Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki

**Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki** (大筒木モモシキ, *Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki*) was a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's main family, sent to investigate the whereabouts of Kaguya and her God Tree. He then attempted to cultivate a new one out of the chakra of the Nine-Tails sealed within the Seventh Hokage. In the process of being killed by Boruto Uzumaki, Momoshiki placed a Kāma on him, allowing his spirit to remain intact through the mark.

## Personality

Momoshiki is typically calm, collected, and calculating. However, he has been prone to demonstrate sadistic tendencies, which was shown during his and Kinshiki's attack on Konohagakure, where he laughed after seeing distressed citizens while firing his elemental attacks. Momoshiki also has a severe superiority complex and thought very lowly of people other than himself, calling humans "lowly beings". Likewise, he is also even unsociable amongst his fellow clansmen such as Isshiki, Urashiki, and even his own foster father Kinshiki. He is also like this towards the members of Kara, but will temporarily team up with them if it helps him achieve his goals. Despite his callous attitude, he is staunchly committed to the Ōtsutsuki Will and his clan's goal of attaining godhood; while he laments Naruto's inability to pass along his massive chakra to his son in his future, he absorbs Kinshiki's without a second thought as per his wish. As with Isshiki, Momoshiki is determined to harvest a chakra fruit at all cost, as he decided to use Kawaki as a sacrifice for the Ten-Tails to bloom into a God Tree, even though this would result in the fruit's decreased quality, to the point that he would absorb chakra to prevent Kawaki from committing suicide even if risking Boruto regaining control of his body.

Momoshiki is also uninterested in hard-work, preferring to absorb and use the techniques of others instead of relying on his own personal strength. Due to this, he has very limited skill in taijutsu, becoming one of his main crippling weaknesses. Any effort on his part disgusted Momoshiki, and grows visibly annoyed at anything not going smoothly for him, as he was angered by his clothes being ripped by Boruto. As such, he is very arrogant and reckless in battle, never implementing any attempts with strategy or attempting to conserve chakra, but simply flaunting his self-perceived superior power in the vain belief that his powers alone secure him victories. He always convinced himself he can simply replenish his chakra with what he gains from his Chakra Fruit and pills, or by whatever samples he obtained by absorbing others' attacks. Despite his lazy nature, Momoshiki is shown to be a talented schemer, able to adapt to the situation to suit his need. He is also rather innovative, able to create variations of techniques acquired from others. He is also well-versed in the Ōtsutsuki's full recorded history.

Fitting of his lazy personality, he is also rather cowardly when faced with an actual challenge, as he is occasionally seen becoming visibly nervous when his opponents are powerful enough to threaten him and even more exploit his weakness. Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki both agreed Momoshiki's personality is a mirror image of Sasuke's when he was bent on killing Itachi Uchiha. However, upon seeing Momoshiki coldheartedly consume his own foster father and brutalise his fellow Kage, Naruto remarked that Momoshiki wasn't a man at all, or Sasuke's mirror image, but a simple monster with no redeeming qualities. He is also a schemer, constantly looking for the right opportunity to turn things to his advantage, meticulously poking at one's insecurities in hopes of making them cave to his will.

Although believing himself to be superior to everybody, Momoshiki is not completely unable to accept defeat, as after death, his spirit lingered enough to leave Boruto a foreshadow of his future, showing no outward anger nor hatred otherwise. He even continually makes the effort to talk to him and jokingly gets upset by Boruto not enjoying his company. Additionally, when controlling Boruto, he doesn't target any of Boruto's friends or even Naruto, who killed him, despite having easy chances to do so. He did not try to hurt them until they actually tried to stop him during his fight with Kawaki. Momoshiki will do anything to keep his vessel alive. He seems unfazed when he loses the ability to resurrect into Boruto, instead laughing at Boruto with the thought that the boy will lose everything. When Kawaki took Boruto's place in the world's collective memory, Momoshiki became more forthcoming with information to assist his vessel's survival, and grew aggravated when Boruto refused to give into despair, denying him the ability to take over his body.