Elena the Orphan

Elena the Orphan (real name Elena Carlos) is an eight-year-old orphan girl for 2 of Claireblue's projects. She was originally created for a dropped story called New Wonderland that takes place in Dublin where she ends up in a coma and in a strange place she calls new wonderland and a woman named Pauline has to help her out of it along with other characters that also ended up in New Wonderland. She was originally created on a Windows Vista computer and recreated on a Windows 8.1 for a new orphan related story called 4 Height Varies Orphans.

Life
Elena Carlos was born to two shop keepers on 22nd December. Her mother died when she was three and her father died 2 years later. Since her parents and grands parents were only children, she was put into Railway Orphanage. Since then she has found ways to cheer herself up but usually making toys of her own by what she can find near the orphanage.

Appearance
Elena has pale skin and brown hair with a green hairband. She is usually dressed in a yellow sleeveless dress with an orange patch on the skirt and black Mary Jane shoes. Sometimes, she ties a red ribbon around her waist.

Personality
Elena is a kind and fair 8-year-old who is known in the book by her raspy voice but the only time it occurs is after Rita-Peggy, the orphanage's old owner and nurse suffers a heart attack and dies in the courtyard when Elena cries "Oh Ria! RIA!" over the loss of the one who found outside of her old home.Apparently the rasp only happens when Elena is crying.

Did you know?

 * Elena is a homage character to former voice actress, Christine Cavanaugh (16 August 1963-22 December 2014) as they both have brown hair, beautiful raspy voices and due to coincidence that Elena's birthday is on the same day as Christine's death.
 * Elena was inspired by another orphan character, El Chavo, a Mexican character superhero protrayed by Chespirito (real name Roberto Gómez Bolaños (21 February 1929-28 November 2014).
 * Elena was named after a girl named Elena Desserich, a 6-year-old girl who left notes around the house before passing away to DIPG, a rare cancer.