Lisanna Strauss

For Lisanna's Edolas Counterpart see Lisanna (Edolas)

Lisanna Strauss (リサーナ・ストラウス Risāna Sutorausu) is a Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild, the younger sister of Elfman and Mirajane, and a childhood friend of Natsu Dragneel.

Appearance
Lisanna is a young petite girl with short, white hair and blue eyes. As a young girl, Lisanna wore a simple, pink dress paired with dark red shoes. Before being sent to Edolas, her hair was a bit longer, and she wore a short, dark red dress with a white collar and bow. Up on her arms above her elbows, she wore gold rings with a pale pink fabric flowing down from it. She wore tall, black socks along with brown shoes. In Edolas, Lisanna wore a tank top with crossed straps with a longer skirt. A sash with the Fairy Tail mark was tied around her waist and she wore sandals. Her hair was also worn shorter than it was in Earthland. After Lisanna arrives back in Earthland, she wears a light-blue striped shirt, with green short-shorts and sneakers.

Her member stamp was originally red, and it was located on her left arm just below the shoulder, however, when she was being sucked into the Anima, her member stamp disappeared. In Edolas she changed her stamp to be white and is now located on her left thigh.

Personality
When Lisanna was younger, she seemed to be very kind like Elfman was as a child. She wanted to help Natsu Dragneel raise an unknown egg to see what comes out of it, being a little more knowledgeable on it than Natsu. After seeing a softer side of the usually flamboyant Natsu, she stated that he was a lot like her sister and joked that perhaps later she should become his bride/wife which predictably freaked him out. Whilst raising the egg with him, he learnt that she was "impossible" to win an argument with. Lisanna apparently likes animals (especially cats) but she hates studying. Because of her personality, she can easily adjust and be accepted by anyone.

History
Sometime in her younger years, Lisanna's parents died and so she, along with her two siblings, joined the Fairy Tail Guild. She was around 11 years old at the time. In the year X782, she almost lost her life while trying to revert Elfman after his full-body Take Over went out of control. When Elfman tried to Take Over the Beast, he lost control of himself in the new state, and Lisanna, confronted him, trying to calm him down. Elfman's Beast Soul form however, hit her and made her fly several meters away, but then, Elfman reverted back to himself. Lisanna is shown in her dying moments holding her sister's hand, but she actually didn't die. Mirajane was tending her wound when Anima opened and took her into Edolas. When she regained conscious, she found herself to a different Fairy Tail Guild. Everyone at the guild believed that she was the Lisanna they knew, and welcomed her back with a smile. From their reaction, she deduce that their Lisanna had passed away. She just couldn't say anything, and pretended to be their Lisanna.

Edolas arc
When Lisanna saw Lucy Ashley bullying who she thought was Natsu Dragion and Elfman being scolded by Jet and Droy, she told them to stop. She was then surprised by Natsu's behavior towards her. When Natsu begin to explain that he came from Earth Land to save their companions, she was hiding behind the bar, and eventually ran outside. Realizing that he's the Natsu that she knows and loves, Lisanna began to cry, but not wanting to hurt the Edolas's Mirajane and Elfman feelings, she made the difficult decision and decided to stay in Edolas herself.

During the battle against the Royal Army, she ran out along with all the guild members and fought with a staff. She cheered up Natsu Dragion during the battle. However, when the Anima began to take the living beings with Magic inside away, she began to glow. Lisanna tried to explain, but Mirajane and Elfman of Edolas revealed that they already knew. Elfman said that they already noticed, but just couldn't say it, and apologized. Mirajane then said that she's like their Lisanna, someone who's really kind, and thus she can't let her real siblings cry anymore. As Lisanna tearfully screamed out their names, Mirajane asked her to give them their regards.

Back on Earth Land, Pantherlily found and caught Lisanna for being a suspicious character. When everyone saw her, the whole group, especially Natsu, was surprised by her appearance. She asks Pantherlily if he is an Exceed, to which he replies by stating his name, and Gajeel angrily asks her if she is picking a fight with his cat. She then noticed Natsu, and immediately ran up to him, her hug ramming him down to the ground, in blushes and tears similar as to what he tried to do when he saw her.

She then hugs Happy, and was glad to see Gray and Erza as well. She notices Lucy and Wendy too, and deduces they must be the real Earth Land versions of their counterparts back in Edolas. Gray then asked if she's Lisanna of Earth Land, to which she replied yes. Everyone was further shocked, and Happy and Natsu happily tried to hug her, but Erza stopped them stated that Lisanna died two years ago. Lisanna then explained the truth to everyone about how Anima absorbed her when Mirajane tried to heal her. Natsu asked why didn't she tell the truth when they first met, to which Lisanna said that she couldn't bear the weight of hurting her adopted siblings.

At Chaldea Cathedral, Mirajane and Elfman were standing beside Lisanna's grave, two years since Lisanna's apparent death. Suddenly, they were surprised to hear the voice of a girl they knew. Turning around, their eyes widen, and all of them cried as they hugged each other for the first time in two years.

Tenrou Island arc
Lisanna returns back to the guild and mentions numerous changes such as the guild Mirajane's personality. When everyone was discussing Edolas, she mention how Natsu's counterpart was more sensitive, cried a lot from being picked on, and was really cute. This made everyone laugh to the point that they wanted to see a Natsu who was the exact opposite of theirs. After one of the normal, all guild fights, she is seen asleep with her siblings.

A few days later Lisanna and Wendy watch on as the guild members take up numerous jobs. During the time she and Wendy learn that Carla now has better control of her visions and even asked Carla if she can see who will marry her in the future. Though Carla mentions that she can't see too far in the future yet. A day later, she watch the ceremony of the S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial and is seen calling good luck to Elfman when he's chosen. Moments after she is seen with team Natsu and others, commenting on how Natsu wants to become S-Class to find Igneel. She then decides to become Juvia's partner, due to the good relationship she has with Edolas Juvia, this made Elfman angry because he thought she will be he's as she tell him that Evergreen has been watching him for a while proposing he should be teaming up with her.

As the participants head towards the island, Lisanna is among the group barely standing the heat. Shortly after the master arrives to explain the rules of the first trial. When the first trial started she and Juvia hit a delay because Freed used a rune on the boat, which prevents everyone from leaving for five minutes. As soon as the rune was released, she transformed into a fish and swam with Juvia to the island. Lisanna and Juvia chose route D as they got to the island and encountered Erza as their opponent. However, despite a tedious fight, Erza overcame both of them, eliminating her and Juvia from the trial.

Lisanna and Juvia then met up with Mira and Erza, at a tent and hear of Mira's defeat to Elfman and Evergreen when they said they were getting married. While Mira thinks there is nothing going on between them, Lisanna still thinks that they go well together. When everyone remembering Freed and Bickslow heading back to the guild, they wonder about Mest and Wendy. Lisanna then says that she has never met Mest in Edolas, so she doesn't know anything about him and asked if he joined in the last two years. However everyone doesn't seem to notice or remember anything about him joining. She and Mirajane later presumably see the the warning signal that was launched by Erza warning of enemies. Grimoire Heart members then arrive, and Lisanna and Mirajane dispatch all of them in their immediate vicinity. Azuma then confronts the pair, and though Mirajane tells her to get back, Lisanna says she will fight.

Azuma begins using his Great Tree Arc Magic to attack Mirajane and Lisanna. Lisanna is amazed at Azuma's incredible Magical power, but says that she isn't going to hold back and uses Animal Soul: Wings and tries to attack Azuma with the claws. Azuma grabs it effortlessly and Lisanna transforms into a giant penguin to try to smash Azuma, but he evades it. Mirajane is surprised that her sister can chain Take Overs instantly and asks herself since when has she been able to do such a high level technique. Lisanna transforms by using Animal Soul: Rabbit and Azuma uses Brevi. From the smoke, Lisanna as a giant bird takes flight, and in the sky, she transforms into a tigress. She falls to the ground and tries attacking Azuma with continuous scratches, which he evades and then attacks her with an explosion.

Immediately, the pair gets wounded by an explosion. Lisanna then tells her sister to change to her Satan Form. Azuma, recognizing Mirajane as the Demon Mirajane from this, requests a formal battle with her. Lisanna prepares to stay and fight but Mirajane tells her to get back. Because Mirajane didn't properly respond to Azuma, Azuma traps Lisanna in a set of roots and places a 180 second timed bomb on the roots, saying that the only way for Lisanna to get out is if he is defeated. Mirajane then changes to her Demon Form and begins battling Azuma. However, she constantly checks back on the timer despite Lisanna telling her not to, thereby losing focus in the battle. After the timer hits 19, the heavily wounded Mirajane stops engaging Azuma and runs back to Lisanna, hugging her and telling her she won't let her die. The explosion then occurs, and after that, Lisanna finds Mirajane on top of her, unresponsive. She starts crying out her name. She is then seen with Levy and they tend to Mirajane and Gajeel.

As Elfman comes with Evergreen, Lisanna says that its all her fault and Levy tells her that they must combine their strength to defeat the enemy. Lisanna is seen when Pantherlily arrives telling Levy and her that Natsu and the others are on their way. Soon after, Rustyrose shows up and challenges her along with Pantherlily and Lisanna to battle. She is later seen when she notices Bluenote's Magic. When Freed and Bickslow arrive she is both shocked and happy to see them and marvels at the true power of the Thuder God Tribe.

Lisanna along with Pantherlily and Levy warn Freed and Bickslow to be careful when Rustyrose attacks them with his spell, Ghost of the Britear. She is later seen when she collapses when Azuma uproots the tree on Tenrou Island, that protects and gives power to Fairy Tail members. After Erza defeats Azuma, the battle between Freed, Bickslow and Rustyrose resumes. Cornered, Rustyrose uses the same attack he used to defeat Evergreen and Elfman, the Tower of Dingir, and Lisanna, Levy and Pantherlily get caught in the attack too. However, Elfman frees them after he is possessed by Bickslow, and he unexpectedly hits Rustyrose from behind. Lisanna uses her Magic to transform her arms into wings and teams up with Freed, giving him with her legs a boost and the strength to quickly fly towards Rustyrose and give him the finishing blow, putting an end to the battle.

After Grimoire Heart is defeated, Lisanna, with the rest of Fairy Tail, scares off Grimoire Heart members who were about to attack Happy and Carla. After they flee the guild celebrates their victory and return to camp. At camp, she plays with Natsu's hair who has passed out from the side effect of eating lightning. Later on, Lisanna is being playfully teased by Laxus, stretching her cheeks, wondering if she was really Lisanna.

Everthing is interrupted when the "Black Dragon of the Apocalypse", Acnologia lands on the island and starts its rampage. Lisanna flees with the guild after Makarov defends the dragon from the guild by himself. Lisanna shortly returns with the guild to help Makarov though. Eventually the dragon flies into the air, tired of the battle, and prepares a final attack to destroy the island. All the Fairy Tail members on the island hold hands, in an attempt to negate the attack by using defensive Magic. It fails as Acnologia fires its Dragon Breath, completely destroying Tenrou Island.

X791 arc
Lisanna along with the rest of the others then return to the Fairy Tail Guild after being found by Bisca, Alzack, Jet, Droy, Max, Warren and the Trimens from Blue Pegasus. She watches as Mavis Vermilion reveals that she was the one who saved them and then disappears. She, along with the other returning members, is welcomed back by Romeo.

When the guild celebrates the return of their missing members, Lisanna asks Alzack and Bisca if they have any children. They reveal that they have one daughter named Asuka. Later, after the guild decides to join the Grand Magic Games, Lisanna together with her team mates, Mirajane, Elfman, and Cana, hiked out to the mountain to train themselves and enhance their power.

Magic and Abilities
Take Over: Animal Soul (Animaru Soru): Like Elfman and Mirajane, Lisanna uses Take Over Magic. Hers is based on transforming into animals and hybrid-animal forms. She can use her Take Over transformations in a variety of ways, and was seen augmenting her physical capabilities and parameters during combat through their use. Lisanna is able to chain five Take Overs instantly when she fights with Azuma. According to Mirajane, this is a high level technique.


 * Animal Soul: Bird: Lisanna resembles a bird with green and pinkish feathers. She used this form to raise and warm an egg that Natsu found in a forest. (Unnamed)
 * Animal Soul: Wings: Lisanna can change only her arms into wings and fly whilst retaining the rest of her human features. (Unnamed)
 * Animal Soul: Half Bird: Lisanna can change only her arms and lower body into wings and fly whilst retaining the rest of her human features. (Unnamed)
 * Animal Soul: Rabbit: Lisanna transformed herself into a giant purple rabbit in order to build the hideout that was meant to hatch Natsu's egg. Was later used in Juvia and her's battle against Erza.
 * Animal Soul: Fish: Lisanna takes on the form of a small fish that gives her the ability to swim and breathe underwater. (Unnamed)
 * Animal Soul: Tigress: Lisanna partially takes on the form of a tigress. In this state, she is mostly humanoid, with longer hair and some amount of striped skin concentrated around her forearms, as well as feline-like pads on the surface of her palms and sharp claws at her finger tips. She also sports tigress' ears, whiskers, a small feline nose, and a long tail, but otherwise retains her human features. In this state, her attire changes as well: Lisanna appears to be garbed in a tiger-skin, 2-piece bikini. While in this form, she uses fierce scratches from her claws to overwhelm meager opponents into submission.
 * Animal Soul: Penguin: Lisanna resembles a form of a giant penguin. Because of her weight, she can smash her opponent or attack her.

Equipment
Edolas Magic Staff (former): In Edolas, Lisanna used an unnamed Magic staff.

Magic Sword (former): In the anime, Lisanna's Edolas weapon was instead a purple and white sword with a scroll-like cloth swirling around it.

Natsu Dragneel
Natsu and Lisanna are childhood friends who grew up together in the Fairy Tail guild. Lisanna loves Natsu dearly, so much so that when she saw that he was the Earth Land version that had arrived in Edolas,she was driven to tears at seeing him again and not being able to tell him who she was. When she arrives back in earth land and sees Natsu she tackles him to the ground in joy and cries tears of hapiness. Despite her strong feelings towards him she feels no jealousy about him being around or having strong bonds with other girls like Lucy, instead wanting the girl to stay close to him and give him strength. She has unshakable faith in Natsu and his abilities.

Mirajane
Lisanna is closest to her older sister Mirajane. She loves her sister so deeply that she decided to take the identity of Edolas Lisanna to avoid making her Edolas siblings cry. When she returned to Earth Land, she joyfully ran into her shocked sisters arms. Since her return she has stuck close to both her siblings, even during the S-class trials.

Elfman
Like Her sister, Lisanna has a strong bond with her brother Elfman, taking his overprotectivness in stride and never blaming him for attacking her. Their bond is strong enough that he was angry that she chose not to be his partner for the S-class trial.

Lucy Heartfilia
Though they have not interacted much, Lisanna and Lucy get along well and Lisanna shows no jealousy towards Lucy and her close bond with Natsu. She seems to have faith in Lucy and her ability to bring out Natsu's strength, telling her when team Natsu and Wendy leaves to fight Hades.

Juvia Lockser
Lisanna has already being good friends with Edolas Juvia, Lisanna becomes fast friends with Earth Land Juvia, going so far as to becoming partners with her during the S-class trial. They work well as a team though they were still no match for Erza's strength.

Erza Scarlet
Lisanna has a friendly, if not close relationship with Erza partly due to her sister's rivalry with the girl and warning her siblings not to interact with her. Her relationship with Erza seems good enough that Erza was shocked and happy for her return to the guild.

Gray Fullbuster
Lisanna seems to have a friendly realationship with with Gray due to them being the same age. There realationship was close enough that Gray shed tears when he saw she had returned.

Major Battles

 * Gray Fullbuster, Lucy Heartfilia, Coco & Edolas Fairy Tail vs. Edolas Royal Army
 * Juvia Lockser & Lisanna vs. Erza Scarlet
 * Mirajane & Lisanna vs. Azuma
 * Freed Justine, Bickslow & Lisanna vs. Rustyrose
 * Fairy Tail vs. Acnologia

Quotes

 * (To Natsu Dragneel ) "When we grow up... Can I be your wife?!"
 * (To herself) "I can't be found out... I don't want to make Mira-sis and the others sad again. I have to hold it in! I will live out my life in Edolas..."
 * ( To Natsu) "Hey... If I disappear again sometime... Will you come and find me, Natsu?"
 * (To Lucy Heartfilia) "Make sure you always stay close to Natsu. When the comrades he trusts are near him... Natsu gets even stronger."

Trivia

 * In the anime, it shows Lisanna was presumed killed when a berserk Elfman smacked her and sent her flying into the forest.
 * Shinji Ishihira, the anime director for Fairy Tail, stated he purposefully left the matter of her death up in the air in the anime in the hopes that she was alive, which is proven to be true as of chapter 199.
 * On Lisanna's grave, it revealed that she was born on X768 and supposedly died in X782. Her guild card mentions she is currently 17. This would mean Lisanna was 15 before she was sent to Edolas and 17 by the end of Edolas arc since Erza stated she apparently died two years ago.
 * In the anime Lisanna's grave is located both at her childhood base where she and Natsu raised Happy's egg, because Natsu made a grave of his own for Lisanna and in the Cathedral Church. In the manga, her grave is shown only in the courtyard of Cathedral Church.
 * Lisanna's guild member stamp in the anime was located on her left upper arm and was red, but the stamp disappeared when she got sucked into the Anima. After she is in Edolas, it is seen that she got re-stamped on her left upper leg, colored white, the same place and colour as her older sister, Mirajane's.
 * When she was a child her dress was seen as pink in the anime but in the manga it's illustrated as a grayish blue.
 * Her grave at Kardia Cathedral read: Lisanna beloved sister and friend to animal souls. X768 ~ X782
 * The anime and manga portrayed Lisanna's clothes while in Edolas differently.