- ⧽ Even though you're not Oda Nobunaga, allow me to be your Mori Ranmaru.
- —Momoka to Kaguya, The Cuckoo That Doesn't Sing
Momoka Shigisawa (鴫沢 桃花 Shigisawa Momoka) is a Department of Mary Sues agent written by KnShirayuki. She is partnered officially with Kaguya Hazama and unofficially with Urato Tomiyama and Inasuke Akagashi, forming an unofficial agent ensemble called the Four Demonly Kings (四夜叉王).
Agent Profile[]
Appearance & Physical Characteristics[]
A 165 cm tall young woman with wavy, white bobbed hair and pink eyes. She often wears "normal" modern clothes, and is frequently described as "adorable".
She is said to be handsome when disguised as male.[1]
Personality[]
A mild-mannered, sweet teenage girl greatly interested in video games and attractive men. She is very attracted to Kaguya Hazama, whom she's lived with for years prior to their PPC career and who has the same taste in video games as she does. Outside of this, much of her mindset adheres to traits typical of samurai: most notably, she is painfully loyal to Kaguya, whom she self-proclaims to be a maid to. She also has a strong sense of gratitude, as seen with her loyalty to the Hazama family for letting her live with them and her special dislike for entitled, ungrateful Suvians.
She is named after Momotarō and has expressed desire to emulate his heroic traits in her life.[2][3]
Background[]
Logo of Ichōnomiya High (銀杏宮高等学校), Kaguya and Momoka's alma mater
She was born to father Rihito 李仁 and mother Anzu 杏[4] on September 22[5] (making her a Virgo) in World 1.3291 Japan. Her mother died giving birth to her[2], thus she was raised by her single father. When she was 15 and close to graduating from middle school, her father died and she had no living relatives left. She was thus sent to live with the Hazama family and decided to be a maid for them out of gratitude. She is practically Kaguya's personal servant, but is close to him and shares his interests in pop culture.
During her time with the Hazama, she attended and graduated from Ichōnomiya High (銀杏宮高等学校, also Ichoco いちょこう)[6] and was a member of its kitchen knifery club[3].
Relationships[]
- Kaguya Hazama: Her official partner, who shares RC 381 with her. She has been his housemate since the death of her father, and is unwaveringly subservient to him out of gratitude. She also has a long-standing crush on him, and the two tend to share fandoms. Before Four Demonly Kings episode (7), she has to physically restrain Kaguya when he switches into "angry mode" on missions, and from (7) onward, she is one of two people capable of understanding Kaguya's eldritch speech in his new "angry mode" (the other being Fáelán Portavius), and delegates herself to translating for him if another partner is present. SPOILER, highlight to view: From episode (31) onward, the two are also in a romantic relationship.
- Urato Tomiyama and Inasuke Akagashi: Neighbors who inhabit RC 🤘 nested inside RC 381. Despite not officially being her partners, Momoka alongside Kaguya frequently undertake missions with them, either in pairs, in trios or as a quartet (the Four Demonly Kings). Momoka plays a part in saving the two from an abhorrent badfic and is on generally good terms with them, though she largely disapproves of Inasuke's openly disparaging Kaguya.
Mission Reports[]
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To see the spin-off featuring this agent and her associates, go here.
Trivia[]
- The agent's surname is a reference to the character Miya Shigisawa (鴫沢 宮) from the novel The Golden Demon (金色夜叉 Konjiki Yasha) by Meiji author Kōyō Ozaki. Her first name is a reference to the main character Momotarō from the folktale of the same name. Her second solo interlude reveals she's actually named after the fairy tale character in-universe.
- She and her parents are named after plants in the Prunus genus.
- Her backstory is inspired by that of the main characters of The Golden Demon. In the novel, the orphan Kan'ichi is adopted into well-off Shigisawa family as he is about to enter high school and falls in love with their daughter Miya; here, Momoka is taken in by Hazama family and falls in love with their son.