Momo Hinamori

Momo Hinamori is a female anime and manga character who features in Bleach.

Biography

Origin

Momo Hinamori (Japanese: 雛森 桃, Hepburn: Hinamori Momo)

Momo grew up in Junrinan, District 1 of Rukongai, along with Tōshirō Hitsugaya. While Hitsugaya tended to be a bit of a brat as a child, Momo, finding him amusing, treated him like a younger brother. The two have a close friendship, reflected by Momo giving him the nickname Shiro-chan. Momo was older than Tōshirō, which gave him the best reason to protect her. Even more, the two were very close, and promised to protect each other. When Momo entered the Shinigami Academy, she excelled at Kidō. It was there she met Izuru Kira and Renji Abarai who soon became her friends and, later, her fellow lieutenants. Her friendship with Izuru Kira and Renji Abarai began back in the Shinigami Academy, on a standard field exercise to the Real World to practice performing Konsō, and combat with artificial Hollow replicas. The exercise was led by Shūhei Hisagi with everything going well until a group of huge Hollows attacked them. Shūhei told everyone to run, but Momo turned to see Shūhei being attacked by a Huge Hollow. She ran to help him, and was followed, somewhat reluctantly, by Renji and Izuru. The group, managing to escape, ended up being surrounded by even more large Hollows, before backup arrived in the form of Fifth Division Captain Aizen and his Lieutenant Gin Ichimaru. At that moment, Momo began idolizing Aizen. Later, Momo was assigned to Aizen's Division after her graduation from the Shinigami Academy. After Gin's eventual promotion to captain, Momo, through much hard work, made her way through the ranks to be Aizen's lieutenant. Both Momo and Izuru Kira presented Renji with the news of his promotion to the 6th Division as their new lieutenant. Ikkaku Madarame told Renji that, due to his promotion, he was now closer to Rukia in status, and he should renewed his friendship with her. Izuru informed him Rukia was being stationed in the Human World, and Momo urged Renji to go after her before it was too late. Renji, refusing, stated it was not official until the ceremony anyway, and he would rather surprise her with his new promotion after she returned.

Soul Society

Momo, first to arrive to the lieutenants meeting, is sitting on the floor. She asks Renji if he has seen Aizen anywhere, and when she, admitting she has noticed him acting weird lately, was near tears, Renji, lying, denied he just had a conversation about Rukia with him. After Renji's defeat at the hands of the Ryoka Ichigo Kurosaki, Izuru brought the unconscious lieutenant to Momo. She intended to call for the 4th Division to heal him, but Byakuya Kuchiki arrives and orders Renji to be incarcerated. She objects to this, but Izuru stops her. Tōshirō arrives afterwards and warns her about Gin Ichimaru. As a result, Momo, attacking Gin when Aizen’s body is discovered, is countered by Izuru. When Izuru refuses to let her kill his captain, she releases her Shikai. Upon arrival, Hitsugaya, stopping both of them in an instant, orders them to be restrained and imprisoned. Momo is desolate over the death of Aizen, but Hitsugaya and his lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto, give her his last letter, which is addressed to her. Matsumoto points out if the letter had been found by any of the other captains, she would not have been allowed to see it. The letter, which holds Aizen's 'secrets' and his knowledge of the conspiracy, is actually a sham meant to blame Hitsugaya for everything, including Aizen's 'death'. When Momo escapes from her cell, she goes after Hitsugaya, and Gin, who arrives on the scene, merely laughs. Hitsugaya attempted to deal with Gin, but Momo tries to stop him. He hits her much harder than he means to, and in the fray with Gin which follows, Gin traps Hitsugaya in a situation where he had two choices: be killed, or let Momo die. Hitsugaya realized this too late, but Matsumoto, reappearing, stopped Gin's sword.

When Momo was put back into a cell, Hitsugaya puts a spell on her cell to keep others from attacking her. It was very difficult to break from the outside, but very easy to break from the inside. However, Hitsugaya did not count on Momo’s determination to avenge Aizen, and she breaks the spell from the inside. Following Hitsugaya and Matsumoto while hiding her presence, she is shocked to find the Central 46 has been massacred. Shortly afterwards, Ichimaru takes Momo deeper inside the Central 46 Compound where she discovers that Aizen is alive and well. Overjoyed, Momo embraces her captain, only for Aizen to stab her through the chest. Shocked by his betrayal, Momo collapses and nearly dies from her injuries. When Hitsugaya returns to the Central 46 Compound, he sees Momo’s body. He is surprised to see the one behind it all was Aizen and not Gin. Aizen's reasoning behind almost killing Momo was since he built her to not be able to live without him, he had done her a favor by killing her. He tried to get other people to kill Momo, but when that failed, he was left with no choice, but to kill her himself. In response, Hitsugaya attacked Aizen but was easily defeated by him. Aizen abandoned Momo and Hitsugaya once Unohana and Isane showed up at the Central 46 Chambers.

Fake Karakura Town

After Yamamoto debriefs Hitsugaya on Aizen’s plan concerning the King's Key, the Captain-Commander allows Momo to talk. Hitsugaya, somewhat surprised to see her up, asks her if she should be walking around. Momo tries to persuade him she is better, though she does not look it. Momo apologizes for not believing Hitsugaya and attacking him. Hitsugaya told her not to worry about it, as it did not bother him. As he tells her to get back to bed so she can get rid of those bags under her eyes, Momo thanked Hitsugaya for accepting her apology. He retorted that even if she was not one who looks like a little kid, if she does not sleep more, she will not ever grow. Momo, yelling at him, tells him he was not one to talk about growing. When Hitsugaya reminds her she is to call him Captain Hitsugaya, Momo, remembering the situation, asks Hitsugaya if he is going to fight Captain Aizen. When Hitsugaya says yes, she, asking if he is going to kill Aizen, begs him to save Aizen. She states what Captain Aizen is doing is bad, but she, thinking he has a good reason, expresses her belief Gin or someone else is forcing him to engage in his actions. Yamamoto, knocking her out, hands over her care to his lieutenant, Chōjirō Sasakibe. Yamamoto, apologizing to Hitsugaya, says he was just respecting her wishes by allowing her to speak, but perhaps it was too soon.

Momo, appearing in the battle of Fake Karakura Town, launches a fireball through Tobiume at Apacci, who is about to attack Rangiku Matsumoto. She declares herself as Aizen's enemy; Matsumoto, however, worries slightly, as she still addresses him as "Captain". Upon disclosing her method of sneaking up on Apacci to Tier Harribel's Fracción, namely through using Kidō to conceal her presence, she, applying Tobiume to a "Kidō net", engulfs the three in an explosion. The Arrancar, using their Resurrección to heal themselves, combine their powers to counterattack. Each of them sacrifices their left arm, using them to activate an ability they call Quimera Parca, forming a creature Apacci claims is called Ayon. Rangiku tries to defend herself against the creature, but it, tearing through the right side of her abdomen, severely injures her. Momo, trying to save Rangiku, catches her in a star-shaped Kidō net, but the creature, attacking Momo, takes her out with one punch to her stomach, with Momo stating all of her bones are broken. She is saved by the timely arrival of Izuru Kira and Shūhei Hisagi. Later, Izuru heals them. Healing Rangiku first, he tells Momo to hang on. Momo says Rangiku is seriously injured, and he should heal her first. After the Espada, in Aizen's eyes, prove unable to defeat the Shinigami, he decides to enter the fight himself. As Hitsugaya impales him through the chest and it appears Aizen is finally struck down, it is revealed Aizen has been using his Zanpakutō's hypnotic powers well before the fight started, somehow tricking Hitsugaya into stabbing Momo instead. Ten days after Aizen's defeat, a member of the 12th Division reveals Momo is undergoing organ regeneration in their squad.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Momo Hinamori was a female human soul who had brown eyes that wore standard Shinigami shihakushō, with her black hair pulled into a bun held in a tied cloth. When in her Shinigami robes, she wears the 5th Division's lieutenant armband. While in her pajamas, a plain kimono, her hair is tied in a loose ponytail. When she attended the Shinigami Academy, she wore the red and white student's robes assigned to the girls, and her hair was in pigtails tied at the base of her neck.

Momo's main pastimes were reading and drawing. Due to her talent in drawing, she has overseen work for book illustration in the Shin'ō Academy. Her love for books has developed since Aizen regularly gave her the books he had read. In his absence, she frequently visits the library.

She attended the ikebana lessons held by Captain Retsu Unohana.

She frequently visited Tōshirō's grandmother in Rukongai.

Her favorite food was peaches, and she does not like plums.

She sometimes bakes cookies, and once made a batch in the shape of Aizen's glasses.

While serving as his lieutenant, Momo greatly respects and admires Aizen. She idolizes him to the point where a letter from Aizen leads her to attack Hitsugaya, her childhood friend. When Aizen led an attack on the Fake Karakura Town, Momo helped to defend the town from Aizen and his forces, but she still notably referred to him as 'Captain Aizen'.

Powers and abilities

Momo Hinamori was a Soul (魂魄, Konpaku) who were spiritual beings that were formerly the spirits of dead humans from the World of the Living that passed on to the Soul Society. From a young age, she came to demonstrate a degree of spiritual power. Later on, she came to be trained at the Seireitei in order to become a Shinigami (死神, death god(s); Viz "Soul Reaper(s)").

Knowing her own limitations in direct battle, Momo is able to compensate for it through crafty combination attacks. Because of her expertise in Kidō, Momo is able to attack in a number of versatile ways.

Momo excelled in the use of Kidō. Captain Hitsugaya had stated that Momo was a Kidō master, whilst Izuru had mentioned that she was exceptionally skilled. She can use multiple spells in conjunction with each other and her Zanpakutō, creating a unique way in which to attack and incapacitate her opponents. In this way, she can make common spells all her own.

Hinamori was proficient enough to cross swords with other lieutenant-level Shinigami. While she is capable enough in swordsmanship to attain her high-level seated position, when facing Harribel's Fracción, she states she knows she is not strong enough to combat them using her swordsmanship skills, instead sneaking up on them and using Kidō.

Notes

• Momo Hinamori was created by Tite Kubo where she featured in the setting of the Bleach universe.

Appearances

• Bleach:

External Links

• Bleach Wiki Entry

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