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I think one of the defining parts of Momo's character is that she has low distress tolerance. Taking responsibility and keeping up a certain appearance were both unfulfilling and boring. Her original appearance in Queen's Quest was the elevation of an immature if promising rookie into an assassin designed to humiliate everyone in Io's way. And then Io left. It was her turn now to make the decisions. I think it was fine for so long because of how successful she was as both a tag and singles wrestler. She could break the spirit of people like Jungle Kyona and do it while still being regarded as a babyface, because she never cheated.

It couldn't last forever. Soon she wasn't the future ace anymore but someone the fans lamented had been set aside and shafted by the company. Utami started to look like a more promising leader than she was, with Momo now losing every major challenge for a belt. So she simply stopped caring. She destroyed all her relationships and started fresh. She was never going to be that person tricked into boredom and embarrassment again. Why had she ever believed in those false words Queen's Quest repeated to themselves?

There were still people that had witnessed the old Momo intimately. All she could do was try to bully them into silence and submission. With her in Oedo Tai now she repeatedly chipped away at Queen's Quest, especially her old tag team partner, AZM. That made it much harder to take when at the Five Star press conference this year AZM told her to her face that she thought nothing of her. Momo wasn't scary, and barely warranted enough interest to be hated. Momo lashed out at her, telling AZM that she would show her that this was just a brave front she was putting on.

The beginning of their match was so one-sided it was almost funny. AZM was inside Momo's nightmare. Momo laughed every time AZM's attempts to get out merely resulted in putting her under Momo's boot again. AZM began to look desperate. As she had admitted on Twitter before the match, it wasn't entirely true that this didn't matter to her. She didn't want to lose like this. She hated Momo. Something awoke inside her. Now that she started to have some control over the match again she was the bully, she was the one taunting Momo, pulling her out of pins, shoving her face into the ground.

As much as Momo had once had innocent fun with AZM, AZM had also been a petty bully with her too. They hadn't been so different as people after all.

Without seeming to realize it Momo was desperate to win now too. The match became an intense struggle like the best of Momo's matches in the old days, near misses piling up one after another in the last five minutes. It was plain to see on Momo's face how she felt. How bad must it have felt when AZM beat her here, when there was no denying that Momo was trying her best? Now that Momo has lost so many matches and can't blame anyone but herself, I wonder if she's going to snap.


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