Ena

*"Nice weather! What conspiracies are we cooking on the menu today?"*

### Height

Unknown (no exact height has ever been given, but it is a joke that Ena is 9 ft tall)

— Ena in Temptation Stairway

Ena (also spelled as ƎNA) is a titular protagonist in the ENA series. This Ena is the protagonist of Season 1 of the series, having a blue and yellow colored body.

## Appearance

### Normal appearance

Ena is a feminine humanoid character. Up until the end of the episode *Temptation Stairway*, she possessed a dual-colored body, her right side blue and geometric and her left side yellow and smooth (although, her torso is completely blue and geometric). Her black hair is different lengths on either side, her right side being longer and straight (also showing her blue ear) and her left side resembling a bob cut (also covering her yellow ear) with two triangular ahoges. She also has blunt cut bangs. Her eyes are unique in shape, one being a diamond with a black triangle under it (resembling an eyelash) and the other a half circle. In her form seen at the end of *Temptation Stairway*, she is fully yellow with both eyes being semicircles, her hair a bob cut on both sides and her two ahoges merged together. Although, the right side of her body is still geometric, however, along with her right ear showing.

Her outfit consists of a beige collared T-shirt, a black skirt with black overall straps and a single strap connecting the two going across her chest. She also wears two black socks; one thigh high on her right (which remains in her current form) and one ankle sock on her left.

When happy, Ena's mouth and nose shows on her left side, and they move to the opposite side when she is sad. They're meant to look like the silhouette of a head looking to the side.

### Particular emotions

When drunk or sad, half of Ena's face becomes white and the other black (with her mouth and nose being on the white side). Her sclera turns black and the color of her iris changes to correspond with the color of the emotion that she's feeling. When drunk, her white side is on her left side with a yellow iris, and she appears to be unstable, as she will often slur her speech. When sadder, her white side is on the right side with a blue iris. She seems to talk in a babyish way and her voice begins to break as if on the verge of crying. This form of her seems to be essentially the same as her previous sad form but may be slightly more "intense". She is also seen to lose her arms and spin around during a tantrum she had while in her sad form.

### Alternate forms

When experiencing a particular emotion, typically to the point of which her face becomes half white, Ena will occasionally shift into other forms. These vary from small to prolonged instances and usually reflect the emotion she was feeling before transforming.

As seen in *Extinction Party*, Ena occasionally shifts into other forms when she is drunk. These appear to be transformations from her happy/drunk side. These forms have been dubbed her "Demon" and "Diablada" forms.

* For her Demon form, her blue side is now orange and her yellow side is now green (while having a green torso) and pointed ears on each side of her head. Her geometric hand gains sharp fingers and she often puts her geometric arms around the back of her head. She now only has one eye present on her smooth side that has a white sclera and pupil with a maroon iris. She also sports dark green horns on her head while having a small Ena face on her forehead, resembling her blue and yellow appearance.

* When in her Diablada form, again, her dual colors change. Her smooth side has white skin with a triangular eye while her geometric side sports a face resembling a dark purple Diablada demon mask. The geometric side has a large bulging eye, pink lips with jagged, outward-facing teeth, a large winding, yellow horn, and smaller horns and a frill that resemble fire. Her limbs are also different colors, now having a green geometric leg and a yellow geometric arm with a clawed purple hand. Her shirt is now the same color as her arm on her geometric side with white sleeves. Also, it seems like her long hair on her geometric side is not there anymore.

In both of these forms, Ena’s mouth is in the middle and not on either side. They also seem to be more realistic, as her Demon form has an actual mouth with teeth.

As seen in *Temptation Stairway*, her sad form also has an alternative form, considered her full-sadness form. Her skin will turn gray and entirely geometric when she is completely sad. Her hair will be completely long, and she will only have one ahoge instead of two. Her socks will change into complete thigh highs and her left sleeve will become geometric. Her face will turn blank, with either half of her facial features appearing on the back of her hands. She usually covers her face with her hands in this form, making a full face. When using the avatar that resembles this form on Joelgc.com, she is shown to quickly run back and forth, faster than the speed of the other avatars. In the *Temptation Stairway* teaser, her form seems to be slightly different from her current one, as her left leg was smooth with a ankle-height black sock.

It seems the happiness and sadness of Ena have "phases". The first phase is when the nose and mouth move to the blue or yellow side (via when she is happy or sad), the second one is when her face turns black and white (via when she is drunk or sadder), and her third phase is when she is in her full or glitched form of that emotion (via her full-sadness and Demon/Diablada forms).

## Personality

In *Auction Day* and *Extinction Party*, Ena's mood would affect her voice, with her happy/drunk sides sounding masculine and her sad side sounding feminine. However, in *Temptation Stairway*, her voice and different emotional states do not have strict correlation, with her voice regularly fluctuating between masculine and feminine. She is voiced by Gabe Velez, Samuel Meza, and Lizzie Freeman.

In her happy state, she seems to be very kind and somewhat insightful to others, even if some treat her rudely. She also somewhat seems to talk "proper" and sophisticated.

When sad, she's constantly on the verge of tears and is often blubbering that she's too stupid to do anything, and her speech is seemingly more "modern", yet as said before, babyish and even aggressive, such as after questioning why she gets harmed very softly, when she yells for Phindoll to stop hitting and "finish the job". Mentioning pessimistic things or being in slightly stressful situations are enough for her to turn into this state. Her emotional changes are signified by her briefly standing up straight, when normally her knees are bent inwards. If her negative emotions become too strong, she will become much sadder and will beg to be killed. Usually she will feel sick too (like in *Auction Day*, where she pukes noise in this state). If she becomes too sad, she might appear as her full-sadness form, stomping, covering her blank face, and crying. It appears that her happy side takes over as soon as possible whenever she is sad, possibly to keep her from putting herself in serious danger. Whenever this happens, Ena will apologize for her behavior.

The same seemingly goes for her "drunk" side. When she becomes too happy or becomes "euphoric"-like, she will act like she's drunk, laughing at everything and talking in a slower, more slurred manner. Ena doesn't seem to mind her different emotional states and is instead more concerned about the impacts they have on her friends.

Ena is also seen to be stubborn in situations that don't involve her own emotions, in which she'll quickly abandon, change or split back and forth from. When asked to give a blood sample to visit Moony, she avidly refuses and when the people she meets inside the area tell her to leave, she insists on continuing her adventure.

## Development

The first known creation of Ena is from a Tweet by Joel Guerra, showing a short animated GIF of Ena followed by stating that he was thinking of making characters with strange designs in a nonsensical, colorful world. The tweet received positive feedback, and so Joel replied by talking about his gratitude and potential for the series. Attached to the reply was concept art of Ena and Moony.

On Joel's YouTube channel, a video was posted simply titled "ENA" that showed a simple idle animation of the titular character as the song "Browser History" by Graham Kartna played. It was revealed that her design was inspired by the painting *Girl before a Mirror* by Pablo Picasso, as well as the art of Romero Britto as stated in the video's description.

Her name was initially spelled as "ƎNA", but the spelling was later changed to "ENA" as Joel thought it would be too difficult for people to type when they wanted to say her name. However, her name is formatted as "ƎNA" on the screens that appear when she obtains the Turrón and Blood ID in *Temptation Stairway*.

The first episode of the series, titled *Auction Day*, was released on May 26th, 2020, marking the debut of Ena.

Early concept art of Ena was revealed on ENA Day 2021, a year after her initial Twitter reveal. This concept art showed vastly different designs than the final that showcased various face, eye, and hair shapes. One of the greatest changes shows Ena's blue side to be initially white.

Her overall design has changed from artwork revealed before her debut in *Auction Day*. Her first reveal shows some various changes to her design including a white shirt instead of a beige one, a smooth blue side as opposed to the final design's more geometric shape, a black wristband on her blue arm (which was completely removed in the final), and the presence of two thigh-high socks instead of only one. Various other pieces of concept art also show her with an almond-shape eye on her yellow side (as opposed to a half circle), a rounded diamond eye on her blue side, and individual fingers on her right hand.

## Gallery

The Ena (Season 1) gallery can be found here.

## Trivia

* Ena uses she/her pronouns, as Joel Guerra refers to her as such.
* Ena's masculine voice used to be voiced by Marc Rafanan in the first episode, but it is now voiced by Gabe Velez.
* She has a strong love for turrón, as revealed in *Temptation Stairway*.
* One line from The Shepherd in *Temptation Stairway* implies that there is more than one Ena, presumably as a form of species. This is evident after Ena's encounter with The Shepherd, as she comes across a room of three other Enas floating in the void, sometimes glitching into Mannequins for a split second.
	+ This is later proven through the Ena seen in *Dream BBQ*.
* Ena seems to have an easily upset stomach when sad, as she is shown vomiting in both *Auction Day* and *Temptation Stairway* before turning into her sad form.
* Ena's sad form has a speech impediment, consistently pronouncing her R's and L's as W's.
* The original 404 page of Joel G's website showed Ena in the middle of a blank screen with empty eyes with occasional corruption effects. However, this was later changed to a more normal error screen upon a reboot of the website.
	+ The image of Ena found on the error page originates from *Auction Day* when she first turns into her sad form, albeit the animation has her eyes filled with static rather than being blank.
* Ena smells like chocolate milk.
* According to Joel G. on one of his Twitch streams, Ena is "taller than the average person". Though this was likely a joke, fans have taken this to mean 9 feet tall, but no official height has ever been confirmed.
* Ena's appearance at the end of *Temptation Stairway* is often thought to be her "full-happiness" form.
* According to Joel G, Ena's name is pronounced as "eh-na" as this is the Spanish phonetic pronunciation of the word.
	+ However, it has also been stated on Twitch streams that Ena's name does not have any definitive pronunciation and it is entirely up to fans on how they want to pronounce the name.
* Ena is one of the unlockable avatars on Joelgc.com alongside Merci, The Shepherd, and the Hourglass Dog.
* Ena's early concept art shows her with her right side being white, which is similar in design to Season 2 Ena.
	+ Coincidentally, Season 2 Ena's early concept art shows them with a yellow left side, making them resemble Season 1 Ena.
* As shown in *Temptation Stairway* and a short animation loop for ENA Day 2022, Ena can detach her limbs and make them float.
* A Tweet from Joel Guerra states that either Ena or Moony will appear in the future with their new appearance that they gained at the end of *Temptation Stairway*. With this, it can be inferred that Ena's "full-happiness" form may appear in the future, possibly even in *Dream BBQ*. However, the Tweet is largely ambiguous and does not confirm if Season 1 Ena will appear in *Dream BBQ* or in any future episodes.

### Cultural references and inspirations

* Ena's face was influenced by Pablo Picasso's painting, *Girl before a Mirror*.
* Ena's design was also inspired by the art of Brazilian artist Romero Britto.
* Her outfit is based on that of Mariya Takeuchi, a Japanese singer.
	+ Her outfit also bears a striking resemblance to that of a standard schoolgirl uniform in Peru, where the author, Joel Guerra, is from.
* Her design may have also been inspired by the design and entities in the game *Super Paper Mario*.
* Ena's movements are somewhat based on the dance moves in the 1980 music video for "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads, as well as the movements by Osamu Sato in "THE EARTH IS ROUND" for his film titled *THE ESOTERIC RETINA*.
	+ Drunk Ena's movements were based on the Drunk Master from the Jackie Chan Film, *Drunken Master*.
	+ One of her drunk forms also resembles a Diablada demon mask, especially the types present in Peru which often sport bulging eyes alongside pink lips and spiraling horns. This was later confirmed with the "Ena Diablada" skin name on the Joelgc.com Custom Character Creator.
* Ena's masculine voice was inspired by Matthew Broderick.