Malèna is a kindhearted young Egyptian woman in Stardust Crusaders. When Jean Pierre Polnareff is turned into a child and hurt during his clash with Alessi, she takes him in and nurses him back to health.
An attractive Egyptian woman, Malèna wears her long hair gathered into a ponytail. Her outfit pairs a polka-dotted cloak with a thin dress beneath it, finished with large metal earrings and matching wristbands.
Warm and clearly at ease with children, she looks after the shrunken Polnareff even through his tantrums. After Sethan's power over her is broken, she is genuinely troubled by the boy's sudden disappearance.
She comes across the child-sized Polnareff on the street after Alessi's attack and brings him home to heal, even bathing him. When Sethan reduces her to a fetus, Polnareff races to beat Alessi before she can perish, succeeding but leaving one of his earrings behind in her home. Restored to normal, she goes looking for the boy and, not recognizing the now grown-again Polnareff, asks whether he has seen the child.
Rather than flirt as he so often does with women, Polnareff simply denies having seen the boy and turns away, quietly asking Jotaro to keep the moment to himself, a sign that her kindness had touched him. Noticing they wear the same earring, she is left sensing that this man might have been the child she cared for.

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Malena is a kindhearted young Egyptian woman in Stardust Crusaders who takes in and nurses Jean Pierre Polnareff after Alessi's Stand attack turns him into a child and leaves him hurt.
Malena comes across the child-sized Polnareff on the street after Alessi's attack shrinks him and brings him home to heal, even bathing him during his recovery.
When Alessi's ally Sethan reduces Malena to a fetus, Polnareff races to defeat Alessi before she can perish, and he succeeds, though he leaves one of his earrings behind in her home.
After being restored to normal, Malena does not recognize the now grown-again Polnareff when she asks him if he has seen the missing child, though she notices they wear matching earrings and senses he might be connected to the boy she cared for.
Malena is an attractive Egyptian woman who wears her long hair in a ponytail, dressed in a polka-dotted cloak over a thin dress, with large metal earrings and matching wristbands.
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