Aiuchi Momo

"*The answer I have been seeking... Will I find it here?*"
―Aiuchi Momo

**Momo Aiuchi** is a third year at Ikebukuro Senior High School and a part of the unit Airis. A cheerful, kind young man who is always eager to learn new things and share his thoughts. Something about his attitude thought makes people worried...

Created by @ookaryi on Instagram, Momo is part of the Instagram edit fan project Project Sekai : Miracle days (@miracle\_.days).

## Background

Momo had a happy and fulfilling childhood. Since little he loved watching movies and reading books. His parents were very caring and kind to him.

This went on until around the age of 10 years old. It came out that Momos' father was caught in an affair, and this led to his father and his mother fighting a lot, especially because it was really sudden and his father kept it hidden really well. Eventually, the two divorced, and this is when Momos life took a sudden turn and he felt his life shattered. The young Momo started questioning if his parents actually really have loved him all this time. Or was all of it fake? What is real love even? Has he even experienced love before in his life? He felt a deep sense of betrayal in him. All his questions tormented him and he wanted an answer, so Momo took it upon himself to find true love, the perfect formula for it. It didn't help that Momos' mother got also negatively affected and started distancing herself from Momo, since he was her former lover's son after all. Instead she started looking for a new partner and saw taking care of Momo more as a necessity. She often brings home a new man every other week. Already back then Momo understood though and was fine with everything she did and accepted it. In his opinion, it was his mother's own way to find her true love.

During these tough times Momo also started listening much more to music. It made him feel something warm, but strange, yet familiar. Realizing that music, has its unique way to convey strong emotions may be a lead to his biggest question, he picked up also researching and making music himself.

For Momo, his biggest failure is not being able to prevent his parents divorce, leading them to lose their "true love".

## Appearance

Momo has peach/pink colored hair, which ends a bit under his chin. He has a single streak of long hair in front of his face, on his left side. Momo has two ahoges, one smaller than the other, and a blue hair "brim" which might be dyed, or might be natural. Momo has cat-like light orange eyes.

### **Casual**

A desaturrated puple t-shirt, covered by an opened soft hooded white-pink jacket, which ends at his mid-thigh. Momo wears black knee-length shorts with black leggings underneath. As accessories, he wears a black choker and a mid-chest length necklace with a heart pendant.

### **Airis**

Her Airis outfit consists of a long sleeved white shirt with pink cuffs, which ends at her waist. Off the shoulder, it has a pink sailor uniform collar with a single yellow stripe on it. A pink tie is tied to it, stripped with two yellow lines and decorated with a pink heart. On the white part of the shirt, 4 pink buttons are disposed in between two dark pink lines. Risa wears a large pink knee-length skirt, topped by a soft pink skirt which ends a few inches higher than the firsts' end. The light pink skirt is split at her right front side, held together by a pattern of deep pink ribbons and a pink bow at the top of the slit. On top of said bow lays a gold and pink heart brooch. As shoewear, she wears frilly pink heels with two bows on each shoetop.

## Personality

Very laid back and open minded, Momo wants to learn about the world and its people. He, however, is very obsessed with the concept of love. Not the type to joke, Momo will sometimes unintentionally say funny things. Momo is a very sociable guy and he loves making new friends, but has a hard time doing so due to his difficult personality. He tends to freak people out, because once he starts rambling about one topic he's interested in (especially love), he tends to get erratic and his tendency to express (morally questionable) thoughts without hesitation pushes away most people. The only people who enjoy being around him before getting into the Sekai are Yuka and Mayu, who he both met in their first year of senior high school. Generally kind hearted, Momo will not shy away from tackling immoral concepts and theorizing their possibilities. His priorities are researching what love is (in the sense of scientific, factual research of literature, science media….any source really), and he desires: Find his true love one day (or more clearly: gain and experience the feeling of real love).

Momo worries of being "betrayed again" by false love, like by his parents divorcing and neglecting him. Deep down, all of his obsession about finding out what love is, is because he wants to find a way to love and feel loved without any possible pain or betrayal behind it, which, according to him, is true and perfect love, which he strives to find through his research. (But is this actually feasible? This will be the main focus of Momos character development.

## Relationships

* Kyomoto Risa: Unitmate.
* Akihiro Mami: Unitmate.
* Ito Kuri: Unitmate.

## Trivia

* His best accomplishment is mastering making the perfect soufflés
* Momo owns a crab which he found in the live seafood section of the grocery store, picking him up there (he still doesnt know if Edward is a boy or a girl. But he will always be Edward).
* His ideal evening would be : cooking a big meal with desserts and then sit down to enjoy a movie/anime/documentary with delicious foods.
* Momo knows how to play pretty much every instrument he's gotten his hands on, but isn't very good at any of them.