Elisio

Elisio (エリシオ^?) is a villain, who later becomes the true main antagonist from KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode who works under Noir. He uses a tarot card to come up with tactics that aim to weaken the Cures during battles.

Bio[]

Appearance[]

Elisio is a tall man with whitish skin. He has long silver hair that is tied into a thick braid and held by a blue bead. His eyes are green with red irises. He wears a long black and white tunic with red buttons and cuffs. He also wears black pants and blue flat shoes along with a light blue scarf. He is usually seen carrying cards.

When he separates from Noir, his hair is now loose and he wears a long dark gray coat, gray pants, and black shoes. He also wears a loose light blue scarf.

When fused with Noir and Lumière, his coat becomes cream-colored on the right side of it, representing Lumière, and black on the other side, representing Noir. The coat is fastened with a large dark red star-shaped brooch. His hair also reflects the fusion of the two powers, with it being white and more voluminous on the right side and black on the other side and resembling Noir's hair, with some red highlights in the front. His right eye is yellow and the left one is red, and there are also some dark markings on the lower part of his face. He wields a long staff with a crescent-shaped blade at each end.

Personality[]

Charming but also nihilistic, Elisio merely considers himself as a shell of his boss Noir. He is a cunning strategist who relies on tarot cards and carefully researches the targets' weakness before planning out an attack. When Elisio starts to smile mysteriously, that's when you know he is up to something.

Unlike Noir, Elisio detests emotions and prefers living in a perfect utopia without neither feelings nor memories exist. But in the end, he has a change of heart after Cure Whip tells him that people's hearts can connect, and now looks forward to the world the Cures have recreated.

Relationships[]

Noir: His master and creator. He pretends to be his follower but eventually he decides to absorb Noir's powers as his own.
Usami Ichika: He and Cure Whip are enemies, but after being convinced by Cure Whip that he has a person with his own heart, he changes his mind about her and looks forward to the world she strives to improve.

Etymology[]

"Elisio" is probably a form of "Elysium" (or "Elysian Fields"), the place of the afterlife in ancient Greek mythology.

History[]

Before the beginning of the season, Elisio was created from a cupcake which Noir stole from Lumière. Taking out all of its Kirakiraru, Noir's body was brought to life, and Elisio came into existence.

Elisio first appears along with his fellow companion Grave in episode 24, where he talks with Grave about the Pretty Cure problem.

His actual debut is in episode 25, where he targets Yukari and Akira after they discover him being the culprit who has stolen Prince Nata's Kirakiraru. He blocks Yukari from recovering her sweets pact by covering it with dark pillars. He also confronts Akira, who transforms into Cure Chocolat and manages to lock her into dark pillars. He proceeds by torturing her, but she manages to break free. Angered, he creates a flower like monster by combining Kirakiraru and a flower. The Cures defeat the monster, with Cure Parfait delivering the final blow to it. Seeing all Pretty Cures together he introduces himself as Elisio and leaves.

His next appearance is in episode 27 where he originally plans to target the festival, but changes his mind when he sees a heartbroken Aoi running away. He confronts her face to face and tells her that what she is feeling is called envy and that he can help her set those feelings free. With that said, he brainwashes her into dark Cure Gelato and orders her to destroy that which gives her pain. Thankfully Aoi remembers what music really means to her and manages to awaken from the brainwashing. He then summons another monster, but this time combining the speakers and Kirakiraru. Once again the monster is defeated, and he leaves the scene.

In episode 29 he targets Yukari, since he senses loneliness from her heart. He shows up before her while she is carrying green macarons to her grandmother and tells her he has felt her loneliness, and then attacks her. Yukari transforms into Cure Macaron to fight him, but he summons a mirror which shows Yukari's younger self. Interested in her soul, Macaron enters the mirror. While in the mirror, the other Cures arrive to confront him and he summoned a clock tower like monster to battle the Cures. Inside the mirror, Yukari sees her young self, who is influenced by Elisio, telling her that her heart would always contain darkness and constrains her with dark ropes. Yukari manages to get out of the mirror world and together with other Cures helps defeat the monster. With his monster defeated, he remarks that Yukari isn't the young woman he was hoping for and disappears, leaving his cards behind.

In episode 43, Elisio approaches Himari after he unleashes darkness that seeps into the hearts of the staff members and audition participants. To Himari's horror, he has taken one of her notebooks and proceeds to burn it. Changing himself into a film director, he traps Himari in her own past and seeing as she is getting influenced by him, tempts her to join the dark side. However, after realizing that she manages to break out of her sadness and confronts him, Elisio decides to face her directly. He retreats begrudgingly after Custard and the other Cures defeat him again.

In episode 44, he gives Akira's sister Miku a creepy phone call, then proceeds to kidnap Miku from the hospital and traps her inside a snowman. When Chocolat confronts him, he tries to overhwhelm her, including absorbing himself with the snowman, but Chocolat's determination and love for her sister eventually overcomes him.

In episode 46, he becomes fused with Noir so the latter can take on his original form, revealing Elisio to be only a vessel. However, during the battle against the Cures, Elisio separates himself from Noir, finding his battle against sweets to be pointless. He then plans on wiping the world of its emotions, first by absorbing Noir's powers, and then Lumiere's. Elisio then use their powers to turn the world into one with muted colors and where the Cures have now lost all emotions and memories.

In episode 47, he confronts the Cures again after they are able to recover their memories and powers. He is then left with no choice but to fight them to retain the world he created.

In episode 48, he fuses himself with Noir and Lumière's powers and took on the Cures. Despite their best efforts though, they are beaten by Elisio in every turn. He is about to seal them away in cards when Whip knocks them back. The Cures then declare the things they love before changing into their A la Mode style forms. They then use a powered-up version of Fantastic Animale to shatter Elisio's staff and send him to stratosphere. However, in a last-ditch effort, he absorbs the Cures and the entire Earth into his coat, now floating freely in space. Inside of the dimension, the Cures use the Kirakiraru of everyone on Earth to try and defeat him again, but he said it was powerless to do so inside of him. He then reveals how he was basically a puppet for Noir without a heart, and he thinks that without Noir, he can rule the world and rid it of love and, eventually, conflict. After some convincing from the Cures, Elisio has his Kirakiraru mixed with that of the others so the Earth can be restored, and they succeed in returning the planet into its normal state. As the Cures landed back on Earth, Elisio floats down along with them, now willing to live in a world where different emotions co-exist, and releases the cards containing Noir and Lumière, before taking his departure.

Abilities[]

He not only uses his cards to take Kirakiraru, but he can also change them into different objects, such as a cane or steel bars to trap Cure Chocolat and prevent Yukari from getting to her Sweets Pact. At first he only used his Noir Miroir to create monsters to fight the Cures, but at the end of episode 40 he reveals that his real power is absorbing others' powers. From episode 41, he starts using his Noir Metamorphose to transform himself into various characters to fight the Cures. He also uses them to seal others within them so he could obtain their powers.

Noir Miroir[]

Elisio riffles his pack of cards from one hand to the other, then shouts "Noir Miroir!" and throws the cards. One card briefly blocks the view and shows a big black star on it. The cards then circle around the object and turn into a black cloud that grows into a big dark decorated cake. When the cake blows up the object has been turned into a monster.

Noir Metamorphose[]

Elisio holds a card in front of his face, then turns it around to show which one it is. He then shouts "Noir Metamorphose!" and jumps into a black cloud that is sucked into the card. The card disappears in a dark slash of stars and Elisio reappears metamorphosed into the character that was on the card. In episode 48, it is revealed that Elisio's many Metamorphose forms derive from previous villains who were presumably fought by past Pretty Cures.

Trivia[]

The director of Kirakira took inspiration from the beginning of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders to create Elisio.
- In fact, Elisio was made to be the evil version of Kakyoin, who his voice actor voiced in Stardust Crusaders.