Rias Gremory

**Rias Gremory** (リアス・グレモリー, *Riasu Guremorī*) is the Gremory Clan's heiress after her oldest brother, Sirzechs, took the position of Lucifer. Rias is the sole daughter and youngest child of Zeoticus and Venelana Gremory, the aunt of Millicas Gremory, and the maternal cousin of Magdaran Bael.

She became known as the **Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess**, because of the color of her hair and Power of Destruction. Now, Rias 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 Akeno Himejima. She is also one of Issei's fiancées.

## Description

### Appearance

Rias is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous body, white skin, blue eyes inherited from her father, Zeoticus, and a buxom figure.

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.

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

As a Devil from the House of Gremory, Rias is very kind and compassionate, 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 Family. 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.

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. The Gremory Family and their servants are beings with extraordinary affection among the Devils, and 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 developed an instinct when Issei is with an unknown woman or other girls tried to seduce him before her she immediately rush to him quickly.

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 Crom Cruach and Vasco Strada 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 Vasco Strada 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 Souji Okita, 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.

## Trivia

* Rias' name is derived from the Pokémon Garchomp (Japanese: ガブリアス Gabu**rias**).
* Rias' 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 Venelana, 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 favorite type of man is one who would follow her to the bottom of hell.
	+ Her erogenous zone is located on her neck.
	+ 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 liberalize 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Rias is the first female character to be placed into an engagement, the second being Kiyome, and third being Rossweisse.
* Rias' hobbies are reading, shopping, gardening, cooking, making handcraft and maquettes, and playing video games.
	+ She also a hobby of tea parties.
* Rias is said to be exceptional at interior design.
* Rias has a driving license and owns multiple cars such as a red saloon and a red convertible being two of them.
* 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.
* She is the first to become Issei's girlfriend, as well as becoming the first to become engaged to him.
* Rias has stated wanted to have one daughter with Issei but she strongly predicted that their first child will be a boy.
* 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, because she got hurt by wild camels after she sneaked out to go to the farm when she was still young.
* 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.
	+ Rias used an armor variant, presumably similar to Crimson Extinct Dragonar, after being manipulated by Issei's evil double.
* 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.