DreadOut Wiki
Advertisement
Siska comes from a wealthy family. She followed her teaching vocation out of passion, and it shows. Many of her students rely on her for counseling and wisdom.

–Official Description of Ms. Siska


Mariska Gandasasmitha, popularly called Ms. Siska, is the teacher who traveled along with her students, LindaIraShellyDoni, and Yayan, to the desolate ghost town and consequentially got trapped there.

Personality[]

Siska is a kind and a thoughtful teacher. She is shown to be wise and knowledgeable. As a young woman, she has a stronger sense of responsibility than her students, and has shown to be worried on multiple occasions for her students' welfare. Siska also seems to admire the field of teaching, and is very good at her current job.

However, in the true ending of the game, it appears that Siska actually has a villainous side, as she taunts Linda by whispering something to her before cuffing her roughly to the side.

In the cut-scenes shown from the Keepers of The Dark, she can be seen performing some sort of a ritual which apparently summons a Sewurupa. In the ending, she seems to weaken the Lady in Red and attacks the Serpent Mistress. The Sewurupa is also seen changing its face into Siska's (before it turned into Linda's). This makes the theory about Siska being the whole "mastermind" behind the events in the game possibly true.

Although Siska is confirmed to be evil in the Dreadout 2, she is not without her redeeming qualities. She had strong values toward freedom of will and thought, believing firmly that no one should be told who they are or what they should be based on the rules of man and religion, and should, therefore, be able to make their own destinies.

Appearance[]

Siska appears as a high school teacher. She wears a grey blazer and black trousers, accompanied with a pair of black glasses. Her hair is tied to a ponytail, and she has long, curled bangs.

History and Game[]

Early Life[]

Although not much is known about her life prior to the game, it is known that Siska comes from a wealthy family. She followed her teaching vocation out of passion, and it shows. Many of her students rely on her for counselling and wisdom. 

She takes a couple of her students on a field trip, although at a certain point gets lost and ends up in an unfamiliar area, which leads up the events at the beginning of the game.

DreadOut[]

Act I[]

Siska accidentally (in truth, intentionally) takes her students to a deserted town. While trying to survey the situation, Doni runs off, followed by Linda and the others. She then follows her students, telling them to be careful and not to stray too far. She and her students end up at the front of a Mysterious Town with its name crossed out. Siska then decides to round up her students before heading back to the car and returning home. 

She and her students explore a bit of the abandoned town, eventually ending up in front of an Abandoned School . Curious, the boys run inside, inciting her to follow to make sure they're safe, accompanied by Shelly, while Linda and Ira wait by the entrance of the school. When she returns back to the entrance, she realizes that Yayan has gone missing and she goes back inside the abandoned elementary school with the remaining students to look for him.

Siska fails to notice Ira's erratic behavior upon entering and like the others, excluding Linda, who disappears after the darkness abruptly swallows the elementary school.

Act II[]

Ms. Siska appears again when she wanders into the school infirmary, with a wound on her neck. After reassuring Linda and Shelly that she was fine, she tells Linda that she had tried to talk to Ira, but that she wasn't strong enough. If the player chooses to listen to her, Ms. Siska will ask Linda to go talk to Ira since Linda is her best friend, that it's unlikely that Ira would want to hurt her.

If the player chooses to go back to Ms. Siska and Shelly, they will instead find a deceased Shelly hanging from the ceiling and Ms. Siska nowhere to be seen.

Ending 1: The Wrong Turn (Non-Canon)[]

Ms. Siska is never seen again in this ending and is presumed that she is either deceased or still alive somewhere.

Ending 2: The End is the Beginning is the End (Canon)[]

After Linda collapses, with the power of Lady in Red now transmitted to her, Ms. Siska comes by, holding a strange bundle that appears to be a baby. She grabs her student's head and whispers something in her ear, before cuffing Linda roughly to the side and walking away. As the teacher walks away, the strange baby reveals that it has a snake tail. The creature is Serpent Blorong who was taken by Ms. Siska to grow strong enough to give her power she desire.

Ms. Siska is not mentioned again, but she is presumably in an unspecified location possibly caring for the snake infant.

Keepers of the Dark[]

Several cutscenes in Keepers of the Dark show Siska somehow arrived in the Mansion and gained access to Lady in Red's room. She's seen drawing symbols and summons a Sewurupa through a ritual.

After Linda defeats the Serpent Mistress, Siska's arm appears, grabbing the weakened Serpent Mistress. Her voice can be heard telling Linda to get out. The Sewurupa appears briefly, changing its face into various faces, including Siska's (and later, Linda's).

In the ending, Siska shatters the mirror, which causes the Lady in Red (or the First Sister) to groan in pain. The sister grows weaker turning into her final form. She then smiles at her and possibly attacked Siska during the ending (a possible reason as to why she was wounded).

DreadOut 2[]

Act 0[]

Ms. Siska appears in a picture along with her students in the classroom.

Act 1[]

Ms. Siska appears in the picture again, but with her eyes turned black and her students' turn bloody.

Act 4[]

Ms. Siska is seen with Linda. They take the lift together.

Act 6[]

From an article that Linda can find in the secret library, it is revealed that Siska is the daughter of Badrun Gandasasmita, a famous antique dealer who went missing on 1988, and Siska becomes the sole survivor of the Gandasasmita clan.

Act 7[]

Ms. Siska is seen with Blorong, who is trying to kill her. However, in some unknown way, Ms. Siska kills her first, and laughs. Later Ms. Siska says something about not making humans succumb to great power as she hits Blorong's body. She turns her head and sees Linda, Ms. Siska thinks she can't understand but tries to invite her to rule the world. Linda will have the option to either join her or not.

Ending 1: Take her Hand (Non-Canon)[]

In this ending, Linda will wake up back at her apartment. Her friend Ira will be there, and she'll task Linda with buying some supplies they'll need for the first day of school. After brushing her teeth, Linda heads out to one of the markets on the main street. Like the cup of coffee you had to create for the ghost earlier in the game, there are multiple choices for the prompts on Ira lists. You're able to roam around the main street and interact with NPCs. Once Linda has the correct items, she will go with Ira to school.

At school, Linda will be tasked with taking photos of students cleaning up the campus. Two of these groups are outside, and the other two are in the interior portion of the building. With the photos taken, Linda will go to her upper classman in the gymnasium. A short time later, Linda is seated in class, and her teacher arrives to introduce herself to the class as Miss Siska.

At that point, the player is hit with a quick succession of images from DreadOut 1, and the credits will roll.

Ending 2: Don't take her hand (Canon)[]

She was about to reach out, but is stabbed in the abdomen with the Lelembut Killer Kris by Sulung, who maneuvered Linda's hand. She exclaims that she wasn't expecting that, falls to the ground in a pool of blood, and seemingly dies.

Linda pulls out the Keris from Siska, only for her body to vaporize, with Siska's voice echoing out that Linda was becoming more like her. Linda now battles a monstrous Siska in a gruesome battle.

Relationships[]

Her Students[]

Ms. Siska appears to be well-mannered around her students as she respects them and cares for them. For instance, when Doni runs off below the bridge, she worries as to where he is going. She also becomes concerned as per Yayan's disappearance. As Linda and Ira are playing patty-cake, she states for them to wait for her return and be careful. In Act II, this behaviour greatly changed. While nothing is really known about Shelly's death, it can be speculated that Siska killed her. And in the true ending, Siska whispers something into Linda's ear after she finds the young student on the floor. She then pushes her head down, and walks away carrying a snake infant in a bundle, leaving Linda to puke maggots as she walks away into the dark. This gives her the sudden appearance of an antagonistic force.

Trivia[]

  • Some fans believe Ms. Siska to be partaking in the plan with the 3 Sisters and had intentionally brought her students into the town to lure in potential Keepers of Darkness (although this is merely speculation).
  • Although there is no clarification on how Ms. Siska received her injury on her neck, if the player chooses to listen to her, it suggests that she was attacked by Ira. However, if Siska was originally working together with the three sisters, then it would seem strange since The Third Sister (through Ira) claimed that ghosts never harmed the living. However, a working theory suggests that it was to make it look convincing.
  • Ms. Siska bears an uncanny resemblance to Stall Vendor that targets Bayu's family in the DreadOut Spinoff Comic.
    • Some fans speculate that the manga takes place after the events of the DreadOut (Game).
    • When she leaves her yellow shirt and her underwear in a haunted bathroom, and Doni and Shelly later see them hanging on a shower curtain.
  • It is clear in Dreadout: The Untolds that Miss Siska is not working with the Three Sisters, but rather against them as she can be seen in the beginning of the 7th chapter, how the First Sister attacked Siska when she tired to do a ritual. It is presumed that this happened before the game.
  • She is the first antagonist of the series to be human followed by Henny.

Gallery[]

Advertisement