Elizabeth Delmas

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Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas is a mean, prissy, spoiled and popular student at Kadic. She often pesters Team Lyoko, most of the time to win Ulrich or Odd's affections. However, it seems that her mean actions toward Team Lyoko is an attempt to gain attention and respect from them, as she admits in Holiday in the Fog, much to her tearfulness. She is very obnoxious, annoying, and much of a control freak and a spoiled brat, but nevertheless manages to always have two cronies by her side. She is also the daughter of Mr. Delmas, the principal of Kadic, the boarding school she attends and lives in. She even has her own room there.

[edit] Description

Not much is known about Sissi's family life except that her mother is supposedly dead (this is evidenced in Contact). She is approximetely 13 years of age, and is currently in the eighth grade (though she was in the seventh during the first two seasons).

Sissi's voice is very high and childish, as well as bratty. She often whines and yells at her father, but can soften her tone just a bit in times of valiance, as seen in Satellite.

In her school life, Sissi is often depicted as a bully and all-around bad girl. She is quite mean to the Lyoko Warriors, particularly Yumi, Ulrich's crush, as well as Ulrich himself in some, if not most, respects. He doesn't have a loving opinion of her because of her crass behavior toward him. Her two "friends" are Herb and Nicholas, who follow her around and usually just stand there unless Sissi tells them to follow her. Herb actually is in love with Sissi, he even modeled his robot, the Iron Sissi, after her, but she doesn't seem to notice, and only reincorporates his feelings for her in life and death situations, that is, during XANA attacks. She is sometimes even the target of the attacks, be it primary or secondary. In Claustrophobia, it is shown she flirts with Theo, but Herb's intervention, and a time reversion, prevents a romantic relationship.

Being the principal's daughter grants her something of a free reign at Kadic, since she can convince her father to let her and other people get away with things that they normally wouldn't, though there are a few exceptions. Team Lyoko has often had to rely on her as either a distraction or a tool of manipulation over the principal. Possibly the only time when she could not convince her father to do something was in Satellite, when he banned the use of cell phones, and did not permit Team Lyoko to get theirs back (Sissi's phone was accidentally broken by the principal, who was trying to fix it.), to which, in retaliation, she started a protest to bring them back by force, showing clear disobedience but also bravery.

Sissi is often portrayed as the primary antihero, the foil to Team Lyoko's plans, and the "brat" that all school-related TV shows, books, and movies have. Nevertheless, she has various talents that sometimes benefit (or counterbenefit) Team Lyoko's wishes. She can also show a sweet side that can make her appear sweet on the outside. She is spoiled often by her overaffectionate dad, yet she gets into arguments and confrontations with him a lot. Sissi is also commented to have a not-so-excellent mental capacity and is very infantile, by Odd usually, but after he unknowingly dates her in Deja Vu, this seems to change for the better in the later seasons.

Sissi is a good actress, or at least tries to be, as she played a part in James Finson's film in End of Take and was the star (and director) of the play in Laughing Fit. She is also good at controlling people, silencing the entire school in Teddygozilla and the science class in Amnesia, as well as constantly manipulating the actions of Herb and Nicholas. She can also moderatly operate computers, as seen in Ultimatum, when she controlled the Supercomputer during a XANA attack. It is because of this high-and-mighty attitude that Ulrich hates Sissi in the first season. An example of this would be in Zero Gravity Zone, where he orders her to keep silent because her talking was getting on his nerves.

She, on a few occasions at best, often considers Team Lyoko to be "inferiors" or "losers", even considering Ulrich to be as such too. She even considers Herb and Nicholas to be as such, even though they are the only ones who care about her (or what she thinks, for that matter).

Sissi claims also to be a master of fashion. The clothes she wears are always "in", as hinted by Tamiya in Big Bug, and she changes them accordingly. For example, she has gotten new shirts in the second season, most likely because the fashion changed, as did the time period of the show. A simulation of Sissi in Ghost Channel wore a yellow shirt because it was "in". However, the design of her shirt rarely changes; she almost always can be seen wearing a belly shirt with some sort of design on the front of it; hearts and stars are the two seen so far. She also has a dressing table and tons of cosmetics and beauty supplies in her room. She has been seen in her pink panties in Teddygodzilla and another episode in the later season.

Some fans see her as a candidate Lyoko Warrior, even writing fanfics with her as a warrior. As a matter of fact, she refused to come when Ulrich invited her to come with him to Lyoko. Maybe she lost Ulrich's heart in the same time. However, her fighting abilities, if any, are far below William's or Yumi's, so Yumi in XANA Awakens and William in Double Trouble were better choices. Still, one can never tell by appearances.

Sissy became Editor in Chief of the Kadic News Crew in William Returns.

[edit] Behind the scenes

Like how Odd is voiced by two actors, Sissi is voiced by two actresses. In the first through fourth episodes, Christine Flowers provides Sissi's bratty voice (giving her voice a much brattier inflection). In episodes five through ninety-seven, Jodi Forrest provides her voice. This voice for Sissi, however, is less "bratty" and much easier for people to relate to.

Team Lyoko
Jeremie Belpois | Aelita | Odd Della Robbia | Yumi Ishiyama | Ulrich Stern | Kiwi | Franz Hopper
Secondary Characters
Elizabeth Delmas | Jim Morales | Herb Pichon | Nicholas Poliakoff | Ms. Hertz | Mrs. Hopper
Villains
XANA | William Dunbar | Monster