Ellen Kurokawa

**Kurokawa Ellen** (黒川エレン, *****Kurokawa Ellen*****) is one of the four main Suite Cures. She attends Private Aria Academy as a second-year student and is in the same class as Hibiki and Kanade.

Her previous alter ego was the cat fairy **Siren** (セイレーン, *****Siren*****), who became brainwashed by Mephisto but was eventually freed.

## Description

### Appearance

Ellen is a beautiful teenage girl with purple hair, gold eyes and fair skin. She wears a white long-sleeved shirt under a black sleeveless jacket, a black miniskirt and stockings with dark magenta markings, a necklace and gold collar, and a pair of boots. After switching sides, she wears a side-tail with a yellow scrunchie. Her lilac top has a dark red heart to match the one on her black vest, a ruffled lavender miniskirt with belt, black stockings, and gold boots. She changes her necklace and gains black bracelets. In the movie, she wears a long-sleeved purplish-grey top beneath a dress whose top is white with black linings and skirt black and two-layered, black socks with grey cuffs and white sneakers.

#### Siren

As **Siren**, she is an indigo cat with gold eyes with purple note-shaped markings, silver fur around her neck, and gold rings on her front left paw and tail. On her forehead and back is a hot pink heart, and around her neck is a gold collar with a silver pendant.

#### Cure beat

As **Cure Beat**, her hair turns lavender and grows in length, being worn in a curled ponytail with a distinctive strand that curls on the right of her bangs. She wears a hair accessory with a blue heart with feathers, pale blue fabric, and indigo ribbon. Matching her heart earrings and choker. She wears an indigo dress with blouse-style top that has white and dark blue detail, the ruffled neckline is pale blue to match her sleeve cuff. Beneath her Cure Module is a pale and dark blue bow. Her skirt consists of two frilly layers, followed by ruffles in white and pale blue, and an indigo pleat with dark blue lining, a small white ruffled peplum rests over it. On the back is a long, thin pale blue ribbon. Her thigh-length boots are dark blue and indigo with a white bow around the ankle and pale blue ruffled trim. She wears matching colored wrist pieces with a heart design.

#### Crescendo Cure beat

As **Crescendo Cure Beat**, her hair turns lighter and is worn in a tighter curl, the wings of her hair accessory grow while the ribbon and fabric become white. Her dress is mainly pale blue and white with light blue detailing. Her wrist pieces alter in shape and lose the heart design, while her skirt's top two layers grow longer and gain a golden wing cape-like segment to match her wings.

### Personality

Before her brainwashing, Siren was shown to be a very kind and caring cat who took care of Hummy and enjoyed her company. But when she began to get envious towards others achievements, she found herself growing cold towards Hummy and she took Mephisto up on his offer. In this time she became cold, calculative, and kept to herself. She lacks sympathy and is unwilling to talk about her pain. However, it was obvious that she was still good deep down, and after Hummy was able to convince her that she was blindly following Mephisto and was letting him manipulate her, she broke free from his control.

After becoming Ellen, she underwent a dramatic personality change. She has become more upbeat and cheerful and regained her kindness. However, she gained the naivety she used to show concern for Hummy having, shown fears that people consider childish or being emotional. She is excited to learn more about the new world she has been brought to, and she shows that she is a passionate and dedicated girl who desires to gain more knowledge and friendships.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Heartful Beat Rock** (ハートフルビートロック, *****Heartful Beat Rock*****) is her first attack that requires the Love Guitar Rod and the green Fairy Tone Sory. She first used it in episode 22.
* **Beat Barrier** (ビートバリア, *****Beat Barrier*****) and **Beat Sonic** (ビートソニック, *****Beat Sonic*****) are her sub-attacks that require the Love Guitar Rod and the light-blue Fairy Tone Lary.
* **Suite Session Ensemble** (スイート セッション アンサンブル, *****Suite Session Ensemble*****) is a group attack that she performs with her teammates Melody and Rhythm.
	+ **Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo** (スイート セッション アンサンブル クレッシェンド, *****Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo*****) is the upgraded version of Suite Session Ensemble where Muse is also needed.
* Cure Beat can also use a basic attack called **Suite Harmony Kick**, together with Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm.

## Etymology

* **Siren** - Siren is a reference to a Greek myth, specifically the *Odyssey* where a group of beautiful mermaids called the "Sirens" would sing to lure sailors to their deaths by making them crash their boat into the rocky shores of their island.
* **Kurokawa** (黒川, *****Kurokawa*****): The name Kurokawa has two terms. *Kuro* means black in Japanese, which fits Siren's theme color while *Kawa* means river. Her name can be roughly translated as Black River.
* **Ellen** (エレン, *****Ellen*****): is taken from the word "electric" (エレクトリック, ***"electric"***) when written in katakana, parallel to Ako's "acoustic."
* **Cure Beat** is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level.

## Trivia

* Siren has the greatest number of Negatone summons, 15 summons in total. Bassdrum made two double summons, so they share the same number of summoned Negatones.
* As Cure Beat, her hair can produce electric guitar sounds when she flicks a strand of it. This is also demonstrated in her 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message.
* As Siren, she is the first villain to be a fairy before she is turned into human permanently, due to becoming a Pretty Cure and thus losing her original form.