Tanabe Momo/Story

## Pre - Reset (Blue Reflection Timeline)

   Mio finds Momo in an alley, after Momo's fragment becomes unstable, likely due to her failure with school, her grandmother passing away and living by herself.

Mio, with Yuzu and Lime's guidance, transforms to reflector and helps Momo's fragment to stabilize. After that, Mio gives her a orange ring, which Momo accepts without hesitation.

Since then, Momo becomes Mio's friend and her partner, protecting Hoshinomiya school's singularity from the attacks of the Sephira. Momo is seen protecting Mio from the sephira while she stabilizes fragments that are on a rampage. While not exactly a reflector in this timeline, she was able to use her sword to fight.

Mio encourages her to get a part-time job, in the same convenience store (Platanus) that she works in, which Momo accepts with a bit of reluctance initially.

However, Netzach kills them when they were trying to defend Hoshinomiya school's singularity.

## Ray-Sun-Tie Timeline

Momo becomes a reflector after receiving a "Blue Reflection" ring from the AASA. (While never explicitly seen, its likely that Yuri Saiki could be the one who gave it to her).

Momo says that this could be a good gig but the lack of clear information, makes her think this could be a shady business.

### First meeting with Hiori and Ruka.

Despite these initial doubts, Momo starts to look for another reflector candidate when she accidentally stumbled on Ruka on the street, dropping a ring that Ruka takes. After Momo realizes she has lost the ring and tries to find it, suddenly she gets into a Leap Range, which triggers her ring, pointing towards Tsukinomiya's direction. Momo attempts to rescue Miyako from Uta, but Hiori is the one who saves Miyako from falling from the ceiling.

Momo introduced herself and explained Hiori and Ruka about fragments, reflectors, and the AASA.  When Hiori introduced herself, Momo's attention is on Hiori's name for reasons that would be answered in later episodes.

On the following day, Momo meets Hiori, who has decided to continue her path as a reflector. They also discuss  Hiori's ring that she got from her missing sister.  Momo offers her help  to look for information regarding Hiori's sister who was a reflector candidate. And tells Hiori that she has no idea how to continue her investigation, showing her some handwritten notes.

They also talk about Ruka, who still keeps a ring but she doesn't seem to be convinced of becoming a reflector like Hiori but Momo says if Ruka hasn't returned it, there might be a hope that she could join them.

### Duel against a mysterious reflector

Momo sensed Miyako's fragment in danger that has triggered a Leap Range. She runs to the source of the disturbance when she's intercepted by a mysterious reflector (Mio Hirahara). They fight, Momo struggles to fight her, electricity sparking from her right arm, hurting her. Mio comments that it seems that Momo still have doubts, which upsets her. During the fight, when Mio touches her sword, Momo has visions that she can't understand. However, Mio leaves, after Hiori and Ruka suceeds in helping Miyako. Later AASA informs Momo, that Hiori's sister, Mio, was a reflector candidate.

### Finding determination to fight

Momo has a dream in which she tells Hiori that her sister was a reflector but she was different from them. When Hiori asks if it means they would be enemies, Momo says it's not true and wakes up. Momo has her right arm covered in bandages, from her previous fight against Mio.

Hiori calls to inform her there's a reflector candidate. It turns out that is simply Miyako that wants to help them, and she had decided to move to Tsukinomiya's dorms. While there, Momo explains what is resonance between reflectors. Hiori and Ruka asks to train them but Momo says she'll think about it.

Momo comes back to the school later the next day, concerned about Hiori and Ruka. She finds Miyako, they have a conversation about Hiori and Ruka, to which Miyako says, they are different but are moving forward. Momo blames herself for not being able to change her way of thinking.

She has recollections about her former school in which she was unhappy and frustrated, even pushing away her grandmother. Momo's grandmother passed away some time before the story.

Later, with another attack of Nina and Uta, Momo is able to hold against their attacks, as she is now determined not to leave things half done. Momo creates a shield to protect Hiori and Ruka, and their combined efforts succeed at making Uta and Nina retreat.

With the help of the AASA, Momo can get into Tsukinomiya, in the same class as Hiori, Ruka and Miyako (since she failed two years in a row).

### Memories that resonate.

Momo appears in the school dorms to give her homemade food to Hiori and Ruka. When Ruka asks her if she is moving to school dorms, she says she can't leave her house, because of her grandmother. Momo says (with a bit of humor) that she can feel her grandmother's presence.

Later, they meet with Miyako in Hiori and Ruka's room. They discuss an app (Hokago) that is popular among teenage girls, There's a chance there's a reflector involved in erasing negative feelings from young girls, after contacting them through said app. Momo provides them with a map with her findings, marking the places where girls have lost their feelings.

When Hiori and Ruka decide to go to the streets to ask young girls about princess Yuki, Momo stays with Miyako. Hiori and Ruka show their progress as a team, being able to resonate with each other. When Hiori comments how they can easily feel each other's feelings by physical touch, Momo remembers her previous encounter with Mio, confused as to why she had such flashbacks of someone she doesn't know.

Later, the group continues the search for Suigiura Kana.  While Momo is looking for anyone who might have seen her, she notices among the pictures of reflector candidates that AASA sent her, a photo of Mio. However, after taking a call from Hiori, Ruka (and Miyako), suddenly she has clear recollections of herself and Mio Hirahara, as friends and fighting together against the sephira, after resonance waves reached her from Mio.

Momo keeps it a secret, contacting AASA, demanding to tell her the truth about Mio Hirahara. AASA denies having information but Momo doesn't believe them. Ruka overhears Momo having an argument with them on the phone while she's at work.

When Ruka asks if Momo knows Hiori's sister, Momo is frustrated, she doesn't understand what's happening. She has memories of Mio, fighting alongside her, something that never has happened, especially since they have fought each other before and they have resonated. Mio is working with Uta and Niina, their enemies. Later that night, this is confirmed when Mio appears during Tanabata festival, stealing a fragment.

### A bitter truth

The next day, Momo apologizes to Hiori for not telling her the truth. She tells them that she is certain that she and Mio were partners but for some reason, AASA doesn't have any information and the fact Momo has resonated with Mio. Hiori says it's not her fault and they have to focus on protecting everyone's feelings.

When Ruka takes Hiori away to talk, Momo and Miyako looks for them. When Momo looks at one of the Tanabata trees. There's a piece of paper with a wish written by Ruka, expressing her desire to help Hiori. Momo is now determined to find Mio and talk to her about why she's doing this, especially when she sensed Mio's warm feelings for her sister, Hiori.

Later, the Rouge Reflectors start a massive attack to steal fragments, and Momo spots Nina running away in her school uniform and she recognizes the school she belongs to.

At night, Momo arrives at St. Inés school, finding Mio in the garden. Momo is already ready for another fight but Mio asks her if she wanted to fight her. Momo hesitates and Mio is aware what Momo wants is answers. Mio asks her what they know about reflectors. Momo says reflectors are supposed to protect people from "bad guys" like her. Mio arguments there aren't good or bad reflectors. Mio also explains what fragments are, and how they are a source of energy according to Yuzu and Lime, those who made her a reflector. Mio confirms that she was tasked to protect this world from Sephira and Momo was her supporter.

Momo is sure that this never happened but at the same time, she has recollections of it. Mio says she's strong because she was willing to face this situation, but not everyone is like that. Momo asks if she's doing this for their sake, Mio doesn't deny it.  Mio says, even if Momo is strong, it won't make things easier or less painful and defends her belief there shouldn't be any unnecessary feelings.

When Momo asks if she's worried about her, Mio tries to deny it. Momo counters her argument saying there's no feeling that is unnecessary. Reflectors can resonate when they share the same feelings and they get more powerful because of it. Momo makes her sword disappear and hugs Mio, instantly resonating to Mio's surprise.

Momo tells her that they should have been great partners. When Momo asks why they failed. Mio says they died once.

Momo finds this shocking revelation hard to believe, but Mio is serious. They have died once against Netzach, one of the sephira and then time was resetted. Mio had no idea who did it but now the common is closed, many reflectors are being created and the laws of the world have changed.

Mio also tells her that in three days, a tragedy will happen. Momo is incredulous. The conversation is interrupted by a surprise attack from Nina.

Momo has a duel with Nina in which both of them are affected by their respective doubts, represented in their arms paralyzed by electricity. While Nina tries to convince herself that she has a special bond with Mio. Momo remembers her promise to fight for Mio and protect what it's most important to her which makes her unlock her true powers as reflector.

Momo defeats Nina but Mio doesn't change her mind and tells her to go back home. Despite that, Momo says the memories of their past were the most important thing to her and declares she will keep her promise and protect Hiori. Mio's ring shines, showing that she has resonated with Momo.

### Fight at St Inés School

When Ruka is kidnapped, Hiori and Momo go to St Inés school to rescue her. Inside the church, they find Ruka held captive, the situation turning into a heated fight between the blue and rouge reflectors. When Mio attempted to take Hiori's fragment, Momo protects Hiori, as a result, Momo's fragment is shattered, falling into a deep sleep. Mio is seen holding an small part of Momo's fragment before leaving the church with Shino and Uta into another dimension.

### Falling and coming back

Momo remains in a coma state for several episodes.  Hiori, Ruka and Miyako visit her while she's at the hospital. Yuri Saiki can be seen in the hospital, analyzing Momo's incomplete fragment,

According to Nina, a fragment, once damaged, can't be restored. However, when the Common and the real world are starting to merge as result of Shino's actions, Momo's fragment is restored thanks to Mio, when she confesses that she had neglected her own feelings to atone for her mistakes.