Sakurairo Momoko (anime)

**Sakurairo Momoko** (Japanese: **桜色桃子**) (***Molly Lovelace** in the English dub*) is one of the main characters of *Shining Bonds a La Mode* and *Shining Bonds: Hopes and Dreams*. She is a calm, caring, and warm 14 year-old girl from Cianwood City who is Kou's best friend.

Momoko's alter ego is **Angel Cozy**, the Angelix Warrior of non-romantic love whose theme color is pink. She is a Love Elemental who represents the Elemental of Love.

## Bio

### Appearance

Momoko has curly and poofy chest-length magenta hair and dull watermelon pink eyes. She wears a pale pink shirt with a white collar and puffy sleeves under a jumper dress that has a watermelon pink top and a baby blue skirt with a fluffy white rim. On the chest is a deep pink bow. She has black Mary Jane shoes with white tube socks. Her Harmony Mark is a trio of white hearts each bordered in magenta with a gold halo.

As Angel Cozy, her hair straightens and turns pastel pink, styled in a pair of pigtails that reach down to her waist, and she has a reddish-pink hairbow on the side of her head. Her eyes turn sky blue and she gains butterfly-patterned face paint. She has a pink top with a hot pink gem on the collar, white wrist-length gloves that have pink hearts on the back of her hands, and a three-layered pink bell skirt. She wears magenta and red calf-length heeled boots and has a pair of white angel wings (drawn folded up) on her back. Her ChanMirror is in a carrying case on her waist.

### Personality

Momoko is usually very calm and gentle, being kind, polite, selfless, and helpful. She is usually positive and friendly, although her love of helping others often causes her to neglect herself. Like Nijiko, Momoko also isn't completely sweet and innocent 100 percent of the time as she will sometimes try to charm people into getting what she wants.

Momoko also has an unhealthy obsession with cheering up every single upset person in sight, not understanding that negative emotions have their place in well-being, due to her mother's death making her believe she has to be obsessively selfless as a way of covering up her own sadness.

### Relationships

* Yotsuba Kou: Kou and Momoko have been best friends since they were 6 years old, after Kou saved her from being bitten by an Arbok near Ilex Forest and was hospitalized for 5 days. They enjoy hanging out together, but they do sometimes argue or fight. Momoko has also clearly said several times that she loves Kou in a non-romantic way.

## Magical abilities

Angel Cozy posesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly. Like Yumeko, she has no damaging attacks in her standard Angel Cozy form, being strictly a support fighter whose role is to block attacks and distract or hinder the enemy.

Cozy is able to fire crossbows resembling cupids' bows that can immobilize the enemy in place so it can be purified. She also has excellent defensive abilities, being able to block attacks with heart-shaped shields, and can shoot non-damaging pink beams that work similarly to the Pokémon move Attract to hinder the enemy's ability to attack.

Cozy is also able to make herself look extremely cute for a few seconds, which causes a shockwave that can stun the enemy. She can also make her voice sound cutesy and extremely high-pitched (sounding as if she inhaled helium) to annoy and drive the enemy insane. Another one of Angel Cozy's abilities she has demonstrated is the ability to heal others' injuries, even though it drains her energy and requires her to eat more food afterwards. It is not as powerful as Angel Clover's or Rias's healing abilities, however.

Momoko also knows some basic, first-level spells that all Magic Warriors can use, such as telekinesis, transmuting objects, and fixing minor messes. Her magic aura is warm reddish-pink in color.

### Passive abilities

* **Love sensing**: Even untransformed, Momoko can sense feelings of non-romantic love. She will feel a small shiver on her spine and her Harmony Mark will light up if the feelings are especially strong.

## History

### Pre-series

Growing up, Momoko has always had a very close relationship with both of her parents and later her younger sister once she came along. However, when Momoko was 5 years old, her mother Ehana was diagnosed with cancer and started on treatment. Her father Aiichirou decided to hide this from Momoko and Aiko in order to not worry them.

A year later, however, despite the treatment, Ehana's cancer was terminal and she was going to pass away in 4 weeks. Aiichirou still didn't want to tell his daughters the truth, and in 4 weeks, Ehana died. After a few days, Momoko asked her dad why her mom hadn't come home from the hospital yet and why he was so quiet. While he initially just told her she was too young, he broke the news to her and Aiko. Both were absolutely devastated since they had been kept in the dark the whole time, and Momoko erroneously concluded that her mom died because she hated her and ran off.

Outside, Momoko met a girl around her age, Mimi, who was acting similarly to Aiichirou. She learned that Mimi's father had died in an accident and the two girls sympathized with each other. When Mimi started sobbing uncontrollably, Momoko's magic awakened and a pink aura magically calmed her down. She then suddenly earned her Harmony Mark, a trio of pink hearts each bordered in magenta with a gold halo. After she came back home, her father assured her that her mother did not choose to pass away and would have stayed with her if she had a choice since she loved her, and Momoko took his words to heart.

A few months later, Momoko met Kou after the latter saved the former from nearly getting bitten by an Arbok near Ilex Forest. The 6 year-old Kou took the bite for Momoko and was hospitalized for 5 days, but they quickly became friends after she recovered and the two have been best friends ever since.

## Angel Cozy

**"Warming my heart! A flicker of joy! The Angel of platonic love, Angel Cozy!"**

Angel Cozy is Momoko's Angelix Warrior alias. In order to transform, she needs her ChanMirror, her Angel Cozy ChanCards, and the phrase "Kururin Mirror Change!" in the original Multiverse, or her Dream Palette, her Starlight Key, and the phrase "Miracle Harmony... Harmony Power On!" in the reborn Multiverse.

## Spells

* **Lillipup Eyes**: With this spell, Momoko can make her eyes grow bigger and shinier for several seconds in order to convince somebody to do something she wants.
* **Stepford Smiler**: This spell allows her to detect if somebody is actually depressed even if they're faking being cheerful.
* **Purple Pixie Dust**: This spell cheers somebody who's feeling down up, though it wears off after a few minutes since the cheering-up is not genuine.
* **Flutter Float**: With this spell, Momoko can allow others to levitate without the Air Elemental bottle. It cannot be used on herself, however.

## Pokémon

* Lovecus (Heartiel)
* Nidoran ♀️ -> Nidorina (Jou)
* Pipi (Tsuki)

## Trivia

* According to Noka, Momoko is the Angelix Warrior/Harmony Warrior (in the reborn Multiverse) of love, but also according to Noka, she is specifically the Angelix Warrior/Harmony Warrior of *non-romantic* love.
* Like every one of the heroes and supporting characters throughout the franchise, Momoko appears in Kiko's group shot during The Magic of Friendship Grows, next to Kou, where she can be seen holding Heartiel.
* Momoko's Harmony Mark will light up in response to a declaration of non-romantic love, but it does not light up in response to declarations of romantic love.