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| “ | They say every story has a beginning... except mine. My story has two. | „ |
| ~ Princess Elena |
| “ | I am Elena, the rightful heir to the throne of Avalor! | „ |
| ~ Elena to the citizens of Avalor |
| “ | I... forgive you. | „ |
| ~ Elena to Esteban after he was transformed into a stone statue as a result of taking a blast from Cahu for her, which allows her emotion magic to transform him back into his normal form. |
Elena Castillo Flores of Avalor (also known as Elena or Princess Elena and eventually Queen Elena) is the titular main protagonist of the 2016-2020 Disney Channel/Disney Junior animated series Elena of Avalor and the overarching protagonist of Sofia the First.
She is the daughter of the late King Raul and late Queen Lucia, the older sister of Isabel, the cousin of Esteban, the granddaughter of Francisco and Luisa Flores, and the current ruler of Avalor.
She was voiced by Aimee Carrero who also portrayed Angie in Level Up, and Adora in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
Appearance[]
At sixteen to twenty years of age, Elena is a young girl who has dark skin complexion, with a slender figure and amber-brown eyes. She has ruby red lips and long, wavy, dark brown hair tied in a ponytail.
Her signature outfit is a long red sleeveless over-skirt dress stylized with matching coral gauze ruffle/flounces around the elastic neckline and on the side and bottom with an attached ivory-colored underskirt. Around her waist is a golden belt held in place with a golden buckle. She wears brown high heeled shoes with flowery patterns, orange flowers in the right side of her hair, a yellow and light blue beaded bracelet, and gold oval-shaped earrings.
Personality[]
Elena starts her story as an older teenager who's almost over-confident in her ability to rule, as she was born rightful heir to the throne, and quickly forms a team of her own peers as her closest circle. Her powers from the Amulet of Avalor and the Well of Takaina also aren't kept a secret, but she still struggles in figuring them out. However, Elena is devoted to the welfare of her subjects, her family, and her friends. She is shown to hold her father in high esteem and looks to him for inspiration. Also like Sofia, she has a pragmatic approach to leadership and a disregard for her own personal safety. Unlike Sofia though, Elena is very confident, to the point where she can be careless. Also unlike Sofia, who is quite particular, Elena can rush into things and miss key points. Her grandfather Francisco noted this to her through the story of the king who thought he had lost his crown, a way of telling her she wasn't ready to rule alone. Elena is reluctant to take advice at the beginning, while Sofia can take too much advice. Conversely, Elena is shown to underestimate others, such as her elderly grandfather, or her younger sister, and learns the value of seeing people for their strengths.
Upon falling into the Well of Crystals in Takaina, Elena gets a magical power boost that is tied to her emotions, which causes big magic around her. This heightens her sense of anxiety, and causes her to undergo many mood swings, of which her family and friends help her manage.
Due to the traumatic events involving the loss of her parents to Shuriki's invasion, Elena has developed PTSD, often having flashbacks to the day she lost the kingdom. This trauma manifests itself through a strong sense of justice and revenge, as Elena has no qualms killing Shuriki in revenge, and shows no remorse upon succeeding in "Song of the Sirenas." However, this ultimately gets the better of her through the many instances where she endangers herself and/or her loved ones due to her impulsiveness. This is further shown when Elena discovers that Esteban and Victor helped Shuriki conquer Avalor. Elena's love for Esteban turns into bitter anger and disappointment, as she sends him into permanent exile. Her hatred for Esteban only increases when he escapes with Ash, becomes a sorceror, and teams up with new allies, causing her to disown him, and show no hesitation towards potentially harming him.
Elena's ultimate test is through forgiveness; She first learns to trust and forgive Victor for helping Shuriki kill her family, and accepts his and Carla's help in defending Avalor. She then sees the error in her impulsive revenge-driven mistakes and finds the drive to learn from them. This motivates her to forgive Esteban for the pain he has caused her, which defeats the Four Shades of Awesome and saves the kingdom. Overall, the four years of growth Elena learns as Crown Princess shape her up to be the Queen that she was destined to be.
History[]
Early life[]
Princess Elena was born the firstborn child of King Raul and Queen Lucia of the kingdom of Avalor, where she lived a happy life alongside her family, which consisted her parents and her little sister Isabel, maternal grandparents Francisco and Luisa, as well as her orphaned maternal first cousin, Esteban, whom she looked up to as a big brother. Elena and Esteban were friends with the Royal Treasurer's son, Victor Delgado, who visited the palace and would cook all day with them as well as play in the garden. Elena also visited her paternal cousin, Cristobal who lived in Nueva Vista on the west coast of Avalor. Elena grew up to love many holidays, including Carnaval, Dia De Los Muertos, and Dia Da Las Madres. However, she also grew to despise ballet at some point in her youth.
On the day of her 15th birthday, as was the family tradition, her mother gave her a family heirloom as her birthday present; a pink amulet said to have magical powers that would protect it's wearer from any harm. Though Elena was honored by her gift, she never saw the use for it, nor would she realize the day its fable would come true.
One year later, during the eve of Carnaval, Elena's parents and cousin had left the palace to work on the float. Elena had encouraged her sister to clean up to get ready for their arrival at dinnertime, when she had heard their carriage pull up outside the courtyard. When Elena headed outside of the castle to greet her parents, she bore witness to them being attacked by Shuriki, the evil sorceress from the Northern Islands who was hungry for control of the kingdom. Elena could only watch in horror as the sorceress cast a spell to kill her parents, causing her to run away from the scene in panic and fear as Shuriki set her sights upon the palace. Knowing Shuriki would come for the rest of the royal family, Alacazar cast a spell to protect Elena's sister and grandparents. To buy them time, Elena chose to fight Shuriki on her own. Without magic, Elena was defeated by the evil sorceress, who used a spell to try and strike her down. However, the Amulet ultimately saved Elena's life, by pulling her inside of it.
Alacazar picked up the amulet and quickly set out to free Elena, leaving Avalor to suffer under the reign of Queen Shuriki. At the suggestion of some magical advice, Elena and Alacazar spent the next 41 years traveled across the Everrealm to find a special princess who could free her, passing it on from princess-to-princess in the hopes one of them would be the one to free her by testing them by giving them gifts or curses depending how they act, but none them proved to be just the right one. Unfortunately Alacazar soon grew too old to continue their search for the princess, but he heard wind that inside a giant tree in the kingdom of Enchancia in an enchanted Library filled with numerous enchanted books that have no ending, & thinking it's their last best shot in freeing Elena, Alacazar took refuge their and used magic to turn himself into a book telling Elena's current life in hopes a story-keeper would one day give it a happy ending.
The Amulet itself (with Elena still inside it) was then transferred to the the ownership of Enchancia's royal family but they had no idea that Elena was inside it, she soon found herself in the protection of Enchancia's princess Matilda, but when she soon grew up and abdicated the throne to become a duchess/adventurer, Elena would find herself in the Castle's jewelry room. That is until Matilda's younger brother Roland, who became King in Matilda's place, re-married a young shoemaker named Miranda and in-turn step-fathered a young girl named Sofia, seeing another chance to see if she's the princess she needs, Elena made the amulet glow to get Roland to notice it and give the amulet as a welcome-gift to her.
Elena and the Secret of Avalor[]
When Elena turned fifteen, her mother Queen Lucia gave her the Amulet of Avalor, a magical amulet that her parents hoped would always protect her from harm. One year later, Shuriki, an evil power-hungry sorceress from the Northern Islands, invaded Avalor and killed her parents. Alacazar, Avalor's Royal Wizard, came up with a way to save her family. Because he needed time to cast it, Elena made the choice to face Shuriki on her own. When Shuriki tried to strike her down, the Amulet saved Elena by pulling her inside it. When the Amulet was given to Sofia the First of Enchancia, Elena knew she was the one who would free her.
Forty-one years after her imprisonment, Princess Sofia of Enchancia receives a vision of Elena's imprisonment from the AMulet. This sends Sofia to the Secret Library of Enchancia, where she learns of Elena's imprisonment from Alacazar. This makes Sofia set out to free Elena from the Amulet. With a combination of Alacazar's grandson, the Jaquins, Shuriki's wand, and her powers, Sofia finally frees Elena from the Amulet. Elena takes Shuriki's wand and sets out to defeat Shuriki alone. Unfortunately, her attempt fails when she can't use the wand properly, and she's forced to flee. Elena and Sofia team up and free their families from Shuriki's clutches. They then rally the citizens of Avalor, who march with them to the castle where they confront Shuriki and chase away her army. Her cousin Esteban grabs Shuriki's wand and tosses it to Elena. Knowing she can't use the wand, Elena destroys it. With the wand gone, Shuriki's powers are destroyed, and she turns into an old woman who flees defeated and is left for dead. Elena then assumes the throne to the joy of all of Avalor.
Following her ascension, Elena informs this story to her friend Naomi, and together, they resolve to hide the pieces of Shuriki's wand in the royal treasury.
Elena of Avalor[]
Season 1[]
One day after Shuriki's defeat in "First Day of Rule", Elena and her family resume their lives in Avalor, with Elena being particularly excited to finally be crowned Queen. However, Francisco informs her that her crowning will have to wait, as Esteban has discovered that Elena is too young to rule the kingdom as queen, per the kingdom's by-laws. Instead, Francisco explains that Elena will rule alongside a Grand Council who will help her make decisions for the next four years until she comes of age. Elena strongly rebukes the idea, believing she's mentally capable of solely maintaining the kingdom, and vows to prove herself by gathering the city leaders and working alongside them to restore Avalor's welfare, which had been damaged by Shuriki's purge. After a conflict with the Noblins that is escelated by Elena's impatience, she soon realizes that there is a lot to learn before becoming a ruler. That night at the ball, Elena appoints her grandparents, cousin Esteban, and Naomi to be on the Grand Council.
In 'Spellbound,' Elena appoints Mateo, the grandson of the wizard Alacazar, her new Royal Wizard. During a celebration being held to commemorate this, a Malvago named Fiero attacks and petrifies everyone. He tries to steal Alacazar's old spellbook, the Codex Maru, but Mateo manages to beat Fiero with Elena's encouragement and save everyone.
In 'A Day to Remember,' it is the day of the dead. Elena meets with a women named Dona who is a ghost. She asks Zuzo how she is able to see a ghost and Zuzo explains its because of the lingering magic of the amulet. On Dona's behalf, Elena helps her grandchildren Carmen and Julio rediscover their grandmother's recipe so they won't have to sell the restaurant, Afterwards, Elena learns that Isabelle hasn't shown up to the celebration because she doesn't want to go though Elena finds her and convinces her to go. The ghosts of Elena's parents are then seen watching over them.
In "The Scepter of Light", Elena finds a replacement for the Amulet of Avalor in the form of her father's scepter. After she accidentally blasts some of her furniture with it, Zuzo tells her that it is a magical object created by the Kingdom of Maru. When the evil moth fairy Orizaba invades Avalor, Mateo reveals that the scepter is indeed such an object: It's the Scepter of Light which gives its bearer the power to harness the Powers of Light at the cost of having their energy drained. Upon realizing that the Scepter can defeat Orizaba, who draws her strength from darkness, with it, Elena proceeds to do so. She later reveals to her family that she has magical abilities now.
In "King of the Carnaval," Elena and Esteban's childhood best friend Victor Delgado returns. Elena takes pity on Victor after learning that he was banished from Avalor by Shuriki, and allows him and his daughter Carla to join the festivities. However, she soon discovers that Victor and Carla have ulterior motives in stealing the crown jewels, and believes Victor to have been lying about Esteban helping Shuriki invade the kingdom. Elena and Esteban manage to work together to catch up to the thieves, return the jewels, and banish the Delgados from Avalor.
In the one-hour Season 1 finale, "Realm of the Jaquins", Elena celebrates the anniversary of her coronation as Crown Princess and is in attendance with Mateo as Skylar's little brother Nico is participating in the tests to become a Guardian of Avalor under Chief Zephyr that the chief arranged with Mateo's help. However, when on his way to complete the second task, Nico is secretly prevented from doing so by Victor Delgado, causing him to be unable to graduate into a full-fledged Guardian of Avalor. Hoping to help him, Elena travels with Luna to Vallestrella, the home of the Jaquins, to speak to King Verago, who is Skylar and Nico's father, but Verago is furious to see Elena and Mateo in Vallestrella as humans are prohibited from being in Vallestrella due to a previous incident.
However, it is soon learned that a forest sprite named Marimonda has been released from her imprisonment and attempting to leave Vallestrella to attack Avalor. Elena seeks out the sun bird spirit Quita Moz, who reveals a new ability of the Scepter of Light that Elena had not known about before, the power to create illusions. With that knowledge, and an enchanted jar provided by Quita Moz to imprison Marimonda permanently again, Elena heads to find her, only to end up ruining a trap set up by King Verago and Migs to catch Marimonda, resulting in Marimonda capturing Migs, while Verago is not pleased at Elena's interference. Elena tries to make amends as she uses the Scepter's new power to fool Marimonda right before she reaches the portal to Avalor, but just when it looks like she and Skylar have Marimonda, Victor and his daughter, Carla, interfere, revealing themselves to be the real threats.
Thanks to them, Marimonda opens the portal, and all three villains escape to Avalor. Elena and King Verago make amends and agree to work together to stop Marimonda once Skylar finally stands up to his father and tells him off for blaming Elena for allowing Marimonda to be able to reach Avalor, returning to Avalor to enlist the aid of Chief Zephyr and the Jaquins there. While King Verago, Chief Zephyr, and the other Jaquins keep Marimonda distracted, especially Nico with his speed and agility, Elena is able to conjure a fake illusion of the front facade of the Royal Palace, so when Marimonda attempts to set foot on the stairs leading up to the front doors and believes she's won, Elena reveals that she instead set foot right in the enchanted jar, trapping Marimonda permanently once more, and undoing all her damage to Avalor. Afterward, Elena tells her grandparents of the Delgados' part in Marimonda's attack and orders the Captain of the Royal Guard to assemble a team of his best men to hunt them down and bring them to justice. With that, Elena returns to Vallestrella to return Marimonda to Quita Moz, but before she can leave, the sacred fire says something to Quita Moz, who then warns Elena of a great darkness that she will need to overcome in the future. If she fails, she will never be crowned Queen of Avalor.
Season 2[]
In the Season 2 premiere, 'The Jewel of Maru,' Elena has another run-in with Victor and Carla as she's fearful of them being the darkness they must overcome to become Queen. When Skylar and Luna warn her that Victor and Carla are heading for Tepet Muul, the abandoned capital of the Kingdom of Maru, she discovers the fabled Jewel of Maru itself, along with its guardian, Amaláy, who was the creator of the Scepter of Light itself. When Elena's attempts to stop Victor and Carla from escaping with the Jewel result in her trapping herself in debris, she is visited by the spirits of her late parents, King Raul and Queen Lucia, due to it also being Dia de los Muertos as well. After Elena explains her concerns to her parents, they encourage her to never give up, and do what she knows is best for Avalor. Thanks to their support, Elena escapes and manages to stop Victor and Carla from escaping with the Jewel of Maru, which she takes back to seal away forever. She then returns to her parents' grave to let them know she'll see them again at next year's Dia de los Muertos celebration.
In the following episode, "Royal Rivalry," Elena decides to step up the hunt for Victor and Carla by putting up wanted posters, asking the citizens of Avalor to aid the Royal Guards with finding them. However, concerned that they may escape across the border to the neighboring kingdom of Paraiso, Elena suggests at a Grand Council meeting to invite Princess Valentina of Paraiso to Avalor to sign a peace treaty between their kingdoms, after learning of a long-standing feud between Avalor and Paraiso. Everyone except for Esteban agrees, but when Valentina arrives, she quickly gets on everyone's nerves with her boasting of things from Paraiso being better than Avalor's, save for Elena, who is able to endure it, until during a carriage ride to the Twin Xolos, where Valentina's boasting finally pushes Elena too far and results in where Valentina accidentally brings the Twin Xolos statues to life. When Elena confronts her about it afterward, Valentina confesses to being jealous of Avalor, thinking they had better stuff than Paraiso. As a result, guilty of letting their pride get the better of them, Elena and Valentina make amends and are able to return the Twin Xolos back to their inanimate forms. Afterward, they sign the treaty, and step up the guard patrols at the border, preventing the fugitives from escaping.
In "A Spy in the Palace," Elena and her family are preparing for a celebration when a girl named Rita who claims to be Armando's cousin (but is actually Carla in disguise) arrives at the palace. Naomi is suspicious of her while Elena if trusting which leads to a falling out between the two and Elena giving "Carla" more power over carnival preparations though Naomi later apologizes, making Elena think she was right.
In "Rise of the Sorceress," the kingdom is preparing for the Sunflower Festival, the first since the loss of the King and Queen. However, Elena notices Rita acting strangely due to her hair changing color, and never showing up to help with some of the preparations, later on, Naomi voices her concern to Elena about having a gut feeling about Rita, but Elena tells her she needs more proof than a gut feeling before she can investigate. During when her family is doing their dance for the celebration, Naomi tells Elena that her concerns about Rita have proof that she is up to something. When Naomi brings Elena back into the palace to show her, they encounter Shuriki, who is alive and allied with Fiero and the Delgados, much to Elena's horror.
Seizing the moment, Shuriki tries to strike Elena down once more, and Naomi does her best to protect Elena from the attacks, but Mateo is able to arm Elena with the Scepter of Light, which Elena uses to destroy Shuriki's new wand, forcing her, Fiero, and the Delgados to retreat. Elena gives pursuit with Naomi, Gabe, and Mateo on Canela and the other horses, but losing sight and the trail of the four villains, Elena agrees to have the Royal Guards assembled to hunt them down. As they return to Avalor, Elena apologizes to Naomi for doubting her, and comes to a conclusion as to what her test forewarned of by Quita Moz is: To defeat Shuriki, once and for all.
With Shuriki's return now public knowledge to all of Avalor, in "Shapeshifters" Elena finds herself under heavy guard by Gabe and his men until Shuriki can be brought to justice. During a meeting with her Grand Council, Esteban, as Chancellor, calls a vote that has Elena confined to the castle until further notice, as both Naomi and her grandparents do not want anything to happen to her. However, for Elena, this is about revenge. Shuriki murdered Elena's parents, and Elena wants payback, realizing her parents' spirits will not be able to rest peacefully in the afterlife until their assassin pays for her crimes. Visiting Mateo in his workshop later on, Elena learns that he has recently finished work on his Shape-shifting Potion to turn one into a Jaquin. After testing it on himself, Elena tries it and realizes she can use it to sneak out of the palace. However, she ends up running into Gabe, who is under orders to keep Elena in the castle under guard. He agrees to go with her and Mateo in Jaquin form to Luna's birthday party.
Once there, Elena distracts Gabe while she speaks to Chief Zephyr about joining the Jaquin scouts with looking for Shuriki, but Zephyr refuses, before taking his leave with his successor, Cruz. Elena and Mateo follow Zephyr and Cruz to Commander's Rock, a cave that Alacazar had made some time before he fled Avalor when Shuriki originally took over. Seeing nothing of interest there, Elena and Mateo return to Luna's birthday party, not seeing Cruz imprison Zephyr in Commander's Rock when Zephyr rescinds naming him his successor. When Cruz arrives back at the party, he puts the blame on Elena, Mateo, and Gabe when Luna, Migs, and Skylar ask about it. Elena, Mateo, and Gabe are captured and incarcerated, due to the Jaquins trusting Cruz and not them, despite Elena's pleas that it is her in a Jaquin form. However, when Elena proves to Mingo, Zoom, and Estrella it is her with their secret Guardian Salute, the cubs let them out, and they fly back to Commander's Rock to free Zephyr. Elena is able to remember the spell to open the cave just in time before being tackled by Cruz. Once free, Zephyr lunges at Cruz in fury, snarling "TRAITOR!!". Cruz attempts to escape, but Elena manages to tackle him out of the sky, allowing the other Jaquins to arrest him. Afterwards, Zephyr thanks Elena for her help, but suggests that she leave things to real Jaquins rather than try to do them herself as one. Back at the castle, though Gabe is frustrated with Elena for disobeying the order of her own Grand Council, he lets her off with a warning to report her next time she does it.
Soon after, the Scepter of Light reveals some hidden writing in the Codex Maru among the blank pages that Fiero stole, along with writing all over Mateo's lab. They reveal a dark counterpart to the Scepter of Light, the Scepter of Night, and how Alacazar hid it away in pieces, with riddles that lead to find them. Knowing that Shuriki, Fiero, and the Delgados are going after the pieces so Shuriki has something more powerful to even the playing field with the Scepter of Light, Elena makes it her, Mateo, and Gabe's intent to find the pieces before Shuriki does.
In the episode that follows, "The Scepter of Night", Elena has Naomi join her, Mateo, and Gabe, in Mateo's lab to learn about the Scepter and the first riddle that leads to the handle of the Scepter of Night. Deducing that it is hidden in one of the pyramids of the abandoned capital of Tepet Muul, with Gabe taking point because of his orders to protect Elena while Francisco, Luisa, and Esteban are away on a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Cordoba, the quartet set off on Migs, Luna, Skylar, and Dulce for Tepet Muul. Once there, Mateo breaks off from the group, convinced that if he can find the handle of the scepter first, having control of both the Scepter of Light and Scepter of Night would make Elena unstoppable against Shuriki, Fiero, and the Delgados, and make him as powerful of his grandfather Alacazar. Soon, he returns to them empty-handed, having picked the wrong pyramid, and gets reprimanded by them, before they spot the right one, only for them to run into Shuriki and her team at the summit, leading to a battle between Elena and Fiero. However, while Shuriki and Carla act as decoys to try and lure Elena and her friends away from the pyramid, Fiero and Victor slip inside to follow Mateo and Elena to the first piece while Gabe, Naomi, and the Jaquins wait outside. Elena manages to open the hidden chamber where the staff piece of the Scepter of Night was hidden, along with finding Alacazar's riddle to the next piece, only to be ambushed by Fiero and Victor, as Mateo led them right to it. After Mateo apologizes to Elena for his mistake, they are able to keep the piece from falling into Shuriki's hands, with Elena getting possession of it herself, but realize that Fiero and Victor know the riddle to the second piece's whereabouts. After Mateo makes amends with Gabe, Naomi, and the Jaquins for his mistakes, the eight friends huddle together to figure out the second piece's riddle and get to it before Shuriki does now that they know where she is heading next.
As Elena and her friends discuss where the Mount for the Scepter of Night is in the follow-up episode, "The Race for the Realm", Elena has a flashback of when she was cleaning up Isabel before hearing their parents returning to the palace, going out to welcome them home, only to bear witness as Shuriki appeared and prepared to strike them down. She recovers afterwards to where they learn the Mount is in Vallaestrella. An argument between Gabe, Naomi, and Mateo results in Elena having Mateo and Gabe take the Scepter of Night's Staff piece back to the palace to lock up in the Royal Treasury, flying off on Dulce and Migs, while Elena and Naomi go to Vallaestrella with Skylar and Luna to find the Mount. However, once there, Elena has another flashback, before they encounter the Flaringoes, who help Elena calm down from her fear, before leading her to where the Mount is. After convincing a Butterfrog into retrieving the Mount for them, Elena and Naomi learn from Skylar and Luna that the Jewel for the Scepter of Night lies on Vallaestrella's highest mountain peak, and set off for it.
They find the Jewel is concealed inside the rock face, but before they can try to get it out, Shuriki and Fiero arrive on Cruz and his sister Vestia. Seeing Shuriki triggers another flashback for Elena of the moment King Raul and Queen Lucia were struck down, and fueled with vengeance on her mind, Elena forgets about the Scepter of Night's Jewel to pursue Shuriki, leaving Naomi to fend for herself with Luna against Fiero and Vestia. Elena attempts to hit Shuriki and Cruz with the Scepter of Light, but Cruz is able to evade all the shots, resulting in Elena exhausting herself and falling off Skylar from fatigue. By the time they return to the mountain to save Naomi as she had fallen off the summit after being bested by Fiero, they find that Fiero and Shuriki have both the Mount and the Jewel, and Mateo, Gabe, Migs, and Dulce return to report that the Delgados caught them en route to the palace and retrieved the Staff, meaning Shuriki has all three pieces of the Scepter of Night now. As Elena mourns over the situation having become very bleak, Quita Moz arrives, having learned of what happened through the sacred fire, and tells Elena that in order for her to defeat Shuriki, she must learn all that she can with the Scepter of Light and its powers, offering to teach her them himself. Knowing that is her best option, Elena climbs aboard Quita Moz, and sets off to begin her training for the inevitable confrontation with her parents' murderer and her allies.
Some time later, in "A Tale of Two Scepters", Elena is about to leave to continue her training with Quita Moz and the Sun Bird Elders, but Isabel is deeply worried for her well-being, especially with Shuriki still out there. To that end, Isabel gives Elena her bracelet for good luck, and Elena departs for Vallaestrella with Skylar. Once there, they meet up with Quita Moz, and with Skylar joining them, Elena is flown by Quita Moz to the location of where the other Sun Bird Elders were located to begin her training with the Scepter of Light, while also being given details of the mutual conflict that has been long-standing between the Scepters of Light and Night, and how only one will survive the war between them. Elena begins her training, learning the Scepter's power of Farsight, along with how to maintain her Blaze spell through focus and concentration, but upon seeing Shuriki on the move with Cruz through Farsight, she abandons her training to return to Avalor to confront Shuriki again. At the same time, Shuriki had been trained in the use of the Scepter of Night's powerful Dark Fire spell, and upon being chased back to Avalor's Royal Palace, she uses the Dark Fire to engulf the tower Isabel was in, forcing Elena to save her little sister while Shuriki and Cruz escape. With Gabe unable to enter the tower, and Isabel completely unaware that she's in danger, Elena is reminded of the Blaze spell, and with Skylar and Zuzo's encouragement and reminder to maintain her focus and concentration, she is able to put out Shuriki's Dark Fire and save Isabel, very much impressing Gabe. After Isabel and Elena reunite, Elena shows Isabel the Farsight spell, and sees Shuriki and Fiero fleeing into the jungle on Cruz and Vestia. With knowing where they are going now, Elena decides to return to Vallaestrella to continue her training, with Isabel offering her full support and faith that Elena will complete her training and defeat Shuriki for good. With that, Isabel sees Elena off as she leaves on Skylar to return to her training with Quita Moz and the other Sun Birds.
Later on, in "Class Act", worried about Isabel starting her first weekly class with Professor Ochoa at the Science Academy, Elena escorts Isabel there to be shown around the Academy so she knows where Isabel will be while she attends, only for Isabel to soon run afoul of Javier, a student who likes to boast about himself and quickly gets on the bad side of Elena and Isabel with his insults. When Javier manages to sabotage Isabel's Mount Diablo Observatory project, causing Isabel to leave the Academy in shame, thinking she's not ready for it, Elena is able to encourage her little sister to come back and try again, where Isabel succeeds, and Javier ends up exposing himself as the one who ruined the original project, angering Elena, Isabel, Isabel's partner Tomiko, and Professor Ochoa, who suspends Javier until further notice.
Elena is later preparing for the All Kingdoms Fair, where various merchants from around the EverRealm can come to Avalor to sell their wares and goods. She soon tries to support Armando when he learns his brother and mother are coming from their farm to sell their dairy products, but once they do show up, Armando's brother angers Armando with his teasing and insults, causing Armando to break and smash things in his anger-induced state, only further proving his brother's point. Ashamed, he returns to his family's farm, but Elena arrives and convinces him to return to Avalor City to continue his duties, which he does in a much better mood, thanks to Elena restoring his self-confidence. His brother later apologizes for his behavior towards Armando after seeing all the dairy products their mother sold, and assists with selling more of them.
In the one hour Season 2 midseason finale special, "Song of the Sirenas", Elena is taking her family, alongside Gabe, Mateo, Naomi and her parents, to Nueva Vista to see their summer palace and visit her paternal first cousin, Duke Cristóbal in Nueva Vista. She has also been practicing the Scepter of Light's powers as she attempts to use its vanish spell, but only succeeds in making herself below her shoulders vanish. En route, Naomi's mother spots Sirenas in the water, those being the crown prince and princess of the Sirenas, Prince Marzel and Princess Marisa. When Naomi's parents open fire on them with their crossbows, Elena uses the Scepter of Light to destroy one of the crossbows, seeing their attack as unprovoked since the Sirenas had not shown any hostile intent, even after being told that Sirenas were known to crash ships by entrancing the sailors with their songs.
When Elena arrives in Nueva Vista, the Duke welcomes her and the rest of her family with open arms before learning of their encounter with the Sirenas and revealing that his father, Elena's late uncle, was the victim of one of their shipwrecks. Elena then learns that the Duke will be hosting a huge parade and celebration for her defeat of Shuriki, even when she reveals that Shuriki is still alive. However, Migs, Luna, and Skylar report to Elena that Shuriki and Fiero are on their way to Nueva Vista on Cruz and Vestia, so now Elena must be protected from Shuriki, no matter what, especially when out in the open during the parade. Later, Elena is entranced by Princess Marisa and brought down to where she could formally meet Marisa and her brother, Marzel. When Elena learns that they want to establish a new friendship between Sirenas and humans, or at least, Marisa does, Elena tries to help by bringing the Duke down to meet them, only to be in shock when the Duke has his royal guards attempt to capture Marzel and Marisa. This leaves Elena unable to sleep that night because of what happened.
The next day, as Elena prepares for the parade, Mateo, Naomi, Gabe, and the Jaquins ride on the float Elena will be on, only to be lured away when they spot the Delgados in the audience. Now alone, Elena is confused when the gondoliers driving the float turn it into a side channel, then run away before Elena finds herself face-to-face with Shuriki and Fiero. Elena tries to fight back with the Scepter of Light against Shuriki and the Scepter of Night, but when she tries to slip away via turning herself invisible with vanish, the necklace she was given by the Duke is still exposed, allowing Shuriki to disorient Elena, before blasting her into the water, leaving her behind to drown.
However, Marisa saves Elena by wrapping a magical seaweed around her torso. It was revealed that this seaweed could turn a human being into a Sirena, like how their father, King Pescoro, saved their mother, Queen Camila, but Marisa does it to avoid turning Elena into one, but allow her to breathe underwater, saving her life. Afterward, Elena goes with Marisa and Marzel to the Sirena Royal Castle to speak to Pescoro and Camila about brokering peace between humans and Sirenas and getting Pescoro's help against Shuriki. Still, Pescoro reveals that he and Camila nearly lost Marisa when she was younger to a pair of fishermen when they mistook her for a young human girl and not a Sirena. As a result, Pescoro still bears a heavy concern about trusting humans. Despite their best attempts, Elena and Marisa are unable to sway Pescoro's mind and return to Nueva Vista, only to find the Duke waiting with Elena's Scepter of Light, and revealing his true colors to be allied with Shuriki, wanting to bring Shuriki back into power in exchange for gold. He has Elena and Marisa locked up with the rest of the Royal Family (who were previously captured by Shuriki) but Naomi, Gabe, and Mateo bust them all out. With Nueva Vista no longer safe, Elena and her family attempt to escape on their ship, only to be pursued by Shuriki, the Duke, the Delgados, Fiero, Cruz, and Vestia. With their ship soon damaged and unable to make any headway after losing one of their mainmasts, Elena decides to confront Shuriki without her scepter, once again aiming to spare her family from the sorceress's wrath. Luckily, the Sirenas come to the rescue, crashing Shuriki's ship in order to protect Marisa, and returning the scepter to Elena. Whilst the rest of the royal family is harbored to safety, Elena and her friends battle against Shuriki and her minions to stop them from escaping. In the end, Fiero is turned to stone, Cristobal is captured, and the Delgados escape once again.
Shuriki disorients Skylar, causing him to crash, but Elena wounds Cruz, causing him to leave. However, this is not before Shuriki blasts and disables Elena's scepter with her inferno spell. The evil sorceress manages to corner Elena near the top of the tower, threatening to end Elena's life as well as that of the rest of her family. Shuriki fires her destructive magic at Elena, but fortunately, the princess masters her vanish spell, reappearing behind Shuriki after avoiding the attack. Before Shuriki can retaliate, Elena uses the scepter's sustained blaze spell to blast Shuriki point-blank, killing her parents' murderer once and for all. The attack leaves Elena exhausted, too much so to capture Cruz, but she is soon comforted by Skylar, who informs her of her victory. Elena's exhaustion turns to relief as she realizes that the nightmare is over and that her parents and kingdom have been delivered justice.
Shortly afterward, she reunites with Isabel, Esteban, Francisco, and Luisa, and when the Duke is brought before her, angered by his betrayal of his family and Avalor, Elena has the Duke incarcerated for his treason. Afterward, she meets with King Pescoro and his family and declares a newfound friendship and alliance between humans and Sirenas, as Elena could not have defeated Shuriki without the Sirenas' assistance.
Unfortunately, some are still are not willing to accept the new friendship between Elena and Pescoro, as shown in the following episode, "The Tides of Change." Among them is Naomi, who harbors a deep grudge against the Sirenas for sinking the ship her grandfather was on, and Pescoro's Captain of the Guard, Daria. While Elena is planning the location for the treaty signing with Prince Marzel and Princess Marisa, Daria secretly plans to ruin the ceremony by hiring the dangerous malandros to disrupt it and convince both sides to resume hostility, while Naomi continues to show hostility to Marzel and Marisa, much to Elena's concern with her behavior.
When the ceremony is disrupted by one of the malandros, disguised as a Sirena, Pescoro is convinced to take Camila, Marzel, and Marisa and return home to Coronado, only to be captured by the malandros, much to Daria's horror at having been tricked by the malicious shape-shifting dolphins. Elena is on her way back to Nueva Vista, upset about the treaty signing being ruined, when Marisa jumps onto her ship to report that her family is in trouble. Elena is ready to help, but Naomi is still unwilling, forcing Elena to ask her why she is treating the Sirenas with anger and hatred, and Naomi explains what happened to her grandfather. Despite reminding her of the Sirenas helping them defeat Shuriki, Elena cannot get Naomi's support to aid them as she's still bitter about her grandfather's death by their fins but does gain Gabe and Mateo's support to aid Marisa. As they head back down to Coronado, Elena rescues Daria, who confesses to being responsible for the malandros taking over Coronado, and Elena forgives her, but with the coral alarms that drive the malandros away destroyed, Elena attempts to grow them back sooner with the Bloom spell from the Scepter of Light. However, despite the malandros disarming Gabe and Mateo and then going after Elena next, managing to disarm her of the Scepter of Light, they are too late to stop Elena from restoring the coral alarms, and once the alarms start ringing again, the noise is unbearable for the malandros to endure, and they are forced to retreat, swearing their war with the Sirenas is not over as they withdraw, saving Coronado.
Thanks to Elena, Naomi realizes she was wrong to let her grudge against the Sirenas cloud her judgment and agrees to the treaty signing and forgive them for what happened to her grandfather. Once the treaty is signed, everyone celebrates the newfound alliance between Elena and Pescoro.
One week following both Shuriki's death and the Sirena-human alliance in "Two Left Fins", Elena is holding a summit in Nueva Vista for the other kings and suggests that King Pescoro attend as well to prove to the other kings that the Sirenas are allies now and no longer need to be feared as they were in the past. However, after she and Marzel rescue Pescoro from a sunken shipwreck, it is discovered that Pescoro has sprained his tail and is unable to make the summit while Marisa takes care of him. However, he agrees to have Marzel attend in his stead. When Joaquin, Raja, and Lars arrive, while they are initially frightened when Elena introduces Marzel and says he's a Sirena, they agree to give Marzel a chance. After Marzel has a hard time enjoying the other kings' favorite activities, he agrees to take them underwater to meet Pescoro and see his home of Coronado. Unfortunately, he decides to take the kings through the forbidden Milagras Garden, causing them to be accidentally turned into Sirenas themselves when they get the Maligras tangled around their legs. Elena and Marzel take them to Pescoro and Marisa, and Marisa reveals there is a way to reverse the transformation before it becomes permanent, but the flower needed to reverse the transformation is on an island some distance from Coronado and Nueva Vista. With Coco's help, they make it to the island, but Elena sprains her ankle climbing the cliff to reach the flowers, leaving it up to Marzel to do it. Despite his anxiety, knowing that he has to do it to revert the kings back to their human selves, he is able to make it up, retrieve the flowers, and get them back down to the kings in time for them to eat them and revert back to normal. Elena and Marzel then take them back to show Pescoro and Marisa that they succeeded, and Marzel is allowed to spend some time with the kings and Elena on land, despite not having fully adapted to his human legs yet.
In the episode "The Return of El Capitan," Elena later celebrates Dia de Los Muertos in Nueva Vista and meets the spirits of her grandfather's old friends who were lost at sea due to his own fault. Elena aids her grandfather with retrieving the shield he had sought with his friends, fighting off the enemy who also sought it, and being made an honorary member of Francisco's group, earning the nickname "La Magica" from him.
Later on, in "Finding Zuzo", Elena gets into an argument with Naomi regarding the fate of the Nueva Vista Harbor Lighthouse, built personally by King Raul when Elena was younger. Elena wants to make it taller for the ships further out to sea, but Naomi suggests dismantling it instead. Unable to compromise, Elena storms off in a huff, and unintentionally takes her anger out on Gabe when he asks to send out patrols to look for the Delgados, as they were still at large. Elena allows it, but storms off again when Gabe seems to agree with Naomi's idea to dismantle the lighthouse, much to her chagrin. Later on, she speaks to Zuzo, but when an emergency back home forces him to leave, when he doesn't return after some time, Elena has Mateo summon the sloth chanul, Cacahuate, to take her to the Spirit World to find Zuzo. She soon learns from the other spirit animals that Zuzo had a moth problem, and Elena realizes it must have been Orizaba, the Moth Fairy, whom she defeated previously with the Scepter of Light, banishing her back to the Spirit World, and destroying the Eye of Midnight as well, and Orizaba must be seeking revenge on her. After learning that trying to reach Orizaba on the dark side of the tree the Spirit Animals live in is too dangerous without knowing the safe path, Elena and Cacahuate go to speak to Bobo and get his help to save Zuzo. However, as they make their way to Orizaba's lair, Cacahuate and Bobo get into heated arguments about past events, at one point forcing Elena to step in and reprimand them for their quarreling.
When they find Orizaba and Zuzo, Cacahuate and Bobo reveal Elena to Orizaba by accident because of their fighting, resulting in Elena being captured as she tried to save Zuzo. Realizing their mistake and feeling guilty and remorseful for putting Elena in danger, Cacahuate and Bobo work together to save Elena and Zuzo. Afterward, Elena thanks them for their help and teamwork and returns to Nueva Vista with Zuzo. Learning from what happened with Cacahuate and Bobo, Elena finds Naomi, and after they both apologize to each other for their own argument earlier, they agree to have the lighthouse moved to a higher cliff, so it satisfies both their ideas for it.
Back in Avalor City, in "Snow Place Like Home", Elena is preparing for Navidad, especially considering the hectic year she's had regarding Shuriki and her crew, especially with the Delgados still out there with Cruz and Vestia, when Isabel, Francisco, and Luisa depart to take Christina her gifts. In the meantime, Gabe caught up to the Delgados and their Jaquin allies, but Victor conjures a blizzard to keep them off their trail, resulting in Elena and Esteban being left snowbound in Avalor Palace with Naomi, Mateo, and Luna. Elena tries to help keep her friends and family in good spirits, but her attempts to do so fail, leading to her friends arguing, and then pin the blame on her, causing her to walk away heartbroken, especially after Mateo failed to clear the blizzard and made it worse as he botched the spell to disperse it. However, realizing their mistakes, Esteban, Mateo, Naomi, and Luna are able to make it up to Elena, and Mateo is able to see where he messed up and cast the spell again, succeeding in clearing the blizzard this time. Isabel and her grandparents return, and joined by Rafa and Naomi's parents, they celebrate Navidad together.
In “Not Without My Magic,” the damage from Shuriki’s scepter has rendered Elena’s scepter ineffective, as she is unable to use any of its powers, including that to allow her to track down Victor, Carla, Cruz, and Vestia. Believing that her scepter was the only reason she could defeat Shuriki, and fearing what Shuriki’s escaped minions could do whilst she is vulnerable, she and Skylar head to Vaestrella to have it inspected by Quita Moz and the other sunbirds. Elena is given a crystal tamborita to substitute for her magic, but is advised to not use it until being trained by her royal wizard. However, when a fire imp is set loose in the jaquins' realm, Elena attempts to use her tamborita to capture it, only to cause more problems. Skylar eventually convinces Elena that she is more than just her magic, and with the help of a redeemed Cruz and Vestia, they are able to save the realm. Later that day, Elena returns the imprisoned fire imp to Quita Moz, who gets a message from the flames about Elena's big test to become Queen. Still believing that facing Shuriki was the test she must past, Elena jokingly asks if they are impressed, only to be shocked to learn from the sunbird that killing Shuriki was not Elena’s test to become Queen, and that the darkness coming for her is bigger than Shuriki. Elena resolves to face this darkness and pass her great test, with or without her magic.
In the Season 2 finale, "Naomi Knows Best", Elena, Esteban, and Naomi head to King Joaquín's kingdom under the false pretense he had captured the Delgados himself and wanted Elena to come to extradite them back to Avalor. However, it's revealed to be an ambush set up by the Delgados themselves, who have reunited with their long lost matriarch, Ash. The malvagos reveal that they have the stolen jewel from Shuriki's scepter that survived Elena's purge in Nueva Vista, and intend to use it to drain the magic Elena absorbed from being trapped in the Amulet of Avalor, killing Elena and empowering the three of them to conquer Avalor for themselves.
However, thanks to Naomi's quick thinking, Ash's plan is foiled; The disembodied jewel from the Scepter of Night is destroyed by Mateo, Elena is freed. Ash and Carla escape, leaving Victor to be captured and sent to Avalor for his crimes. As Elena and her friends return home, they soon deduct that the great threat to the kingdom that they must defeat is not Shuriki, but Ash, and they vow to defeat her and bring peace to Avalor once and for all.
Season 3[]
Elena finds that a lot is changing around Avalor during the final years of her rule as Crown Princess. In "Sister of Invention" Isabel graduates her class and is permitted to join Elena's team after Isabel saves Elena's life while pursuing Ash and Carla. In "To Save a Sunbird," Elena's scepter is finally repaired, however she discovers that Hool has used a dangerous amount of her life-force to fix it. To save her, Elena brings her to the Pool of Aziluna, where Princess Sofia freed her from the Amulet three years ago. Although she almost drowns, she is able to bring Hool the breath of life to revive her. Additionally, she successfully captures Carla and stops her from freeing Victor, leaving Ash as the only Delgado at large. When Zephyr retires in "Father-in-Chief," Migs is dubbed the new Chief of the Avalor Jaquin Clan, and with Elena's help, is able to defeat the jaquins' enemy Troyo once again, this time turning him into a butterfrog.
Elena also has to contend with King Hector again in "The Incredible Shrinking Royals", when he is invited to the Feast of Friendship by Dona Paloma and Esteban, and in "Norberg Peace Prize", when he threatens to ruin the Family Day celebrations in a neighboring kingdom due to its queen damaging his ship.
In "The Magic Within", on the eve of Carnaval, Elena continues her hunt for Ash, and discovers that she has found Takaina, the source of all Maruvian magic, including the Scepter of Night and the Amulet of Avalor. Realizing the danger that Avalor and the whole world could be in, Elena and Mateo go after Ash. The fight that ensues winds up with Elena falling into the well, enhancing and transforming her amulet-based abilities. With her upgraded scepter-durability, Ash is captured alongside the rest of her family, and the realm is secured, just in time for Elena to celebrate Carnaval with her family. As the day progresses, Elena discovers many new magical abilities, including her truthvision spell and her emotion-based magic, which brings to life a Carnaval float named "Flo."
That night, the royal family enjoys dinner, still excited over Carnaval. Elena's grandmother reminisces over her parents' love for Carnaval. Although the Princess is happy, she is later saddened, remembering that her parents were working on the float the day Shuriki arrived. When asked by Flo about Shuriki, Elena explains the story of how she lost her parents at the hands of the evil sorceress, resulting in her not seeing the Carnaval float. Elena's nostalgia turns to curiosity when Isabel reminds the family that Esteban went with Elena's parents to work on the float. Esteban's constant deflections and outburst target suspicion from Elena, and she casts a spell with her scepter to reveal the whereabouts of Esteban on that fateful day.
The scepter manifests a vision 44 years into the past, showing a teenage Esteban and Victor Delgado harboring what appears to be a stranger into Avalor, revealing the location of Elena's parents and preparing to lead the stranger through the city and to the palace. To Elena's horror, that stranger is revealed to be none other than Shuriki of the Northern Islands, bent on taking over the kingdom with Victor and Esteban's help. Elena soon realizes that Victor had indeed told the truth about Esteban 2 years ago; Esteban helped Shuriki invade Avalor and kill the King and Queen.
Infuriated, she has Esteban locked up, with her emotion magic making a mess at the dinner scene. The next day, he is brought before the Grand Council to answer for his treason. Elena hears out Esteban's defense as he claims his betrayal was a result of feeling inferior to Elena, and that Shuriki had broken her promise not to hurt anyone. Fransisco forgives Esteban, whilst Naomi and Luisa don't. Elena, having considered Esteban a brother in their youth, condemns him, claiming she never knew the real him. Not wanting to subject him to permanent imprisonment like the Delgados, Elena and the majority of the Grand Council votes to banish Esteban from Avalor, keeping him incarcerated until the holiday is over.
At the Carnaval parade, Elena is uneasy with the recent events, but begins the parade anyways. However, she soon discovers that Esteban and the Delgados escaped after the former had stolen a key he kept away as a failsafe during Shuriki's rule. Elena's fury causes the floats to come to life, causing chaos in Avalor and endangering her family. Whilst Mateo and Gabe go after the escapees, Elena sings her mother's song to spread the emotion of love and calm the floats down, saving her family and people. She soon returns to the mountain to go after the criminals and discovers that Esteban escaped with Ash, leaving behind a petrified Victor and Carla. Upon learning that Ash petrified Victor and abandoned him and Carla, Elena empathizes with the young malvago, knowing how it feels to be wrong about family, before arresting her and her father and continuing with the Carnaval parade. With the reveal of Esteban's secret betrayal, as well as him and Ash being on the loose, the Flores family is torn apart and Elena must ensure that they can't put Avalor in danger with their future plans.
In "Captain Mateo", Elena decides to replace Gabe as Captain of the Royal Guard with Mateo in order to be better able to fight Ash and Esteban, but following a confrontation with them in Tepet Muul at the Well of Crystals, Elena decides to reinstate Gabe as Captain with Mateo as his Lieutenant to better train the Royal Guards against magical attacks, especially with Esteban having become a sorcerer after falling in the Well of Crystals.
It is soon the Day of the Dead again in "Flower of Light", where Elena explains her ability to see the ghosts of the deceased on Día de los Muertos to Isabel, before Elena reunites with Felicia, her childhood friend, and then learning of a spirit by the name of Guillermo trying to ruin the festivities. Pursuing him and a rouge chanul by the name of Sanza to the Spirit World with Felicia and Zuzo, Elena is relieved when Guillermo is nabbed by King Raul and Queen Lucia, but Felicia is duped by Sanza into using a special sand to close La Flor de Luz, the portal between the Human and Spirit Worlds opened by joy. However, Felicia reopens the portal by dancing, making everyone happy, and Sanza is apprehended. Afterwards, upon returning to Avalor, Elena erects an altar for Guillermo to make him happy and resumes the celebration of Día de los Muertos.
In "Sugar Rush", Elena is preparing with Isabel for a visit by King Joaquín and Princess Caterina when Luisa wants to reopen the family chocolate shop. As a result, when Luisa has to leave to get hazelnuts, Elena's anxiety causes her magic to get into the chocolate and causes trouble with the visiting royals. When Elena discovers that Luisa closed the shop because family was the reason she keeps it open, feeling remorseful, Elena and Isabel apologize to their grandmother and help her make chocolate that reverses the effects of Elena's magic and allow Elena to take a break from her royal duties with Luisa while Isabel and Caterina work on the Hydro-Gandola. During this time, Elena now is entrusted with Esteban's former duties as Chancellor since he had been terminated from his position after learning the truth of his involvement with Shuriki during her original takeover.
In "Dreamcatcher," Elena's dreams begin magically coming to life as a result of her emotion magic, as the palace is run amok with peabunny noblins and a tocan squirrel that steals Queen Lucia's tiara in the princess' dreams. At the same time, Elena refuses to talk about Esteban, believing that the anger of his betrayal will cause her new emotion magic to go haywire. In one of Elena's dreams, aided by Zuzo, she attempts to catch the creature, only for him to destroy the tiara and transform into Esteban. Zuzo deducts that Elena's dreams are a manifestation towards her emotions surrounding Esteban being an accessory to her parents' loss. Elena initially refuses to acknowledge this, but after accidentally summoning him back with his magic, she finally confronts her feelings on the matter, letting Esteban know how distraught she is over what he did to their family. Esteban's apologies fall upon deaf ears as Elena disowns him, finally letting her emotions go and sending him back. The palace is brought back to normal, and Elena is finally ready to talk about her cousin. Meanwhile, Elena's disownment of Esteban results in the former Chancellor turning over to the dark side, as he is now ready to continue his training with Ash and Zopilote to master his new powers and help them take over Avalor.
In "The Changing of the Guard," Elena agrees with Gabe to bolster the Royal Guard with fresh recruits to deal with pirate problems in Avalor Harbor and assists Antonia Bello, the Royal Seamstress, in her attempt to become the first woman in the Avaloran Royal Guard.
In "Spirit of a Wizard", Elena and Mateo contact Sofia in Enchancia and ask that she send The Lost Princess of Avalor back to them so Mateo can reunite with his grandfather and work to hunt down Ash and Esteban. Sofia agrees to send the book back home to Avalor, and Elena sees Alacazar for the first time in 44 years, thanking him for what he has done to protect her and her family from Shuriki's purge. However, due to the age of the book, Alacazar is at risk of dying and heading to the Spirit World. Mateo is able to save his grandfather, but Alacazar later sacrifices himself to protect Mateo from Ash, Esteban, and Zopilote, allowing Elena and Mateo a chance to recover Elena's scepter from them, while the villains escape to plan their next move.
In "Team Isa", Elena ends up being entranced alongside Naomi, Gabe, and Mateo by a guitar-playing thief named Tito to rob the Royal Treasury, leaving it up to Isabel and her classmates to set up a plan that Isabel thinks of on her own, instead of one inspired by Elena, which results in Tito's guitar being broken, freeing Elena and the others, and Tito being captured. However, when Francisco and Luisa return, Francisco takes Tito's guitar to mend it, much to Elena and Isabel's horror.
In "The Last Laugh", Naomi runs into an old friend of hers, Veronica, whom she hasn't seen in six years, just after helping Elena deal with all the backed-up paperwork left over from when Esteban was Chancellor before he was removed from the position due to his treason. After Naomi departs with Veronica to dig up their old time capsule, they are soon joined by Elena and Mateo, where Mateo unintentionally releases Chatana, who then uses one of her Laughing Goblins to subdue Elena and Mateo, forcing Elena to have Skylar fetch Naomi for help. After Naomi arrives and frees them, Elena is furious with Naomi and goes after the Laughing Goblin herself, alone. However, it is only when Naomi returns that the goblin is captured and re-imprisoned. This causes Naomi to miss saying goodbye to Veronica, as her ship had already departed the harbor. Deciding to fulfill her dream, Naomi tells Elena she is resigning from the Grand Council. Elena, having forgiven Naomi and realizing her own error, accepts Naomi's decision and provides a ship for her to depart on to fulfill her dream, and Naomi leaves Avalor to see where the wind and sea will take her.
In "Festival of Lights", Elena helps rescue the royal family of the Kingdom of Galonia —Princess Rebecca, Prince Ari, and their grandmother, Miriam, AKA "Bubbie", after their ship is damaged and forced to be abandoned. When the rescued Rebecca explain they were on their way home to celebrate Hanukkah, Elena and her family agree to help them celebrate it in Avalor until they have a means to return home. This allows Elena and her family to learn about Hanukkah and celebrate it with the Galonia Royal Family so they can celebrate it in the future with Navidad.
When Naomi later returns from her journey overseas to warn Elena of the new threat Ash and Esteban pose with recruiting powerful magical allies to their group, in "Giant Steps", Elena and Naomi go with Gabe and Mateo to Vallestrella to stop Ash, but are forced to deal with Kizin, where a trap Elena set for him fails due to Naomi wanting to go after Tziloco, and Elena breaks her arm in the process. Scolding Naomi for putting her own needs above that of Avalor, Elena convinces her to make amends, and together, the two of them work with Mateo, Gabe, and the Jaquins to capture Kizin. Back in Avalor, Naomi decides to stay, and Elena happily welcomes her back.
However, Elena's injury to her arm from dealing with Kizin due to Naomi's good intentions would linger for some time, leaving her partially incapacitated until she fully recovered. However, this doesn't stop her from helping Isabel and Tomiko in "Shooting Stars", fix the observatory telescope in so Francisco can see a rare comet, despite Elena having a moment of self-doubt when things don't work out initially with the repairs and causes her magic to go haywire again.
In "Crash Course", later, under concern of Ash and Esteban and the threat they now pose with their magic, under suggestion of an idea Gabe thought of, Elena asks Mateo to train the best of the Royal Guards to use magic so they are better prepared to face Ash and Esteban when they make their move. However, due to Mateo's spare tamboritas being destroyed previously, Elena goes with Naomi and Doña Paloma to retrieve the part Mateo needs to make more. When they find it, Paloma grabs the whole bush instead of one branch at a time, causing a storm to be summoned. When Elena chews her out for it, Paloma confesses to wanting to be the new Chancellor of Avalor after learning of Esteban being stripped of the position after Elena discovered his original alliance with Shuriki when she first took over and disowned him for it. After helping replant the bush and ending the storm, Naomi grabs a branch, and the three return to Avalor, arriving just after Mateo had fixed a mistake Gabe and the Guardsmen had made before Elena and Naomi could see it.
In "Sweethearts Day", Elena helps Armando with trying to win the heart of his crush, Marlena, but his singing is terrible. When an attempt to help him sing better magically backfires and causes everyone else to sing nonstop, Armando and Mateo work together to break the spell, as the counter-potion Mateo whips up only works when Armando sings from his heart, which he does successfully. As a result, Marlena asks Armando to be her sweetheart for the celebration and he accepts.
Not long afterward in "The Lightning Warrior", Elena is visited by Quita Moz, having come from Vallestrella, to task Elena with freeing the ancient Maruvian Ixlan the Lightning Warrior to aid her against Ash Delgado and Esteban. However, Elena learns she needs the support of a Malvago dark wizard to do it, and finds herself needing aid from Victor and Carla Delgado. Initially, Elena refuses to accept them after years of deception and endangerment, especially with the knowledge of Victor having helped Shuriki take over Avalor alongside Esteban, but finds there is no other choice. After Victor is restored to flesh and blood following his year-long petrification, Elena recruits their help in freeing Ixlan in exchange for exile on Soledad Island.
Despite the distrust between the Crown Princess and the Delgados, Victor and Carla agree to help, but once they reach the location where Ixlan is, after freeing her, they are swallowed whole by the guardian of the island, the Moyacu. When Elena still remains wary and distrustful of the Delgados and doesn't let them use their tamboritas to help them escape, Victor tries to have the Moyacu sneeze but only frees himself. When Carla reprimands Elena for getting them into this mess, blaming her for their predicament, Elena confesses to her distrust of them before being reminded of what Quita Moz told her by Naomi about trust, even with former enemies. Realizing the truth to Quita Moz's words, Elena puts her distrust of the Delgados aside and gives them their tamboritas, allowing everyone to escape the Moyacu. Quita Moz gives Ixlan her gloves, and Elena is ready to exile Victor and Carla. Seeing how badly the Delgados' lust for power permanently destroyed their familia, and taking responsibility and accountability for the threat that she and Esteban pose to Avalor, Victor and Carla refuse exile and instead offer to stay in Avalor to learn good magic and defend against Ash. Although Elena is surprised by this, she soon forgives the malvagos and accepts their offer.In due time, Elena's arm fully heals from her earlier injury, and she's able to finally have the cast removed, as she reconciles with her childhood best friend and accepts him and his daughter amongst their team, ready to defend Avalor.
In "Día De Las Madres", Elena, Isabel, and Francisco perform a song for Luisa for Día de las Madres and uses her her scepter's truthvision ability to show Luisa her favorite Mother's Day memory. During that Mother's Day, Isabel was just a baby, and the family was in La Vida Dulce. A young Elena shows up with her cousin, Esteban, which confuses Elena. Luisa says that this was the year Esteban lost his parents. Elena had an incredibly close relationship with his cousin Esteban, having a chocolate fight with the former and entertaining the latter with funny faces. Elena remembers Esteban saying that he felt like he had no place in the family when his betrayal was revealed, which she doesn't understand as she believes the memories show that he was part of the family. However, they begin to understand when they see the part where the family gave the children boxes of chocolates to give to their mothers, and Esteban felt left out because he no longer had a mother to celebrate with, to his grandmother's concern. Elena had no idea how her cousin felt. Elena and her grandparents saw next the part where Luisa showed Esteban the family's grove of cacao trees, which she planted for special occasions, and she asked her grandson to help plant one for a new special occasion: Esteban coming to live with the family in the palace. When Elena's scepter shows the part where the family portrait was painted, they find that Esteban wasn't there much to their confusion because they remember him being in the portrait with them. But when they see the actual portrait, they find that he's not in the portrait at all, which makes Luisa feel like she didn't fulfill her goal as a mother to him. Elena feels awful that she showed this Mother's Day, and Francisco says it's time to look into the future, so the family goes off to La Vida Dulce to make chocolates.
However, when Elena and her grandparents get to the shop, she finds a few more cacao trees, and she tells her grandmother that she always believed that's where they got their cacao beans. Luisa says that they've always gotten their cacao beans from the family grove, and she doesn't remember ever planting trees outside La Vida Dulce. Thanks to the Scepter of Light, they discover that Esteban planted those trees to honor his mother and grandmother. Just as the family is about to start making chocolate, the kids seen in the memories arrive, all grown up, and they give Luisa thanks for her chocolate and being a mother to them.
The revelation of all this makes Elena and Luisa become more sympathetic towards Esteban despite their initial disownment of him, and near the end of the episode, Elena calls him "cousin esteban" with a smile on her face.
Soon enough, during "Heart of the Jaguar", Elena is summoned to Quita Moz's lair in Vallestrella with Isabel. Upon meeting him, Quita Moz tells Elena her test to become Queen is upon her, but also had been shown a vision of Isabel, as the younger Princess of Avalor and heir to the throne after Elena, sitting on the throne, meaning a bad omen for Elena. Isabel is concerned about this, so Quita Moz sends her and Elena to retrieve the Heart of the Jaguar to help Isabel overcome her fear. However, when Elena is turned into a baby Jaquin by one of the obstacles they encounter while navigating the maze to get the Crown Jewel needed to trade for the Heart, while this helps Isabel get the Crown Jewel, the Jaguar King refuses to trade it for restoring Elena to her normal self and traps Isabel in her own Exergroomer. However, once Isabel escapes with the aid of Peaches and Paco, the Jaguar King is impressed by Isabel's newfound courage and agrees to the trade, restoring Elena to normal. Returning to Quita Moz, he reveals that the Heart of the Jaguar was the courage inside Isabel all along, and she just needed to believe in herself.
In "Elena's Day Off", Elena rushes to prepare to deal with both the coronation and Ash's group at the same time. Isabel and Naomi try to figure something out, and they had the Grand Council give Elena a mandatory day off and Doña Paloma takes over as party planner. Naomi, Isabel, and Ixlan take Elena along on a girl's day. Unfortunately for them, Elena quickly proves to be a workaholic who doesn't even know how to relax for even a second. Because of this, she keeps sneaking off to make checks on everyone's coronation preparations. As such, Naomi, Isabel, and Ixlan have to keep dragging her back. Elena even has Mingo bring her her scepter so she can use its Farsight power to check on Doña Paloma's work by bribing him with Anoki Berry s'mores. When she's caught doing this, her good and fed up friends and sister drag her away for a mud bath. Unfortunately, Naomi makes a comment about Doña Paloma accidentally offending King Toshi with a showy napkin fold. This makes Elena go crazy and get so worked up that she takes off back to Avalor Palace.
Ixlan, Naomi, and Isabel give chase. Elena's anxiety causes her emotion magic to activate and send everyone spinning. Elena calms down enough to get them down. Elena then continues to head back to the Palace. Along the way, she makes a huge mess. When Elena meets Doña Paloma, Paloma reveals Elena had nothing to worry about. Elena apologizes to her sister and friends for not letting them help her and reveals that she wants to get used to dealing with everything herself as she won't have the Grand Council to help her anymore once she's Queen of Avalor. Elena fixes the mess and then gives Doña Paloma the day off.
However, in "To Queen or Not to Queen", with her 20th birthday and coronation as Queen on the horizon, Elena begins to question what Avalor would be like if she wasn't in power and becoming Queen. Zuzo helps her by casting a spell that causes Elena to fall asleep and find herself in an Avalor ruled by the iron fist of Esteban and Dona Paloma. After trying to stand up to them, she's thrown into the dungeon. After being rescued by Naomi, Gabe, and Mateo, Elena rallies the people of Avalor into open revolt to overthrown Esteban. Once it's over, Elena wakes up, thanks Zuzo, and he wishes her a Happy Birthday.
In the series finale, "Coronation Day", Elena's coronation as Queen has come, but she soon learns of trouble as Ash and Esteban plan to unleash the Shadows of the Night to aid them in conquering Avalor. During an attempt to get revenge on Esteban for his betrayal, Elena ends up being sent to the Spirit World with Ash, where Elena reunites with King Raul and Queen Lucia, all of whom find themselves facing Ash and her allies, such as Orizaba, Zopilote, and Troyo in an Olaball game that is watched by many spirits, including Shuriki and Alacazar. During the match, King Raul reveals to Elena it was his fault Shuriki conquered Avalor. He tells her that he stopped Shuriki from taking over Avalor's allies, but he never thought she would turn her attention to conquering Avalor in revenge. Esteban tried to convince him that Shuriki would attack Avalor as revenge but he didn't listen to him, which is what caused Esteban to side with Shuriki in the first place. Raul and Lucia also reveal that they knew Esteban helped Shuriki, but aren't mad at him for what he did and have forgiven him. This revelation hits Elena gives her closure, and makes her realize that she shouldn't have tried getting revenge upon Esteban. Lucia tells Elena that she and Raul will always be in her heart, but being angry and taking revenge on Esteban for having an inadvertent part in their deaths won't bring them back to life and will only lead to her making bad decisions.
In the end, though Ash wins, she is imprisoned in the Spirit World while Elena is returned to Avalor, as Elena figured out the meaning behind the Grand Macaw's words regarding the outcome of the Olaball match, and deliberately lost so she would be returned home while Ash remained imprisoned so she wouldn't threaten Avalor again. By this point, Isabel had rallied many of Avalor's allies in the Jaquins, Sirenas, Royal Guard, and more to defend Avalor in Elena's absence, but the Shadows of the Night, now known as the Four Shades of Awesome are still able to cause much havoc before the three males are sent back to the Spirit World, leaving only Cahu the Time Shade, the sole female and most dangerous of them to face Elena. When Cahu tries to turn Elena to stone as she had done to her Grandparents, Gabe, Mateo, Armando, and many other victims, though Elena has Naomi get Isabel to safety beforehand, Esteban, despite being disowned by Elena for his crimes, sacrifices himself to take a hit meant for her, his last words as he is petrified being sorry for everything he's done against her. Devastated at Esteban's noble sacrifice for her, Elena becomes so heartbroken and devastated that she finally forgives Esteban.
This causes her magic to activate and restore Esteban to flesh and blood thanks to a new emotion she unlocked with her magic: Forgiveness. Overjoyed to see him alive again, Elena works with her cousin to destroy Cahu's hourglass that is the source of her power and banish her back to the Spirit World to join the other Shades, while Elena's magic undoes all their damage to Avalor, restoring everyone that was affected by their magic back to normal. With Esteban forgiven and restored to his place in the Royal Family, Quita Moz tells Elena she has passed her test, which was forgiving Esteban, and is ready to be Queen. Many of Elena's friends, family, and allies are in attendance at the coronation, including the Sun Birds, Marisa and Marzel, the Jaquins, Armando, Naomi, Gabe, Mateo, Rafa, and more.
Just as Elena is about to be crowned Queen, a fanfare is announced, and just in time to celebrate Elena's achievement, to her own joy, is the Royal Family of Enchancia, who helped her reclaim the throne from Shuriki four years ago, with Sofia, Amber, and James having aged into teenagers. With Sofia, Amber, James, Roland, and Miranda the last guests to arrive, Elena is crowned Queen of Avalor, and after naming Naomi her new Chancellor with Esteban and Dona Paloma's support, Gabe the General of the Royal Guard, Mateo the Master Wizard, and Isabel her heir, the new Crown Princess, and Royal Inventor, Elena celebrates her first dance as Queen, dancing with Sofia at one point before striking a triumphant pose in front of the throne with her friends and family as a new era of peace begins in Avalor under Queen Elena.
Quotes[]
| “ | They say every story has a beginning... except mine. My story has two. That's me: Princess Elena of Avalor on my fifteenth birthday. My parents gave me a special gift, that day; a magical amulet they said would always protect me from harm. I didn't think I ever need it. But one fateful day, an evil power-hungry sorceress named, "Shuriki" invaded Avalor. She attacked my parents, then came after the rest of us. Our royal wizard, Alacazar knew a spell that could protect my little sister and grandparents in an enchanted painting, but he needed time to cast it. So I decided to face Shuriki on my own! Shuriki tried to strike me down, but the amulet saved my life... by pulling me inside it! Alacazar found the amulet and summoned the spirit animal Zuzo, who sent him on a journey to free me. It took a little longer than I've hoped; 41 years. But one magical day, I was FREED from the amulet! It was FINALLY my time to take back my kingdom! I rescued my grandparents and sister Isabel from the enchanted painting, and with the help of the brave people of Avalor, I defeated the wicked Sorceress. Avalor was free once more. And... as heir to the throne, I was gonna be the new ruler! [giggles] So, as it turned out, my adventure wasn't over, it was just beginning. Again. | „ |
| ~ Elena's narration on the series premire. |
| “ | Mama! Papa! | „ |
| ~ Elena before her parents were murdered by Shuriki in Sofia's daydream. |
| “ | (laughing) I'm free! I'm finally free! Whoa! (Sofia: Are you okay?) I'm good. (laughs) I'm good. I guess that's what happens when you're stuck inside an amulet for 41 years. You forget how to walk. (screams in excitement) I KNEW YOU WERE THE ONE!!! THANK YOU! (Sofia: (choking) You're... welcome!) | „ |
| ~ Elena after she was freed from the Amulet by Sofia. |
| “ | I was in the amulet so long, I thought I might never get out, but here I am. | „ |
| ~ Elena to Mateo after she was freed from Sofia's amulet, before singing "My Time". |
| “ | It feels so weird having my feet on the ground. It's been a while since I've been walking around. With my own eyes, I can once again see. My dream has come true — I am free! But now that I'm here, there's a mission at hand: To drive that witch out of our beautiful land. I'll banish the darkness and bring back the light 'Cuz this time I'm ready to fight! This is my time, my time to face my old foe. My time, reclaim what was ours long ago. This is my time to stand up with honor and pride. My time, I've come too far to be denied. Now off I must fly to the palace once more. To win back the freedom of all Avalor. I've spent my whole life waiting just for this day. And nothing will get in my way. This is my time, I have a plan that can't fail. My time, I won't stop 'til I prevail. My time, to honor my family and friends. My time, this is my time once again! This is my time... Once again!! | „ |
| ~ Elena on her way back to Avalor to liberate it from Shuriki. |
| “ | Elena: SHURIKI! (Shuriki, then Roland and Miranda, then Esteban gasps) Shuriki: Princess Elena! Elena: The time has come to pay for your crimes! Roland: Crimes? What crimes? Elena: Shuriki invaded Avalor and overthrew the royal family; MY family. |
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| ~ Elena interrupting King Roland II's trade agreement. |
| “ | I'm sorry for the danger I've put your family in, but I've waited so many years for the one princess that could free me from the Amulet. And that was Sofia. I sensed it from the very first day she moved into your castle. | „ |
| ~ Elena meeting the Rest of Sofia's Royal family of Enchancia. |
| “ | And so we will march to the palace once more, To bring back the freedom of all Avalor, We've spent our whole lives waiting just for this day, And nothing (no nothing) will stand in our way, This is our time, together as one we won't fail, Our time, this time we know we'll prevail, Our time, to honor our families and friends, Our time, This is our time, (This is our time), (This is our time), OUR TIME... ONCE AGAIN...!!! | „ |
| ~ Elena with her family and Sofia's family with all the people of Avalor marching to the palace to liberate the kingdom from Shuriki. |
| “ | It's NOT your palace, Shuriki. It's ours! And you can't stop all of us! | „ |
| ~ Elena with the people and the Enchancian family confronting Shuriki. |
| “ | Maybe so, but lets see how powerful you are without it! | „ |
| ~ Elena before snapping Shuriki's wand in half. |
| “ | Let every bell in Avalor ring. We are FREE! | „ |
| ~ Elena after the freedom of Avalor. |
| “ | Whew! Well, Naomi, here we are. My favorite view of the city. (Naomi: [sighs] You were right, Elena. It was worth the hike, even if there was no path.) Well, there used to be one. But, I haven't been up here in 41 years. (Naomi: Oh, right! You were stuck in that amulet.) Yes. That's kinda why I wanted to come up here. There's something I needed to show you. (Naomi sits beside Elena, and Elena opens her purse revealing a case, then opens it revealing a broken wand) (Naomi: What is that?!) This wand belonged to Shuriki; The Sorceress who invaded Avalor. (Naomi: The one who put you in that amulet?) Sort of. It's time I told you the whole story; how I lost everything and everyone I loved, and how I finally found my way back home. The truth is, I would still be trapped in that amulet today if it wasn't for a brave young princess named, Sofia. | „ |
| ~ Elena and Naomi in the prologue of Elena and the Secret of Avalor |
| “ | I was just excited. Día de los Muertos is the one day of the year we get to celebrate the family who aren't with us anymore. It's like we're throwing a party, and everyone we love is invited. | „ |
| ~ Elena about Día de los Muertos also known as the "Dead of Day" |
| “ | Día de los Muertos means more to me this year, since Mami and Papi are no longer here. But I'm not feeling sad now I'm feeling joy inside, Because this festival keeps their memory alive! | „ |
| ~ Elena singing about her parents deaths. |
| “ | Because It's more than just caroling. Everyone has to join in, and go wherever I go. | „ |
| ~ Elena to Gabe, starting a paranda. |
| “ | Elena: Wait! Don't go. Lucia: Keep us close to your heart, and we will never be far. Raul: We love you so much, Elenita. Elena: I love you, too... |
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| ~ Elena's joyful tears as her parents' ghosts disappear, "The Jewel of Maru" |
| “ | You came! | „ |
| ~ Elena just when she saw Sofia and her family come to her kingdom during her Coronation day. |
| “ | I look at everyone around me Every day you all astound me And whenever I felt that I was lost Somehow one of you always found me And now you’ve crowned me Oh You’re my guiding light The star that leads me through the night All together, till forever I know we’re gonna alright You’re my guiding light You pick me up until I get it right Con mi gente, para siempre Our love will always shine so bright! |
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| ~ Elena after being crowned as Queen. |
External Links[]
- Elena Castillo Flores on the Pure Good Wiki
- Elena Castillo Flores on the Disney Wiki
- Elena Castillo Flores on the Sofia the First Wiki
- Elena Castillo Flores on the Elena of Avalor Wiki
- Elena Castillo Flores on the Love Exalted Wiki
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