Yeon Yihwa

Yeon Yihwa (연이화, Yeon Yihwa; or "Yun Eehwa") is a member of the Yeon Family one of the 10 Great Families. She is currently a Regular on the 28th Floor, participating in the tests.

Appearance and Personality
Yihwa is a tall, teenage girl, with straight black hair often held in place by her hairband which has the symbol of the Yeon Family on it. Yihwa appears to dislike being accused of being traitorous. Also, she's rather naive, drinking a drink offered to her from Prince without thinking twice and likely, she assumed no one would dare to harm a noble from a Great Family. Lastly, she's generally hot-tempered, with her frustrations mainly showing between Viole and Wangnan. She is insecure over her powers, leading her to call herself a "defective product" as a member of Yeon Family who couldn't control her powers, though Akraptor reassures her that "compared to [the other defective products on their team]", she was on the "useful" side.



Powers and Abilities
Her flames are revealed in Chapter 91 in the test "A Trustworthy Room" to be mostly a pinkish shade, as well as tinted with violet, blue, and sparks of white.

She claims her unrestrained flames are enough to cause the Rankers in her family trouble. She has trouble controling her flames, as she fully admits during her conversation with Akraptor in Chapter 27 Vol 2, and calls herself a 'defective product' because of that. In Chapter 40 Vol 2, Yihwa is seen using her flames to knock out four opponents with a mini-explosion during a test.

Tower of God: Part 2 - The Return of the Prince
She passed the Survival Round as a member of Prince's helpers, then came 3rd in the next test with a score of 22,384. This, even though being extremely high, apparently puts her to shame, because she missed. Apparently, if she had hit something with focus, the strength would have been immeasurable. Even though she can create strong flames, she seems to have poor control over her Shinsoo. This is shown when she ended up burning and eliminating all her team mates (including Ja Wangnan) in her previous retry on the 20th Floor. It seems to happen quite a lot and is likely, the main reason why she is stuck on the 20th Floor. She is also clumsy, which can be seen during the Shinsoo challenge test where she kept tripping and nearly falling over.



In [http://towerofgod.wikia.com/wiki/Ch._89:_20F_-_Bath_(1)?action=edit&redlink=1 Ch. 89], she decides to try to team up with Viole in order to pass the test. Failing one more time would bring shame to her family. She plotted to use him and then after the test, she could eliminate him by seizing any openings. This way, she could avoid being thrown out of the Family for teaming up with an FUG member. So far she has been extremely unsuccessful in getting close to Viole.

She seems to be quite proud of being a member of the Yeon Family, as well as having a nice, appealing body (in her opinion). This last point is turning to be a running gag. In Ch. 88, she declared bluntly that she had a bigger chest than Ja Wangnan. In Ch. 90, she decides to eliminate Viole during the next test after hearing that he had no interest in her body. The running gag is that she becomes furious at Viole for his lack of interest in her body and not because she was sharing a room with a male member of FUG. Basically, she wanted Viole to desire her (or her body). She had her pride as a woman and believed she was superior to other females because of her heritage. Thus, she expected to be desired and was furious when he bluntly rejected her advances.

She initially mistook Viole for a girl and called him "Miss Grace," probably because she had only roomed with other females. However, she received a rude shock when "Miss Grace" walked into the spa section meant for males.



She tried to stop Viole from attacking the other Regulars to get through, but her flames were easily stopped.



Later two Regulars managed to control her. In that marionette state she released her flames which caused havoc around her and forced Prince, who unknowingly helped those two, to run away from her to his room. Yihwa is forced to attack Horyang who showed up to Prince's room in order to rescue him, but she stopped once she was freed by Viole.

Yeon passed the 20th Floor test after surviving Mule Love's challenge. She currrently believes that people from FUG are bad people who are not to be trusted; however, she is also one of Viole's teammates while knowing that he is a member of FUG.

She is currently on the 21st floor where she teamed up with Viole and the people that passed the 20th floor test with her. She decided to take the 21st floor test with rest of her teammate. During the test it was found out that the other teams ran away after hearing that Viole/Baam is on their team. The test administrator decides to creates a new test for the team. The team has to now find Zygaena's flower, a gem which grows inside of Zygaena. Yeon Yihwa entered Zygaena with the rest of her teammates to search for the flower. She was left behind when Viole ran on ahead after he sensed the presence of someone with uncommon power, who turned out to be no less than the infamous Irregular, Urek Mazino.

She joins the team in the effort to fight Urek, but they are unable to stop him. Later, after the encounter ended, she learns that the Yeon Family on the 21st Floor has been eliminating Zygaena's babies by picking the flower to prevent their growth. She becomes depressed by this but is motivated by HwaRyun into taking action. She now desires to correct her family's wrongs when she becomes a ranker.

Notes and Trivia

 * She has failed the 20th Floor Test on more than one occasion.
 * She was the sole person at fault for causing Ja Wangnan to fail an attempt at the 20th Floor Test.
 * As it has been comically noted by many, it seems that Yihwa has began to develop romantic feelings for Viole, aka. Baam. It's still too early to define though.
 * As shown here, whenever Yihwa and Viole are together, Yihwa starts out with tights, which have mysteriously vanished by the time Viole leaves.


 * One of her nicknames is "Hellion", a type of unit in Starcraft 2. It also is a fancy word which means fire.
 * Another of her nicknames is "Yeon Family's Flare"
 * The author, SIU, has stated that she's the main comic relief for Part II; being conned and exploited wherever she goes, even though she's second only to Viole in terms of fighting ability (a possible contender for second is Horyang).
 * She is slightly sexist, by the nature of her family.
 * She is often made fun of because of her cooking abilities. Her teammates often try to prevent her from doing her share of cooking.
 * Yeon later learns how to make barbeque without burning it. Her teammates has an open barbeque party every weekend to celebrate her accomplishment.