Santina Sapienti (Manga)

**Santina Sapienti**
 (ンタィーナ サピエンタイ, *Santīna Sapienti*?) is one of the main side-characters in Pretty Guardians of Olympus. Santina is the older, sickly twin sister to Sofia Sapienti/Sailor Athena and one of the only civilians to know the identities of the heroines. She is an oracle thanks to her ancestry tying back to Cassandra of Troy on her father's side.

## Appearance

Santina looks almost identical to her younger twin sister. She has white hair with blue tones and wide silvery gray eyes. Like Sofia, Santina is also tanned but has very few freckles, instead having a beauty mark on her chin. Santina's hair is a short bob occasionally held in a low, short ponytail with a match hair ribbon to her sister's. She is thin and described as frail.

Santina frequently wore the Prometheus Academy school uniform which consisted of a very dark blue blazer with yellow accents, white blouse, a blue tartan skirt, dark stockings, and a blue and yellow striped tie along with shoes of her choice (black flats). However, when she was not in her uniform, she often wore varying different outfits.

## Information

Sofia and Santina were raised by their father in Rome, Italy. Since infancy, Santina was extremely frail and would frequently get ill. Dr. Sapienti refused to let Santina out in fears of her getting extremely sick but ended up neglecting to let his daughters be children, forcing the two to study since a very young age and not let them play often.

Eventually the twins were allowed to attend private school in Italy but Santina was bullied for her visions and health which Sofia would frequently get into fights over to protect her older sister. The bullying got to the point of transferring both girls to another school up until he was given a new career opportunity in Mytikas, California. The family moved to the town soon after.

## Abilities & Powers

Santina is an oracle which has blessed her with the ability to get visions of the future and she can sense things much better than others. Cassandra's curse has carried onto Santina and no one but Sofia believe in her predictions unless they're consciously aware of the curse and have to consciously believe her. Her visions come in pieces and are very cryptic in nature but are useful.

Santina has a supernatural link with her sister that was not elaborated on other than being stated by Santina.

## Nomenclature & Etymology

### Etymology

**Santina:** Santina is the feminine derivative of Santo; both are Italian names that stem from the Latin word sanctus which means "saint."

**Sapienti:** Sapienti stems from the latin word "sapiens"; meaning wisdom.

## Trivia

* Santina and Sofia being twins born in Rome is a reference to the legend of Romulus and Remus; the legendary founders of Rome. However, the Sapienti twins do not meet the fate of Romulus and Remus.
* Chiyo-Ane stated in an interview that Santina was originally intended to be unrelated to Sofia but a childhood friend with a twin sister working for the enemy. However, this plot-line was added in PHSO with an enemy posing as the Yamuni twins' younger sister while Maiyu and Mari were still twin sisters.
* In the original publication and release of the manga, Santina was born in 1976. With the rerelease, her birth year was left ambiguous and subsequently retconned to fit the ambiguity of the story now taking place in the 21st century.

## Gallery

*Main Page: Santina Sapienti/Image Gallery*
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