Sasorina

Sasorina (サソリーナ?) is a member of the Desert Apostles in Heartcatch Pretty Cure!, and the first to appear before the heroines. She speaks with a foreign accent.

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Bio
Appearance
Sasorina is a woman with light brown skin. She has golden eyes and auburn hair styled in a bun shaped like the end of a scorpion's tail, which can extend into a tail for fighting. She wears a short dark gold top with a short matching skirt along with a cape over her shoulders held by gold buttons and a chain. She also wears multiple golden cuffs around her neck, wrists, upper arms, thighs, and ankles along with white shoes.
Personality
Most of the time Sasorina has a calm aura around her, and always carries a smirk unless panicking or provoked. When provoked, she loses her calm personality and gets angry. Sasorina looks down on weak people, but will acknowledge strong foes.HPC03
In spite of being a mostly nasty villain, it is possibly that Sasorina harbors strong despair during her past life of the tragedy resulting in the death of her student.
Etymology
Sasorina: Like all Desert Apostles names, Sasorina's name is also a reference to a desert dweller. Her name come from the Japanese word Sasori (蠍?), which means "scorpion"
History
Before Heartcatch Pretty Cure!
In the first chapter of Heartcatch Pretty Cure! novel, it is explained that Sabaku created Sasorina by using the genes of a scorpion and the wilted Heart Flower of a nursery school teacher. After an unfortunate accident resulting in the death of one of her students, she was rejected by society and was hospitalized after suffering a mental breakdown.
Sasorina was the first Desert Apostle that Tsukikage Yuri faced. Sabaku sent her to Earth to find Cure Flower and she turned Yuri's mother, Tsukikage Haruna, into a Desertrian to lure her. Cure Moonlight defeated the Desertrian with Silver Forte Wave in no time and Sasorina retreated back to Dune's planetary castle.
Meeting Cure Blossom
After the defeat of Cure Moonlight at the hands of Dark Pretty Cure, Sasorina is ordered by Sabaku to find the two fairies that escaped with the Heart Perfumes, Chypre and Coffret. This eventually leads her to Kibougahana, where she meets Hanasaki Tsubomi. Without Sasorina knowing, Tsubomi hides the fairies under her shirt, making it appear as if she had very large breasts. Sasorina looks and walks from them, somewhat jealous. After walking around, she finds Kurumi Erika, whose Heart Flower is wilting, and steals it. When she once again meets Tsubomi and the fairies, she creates a Desertrian made out of a lost doll, and watches as Tsubomi and the fairies run from it. She is, however, shocked to see Tsubomi transform into Cure BlossomHPC01, but regains her cool when she sees that Cure Blossom is unable to control her powers, and orders the Desertrian to kill her. However, Cure Blossom and the fairies are rescued by the Mysterious Man, who she finds hot.
Determined to find the fairies like she was ordered to, she and the Desertrian find them at Hanasaki Kaoruko's Botanical Garden. Still not thinking of Cure Blossom as a threat, she is surprised when she manages to take down the Desertrian, so Sasorina dismisses herself.HPC02
Meeting Cure Marine
After reporting Cure Blossom's existence to Sabaku and Dark Pretty Cure, Sasorina goes back to Kibougahana to lure Cure Blossom and the fairies out. She succeeds, finding a girl named Ueshima Sayaka whose Heart Flower has wilted and once again overpowers the Pretty Cure until Kurumi Erika reveals herself to be the second Cure, Cure Marine, and easily defeats the new Desertrian single-handed. Impressed and threatened by her strength, Sasorina tries to fight Cure Marine, until Cure Blossom regains her composure and stands by Cure Marine's side. Sasorina, knowing she has lost the fight, dismisses herself.HPC03
After reporting about Cure Marine, she stays in the castle while Kumojaki goes to Kibougahana to test out Pretty Cure's abilities.HPC04
Meeting Cure Sunshine
After the Tree of Hearts has given birth to a fairy, as reported by Dark Pretty Cure, who stood lucky enough to escape from her, Sasorina visits Kibougahanahunt people with wilted Heart Flowers. It's then when she finds Tsuyuki Karin, Kurumi Momoka's model partner who she turns into a Desertrian. Whereas Kumojaki and Cobraja join this battle, Potpourri also joins to defend the Cures which they succeed to. HPC20
After some fights the Cures had with the other generals, Sasorina appears again before Myoudouin Satsuki, Itsuki's older brother, to turn him into a Desertrian. Itsuki, after finding out, partners with Potpourri to transform into Cure Sunshine and purifies the Desertrian with Gold Forte Burst.HPC23HPC24
During the secret "Pretty Cure Camp" Tsubomi, Erika and Itsuki secretly organized, they meet the Desert Apostles as they have gone for morning running. Sasorina goes against Cure Sunshine and Potpourri where she is nearly purified, then passing out.HPC25
Purification
Due to her previous purification,HPC25HPC40 Sasorina began losing the thirst for battle that Cobraja and Kumojaki had. This causes Cobraja and Kumojaki to approach Sabaku, asking him to send her back to the castle planet. This angers Sasorina and she requests for Sabaku to give her one last chance to finally defeat the Pretty Cure, which he grants her. Cobraja and Kumojaki give Sasorina their Dark Bracelets and warn her that they will grant her three times the power but she must finish the battle quickly as it will destroy her if she takes too long. She proceeds to turn the entire Myoudou Academy into a Desertrian forcing all the staff and students to evacuate. The Cures arrive and a battle ensues. Sasorina merges with the Desertrian and its powers increase so much that it is able to break Cure Moonlight, Cure Marine, and Cure Blossom's Forte Wave attacks and even destroy Cure Sunshine's Sunflower Aegis. Being left no options, the Cures call forth the Heartcatch Mirage and their Super Silhouette powers. They defeat the Desertrian with Sasorina still merged with it, with the Heartcatch Orchestra attack.
Cobraja and Kumojaki arrive holding a dying Sasorina in there arms and she sheds a tear saying goodbye to her comrades. As she fades away in a blaze of light, her fully wilted Heart Flower remains, which shoots into the sky returning to its owner. Sasorina wakes up saying she feels like she has been trapped in a bad dream and a tiny bird flies into the window landing on her lap.HPC40 She recovers from the hospital, and starts working at the kindergarten.HPC49
Abilities
Sasorina is able to extend her ponytail into a scorpion tail and use it to capture others. She has mentioned that if her ponytail touches someone, it will be the end for them as it is poisonous. Again, that alludes to her scorpion motif she has.
Desertrian
Much like Kumojaki and Cobraja, she can steal a Heart Flower and use it to summon a Desertrian by posessing another item. She first summoned one in episode 1.
With the power of the Dark Bracelet (ダークブレスレット?), an item the Desert Apostles generals were given in episode 31 by Sabaku, they are granted the ability to fuse with their Desertrian by controlling their Heart Flower to make them weaker, thereby becoming controllable to them. In episode 40, Kumojaki and Cobraja lend her their own Dark Bracelets stating that the power would be three times the normal one.
Trivia
Sasorina is the villain in all four fights who triggers the Pretty Cure's transformations. This includes how she was the first Desert Apostle who challenged Yuri and unintentionally prompted Yuri to become Cure Moonlight in the Heartcatch Pretty Cure! Novel.
She was also the first villain to use her Dark Bracelet as well as to die.
In addition, she is the first and only female introductory villain to not become a Cure.
Despite her mission to turn Earth into a desert, she has shown on more than one occasion an interest in flowers.
Episode 10 shows that she can get invested into soccer easily.
Sasorina's Heart Flower is a Katakuri, which stands for enduring sadness and jealousy. It can be assumed that her real body had experienced something that was causing these feelings, likely rooted from the death of her student in the past.