Momo

**Momo** (モモ, *Momo*) is one of the main characters in Vampire in the Garden series. She is a human girl, who lives in a world monitored by prolonged war, and is dissatisfied with her life. She gets interested in vampire culture, specifically "the songs", which are taboo in the human world. One day, she meets a vampire, Fine, and her life changes dramatically.

## Appearance

Momo is a young girl with medium short brown hair.

In her first appearance, she is clad in a green cadet military uniform complete with appropriate dark green scarf and beret as well as long boots.

During her stay with Fine's residence, she wears an off-shoulder black dress whose cuffed sleeves and collar white and pink in color respectively. The dress also had small green-gold and dark red details in it. On her neck is a black choker. The dress and the choker itself is used to be her look like Aria and suits her perfectly despite being slightly too large.

Anime designsIn the epilogue, Momo wears Fine's cloak in memoriam of her dear friend; keeping it in good condition.

## Personality

She is an intelligent and skilled girl, knowing how to act and how to handle her weapons, and even controlling her strength in missions. Momo is also very emotional towards people, even crying, and shows fear and disgust towards her mother Rei, and her uncle Kubo. She refused to hug her mother when she hit her in the face and then asked for a hug hoping her daughter would understand her. Unlike her family, Momo was very fond of her late classmate Mirena, and mourned her death as soon as she passed away. She also feels a certain love, and affection for Fine (before fear and revulsion also due to the fact that Fine is a vampire, but her feelings begin to change when Fine takes care of her and lets her stay hidden in her mansion. She apologizes later to Fine, saying that she was walking and throwing up on the floor), and always smiled when she was petting her.  She is very fond of music, and her emotional side comes from when she hears the music from Fine's music box, which she had found on a mission and had promised to listen to the music together with Mirena, crying when she hummed the music.  She also enjoys singing and took a liking to Fine after learning about music from her friend.

## Plot

On a mission to annihilate vampires, Momo encounters a child vampire, who offers her a music box. Another vampire attacks her, but Mirena kills it and saves her. Seeing that, the child uses a drug and transforms, knocking out Mirena and attacking Momo, who hesitates to kill it, however, the commander of the operation comes and kills it, saving Momo.

Back at Central, Momo and Mirena are working when Mirena reveals she took the music box and gives it to Momo to fix. Momo is called by the commander of chief, Rei, who is also Momo's mother. Rei informs her that Momo will be changing jobs and will be working an admin job now. The next day, after her first day on the new job, Momo tells Mirena that she fixed the music box and will bring it tomorrow for them to listen to together. At night, Momo listens to the music box, but her mother finds out and slaps her, as music is taboo. Momo then runs away, and tells Mirena that she wants to leave the city, but at the same time, a vampire attack occurs.

A bit later, near a lake, Momo listens to the music box and sings along with it, commenting that she has had enough of the world and the never ending war with the vampires, wanting to go somewhere where she will be alone. Fine, a vampire, hears her and comes asking her to sing the song again. Mirena comes and shoots Fine, allowing Momo to run. As more vampires and soldiers appear, a transformed vampire attacks Mirena, Fine attempts to save her, but fails. In her final moments, Mirena apologizes to Momo that she won't listen the music box with her. As the transformed vampire goes after Momo, Fine grabs her and flies away. They reach a building, where they encounter Rei and some men, but Rei puts priority in killing the vampires over saving Momo. Fine asks Momo to come with her and eventually Momo agrees and the two manage to escape in a car.

Fine takes Momo to her secluded villa, where she shows her a piano and plays the same song from the music box. She tells Momo she is free to go anywhere she wants, but having nowhere else to go, Momo decides to stay. Momo wakes up at night and explores the villa. She finds a room with a projector, where she sees a girl running and Fine playing a musical instrument. She feels someone is watching and chasing her and starts running, but eventually loses consciousness. As she wakes up, Fine explains she probably had a fever and turns on a vinyl player with a human song and lets Momo listen to it. The next day, Momo finds Fine in her garden and helps her with the gardening. As thanks for trying to help Mirena, Momo decides to later sing for Fine. At night, when she sings, an arrow shoots through the window and hits Fine. Kubo and his men come and try to take Momo, but Momo doesn't recognize him. Other vampires appear and Momo manages to escape, while Kubo and his group fight them. She ends being saved by Fine again, who takes her to a shed and returns to fight Kubo. As they fight, Momo hits Kubo with a car and gets Fine and they manage to escape. With the villa gone and not having anywhere else to go, Momo suggests they go to the paradise shown on a picture, but Fine states that that paradise doesn't exist. Momo thinks that Fine believes it does, since she kept the picture and suggests they try to find it together. Being reminded of Aria, Fine agrees.

The two start travelling and eventually reach a town that is split in two by a canal with humans living on one of the sides and vampires on the other, and trade with each other to live. Fine takes her to a hotel she knows and in their room, she starts teaching her how to play the piano. At night, Fine, who refuses to drink human blood, starts to lose control and almost bites Momo. Fearing she will kill her, Fine throws Momo outside. Realizing that Fine needs blood, Momo decides to infiltrate a human military facility and steal blood. She manages to do it, but barely escapes with her life. She returns to the hotel, which was being burnt by vampires as they saw Momo coming out and thought there may be more humans there. After taking Fine, she takes her to a shed in the woods, where she tries to give her blood, but Fine refuses. The next day, they continue their journey on boat. As they cross a frozen lake, Momo falls and loses consciousness.

Momo later wakes in a small village and sees a young vampire Elisha, who tells her they found the paradise they were looking for. She takes her around and Momo sees that humans and vampires live peacefully. She meets with Fine, but Fine finds the place suspicious. That evening, the two are officially welcomed to the village. The next day, Momo finds a note from Fine and her blade, realizing that Fine has left. As she tells Elisha, she imprisons Momo in her room and the villagers head looking for Fine. Momo manages to escape, but as Elisha attacks her, she runs into a submarine. There, she avoids being found out, thanks to a vampire who explains they pump him with blood and somehow use his regenerative abilities to generate electricity. Elisha shows up and kills the vampire, stating that they need some sacrifices to live in peace and Fine is going to take this vampire's place. Outside, Kubo's group reach the village and engaged them in combat, which ends up damaging the submarine and causing it to start sinking. Momo fights Elisha and manages to kill her, but the room she is in fills with water, however Fine comes in time and saves Momo.

Allegro's and Kubo's group then find them and Fine and Momo are forced to run again. Fine suffers some injuries, but manages to hide with Momo in an abandoned building. as Kubo's group find them, Fine lets Momo escape, while blocking the path behind her and stays to fight Kubo's men using the drug. Momo finds an exit, but is then found by Allegro and she tells him that Fine took the drug. A human soldier then attacks Allegro and intends to bring Momo to Central to discredit Nobara's command, but Allegro defeats him and lets Momo escape, telling her to save Fine. Momo then finds a transformed Fine fighting Kubo and assists her. Kubo tells her that Fine is no longer herself, but Fine manages to control herself and together, they beat Kubo. Momo then rides Fine and flies away. They reach a cave, where Fine feels her final moment is coming. She tells Momo that she used to have a human friend Aria who looks like Momo, and initially she thought of Momo as a replacement, however after spending time with Momo, Fine thinks that she is much stronger than Aria. A moment before she dies, Fine asks Momo to sing for her and think of her in her happy memories.

Momo carries Fine's body and finds her mother, but walk past her, saying they should live separate lives. Nobara points her gun, but is unable to kill Momo and lets her go. Momo buries Fine and sings at her grave.

Years later, Momo has a family and is living peacefully with other humans and vampires. It is shown that she had established the true paradise where both races truly live in harmony without expense of the others. Given to how far Central Force and Vampire Kingdom had fallen into hatred that they had since forgotten the real reason why the war started in the first place and outside world's post-apocalyptic state, her success was made possible by a turning point in which both sides destroyed themselves thus allowing her to do wo without anyone or anything deterring her.