Witch Of Delays

**Witch Of Delays** (あとまわしの魔女 *Ato Mawashi no Majo***?**) is the former main antagonist of Tropical Rouge! Pretty Cure and the leader of her forces. In episode 42, her real name is Witch Of Destruction (破滅の魔女 *Ato Hametsu no Majo**?***).

## Info

* Season:Tropical Rouge! Pretty Cure
* Age:100
* Gender:Female
* Eyes Color:None
* Hair Color:None
* Homeland:
* First Appearance:Episode 1
* Alias:Witch Of Destruction
* Theme Color:Black
* Voice Actor:Rei Igarashi

## History

### Conquered Grand Ocean and Attacking Aozora City

Prior to the season, she deprived Grand Ocean of its motivation and caused most of the residents to be unmotivated. She has now set her sights on the human world, but makes her generals do all of the work.

### Meeting Laura

When Laura gets captured by Chongire's Zenzen Yaraneeda and sent to her, she asks Laura why she is assisting the human Pretty Cures and assumes that it's because Laura wants to be human as well. She suggests that Laura helps her with something in order to grant her wish. When Laura resists the Witch's temptation, the Witch explains her motive of desiring to create a world full of unmotivated people and punishes her by sending her down the dungeon. She later furiously grabs Laura for trying to retrieve the Mermaid Aqua Pot, but Laura escapes after biting her hand.

### Nightmare

She later starts having nightmares about a mysterious woman that resembles the Legendary Pretty Cure, and also forbids her subordinates from mentioning the term "Pretty Cure".

### Life Draining

Later, she starts to act more erratically as her life begins to diminish to the point where she doesn't respond well to medication. When Butler summons a whale Yaraneeda to suck Motivation Power from all of Aozora City, he reveals that the Witch herself used to wreck a town until Cure Oasis intervened, and that he used to work for her as a knight when she was called "Witch of Destruction", and she was captivating to his eyes.

### Meeting the Cures and Passed Away

Eventually, the five Cures confront her in her room, and Summer asks why she wants an eternity of delays. At first, the Witch is delighted that there is enough Motivation Power for the Fool's Casket, until she realizes that she does not even know or remember why she wants the wish in the first place. However, Butler still sways her mind to believe that she wants to delay forever.

After much suffering, she remembers that she wanted to finish her battle against Cure Oasis from 100 years ago. Now motivated to complete the battle, she fights against the Cures, who are trying to reach her heart and remind her how much Oasis cared for her. Summer then tells the Witch what she really delayed was becoming friends with Oasis as her spirit appears before the Witch. She then realizes how much she wanted to be friends with Oasis too and starts to cry. The Witch then takes Oasis's hand before happily vanishing into bubbles.

## Apperance

She is a large green fish of sorts, who wears mostly black, with a large purple coat. On her face is a black mask with four red lights.

## Personality

She is very unmotivated, to the point that she procrastinates on important things, such as dealing with the Pretty Cure. She gets angry rather easily but settles down when the mask on her face shocks her. She is also cunning, knowing Laura’s wish from the get-go and decides to use it to tempt her. She is also prone to having strong nightmares as she tries to remember a mysterious woman she knew in the past.

t is later revealed that she is someone who lacks the courage to change her own destiny and make a change.

## Trivia

* She is the fifth female main villain, after Desparaia, Queen Mirage, Dyspear and Ophiuchus Star Princess.
* It is confirmed by character designer Nakatani Yukiko in a February interview that she, along with the Mermaid Queen, are centuries old, in which she mentioned that she was explicitly told by the director that their large sizes were indicative of their age.
* Yutaka Tsuchida revealed in the *Animage January 2022* issue that she is meant to evoke half humanoid, half Jabba the Hutt from *Star Wars*.
* Yutaka Tsuchida revealed in the *Animage January 2022* issue that her design was also based on a moray eel.
	+ It is also revealed that her body is wasting away due to doing almost nothing aside from sleeping.