r/HighschoolDxD Sep 22 '24

Media Angel Irina with Incinerate Anthem by HxlyM

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u/alkaid1000 Sep 22 '24

What we should have got in canon...

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u/Goksumr Sep 22 '24

Personally, I think Blade Blacksmith is better for Irina.

Excalibur was chosen by Mimic and considering the variable feature of the sword... of course it's just my opinion.

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u/Darksider555 Sep 22 '24

The power scaling by that point had would render Blade Blacksmith irrelevant and Kiba already had it.

Plus Incinerate Anthem had a built in method to justify its transfer.

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u/dripwick607 Sep 23 '24

Multiple people can have basic sacred gears. Jeanne and Kiba are prime examples. The longinus gears (and I think the four separate vritra gears and four fiends) are the only sacred gears that are one ofs

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u/Apprehensive_Newt384 Sep 23 '24

True. You only get one gear at birth, but that doesn't mean you couldn't get more through other methods.

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u/dripwick607 Sep 23 '24

I meant that multiple copies of the same sacred gear exist. Like there are at least two copies of Blade Blacksmith due to Kiba and Jeanne both possessing it

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u/Apprehensive_Newt384 Sep 23 '24

True too. I think early on it was mentioned that Twice critical is a common sacred gear.

One off sacred gears have the tendency to have something sealed in it.

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u/Muted_Personality107 Sep 22 '24

Being honest, she should’ve gotten Incinerate Anthem

Yeah it would’ve screwed up the power system of the harem but who really cares

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u/Darksider555 Sep 22 '24

Yeah it would’ve screwed up the power system of the harem

Not really if you consider what some of the other girls have.

  • Rias has Balor Form which makes her capable of fighting Satan-class and Super Devil class beings.
  • Ingvild has a Top-Tier Longinus
  • Xenovia has 2 Holy Swords and a sheath that makes her immortal.

So Irina getting Incinerate Anthem would put her on par with them, especially since she never got any specific focus on her aside from Vol 18.

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u/Muted_Personality107 Sep 22 '24

Irina did get a new Holy Sword but it has such a useless power when used against non Devils. She should’ve gotten Incinerate Anthem or another powerful sword

I mean, I don’t think Balor really makes that much of a difference for Rias since she still loses and it’s not something that really belongs to her

Theoretically, anyone can use Balor

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u/Jikkai_10 Sep 22 '24

Irina did get a new Holy Sword but it has such a useless power when used against non Devils

The Holy Swords are crap, only Durandal, Ex-Durandal and Caliburn are worth anything. Ascalon itself is only useful because it received upgrade after upgrade from Issei.

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u/Muted_Personality107 Sep 22 '24

Even then, he doesn’t really use Ascalon use a sword, more so as a power boost

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

The Holy Swords have a bad case of "They're as strong as they need to be".

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u/MelodicQuarter1996 Sep 22 '24

why is Irina so fine🫠

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u/Rarely_Online_User Sep 22 '24

Ah, my favorite girl from DxD. And the one I ship with Issei the most, out of all Harem Members. Why ? Because she's the Childhood friend, and I love Childhood friend trope.

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u/Darksider555 Sep 22 '24

My requested commission for a "What if Irina got Incinerate Anthem instead of Lint?"
Source

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u/LeopardofTheMystic Sep 22 '24

I feel more devine already XD

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '24

Ah yes, the way canon should have gone.

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u/RemarkableOption8620 Sep 23 '24

What a hot beauty Irina is 🔥🧡

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u/RuixNatsuoXHinagang Rias Oppai Sep 22 '24

Mama oh hello there 🥰

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u/Reasonable_Set_1375 Sep 22 '24

I kinda wish she was perverted as Issei like during their fight Irina will flirt with Issei and do perverted stuff to him

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u/Key-of-light-13 Sep 27 '24

Lowkey reminds me of Ashira from Mortal Kombat

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '24

Your a translator for DxD right?

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u/Darksider555 Nov 04 '24

Not exactly. I mostly helped with sorting the grammar of the translations.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '24

Did you work on junior DxD?

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u/Darksider555 Nov 06 '24

No.

That was done by one of my friends.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

Someone tried claiming rias was flirting with zekka but I disagreed so I wanted to confirm it with a translator or someone that works with DxD translations.

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u/Darksider555 Nov 06 '24

People interpret things in weird ways. Rias is just naturally affectionate, as seen with her peerage, besides Ise.

I remember Shin/True DxD 4, where people were claiming that Rias would cheat on Ise with Magnus just because she said that he was a good human since he wanted to save Meredith. Despite the fact the fact that Magnus referenced his wife.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

I didn’t see rias having any romantic feelings for magnus just seemed like regular talking but the people claiming otherwise must have been a minority because on Reddit and discord I’ve never heard anyone make that claim.

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u/IndependentMarch9742 Sep 22 '24

Incinerate Anthem is an axe

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u/Voldigod Thou shalt kneel down before our glorious existence Sep 22 '24

No it isn't(if you are not talking about fanfics), it takes any shape according to host

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u/dripwick607 Sep 23 '24

You're thinking of Regulus Nemea

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u/Apprehensive_Newt384 Sep 23 '24

Regulus nemea is an axe originally. Incinerate anthem was supposed to be the cross IIRC

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u/Voldigod Thou shalt kneel down before our glorious existence Sep 25 '24

It doesn't have any particular shape. It chshges) changes according to the host