Momo Karuizawa : Rival Schools Project Justice

Momo Karuizawa (軽井沢もも) is a student and tennis player from Gorin High, first appearing in Project Justice. She appears in the Gorin storyline as the apparent victim of bullying by Batsu, and appeals to the students of the school to help her, getting Shoma to join her in getting back at Batsu. It is later revealed that she is actually working for Kurow Kirishima, and that her actions were to distract Shoma and his friends. She is betrayed by Kurow at the end of the Gorin story, however. The Gorin ending also reveals she develops a legitimate crush on Shoma, much to the chagrin of Natsu.

Inspiration

I was watching Lindze, Brad and Jason playing RS2 when it first came out. Lindze suggested I do a character and Momo tickled my fancy. At AWA01 we decided to do a RS2 group, so I busted tail working on her. The more I worked on this costume the more I loved it. I had a blast especially making the tennis racket and case. It is very easy getting into her character, since, once again, I am portraying a child. hehe… This costume was more work than anyone could have imagined.

Creation

The tennis dress is three different patterns for cheerleaders and majorette modified together. It is made out of 2 layers of heavy cotton poplin for opacity-sake. I used pink pleather for all of her pink areas *very difficult to sew >__<* Wrist cuffs are terry cloth. Harness is cotton belt strapping sewn together and closes with a clasp. Thigh-highs are tights cut down and hand-painted stripes. Tennis racket is meticulously padded and covered in pleather, pom-poms and spray painted white with a red heart. The racket cover is also handmade from pink pleather with white piping accents and a red felt heart. Wig is a black bob with homemade ponyfalls, ribbons and bows.