Alela Grora

Alela Grora (アレラ•グロラ) is an angel of the Gray Garden, a subordinate of Etihw and Kcalb, and one of the handful of survivors from The Great War. She serves as a supporting character in The Gray Garden.

Physical Description
Grora is a relatively short angel with long gray hair tied in low twintails, an ahoge, dark gray eyes, though the left one – having been gouged out – is now covered by an eyepatch, and a pair of feathered wings. She wears a clip on the right side of her head, a gray cloak over a collared white dress, black stockings, and knee-high gray boots. She has gray buttons on her clip, dress, boots, and on the watering can that she carries in her character portrait.

In Garden Gray The, Alela has long gray hair tied in a low ponytail and an ahoge. He wears the same eyepatch as Grora, a dark gray scarf with diamond prints, a gray diamond-pattern sweater, a white dress shirt underneath, and dark gray pants and shoes.

During the Great War, Grora's hair was much longer, reaching around knee-length. She wore her angelic halo through her ahoge and wore a white hair clip with eight black diamonds on it. Her dress was a light-gray and was decorated with dark-gray diamonds. Her shoes were thigh-high boots with dark gray soles. She also wore a light-gray coat that somewhat looked like a cape. She also wore white gloves and lacked her eyepatch.

Personality
Grora is a laid back individual with a sly smile on her face. She has a leisurely disposition and accepts situations readily, even using it to her own advantage. Grora is prone to teasing (picking on Wodahs and Ater, in particular). She holds a bitter grudge toward the latter, and the subject of her lost eye can break her smooth composure fairly easily. She will not accept any eye other than her once-own.

In Garden Gray The, Alela is similar in behavior - greeting and interacting with Etihw in casual manners. He has a tendency to sexually harass Wodahs and gets into numerous arguments with her, and enjoys chatting with Yosafire and Etihw about dirty and sexual topics.

Background
Grora is a loyal follower of Etihw and served the god The Great War. During which, Ater - one of Kcalb's subordinates - took Grora's eye, resulting in the angel harboring bitter feelings for said demon, enduring far after the end of the war until the present day. Once The Great War was over, Grora was one of its few survivors.

In the present day, Grora works at Blancblack Castle as a subordinate of both Etihw and Kcalb.

Minor

 * The Gray Garden - Grora appears as a supporting character. For a small portion of the game, she is controllable. During the invasion by Ivlis and his followers, she is heavily wounded by them.
 * Garden Gray The - Grora appears as a supporting character. During the events of the game, he is screamed at by Kcalb.

Etihw
Etihw is Grora's god and boss; they seem to be very close. She holds Etihw in high regards. During the invasion of the Gray World by Flame World denizens, Grora is told by Froze that the enemy managed to immobilize Etihw and prevent the god from responding to the impending forces. Hearing this, Grora swears and worries about Etihw, hoping that they will be alright.

Kcalb
Kcalb is Grora's devil and superior. Though Grora seems to tick him off at times, she holds him in high regards nonetheless; formally addressing Kcalb as "Sir Devil" and follows his orders just as well as she does with Etihw's.

Wodahs
Wodahs is Grora's colleague. Despite contrasting personalities, they work rather well together. A one-sided rivalry exists on Grora's part; she teases Wodahs by confessing her love, but is "always joking." Grora also shows great distaste for the many similarities between their appearances, worried that people might mistake them as siblings, and has attempted to convince Wodahs to ditch his eyepatch, but to no avail.



In an artwork, Yosafire asked Grora if she "actually likes Wodahs," to which Grora responded by spewing a cup of alcohol onto her own face. As of the 2017/10/21 Sunahama relationship charts update, Grora is shown to have faint feelings towards Wodahs. These feelings don't appear to be reciprocated. It is still somewhat uncertain what type of feelings are alluded to in this chart, as it was labeled "Various."

Ater
Grora has a strong aversion to Ater. During the war, Ater gouged out Grora's eye and seems to have lost it since, provoking Grora's wrath, which hasn't waned many years after. Grora near-constantly looks for both Ater and her missing eye, considering that the demon never sticks around for long and runs at the mere sight of Grora.

After being wounded by Rieta, and being found by Yosafire and her friends, Froze explains how they were saved by Ater and Arbus. Hearing this, Grora is visibly shocked, disregarding Froze's pleads of her staying silent due to the amount of blood she is coughing up; Grora keeps pressing on for information regarding Ater. She holds venom in her words when telling the girls of Ater's past doing.



During their reunion in the game, Grora immediately disregards everything around her and focuses solely on Ater. She proclaims with exuberance her wishes of taking Ater's eye, but the demon flees to Blancblack Castle, to which Grora continues her pursuit.

In the end of The Gray Garden, Grora is seen chasing Ater in a circle around the fountain in Blancblack Castle, with Arbus and Wodahs looking on in silence.

Arbus
Unlike her relationship with Ater, Grora does not seem to bear animosity toward Arbus, but openly speaks her opinion of how she sees Arbus merely as a spontaneous idiot.

Yosafire
Yosafire is Grora's friend. Grora blatantly disapproves of Yosafire comparing her to Wodahs and grouping them as siblings. They were shown drinking together in a now-deleted artwork.

Froze
Froze highly respects Grora, formally addressing her as "Ms. Grora." When Grora saves Froze and her friends from a hoard of flaming bats, Froze is the only one she asks to return with her to the castle. Additionally, when Yosafire, Rawberry, and Macarona offer their assistance during urgent times and asks to come along with Froze, Grora expressed her concern over Froze and before giving them her permission.

When the four girls arrive at the Gray World's graveyard and follow a blood trail, Froze is the first to call out to Grora the moment she sees the older angel's wounded form; proclaiming her disbelief of someone managing to do her in. Not long after, Grora explains how she figured it odd for the girls to take so long in their scouting mission, and decided to take the black warp slate with her and run with it to ensure their safety.



When they return to Blancblack Castle, Froze is appalled to find Grora once again in a near-death state and, though she pleads for her and Wodahs not to speak out of worry for their injuries, Grora weakly tells her to escape somewhere safe, not wanting her to end up like them.

Grora has expressed her amazement at the stark differences between Froze and Froze's ancestor Sherbet, Grora's former comrade during The Great War.

Macarona
Macarona holds respect for Grora and calls her "Ms. Grora." Grora acknowledges Macarona's strength, and is aware of her constant anxiousness. She has been seen encouraging the young angel regarding her prowess.

Ciel, Rigatona, & Sherbet
They were Grora's fellow comrades, serving under Etihw.

Cranber, Lost, & Yosaflame
It is unknown what sort of relationship they had, but it is rather likely that they were Grora's enemies.

Skillset

 * Archery - Grora's position throughout the Great War was that of an archer. In the present, she is still sometimes depicted with a bow and arrow.

Natural Abilities

 * Nigh-Absolute Immortality - Being an angel, Grora cannot die from natural causes such as aging or disease.
 * Flight - Being an angel, she has the ability to fly with her wings.
 * Wing Manipulation - Being an angel, she is able to either show or hide her wings.
 * Regenerative Healing Factor - Being an angel, she is able to regenerate body parts, even guts and bones.

Trivia

 * Deep-Sea Prisoner has stated that her first name "Alela" was based off "allegro" - a quick lively musical tempo–suggesting what have might have been her original concept.
 * In Garden Gray The, Grora is more frequently called by her first name, "Alela," contrasting with how she is called in The Gray Garden.
 * An official shimeji for Alela is available for download on Deep-Sea Prisoner's website. Mogeko, Licorice, and Ivlis also have their own official shimejis.
 * Although Grora could get a new eye, she instead chooses to stay blind, saying that she "only wants her real eye."
 * From June 28 to August 3, 2017, Deep-Sea Prisoner hosted a character popularity poll that lets each person vote three of their favorite characters. When the results came out on September 7, 2017, Alela Grora was ranked 22nd.
 * When asked about Grora's favorite food in a stream, Deep-Sea Prisoner stated that she doesn't care much about food but likes apples.

Quotes

 * "Where's my eye? Where?" (The Gray Garden Bonus Room)
 * "Ahoy-hoy?" (Grora answering her phone – The Gray Garden)
 * "Hmm... Yeah, guess so! Not to mention that Head Angel... You've got too many loose cannons, I tell you!" (To Kcalb regarding his underlings and brother – The Gray Garden)
 * "Heh... Well. I'm a whole separate case from the Head Angel." (The Gray Garden)
 * "What a weird Devil. Aren't coffins for dead peeps?" (To herself about Kcalb and his bed preferences – The Gray Garden)