Dira

Dira Helena

Dira is a main character in the Dafa & Lulu Universe. As a member of the group, she is adventurous, ambitious, fearless, and persistent. She is brave, reliable, confident, and smart. Dira might be known as the hothead of the group, but deep inside, she's also the kindest.

## Background

   With just one baby brother, Dira lives with her parents. Her father and mother are successful entrepreneurs so they are rarely home, but they are always there for her virtually whenever she needs them.

### Relatives

Dira is the first child in a wealthy family.

* Father: Bertus is Dira's father who works as a businessman. He hardly spends time with Dira due to his busyness.
* Mother: Tassia is Dira's mother who works as a manager in a company. Her busyness usually gets in the way of her spending time with Dira, but she always tries to make it up to her.
* Sammy: Sammy is Dira's little brother who was born when Dira is on the third grade.

### Sekolah Baru!

Dira joins SD Nusantara in the second grade during Sekolah Baru! arc as an ambitious and competitive student. In the third grade, her mother gives birth to a baby boy named Sammy.

### Legenda 8 Batu Sakti

In the Legenda 8 Batu Sakti arc, Dira wields the Indigo Stone of Elements, and is gifted the power of elemental control and combat expert.

## Character Design

### Physical Appearance

Since Dira came from eastern Indonesia, she inherits its ethnicity. Her skin color is dark and she has long twin-tailed curly hair. Dira’s eyes are wide and black. Her body is athletic due to her hobby at sports. She is also a tall girl among her friends.

### Outfit 123

In her daily life when Dira was in the first to third grade, she wears a t-shirt covered with a jeans jumpsuit. All of her clothes are purple. She also wears a bow on her hair. The bow is also purple. When she went to school, Dira wears a uniform and changes her bow to red.

### Outfit 456

When Dira was in the fourth to sixth grade, she wears a black and white striped t-shirt covered with a jeans jumpsuit in her daily. She no longer wears a bow on her hair. Instead, she wears twin hairclips on her hair. She also wears a yellow cloth tied to her waist. Dira wears trousers that folded bottoms. She does it to ease her doing her activities.

### Hero’s Outfit

Dira’s hero outfit is dominated purple which symbolizes royalty and has golden line motives. The golden line on her clothes symbolizes courage and passion in her characteristics.

The purple color in her clothes has gradation. Her shirt, gloves, and boots are colored brighter purple. Meanwhile, her trousers are colored darker purple. Her hero outfit still put the yellow cloth tied to her waist.

## Personality

Dira is ambitious and competitive, but she is the kind of person who is deeply focus on her goal that she neglect everything else. When she moved to SD Nusantara on the second grade, Lulu was the first person whom she study together with. However, Dira felt that Lulu is smarter than her, so she has been trying too hard to compete with Lulu ever since. Her competitive trait also makes her like and excel at individual sports.

> "You are so troublesome, Lulu. How did your shoes fall off anyway? Please be careful next time." Dira to Lulu when she picks up Lulu's muddy shoes on the second grade of Sekolah Baru! arc.
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Dira is a fractious kid and has no difficulty in expressing her emotions. In Kado Istimewa Dari Dira! (*A Special Gift from Dira*), Dira is upset with her little brother because he doesn't want to play with the slide and swing set she bought for him.
In addition, she usually speaks whatever is in her mind without thinking beforehand, which makes her considered as rude sometimes. Often, these traits bring more problem to the already chaotic conditions, especially during a battle. In Petaka di Taman Geometris (*The Geometric Park Incident*), Dira is upset and accuses Bang Unan as the one who ruined the Geometric Park, which leads to Bang Unan getting furious and making one of his monsters gone wild to ate a patch of grass that had previously been well-arranged.

> "Don't you ever dare pull that kind of trick again!" Dira to Bang Unan in Petaka di Taman Geometris (*The Geometric Park Incident*)
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She finds out that she shares the same interest and personality with Puti, which makes them form a strong bond along the way. On the other hand, Dira finds that she has the opposite interest and personality with Cika, who is a little slow and shy. Once, she scolds Cika, who thinks that camphor is a candy and wants to eat them. However, Dira slowly learns to control her emotions from Cika.
Dira often feels sad and alone, because she likes to spend time with her parents but they are too occupied with their work. When she finds out that her mother is pregnant, she is extremely happy because she will have someone to play with at home.

> "Calm down, Made. Don't panic. You've got this!" - Dira to Made in Bunyi Bu Unyi (*The Sound of Bu Unyi*)
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She is also brave and energetic. She is not afraid to stand in front of her friends when they are fighting their opponents. Permainan Terakhir (*The Last Game*), when Dira, Bona, Cika, and Lulu are fighting Bang Unan, he flies and challenges one of them to fight him on the final battle and Dira flies to fight him without hesitation. Aside from the fact that she is short-tempered, she actually cares a great deal about her family and friends.

Dira is tough and her speech intonation is a little bit high, which makes her friends think that she is upset when in fact she isn't. She is an extrovert and likes to be among her friends. She is also an expressive kid.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

In the Legenda 8 Batu Sakti arc, Dira wields the Indigo Stone of Elements, which gives her Elemental Control power.

* Elemental Control: Dira is able to control all elements that are visible around her. In Kembalikan Kyubo! (*He's Back for The Block*), Bang Unan breaks an aquarium, resulting in the water and the fish flow out of it, and Dira uses her power to control the water and save the fish. In Terjebak Mandala (*Trapped by Mandala*), when Dewi Mandala attacks Dira with fire, she counterattacks with water to quell the fire.

### Abilities

**Intellect:** Dira has a high level of intellect, especially in school subjects, because she wants to be an engineer or scientist. She is able to learn and understand school subjects quickly. This ability gives her advantage when facing opponents that challenges her with school subject questions. Also, this ability is even more useful when combined with her Elemental Control power to stop the opponents.

**Combat Expert:** Dira is a skilled fighter and able to efficiently use her powers as a weapon in combat. Her intuition is also a major factor in her combat expert ability, resulting in her ability to be prepared for any kind of attack because she knows how to effectively counter the attack using her powers.

## Items

Dira usually uses and controls any elements around her, such as fire, water, air, and earth as her weapon to fight the opponents.

### Weapons

* Air Ball: Dira created an air ball to attack one of Bang Unan's Monsters in Petaka di Taman Geometris (*The Geometric Park Incident*) and Bang Unan in Tipuan Toko Mainan (*The Deceiving Toy Store*). She also uses air ball to take two fisherman to the seashore in Pak Suhu Berubah Wujud! (*Evolution of Pak Suhu*).
* Air Disk: Dira created an air disk to attack Bu Unyi in Bunyi Bu Unyi (*The Sound of Bu Unyi*) and Bang Unan in Permainan Terakhir (*The Last Game*).
* Air Shield: Dira created an air shield to protect her, Bona, Dafa, and Puti from the bird attack initiated by Mimi in Si Penjaga Alam (*The Guardian of Nature*).
* Air Wall: Dira created an air wall to hold back the labyrinth in Labirin Bunga (*The Labyrinth of Flowers*).
* Earth Den: Dira created an earth den to protect her, Bona, Made, and Robo from the rain and from Dewi Mandala's attack in Terjebak Mandala (*Trapped by Mandala*).
* Earth Wall: Dira created an earth wall to protect her and Made from Bu Unyi in Bunyi Bu Unyi (*The Sound of Bu Unyi*).
* Fire Ball: Dira created a fire ball to attack Pak Suhu in Pak Suhu Berubah Wujud! (*Evolution of Pak Suhu*).
* Water Blast: Dira collects water around her and blast them to attack Aira in Teror Banjir Aira (*Flood Terror of Aira*).
* Water Shield: Dira created a water shield to protect her and Made from Bu Unyi in Bunyi Bu Unyi (*The Sound of Bu Unyi*).

### Properties

* Water Ball: Dira created a water ball to contain fish from an aquarium that was cracked open in Kembalikan Kyubo! (*He's Back for The Block*).

## Weakness

Her short-tempered trait is one of her weakness, because she tends to act driven by emotion instead of logic. Her bluntness can also be considered as weakness, because it can make the opponents more upset and stronger. Her other weaknesses is the absence of elements. She can only control elements that are visible around her, so she cannot use her power without the presence of elements.

## Trivia

* Dira's family comes from Papua.
* Dira has a little brother named Sammy.
* Dira loves to play individual sports.
* Dira was born in a wealthy family.