Elma Joui

> "This is pathetic... I... I... want to prove to everybody... that I am... unstoppable."
>
> — Elma Joui

**Elma Joui** (上井 エルマ *Jōī Eruma*) is a former dragon in the Harmony faction and now she has become a one-eyed ghoul. She is one of the main characters in Dragon Maid. However, she becomes the secondary antagonist in *Dragon Quinx* and later becomes one of the main protagonists in *Dragon Quinx: War*.

She was formerly part of the Dragon Faction called Harmony Faction in which their goals is to protect humans and worship the gods. However, she was defected from the Harmony Faction and transformed into an artificial One-Eyed Ghoul.

After Eto Yoshimura's disappearance from *Tokyo Ghoul.* She is declared by Taka as **The Next Eto** (次の愛支, *Tsugi no Eto)*, the new One-Eyed Owl.

## Appearance

Elma usually takes the form of a human woman with short black hair, large breasts, blue eyes and a long spiral unicorn-like horn (which she can freely hide). In the anime, her hair also has purple tips. Her first outfit consists of a light tan scarf with a dark blue (sometimes black) leotard. She wears a purple kimono with pink piping and a dark blue sash over the leotard, with the top pulled down. She has bandages around her legs and sandals. Sometimes, she carries around a long, brown trident.

After her disappearance and joining Legion, she wore a form-fitting black sleeveless bodysuit with dark gloves reaching past her elbows. She also wore leg guards. She can be seen with a cobalt blue and turquoise tail (which she can freely hide).

She often carries her trident that was given by Taka, her previous trident was destroyed. At the end, her trident consists of a metal pommel and her trident is red in color, which is identical to the RC cell of a ghoul that resembles a Rinkaku kagune.

## Personality

Elma is very persistent in that she tries to bring Tohru back to the other world, despite the latter voicing her opinion that she'd rather stay peaceful living with Kobayashi. Even after getting sent to another continent, her persistence shows as she stomps up to Tohru and demands that the other dragon go back to the other world, to which she is then baited off with a bag of cream bread.

Also, despite being just as strong as Tohru, she has admitted that she cannot travel between worlds due to having been "born differently." Elma is also very indecisive, as shown in the anime where she struggles to pick one specific food combo, to an ice cream combo, and finally to which kind of toothpaste to use.

Elma's most defining personality trait is her gluttonous appetite. Elma has a sweet tooth of sorts, having shown her love of food of all kinds from the cream bread (where she states in the English dub of the anime that she just ate heaven), to after her first day of work, where Kobayashi gives her a piece of hashbrown, in which she screams "YUMMY!!!" afterward, to where she impulsively buys a bag of waffles.

In *Dragon Quinx*, she transformed into a One-Eyed Ghoul in which she becomes amnesiac. She has no memory of anything from the past as she starts to become extremely hostile towards anyone.

## Background

> "This world... is twisted..."
>
> Elma Joui

Elma is a member of the Harmony Faction of dragons, as such, she holds a fondness for humans and hates their need to fight amongst themselves. In one case, she assumed the identity of Seikai the Miko to maintain peace within a human city. All this had changed until she encountered an incident which caused her to transform into a One-Eyed Ghoul. She seems to start hating humans including Dragons from her faction or other factions. She was set on a goal to hunt down both Tohru and Shouta from recovering Shouta's powers.

## Plot

*See more of Elma Joui's synopsis here.*

For quite sometime, Elma suddenly disappeared mysteriously which leads to having her grandmother, Telne, Kobayashi and Tohru worried about her. After getting help from the rest of the dragon in the dragon world, her whereabouts are currently unknown. A few years later after the D.U.P occupation, Elma is captured by a mysterious god who transformed her into an artificial One-Eyed Ghoul using the Dragon Orphans incense by transmitting Rc cells into her body.

After her ghoulification, she has no memory of anything from the past, which resulted her to defect herself from her faction and becomes a member of Legion.

## Relationships

### Tohru Kobayashi

Even though the two had a rivalry relationship, the two became friends before Elma became a half ghoul half dragon. In *Dragon Quinx,* she start to completely hate Tohru after being exiled from the Chaos Faction. Due to her amnesia, Elma felt with rage and jealousy, realizing that she is powerless, in which she set herself on a goal to hunt down Tohru before she can befriends with more humans, in most cases, raise an army to fight ghouls.

### Kobayashi

At first, Elma didn't interact with Kobayashi at their first encounter, but she had told Kobayashi to stay quiet as she was about to compliment her (due to being embarrassed by her rumbling belly). However, as they become office mates, Kobayashi started to help Elma through her work and the two start to get along to the point that they became friends. Elma was also worried for Kobayashi after misunderstanding her being the 'pillar of the company', and tries her best to 'beat' Kobayashi to 'save her'.

### Shouta Magatsuchi

Elma at first sees Shouta as a normal human. However, until she discovers that he is also a One-Eyed Ghoul, she sense the similar feeling in him as her. However, after her second fight with him, Shouta convinces her that dragons and ghouls should not fight one another even if it's for survival. She starts reminiscing the past memories as she slowly remembers about Kobayashi and her friends. She was also deeply saddened after Shouta told her that Kobayashi was murdered and on a quest to avenge their deaths.

### Taka Jiro

As they are both leaders, Taka at first hated Elma for her annoyance. But the two became friends when they agreed to hunt down the son of Kaneki (Shouta).

### Makoto Shichiro

After her defection from Legion, Elma meets Shichiro during the declaration of the war. She asks him what does he know about Shouta. Shichiro only states that Shouta is Tokyo's "greatest hope". Elma starts to trust Shichiro as the two befriend each other.

## Powers and Abilities

**Ghoul Physiology**: Elma is an ukaku ghoul possessing two wings with the ability to harden and dis-harden it at will like Ayato and Touka.

* **Ukaku Kagune**: During her battle with Shouta, she formed a double ukaku wing and control her kagune with ease.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Much similar to Ayato, she traveled fast enough in order for Ayato to not being able to catch up with her.

**Master Swordsman**: She's kind of like Kishou Arima, Elma could charge with her trident at individuals at extreme speed that could produce a big wave effect.

## Trivia

* Elma is the only dragon who lives on her own in the human world.
* Even though she is an Ukaku ghoul, her trident is a Rinkaku quinque.
* Elma also had lost her dragon powers after obtaining artificial ghoulification.
* Elma is the first dragon to transform into an artificial One-Eyed Ghoul.
* It is hinted that both Elma and Shichiro had romantic feelings for each other.

## Quotes

* To herself: "This is pathetic... I... I... I want to prove to everybody... that I am... unstoppable."
* To Tohru: "You are a bitch that made me what I have become!"
* To herself about what she sees about the world: "This world... is twisted..."
* To herself after being defeated by Shouta: "What have I done? Wha- This is madness... I am such an idiot, a weakling... what am I?"
* To Shouta about Tohru seeing him as Kobayashi: "You think she sees you as Kobayashi? Pff, why would you believe that someone looked at you like you're someone else?"
* To Taka: "You will never be the ruler of the ghouls. That is my promise, you red-haired dumbass."