Lena Sayers

Lena Sayers (レナ・セイヤーズ "Rena Seiyāzu") (Originally spelled Rena Sayers before the release of the official romanisation) is a character in the My-Otome anime and manga series. She is voiced by Tomo Sakurai.

My-Otome anime

Lena (A.K.A. Rena) appears at the beginning of the first episode, although she is not introduced by name. Wounded, she sends the baby princess of the Windbloom royal family down a river along with the Blue Sky Sapphire, but soon after was caught by the forces of Aswad.

Lena's fate is revealed to Arika Yumemiya by Aswad in episode 19. Lena died fighting bravely against Aswad's Rad, prompting them to give her an honorable burial. However, John Smith of Schwartz took her body from the Aswad and used it to create the nanomachines and control system of the Valkyries. In disgust, Smith's act led to Aswad disassociating themselves from Schwartz.

In episode 23, Arika is confirmed to be Lena's daughter by Miyu. In order to stop Schwartz, Arika destroys her mother's body in episode 25.

Powers

Lena was the former user of the Blue Sky Sapphire. Apart from in the 2nd OP, she is never shown fighting in her Robe. The game My-Otome: Otome Butou Shi shows Lena using a style of Bolt from the Blue different from Arika's.

My-Otome 0~S.ifr~

She is voiced by Aya Endo. In the first episode, she is shown wearing a maid's outfit and glasses (depicting her as a studious Otome) while assisting in the rescue of Sifr Fran. She introduces herself as Lena Yumemiya. When Sifr tells of her dream of becoming a Meister Otome, Lena admits that she dropped out during graduation. She is wary of the power of an Otome, due to their fate of fighting other Otome. Instead of the Blue Sky Sapphire, she wields the Lofty Crimson Jade, though the gem is incapable of handling the power she's able to draw from it. The GEM breaks at the end of the first episode, leaving Lena with the empty container on her ear. Her master is Bruce, the king of Windbloom.

After she is propelled into the desert after the battle with M-9 she is found unconscious by a young biologist named Shiro, who sees her fall from the sky on a pair of golden wings. He also sees a birthmark below her right breast that resembles the HiME's markings from My-HiME, though hers appears slightly different.

After awakening and metting Shiro's younger brother Reito Lena meets Miyu again, who leaves the Blue Sky Sapphire and a letter from Lena's mother with Shiro, while she goes off to fight M-9. Lena reveals to Shiro that she is afraid of her own, limitless power, after breaking all the school records. John Smith of Schwarz refers to her as "The monster of Garderobe". She broke her first Coral GEM within three months, and after she continued to grow stronger (as her birthmark grew darker) she decided to stay as an Otome, even though she was getting tired of it, because she was afraid of what might happen if she did not have a GEM to control her power.

Name originally believed to be Rena Sayers. Name of Lena confirmed through episode 1 of 0~S.ifr~ during her materialization phase where her piercing shows [L.S Connected to B.B.W.II] .

My-Otome manga

Lena Sayers first appears in Chapter 20, residing in the Black Valley; she mistakes Mashiro Blan de Windbloom for Arika. It is revealed that her home village was destroyed mysteriously and she was rescued by Rad. ["My-Otome" manga; chapter 21, page 1-2] During an attack by Cardair, Nina Wáng recognises her as the previous user of the Blue Sky Sapphire. ["My-Otome" manga; chapter 23, pages 2-3] In the aftermath of the Cardair invasion of the Black Valley, she is brought to Garderobe for medical treatment, under the care of Juliet Nao Zhang.

Lena pushes Mashiro out of the way of Mai Tokiha's attack, causing herself to become fatally injured. ["My-Otome" manga; chapter 37, page 9] After leaving Mashiro and Arika instructions on dealing with the HiMEs, Lena becomes the new Shinso and enables the Otome to Materialise again. ["My-Otome" manga; chapter 38, pages 3 and 12]

Character design

Lena is not based on a character from My-HiME, but instead that of Rena Yuuki from Future GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Infinity 2. Hirokazu Hisayuki designed the characters for both series.

Name Origins

It is possible that Lena's surname "Sayers" (セイヤーズ "Seiyāzu") is a corruption of "Searrs", from Sunrise's earlier "My-HiME" series (also seen in Miyu's UI in "My-Otome"), as Lena and her daughter Arika are stated to be direct blood descendents of Alyssa Searrs by Miyu.

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