Azucena Ortiz

Azucena
Full Name	Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo
Also Known as	Perfect Blend Coffee Queen (self-proclaimed)
Status	Alive
Fighting Style	Mixed Martial Arts (Striker)
Origin	Peru
Height	171 cm (5′7¼″) (TK8)
Weight	61 kg (134 lbs) (TK8)
Eyes	Grey-blue
Hair	Dark brown
Likes	Coffee
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Date of birth	June 30th
Occupation	Coffee Farmer MMA Fighter Dancer Model
Hobby	Fighting Dancing
Game Appearances	Tekken 8
Voice Actors	Marisa Contreras

Please note: This name is Spanish; The first or paternal surname is “Ortiz” and the second or maternal family name is “Castillo”.

Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo (アズセナ・ミラグロス・オルティス・カスティーリョ, Azusena Miragurosu Orutisu Kasutīryo^?) is a character in the Tekken fighting game series. She was revealed at EVO 2023 alongside Raven and was introduced in Tekken 8 as a playable character.

Biography

Azucena grew up in the mountains of Peru, on the Ortiz Farm, where she learned the trade of coffee farming from her father. It was as a youngster growing up on the coffee plantation that she decided her dream was to be the world's best coffee farmer.

Azucena experimented with cultivating different kinds of coffee plants, but her innovations were continually rejected by adults around her. Despite this, she continued her attempts, until eventually a strain of her coffee beans was awarded the highest rating at an international trade fair. As well as dedicating herself to farming practices, Azucena also cultivated her martial arts, becoming a champion MMA practitioner, and also a successful model and dancer. She attended the best university in the country, and studied business administration there.

Azucena decided to use her martial arts to promote her own coffee brand, and rose to prominence in the American MMA scene, promoting her 'Azucena Blend'. Her business flourished as a result of the promotion, and the next step for her became the international circuit. The King of Iron Fist Tournament, the most popular international fighting tournament, caught her eye. She entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 8 when it was announced and won the Latin America Block preliminary, allowing her to progress to the next round at a coliseum in Italy. She was scouted by G Corporation for a large-scale fight against Yggdrasil and the United Nations' combined forces on Yakushima. Azucena joined G Corporation on the basis that they were good for her coffee brand's optics. She fought Leo Kliesen during the battle. After she and Leo's fight, she discovered that Leo was a coffee-lover, and told them she would send some of her company's new Azucena Morning Blend to them by mail.

Personality

Azucena is a daring woman who always makes the best of a situation. She is regarded as innocent, as well as a fearless fighter. She is unafraid to experiment and attempt new ideas, and easily motivates herself, whether it be for work or to go on adventures. She enjoys practical, academic, and physical pursuits, being fond of refining coffee bean growing, fighting, dancing, and modelling in her spare time, and also holds a degree in business administration.

Azucena has prevailed both as a fighter and business woman through her own determination and hard work, and with limited help from her family, despite them also being in the coffee business. Azucena appears to value brand expansion highly, even being willing to join G Corporation despite their warmongering because they are supposedly good for brand optics.

Befitting her family's occupation, Azucena is obsessed with coffee, considering it to be the best drink in the world.

Outfits

Main article: Azucena Ortiz/Outfits

Story

Tekken 8

TEKKEN 8 — Azucena Reveal & Gameplay Trailer

Abridged Profile
Also known as the Coffee Queen, Azucena is the only daughter of the family running the Ortiz Farm, a Peruvian coffee plantation. She breaks into the world of MMA to serve as the poster child for her family’s farm, where she becomes an MMA champion beloved by her fans for her cheerful personality and fearless fighting style. She decides to compete in The King of Iron Fist Tournament to promote further and boost recognition of the family farm.

Official Website Profile (English & Japanese)
Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo, known better as the "Coffee Queen," is beloved for her innocent personality and her fearless fighting style as an MMA champion. The only daughter of the family who owns Ortiz Farm, a coffee plantation located 2000 meters above sea level, Azucena grew up observing her father's trade and dreamed of becoming the world's best coffee farmer.

To make her dream come true, a young Azucena conducted countless experiments by cultivating new coffee plants based on her novel ideas. Although adults around her rejected her ideas time and again, Azucena used their rejection to motivate herself and continued to refine her daring spirit.

A few years later, Azucena's efforts finally bore fruit, and her coffee beans were awarded the highest quality rating at a world-renowned trade fair, making her a rising star within the industry. Azucena continued to challenge herself using her positive thinking and ingenious ideas to pursue and achieve success both as a model and a dancer. She even studied business administration at the most prestigious university in the country.

However, the caffeine coursing through her body led her to the conclusion that, in order to become the best in the world, one needs not only stability, but adventures as well. A plan suddenly clicked into place for her while she captured a runaway alpaca with one hand and held a cup of coffee in the other. She decided she would use her physical prowess earned from training at high attitudes to break into the American MMA scene and promote her eponymous "Azucena Blend."

Her plan succeeded, and in her first year, Azucena rose to the top of the ranks as champion. All the while, she acted as a walking billboard for the Ortiz Farm, leading to a dramatic increase in the plantation's sales and popularity. As her next step forward, Azucena has turned her attention to The King of Iron Fist Tournament, which has emerged as the world's most popular fighting tournament in recent years.

If she wins, Azucena will be that much closer to becoming best in the world. Although the date for the tournament remains undecided, Azucena is confident that that day is not far away.

"My intuition never fails me!"

Tekken 8 - Azucena Character Episode Ending

Character Episode Prologue
Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo manages Ortiz Farm, a producer of quality coffee beans in Peru.

Believing a PR campaign would revive her flagging business, the young proprietor slammed into the American MMA scene like a comet falling to Earth.

After her debut, Azucena saw The King of Iron Fist Tournament as a means to maintain her trajectory of success.

Given the countless products she'd come up with during her bouts, she decided to join the tournament and further Ortiz Farm's global expansion.

"Nothing like a few rounds in the ring to help me think up new products."

Character Episode Ending
Azucena is in a debate with Lili over whether the former's coffee is better than the latter's tea. When they get an alpaca to test both drinks, the animal refuses entirely, leading to an impasse. Azucena then comes up with an idea that involves mixing both the tea and coffee together. Although Lili is concerned about public reception, Azucena goes forward anyway and gives her concoction to the alpaca, who slurps the entire cup vigorously. Shortly after, an Ortiz Coffee-De Rochefort Tea collaboration product is released to wide acclaim.

Summary of In-Game Events
Azucena is one of the participants of Kazuya's King of Iron Fist Tournament, being the winner of the South America Block. Azucena face Lili during the opening matches in Italy, but the pair's match is made pointless when the tournament is suspended following an attack by Yggdrasil and the United Nations.

Azucena is later scouted by Nina Williams to be one of G Corporation's commanders for the invasion of Yakushima, and Azucena initially leads the assault but is met by Leo Kliesen. During her fight with Leo, however, Azucena is surprised that Leo is actually a fan of her family's coffee, and correctly deduces her opponent to be from Germany. Upon learning this, Azucena chooses to immediately abandon the fight and return home to prepare a special order for Leo instead.

After the battle, she is seen going to Smith Coffee in New York, serving Leroy Smith in the good ending, or Sergei Dragunov in the bad ending.

Gameplay

Azucena is a fast and tricky character whose main mechanic is her taunt-based stances, which allow her to dodge attacks while losing the ability to guard.

Fighting Style

She fights using striker-style MMA.

Moves

• Azucena Ortiz/Tekken 8 Movelist

Quotes

• Azucena Ortiz/Quotes

Character Relationships

• Emilie de Rochefort - Her apparent rival as seen in her Tekken 8 trailer, due to their differences over their respective favorite drink, between Lili's rose tea and Azucena's coffee. Despite their differences, the two do collaborate to create a coffee-rose tea blend in Azucena's ending.
• Leo Kliesen - Both share a love for coffee and have a special battle intro in Tekken 8.

Etymology

• Azucena is one of the Spanish words for "Lily", specifically the Madonna Lily.
• Milagros is Spanish for "Miracle", and was primarily used for one of the Catholic titles of the Virgin Mary, "María de los Milagros". (Our Lady Mary of Miracles).
• Castillo originates from the old Spanish word, "Castiello". Both words mean "Castle".

Trivia

• Azucena is the first Peruvian character in the series.
• Prior to her official reveal, Azucena was among the characters leaked in April of 2023, as well as through information found within the files of the Closed Network Test in July 2023. Additionally, the Bandai Namco EU website prematurely announced both her and Raven a day before their official trailers.
• As a new character for Tekken 8 base game herself, Azucena's reveal trailer was the first trailer to not use the Tekken 8 Arena background music. Instead, it used her home stage's background music. She is later followed by fellow base game new fighters Victor Chevalier's and Reina, who uses their respective home stages' music (Celebration on the Seine and Secluded Training Ground, respectively).
• Azucena is similar to Laura Matsuda from the Street Fighter series personality and appearance wise. Both women are also shown to promote their family businesses to boost its reputation (Azucena promotes coffee while Laura promotes her fictional fighting style of Matsuda Jiu-Jitsu which is based on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu).
• The cup of coffee Azucena can be seen holding has Leroy Smith's branding logo, implying that Leroy and Azucena's family could be business partners.
  • Additionally, advertisements for Ortiz Coffee can be found in Urban Square, right above Smith's Coffee.
• It is revealed in Tekken 8's Story Mode that Azucena has sided with G Corporation, stating that it has greater financial benefits for her.
  • However, she still appears in the good ending's credits, making her both the only ally of G Corporation to appear there, and the only character to appear in the credits regardless of the ending.
• Some of Azucena's moves are similar in animation and utilization to those of Josie Rizal and Katarina Alves.

Gallery

Main article: Azucena Ortiz/Gallery