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Originally Posted by Xuanwu
It could also easily be Shooting Star's Bishop and Knight, as we discussed before. And hey, no one predicted Rias would get Loup Garou. Don't think this one is too outlandish.
As a side note, I wonder if Ishi will portray Loup as a pure power-type now. Sona's peerage is supposed to be composed of technique-types and Loup shouldn't be an exception.
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Well the knight and bishop don't really have cnaracters beyond their non-impressive stereotypical traits for the roles they served in. They would pretty much be fodder next to the rest of the Gremory group. Even for poorly-crafted characters, the ones on Shooting Star's team are team are exceptionally bad. They seem more like joke characters like the ones you see in Konosuba.
Very little was foreshadowed in Shin Volume 4 simply because Ishibumi dropped the ball on it and it pretty much is one of the worst volumes in DxD in my opinion.
No one saw Loup joining Rias's peerage simply because no one saw Ishibumi cutting Sona out of the series. She's a side character who's been appearing less than she used to in the series(Sona had somewhat major roles in Volume 14 and 17). But still he created a convoluted reason to cut her out of the story by making her father(a non-existent character) get the sleeping sickness(a plot device). So she had to become the head just because Ishibumi really couldn't justify events happening in or near Kuoh Town and her not getting involved in the slightest.
Loup Garou has always been a power-type. We've only seen him in action like three times but it's evident he was the heavy hitter of the Sitri group. Sona's peerage is based around those who have a very versatile set of abilities that could be used in different ways. But she needed someone with some huge offensive power and Loup fits that bill. She needed to cover all her bases after all.
Ishibumi probably has been dying to show off Bennia and Loup Garou more than he had in the series but really couldn't do it while they were members of the Sitri group. He had Bennia and Loup go with the Gremory group to Romania in Volume 16. Bennia seemed like she was supposed to have a bigger role in Volume 24 but Ishibumi seems to have dropped the ball on that.
And besides Rjas was in serious need of another heavy hitter as her rook after tracing Rossweisse to Issei. A werewolf with high physical capabilities who also incorporates magic into his physical attacks is pretty much perfect.