Nobara

**Nobara** (ノバラ, *Nobara*) is a secondary character in Vampire in the Garden series. She is the mother of Momo. She is the ruthless commander of chief in Central. She is in charge of all the battles so that the city and its people, exhausted by the protracted war, can return to a stable life. She is also strict in raising Momo to be her heir in order to end the power struggle within the organization.

## Appearance

Nobara is an adult woman with a long black hair and glasses. She uses a military red-gray clothes, and have a high scarf. She uses a dark-red-gray gloves too.

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## Personality

Nobara is shown to be intelligent, no-nonsense and dedicated commander of Central Force as well as distant mother towards her daughter Momo. All of this hardly veiled how much she represented worst among those who participated in the constant war between humans and vampires which reduced entire civilization into post-apocalyptic state: cold-hearted, ruthless, uncompromising, indifferent, and too focused on matters outside her duty.

Although Nobara's love for her daughter is genuine and that she can relate to the latter how deplorable their life at City of Light is, her actions put their validity in question; she needlessly yells and beats Momo upon finding her listening to a music box she found during her first and last field mission before making a pathetic effort to 'comfort' her afterwards and later, willingly allows her men to open fire at a mutated vampire who threatens Momo and Fine despite apparent risk of them caught in crossfire. Even Kubo, who much more unhinged than her, rightfully pointed out that she indeed too focused on her career over her daughter's well-being than she let on. Near the end of the series, Nobara is forced to face the reality of how much she pushed Momo away by being too neglectful and emotionally abusive to be a proper mother, even without Fine's intervention.

## History

In her past, Nobara lived with her younger brother Kubo, and his family.  At some point, she got married and gave birth to Momo.  Your Nameless Husband may have abandoned the family or passed away at some point.  Shortly afterwards, she receives news that her brother is going to marry a vampire.  It is not known what her reaction was, but Kubo asked for her help to kill his Vampire Wife she was attacking him with all the vampire guests.  She and her brother annihilate them, and afterwards, Nobara is promoted to general of the central military.

## Plot

Nobara call for Momo and decides to reassign her to an admin position. Momo is fine remaining at her position, but her mother states that she only assigned her a low-raking labor first due to cadet receiving an admin role would be met with disapproval. Nobara notes that she heard Momo hesitated to shoot a vampire and Momo tries to explain it was a child. However, her mother tells her that puts in danger her comrades.

The next day, at the human briefing, they reveal that have found a vampire lair in the northen mountains. The Deputy Commander thinks they are rushing and don't think they will succeed. Nobara shows the drug that the vampire uses. She explains it boosts their physical abilities at the exchange of their lives. Nearly 100 of them had already sacrificed their lives like this, which shows they are desperate enough to use such extreme tactics. Nobara suggest they invade the nest and settle the war once and for all. After the meeting, The Deputy Commander says he heard that Nobara promoted her daughter to an admin role and that she graduated the military training with flying colors. Nobara tells him there is no need for flattery and that she heard he is working on a new weapon to neutralize the vampires. She admires his efforts, but since this is her job, he should stay in line and follow her lead.

At night, Nobara finds out that Momo is listening to a music box and gets angry and slaps her, which causes Momo to runs away. The humans started an attack on the vampire lair, but run into a deadly trap, and at the same time, the vampire attack Central. Nobara takes command and manages to stop the vampire advancement. Nobara's group then pins a transformed vampire with lights. Nobara sees her daughter is there and if they shoot they may kill her as well, but as her priority is to kill the vampire, she orders her men to shoot if the vampire moves. In the end, Momo runs away with Fine. Nobara calls her brother Kubo, who promises to bring back Momo, although is a bit annoyed by the soldiers she send. Nobara explains she send them due to pressure from the deputy commander, and while they are on the pretext to test their new weapon, in reality they are trying to find some dirt on her.

Later, deputy commander states that Nobara's daughter had aligned herself with the vampires and is currently running away with a vampire. He provides pictures of proof and wants Nobara to take responsibility for Momo's treacherous actions.

When Kubo learns that Momo is heading to a village on the frozen lake, Nobara joins him. Kubo believes its because Nobara wants to keep her status and if Momo died, the ones at Central won't bother her. Nobara states that there is no use to traitors and if you disobey, you will have to deal with the consequences. The group then departs, crossing the frozen lake and heading towards the village. Before reaching the village, Nobara shares that the village is unlikely to be a paradise and warns Kubo to not fall for it, but recalling how his vampire wife turned on him, he states he isn't an young fool anymore and is sure its not paradise.

In the aftermath of the fight with the villagers, Nobara finds Momo who carries Fine's body. Nobara states she brought all of this upon Momo. Momo says its just like she told her and she doesn't know anything about the world. Momo continues to walk, making Nobara angry and pointing her gun at Momo saying she will not allow her to escape. Momo thanks her for everything, but wants they to live their own lives. Momo continues, ignoring Nobara, who decides not to shoot her.