| “ | Time for us to dance! | „ |
| ~ Elena in Street Fighter 6 |
Elena (エレナ) is a character in the Street Fighter series, who made her debut in Street Fighter III: New Generation. She is a light hearted, nature-loving capoeira fighter from Kenya who is currently studying abroad.
Biography[]
Appearance[]
Elena is amazingly tall for a woman; she is currently the tallest woman in the Street Fighter series. She has dark skin, short silvery white hair, and blue eyes. She has long, strong legs and is always barefoot. Many of her official artwork, mostly in SFIII, show her toenails painted blue. She is mainly dressed in a white, two-piece bikini-like outfit with bright red, blue, gold and purple stripes on the neck, shoulders, wrists, shins and ankles. This makes her outfit the most skimpy of all the female characters in the Street Fighter franchise.
In Street Fighter 6, Elena’s new look features a small white sports bra that reveals a subtle underboob, highlighting her toned, athletic physique. She wears zebra-striped white pants held at the waist by a red rope commonly worn by Capoeira practitioners, along with sandals that have red straps and white ribbons tied around the heels.
Personality[]
Elena is a young girl with a strong, pure spirit and a cheerful "tomboy" personality similar to Sakura, Ibuki and fellow rival Makoto (though not as brash and fiery-tempered like the latter), as she is normally seen smiling or laughing sweetly. While very energetic and benevolent, she is also smart, sociable, and culture-adaptive, always eager to learn more about the world, which is part of the reason for her travels. She also has an unusual accent, which she refers to as something she got from her travels around the world in one of her win quotes in 3rd Strike. Elena is also able to hear and comprehend various rhythms as well as the voices of the wind and trees.
Elena's views of fighting and martial arts differ from most due to her light-hearted personality allowing her to befriend some people and annoy others. She is a very cheery person who looks to make friends which motivated her to join the 3rd world tournament to meet new people and hopefully make friends.
Elena is able to tell when she sees a pure evil person, seen in her win quote against M. Bison in Street Fighter X Tekken ("I don't need the wind to tell me that you are a very bad man!").
Abilities[]
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Elena demonstrates her capoeira abilities to evade two rampaging hippos in Street Fighter 6.
Elena is an expert capoerist, who developed several additional abilities, such as healing, manipulating the wind and communicating with nature, and entered the 3rd and 4th World Tournaments. She keeps improving and becoming stronger at a quick pace, having surpassed her brother, who she previously couldn't defeat, after participating in the 3rd World Tournament. Likewise, Elena has an astonishing ability to befriend others after a match, even befriending Akuma. She seemingly works hard on her studies, having attended school first in Japan and then in France, following her father's footsteps.
History[]
Background[]
Elena is a princess of an East African nation that has a cultural tradition of fighting. Her father, Jafari, is the chief of the region, and a traditional healer who also qualified in France for a doctorate degree in medicine.
Elena desires to travel around the world, meeting new friends along the way. She studied as an exchange student in Japan, where she met her best friend Narumi. She later continued those studies in France.
Ultra Street Fighter IV[]
While sparring with her brother Marcus, Elena feels unsettled by the feelings she senses from the surrounding trees. Her father Jafari, the patriarch of the tribe confirms her suspicions, claiming to have already discussed the matter with the Shaman. It has been determined that "a bringer of death" once walked amongst their people. The "seeds of sadness" this individual has proceeded to sow around the world have caused the trees to respond with "strange noises". These noises, presumably detectable by those with a strong connection to nature such as Elena and the Shaman, are implied to be the source of her disquiet.
Believing that this person is associated with the upcoming S.I.N. tournament, he then reveals that he has decided to enter her into it. Furthermore, as head of the tribe, he then commands her (amid protests from her brother) to observe the fighters and thus determine "the truth". Elena cheerfully accepts his decisions.
After the tournament, Elena informs her father that she has made many friends along the way. As she says so, she reflects on the fighters in the tournament and recalls her experiences: dancing with Blanka, sampling El Fuerte's cooking, having afternoon tea with Dudley, and taking a photo of herself with a somewhat reticent Akuma. She resolves to travel the World and become friends with people from every country. With that, she decides to head to Japan for her next trip. The last scene shows a close-up of Sakura, which may imply that she was the one who guides Elena in Japan.
Street Fighter III series[]
In her ending, Elena ends up being transferred to a high school in Japan as an exchange student, where she has befriended a young Japanese girl named Narumi and writes home to her parents about her experiences. Her story does not change much in 2nd Impact, although she has an additional role as one of Hugo's potential partners in one of his multiple endings as "Elena the Wilderness Warrior", becoming the tag team of "Beauty and the Beast".
In 3rd Strike, a year has passed since Elena has left Japan to study abroad in France during the new year. Before beginning her studies again, Elena decides to street fight once again to seek new friends. In her ending, Elena writes back to her Japanese friend Narumi after returning to France from spending her summer vacation in Japan again, and invites Narumi to visit her in Africa during her winter vacation. Elena is exploring around in France, stating that it's going to be hardworking, continuing her studies.
Street Fighter 6[]
At some point during her travels, Lily Hawk fights Elena. In her story, she is raised in the arms of the savannah, and a member of a clan of proud warriors. Elena has a talent for healing, and seeks to become a veterinarian.
Elena befriends Akuma after both had a sparring match in his cavern and was very thankful enough for him to have a good fight and she knows that everyone is very afraid of him. Akuma also tells her that Satsui no Hado and her natural strength are in the same two coin. With this in mind, Elena decided to take on a journey to seek answers about to live and to fight. Being guided by Narumi at her travels in Japan, she meets Ryu and seeking answers from him about to live and to fight and Ryu knows this answer. Ryu then decided to battle Elena, stating that he will share his story from her. After the battle, Elena was happy to have a fight with Ryu and Narumi comes to see them because she was worried to her friend. Elena also states that Ryu and Akuma had the same personality and she predicts that both of them will settle their differences and became friends causing Ryu to retort about her sentence (since he and Akuma currently remained as enemies) and Elena happily laughs stating that Ryu and Akuma are her friends after he commented her for being a peculiar young woman and Elena points out about him and Akuma are the same.
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Images[]
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Trivia[]
- Elena has similar traits to Dee Jay. They are both dark-skinned, happy-go-lucky fighters who fight barefoot, using dance moves, and talk about rhythms and beats in their win quotes.
- Tekken character Christie Monteiro, Elena's rival in Street Fighter X Tekken, naturally has some similar traits to Elena: they both wear revealing costumes, and use Capoeira as their martial arts style (as indicated by their stance). Christie can also be customized to resemble Elena in Tekken 6.
- She also shares character traits and interests with Darkstalkers character Felicia. Like with Dee Jay, they are both happy-go-lucky fighters who enjoy music and dancing, and both cover their modesty with small amounts of white clothing (or fur in Felicia's case).
- Elena is the first playable character in the series whose home country is in Africa.
- Her height is 183 cm (equivalent to 6 ft); make her the tallest female fighter in Street Fighter franchise.
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