Elaina Hīragi

Elaina (イレイナ Ireina?), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, where she got in through official recommendations and is training to become a Pro Hero along with her best friend and partner, Charolette. She is the younger half-sister to Mahiru and Zack Hīragi, and one of the main protagonists of the series. It was later revealed that her full name is Elaina Hīragi (柊 イレイナ Hīragi Ireina). She was a sergeant of the Hīragi Imperial Army and one of their top strategists.

Appearance
Elaina is a short girl of a notably petite figure and weighs relatively lighter than most girls her age. She is stated to be extremely beautiful by many people, her peers describe her as having a delicate and beautiful face that impresses on them a hint of melancholy. She is pale-skinned with elongated canine teeth and sharp, claw-like nails. She has a case of central heterochromia,where her eyes are blue with a lavender ring around her purple pupils, that become narrow when she is serious or angry, resembling that of a cat's. She has long ashen (lavender) hair reaching below her waist, with bangs styled over her right eye. Gray describes her as having clear, piercing eyes that seemed to stare out at the world and skin so pale that it was almost transparent to her blood. When losing control to her urge to kill, her eyes appear to glow red.

Elaina always wears a blue earring compromising of the sun, the moon, and stars, even in her hero costume. During school, she wears the regular U.A. uniform, but with a ribbon instead of a tie, worn by her other female classmates. She often styles her hair with a magenta bow.

Her hero costume consists of a beige, open-back halter top with three seams. Along with a victorian style swing skirt, which has two rows of gold buttons on the front, black straps, and a laced design on the left. Along with that, she wears a pair of white gloves, and usually has her hair styled at the back of her head into a flat 'yakai-maki' bun, fastened with her magenta bow. Under her skirt are mouse gray stockings and thigh-high combat boots, with gold buttons on the shoe collar.

After Zack's death she is shown often wearing his brown zip-up hoodie, fortunately, she washed out all the blood stains, and she styles her slightly shorter fringe in the center of her face now.

After the Imperial Army arc, she is seen wearing her unique Imperial Army uniform which consists of a long-sleeved black coat with a standing collar which has a magenta bow tie around it. The coat has two rows of gold buttons on the front, light green details including the shoulder epaulets, which has a fourragère passing under and around her right side. Along with that, she wears a pair of white gloves, an armband on her left arm, and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. She also wears the standard black skirt, dark gray thigh-high socks and knee-high black boots.

Personality
Elaina has a very serene and tranquil demeanor and can even be seen as stoic. Along with her passive attitude, Elaina displays a bright, friendly, and cheerful demeanor, always having an easygoing smile on her face regardless of the situation she is in and never exerting more energy than needed. If, however, it is necessary, Elaina will fight without hesitation. She has shown a habit of adressing people with sama (Sir./Lady). She is almost always accompanied by her fox companion, Charolette, as they have a very close relationship despite having fought alone during the majority of her life and never leaning on others for support.

She's soft spoken and understanding, preferring to listen rather than speak, rarely angered. She doesn't express her emotions much, being very reserved. She had been a military asset of the Hīragi's and sent to fight on the front lines for so long that she had no regard for human life or her own since they all would become a statistic when they died anyway. When people around her died, she hardly batted an eye at it because, to her, it was just a fact of life that everyone dies. She shows surprisingly little emotions when talking to Mina about her sister's death, as Elaina is emotionally detached to people she knows and keeps her friends away at an arm's length with mocking humor, nihilism, and emotional detachment.

Elaina is revealed to be a lonely girl, shut away in her apartment on her own. Whilst Zack remained her only friend but in the end, he left her alone, which she percieved as him abandoning her, and that shattered Elaina's resolve to form bonds with others. Elaina's lack of faith in others caused her to believe that she can only rely on herself, as there is no one else to trust. Because of this, she trusts people less overall and is more negative about things, and messy if she is alone. She stubbornly willed herself to keep displaying no empathy for them and insists that she never considered them true friends, just temporary allies.

It was also implied that she is highly intelligent and clever, having brilliant deduction skills which allow her to analyze and solve different problems and come up with battle strategies with great ease and accuracy. Despite being overall brilliant, Elaina gets very average grades. She can always find a solution if she gives it enough thought or effort. Unlike the rest of her class, Elaina lacks ambition and only wants to serve well, and, although they are very thought out plans, she does not credit herself for most of what she has done. She can be very self-deprecating about it herself and even outwardly calls herself incompetent.

Elaina shows that she does not care about the conflict inside her family, claiming that family conflicts are what caused the death of her older sister. Unlike Jellal, she lacks ambition and only wants to serve the army well. She explained to some soldiers that she does not actively seek a rise in rank, and her lack of ambition (and Mahiru and Zack overshadowing her) is what caused her to be cast out from her family.

Despite her relaxed exterior and her initial claim of wanting to get along with villains, she can be rather cruel towards them. Elaina has a scary and manipulating side, when pushed too far; she can become very violent when provoked. At times, she lacks self-control and will get impulsive easily, becoming giddy and uncontrollably violent. She becomes merciless and ruthless, attacking anyone who might pose a threat to her, she also attacked Mina, Jirou, Mineta and Sero for no reason at all, just for her own amusement. Her personality while fighting is steady, and momentum is used to flow like the wind and keep her scythe active around foes. This causes her to give off a growling sense. She can be quite cunning and mischievous, teasing her classmates and rarely showing her sadistic trait.

Despite all of that, Elaina is capable of appreciating praise, and has shown to have a tendency of exerting more than what she would usually do when given positive feedback. She especially likes to have her head pat. Elaina has a vulnerable complex about her short stature when Katsuki and Denki teased her for being too short to drive a car, she laughs smugly before proceeding to activate her quirk to physically teach them a lesson.

She prefers a rather peaceful, diplomatic approach, even during battle since she fears losing control, preferring to try and reason with her opponent, even showing extreme kindness to villians after they cooperate.

Elaina can be spontaneous and "very ditzy". Often tripping over rocks when she isn't paying attention, though this has decreased as she grows stronger. She can be quite dense especially in romance, but gets extremely embarassed whenever talking about love, her face turning red and ext. When asked what she would do if she ever fell in love by Mina, Elaina replied saying she would keep her developing emotions in reserve, as she says she wants to keep her feelings "professional" and because of this, she shows to have a tsundere side.

Due to her superhuman hearing, Elaina gets alarmed and jumpy when she hears a loud sound or something unusal. Which makes scaring her harder as she can sense it coming. Though when scared her first instict is to hide. She has a fear of ghosts, since she can't sense them.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: As a member of the Hīragi Family, Elaina proves herslef qualified to handle top tier villians as seen when she easliy defeated lesser villians while fighing the top ones on equal terms, also being scouted by the Fiore Council, and silently established as one of the strongest students in Class 1-A. As a former sergeant, Elaina remains levelheaded and takes an analytical approach at dire situations. She is knowledgeable about weapons, villians, combat, body-language, governments, and Imperial Army Politics. Her natural abilities include physical abilities, and mental abilities, such as having a strong resistance to opponents. According to All for One, she is the first child to actually wound him by throwing Zack's scythe at him despite him being an immensly powerful being, (she was 6 years old at the time).

As a child, Elaina was naturally and highly skilled at martial arts, and also skillful in using enchantments; All for One one mentioned that she is an incredibly gifted child that looks like a genius. Using her sturdy build and physical strength, Elaina proves to have the physical abilities to take down multiple opponents at once. Even before acquiring her (offensive) quirk at 5-years-old, Elaina's martial arts skills was more than enough to kick and take down opponents. Minus using her legs, she additionally was shown being able to wield Zack's scythe extremely well despite her young age, like when she was able to deflect several bullets at once when protecting Lin. Elaina is a very strong girl and Zack states that she has the strength that surpasses him, despite having any sort of formal training.

She also has the power to cut off one's head with her fingertips or hands.

High Pain Tolerance: Elaina possesses good physical resilience. She was shown being struck by a pro hero's attack while taking little damage and was able to counter-attack immediately. A true testament to her durability was shown when she blocked one of Bakugo's strongest attacks, Howitzer Impact, and emerged practicly unscathed from the enormous explosion that followed the impact. Even being electrocuted with 1,000 volts of electricity only causes her to feel pain, but no physical damage. It is revealed that as a child she was put under torturous training making her pain tolerance extremely high.


 * Enhanced Stamina: Elaina was also shown to have greater physical stamina. Her Quirk allows her to replenish her or her targets stamina, though even without using her quirk, she has shown to have an enhanced amout of stamina. She was still able to fight back, even though she already suffered a lot of major damage. Elaina can bear very intense physical pain without her physical or mental abilities being impaired. An excellent example is provided by her confrontation with the Nomu, in which she had her body take several intese hits and still managed to make calculations and prepare a strategy, even coming up with an idea for a new ability.


 * Enhanced Speed: Elaina was shown to have improved her speed as she was able to evade Shijoro's attack and appear right behind the boy, allowing her to attack. During the Provisional Hero License Exam, she knocked out a maximum of 108 applicants in less than 30 minutes, her speed being such that the few who managed to catch a glimpse of her only saw a shadow. Elaina's reflexes are shown to be rather sharp, allowing her to move Uraraka out of Snipe's firing trajectory in an instant, causing the sniper to miss a shot which could otherwise be lethal. Snipe himself went on to praise the duo's dodge. Due to being capable of perceiving subtle shifts and vibrations in the surrounding air currents, Elaina can detect approaching threats, which gives her a split-second increase in her reaction time.


 * Enhanced Agility: Elaina also demonstrated impressive agility, performing somersaults and flips then landing on her feet every time. Her high agility allows her to jump and move easily, jumping over fences and walls way taller than her, making up for her height. In terms of defense, Elaina takes full advantage of her agility to jump out of reach or dodge the enemy's attacks without losing her foothold giving her an advantage in prolonged combat. She has an excellent sense of balance, as seen when she was shown standing nonchalance on the back of a horse, and exceptional coordination. During her training with Shoto, Elaina was able to dodge and evade his "Heaven-Piercing Ice Wall" with ease, swiftly leaping from each ice ridge and landing on the slippery ice nonchalance.

Elaina is also shown to have a strong range in battle, she can jump very far and sprint very fast. She has good strength in her arms, and legs for tough kicking skills. Her arm muscles are used for punching, as well as carrying and use for her scythe. When impulsive, she occasionally uses her fingertips to cut off one's head with a single swift with her hand or her fingertips.

Enhanced Senses: Elaina has a very keen sense of smell. Her nose is capable of identifying people by their scent, as she demonstrated with Jiro and Yaoyorozu. She was also capable of pinpointing Snipe's position, tens of meters away from her, on a cliff, through the smell of the gunpowder used by his rifle's bullets. Elaina has shown extremely fine hearing, able to hear the voices of the hostages 5 blocks away and she could eavesdropping on the meeting that Principal Nezu was having with the teachers all the way from the down the hall. She also possesses great eyesight, having been capable of seeing Koda from afar before her companions can notice where he is. She can also see in the dark. She is extremely aware of her surroundings, as she managed to detect Toga's presence in spite of the latter specializing in erasing it.

Trained Assassin: She is a strong cambatant but is a master of disguise, infiltration, and stealth. Sometime in her past Elaina was put under extensive torture to make her the perfect killer. Elaina is very proficient in stealth and infiltration. Being skilled in espionage, able to erase her presence, just like Himiko Toga. Jiro, while she had her headphone jacks in the wall, commented that she could hardly hear Elaina's footsteps when she was running alongside her.

Genius Intellect: Elaina's ranked S-class in intelligence. Her way of thinking, knowledge, and pragmatism give her the attitude of an adult. She is knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics and is endowed with prodigious intuition and analytical skills. Her deductive abilities have allowed her to make accurate predictions on multiple occasions. She can also bear severe mental strain and still think clearly. Academically speaking, Elaina is highly efficient, Charolette stated if she was motivated enough, she could graduate college with a 5.0 gpa. Her terrific intellect allows her to pick up on details that would ordinarily go unnoticed on a subconscious level, which results in her feeling a sense of unease towards a certain course of action before realizing why.

Elaina has proven multiple times to be extremely perceptive, whether by gauging a person's approximate power or by detecting their aura or gaze. She could tell at a glance that Mustard was not as strong as he pretended to be, and offered Denki an estimation of how he stacked up against Bakugo, Todoroki, and herself in terms of combat ability. She could also tell at a glance that Mirio was way out of the class' league.

Master Strategist: Elaina has shown herself to be highly intellectual as she was able to memorize all the abilities of the participants, along with their fighting styles and patterns, and then run countless battle scenarios and evaluate the success rate of each of them, even in the middle of a fight, to come up with the most appropriate strategy for her team, the incredible accuracy of which making it seem as if she was predicting the future, thus earning the alias - The Fairy Tactician. To match all of these impressive intellectual capacities, Elaina is also an extremely quick thinker who can adapt to completely unforeseen developments.

Quirk
Sky Dragon Slayer (天の滅竜 Ten no Metsuryū?): It is a rare quirk being it is a mutation. It grants the user the characteristics of a Sky Dragon. However, Elaina has little control over how destructive her attacks are, due to inheriting her family gene for demon weapons, she has a high destruction rate until she gains Zack's scythe quirk to control and enhance the damage of her attacks. Elaina suffers from motion sickness when riding on any form of transportation. Her condition started after the Super Move Training, on their way to the Provisional Hero License Exam. Due to practically being unable to move and think properly in this state, Elaina can't use healing abilities like Troia on herself to counter it.

Elaina can consume her respective element, air, to replenish her energy reserves, allowing her to incorporate the element of air into her body. However, unlike other typs of Dragon Slayer Quirks, Sky Dragon Slayer can also function in a supportive light, as opposed to simply relying on offense. It allows her to heal people with the gravest of injuries, even those caused by a Dragon if honed properly. Her proficiency in healing allows her to use even just a kiss to heal other people and she can counteract other quirks that cause status ailments. Her Quirk also has support abilities, which can increase attack power and speed, to both herself and her others. As stated by Charolette, Elaina can eat air, but can't heal as well in polluted areas. Her Quirk also allows her to sense air currents, which can be used to predict the weather.

Elaina has been seen two times creating a wind-like sphere around her victim, which shreds them into pieces in an instant, though she seems to be using it unconsciously as she has no recollection of such ability. It was also used one around herself in a defensive manner as a barrier to protect herself, whilst still using it unconsciously.

Purgatory/Hell Scythe (地獄のサイス Jigoku no saisu) Zack's quirk passed onto Elaina by ingesting some of his blood, the reason being dragon slayer quirks can gain more powers by eating different elements, although very painful drawback.

This Quirk allows Elaina to wield Zack's main Hell Scythe, currently inhabited by him, and use some of its abilites. Such as manifesting Zack into a large smoky creature that will attack whoever she chooses and detecting anything that comes within the radius of the scythe. It can also transform into a minature form, a black pen-length rod that is more convenient to carry, for Elaina. Zack may enter Elaina's mind as a ghost that only she should be able to see and her dreams.

It is shown that Zack can manifest on his own will to scythe form if he wants to as he did in Elaina's hand or appear as a ghostly apparition, that everyone can see, with mass-like demonic aura.

Super Moves
Dragon Force (ドラゴンフォース Doragon Fōsu): By consuming air with high concentration of Ethernano, Elaina has been shown to be able to enter Dragon Force. This ability is said to be the final and most powerful state a Dragon Slayer can attain, and it has been said that their power becomes comparable to that of a real Dragon's. Elaina's eyes turn fully purple along with her hair. The Dragon Slayer also has white scales that spring out of her back, and smaller ones on her hands and feet, along with sprouting horns. After more training, Eizabeth was shown to be able to enter Dragon Force at will.

Dragon Slayer's Secret Art (滅竜奥義 Metsuryū Ōgi)


 * Shattering Light: Sky Drill (照破・天空穿 Shōha Tenkūsen): A special spell where Elaina forms a fast wind barrier with her arms spread out, and by moving them in a counter-clockwise direction, causes the barrier to contract inwards towards her opponent.

Sky Dragon's Roar (天龍の咆哮 Tenryū no Hōkō): A version of Dragon's Roar. When using this attack, Elaina breathes a hurricane-like blast at her target. It has been shown to be powerful enough to destroy one of Nirvana's Lacrima crystals, and then match Inasa Yoarashi's quirk.


 * Sky Dragon's Roar + Cure: A variation of Sky Dragon's Roar with the additional power of Elaina's healing Magic. This spell is unique in its coincidental offensive and healing properties, such that Elaina was able to cure Toga's memory block, which released the Magic bestowed upon her and rendered her unable to battle.

Named Moves

 * Sky Dragon's Wing Attack (天龍の翼撃 Tenryū no Yokugeki): This attack features Elaina expelling a whirlwind of air from her arms to attack her surroundings.


 * Sky Dragon's Claw (天竜の鉤爪 Tenryū no Kagizume): Elaina jumps and lifts her feet and unleashes large winds the moment the leg is swung down at the target.


 * Sky Dragon's Crushing Fang (天竜の砕牙 Tenryū no Saiga): Elaina charges and swipes the target with her fingers leaving a wake of wind behind as she does so.


 * Sky Dragon's Wave Wind (天竜の波颪 Tenryū no Namioroshi): Elaina swings her hand and subsequently generates a large and very powerful tornado.


 * Leading Sky Arrow (天空甲矢 Tenkū Haya): Elaina cloaks one of her legs in a whirlwind of a Sky Dragon's air, thrusting it at her target.
 * Momentary Wind (瞬間の風 Shunkan no Kaze): Elaina gathers wind at her feet to use a speed boost.


 *  Enchantments 
 * Vernier ( Banīa): A spell that speeds up the movement of the target, including the caster themselves, for a short period of time.
 * Arms ( Āmuzu): After reciting an enchantment, the Caster then targets a region of the body in which to increase damage output, such as the arms, for a short period of time.
 * Body Anomaly Reversal Magic, Raise (状態異常回復魔法レーゼ Jōtai Ijō Kaifuku Mahō Rēze): By using this spell, Elaina can negate the effects of Quirks used on herself or other people, as seen when she used it to cancel Kamika's binding spell.
 * Anomaly Resistance Enchant: Re-Raise (状態異常耐性リレーゼ Jōtai Ijō Taisei Enchanto Rirēze): A supportive spell that will protect Elaina from any Quirk of anomaly effect targeted towards her.


 * Deus Corona ( Deusu Korona): By chanting "Elemental resistances rise!", Elaina is able to temporarily increase her defensive capabilities quite significantly. However, against powerful enough attacks, the resistances added onto her can be broken through.


 * Deus Eques ( Deusu Ekuesu): By chanting "Physical ability rise!", Elaina is able to temporarily increase her general physical capabilities

Equipment

 * Hell Scythe: Zack's main scythe with the green blade that he currently inhabits. Elaina currently uses it to better control her quirk without damaging as many buildings or injuring her allies as she would without it. Using the scythe, she can contain her wind making it safer for her to fight around civillians. Similar to her Leading Sky Arrow, she cloaks the scythe's blade in a whirlwind, thrusting it at her target, using it as a means of both offense and defense.

Trivia

 * According to Elaina's Volume 2 profile:
 * She has an irregular sleeping pattern and doesn't sleep much.
 * She does not have a favorite color.
 * Her dislikes include unnecessary conflict, and sour food.
 * Horikoshi clarifies that her Sky Dragon Quirk isn't a transformation type, since she doesn't have a time limit and she can control the air around her.
 * She usually adresses everyone with "sama" (様 Sama) in Japanese along with their given name.


 * Elaina is the first character in the series to have her name revealed in katakana rather than kanji. This was likely done to avoid hinting at her Quirk.
 * An alternative spelling of Elena, Elaina is a Greek name meaning shining light.


 * It is speculated that she may share a type of Impulsive Control Disorder (ICD), which is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, an urge, an impulse, or the inability to not speak on a thought, with her brother. Whether it was something they had since they were born or they developed at some point in life is uncertain.


 * Elaina's hero name Sky Maiden, originally translated to Sky Sorceress, but they changed it in the english translation.
 * Elaina's rankings for the Popularity Polls are as following:
 * Ranked 18th in the First Popularity Poll.
 * Ranked 13th in the Second Popularity Poll.
 * Ranked 14th in the Third Popularity Poll.
 * Ranked 7th in the Fourth Popularity Poll.
 * Ranked 5th in the Fifth Popularity Poll.
 * Elaina's known U.A academic data is as follows:
 * Elaina is student No. 21 of Class 1-A.
 * Ranked 2nd in Quirk Apprehension Test.
 * Her 50-Meter Dash record is 2.56 seconds.
 * She took first place in the distance run, showing zero signs of fatigue.
 * Ranked 2nd in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
 * Ranked in the Top 42 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage. Originally ranked in the Top 16, but she forfeited her participation before the final challenge.
 * Scored 99 in the Provisional Hero License Exam.


 * According to Lin, she's way stronger than her older brother Zack and the others. Zack himself acknowledged this.


 * Each Hīragi family member carries around a family crest, which grants them access to restricted military facilities.


 * If Elaina was in Harry Potter, her Hogwarts House would be Slytherin.
 * She has been described by Kaminari as a Kuudere.

Quotes

 * (To Shoto) "I don't get angry because its draining, and I avoid doing things that wear me out."
 * (To Izuku) "I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I haven't felt any meaning or purpose in my life since the day I was born."
 * (To Gapri) "I prefer to avoid combat. However, I must toss that ambivalent feeling aside...and fight with my might!!!"
 * (To Cosmos) "My job is to support everyone but... when I have to fight... I become the Sky Dragon!"
 * (To herself about Izuku) "Watching him, I can't help but wonder... How can he always get so worked up for the sake of others? ...There he goes again... getting attached to another so easily... Aah... It's amazing. Compared to him, I must have a demon inside of me, ... I have no raging passions, no welling emotions."
 * (To Katsuki and Shoto) "What would you do if everytime you looked at your opponent, you saw the only person you have ever cared about? Could you attack them, or would you become paralyzed like me?"
 * (To Guards) "I am a member of the Hīragi family... the leaders of the Imperial Army. Am I still forbidden to pass?""
 * (To All Might) "Who knows? I certainly can't say. But just a few minutes ago, for the first time in my life, someone told me they needed me. I think I'd like to try living up to that."
 * ( To Class 1-A) "It is true the Hīragi Imperial Army is the most dangerous organization in all of Japan."
 * (To Aizawa) "We are Hīragis. A Hīragi is not raised knowing familial love... That said, watching a certain someone get so desperate to save someone he has no blood ties to makes me a little... curious. I can't help but wonder if I, too, should put a little more value into 'friendship' and 'camaraderie.' "
 * (To Lin) "In fact, I'm almost certain the upper echelons have completely abandoned me. After all, it was my elder sister who betrayed the family and caused that big uproar a few years ago.... In fact, my sister was such an incredible combatant that my father never even bothered to meet me at all. Of all the children sired by all those different women, my sister was considered the strongest candidate for heir. But now she's dead. And, luckily, I was considered unimportant enough to be discarded... We may only be a collection of half-siblings, but who wants to fight their own family for power?"
 * (To Katsuki) "Ah, so you mean the struggle for power, I assume? The one that killed my powerful brother? Little incompetent me ran away from that chaos as quickly as my feet could take me."