Towa Akagi

Towa

Cure Scarlet

**Towa Akagi**, also known as **Princess Hope Delight Towa** in her kingdom, is a main character in *Go! Princess PreCure*.

She was once one of the main villains in the season going by the name of **Twilight**, but in reality she was just brainwashed by Dyspear to believe that she was destined to be evil.

Her alter ego is **Cure Scarlet**, the Princess of Flames.

## Appearance

Towa is a young girl with red eyes and light red, thickly curled hair framing her face with tented bangs. She has pointed ears, and normally wears a headband of some type. She normally wears a white dress with pink detal and light red heeled shoes, along with a red butterfly necklace. In the movie she wore a pale pink dress with a corset top adorned by red buttons to match her bolero, which has a frilly collar and pink ribbon. Her red heels were worn with dark red socks, and her headband has a magenta butterfly.

As **Twilight**, she looks older with longer silver hair worn in four loose curled sections with so much of it pulled into a bow-shaped bun on top. She wears red eye makeup and at times a mask, large blue earrings, and her nails are painted black. Her dark grey mini-dress has scalloped maroon and lilac skirt layers and was worn beneath a black and dark red, wing-shaped dress. At the middle is a gold butterfly with dark pink and green gems. She also wears crimson tights with black platform shoes and matching colored scalloped wrist pieces.

As **Cure Scarlet**, her longer hair turns light pink and resembles a thicker variant of Twilight's style with a magenta ombre on top. Her eyes brighten and behind each ear is a feathery wing. She also gains a gold tiara with three ruby gems and matching colored earrings, shaped like the ornament on her black neck ribbon. Her ruffled, off-white dress has a yellow chest with large red feathers covering the shoulder and a white pointed corset held by black fabric with a large gold sphere in the middle. Hanging from this and down the right leg is ruffled red fabric with gold lining, which matches her loose sleeves. She also gains gold bracelets, and red and gold heels with fabric shaped like a wing wrapped around the leg.

## Personality

As a little girl Towa was very sweet and admired her older brother. She dreamed of becoming a Grand Princess for the sake of helping the land, but knowing that only a Princess Pretty Cure could become one eventually got to her, when she became brainwashed by Dyspear.

As Twilight, she seemed to take after her adoptive "mother" in terms of characteristics. In contrast to her child self, she believed that dreams are pitiful illusions that people believe in. Twilight also saw the Pretty Cures as fake princesses, and was ruthless and vain enough on calling herself "*Noble, Precious, and Beauteous*." While she would initially appear courteous around Haruka, she used their moments together to dishearten her after feeling threatened.

After being purified, she is shown to be somewhat naive and awkward around others. While she is polite and formal, her upbringing gave her a lack of social grace as she wasn't used to the customs of Earth, like thinking that she could buy a castle and three housemaids. However, she remains kind, courageous, and helpful, and cares deeply for her friends. She begins to learn how to do her things independently without assistance, but she still heavily adores Kanata and admires her big brother.

Due to being deceived by Dyspear before, she also became observant and perceptive, being able to discern and detect the presence of a suspicious person.

## Relationships

**Prince Kanata** - She is Kanata's younger sister. They used to be close, but Towa went missing one day, causing Kanata to fall into despair. When they finally reunite, Twilight no longer remembers him, much to his dismay. During the battle between her and the Cures, she nearly defeats Kanata, but she is eventually brought back to her senses thanks in part to Kanata's violin playing and was freed from Dyspear's control and remembers him. However, their reunion was short-lived when Kanata stays behind to fight off Dyspear while Towa returned with the others to Yumegahama. They later reunited for good after locating him on Earth after he suffers from memory loss.

**Dyspear** - Dyspear kidnapped the young Towa and brainwashed her, and Twilight shows great respect towards her as a result of believing she is her mother. After snapping out of her brainwashing, she held a personal grudge against her.

**Miss Shamour** - She has known her for some time, as the one who taught Kanata and Towa how to play the violin.

**Haruka Haruno** - As Twilight, Towa saw Haruka as an enemy, even trying to dishearten her by nearly burning her *The Princess of Flowers* book. In episode 21, Flora still believed that Twilight had some good left in her and fought against her to bring those feelings out. In the next episode, Flora encouraged a hopeless Towa to believe in her dreams again, which in part enabled Towa to transform into Cure Scarlet. After that they have a special bond with each other and their dreams to become (Grand) Princesses.

**Minami Kaido** - During a sleepover at Haruka's house she helped Towa with her fear of the darkness, which brought back memories of her time as Twilight, and taught her that she should depend on her friends and comrades. When Shut kept calling her Twilight and said that he had to eliminate her, Minami protected her, saying that she wasn't Twilight anymore, but Akagi Towa.

**Kirara Amanogawa** - They had a hard time getting along at first due to Towa's lack of knowledge and Kirara's busy modeling schedule. But by the end of the episode, they are friends.

## Cure Scarlet

   **Princess of the crimson flames! Cure Scarlet!**
真紅の炎のプリンセス！キュアスカーレット！

*Shinku no honō no purinsesu! Kyua Sukāretto!*

**Cure Scarlet** is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Towa. She controls the power of fire and in order to transform, she needs her Princess Perfume and respective Dress Up Key.

## Trivia

* Towa's birthday is December 15th, making her zodiac a Sagittarius.
* As Twilight, Towa is as of now the only antagonist to have used an item a Pretty Cure also uses for fighting. Upon being freed and becoming a Pretty Cure herself, it transformed into her Dress Up Keys. She is also the only of the four *Go! Princess* Cures to have five attacks. Others got four only.
* Towa can't swim. This is ironically fitting, as she has power over fire as Cure Scarlet.
* She is the first Cure to have pointy ears.
* Her favorite food is a Japanese dessert called Anmitsu.

## Roleplay Details

Since she is not fully human, Towa often struggles with adjusting to some aspects of normal life. However, as she starts to learn more from her friends, she quickly takes charge over the group and shows great initiative and responsibility like a true princess. Both as Twilight and as Cure Scarlet, she is a rather vicious and strategic fighter, using fire as her primary elemental power. When she was a villain she had her own saying like that of the Princess Precure's: ***"Noble, Precious, and Beauteous."*** As Cure Scarlet, her introduction phrase is as follows: **"Princess of crimson flames! Cure Scarlet!"** (*Shinku no honou no purinsesu! Kyua Sukāretto!*) She has multiple outfit power-ups that include her basic Mode Elegant, which is called Mode Elegant Phoenix, Mode Elegant Sun, Mode Elegant Royal, and finally, Grand Princess!