Elena

* Disguise
* Ensemble
* Distorted

* Profile
* Biography

> *"Why must we suffer to ensure that your kind lives a painless life?"*
> - Elena to Binah
>
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**Elena** (엘레나, *Ellena*), otherwise known as **The Blood-red Night** (핏빛 밤, *Pitbin bam*), is a Bloodfiend, a type of Distortion within the City that existed long before the White Night and Dark Days. Formerly a Star of the City, she was a greatly feared presence in the City whom many had tried—and failed—to defeat, until she was finally bested by the Fixers of Charles' Office.

## Appearance

Elena's initial appearance dons a yellow jacket, dark jeans, brown boots, and a leather bag with several satchels slung around her shoulder. She has messy brown hair that's tied up, and red eyes. Her generic and unthreatening appearance suits her well as she takes the role of a passenger on W Corp's train.

After being integrated into the Reverberation Ensemble, she reveals her true form as a Bloodfiend, her face half obscured by a black, shadowy mass with red veins flowing across her head and hands. She has dark brown hair and red eyes. She is often shown irritated or aloof, yet her Bloodfiend side always maintains a wide grin. As with the rest of the ensemble, she wears the signature black suit with blue swirls and tie.

After the defeat of the Reverberation Ensemble, and the exposure of light, she no longer retains her human side and fully embraces the form of a true Bloodfiend. Her figure appears much like a vampire, including a cloak, pointed ears, pointy limbs and a demonic, smiling face. Her entire body is comprised of arteries and veins, spanning her whole figure which covers a dark mass, representing her necessary urge to feed on people's blood to stay alive. Her hair is entirely gone, replaced by the wispy smoke that covered half her face prior to distortion.

## Story

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"Bloodfiends. The beings said to have been punished with neverending thirst for the sin of lusting after human blood. That's what your kind called us, condemning us out of fear. I was afraid as well when I faced them for the first time in that mansion where everything began. Violent beings who drank the blood of fellow humans. A growing feeling of unease about the possibility of being their next target. The people in the mansion were terrified of those who became monsters. Even though they were humans like us, they were outside of what we thought as the norm. In hindsight, though, it was such a silly thing to do. What is the illusion of normalcy that we feared for and fought for so strongly?
Let's say that every human on the planet except for one turned into Bloodfiends, and that single person remaining is left "normal", as they say. In that case, what would normalcy be like there? How must the lone human feel being the monster among the creatures they dreaded? Should they fight to their last breath for the "humanity" they kept for so long? Perhaps that's become an obsolete ideology, one that's no longer worth keeping. What if rejecting that old ideal and becoming a Bloodfriend opened up our potential for growth in numerous aspects?
Your kind likes to claim that something is out of the ordinary when it's only different from what you've seen and experienced before. So you fear it, and try to exclude it from your herd. But you see, there's no real justification for your kind to condemn us."

## Combat Info

**Elena** is fought during the Reception of The Reverberation Ensemble, alongside The Vermilion Cross. She equips her own Key Page, Elena's Page. During the Reception of The Reverb Ensemble Distorted, she fights alongside Pluto and Argalia.

* The Reverberation Ensemble, Act 8
* The Reverb Ensemble Distorted, Act 3

## Elena

* Stats
* Resistances

### Passive Abilities

Shimmering
Nuovo Fabric

In The Reverberation Ensemble Reception Act 8, Elena appears on the Floor of Philosophy with 400 HP and 310 Stagger. Her  Max. Emotion Level is 5, and she possesses 3  Speed Dice of 2~6. She has 3  **Light**.

Elena has 2  Passive Abilities.

* **Shimmering:** At the start of each scene, exhaust all pages in hand and deck: add new pages to hand. Their cost becomes 0.
* **Nuovo Fabric:** Take 1-2 less damage and Stagger damage from attacks.

Elena does not drop any Key Pages during this Reception.

**Range**:  Melee - Cost 0  Light
**Dice**:
 Combat Start: Halve the amount of status ailments on self (Rounded up)
- 5~8  SlashOn Hit Recover 4  HP
- 5~8  PierceOn Hit Recover 4  HP
     **x1** **Sanguine Nails**
**Range:** Melee - Cost 0  Light

**Dice**:
- 4~7  BluntOn Hit Recover 2  HP
- 3~8  SlashOn Hit Recover 2  HP
- 3~7  SlashOn Hit Recover 2  HP
     **x1** **Circulation**
**Range:** Melee - Cost 2  Light

**Dice:**
 Combat Start: If target is the Vermilion Cross, Give him 3  and
- 6~9  Counter Block
- 6~9  Counter Block
     **1x** **Inject**
**Range:** Melee - Cost 2  Light

**Dice:**
- 6~9  Evade
-  3~5  Pierce
 On Hit: Give 3  and  to all other allies
     **x1** **Bloodspreading**
**Range:** Mass Attack - Cost 6  Light

**Dice:**
 Mass attack: Summation
- 17~25  Slash
On Hit Recover HP equal to the amount of damage dealt

## Elena

* Stats
* Resistances

### Passive Abilities

Bloodfiendish
Shimmering
Speed

In The Reverb Ensemble Distorted Act 3, She appears for the final time, fully embracing her Bloodfiend side with 400 HP and 310 Stagger. Her  Max. Emotion Level is 5, and she possesses 3  Speed Dice of 2~7. She has 3  **Light**. She fights alongside Argalia and Pluto.

Elena has 3  Passive Abilities.

* **Bloodfiendish:** On hit, recover 2 HP. If the character recovered 3 or more HP in a single Scene, gain 1  next Scene.
* **Speed:**  Speed Dice Slot +1. Gain a Speed die on the fourth Scene. Gain an additional one if there's an enemy whose Emotion Level is 4 or higher. Does not gain Speed dice from Emotion Level bonuses.
* **Shimmering:** At the start of each Scene, exhaust all pages in hand and deck; add new pages to hand. Their Cost becomes 0.

Elena does not drop any Key Pages during this Reception.

**Range**:  Melee - Cost 0  Light
**Dice**:
- 4~7  BluntOn Hit Recover 2  HP
- 3~8  SlashOn Hit Recover 2  HP
     **x1 Absorb**
**Range:** Melee - Cost 0  Light

**Dice**:

 Combat Start: Halve the amount of status ailments on self (Rounded up)
- 5~8  SlashOn Hit Recover 4  HP
- 5~8  PierceOn Hit Recover 4  HP
     **x1 Regurgitation**
**Range:** Melee - Cost 3  Light

**Dice:**

Dice on this page and the page clashing with it are unaffected by Power gain or loss
- 8~17  Slash
 On Hit: Inflict 2 Antirecovery next Scene
     **x1 Bloodspreading**
**Range:** Mass Attack: Summation - Cost 6 Light

**Dice:**
 Mass attack: Summation
- 17~25  Slash
     **x1 Unending Thirst**
**Range:**Mass Attack: Individual - Cost 6 Light

**Dice:**
 Mass attack: Individual
- 6~9  Slash
- 8~19  Slash
On Hit Recover 3  HP

## Dialogue

**Combat Entrance**

* "Let’s see… Are there any veins left for me to taste?"
* "Holding back the pain of this thirst… is not a pleasing sight."

**On Kill**

* "Death is fair… For it dances with us all."
* "The fate of predation shines over us without discrimination."
* "Tis a shame… This wasn’t the taste I was looking for."
* "Both you and I merely empty the glass in our hands to sate our desires, isn’t that so?"
* "Ah… Think you can stop me with that?"

**Teammate Death**

* "It was just an empty husk. Not a drop of blood remained inside it…"

**Death**

* "This thirst… has no…"

**Victory**

* "Not my most satisfying meal."

## Trivia

* Together with Argalia, she is the only member of the Ensemble to not be a Distortion until the reception the Distorted Ensemble.