Elaborating Ellikins

Family and Youth

Mina is a first generation Korean-Japanese girl, born to her Korean immigrant parents in Yokohama, Japan. Despite her parents giving her a Japanese name, Mina pushes against the strict Japanese society expectations and likes to go by her family's Korean name instead.

Unfortunately her parents were never really interested in having a kid, but kept her out of obligation and fear of neighborhood gossip. Mina's father is poor with his finances and loves to gamble while also operating an import/export business. Mina's mother has a drinking problem and an apathetic view on her responsibilities. As Mina grew up, they realized her ability to be perfectly fluent in Japanese is an asset and Mina ended up helping her father close business deals at various docks on his behalf. Funnily enough, including schooling, Yokohama having ports and an American military base not too far off, has also helped Mina learn to speak English over time.

Mina has a love and passion for dance. As Mina also got older, she found the stuffy rules of school and xenophobic bullying exhausting, so she would often skip school and hang out with the street dancer in the lively, cultural hub that is Yokohama. Mina loves to explore Western music, always on the hunt for the next song with a strong beat to dance to.

Awakening Supernova

At age 14, Mina awakens her Stand after being cornered by bullies after school. When one bully goes to punch her, Supernova caught the bully's fist and used the same force the bully used back onto the group of bullies in a bright flash of light and force and scared them off. Mina had no idea about Stands and thinking she was being haunted by a space alien, no one would believe her if she explained it. But given that this alien had always protected her, she was grateful for it and felt a little less alone when life got hard. Mina names her Stand herself a few weeks after awakening it, calling it Supernova for its graceful, alien-like look and its attacks looking like supernovas.

How She Joins the Stardust Crusaders

Since she skips school anyway, her father says she needs to earn her keep and is sent out to Singapore to close out a deal with another shady business man. But when handing over the cash, instead of giving Mina the product her father is owed, the man takes off running with the money! Mina takes off after him, weaving through crowds and alleyways to catch him. But at the exact same time this is unfolding, the Stardust Crusaders are running after another Enemy Stand User. Mina rounds a corner and runs right into the stand user, Supernova is quick to appear, catch the man and uses all that force he ran into Supernova with, and blast him through a shop window.

This is a huge favor for the Stardust Crusaders, but they are hesitant to find another stand user that will take down DIO's minions out of no where. In all the shuffle, Mina lost sight of her man and she is livid. Mina now doesn't have enough cash to follow the man to the Red Sea, let alone catch a flight back home.

Realizing this is just a teenaged girl, Joseph feels bad for a her to be left stranded. But he is also seeing an opportunity for some more help, and offers her to tag along as they are also heading for the Red Sea. Mina is eager to take the offer, regardless of how foolish joining 5 strange men is, because she is dead set on getting her father's money back. Learning that many people also have protective aliens, learning how to use her own, and fighting other bad guys with secret aliens is all a small price to pay for a free ride to her goal.