Or, Revelations
In the last episode, we saw Twilight travelling to a deserted château and discovering her own Princess Perfume, which lured her to get it in a rather One-Ring-ish fashion. Now back at court, with the one she calls her mother, Her Highness receives an all-new Key and tries the Perfume:
TWILIGHT: I present you with this, Lady Mother.
DYSPEAR: Why... That's a Princess Perfume.
TWILIGHT: It is.
SHUT: (gulps)
DYSPEAR: Where did you find it? No, that matters not.
(Her heart keyhole glows red and flashes with black lightning, as she removes a sphere of dark rays from the hole in her chest.)
DYSPEAR: (evil laugh)
TWILIGHT: Lady Mother?!
DYSPEAR: (stifles a groan in slight pain)
(Dyspear appears to suffer from searing pain as she removes the Key-sphere from her heart keyhole.)
DYSPEAR: Thus, I bequeath this to you.
(Inside the Key-sphere, a new Black Key, this one with Prussian blue details, lands gently in the palm of Twilight's right hand)
TWILIGHT (picking up the Key): Could this be...
DYSPEAR: This time, be certain to drown the Precures in despair.
TWILIGHT: I shall.
(Holding the Perfume in her left hand and the Key in the right one, she slowly and gracefully inserts the latter into the keyhole of the former.)
A flare of white light rises from the Perfume and envelops a surprised, startled, scared Twilight as the Key is inserted.
TWILIGHT: Tsk! (tuts)
When it's finally all inside and clicks, the Perfume sends, instead, black and Prussian blue flames in all directions, even to her underlings.
SHUT AND LOCK: (stifle groans)
TWILIGHT (frightened): Aah! (The flames turn against her and begin to sear her, frightening her terribly.) Lay... Lady Mother!
(The flames grow even more intense, filling the whole throne room and reaching the underlings with more violence.)
SHUT: Princess Twilight!
In response, the usurper simply smiles to herself.
Meanwhile in Noble Academy...
PETS: Good work, everyone! Now we've got nine Keys!
The Keys begin to dance in a circle, irradiating a golden and platinum light. When it has faded, all three Cures have disappeared, leaving Yui alone.
Each Cure then finds herself suddenly thrust in a part of the Hope Kingdom, on her own.
"Puff, I think this isn't Noble Academy anymore."
MINAMI: Why are we in the Hope Kingdom?
PUFF: I don't know...
"So this is... the Hope Kingdom?"
KIRARA: How did we even get here?
AROMA: The only way in or out of the Hope Kingdom should be the gate inside the castle...
MEANWHILE AT COURT...
DYSPEAR: It seems the Precures have arrived.
SHUT (surprised): What?!
LOCK: How the heck?!
(Twilight remains silent, smiling confidently.)
Riding his white clydesdale Wish, and armed with his lightbringing sceptre, Prince Grand Kanata arrives just in time to save Cure Flora's life...
KANATA: Hyah!
(The sceptre in his right hand emits a ray of platinum/golden light that hits both the twin rabbit desporgs, sending them flying away through the woods.)
Bowing before her and bending the knee, with a sincere smile, he greets her.
KANATA: Welcome to the Hope Kingdom.
CURE FLORA (curtsying): It is a pleasure to meet you once again, Prince Kanata.
KANATA (with a warm smile): You have become a splendid princess.
CURE FLORA (crying in happiness): Kanata...
All three Cures, guided by the light of their respective Keys, trek across the countryside into three different palaces: the residences of their predecessors, where each and every one of them finds a keyhole in the middle of the throne room pavement. Once the Dress-Up Keys are inserted, the Cures see the stainglass windows light up and hear their predecessors addressing them.
(Palace of Flowers)
VOICE OF CURE FLORA'S PREDECESSOR: It seems the Great Darkness has finally awoken.
KANATA: Do you mean Dyspear?
VOICE OF CURE FLORA'S PREDECESSOR: Long ago, all three of us combined our forces to seal away the Powers of Darkness. However, we knew the day would come when the darkness would return.
The darkness would only grow more powerful upon its resurrection. As such, we thought it fit to leave behind one more Perfume.
KANATA: A fourth Perfume?!
VOICE OF CURE FLORA'S PREDECESSOR: However, the darkness is now closing in on that Perfume. You must hurry. The Perfume must not be dyed in darkness.
(Palace of Oceans)
MINAMI (concerned): So that's the story...
(Palace of Stars)
KIRARA (cheerful): Can't say no to that!
(Outside the Palace of Flowers)
KANATA: Wish!
WISH: (trots towards his rider and neighs)
KANATA: This light most likely leads to Hope Kingdom Castle.
And thus, each one on her own, the Cures set off for the center of the realm...
On their way to the Royal Castle, Minami and Puff stumble upon... guess who?
Three clues: he looks like a gay Lannister, he loves Twilight, his name rhymes with "cut" (and, if you raise it up while saying it loud, you can hush others).
SHUT: There's naught...
SHUT:...but to stop you here.
CURE MERMAID: Shut!
SHUT: This forest shall be... (the core of his rose glows with a bright mauve light)
SHUT:...naught but your doom! (He shoots out bright and powerful mauve/lilac light from his rose. However, Cure Mermaid easily cuts through the attack. Then he shoots more of that powerful purple laser.)
(Later on, shooting lilac light balls at a Cure Mermaid that runs, like Jesus, on the surface of a liquid lake.)
SHUT (irate): You are naught but to give in and fall!
CURE MERMAID: We'll protect that new perfume from the likes of you! The universe won't be drowned in despair! (From her Rod, she fires a storm of bubbles at a startled Shut, that become a water twister that traps him.) Sorry, but I can't afford to quarrel with you (She keeps on running through the woods).
(Shut uses an expanding lilac light from his rose to escape his liquid prison: the water twister bursts into drops all around him.)
SHUT (looking down and not seeing Cure Mermaid, disappointed): Curse you...
Here we got to see what Shut and Lock can do themselves in battle. Turns out that Shut's rose is his weapon of choice.
(Somewhere else in the woods)
LOCK: You're gonna get defeated now, 'kay?
CURE TWINKLE (lively): Ple-e-ase! You're the one who's going down.
LOCK (ticked off, now serious): You oughta watch that mouth of yours, 'kay?
(He teleports himself and kicks the Cure with a strength highly unusual for a brat in a devil suit, sending his opponent metres away. Which means to me [just headcanon]: with that red hair, cheerful personality, and super strength... is Lock somehow related to Pippi Lângstrump?)
CURE TWINKLE (as badass as Chuck Norris): Watch yours first! (from the palm of her hand, she sends golden light as a star shuriken she fires towards Lock. He faces the projectile, aimed towards his face, with that Cheshire cat grin of his.)
(Later on, Cure Twinkle is firing golden rays at Lock, who keeps on quickly dodging them.)
LOCK (smug, smiling): You're persistent. Least you ain't boring, 'kay? (An orange flame surges from the keyhole on his chest, hitting Cure Twinkle in the face and chest, if it weren't for the barrier she makes before herself with her outstretched hands.)
CURE TWINKLE (holding the flame back with her hands): Gee, thanks. But I'm too busy to play around with you! (From her Rod, she fires a rain of shooting stars at Lock, startling the red-haired runt and raising clouds of dust and smoke. When these have lifted, the Cure is gone.)
LOCK (surprised): Good grief.
While Minami and Kirara fend off Shut and Lock, respectively
(and curb-stomp them easily)...
Since Ruka told him that she's started violin lessons (surprising him),
Kanata discloses a relevant part of the history of the Hope Kingdom Royal Family:
HARUKA: Madame Shamour even taught me a few songs you played often.
KANATA (worried): I see...
HARUKA: Oh yeah, and she told me you had a little sister! I never knew!
KANATA: I suppose I haven't told you yet.
Little Towa, a prodigy of the violin and a princess of the blood,
aspired to become a Grand Princess...
KANATA: My younger sister, Towa...
went missing long ago.
(Flashback begins)
KANATA (narrating, from the present): Towa loved to play the violin, so we often practiced together.
(Both siblings on the shores of the palace lake in happier years. The day sky is blue.)
TOWA (as a child): Oh, not again!
I'll never become a Grand Princess if I can't play this piece properly!
KANATA (as a pre-teen): You really intend to become one? Only Princess Precures have been able to become Grand Princesses.
TOWA: I'm aware.
KANATA (smiles)
TOWA (smiles as well)
TOWA: But I shall still try!
TOWA: I promise I will become one! I'll be a Grand Princess with the strength, grace, and beauty of the Precures of legend!
To the smallfolk of the Hope Kingdom and to me, Towa was a ray of hope. Losing that hope weakened our hearts. It wasn't long before we lost sight of our dreams.
That was when Dyspear appeared. Our weakened hearts couldn't hope to stave off the invading darkness.
KANATA (smiling sincerely): It was because I met you that I could bear the battle against Dyspear.
And it's what kept me from succumbing to the darkness until now.
Every now and then, I think... that my violin's tune still reaches Towa somewhere.
That's why I'm sure I'll find my sister, Towa.
At the Royal Palace, all the Cures and their team reunited:
KANATA: Hope Kingdom Castle...The place where I once lived.
HARUKA: Dyspear is in here.
KANATA: Yes, and likely the Perfume, as well. But it's strange. It's too quiet. There are usually desporgs guarding the gate.
PETS: Prince Kanata! (both are crying)
KANATA (pleased): Puff! Aroma! You've carried out your duties well. Thank you. (He strokes Puff's head)
The whole team entered a vast, great hall where there was not a soul. Then, stepping through the door across the hall and down the staircase, Twilight appeared, and then, Kanata suddenly recognized her as... (guess who?) His eyes opened wide, and he gasped, astonished.
TWILIGHT (eerie tone): Welcome to the castle of despair.
KANATA: Towa!
(There he stands, as if frozen or paralysed)
PUFF: Mademoiselle Towa...? Prince Kanata's younger sister?
CURE MERMAID: Sis-sister?
CURE TWINKLE: Since when?
Notice her mind-control eyes.
Whenever an anime character loses the twinkles/highlights in his/her eyes,
it means that said person is in a trance.
Has the Princess Perfume intoxicated her, à la One Ring?
KANATA (elated): There is no mistake! It's her!
(Running across the hall towards Twilight) Towa, it's me, Kanata!
(In response, Twilight fires her most powerful blue flame across the hall at the whole Precure team.)
KANATA (surprised): Towa, why? Towa... It's me, Kanata! Don't you recognize me?
TWILIGHT (coldly): What are you talking about?
(Kanata is shocked.)
TWILIGHT: I am the Princess in Black and the daughter of the great sorceress Dyspear... Twilight.
(Kanata is even more shocked, can't even speak, and shivers. He gasps as Twilight takes forth her perfume with its new Prussian blue Key. The whole Cure team is surprised by seeing the Perfume in her hands, as she turns the key...)
"Towa... Towailight?"
However, Twilight did not recognize Kanata at all,
and she still claimed that she was Dyspear's daughter.
And then, she used her new Dress-Up Key and the Princess Precure to transform:
(The whole Cure team is surprised by seeing the Perfume in her hands, as she turns the key...)
The Perfume bottle begins to fill with dark-purple-nearly-black liquid...
As a grey aura surrounds her, Twilight's now naked form, with eyes shut, is seared by white flames.
Then, she falls backwards into the flames on the ground, her body disintegrating and transforming into a flock of grey butterflies.
Among these grey butterflies, she suddenly reappears. Faster, smarter, more ruthless, in sharper dress... and even masked.
TWILIGHT: With refinement, majesty, and elegance...
(Kedakaku, tootoku, uruwashiku...)
I am truly...
(Watakushi koso...)
...the one and only princess.
(...yuuitsumuni no princessu.)
The hairstyle reminds me of Ludwig van Beethoven, while the mask
makes her appearance even cooler and more badass.
Kanata's reaction is now of utter shock. Trauma. BSOD.
The episode closes with such a redoubtable transformation sequence.
What is the new and improved masked Twilight capable of doing?
Guess we'll have to wait another week to find out!
At least, the "In next episode" trailer shows some redoubtable attacks and skills of hers!
And next fortnight, we'll also find out the details of Princess Towa's disappearance and her transformation into Twilight... and maybe more about that enigmatic Great Darkness, which may be the evil force behind Dyspear (or not)?
So brace yourselves for Episode 21, the most thrilling engagement since Oberyn Martell's last stand!
The only con is that we'll have to wait a week more...
the secrets of Twilight's Mode Elegant will be unlocked not next week,
but the week after that!
Anyway, impatience is my besetting sin, yet
all good things come to those who wait...!
(Cue GoT theme music)
So far, canon has proved the sibling theory to be the true shared backstory of Kanata and Towa(ilight).
Yet the latter, brainwashed by her adoptive mother (notice the mind-control eyes!), did not recognize her birth brother at all (like the case of Theon Greyjoy, but flipped/inverse).
It is now officially confirmed: Twilight is Towa, Kanata’s younger sister who had suddenly went missing well before Dyspear had attacked. This is a very interesting situation because her disappearance was the key to exploiting the vulnerability of the Hope Kingdom. To the people, Towa was their ray of hope, but when she disappeared they started losing their dreams (not going to lie here, I found the reasoning ridiculous) and that’s how Dyspear invaded and took over. Kanata was close to succumbing to despair as well.
I think it’s safe to say it was more or less confirmed that Dyspear in fact corrupts both perfume and keys. The Perfume however was an essential tool, allowing Twilight to turn into a Dark Precure. However the process of it stunned me. Twilight usually has a solid composure, but while Dyspear was corrupting the perfume with darkness, Twilight looked genuinely terrified. Shut was even concerned for her well-being while Dyspear sat back and watched with an evil smile on her face, which brings me to my next point. Since we know now that Twilight is Kanata’s sister, it begs the question of is Dyspear truly their mother. We haven’t actually heard of much about their mother, it’s something that has been slipped under the rug. Right now however, I am more confident with the idea how Dyspear had someone kidnap Towa, knowing she serves as a double-edge sword. She provides the greatest hope but if she goes missing, she will cause the greatest despair. Dyspear exploited that vulnerability, appears to have successfully brainwashed Towa into thinking her name is Twilight and she is the Princess in Black.
But why in the seven hells would the Dysdarks, or their unseen leader, spirit Towa away? To fulfil a barren Dyspear's wish for offspring? To corrupt the Hope Kingdom with her as the lethal weapon? For some other reason? Is the Great Darkness a power beyond Dyspear, controlling her? Still a mystery until the end of June...
Next fortnight, we'll also find out the details of Princess Towa's disappearance and her transformation into Twilight...
So brace yourselves for Episode 21, the most thrilling engagement since Oberyn Martell's last stand!
The trailer shows Twilight as badass as Astrid Kolfinnsdóttir (I'd LUV to see those two confront each other face to face), performing her greatest moves so far, and Kanata in a state of shock.
The only con is that we'll have to wait a week more...
the secrets of Twilight's Mode Elegant will be unlocked not next week,
but the week after that!
Anyway, impatience is my besetting sin, yet
all good things come to those who wait...!
(Cue GoT theme music)
Towa, as a child, unconscious and trapped among crimson thorns...
What may have corrupted her innocent heart and soul?
Is this shock face from after discovering that she is adopted and Kanata's sister,
and/or why she was spirited away and brainwashed?
The trailer shows her irradiating this purple aura before Dyspear's throne: is it mind control?
(For now, focus ONLY ON THE EXAMS, especially that one on Legal Translation Theory you think you find so hard! It's on Wednesday afternoon, so DON'T BLOG ANYTHING BEFORE THE TEST!)
PS. Date: 21st of June. FOCUS NO MORE ON THAT FRIGGING EXAM: YOU HAVE MADE IT THROUGH!!! And, to keep yourself busy while waiting for next episode of GPPC, Book II of the Waterfire Saga will reach Spain this week!!! Not much Astrid, but reveals about her ancestor (my review is in this blog!!!)
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