Ahoy_NATO said:
People can hate on FT all they want but the series is wrapping up so of course we are going to learn about Erza's family, since she's the only character we don't know anything about. If you asked me it seems totally planned, why else would we go the entire series knowing nothing about Erza other than she was orphaned than to have her family brought up in the final arcs. We've had Gray's family discussed, Natsu's, Lucy's, but not Erza's and people are saying it's randomly thrown in. You're either complaining to hate on FT or just ignorant. It was clear that Erza's family matters were coming sooner or later. Hate on the Kagura/Erza kiss all you want, I don't see a problem with it since I found it hilarious (because everyone ships Jerza and Erza is blind as hell) but I don't see any reason to hate on Erza's family/past being written about.
Or you can simply accept that Erza and Irene is forced connection and history. It's forced plot relevance. It's boring and stupid writing. Her subplot is irrelevant just like her actual character. The subplot will present no changes.
Irene's existence is an asspull itself. There's no indeed to introduce Erza's past, or her family. TOH connection is more than enough. Her parents are fodder
Erza already had enough forced relevance as it is when Kagura was shown to be connected to her. Let's leave it at that.