Elena Hanakaze

* Unnamed husband
* Satsuki (daughter)

**Adopted Family**

* Asahi Nakamura (adopted daughter)

**Elena Hanakaze** (花風 エレーナ, *Hanakaze Erēna*) was a main character in *Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood.* She was an executioner for Nue after finding out she was pregnant. In episode 11, she gives birth to Satsuki, her daughter. In the series finale, she has adopted Asahi Nakamura after Sawa's passing.

## Appearance

Elena's appearance is very slick and elegant. She is of fair complexion with a beauty mark under her left eye. Long blonde hair falling comfortably around her shoulders and waist. Her bright blue eyes contrast her red lip. Her body is very curvy; in which she uses for her seduction techniques. Her outfit matches her red lip with a red button up blouse and a purple shirt. Her outfit often is accessorized with earrings and nails.

While in her "sex worker" persona, Elena hairstyle resembled that of a Geshia, along with a hairpiece (which she used to kill someone in Episode 1) and wears a purple and white strip kimono and is shown to be barefoot.

In her return, revealing her status to be alive, Elena's hair is cut short and wears a long dress underneath a pink trench coat.

## Personality

She comes across as very feminine and flirty but in actuality she is not afraid to get her hands bloody. She uses her charm to get her way making her a great executioner. She finds everyone else in Nue as boring and voices her opinion about it quite often. She states her distaste for her fellow executioners but in actuality enjoys their company.

## Synopsis

Elena was a prostitute and novelist (in name only). Underneath her polished exterior, she was an executioner for Nue. She played the part of seductress in order to get closer to her victims, but she also enjoyed sex and took pleasure in flirtation. Her retirement to being an executioner was due to her pregnancy, as seen in episode 5.

## Abilities

*Elena is a support fighter often not landing final blows but being back-up for the more physical fighters such as Sawa and Makoto.*

### Physical Abilities

* **Seduction -** Elena has extremely good looks in which she uses to lead her victims into her bed which makes it easier for then to be killed. She finds enjoyment in playing with them and her high nature flirtish energy draws her prey in in which she then pounces. The other Nue executioners ruin her "fun" by telling her to go to work in episode 1 leading her to end it early and killing the man with a hair pin to the neck. She uses her beauty to draw them in and hit them when they least expect.
* **Deception -** Elena has the ability and materials to be able to transform into any women she needs to be for a job, playing the role to the best of her ability in which she will change her attire, hair, and entity.

### Weapons

* Umbrella - her umbrella transforms both into a whip and a crossbow.
	+ As a crossbow she can preform assassinations from close contact and further away which is seen during episode 1, where at first she started off at on the roof but moved down into the open area where she continued the battle. On the ground level with the targets.
		- Whip - When Elena turns her umbrella into a whip, she uses it for offensive and defensive maneuvers; stopping bullets from nearing her, or grabbing onto the enemy either killing them, unarming them, or making it easier for the strike.
	+ Hairpiece - In the first episode where after she decided not to sleep with the client, she used her hairpiece to stab the client in the neck, killing him instantly.

## Etymology

* The name **Elena** means "sun ray, bright, shining light" in Spanish, Italian, and Greek.
* Elena's surname **Hanakaze** means "flower, blossom" (花) (**hana**) and "wind, breeze, way, manner, blaster, gale, gust, sirocco, method" (風) (**kaze**).