User blog comment:CNBA3/Neinhart = Simon Theory?/@comment-1153699-20160211055931/@comment-1153699-20160211211953

@Wrath, you didn't say Dimaria either. You said "that other female Spriggan that exists". I figured you were referring to Brandish since I recall fans thinking she was Juvia's sister or something back when she was introduced.

But anyway, it doesn't make much of a difference. Juvia most probably knows about Dimaria, yet she didn't say anything either to her or about her. It seems she treats her like just another enemy too. If Juvia and Dimaria really were related, at least one of them would have either said or noticed something about the other. But none of that happened in the last 2 chapters. Some mook ordering his mooks to kill everyone is no proof that Erza's family is dead. If they were even in that village to begin with. It looks to me like Erza was already independent. Which raises the possiblity of Erza's family not even being around to care for her at that point in time. Also, if Erza had some relative in that village she would have searched for them like Kagura did, but it looks like she was pretty much alone to me. I'm sure Hiro can come up with some cheezy reason as to how Erza's father ended up in Alvarez if he really intends to go that route.

Lisanna was stated to be dead. Not sucked into a parallel universe. At first, we thought she was dead. Later we found out that's not what happened at all. We didn't know the exact details about Lisanna's "death" back then and we know even less about Erza's family now. Much less, even. Neinhart being a relative of Erza's is just a prediction as of now. But it's one that I think might turn out to be true.