Enalings

Ena is a feminine humanoid character. She possesses a dual-colored body, her right side blue and polygonal/geometric, and her left side yellow and smooth (although her torso is completely blue and geometric). Her hands are also different in appearance on both sides, with the yellow hand being a four-fingered human hand and her blue hand being geometric with blocky fingers. Her black hair is of different lengths on either side, her right side being longer and straight with a triangular cut at the end of her hair (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, the right one being a rhombus with a black triangle under it (resembling an eyelash) and the left a semicircle. Her outfit consists of a beige collared T-shirt, a black skirt with black overall straps. She also wears two black socks: one reaching her thigh and the other reaching her ankle. Her clothing, as well as her hair and blue side, has a grain effect over them, causing various scattered pixels to appear over her. Ena's overall personality is affected by her emotions, namely her happy and sad states. In Auction Day and Extinction Party, her mood would affect her voice, with her happy and drunk forms sounding masculine and her sad forms sounding feminine. However, in Temptation Stairway, her voice and different emotional states do not have a strict correlation, with her voice regularly fluctuating between masculine and feminine regardless of how she feels. Ena’s yellow side, her happy state, comes across as very kind, friendly, optimistic, and overall sanguine, as she has a frequently polite manner around others, even if some do not treat her as well in return. She can also be quite oblivious, such as when she is apparently unaware that Merci is warning her about the Maze possibly being dangerous. She also appears to talk more sophisticatedly, typically substituting various words for longer or more detailed synonyms. When entering her drunk state, presumably from being dizzy or "too joyful", she adopts a demeanor resembling intoxication. She laughs at everything and speaks in a slower, more slurred manner, exuding a euphoric aura. In this state, she occasionally takes short pauses when speaking, elongates certain words, and glitches into her Demon and Diablada forms. However, mentioning pessimistic things or being in slightly stressful situations, such as large social gatherings, is enough for her to shift Ena into her blue side, being her sad state. In each phase, her voice begins to break as if on the verge of tears, and she produces some sounds incorrectly (such as replacing her Rs and Ls with Ws). She is very gloomy, timid, and overall negative, as she will begin to self-deprecate, usually making disparaging remarks about her intelligence. She will also often beg to be killed or agree with the notion of death when it is presented. Compared to her first phase of sadness, her second form seems to be more frantic, melancholic, and overall unstable (similar to her drunk state). Ena's second phase of sadness can come out randomly or after experiencing the first phase, resulting in her being more prone to having childish-like outbursts. She sometimes assumes the worst, such as taking Keeper's rejection as a way of them trying to kill her, and throws random tantrums, such as losing her arms and spinning around while sobbing during the same encounter. Her outbursts are even more intense when in her corrupted state of complete sadness, as she is seen swinging her arms around and yelling in Temptation Stairway after throwing up, and does nothing but sob violently until she is forcefully snapped back to her senses (when Brick Frog kicks her). In these ways, her sad side contrasts with her happy side's more positive, mature, and calmer demeanor. She seems to have an easily upset stomach while in this state, too, as she is shown vomiting in both Auction Day and Temptation Stairway, the former of which shows her puking out noise. 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 or engage in small talk. Ena seems to is instead more concerned about the impact they have on her friends. Ena is also shown to be stubborn in situations that do not involve her own emotions; for example, in the instances where she is asked to give blood identification in Extinction Party and Temptation Stairway, she quickly switches to her sad side and appears to brush off the need for such actions by politely begging. Even with the fact the two sides are contrasting in their behavior, Ena’s happy and sad states contrast in their actions and speech as well. The two seem to always conflict with each other, with her sad states usually coming out abruptly while Ena is in her happy state. In Auction Day when Ena’s happy side was excited to go to the auction, she switches to her second sad side who immediately thinks pessimistically. Ena seems to be aware of this and occasionally apologizes when it happens. Through Extinction Party and Temptation Stairway, Ena’s happy side seems to ignore the sad side when it comes out and continues doing what she was initially doing before her sad side came out, which gives the impression her sad side seems to be random bursts of emotional impulsivity. As shown by the end of Temptation Stairway and Power of Potluck, Ena seems to be on a quest for (possibly permanent) happiness, as doesn’t seem too fond of her sadness side by her (presumable) attempt to make a wish for it to be replaced with "happiness" in the former episode, and wore a mask to hide it in the latter episode. When meeting The Therapist (which it’s stated she has been to therapy before), she admits that while she still acknowledges enjoyment and pleasure, she still cannot understand her own feelings and struggles to enjoy little moments of joy. While speculative, considering she has a presumable second phase happiness state based on being drunk, tries to push away her sadness, goes to therapy, and goes to each different "act" to find joy and fun, she may struggle with and/or symbolize toxic positivity.