What am I even supposed to be seeing here. They both have clover jewelry?
Like mother, like daughter. It warms my heart good whenever people refer to Cyprine/Ptilol as one person. That's how you know you're with real fans.
In all seriousness, we could go on and on besides Kakyuu being her mother. Cyprine's truly one of the most interesting friends in the show.
We're dealing with a woman who was already elaborately planning out the Mugen attack and sending students to the school before Tomoe even spoke to her. She was talking about needing pure hearts "daishikyuu" while he was watching Mistress 9 waste away. Setting up all the heart-stealing statues for Mistress 9 in advance, setting up the room trap, baiting Usagi's group into coming at night when there'd be no reason for visitors to show up. If only Viluy'd told her about Uranus and Neptune being traitors, since they blended in. But honestly, what were they going to do?
Using Eudial's flying magic (idk how Eudial died when she could fly/teleport, but that's new writers for you), using Mimete's staff better than her (and two staves, at the same time...), using the dimension magic from Mimete with U-Ikasaman, storing hearts in the stars like Tellu...Cyprine taught herself all of this.
...you know, the Witches 5 don't have much development as a whole, but you can glean some induction from them if you look closely enough.
1. You see Viluy studying something "nano-" under a microscope...which she'll later finish.
2. You see Tellu/Mimete working together to power Eudial's daimon machine...except as we pointed out in another post, Tellu's the main one who really cares about Eudial, and she eagerly killed Mimete over
entirely Eudial. (That "Youzeiaru" on Eudial's locker is just a bad romanization.)
3. You see Cyprine experimenting on rats who have the same abnormally colored eyes as Ptilol.
So, though we don't get too much, we get enough. Tellu was shown making her Tellun plants in her episode, and Mimete was just a weaker, lazier version of Cyprine who never did anything special but wanted all the prestige. Cyprine suddenly tells Tomoe she's the "last and greatest" of the Witches 5 at the very end--while still saying "Witches 5". And more, she still calls Kaori "Kaolinite-sama". It indicates she wants to personally impress Tomoe with her skills more than usurp Kaori's position as the so-called #2 to Tomoe. And her heart-saluting Tomoe then standing neutrally as Tomoe holds her shoulders, it indicates that unlike Kaori's jealous ass not doing
anything to help Tomoe/Mistress 9 (hence, "I'm rather different from Kaolinite-sama"), she's not actually infatuated with him. In fact, none of the witches are. As she says, she's doing everything for the "Death Busters," which includes Kaori. She views Kaori as both her superior and as Tomoe's woman who's lost her passion to help them. But Kaori thinks some random teenager cares that much about that old man. From Viluy to now this, Kaori is officially depraved, and Cyprine--who'd only mentioned Kaori because she didn't see her--only cares about showing she's reliable.
I like this, because it means a solitary kid trying to prove herself was essentially the final boss of the "apocalyptic" season. All Moon did afterwards was revive Saturn after Saturn beat Pharaoh 90 up. Then she styled on Uranus and Neptune in a joke fight. This was the last time our team was in danger, in battle.
It's a bit of a tragedy too...Cyprine
-chan stayed back and took notes from
everyone, then quietly set her plan up and did basically everything right, even absorbing the Shabon Spray attacks and not caring--up until she bragged a bit too much, they hit her from behind, and it became,
"How dare you peasants touch me!" Very dumb...because their next real attack cleared the mist anyway. And because she had the easiest chance of just quitting the fight and delivering the pure hearts, leaving the inners trapped and the outers unable to rescue anyone.
But if she'd kept playing around with those weaker blasts and not caring, she would've pelted the girls to death. Or if she'd taken the fight serious from the start and just had Ptilol blast the others from offscreen, she'd have erased them. But her hubris led her to literally lose sight of herself, and she blew herself to vapors. Before realizing her cloning was unethical, I'd always wanted Usagi or someone to try mastering it for themselves. Would've been handy.