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We've got to start at the bottom and work up! And if we don't earnestly cheer each other on... we'll never be top heroes!Momo Yaoyorozu in "Bakugo's Starting Line"
Momo Yaoyorozu (
Appearance
Momo is an attractive teenage girl with a rather mature physique, considering her age. She has long black hair that is normally tied into a spiky ponytail with a single bang hanging on the right side of her face and onyx eyes that point slightly inwards, which seems to resemble a cat.
During school hours, she wears the standard female uniform which consists of a gray blazer with blue-green stripes, a formal white shirt, red tie, blue-green pleated skirt, black knee socks, and brown shoes.
Her hero costume consists of a high-collared, sleeveless crimson leotard with silver lines at her waist and around her arms, which is open to expose her skin from her neck to just below her navel. She sports short crimson boots which dip sharply down in the centre, and two gold utility belts around her waist, another, thinner one around the top portion of her chest, below her shoulders. The design choice allows her to create items from as many points in her body as possible, as her Quirk can only be used if her skin is exposed.
During the winter months, she wears a long, high-collared red cape, a ring going around her neck with a large gemstone at her throat.
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Personality
Momo's fiery enthusiasm about becoming a heroine.
Momo is a very prudent, dedicated person who acts as a natural leader. She is generally level-headed and calm in dangerous situations, but she isn't above falling into a panic. Momo can be blunt with her comments about people's mistakes and miscalculations, tending to be very honest and wishing to help her peers improve enough to become great heroes, like tutoring them on her home. Momo shows further developement as a selfless hero who gets inspiration from others, realizing the important thing is to focus on saving her and help them out at that moment even if it means losing her provisional hero license.
While originally confident in herself, Momo's pride was crushed after her rapid loss to Fumikage Tokoyami in the U.A. Sports Festival and the comparisons she made between Shoto Todoroki and herself, starting to lose confidence in her own ability to make quick choices on practical situations. It was further damaged during Uwabami's shallow internship, believing the heroine chose her despite being "an unworthy student" and tried to find deeper lessons to reassure herself. Thanks to Shoto's encouragement on their final exams, Momo regained confidence on her quick-thinking, learning people have different skills and sometimes can complement each other. Even when she was weakened and trapped by her opponents, she doesn't give up and shows the increase of her Quirk output, ultimately defeating her enemies.
When she displays excitement whetever towards pass time with her friends or help them, Momo becomes upbeat and adorably "bouncy". She also tends to accidentally reveal how rich she is, yet most people understand she doesn't do it out of malice. Despite her dorky attitude, she can get roped into silly situations such as cheerleading, although she rarely expresses much enthusiasm in doing so.
Momo's "bouncy" personality.
Momo typically takes adverse situations in stride, expressing little concern for losing most of her clothing in battle as knows how to simply make another set and would made her costume even more revealing were it not for restrictions on exposed skin in a costume. However, this often makes others think of her as an exhibitionist. Ironically, she is rather innocent and sensitive to vulgarity and rude mannerisms, constantly frustrated by sexual advancements from Minoru Mineta and Katsuki Bakugo's crude attitude.
Abilities
Genius Intellect: Momo is ranked to have S-class intelligence, being a genius. Her analytical skills are strong, easily devising strategies and plans in battle and urgent situations, which she has no trouble putting in motion due to her Quirk's versatility. Academically speaking, Momo is highly efficient, placing first in the mid-terms of her class[2] and understanding the composition of anything she wishes to create using her Quirk. The latter is a complicated task for even the simplest materials.
Teaching Ability: Momo is considered an extremely good tutor by her peers, holding several study classes for other members of Class 1-A. The results have been noticeable judging by the U.A.'s First Term Final Exam, where none of the low-grade students failed in the written exam.[2]
Bukijutsu: Momo skillfully wields several weapons to use against her opponent, for both offensive and defensive purposes. Her bojutsu is quite remarkable, which allows her to knock out a large group of villains, as shown during the assault on U.S.J.
Conditioning: Momo placed 1st in Shota Aizawa's fitness test, an impressive feat considering almost all her classmates had at least one superhuman result and the end result was cumulative of all ten tests.
Musical Talent: Having gone through etiquette training during her childhood, Momo is capable of playing the piano and other key-based instruments.
Quirk
Creation (創造 Sōzō?): Momo's Quirk gives her the ability to create any non-living material from her exposed skin through the molecular manipulation of her fat cells. As long as she has an understanding of how something is made, she can make it. The more she eats, the more material she has to work with, so she needs considerable food ingestion for her Quirk to be effective. However, it takes her a longer period of time and more skin exposed to create large objects, to the point where she forces large objects through her costume leaving it shredded, though she claims she can just repair it.
Super Moves
- Yaoyorozu's Lucky Bag (
YAOYOROZU'S LUCKY BAG Yaoyorozuzu Rakkī Baggu?): Momo creates a large cannon, which can launch a bag full of items. These items can be anything that she can make with her quirk.
Stats
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Equipment
Hero Outfit: Momo's hero outfit allows her to expose as much of her skin as possible so that she can use her creation Quirk much more easily.
- The Yaoyoreotard (ヤオヨロ レオタード Yaoyoro Reotādo?): This equipment makes it easier to pop out what Momo creates, though it leaves not much to the imagination.
- The Yaoyoro-Belt (ヤオヨロ ベルト Yaoyoro Beruto?): This equipment is a bit thick in order to prop up her "Yaoyorictionary".
- The Yaoyorictionary (ヤオヨロ 辞典 Yaoyoro Jiten?): This equipment is made of lexicon compiling all the constructs and materials that comes to Momo's mind. It also has magnets attached to the cover and inside pages so that it doesn't open or fall.
Battles & Events
Unforeseen Simulation Joint Arc
U.A. Sports Festival Arc
Final Exams Arc
Forest Training Camp Arc
- Momo Yaoyorozu & Yosetsu Awase vs. Saw Noumu
Provisional Hero License Exam Arc
- Momo Yaoyorozu, Kyoka Jiro, Mezo Shoji, & Asui Tsuyu vs. Saiko Intelli & her classmates
Joint Training Arc
- Joint Training Exercise/Round Two
Trivia
Early design concept for Momo.
Early design concept for Momo's hero costume.
- Momo's design in the preliminary stages of the series was relatively similar to her current design. She already had her trademark ponytail, although it was less spiky, and her body overall was slightly slimmer. Her hero costume had a few differences though, such as the lack of a torso opening and a sort of partial mask worn around her nose area.
- Momo was slightly censored during the Unforeseen Simulation Joint Arc, due to her tearing her clothes off to create the insulated sheet for her and Kyoka.
- Momo's family name "Yaoyorozu", is an idiomatic expression which translates to "a great/uncountable number", referencing her Quirk. The kanji, 八百万, literally means "eight million".
- Momo’s given name (桃) means ‘peach’.
- Momo's rankings for the Popularity Polls are as following:
- Ranked 11th in the 1st Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 13th in the 2nd Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 14th in the 3rd Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 7th in the 4th Popularity Poll.
- Momo's U.A data is as follows:
- Momo is Class 1-A student No. 20.
- 1st during Shota Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
- 1st in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.[2]
- Ranked in the Top 16 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
- Momo has an interest in reading (especially illustrated encyclopedias).
- In Chapter 124, Momo broke the fourth wall, when she pointed out that Mirio Togata only needed 3 frames to explain the Hero Internship
- Momo would have made her costume even more revealing were it not for restrictions on the amount of skin allowed to be shown in a costume.[3]
Quotes
- (To her classmates) "We've got to start at the bottom and work up! And if we don't earnestly cheer each other on... We'll never be great heroes!"[4]
- (To Tenya Iida, Izuku Midoriya & Eijiro Kirishima) "I trust you, Todoroki, but worse comes to worst, I should be there backup which is why I'm coming too."[5]
References
- ↑ My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 11 (p. 7).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 60.
- ↑ My Hero Academia Volume 8 Extras
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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