Momo Akanegakubo

Appearance and age

Momo is a petite girl and is the shortest member of the Elite Ten Council with 140 cm tall, with her head stopping just below Satoshi Isshiki's chest. She has short purple hair with fringed, hime-styled bangs and part of her hair is tied up to resemble cat ears. She also has green eyes. She wears a standard Totsuki uniform and is always carrying around a large stuffed cat doll with a purple and pink color scheme named Bucchi (ブッチ). Bucchi's hands are often ripped off whenever she cooks, as his hands serve as her oven mitts. Her normal cooking attire is a standard white chef's uniform with a chef cravat. 18 years

Personality

Momo is stubborn and taciturn, usually refusing to interact with new people that she meets. According to Mea Yanai, it takes at least a month before Momo will acknowledge someone new, let alone make eye contact when talking. Momo seems to be antisocial, as she doesn't like talking to new people, or people she deems as low/unworthy. Born from a rich family, and growing up as a spoiled brat and almost no one disagreeing with her choices, Momo is an elitist and perfectionist, as well as the most arrogant member of the Elite Ten, upping up even the likes of Etsuya Eizan. Hence, people who managed to break her established ideals are enough to make Momo mad, and have a breakdown even as her methods have been questioned. When referring to herself, she often speaks in third person in an attempt to make herself sound cuter.She also is seemingly competitive, especially whenever someone implies they want to challenge her. Like most of the Elite Ten members, she has cocky tendencies, hardly considering her underclassmen a threat to her, even using her past accomplishments as a means of establishing their inability to defeat her. She mainly displays this manner by assigning nicknames to her peers which masks her condescending demeanor underneath a trait deemed "cute", the only exception being those with higher rank than hers such as the Headmaster and Elite Ten members with the higher seats. Whenever Momo becomes angry or annoyed, Bucchi reflects her feelings by displaying a cruciform popping veins on its face. She is also scared of riding airplanes

Kitchen style

Confectionery - Momo specializes in confectionery, particularly in creating western sweets and cakes. She is the school's top pâtissiere and despite her specialty laying in sweets, her skills allowed her to be the Third Seat of the Elite Ten Council.

Backstory

In her early childhood, whenever Momo went toy shopping with her mother, she had the odd habit of selecting toys that appeared unappealing. However, those toys would later become trendy items, which caught the eyes of her parents. As a result, similar to Erina Nakiri, Momo gained the reputation of a renowned consultant, providing design advice to various companies on products such as books, toys, clothing, and sweets. Despite the protest of multiple fashion companies, Momo enrolled into Tōtsuki Culinary Academy as part of the 90th Generation and would later attain the Fourth Seat of the Elite Ten Council by her third year. As a third-year student, Momo completed the Tōtsuki Friendship and Rapport Training Camp and Stagiaire events in her first year and all subsequent events afterwards. Before her debut, she alongside other members of the Elite Ten gathered and selected the participants of the 43rd Annual Tōtsuki Autumn Election

Tōtsuki Tea Ceremony and Cooking Academy

Tōtsuki Culinary Academy for short, is a famous culinary school located in Tokyo, Japan. Tōtsuki boasts the best and harshest culinary education in the world. Entrance into Tōtsuki is considered a great honor and an even greater opportunity for aspiring chefs; parents have even been known to beg officials to accept their children, even offering their life savings to have their child attend, though all offers are turned down. Students are only accepted after passing an entrance exam, requiring them to prepare a dish under a specific theme and pass the exam proctor's judgment. The academy accepts students starting from the middle school section. If they show acceptable merit in their school work, they will move on to the high school section. As a privately owned academy, the school board has the authority and the freedom to expel any student at any time, and may expel students if their work does not meet their expectations, though it is uncommon for a student to be expelled in middle school. The last opportunity for a student to enter the academy is right before the first semester of the first year of High School in spring, after which no new applicants for a class will be accepted. The high school section of Tōtsuki is much more rigorous and cutthroat, as the expulsion rate for inadequacy raises exponentially. Nearly every failing grade is almost guaranteed to result in immediate expulsion, and there are numerous mandatory class events that are designed to whittle down the number of students, leaving only the best of the best