Mash Kyrielight (in Japanese: マシュ・キリエライト, Mashu Kirieraito), also known as Shielder (in Japanese: シールダー, Shīrudā), is the first playable servant of Ritsuka Fujimaru in the turn-based tactical RPG Fate/Grand Order. She serves as the deuteragonist of the various anime adaptions which are currently in the progress of adapting Fate/Grand Order: Observer on Timeless Temple. These include the TV special Fate/Grand Order: First Order which adapts the prologue, the movie duology Fate/Grand Order - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot which adapts the sixth chapter, and the TV series Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia which adapts the seventh chapter.
In the Fate/Grand Order anime adaptions, Mash is voiced by Rie Takahashi (with Risa Taneda as a stand-in) in Japanese and Erica Mendez in English. Takahashi has also voiced Megumin in KonoSuba, Emilia in Re:Zero, and Mirai Asahina in Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure. Mendez has also voiced Gon Freecss in the 2011 Hunter x Hunter series, Megumin in KonoSuba, Diane in The Seven Deadly Sins, Raphtalia in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Sailor Uranus in Sailor Moon, Yuuki Konno in Sword Art Online, Ryūko Matoi in Kill la Kill, and Atsuko Kagari in Little Witch Academia.
Appearance[]
Mash has pale pink hair and lavender eyes. In her casual outfit, Mash wears rectangular frame glasses, a grey hoodie over a black shirt over a white collar shirt, a red tie, a black skirt and tights and brown shoes. In her Demi-Servant outfit Mash wears black armor with a hole exposing her stomach, black gauntlets and boots, a garter on her right thigh, a large cross-shaped shield and she doesn't wear her glasses.
Personality[]
Mash is a mysterious, kind-hearted girl. She refers to Ritsuka Fujimaru as her senior (先輩, senpai?) even before Ritsuka becomes her Master, feeling that something about them is especially easy to relate to. However, that smile belies a deep sorrow and resolve that has accepted her fate as a person with a set life-span since day one. As she has spent nearly all of her life in an isolation chamber within Chaldea, she is somewhat naïve and lacking in worldly experience. Despite this, she knows about a wide variety of subjects due to her education via Sheba, and she is especially knowledgeable about historical figures. Mash was initially designed to have no personality whatsoever in order to facilitate the Demi-Servant creation process, but Roman encouraged her to begin expressing her own opinions, allowing her to begin forming a sense of self.
Mash often fears that her Demi-Servant state makes her inferior to true Servants, and until she learned how to use her Noble Phantasm she thought herself to be all but useless to Ritsuka. Even before her Demi-Servant abilities manifested, she was devoted to the cause of Chaldea and sought to assist it however she can; when she is unable to participate in battle, she keeps a close eye on Ritsuka as a navigator. She does her best to hide her fear when in battle, and prioritizes keeping Ritsuka safe above all else. It has been hinted that she has romantic feelings for Ritsuka as she is often seen blushing when compared to a couple or getting jealous whenever their interactions with other female Servants get intimate or they show affection for Ritsuka (like the few times Ritsuka got kissed or were on a fake date). Even Habetrot, both the Lostbelt version and the summoned version, can see how stong their feelings for each other are and consider Ritsuka the bride's prince making it her goal to help and support them. However, Mash's naivety means that she does not yet realize what those feelings are.
Mash is a big fan of detective stories, especially Sherlock Holmes.
Abilities[]
Mash is a Demi-Servant, the result of a fusion between a Human and a Heroic Spirit. Due to this, she cannot be considered a Heroic Spirit despite being a Servant. Mash is a product of Chaldea's genetic engineering, a designer baby crafted to be born with a particularly strong set of Magic Circuits so as to become a suitable vessel for a Heroic Spirit. However, due to her nature, her life-span has been set to only eighteen years with her body cells increasingly deteriorating. Since awakening the spirit sleeping inside her, her body has become more resilient, but that has done nothing to stop her deterioration. After she was resurrected by Fou, Mash gained a normal Human body, losing her supernatural abilities.
Mash uses Galahad's Saint Graph, the greatest Knight of the Round Table. However, her class is Shielder. She is not a knight that defeats the enemy, but rather, one who protects her allies with her good heart. Although Mash wasn't particularly strong at the start, she became stronger over time by gaining new fighting experience and undergoing Saint Graph Ascensions throughout the entire Human Order Incineration Incident. By her fight against Lev Lainur Flauros in Septem, Mash had become more powerful than in Fuyuki. She unlocked her second ascension in the Third Singularity, and the third one during the sixth.
In -turas realta It was shown that Mash is capable of jumping so high that she can go to one place to another, even using her shield as a catapult to augment her leap.
During the first part of the British Lostbelt, Mash lost her memories due to entering the Nameless Woods Fae Domain. Although it is unknown if this hindered her combat potential in any away, she was still stated to be as strong as a Fairy Knight. Due to this, she was believed to be the Child of Prophecy.
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