Akane Momose (百瀬 茜) 🌸

MY HERO ACADEMIA OC • U.A. HIGH SCHOOL • CLASS 1-A

“I'm not like other girls. I don't need to be loud or flashy to get a boy's attention! I just want everyone to feel comfortable around me.”

Basic Information

• Full Name: Akane Momose (百瀬 茜)

• Hero Name: Pink Petal

• Age: 18

• Gender: Female

• Birthday: April 12

• Height: 165 cm (5'5")

• Affiliation: U.A. High School

• Class: 1-A

• Quirk: Petal Veil

• Blood Type: A

• Occupation: Hero Student

Appearance

Akane is an exceptionally pretty girl with a delicate, feminine appearance that makes her look almost like a living porcelain doll. She knows she's attractive and takes considerable pride in maintaining her appearance, especially when she knows she'll be around her male classmates.

Hair: Akane has long, glossy black hair with subtle blue-gray undertones and pastel-pink streaks woven throughout. Her straight bangs frame her face, while the rest of her hair is styled into a voluminous half-up ponytail. She decorates it with a large pink flower hairpiece with delicate petals and a golden center. Several loose strands fall around her cheeks, giving her an effortlessly romantic appearance.

Eyes: Her eyes are a beautiful rosy pink, framed by long lashes. She often widens them to appear innocent or gives people a soft, pleading look when she wants something.

Facial Features: Akane has fair skin, rosy cheeks, a small nose, and naturally glossy lips. Her expressions are usually sweet and inviting, although her smile can become noticeably strained when someone else receives more attention.

Build: She has a slender, graceful figure and carefully maintains her posture to appear elegant. She often tilts her head, clasps her hands together, or rests her fingers against her cheek to emphasize her cute demeanor.

Casual Clothing: Akane loves feminine outfits, including off-the-shoulder white blouses, oversized black cardigans, pleated skirts, ribbons, floral accessories, and platform shoes. Her wardrobe is carefully coordinated around black, white, and shades of pink.

Overall Impression: At first glance, Akane appears gentle, sweet, and almost impossibly innocent. However, those who spend enough time around her begin to realize that her adorable appearance is also part of the image she deliberately cultivates.

Personality

Akane is a textbook pick-me girl who desperately wants to be seen as different from other girls. She craves attention, particularly from boys, and has developed an entire personality around appearing cute, approachable, and harmless.

Her Sweet Public Persona

• Acts shy and bashful around boys, even when she is perfectly comfortable with them.

• Uses a soft, gentle voice and frequently giggles at jokes.

• Pretends to be helpless with simple tasks so someone will offer to help her.

• Constantly insists that she isn't like other girls.

• Claims that she prefers hanging out with boys because girls are supposedly too dramatic.

• Compliments boys frequently and makes sure they know how much she appreciates them.

• Acts embarrassed whenever someone calls her pretty, despite fishing for compliments moments earlier.

• Pretends to be frightened by intense training exercises, hoping her classmates will worry about her.

Her True Personality

Beneath her sweet exterior, Akane is competitive, insecure, jealous, and attention-seeking. She wants to be the girl everyone notices first, and she struggles when another girl receives more compliments or admiration.

She frequently makes passive-aggressive comments disguised as innocent observations. Rather than openly insulting someone, she prefers to smile and say something that sounds complimentary until the other person realizes the implication.

Despite these flaws, Akane isn't completely heartless. She genuinely wants to be liked and fears that people will reject her if she stops being cute, charming, or entertaining. Her behavior is a defense mechanism she has developed to protect her fragile self-esteem.

Her greatest character flaw is that she confuses being adored with being valued.

Quirk: Petal Veil

- Quirk Type: Emitter

Akane can create and manipulate glowing pink petals made of concentrated Quirk energy. Although they look delicate and beautiful, her petals can be surprisingly sharp, durable, and versatile.

Her Quirk is well suited to both combat and rescue operations, allowing her to protect civilians, distract opponents, and restrain enemies.

Special Abilities

1. Petal Shield

Akane gathers layers of petals into a circular barrier that absorbs and disperses the force of incoming attacks. The shield can protect herself or another person, although sufficiently powerful attacks can break through it.

2. Blossom Burst

She launches a concentrated stream of energy-reinforced petals toward an opponent. By controlling their direction, she can target exposed areas or force an enemy to retreat.

3. Rosy Veil

Akane releases a cloud of petals that obscures visibility and interferes with an opponent's aim. She uses this technique to create openings for herself or help her teammates escape danger.

4. Petal Step

She releases small bursts of energy beneath her feet, allowing her to change direction quickly, leap over obstacles, and make brief aerial movements.

5. Blooming Bind

Akane surrounds an opponent's arms or legs with tightly wound layers of petals, restricting their movements long enough for her teammates to capture them.

Ultimate Move: Thousand-Petal Waltz

Akane unleashes a swirling storm of thousands of glowing pink petals, filling the surrounding area with a beautiful but dangerous display.

She controls the petals in multiple formations, creating defensive barriers, distracting enemies, and launching coordinated attacks from different directions.

The technique is particularly effective when Akane has room to maneuver and can carefully coordinate her attacks.

Quirk Weaknesses

• Creating and controlling large numbers of petals consumes considerable stamina.

• Strong winds can scatter her formations and disrupt her control.

• Powerful area-of-effect attacks can overwhelm her defenses.

• Maintaining several complex formations at once requires intense concentration.

• Her precision deteriorates when she becomes upset or distracted.

Although Akane sometimes acts as though her Quirk is too delicate for serious combat, she is actually a capable fighter when she puts in genuine effort.

Hero Costume: Pink Petal

Akane's hero costume combines elegance with practical combat equipment. She insists that looking beautiful is an important part of being a memorable hero.

Her costume consists of a fitted black combat suit decorated with pink cherry blossom patterns, translucent petal-like fabric around the shoulders, and reinforced gloves designed to improve her control over her Quirk.

She wears lightweight black boots for mobility and protective pink lenses to shield her eyes from debris. Her signature flower hairpiece doubles as a small communication device.

The costume's colors emphasize her floral aesthetic, while its flexible materials allow her to move freely during combat.

Akane is particularly proud of how the costume looks in photographs and frequently practices heroic poses before public appearances.

Relationships with Class 1-A

Izuku Midoriya

Akane calls him “Deku-kun” in an exaggeratedly sweet voice. She appreciates his kindness and frequently asks him questions she already knows the answers to, hoping to prolong their conversations.

However, she sometimes becomes frustrated when Midoriya enthusiastically compliments another girl's Quirk or accomplishments. He tends to treat everyone with equal sincerity, making it difficult for Akane to feel uniquely special to him.

Katsuki Bakugo

Akane claims that loud, aggressive boys frighten her, yet she occasionally attempts to gain Bakugo's attention.

Unfortunately for her, Bakugo has very little patience for her helpless act. If she pretends she cannot complete a training exercise, he tells her to stop making excuses and do it herself.

His bluntness irritates her, especially when other classmates agree with him.

Shoto Todoroki

Akane considers Shoto handsome, mysterious, and an ideal target for her flirting. She tries to impress him by acting especially gentle around him.

Shoto, however, takes many of her comments literally. When she hints that she would love someone to walk her back to the dorms, he might simply explain that the dorms are only a short distance away.

His unintentional indifference leaves her struggling to maintain her usual charm.

Ochaco Uraraka

Akane initially presents herself as Ochaco's friend, complimenting her and acting supportive. However, she sometimes makes subtle remarks about Ochaco's behavior around boys or suggests that she is too loud.

Ochaco tries to give Akane the benefit of the doubt, but she gradually recognizes that Akane's compliments often have an unpleasant undertone.

Mina Ashido

Mina sees through Akane's behavior almost immediately. She frequently teases her when she begins acting helpless around the boys.

Mina doesn't necessarily dislike Akane, but she refuses to participate in her little performances. She encourages Akane to be honest about what she wants instead of pretending to be someone else.

Momo Yaoyorozu

Akane feels particularly threatened by Momo's intelligence, composure, and natural leadership. Momo doesn't need to seek attention to earn respect, which is something Akane struggles to understand.

Akane occasionally tries to portray herself as the more approachable girl, but Momo's politeness and confidence make her difficult to provoke.

Backstory

Akane grew up receiving compliments about her beauty and charming personality. Adults frequently described her as sweet, delicate, and well-mannered, and she soon discovered that acting innocent made people more willing to help her.

When her Quirk manifested, its glowing pink petals attracted even more admiration. People praised how beautiful her ability looked, and Akane began associating attention with personal worth.

As she grew older, however, she encountered girls who were just as attractive, talented, or popular as she was. Rather than learning to appreciate them, she started comparing herself to them.

She developed a habit of emphasizing how different she was from other girls, convinced that being the sweetest and most approachable person in the room would guarantee that people would choose her.

Getting into U.A. was a major achievement. Her Quirk's defensive capabilities, versatility, and rescue potential earned her a place in Class 1-A.

Yet training alongside exceptionally talented classmates has forced her to confront an uncomfortable reality: being adorable won't automatically make her a great hero.

Aizawa recognizes her potential but refuses to reward her attention-seeking behavior. He expects her to develop discipline, independence, and genuine teamwork skills.

Akane, meanwhile, is determined to become a successful hero without giving up the admiration she has always craved.

Likes and Dislikes

Likes

• Receiving compliments, especially from boys.

• Pink flowers, ribbons, and cute accessories.

• Being called pretty, adorable, or special.

• Having people offer to help her.

• Romantic dramas and love songs.

• Taking flattering photographs.

• Being praised after training exercises.

• Winning public admiration.

Dislikes

• Being ignored or overlooked.

• Girls who receive more attention than she does.

• Being called fake or manipulative.

• Losing competitions in front of her classmates.

• Having her Quirk dismissed as merely decorative.

• People who see through her innocent act.

• Being told to complete a task without assistance.

Signature Quotes

“I'm not like other girls. I don't need to be loud or flashy to get a boy's attention!”

“Oh, you need help? I'm not very strong, but I'll try my best! Ehehe!”

“Girls can be so competitive sometimes. I just want everyone to get along.”

“Wait, you think she's prettier than me? Oh! It's okay! I'm not upset at all!”

“I mean, I could fight seriously... but I don't want the boys to worry about me!”

Introduction Scene: Akane Meets Class 1-A

The classroom door slid open as Aizawa entered, followed by a girl with long black hair streaked with pink. A large flower decorated her half-up ponytail, and her rosy eyes sparkled as she surveyed the room.

“Everyone, we have a new student joining Class 1-A,” Aizawa announced. “This is Akane Momose. She's eighteen. Don't make a big deal out of it.”

Akane clasped her hands together and bowed.

“Hi, everyone! I'm Akane! I'm so excited to meet you all!”

She lifted her head with a shy giggle.

“Please be nice to me, okay? I'm not very good at fighting scary villains, so I might need a little help.”

Bakugo immediately frowned.

“Then get better at fighting.”

Akane blinked, her smile faltering.

“E-Eh? That was mean...”

She turned toward Midoriya with wide, pleading eyes.

“Deku-kun, you're nice, right? You won't yell at me like that?”

Midoriya panicked.

“W-Well, Kacchan can be blunt, but he's serious about training! I'm sure you'll improve with practice!”

Akane's expression brightened.

“Aww, you're so sweet! I knew you would understand me.”

Mina leaned toward Ochaco and whispered, “We've known her for thirty seconds, and she's already doing it.”

Ochaco pressed her lips together to hide a laugh.

Meanwhile, Shoto raised his hand.

“Why did you enroll in a hero course if you don't like fighting?”

Akane froze.

“W-Well, I want to save people! I just don't want anyone to get hurt...”

“Then training is important,” Shoto replied calmly.

For a moment, Akane had no answer.

Aizawa sighed and pointed toward an empty desk.

“Take your seat, Momose. Training begins in ten minutes. And I expect you to participate fully.”

“Of course, Aizawa-sensei!”

Akane walked to her desk with a bright smile, but as she passed the other girls, her eyes briefly lingered on them.

They're all so confident, she thought. That's fine. I'll just have to make sure everyone sees what makes me special.

She sat down, turned toward the boys, and smiled sweetly.

“By the way, would anyone like to show me around the school?”

Mina dropped her head onto her desk.

“Oh, this year is going to be exhausting.”

And so began Akane Momose's chaotic life in Class 1-A: a girl determined to become a beloved hero, even if she first has to learn that being genuinely admirable matters more than being everyone's favorite.

All characters are 18+