Elaina Hīragizawa

Elaina Hīragizawa (柊沢 イレイナ Hiiragizawa Ireina) is a scholarship student at Morinomiya Academy and one of the highest achieving students in the Advanced Class with Nezu Chuukichi, Maria Inomata and Yagi Tomoya. She is the fourth member of the babysitting club and a member of the track club.

Appearance
Elaina is described as a short, adorable, and beautiful young girl with waist-length ashen hair, and the large bow on the back of her head is a dark shade of magenta and is at the end of a twisted braid. She has bright red eyes with small, round pupils that become narrow when she is serious or angry, resembling that of a cat's. She has a slender build and has also been shown to have exceptionally sharp canine teeth. Behind her usual innocent-looking, smiling face hides a teasing and rather sadistic personality.

Personality
Elaina has a sarcastic, apathetic attitude and does not put much emotion into her words. She loves teasing others and is quite dry-humored. Elaina generally tends to smirk before teasing or performing her antics towards others, placing them in uncomfortable situations. She can be proud and arrogant but has a nice, joyful and cheery part of her. Rarely, Elaina shows that she can have a scary and manipulating side.

Elaina displays a bright, friendly, and cheerful demeanor when with the children as to not scare them, although they have seen her true personality and try to not anger her. On the other hand, she is surprisingly smart and clever, having brilliant deduction skills which allow her to solve different problems. Despite being overall brilliant, Elaina gets very average grades. Elaina can always find a solution if she gives it enough thought, which deeply annoys Maria. Unlike Maria, she lacks ambition and only wants to graduate.

Due to her circumstances surrounding her family, Elaina grew up having to fend for herself, and never truly enjoyed her life til her third year of highschool. She greatly respects Ryuuichi's resolve and feelings toward his family and wants to help him. She shows surprisingly little emotions when talking to Ryuuichi about her parent's death, suggesting that Elaina is emotionally detached to people she knows and keeps her friends away at an arm's length.

She can also be kind, and she does care about her friends, as Hayato states, Elaina is actually a kind person who often helps others, including himself and rarely does things for herself. Even ignoring her own injuries as she believes she isn't worth the trouble. Elaina has a vulnerable complex about her short stature when Yagi and Hayato teased her for being too short to see through the window, she laughs smugly before proceeding to physically teach them a lesson. Elaina keeps her developing emotions for Hayato in reserve, as she says she wants to keep her feelings "professional" and because of this, she shows to have a tsundere side.

History
Elaina was born as an only child to Hotaru and Gin Hīragizawa. They lived a very happy and loving life and would go out as a family all the time. However, when Elaina was seven years old, her parents died from a car crash. During his funeral, Hotaru’s relatives accused Elaina of being the child of an affair because they thought she doesn’t resemble her.

As such she was never acknowledged and was neglected, only to be found by Meliodas Liones, who took her in and gave her a place to stay before she could live on her own. She currently lives on her own and works multiple part-time jobs, one as a waitress.

Trivia

 * Elaina's surname Hiiragizawa means "holly" (柊) (Hiiragi), and "swamp, marsh, brilliance, grace." (沢) (sawa).
 * An alternative spelling of Elena, Elaina is a Greek name meaning shining light.


 * She usually adresses everyone with "sama" (様 Sama) in Japanese along with their given name.


 * What she looks for in the opposite sex: A prince on a white horse, of course. Oh, but what kind of person is this Prince Charming? He came from The Little Red Riding Hood, right?
 * She excells at Mathematics with History being her least favorite.


 * Elaina gets teased/mocked for her height.


 * Elaina dislikes Umeboshi (pickled plums) to an extent where she can be influenced at the sight of others eating them.