Edna

Edna (エドナ, Edona) is a fictional character and one of the protagonists from the Tales of RWBY series. She is renown as an Earth Malak and becomes one of Lailah's sub-lords of and is enabled to enact the armatus with her host. She is the adoptive younger sister of the human, Clint Zaragoza. She has lived alone on the Rayfalke Spiritcrest on the outskirts of Ladylake for a long time, trying to find a solution to return her brother from his malevolent state. Edna later encounters Sorey accompanied by Mikleo and Lailah after the latter informs the new Shepherd about her.

The doll attached to her umbrella is actually a living normin creature called Phoenix. It was given to her as a present from her elder brother at the time of his depart for a journey, leaving her alone and isolated. She distrusts other humans and behaves mostly apathetic, but will become emotional when the situation involves her only living family member, her older human brother. Her true name used to enact the armatus is Hepsin Yulind (ハクヂィム＝ユーバ, Hakudimu Yuuba), meaning "Early-Bloomer Edna".

"If you really wanted to take me with you, you should've just dragged me kicking and screaming."
 * —Edna.

Appearance

 * Voice actor: Kira Buckland (English), Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Not Known (French), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (German), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (China), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese)

Biography
Edna is a young woman of the Malakhim with the ability to use earth attribute Heaven Echo Artes. Her mature, yet cute outward appearance does not match her image, as she takes on a more robotic and elderly attitude, and enjoys teasing others with her sharp tongue. She has always lived alone after the depart of her elder brother, but perhaps she is actually longing for others? She is always composed, but when it comes to her older brother, her only family, she is beside herself and becomes emotional.

Appearance
Edna has fairly short blond hair, which becomes a brighter yellow toward the tips. There is a black-headband in her hair, and her side ponytail is tied with a green ribbon. She has blue eyes, and on her neck, she wears a black-ribboned necklace with a small, hanging jewel. Edna wears a short yellow and white dress with a big flowery bow on the back. She also wears a single brown glove wrapped in the same ribbon used to tie her hair on her right hand. She has big brown boots with buckles and yellow ribbons wrapped around her legs. She uses her umbrella to protect herself.


 * Hair Color: Blond with Bright Yellow tips
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Blue
 * Age: Not Known
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: 145cm
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
While acting and looking apathetic, she likes teasing people, especially Mikleo and Rose. Edna also displays the ability to overpower stronger daemons through intimidation, causing them to cower in fear. She also easily becomes blasé and has a tendency to sound bored when attacking low-level enemies.

Friends/Allies

 * Sorey's Faction
 * Sorey

Family

 * Unnamed mother (deceased)
 * Unnamed father (deceased)
 * Clint Zaragoza (adoptive human brother)

Fighting Style
Edna fights with her umbrella and is able to perform seraphic Earth artes. Edna's artes primarily consist of using rocks, complementing her status as an Earth seraph. She is also able to combine the element of Water with Earth to create snow-like powders and shoot projectiles made of ice, as well as combine Wind with Earth to create voids and gravitational fields, using her umbrella as the catalyst for her attacks.

Edna also has the ability to cast artes that have a delayed reaction to them, such as Rock Trigger, Gravitrigger, and Quake Trigger. These artes are activated by certain hit counts achieved either by herself or with her allies, making it useful if the player wants to increase their hits against an enemy. Because Edna has a petite exterior, she has admitted she cannot carry weapons heavier than her with the possibility of straining herself if she tried to use Giant's Strength, her map action. Thus, the umbrella is her choice of weapon. Despite her small frame, however, Edna possesses a high Defense stat and can cast Barrier to assist others. On her own, Edna has two mystic artes: Terra Mine and Shooting Stars. She gains a third mystic arte, Earth Revolution, when she is armatized with either Sorey and Rose.

Notes & Trivia

 * Edna derives from the Hebrew word for "pleasure". In Aifread's Hunting Ground, when viewing the tree with the wild orchids, about a flower named "Edna".
 * Phoenix is the name of the orange creature hanging from Edna's umbrella.
 * Edna likes to tease Mikleo, often calling him "Meebo" (ミボ, Mibo), and her excessive teasing leads her to create puns like "normincarena", a parody of the popular song, "Macarena", much to Alisha Diphda's confusion.
 * A few of Edna's accessories were given to her as gifts. Her glove is a piece from a matching pair, the other belonging to her brother. Her boots were previously owned by her brother, which were then adjusted to fit her foot size. Her stone pendant is also a gift from her brother.
 * Despite her appearance, Zaveid's flirtation toward her, and jokes regarding her age imply she is a young adult-aged seraph. Lailah also refers to her as a "smart woman".