Character

Elma

エルマ

Elma is a female dragon from the Dragon Faction of Order, the opposing faction of Chaos, which Tohru belongs to. She adopts the name Elma Joui as her human alias after she finds that she is unable to return to her world. Elma usually takes the form of a human woman with short black hair dyed purple at the ends, large breasts, and a long spiral unicorn-like horn (which she can freely hide). She has blue eyes. When working, she wears round glasses. Elma wears a light tan scarf with a dark blue (sometimes black) leotard. She wears a purple kimono with pink piping and a dark blue sash over the leotard, with the top pulled down. She has bandages around her legs and sandals. She can be seen with a cobalt blue and turquoise tail (which she can freely hide). Sometimes, she carries around a long, brown trident. In her dragon form, Elma is a blue sea serpent with a brown horn protruding from her forehead and her brown trident is actually her tail. As evidenced in show and manga, Elma is very persistent in that she tries to bring Tohru back to the other world, despite the latter voicing her opinion that she'd rather stay peaceful living with Kobayashi. Even after getting sent to another continent, her persistence shows as she stomps up to Tohru and demands that the other dragon go back to the other world, to which she is then baited off with a bag of cream bread. Also, despite being just as strong as Tohru, she has admitted that she cannot travel between worlds due to having been "born differently." Elma is also very indecisive, as shown in the anime where she struggles to pick one specific food combo, to an ice cream combo, and finally to which kind of toothpaste to use. Elma also has a sweet tooth of sorts, having shown her love of food from the cream bread (where she states in the English dub of the anime that she just ate heaven), to after her first day of work, where Kobayashi gives her a piece of deep fried beef strip, in which she screams "YUMMY!!!" afterwards, to where she impulsively buys a bag of waffles in episode 13.