Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen

Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen is one of main characters from the World of Witches anime and light novels.

Eila is a witch of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, originating from Suomus and affiliated with the Suomus Air Force. She is referred to as "Illu" by her friends, and is sometimes named Diamond Ace. Eila is the first highest-scoring Suomus ace and the little sister of Aurora E. Juutilainen.

Her familiar is the black fox.

In the AWA fics, Eila is a student at the AWA fics.

Appearance
Eila has a long light brown hair and has lavender eyes. She wears a light blue uniform jacket, white stockings and white boots.

Personality
Eila's hobby is fortune-telling with tarot cards, although the accuracy of her predictions is questionable at best. Similar to stereotypes of her familiar (the black fox), she has a reputation for mischief, being fond of pranks amongst her colleagues and is somewhat mischievous. She has a talent for analyzing the thoughts and feelings of her companions, and this skill translates well to the battlefield where her judgment is used to consistently outwit her opponents. Eila is always together with Sanya, who is very attached to Eila, and Eila loves her dearly.

Bouncy and restless girl who is always full of energy and enthusiasm. Open and friendly Eila kept very relaxed in any situation. She has a reputation for cheerful and carefree merry prankster. She makes her courageous and persistent man, a loyal friend, in spite of carelessness and thoughtlessness.

Eila has a older sister named Aurora E. Juutilainen, who is a veteran land witch. She loves saunas and is on junior/senior terms with Elma Leivonen. Eila likes sleep during the day, she's been paired up with Sanya a lot and so she's gotten a lot of experience of fighting during the night. She has fans in her homeland, likes eat fish (She doesn't really likes herring since she had a bad memories when eating herring) and is good to make sandwiches.

Abilities
Her magic ability Foresight (Mirai Yochi) grants her a limited ability to predict the future. Classified in the detection system, she can sense and dodge enemy fire with relative ease and anticipate their movements. However, the ability seems to be focused on the near future and her projections on more complicated issues have been imprecise.

Like Laura Toth of the Isle of Wight Detachment Group (and former member of 501st), she can dodge the enemy’s fire easily. When compared to Hanna Wind, the number two super ace of the Suomus Air Force, they are often refered to as "Hanna the Marksman" and "Eila the Evasive", although in Hanna's case her talents are more broad-reaching.

In practice, Eila's unique style presents a fear for her superiors: there is some concern that, being effectively untargetable by enemy weapons, she has grown out-of-practice or careless with regard to other combat essentials, such as use of her shield. Lacking the same sense of danger, she can forget the vulnerability of her squadmates and the importance of teamwork.

Trivia

 * Eila is based on the #1-ranked Finnish flying ace (and #1-ranked non-German flying ace) Eino Ilmari Juutilainen. Like Eila, he bore the nickname "Illu" amongst his friends.
 * Her magic ability, Foresight, is a reference to Eino having never been hit by enemy fire.


 * Eila's middle name, Ilmatar, is not only a play on "Ilmari", her archetype's middle name, but is also a reference to the air goddess Ilmatar, from the Finnish mythological epic the Kalevala. The thematic connection between the witches and wind spirits is strong, but not confirmed.
 * Aside from using the gender-neutral "watashi" to refer to herself, Eila uses exclusively masculine vocabularies and syntaxes in the Japanese version.