Sisu

Likes: Swimming, rain, making wisecracks, gifts, shopping, trust and unity, spicy food, Namaari's hair, babies, her friends and family, Kumandra, fishes

Dislikes: Lies, human conflict, Raya's mistrust, the Druun, destroying properties, petrification in Carboniferous, electricity

Inspiration: The Nāga from Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism

Sisu is the deuteragonist of Disney's 2021 animated feature film, Raya and the Last Dragon, later being introduced as main deuteragonist and supporting character in Worldcraft: Chaebol’s Revenge and Weather Dragons: Mongol vs Old World.

Etymology

The word "Sisu" is a Finnish term that can be roughly translated into English as "strength of will", "determination", "perseverance", and "acting rationally in the face of adversity".

Physical Appearance

Sisu is a long, blue, spindly looking dragon with a darker shade on her back and a lighter shade on her stomach, arms, and face. She has short dorsal fins on her back and possesses white-bluish-violet hair as a mane and a small tuft of her at the end of her tail. She has big purple eyes, two dark blue horns on her head, and sharp teeth.

In her human form, Sisu resembles a young Southeastern Asian woman with long, messy, white-bluish-violet hair. She retains her purple eyes, but now has goofy-looking teeth. She wears a blue, long-sleeved robe with a design pattern on it and a white furry collar. Sisu wears gray-colored jeans that stop below the knees and soft blue shoes that reveal her ankles.

Abilities

Coming soon

Personality

Sisu is a kind and fun-loving dragon who loves making wisecracks and speaks in slang. While she is a bit of a goofball, she still is able to recognize when something is of serious consequence and will drop everything to help. She is shown to be somewhat naïve as she does not understand the current human customs such as credit, hot sauce and thinks that most things can be solved with getting someone a gift. However, the latter is her strong suit as she retains her belief that one can be trusted through cohesion and unity. That is to say that she is much more trusting of others.

Although she is quirky, she is wise and intuitive, able to give sound advice when required. She's brave, shown when she fearlessly fights the Fang armies' to defend Raya as well as at approaching Namaari holding a weapon despite the risk of her own life. She is loyal and open-minded, willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt for a chance to redeem themselves. A pure heart, she is forgiving and unable to hold a grudge towards anyone, even befriending Namaari after being revived by her siblings along with the rest of her kind, even though she accidentally killed her prior.

Sisu also demonstrates a certain level of omniscience, as demonstrated by her usage of anachronisms. For example, when describing herself to Raya, she compared herself to a C-grade student.

Background

For the majority of the film, she is the last of her kind. Sisu is a self-deprecating yet comedic water dragon, called upon by Raya to save humanity from a dark force known as the Druun.