a powerful devil in her own right, being much stronger than average High-class Devils and according to Azazel, being able to become a Ultimate-class Devil just on the virtue on her talent alone, Rias suffers a bit of an inferiority complex when she compares herself to her fellow Rookies Four colleagues, as she feels inferior to Sona as a strategist and that she is far weaker in power than Sairaorg.

However, according to Riser and Azazel, Rias has a talent for finding and recruiting talented individuals for her peerage, inspiring great loyalty and growing stronger with them as seen in her meeting with Issei. During the Azazel Cup, she was highly evaluated as a scout as she managed to recruit Hilda Yggdmillennia and Lint Sellzen along with 2 Longinus possessors, being praised by the professional critics.

She is noted to be a skilled negotiator, as she was able to convince Rossweisse to join her peerage by offering her better working conditions and a better salary compared to her previous job in Valhalla, and while during the Azazel Cup, she was able to convince Lint Sellzen to join her team after he declined all prior invitations to participate in the Cup by appealing to his warrior swordsman spirit and offering to restore his youth without using a Devils ability, thus not violating his faith with Strada praising her negotiating skill as a sweet Devil's whisper.

Rias is competitive and hates to lose, especially after losing her first Rating Game against Riser as she strives to always win, whether it is in sports or Rating Games.

Due to being spoiled by her father Zeoticus and her brother Sirzechs from an early age, she has a somewhat impatient and selfish personality and because of her bad money spending habit, her mother Venelana and her sister-in-law Grayfia often scold her for her frivolous spending, as her mother reconsidered the amount of money she is allowed as allowance.

Early in her childhood, she developed an instinctive fear and hatred of camels due to being hit by a camel after making fun of it, as the fear is great enough that the residents of the Gremory territory constantly keep camels away from her despite the Gremory's association with camels in the Ars Goetia.

Due to being taught about Japan from Okita Souji, Rias has developed an obsession with Japan, buying various Japanese souvenirs and being ecstatic while visiting Kyoto during her school field trip, though she became pouty and stomped at the train station due to being unable to fully explore Kyoto.

## History

### Early Life

Rias is the daughter and second child of the Gremory Family. She became the heir after her brother, Sirzechs, became the Satan Lucifer, losing his right as heir to the house. After being announced as the heiress of the Gremory Clan, Rias was eventually placed into engagement with Riser Phenex. When she was a child, she was attacked by a camel for making fun of it, which caused her to have a strong fear of camels ever since. Just seeing imagery of a camel is enough to trigger her fear, as shown when she gets frightened seeing her clan's mascot, which is a camel.

### Rise of Rias' Peerage

Prior to the series, Rias has reincarnated Himejima Akeno, Toujou Koneko, Kiba Yuuto, and Gasper Vladi as members of her peerage. Rias met Akeno, her Queen, first servant, and best friend, in Japan, saving Akeno from being killed by her fellow Himejima Clan members after Akeno accidentally entered Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's territory. She then met Koneko, her second servant, after her brother rescued Koneko from being executed, leaving Koneko under Rias' care. She later reincarnated both Yuuto and Gasper, the former who died after being a part of the "Holy Sword Project" and the latter killed by Vampire hunters.

### Kuoh Academy

She entered Kuoh Academy two years before the series along with Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki, reviving the abolished Occult Research Club which is used as a base for her servants and became its president. Rias and Akeno went on the Kyoto trip during their second year, and Rias enjoyed every moment of it, however, they didn't plan a proper schedule so therefore there were places that she wasn't able to visit like the Nijou-jou. Rias was so upset that she stomped her feet at the railway station. Also during their second year, Rias and her club organized a haunted house for the school festival and even used real ghosts as she requested a friendly Youkai to look for jobs to plan the decorations. This, however, got them in a lot of trouble with Sona who scolded them for using the real thing.

## Equipment

**Crimson Extinct Dragonar** (深紅の滅殺龍姫(クリムゾン・エクスティンクト・ドラグナー), *Kurimuzon Ekusutinkuto Doragunā*): also known as **Crimson Dragon Princess of Annihilation** is a combination technique between Rias and Issei, where he uses his Red Wyverns and they sync both of their auras and the Wyverns attach themselves to Rias to create her own female version of Issei’s Scale Mail. The armor acts just like Issei's, boosting Rias' abilities and giving her the ability to utilize Boost, Transfer, and Penetrate until she reaches her limit.

**Forbidden Invade Balor the Princess** (禁夜と真闇の滅殺獣姫(フォービトゥン・インヴェイド・バロール・ザ・プリンセス), *Fōbidoun Invueido Barōru za Purinsesu*): Also known as **Beast Ruin Princess of the Forbidden Night and True Darkness**. A combination technique between Rias and Gasper, where he melts into his shadow and fuses with hers covering her in darkness. This resulted in a form of Rias, which appears as a dark beast in the shape of a human enveloped in a deep red aura of destruction and also a third eye with a deep red pupil and gain ten wings. This was inspired from Sairaorg's Balance Breaker supplemented by her Crimson Extinct Dragonar. Rias is able to use her third eye to freeze opponents in time and travel through shadows; her own Power of Destruction is also greatly enhanced with the infusion of power of darkness, as well as stop her own attacks and control them such as changing their trajectory. This form, while still incomplete, exceeds Satan-class power, and is able to casually destroy an area with a radius of a few hundred meters filled with skyscrapers.

* **Time Stopping**: She can stop time while being unaffected themselves, or may also allow others to be unaffected. If the user moves before this ability ceases, it would appear to everyone that the user teleported.
	+ **Absolute Reflexes**: She possesses limitless reflexes, being able to react to everything there is, no matter how fast it comes. She can react at any speed and change actions on the fly at faster-than-blinding speeds. This places the user above virtually all other beings in the universe in reaction time.
	+ **Absolute Speed**: She can move at speeds that not even the most attuned of beings can grasp and outrun or avoid anything an opponent can use against the user. She can move at infinite velocities, allowing user to surpass and perceive light speed movements and move at speeds that allow them to move past time and space itself.
	+ **Aim Dodging**: She can avoid linear attacks such as bullets and lasers by simply quickly positioning themselves away from the path of the attack before it is fired. She can allow the user to avoid attacks that travel much faster than the user themselves.
	+ **Temporal Imprisonment**: She can bind, imprison and/or otherwise stop object/being by surrounding them completely by using time/temporal energy.

**Galatine II** (*ガラチン II, Garachin II*)**:** A crimson sword able to be used by a devil, which Rias had received from Heaven as a blessing after her engagement to Issei. She plans to pass it on to their future children.

## Trivia

* Rias' birthday is April 9th, according to official material.
* Rias' name is derived from the Pokémon Garchomp ((Japanese: ガブリアス Gabu**rias**). Ishibumi's Twitter
* Rias's nickname *Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess* was taken from her mother's nickname *Flaxen-Haired Ruin Princess.*
* The reason why Rias has large breasts even at a young age is because it is a hereditary trait as her mother Velenana, grandmother Chysis and her ancestor Runeas also have large breasts.
	+ Rias was decided not to have large breasts originally, as Ishibumi said he intended Rias' sizes to be only a bit larger than the common girls in Japan would have. However, he inspected Miyama's illustration of her with big breasts, he fell in love with it, and decided to give her large breasts.
* According to a questionnaire, her erogenous zone is located on her neck.
	+ Her favorite type of man is one who would follow her to the bottom of hell.
	+ Her favorite body part of hers is her crimson hair, because it's the pride of her family.
	+ Her lucky panty color is red, but she'll wear any color if it makes Issei happy.
	+ When bathing, she starts washing from her left arm, and when bathing with Issei, she'll always wash his back.
	+ She thinks herself as someone who tries to be strict but has a soft spot.
	+ One reason she's kind to her servants is because she finds them all cute.
	+ Her specialty is Japanese cuisine due to studying it ever since she came to Japan.
	+ She has trouble dealing with Grayfia because she's very strict with her monitoring.
	+ Her favorite music is folk and classical.
	+ She hates humidity because it makes it hard to take care of her hair.
	+ She'll invite Akeno and Sona to go shopping to get rid of her depression.
	+ Her first kiss was with Issei.
	+ She has the habit to suddenly caress the cheek of cute people.
	+ Her first love is Issei.
	+ She's proud of Sirzechs and Grayfia but feels inferior to them.
	+ She spends her holidays, relaxing at home while drinking tea and reading.
	+ Her ambition for the future is to win every title in the Rating Game.
	+ If she were to become a Satan, she would liberalise love because she believes people need to marry the one they love.
* Her favorite things are the old school building and being in the clubroom with Issei.
* According to Akeno, Rias had no romantic interest in men, as she viewed all men the same. However, Rias said that Issei is an exception due to being "cute".
* Rias stated that she intends to model the son-in-law of her house herself and rear him according to her ideals.
* In Rating Game fighting-types, Rias is considered a Wizard-type who is closer to a Power-type.
* Rias was one of the young Devil heirs and Kings chosen to compete in the Youth Devil Rating Game Tournament.
	+ She came in first place after defeating Sairaorg Bael in the Rating Game finals match for first place.
* In the finale of High School DxD BorN, Rias used a variant similar to Crimson Extinct Dragonar after being manipulated by Issei's evil double.
* Rias could play the piano when she was a child but it is unknown if she still can.
* Rias' job requests as a Devil are usually to defeat monsters targeting her clients or de-cursing items.
* Rias makes review videos of her “Switch Princess goods” and uploads them to DeviTube, with the accessories she wears in them secretly becoming popular as a compelling fashion choice. Gremory of the DeviTube
* Rias is the first female character to be placed into an engagement, the second being Abe Kiyome, and third being Rossweisse.
* Rias' hobbies are reading, shopping, gardening, cooking, making handcraft and maquettes, and playing video games. Fischer Random
	+ She also a hobby of tea parties. Dragon Magazine July 2010 issue
* Rias is said to be exceptional at interior design. Dragon Magazine May 2019
* In one of the short stories, it is revealed that Rias is a big "Japanophile", having a huge collection of objects and artifacts back in her room in the Underworld.
	+ It is also the reason as to why she came to visit Japan in the first place.
	+ Rias mentioned that she wants a Japanese style wedding when she gets married and wants it in the Human world; possibly due to her being a Japanophile.
	+ Rias wants to have her wedding take place in Kyoto.
	+ The reason for this is because Ishibumi decided she must have a foreign name from the beginning.
* Rias is the character that killed the most named characters in the series for a total of five characters (Raynare, Dohnaseek, Kalawarna, Mittelt, and Viser).
* Rias has a fear of camels; this occurs when she got hurt by wild camels after she sneaked out to go to the farm when she was still young. Let's Go with Training! ~Mascot Chapter~
* In one of her original early concepts, Rias' design bore a striking resemblance to Tamaki Kousaka from *To Heart 2*.
* The Crimson Extinct Dragonar was inspired by the Extremis Iron Man Armor.
* Originally, Rias wasn't even planned to be in the series.
* Ishibumi describes Rias as being the King, the mother, and the big sister of her peerage all at once.
* In the "DxD" popularity election, she came in first in the all-character category, first in the heroine category, first in the coupling category with Issei, and fifth with Akeno. Dragon Magazine May Issue 2021