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Lieutenant: Momo Hinamori (雛森 桃, Hinamori Momo):
Hinamori is an upbeat and easy-going girl who is generally quite trusting, but also very impulsive, emotionally vulnerable, and naive. She greatly admires her former captain, Sosuke Aizen, to the point where she refuses to believe that Aizen intentionally betrayed Soul Society even though he stabbed her. Her appearance is fairly ordinary compared to other shinigami in Soul Society. She wears her hair up in a bun with a cloth wrapped around it and tied with a ribbon ("odango"). According to Tite Kubo, Hinamori's name was changed at the last minute; she had a completely different name in the sketch stage.
Hinamori grew up in Junrinan, District 1 of Rukongai, along with Tōshirō Hitsugaya. While Hitsugaya tended to be a bit of a brat as a child, even giving her the nickname "Bed-wetter Momo", Hinamori found him amusing and treated him like a younger brother. The two have a close friendship, reflected by Hinamori giving him the nickname Shiro-chan ("Lil' Shiro" in the English dub). When Hinamori entered the shinigami academy, she excelled at kidō. It was there that she met Kira and Renji, who soon became her friends and, later, her fellow lieutenants. They were placed in the 5th Division of the Gotei 13 under Captain Aizen and his lieutenant, Gin Ichimaru. While Kira and Renji would later leave to other divisions, Hinamori remained in the 5th Division and became the lieutenant (through much hard work as noted by Hitsugaya).
Hinamori's zanpakutō is Tobiume (飛梅, lit. flying plum tree). The command for its shikai is "snap" (弾け, hajike?). In the English dub, she also adds the word "deflect", though she does it after announcing the full command phrase. When its shikai is activated, Tobiume's blade straightens and produces several jitte-like prongs along its length. In this form, Tobiume acts as a focus for Hinamori's spiritual power, concentrating it into energy bursts capable of cratering floors and breaching walls. Hinamori can also compress her power into massive energy balls and toss them from the blade's tip. In the game Bleach: Blade Battlers, Tobiume creates crimson fire instead of pink-colored energy bursts, though normally this same fire trails the blade just before she fires.
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