Menat

Menat (メナト) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing in the second DLC season of Street Fighter V. She is a young Egyptian fortune teller residing in Italy and the Soul Power wielding apprentice of Rose.

Appearance
Menat is a slim woman with dark skin and green eyes. She has short dark purple hair styled into a bob with blunt bangs covering her entire forehead. She wears soft purple lipstick and eye shadow.

Her outfits are in Egyptian motif; she wears a dark purple short sleeved leotard with gold and neon blue accents and a purple sash in both of her shoulders. Her waist resembles a side belt, a blue and gold necklace and a gold tiara on her head. On her feet are a pair of thigh high stockings, with the heels and toes cut out.

Her first alternate costume has her wearing a long magenta hooded sleeveless revealing dress with gold accents and a gold Egyptian necklace on her neck.

Her second alternate costume has her wearing a white mummified revealing suit and matching thigh high boots. Her bob lengthens into shoulder length and she wears a traditional Egyptian headdress on her head.

Personality
She can act a bit empty headed at times, yet she has a polite yet serious attitude. She travels the globe to understand various premonitions. However in her character story, she appears as childish, energetic and bubbly and also aspires her master Rose as she imitates both her voice and her actions. But during her battle against Aprile and lower ranked Shadaloo soldiers, she becomes annoyed showing her dislike towards annoying people. She is also unaware of Aprile's physical appearance when she runs into the Shadaloo's main base since both her and Aprile's brother Maggio are currently searching for her.

Street Fighter V
First seen in Ed's character story, Menat (originally listed as a female fortune teller) appears behind Ed, warning him about his fate and that he and someone else would come across hard times. This also happens in her character story where she is behind Ed but in a live and bubbly tone to show her crystal ball to him much to the latter's annoyance and wants to know who she is. After Ed is defeated, Menat warns him about his fate before disappearing.

She was later revealed that her job to predict some other people she comes across as part of her errands and remember the words her master Rose had told her. She also meets the Senjutsu master, Oro who calls him as a Mr. Hermit due to his elderly appearance and becomes absent minded when she told him about her predictions which Oro knows it. Afterwards, she noticed about her crystal ball which it glowed and it's not just about Ed but Bison. She was confronted by lower ranked Shadaloo soldiers including Aprile. After she defeats them in annoyance, she warns them about Bison's fate before escaping. Later, Aprile and the others inform Bison about Menat's presence as a fortune teller and stating that to resist to change one fate that is what true power is as he laughs maniacally.

Menat is currently working together with Maggio, a young man who is searching for his sister Aprile.

Fighting style and abilities
Menat fights using Soul Power like Rose so her abilities are somewhat similar to her teacher. Menat uses a floating orb to attack her opponents with.

Moveset
Her V-Trigger is the Wisdom of Thoth as she summons six orbs with her soul power and each orb is linked to her normal attacks. Pressing and releasing of a normal attack sends the orb linked to that attack flying at the opponent. She can release any orb by using a different normal.

Her V-Skill is a form of Soul Reflect known as Kamal. While the crystal sphere is retracted, this lets her reflect the average projectile back at the opponent. If the crystal ball was sent out into battle prior to using her V-Skill, this will absorb the projectile to help build up her V-Gauge. This can also be used to launch the opponent into the air to help extend combos.

Her V-Reversal is The Left Eye of the Lion.

Her Critical Art is the Nefertem as she unleashes her full extent of her power by controlling a single soul orb to ensnare her opponent on multiple hits to make critical damage.

Trivia

 * The name Menat was a name used for the goddess Hathor. With a slightly different hieroglyphic spelling, it referred to an ancient Egyptian artifact which was closely connected with the goddess Hathor. It was used as a protective amulet, meant to ensure good luck and fortune and to protect against evil spirits.


 * Menat does a few poses where she mimics a cat, which is an homage to Egyptian culture where they worshipped cats.


 * Menat is the first playable character from the Street Fighter series that comes from Egypt and that has green eyes.


 * Menat is the fifth newcomer in Street Fighter V (after Necalli, Rashid, Laura and F.A.N.G) and the game's second new female fighter after Laura (Kolin previously appeared as an NPC in Street Fighter III).


 * Menat is also the series' second playable fortune teller after Rose, her teacher. Addtionally, she is also the second playable fighter to use Soul Power.


 * Menat is often compared by fans to Viola from Soul Calibur V in terms of skill, Eliza from Skullgirls in terms of design and Zafina from the Tekken series who shares her role as a fortune teller.

Gallery
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Quotes
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