User blog comment:Sithlord Andeddu/Irene's scheme/@comment-88.145.191.141-20160810195135/@comment-5894890-20160811054453

While I like most of the ideas you guys mentioned, I do not like the sibling idea... I don't like it simply because of the whole "long lost siblings reuniting" idea has already happened twice (more to come with Wally/ Richard). Even if it is written in a unique way (which already is, with Irene telling Neinhart to kill Erza), I'm tired of seeing the long lost sibling aspect being used over and over again. With Wally and Simon always mentioning their siblings, it seems weird to me that Erza never even talked about hers (to be fair, she did seem rather timid), thus I'm more on boat with Irene being her mother. To add to that, Irene has been playing with the "parent aspect/ love" quite a bit (Hisui and Toma, referring to her enchantments as children, some story about a battle of love between angels/ referring to herself as an angel)... to me this is some sort of fore shadow from Mashima inferring that Irene is Erza's mom. Also, now that I think about it... it seems to indicate her age for Irene to refer to her teenage-looking enchantments as children... if not, that's just weird.