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-->'''Dr Roman:''' Umhm. To see Mash, who's serious, quiet, and frankly, kind of mysterious, grow up to be such a fine lady…
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* MaamShock: She has a bit of a breakdown when Gawain refers to her as "ma'am", so much so that she briefly forgets she was running for her life from Passionlip.
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* MaamShock: She has a bit of a breakdown when Gawain refers to her as "ma'am", so much so yelling that she she's "only" 28 and briefly forgets forgetting she was running for her life from Passionlip.
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* ControlFreak: Beckman desires absolute control over everything. When Seraphix was lost, he proceeds to execute his superiors and put himself in charge. After that he begins executing anyone who disagrees with him, anyone he sees as useless, or anyone who breaks his rules. Once rescued, he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the highest ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though, and [[spoiler:their unwillingness to obey him leads him try and poison them, only being stopped by EMIYA Alter killing him.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
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* ControlFreak: Beckman desires absolute control over everything. When Seraphix was lost, he proceeds to execute his superiors and put himself in charge. After that he begins executing anyone who disagrees with him, anyone he sees as useless, or anyone who breaks his rules. Once rescued, he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the highest ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though, and [[spoiler:their unwillingness to obey him leads him to try and poison them, only being stopped by EMIYA Alter killing him.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members executed include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members executed include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Out of all the known Chaldea operatives, Beckman is the most vile. A complete ControlFreak, he has no qualms with executing anyone who doesn't obey him, whether they be his own coworkers, [[spoiler:to even you, the only Chaldean Master left.]]
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Another employee of the Seraphix platform, and the Secretary to the platform's Commander.
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Another employee of the Seraphix platform, and the Secretary to the platform's Commander. Shortly after Seraphix was lost, he staged a [[TheCoup coup]] and executed the higher ranking members, making him the leader.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: By the time EMIYA Alter kills him, he apparently was planning to kill the Protagonist for ignoring his orders to save Meltlilith, judging by the fact he asked him to go retrieve some poison for him.]]
* ControlFreak: He reveals himself to be this once rescued, as he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Had the Vice Director of Seraphix killed when he tried to stand up against Beckman's takeover of the platform, effectively becoming the highest ranked staff member remaining.]]
* ControlFreak: He reveals himself to be this once rescued, as he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Had the Vice Director of Seraphix killed when he tried to stand up against Beckman's takeover of the platform, effectively becoming the highest ranked staff member remaining.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: By the time EMIYA Alter kills him, he apparently was planning to kill the Protagonist for ignoring his orders to save Meltlilith, judging by the fact he asked him to go retrieve some poison for him, and had long been revealed to have executed numerous Seraphix members simply for disagreeing with him.]]
* ControlFreak:He reveals Beckman desires absolute control over everything. When Seraphix was lost, he proceeds to execute his superiors and put himself to be this once in charge. After that he begins executing anyone who disagrees with him, anyone he sees as useless, or anyone who breaks his rules. Once rescued, as he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the highest ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though.
though, and [[spoiler:their unwillingness to obey him leads him try and poison them, only being stopped by EMIYA Alter killing him.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
* KlingonPromotion:[[spoiler:Had Had the Vice Director of Seraphix killed when he tried to stand up against Beckman's takeover of the platform, effectively becoming the highest ranked staff member remaining.]]
* ControlFreak:
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anyone he sees as useless or bothers to disobey him he believes deserves to die. Among his justifications for having Seraphix members include having the doctors killed once they ran out of medicine, killing a man for eating too much, a woman for spilling water, someone for being foreign, and someone for smoking a cigarette.
* KlingonPromotion:
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:You're probably going to be deeply suspicious of him from the logs. While he definitely had a hand in Chaldea's cruel experiments within Seraphix, ultimately he's just a pawn to the larger forces at work in SE.RA.PH and is disposed of without ceremony when he's no longer useful.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist [[spoiler: to abandon Meltlilith]], the Protagonist cuts the comm line and heads off [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to save their friend]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he pulled this off after the 100x time dilation of Seraphix began.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist [[spoiler: to abandon Meltlilith]], the Protagonist cuts the comm line and heads off [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to save their friend]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he pulled this off after the 100x time dilation of Seraphix began.]]
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:You're You're probably going to be deeply suspicious of him from the logs. While [[spoiler:While he definitely had a hand in Chaldea's cruel experiments within Seraphix, ultimately he's just a pawn to the larger forces at work in SE.RA.PH and is disposed of without ceremony when he's no longer useful.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist[[spoiler: to [[spoiler:to abandon Meltlilith]], the Protagonist cuts the comm line and heads off [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to save their friend]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he pulled this off after the 100x time dilation of Seraphix began.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist
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* ShesGotLegs: At least Gawain seems to think so after she makes comments about how she would always end up on running teams at university and said skills came in handy for running for her life.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Mabel, Maybell (or a variant thereof), or ''Marble''? They're all valid options for the kana of her name, and no English transliteration is provided. The translation goes with "Mable".
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Mabel, Maybell (or a variant thereof), or ''Marble''? They're all valid options for the kana of her name, and no English transliteration is provided. The translation goes with "Mable".
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* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler:As Solomon, he was entirely willing to kill himself on Marisbury's orders to power the Greater Grail. That said, when instead he got offered the chance to get his own wish, he took the opportunity immediately.]]
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* {{Pride}}: A rare example in which it brought ''some'' positive consequences: [[spoiler:having the almost-fully charged Greater Grail and a Servant willing to kill himself to power it to enter the Root, Marisbury refused the opportunity, having no interest in the Third Magic or the Einzberns' wish. He was proud enough to ignore the temptation to use the Grail to actually finish his life's work, preferring to use it as a shortcut by giving him the resources he'd need to finish Chaldeas.]]
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* {{Pride}}: A rare example in which it brought ''some'' positive consequences: [[spoiler:having the almost-fully charged Greater Grail and a Servant willing to kill himself to power it to enter the Root, Marisbury refused the opportunity, having no interest in the Third Magic or the Einzberns' wish. He was proud enough to ignore the temptation to use the Grail and by extension the Einzbern philosophy to actually finish his life's work, preferring to use it as a shortcut by giving him the resources he'd need to finish Chaldeas.]]
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* BenevolentBoss: [[spoiler:At least he had the decency to offer his Servant the chance to make his own wish rather than feeding him to the Grail.]]
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* {{Pride}}: A rare example in which it brought ''some'' positive consequences: [[spoiler:having the almost-fully charged Greater Grail and a Servant willing to kill himself to power it to enter the Root, Marisbury refused the opportunity, having no interest in the Third Magic or the Einzberns' wish. He was proud enough to ignore the temptation to use the Grail to actually finish his life's work, preferring to use it as a shortcut by giving him the resources he'd need to finish Chaldeas.]]
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* TheStoic: He only told one joke in his entire life, and it was a ''terrible'' one. [[spoiler:He joked about using a Command Seal to order Solomon, his Servant during the Holy Grail War, to kill himself to power the Greater Grail and punch a hole to the Root, when he in fact had no intention of doing it.]]
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** The male version also draws comparison to Emiya Kiritsugu, although without the [[DarkAndTroubledPast emotional]] [[ShellShockedVeteran baggage]] of Kiritsugu.
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* InnocentFanserviceGirl: The design of her Demi-Servant outfit was largely out of her control to influence, and she gets embarrassed whenever someone points out how lewd it is.
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* ReiAyanamiExpy: She has the hair, the blue-hued color scheme, the unorthodox circumstances of her birth, and the initial emotional awkwardness. However, the various people she meets and the adventures she undergoes help her become a warmer and more complete person.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: While the game has no shortage of beautiful women, Mash's approachability and typical demureness makes her a frequent target of amorous attentions from both sexes.
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-->’’’Fou:’’’ (If you have to ask, then I'd answer that her belly is great. Emm. Belly. There is a bit more lipid than Mash would normally allow, isn't it? You should all wholeheartedly praise my brilliant strategy of not hindering her from eating more dumplings. As to the destructive power of her Oppai... Well, what could be put to word now, Em? I have profoundly understood that power, but, still, I am so shocked that my fur changed its colour. So, that's why... Mash looks much thinner when she's dressed...)
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* BadassDriver: During the first Lostbelt, Gordolf drives the Shadow Border with a surprisingly large amount of experience and skill, no doubt due to his racing hobby.
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* BadassDriver: During the first Lostbelt, Gordolf drives the Shadow Border ''Shadow Border'' with a surprisingly large amount of experience and skill, no doubt due to his racing hobby.
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-->"Why isn't she appearing?"\\
-->"Wait... didn't you play the story?"
-->"Wait... didn't you play the story?"
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-->'''Fujimaru''': Well, obviously... '''SAINT QUARTZ GACHA!!'''
-->'''Fujimaru''': If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! '''IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!'''
-->'''Fujimaru''': If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! '''IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!'''
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-->'''Fujimaru''':
'''Fujimaru''': If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! '''IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!'''
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* BrokenPedestal: He's heavily shocked by the revelation of Solomon trying to destroy the world and desperately tries to use Sheba to prove that he isn't behind this. When Mash and the protagonist come back from London, he's going through a nervous breakdown. [[spoiler:Later reveals implies that this is less admiration being broken and more shock at his body being used by someone else.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: He's heavily shocked by the revelation of Solomon trying to destroy the world and desperately tries to use Sheba to prove that he isn't behind this. When Mash and the protagonist come back from London, he's going through a nervous breakdown. [[spoiler:Later reveals implies that this is less admiration being broken and more shock at his body being used by someone else.]]
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"SAY [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAT]]!? IS THAT DA VINCI-CHAN!?!? You survived getting blown into a bazillion pieces!?!?!?"
"SAY [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAT]]!? IS THAT DA VINCI-CHAN!?!? You survived getting blown into a bazillion pieces!?!?!?"
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: He leaves this behind to the protagonist as he ceased to exist.]]
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Your medic and mission control was actually the real King Solomon all along.]]
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Your medic and mission control was actually the real King Solomon all along.]]
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He leaves this behind to the protagonist as he ceased to exist.]]
* GodWasMyCopilot:[[spoiler: Your [[spoiler:Your medic and mission control was actually the real King Solomon all along.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He uses the last Ring of Solomon to re-enact his returning of God's gifts and erase himself from the Throne of Heroes in order to weaken King Goetia.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He uses the last Ring of Solomon to re-enact his returning of God's gifts and erase himself from the Throne of Heroes in order to weaken King Goetia.]]
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: He wished on the Holy Grail to give up all his powers as Solomon, because he wanted to live a life where he lived of his own volition rather than according to the will of the people and the voice of God.]]
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He wished on the Holy Grail to give up all his powers as Solomon, because he wanted to live a life where he lived of his own volition rather than according to the will of the people and the voice of God.]]
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** [[spoiler: By Holmes's request, he's in the dark about his meeting with the heroes and the things they learned unrelated to the Camelot singularity.]]
** [[spoiler: By Holmes's request, he's in the dark about his meeting with the heroes and the things they learned unrelated to the Camelot singularity.]]
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** [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He didn't know about the Heroic Spirit fusion project and regrets being unable to prevent what had happened.]]
**[[spoiler: By [[spoiler:By Holmes's request, he's in the dark about his meeting with the heroes and the things they learned unrelated to the Camelot singularity.]]
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** Ozymandias's desert in Chapter 6 messes with communications. [[spoiler: Sherlock Holmes exploits this to meet with the heroes without Roman knowing.]]
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** Ozymandias's desert in Chapter 6 messes with communications. [[spoiler: Sherlock [[spoiler:Sherlock Holmes exploits this to meet with the heroes without Roman knowing.]]
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* NiceGuy: Very friendly to you from the moment you first meet him, and his moral compass is just as strong as Mash and the protagonist's. His niceness unfortunately is only a way for him to be "everybody's friend" without getting attached to any of them.
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: In the dream sequence before Babylonia, where he gets eyes like Solomon, a twisted, nightmarish grin and red and black marks on his cheeks. This, of course, Goetia messing with Mash.]]
* NonProtagonistResolver: [[spoiler: His Ars Nova is what ultimately ends Goetia. It's the protagonist's job to make sure he doesn't take everything down in his dying moments.]]
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: In the dream sequence before Babylonia, where he gets eyes like Solomon, a twisted, nightmarish grin and red and black marks on his cheeks. This, of course, Goetia messing with Mash.]]
* NonProtagonistResolver: [[spoiler: His Ars Nova is what ultimately ends Goetia. It's the protagonist's job to make sure he doesn't take everything down in his dying moments.]]
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* NiceGuy: Very friendly to you from the moment you first meet him, and his moral compass is just as strong as Mash and the protagonist's. His niceness is unfortunately is only a way for him to be "everybody's friend" without getting attached to any of them.them as their therapist.
* NightmareFace:[[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the dream sequence before Babylonia, where he gets eyes like Solomon, a twisted, nightmarish grin and red and black marks on his cheeks. This, of course, Goetia messing with Mash.]]
* NonProtagonistResolver:[[spoiler: His [[spoiler:His Ars Nova is what ultimately ends Goetia. It's the protagonist's job to make sure he doesn't take everything down in his dying moments.]]
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* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler: Marisbury had considered Solomon and by extension, Dr. Roman, to be his first and only friend in life.]]
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* RingOfPower: Something the party observes while talking to Holmes; [[spoiler: Solomon has nine gold rings and one silver, while Roman has a gold ring he claims is from his now-divorced marriage. It's revealed in the final battle that it is the last Ring of Solomon, which God told him to store separately from the other nine and became the catalyst that Marisbury used to summon him as a Heroic Spirit. As the actual artifact and not something drawn from the Throne of Heroes, it is the one ability of his Heroic Spirit self that Roman is able to keep.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female. [[spoiler: It's possible that Arthur was one of the Servants he crushed as Solomon in the Fuyuki Grail War.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game [[spoiler: before Chapter 4's end.]] When David states that it's most likely that Solomon's responsible for what's going on, Roman uses Sheba to look at the past at Solomon's era and since he's there in the past, Solomon, therefore, has nothing to do with the destruction of the world. [[spoiler:This is all due largely to him not wanting to think about the implications of a "Solomon" running around the singularities, as he knows better than anyone what that truly means.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female. [[spoiler: It's possible that Arthur was one of the Servants he crushed as Solomon in the Fuyuki Grail War.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game [[spoiler: before Chapter 4's end.]] When David states that it's most likely that Solomon's responsible for what's going on, Roman uses Sheba to look at the past at Solomon's era and since he's there in the past, Solomon, therefore, has nothing to do with the destruction of the world. [[spoiler:This is all due largely to him not wanting to think about the implications of a "Solomon" running around the singularities, as he knows better than anyone what that truly means.]]
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* RingOfPower: Something the party observes while talking to Holmes; [[spoiler: Solomon [[spoiler:Solomon has nine gold rings and one silver, while Roman has a gold ring he claims is from his now-divorced marriage. It's revealed in the final battle that it is the last Ring of Solomon, which God told him to store separately from the other nine and became the catalyst that Marisbury used to summon him as a Heroic Spirit. As the actual artifact and not something drawn from the Throne of Heroes, it is the one ability of his Heroic Spirit self that Roman is able to keep.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female.[[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's possible that Arthur was one of the Servants he crushed as Solomon in the Fuyuki Grail War.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game[[spoiler: before [[spoiler:before Chapter 4's end.]] When David states that it's most likely that Solomon's responsible for what's going on, Roman uses Sheba to look at the past at Solomon's era and since he's there in the past, Solomon, therefore, has nothing to do with the destruction of the world. [[spoiler:This is all due largely to him not wanting to think about the implications of a "Solomon" running around the singularities, as he knows better than anyone what that truly means.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female.
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game
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* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: The reason why they're so important: they're the last available Master in modern human history and thus the only one available to contract Servants to save the world with. However, they can't participate in battle themselves besides providing support and mana for their Servants due to being heavily outclassed as a magus and fighter.
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-->’’’Fou:’’’ (If you have to ask, then I'd answer that her belly is great. Emm. Belly. There is a bit more lipid than Mashu Mash would normally allow, isn't it? You should all wholeheartedly praise my brilliant strategy of not hindering her from eating more dumplings. As to the destructive power of her Oppai... Well, what could be put to word now, Em? I have profoundly understood that power, but, still, I am so shocked that my fur changed its colour. So, that's why... Mashu Mash looks much thinner when she's dressed...)
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* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler: While she agrees with Goetia that life can indeed be cruel and that death is frightening, she refuses to accept his vision for the world because, while the Singularity fade when finished, she still keeps her experiences of them, meaning that her journey had value. Hardships make people strong, and Goetia's world is empty of hardships.]]
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* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler: While she agrees with Goetia that life can indeed be cruel and that death is frightening, she refuses to accept his vision for the world because, while the Singularity Singularities fade when finished, she still keeps her experiences of them, meaning that her journey had value. Hardships make people strong, strong and bring them together, and Goetia's world is empty of hardships.hardships. And while life must ultimately end, as a human being, she finds meaning and peace in death.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Already on her last legs due to her failing body, Mash gives her life to block Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis, a Noble Phantasm ''explicitly stated to be able to destroy the planet'' through sheer force, and succeeds. Though her body evaporates from the sheer power of the attack, her shield remains standing, completely unscathed.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Already on her last legs due to her failing body, Mash gives her life to block Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis, a Noble Phantasm ''explicitly stated to be able to destroy the planet'' through sheer force, planet'', and succeeds. Though her body evaporates from the sheer power of the attack, her shield remains standing, completely unscathed.unscathed, because it is her will and her love that hold up Lord Camelot.]]
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* KirkSummation: [[spoiler:Goetia shows Mash a dream of a utopian place where everyone seems happy and nobody dies. Mash rejects it, explaining that without sorrow or death, Solomon's proposed world is ultimately empty.]]
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* KirkSummation: [[spoiler:Goetia shows Mash a dream of the world it hopes to create, a utopian seemingly-utopian place where everyone seems happy and nobody dies. Mash rejects it, explaining that without sorrow or death, Solomon's proposed world is ultimately empty.]]
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* HollywoodPudgy: Her figure is usually concealed by her outfit, but her appearance on the Craft Essence “Dangerous Beast” lampshades this.
-->’’’Fou:’’’ (If you have to ask, then I'd answer that her belly is great. Emm. Belly. There is a bit more lipid than Mashu would normally allow, isn't it? You should all wholeheartedly praise my brilliant strategy of not hindering her from eating more dumplings. As to the destructive power of her Oppai... Well, what could be put to word now, Em? I have profoundly understood that power, but, still, I am so shocked that my fur changed its colour. So, that's why... Mashu looks much thinner when she's dressed...)
-->’’’Fou:’’’ (If you have to ask, then I'd answer that her belly is great. Emm. Belly. There is a bit more lipid than Mashu would normally allow, isn't it? You should all wholeheartedly praise my brilliant strategy of not hindering her from eating more dumplings. As to the destructive power of her Oppai... Well, what could be put to word now, Em? I have profoundly understood that power, but, still, I am so shocked that my fur changed its colour. So, that's why... Mashu looks much thinner when she's dressed...)
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The Chaldea Security Organization is a secret agency founded by Marisbury Animusphere, one of the Clock Tower's twelve lords, and sanctioned by both the Mage's Association and United Nations. By bringing together the most brilliant minds in magic and science, Animusphere aimed to guarantee humanity's existence for at least the next hundred years. The most vital part of this operation is his crown jewel, the Global Environmental Model 'CHALDEAS', a complete and total simulation of Earth in all eras of history to monitor any anomalies within the timeline. Chaldea's reach is immense, thanks to the resources pooled together from the various organizations backing it, with its primary facilities located in Antarctica, the oil drilling platform Seraphix in the North Sea, an observatory in Hawaii, and a nuclear reactor base in France.
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[[folder:Protagonist (Ritsuka Fujimaru)]]
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->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood (LawfulNeutral in the English version)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by:''' Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Male, Drama CD and the ''-First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime), Creator/TomokoKaneda (Both, ''Learning with Manga!'' anime) (Japanese); Creator/GriffinBurns (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)\\
'''Live actors:''' Ryo Saeki [2017]; ShÅichirÅ Oomi [2019-Current] (Male, Stage Play), Renna Okada [2017]; Mioka Sakamoto [2019-Current] (Female, Stage Play)
They are the last Master available in Chaldea after their destruction in the Prologue. Actually a total newbie in terms of magecraft, they have now become the last hope for humanity.
Once they save humanity, they stay on with Chaldea, preparing for their inevitable departure... before certain circumstances get in the way.
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* TheAce: They don't ''start'' as such, but by the time of Camelot, Babylonia and the extra events around then, they've absolutely become this in terms of being a Master of Servants. [[spoiler:Holmes points out that your method of Servant usage is absolutely remarkable, and that obtaining not just the contracts but the ''loyalty'' of so many Servants (including numerous Servants with [[AntiHero extremely questionable morality]]) is unheard of.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler:by the time Christmas 2016 rolls around, the protagonist has enough experience with Servants to arrange the entire experience of Jeanne Alter Santa Lily getting to the sea, so that she won't simply disappear in a PuffOfLogic.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The female protagonist's chibi-fied mascot version, "Gudako", has a completely different personality in certain promotional material, as well as in live events. She's depicted as an erratic and hostile KickChick and troublemaker who seeks attention, breaks the fourth wall and has suffered horrible experiences with the gacha system.
* {{Adorkable}}: They're easily swayed by the oddness of some of the more eccentric Servants such as Romulus and Blackbeard.
* AllLovingHero: Described as "remarkably lacking in biases and prejudices", they manage to at least get a working relationship with even the most evil and devious Servants, who are often surprised by just how well they treat the Servants under their employ regardless of where they come from or who they were in life, or even if they tried to murder the protagonist in previous Singularities and events. [[spoiler:They're even willing to fulfill ''Goetia's'' final wish of having someone see his final moments.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: Is given the rank of "Cause" by the Mage's Association after part one ends (it's the ''third lowest'' rank in the Association). It's not that impressive of a title, though it still implies significantly more ability than the protagonist possesses. However, the protagonist also happens to have a veritable army of superpowered humans at their beck and call, any one of whom could probably devastate the Association on their own if they pleased. El-Melloi also mentions that despite his very prestigious position in the Clock Tower his own abilities as a mage are very close to the protagonist, so titles be damned.
* AmbiguouslyBi: In the main game, similar to [[VideoGame/FateExtra Hakuno]], the female protagonist expresses attraction to female Servants as well.
* AscendedFanboy: Some dialogue options from the protagonist like with Avicebron's golems and during the third Halloween event indicate that they're into mecha and are absolutely delighted that some of the Servants have made their fantasies come to life.
** The Prysma Illya event also implies they're into the magical girl genre.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:They're actually killed by Beast III-R near the end of the SE.RA.PH chapter, but Meltlilith used her Alter Ego power to make sure they would win the next round]]. They also have a pseudo-resurrection with the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code's Guts skill.
* BareYourMidriff: The female protagonist when wearing the Tropical Summer Mystic Code.
* TheBeard: Medusa's Interlude involves them being one for her as she wishes to fulfill her sisters' pranks without actually having to enter an arranged marriage.
* BlackMage: The Chaldea Battlesuit stuns an enemy and also buffs all Servants to hit harder. It can also can switch your frontline Servant with sub-members, allowing you to be more creative with tactics.
* BookDumb: A modern mage who initially had little interest in history or mythology, their more learned allies or even some of their Servants have to take [[AudienceSurrogate time to explain the circumstances of the Singularities and the important figures therein.]]
* BuxomIsBetter: As stated in Caster of Okeanos' third bond line:
-->'''Caster of Okeanos''': You like people with plentiful assets?! Well, I'm confident in my technique! Mhm... I'll do my best!
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: The protagonist can't even fall asleep without being dragged into a dangerous adventure (which could result in them perishing if their dream self is "killed").
* TheCameo: Fujimaru's female counterpart appears in the ''First Order'' OVA as another one of the forty-eight Master candidates of Chaldea.
* CanonName: In the anime, the male protagonist's name is Ritsuka Fujimaru. The stage play adaptation uses the same name for the female protagonist.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Quickly becomes drunk while partying with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Francis Drake]] in the Okeanos singularity. An oddity as the protagonist is later mentioned to be immune to illness and poisons by means of their contract with Mash, though it could be argued that being drunk (non-lethally at that) doesn't count as an illness or poison.
* CharacterDevelopment: They begin Part 1 scared but determined, and end it as an experienced and loyal Master.
* ChickMagnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, a lot of the female ones will fall in love with the protagonist, even if the protagonist is female.
* ClarkKentOutfit: [[http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Brilliant_Summer.png As the swimsuit shows, the male protagonist is actually decently ripped.]] Apparently running around in Singularities trained his body well.
* CleavageWindow: The Chaldea Battlesuit has one for the female protagonist.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The protagonist isn't much of a mage outside of their high compatibility with Servants, and many of their spells come courtesy of their Mystic Codes, which also double as their outfits.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Some of their responses can range from using the wrong language, to having strange greetings, to generally having SkewedPriorities.
---> '''Protagonist''': True Alligators are clueless.
* {{Cosplay}}: Some Mystic Codes reference other iconic outfits from the ''Fate'' series and occasionally other parts of the Nasuverse.
** Two Mystic Codes are Atlas Academy and Mage Association uniforms.
** For the 5 Million Downloads Campaign, they get the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code, which are a homage to Saber's casual clothes for the female protagonist and Arthur's WaistcoatOfStyle from ''Fragments'' for the male protagonist. The Mystic Code itself carries two gameplay equivalents of their skills, Mana Burst and Instinct.
** As part of the promotion for Fate/Accel Zero Order, the Royal Brand Mystic Code is based on Saber's black suit ensemble from ''LightNovel/FateZero'' for the female protagonist and [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/b/bd/Royal_brand.png/revision/latest?cb=20160809075303 the fitting of the male protagonist's suit virtually renders him the spitting image of her master]], [[AntiHero Emiya Kiritsugu]]. Heck, even their expressions match the characters the clothes represent.
** As part of the promotion for ''VideoGame/FateExtella'', they get [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/9/92/Memory_of_Lunar_Mare.png/revision/latest?cb=20161103091056 Memory of Lunar Mare]], Hakuno's original school uniform from ''VideoGame/FateExtra''.
** For the pre SE.RA.PH chapter promotion, they got Hakuno's school uniform from ''CCC'', Memory from the Far Side of the Moon.
** For the ''Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower'' commemoration event, they have the Homurahara school uniform. They came with three skills, "Code: F", "Code: U", and "Code: H", representing the three routes of ''Fate/stay night'': Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel respectively.
* CostumeEvolution: As far as the main story is concerned, the protagonist's default outfit is the white standard Chaldea Mystic Code. At the beginning of the Anastasia Lostbelt, they switch to the black Chaldea Arctic Region Mystic Code and it appears it will be their new default outfit for the Lostbelts.
* CostumePorn: Besides the Mystic Codes, the protagonist is also depicted in various outfits through event Craft Essences.
* CovertPervert: They have their moments, but especially seen when they join in on Roman and Fou's antics to peep on the girls or comment on Servants' titillating appearances.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The protagonist is a magus who is specialized as a Master to command multiple Servants at once, but in terms of magecraft, they are painfully mediocre, such that they are likely to lose when engaged in a WizardDuel against most named magi within the entire Type-Moon franchise.
* DarkReprise: The ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA highlights scenes from previous Singularities from Part 1, showing that while the protagonist has tried to be as brave and helpful as he could, he has always felt an acute sense of powerlessness amidst all the bedlam, culminating in a scene from the very first level past the prologue (one of the easiest of the bunch) where he can do little but stare in helpless horror as an army of Jeanne Alter's dragons devastate a nearby castle.
* DeadpanSnarker: Some of their responses definitely can make them this. Such examples include some of their interactions with Olga Marie.
---> '''Protagonist''': Aye aye, great director Olga Marie.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey:
** Swimsuit Tamamo offers you a cocktail which basically amounts to a date rape drug. Whether the protagonist drank it or not and then if they did the deed is left up to the player's imagination.
** During Valentine's Day, Fergus invites the protagonist to have a one-night stand with him.
** Edmond Dantes' Valentine's scene is very suggestive, though there's nothing outright explicit about it.
* DiscardAndDraw: Servants summoned by them tend to be weaker than they would have been if summoned by the more powerful mages most commonly seen in Holy Grail Wars, but in exchange might have access to alternate abilities or equipment that would have typically been withheld from them in a conventional manifestation. For example, unlike the one Illya summoned in the original show, the Protagonist's Heracles at his most powerful can only resurrect himself about four times, but possesses Valor and Nine Lives, making him a more skilled combatant.
* DraggedIntoDrag: At a dance party in Shinjuku, the protagonist is forced to crossdress: the male one into a dress and the female one into a suit (hence the chapter PV where she's wearing a suit). [[spoiler:The reason this is done is because Yan Qing, who's disguised himself as a yakuza member, will have a different reaction compared to his peers.]]
* TheDreaded: By the time of Camelot, their exploits and achievements are well known by almost all the Servants, to the point that when Goddess Rhongomyniad learns that they will be arriving in Camelot soon, she ''immediately'' orders her Knights to intercept them, recognizing they're the only one capable of stopping her plans.
* DudeMagnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, several male Servants will fall in love with you, although the number pales in comparison to the females.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: If your protagonist is female, some female Servants (such as Medusa, Serenity, and Kiyohime) will acknowledge this, but are still interested in having a relationship.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Two of the game's confirmed bisexual men are Astolfo and Fergus, both of whom show some interest in the protagonist, though Fergus makes it clear he doesn't intend to pursue a relationship. Although he still invites the male protagonist for a one-night stand in Valentine 2017.
* ExposedToTheElements: They receive a new Mystic Code to deal with the extreme cold of the Russia Lostbelt. However these clothes don't seem to actually suit a ''-100°C'' environment, especially the female one with a DangerouslyShortSkirt with her thighs and knees exposed to the cold. Everyone else including Mash is either wearing heavy clothing, staying in the ''Shadow Border'', or magically resistant to harsh weather. Probably justified as this Mystic Code is their "default" outfit for the rest of the Lostbelts.
* {{Expy}}: The two design-wise are [[WordOfGod confirmed by Takashi Takeuchi]] as [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] versions of Rin and Shirou. This led to fanart depicting them as Rin & Shirou's children, though this is biologically impossible in-universe[[note]]For context, ''[=F/SN=]'' takes place in 2004 while ''[[=F/GO=]'' starts in 2015-2017 depending on which version is being played. Even if Rin was impregnated by Shirou during the time of the original visual novel, the protagonist could only be at most 13 at the start of ''[=F/GO=]''[[/note]].
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Being subjected to experiencing all the Singularities and the kinds of shenanigans their Servants get up to has led to the protagonist reacting with very little shock to suddenly being plunged into a wacky new situation. It gets to the point where even Sieg as a giant dragon suddenly kidnapping them in a dream leads to them calmly guessing that something has gone wrong and this dragon needs their help hence the sudden appearance in a dream.
* FriendZone: While many female Servants will waifu for them and males will consider them to have an extremely close bond, a few Servants will either Friend or Master Zone them depending. Tomoe Gozen, for example, will consider them to be a good Master and almost like her own child, Jack considers them to be her mother regardless of player gender, and most female Servants who already had a love interest will have similar reactions, such as Medea considering the protagonist to be a little brother or sister. For male Servants, Gilgamesh will accept close followers, but has only one friend, while Ozymandias is in theory less picky, but in practice refuses to acknowledge that anyone could match up to Moses. Though these two actually do get along fairly well with each other, oddly enough.
* GameFavoredGender: Other characters generally react to the player character as if they were male. You can count the number of times the game acknowledges a female player on one hand, Valentines and White Day notwithstanding. Most ''FGO'' adaptations, like the Drama CD, the ''First Order'', ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' and Babylonia anime, and the ''mortalis:stella'', ''turas:realta'', Shinjuku, Agartha and SE.RA.PH manga, use the male protagonist, while the Shimosa, Salem and ''Duel'' manga use the female protagonist, and the stage plays and trailers use both male and female. The female protagonist is also the main one used in the ''Learning with Manga!'' spin-off, making her the secondary de facto mascot since it's in the public eye more than the other manga adaptations.
* GlassCannon: The Royal Brand Mystic Code (from "Fate/Accel Zero Order") is virtually a god-send for almost all Assassins, Riders and any Servants with a Quick-based deck, allowing them to hit hard with Quick cards and ensure their attacks will connect. Considering the suit is virtually a homage to Emiya Kiritsugu[[note]]who once said he may be better off with an Assassin Servant due to his fighting tactics[[/note]], it's very appropriate.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: [[spoiler:The protagonist, equipped with Mash's shield and powering themselves up by burning a command spell, starts a fistfight with Human King Goetia and wins.]]
* HairDecorations: The female protagonist has a yellow hair scrunchie that holds up her side ponytail.
* HealingHands: Can heal their servants, either through a form of magecraft or through Command Spells.
* HeroicBSOD: Went into this when the protagonist learned about the consequences of eliminating the first Lostbelt near the end, but was able to snap out of it thanks to [[spoiler:Patxi, who sacrificed himself to save them from being shot down by the rebels, and under his dying breath, gave the protagonist the motivation to continue on their mission regardless what will happen]].
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Though he is far more normal than the situations around him, ''Lostroom'' Fujimaru belittles himself as a mediocrity. While normal, he's far from mediocre (at least physically) as he uses fingertip pushups, which are more advanced than normal pushups, to train his body and even manages to kick a well-trained Roman soldier away during a battle. Both of which are not something to scoff at. He's just very poor in term of magic potential.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:The Mages Association declares them a heretic in Chapter 2's prologue due to them breaking countless laws during Chapter 1 and ''Epic of Remnant''. Anastasia's attack quickly makes the declaration moot, however.]]
* HiddenDepths: Two notable ones.
** At one point, the protagonist can say that their adventure sometimes doesn't feel real to them, implying that they've coped with being unexpectedly thrown into the Grand Order by dissociating from it.
** Medb's observation of them during "Prisma Codes" leads her to conclude that for all their efforts, they would rather be forgotten by history.
* HotBlooded: Some of their dialogue options can make them come across as this, particularly during events like the Scathach Trial Quest, where they're taken in by the Celtic-ness of Scathach and Fergus, responding to many of their questions with a resounding "YEAH!" Mash lampshades this.
-->'''Mash:''' Senpai, you're ''really'' trying to be a Celt, aren't you?
** Likewise, a small running gag is many times when Rome is mentioned, a dialogue choice often offers the option to shout ROMA! Crosses over with AscendedMeme.
** While Ritsuka Fujimaru plays the more straightforward hero in ''First Order'', when it comes to animated gag scenarios like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxEjKDlua8 Himuro no Tenchi crossover]], he shows enthusiasm and hot blood to the point of SuddenlyShouting when it comes to rolling for Servants.
-->'''Fujimaru''': Well, obviously... '''SAINT QUARTZ GACHA!!'''
-->'''Fujimaru''': If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! '''IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!'''
* HumongousMecha: Gets a brief stint piloting [[spoiler:Avicebron's Golem Keter Malkuth, powered by Avicebron sacrificing himself to act as his core, in order to match Ivan's mammoth.]]
* IdiotHair: The female protagonist has one.
* IneptMage:
** Even after being a Master for over two years, they still aren't that skillful as a magus outside of their Mystic Codes, which comes into play in Anastasia such as how they can't reinforce their eyes to [[spoiler:spot Ivan's crown, which is his weak point]]. The most they can do is cast Gandr, though it is only brought up during Helena's Valentine scene.
** Amusingly, this is why Jack is fine with them being her Master according to "Inheritance of Glory". Normally all magi have the worst compatibility with Jack due to her being exorcized by one, but since they suck at being mages she doesn't really hate them.
* InSeriesNickname: While most Servants refer to him/her as "Master" or whatever name the player set, certain Servants refer to him/her by other variants of "master" like "Lord Magus" (Cursed Arm Hassan), "Contractor" (King Hassan), "''Aruji-dono''"[[note]]Roughly "my lord"[[/note]] (Ushiwakamaru), "''Danna-han''"[[note]]double meaning of both "master" and "husband"[[/note]] (Shuten Douji), and "''Oyakata-sama''"[[note]]An even more formal version of "My lord" akin to saying "Your lordship"[[/note]] (Assassin Paradiso), or actual nicknames like "Senpai", "Mommy" (Jack), "Puppy" if male and "Deerlet" if female (Elizabeth), "Boss" (Kintoki), "Reindeer-san" (Jeanne Alter Santa Lily), and even "Maa-chan" (Osakabe-hime).
* IronButtMonkey: Being the Master of a Shielder makes them significantly hardier to physical and mystical injury than most mages. However, this encourages the mindset among their other Servants that they can drag them into all sorts of dangerous situations while paying little heed to their safety, so long as they remember to shanghai Mash as well so they can cut loose without fear.
* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate:
** The ''First Order'' booklet that came with the ''First Order'' Blu-Ray details how they became a Master candidate for Chaldea. An employee of Chaldea was searching for candidates in Japan, via a blood donation event. Fujimaru decided to donate their blood and turns out, they have ''100% affinity'' for being a Master. The employee then pressured them to accept the job, even chasing them to their home.
** [[spoiler:This gains ''vastly'' more sinister undertones during the SE.RA.PH chapter, as it is revealed that Chaldea had been recruiting Master candidates for some time prior to the Fuyuki Point F crisis... but these Master candidates met with a far, ''far'' darker [[PeopleJars fate]] than the ones who went to the Chaldea complex proper. Sheer timing is mostly what prevented the protagonist from becoming part of the Seraphix experiments.]]
* JackOfAllStats: With an attack buff, healing, and a one-turn all-dodge available, the initial Chaldea Mystic Code stands here in contrast to the rest. It almost trends into MasterOfAll territory, since while it's not quite ''comprehensively'' better than other choices, the attack buff and heal are both the strongest of their kind available to any Mystic Code or Servant (the attack buff, in particular, is the strongest single-target attack steroid ''in the game''), and you can't ever really go wrong with the initial outfit.
** The Brilliant Summer Mystic Code (i.e. the swimwear) also falls under here (even if mostly for Quick/stargen servants), with it providing a party-wide Quick cards buff, heal and invulnerability break/pierce.
** The debut of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' gives us the Chaldea Arctic Uniform, which while nearly-identical to the original Chaldea MC, actually has the usual dodge, a combo attack-NP power up, and a combo healing/DEF debuff cleanser. It's not by much, but it's still technically superior.
* KidHero: On multiple occasions, it's scrupulously noted that they're too young to drink.
* LastNameBasis: In the anime, the protagonist is generally referred to by his last name, Fujimaru.
* LastOfHisKind: The last mage of human history since the other contemporary magi are now dead after the earth's incineration, in critical condition and are currently frozen or killed during the plot. Even in ''Epic of Remnant'', they're the only Master Chaldea has on hand for the several crises that pop up. Averted in ''Lostbelt'' as they now must confront seven other Masters to save humanity's future.
* LightningBruiser:
** Not the suit itself, but the Anniversary Blonde (Altria/Arthur's casual clothes) Mystic Code buffs up Buster command cards and provides Battle Continuation. While you are expected to use it on most Sabers (who normally have Buster Noble Phantasms and well-rounded stats), using these skills on your {{Glass Cannon}}s (such as almost all [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBerserkers Berserkers]], or [[Characters/FateGrandOrderExtra Jeanne Alter]]) can turn them into even more terrifying attack units.
** The Fragment of 2004 Mystic Code (Homurahara school uniform) has the same effect, upping star attraction for a unit's Buster cards to increase chances of critical attacks for a Servant with low star attraction like Berserkers or Avengers, enhancing their NP gain to make it easier for them to build their NP gauge, and an NP attack buff to make them more powerful.
* MagicKnight: Likely the expected play style of the ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'', ''VideoGame/FateExtella'' and [[BeachEpisode Tropical Summer]] suits: with buffing Arts cards and preventing enemy buffs/debuffs (all), increasing star generation (''EXTRA''), sucking out the enemy's NP gauges (''Extella''), or charging the NP of your Servants (Tropical), you are expected to sabotage your enemies' spells and be able to hit harder (either with normal attacks or Noble Phantasms). All of them are nigh-essential support when using offensive Casters and other Arts-based Servants (such as Vlad III, both versions of Nero, Robin Hood and the like - and conveniently, guess where those latter two are from?).
* MagneticHero: While they are subpar as far as their potential as a magus goes, they are noted to be amazing as a Master, capable of getting along with even the craziest of Servants. At this point they are a unique existence simply by their having fought alongside more of humanity's greatest individuals than anyone can claim.
* MoralityChain: ObviouslyEvil Servants like Gorgon or Kiara flat-out tell the protagonist that they are the only thing preventing them from destroying the world ''now''. They also show how susceptible Jack is to outside influences. Under Reika, she was a murderous cannibal, but with the protagonist she's just a slightly unhinged but otherwise friendly little girl.
* MoralityPet: They help bring out some Evil Servants' better sides. Carmilla, for example, is genuinely loyal and wishes she had known someone like them when she was Liz's age so she could have ended up better than she did (and, likewise, Liz is better-adjusted in ''GO'' in part due to the protagonist's influence), while Archer of Shinjuku considers them to be the first person he's ever really cared about. Lancer Altria also sees them as such and it's pointed out in her Interlude that the fact she cares so much about them is what makes her fundamentally different from [[TranshumanTreachery the Lion King]].
* MysteriousPast: The protagonist's past before arriving in Chaldea is completely unknown outside of having a normal school life. According to [[WordOfGod Kinoko Nasu]], since ''Fate/Grand Order'' was designed as a mobile game, they are avatars for the players themselves, so he didn't really write any backstory beyond "they are someone who saw the recruitment flyer at a station, applied and got accepted into the job, and somehow ended up getting taken into Chaldea."
* NiceGuy: Both protagonists go out of their way to make their Servants' lives as comfortable as possible, providing them with all sorts of refreshments in their downtime and taking the time to get to know each and every one of them.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:As Galahad furiously points out, the ''only'' reason the Crypters have become a threat was because the protagonist defeated Goetia, who was actually revealed to be trying to ''stop'' them the entire time.]]
* NonActionGuy: The protagonist obviously can't directly take part in battles, only direct their Servants and offer support spells whenever possible.
* NoSell: As Master of Shielder, they are protected from all illnesses and impurities. This allows them to survive the demonic fog during the London Singularity, the AccidentalKiss with [[PoisonousPerson Hassan of Serenity]], and shields them from the effect of Shuten-douji's intoxicating mist during the Rashoumon event. However, Mash herself is still vulnerable to these effects since her skills only protect her allies.
* ObliviousToLove: Some Servants clearly flirt with or proposition the protagonist in My Room lines, but it frequently flies over their head, much to their chagrin.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: They're normal high school students who didn't even know about magic prior to joining Chaldea.
* PowerTattoo: Their Command Spells, which in this game are used to provide potent healing abilities and offensive boons (one of them can be used to either heal a Servant to full health or increase their NP gauge by 100%, while all three can be used to revive the entire party after a TotalPartyKill with 100% NP gauges each). Unlike in other media, they can restore their own Command Seals one at a time. However, they need 24 hours to regenerate each one, meaning they still need to be used conservatively.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: The female protagonist when wearing the default costume or Mage Association Mystic Code.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Several interludes involve the protagonist getting involved while they are asleep. For the most part they simply help the servant in question, but Hokusai's trial quest reveals [[spoiler:they have a natural weakness to mental interference, which the Outer God that transformed Hokusai into a Foreigner sought to use to infect the protagonist with its madness to infiltrate Chaldea.]]
* PunchAWall: In the opening of Camelot the game uses sound effects to make clear this is what the protagonist does when they learn about [[spoiler:the circumstances of Mash's confinement to Chaldea and her now dwindling lifespan.]]
* PunnyName: "Fujimaru" is effectively a way of writing "FGO" (Fuji to FG needs no comment, while "maru" means circle).
* PurelyAestheticGender: While the game generally expects a male protagonist (see GameFavoredGender), there are only minor, gender-specific story changes and no mechanical effects. You can even switch your gender sprites whenever you want to, which is nice for experiencing the other gender's occasional flavor text. That said, this is averted in ''First Order'', where the female character sprite [[StaticRoleExchangeableCharacter exists as one of the original 30 Masters]] injured in the initial assault at Chaldea.
* QuantityVsQuality: A very rare heroic example of Quantity against the Quality of their opponents. While their foes in any given level might start with the same or even greater amounts of Servants as them, their inability to work together allows the Protagonist to overcome them one-by-one with his slapdash, but ultimately cohesive, team.
* RankUp: For their efforts in the Grand Order, the Mages' Association promotes them to the rank of "Cause". It's only a lower middle level title, but one that the protagonist absolutely doesn't merit under normal circumstances.
* {{Retirony}}: With human history seemingly at peace, they were preparing to return to Japan to reunite with their family after ''Epic of Remnant'', but the Crypters had other ideas.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Despite the protagonist being an ordinary person, Mash finds them appealing ''because'' of said ordinariness, as her conditions means that she cannot live the ordinary life that they've had up to the point where they joined Chaldea.
** [[spoiler:During Fujimaru's discussion with Olga in the ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA, he explicitly makes the point that he is mediocre at best in magic and several other fields but he has to make do with what he can improvise, because he is humanity's last hope for saving the world. This surprises her as she thought he would give in to the hopelessness of the situation.]]
** [[spoiler:This actually ends up being the main reason Bael seeks revenge for Goetia's defeat in ''Epic of Remnant'', as he cannot accept that someone as painfully average as the Protagonist managed to defeat the King of Demons, and not one of their Servants.]]
* RomanticWingman: For Fergus' interlude, he's trying to get laid with the female Servants with the protagonist's help. Unfortunately for him, the first two he runs across are Brynhild and Kiyohime. Brynhild finds him attractive so she tries to kill him, while Kiyohime tries to kill him for lack of fidelity. Lastly, he tries to convince Nightingale he's suffering from love sickness and needs some sexual healing and she agrees to help, though she does her best to kill him first. Unfortunately, she feels that the true victor of the battle is the protagonist, since they're Fergus' Master, so she offers to sleep with them instead.
* SecretKeeper: The protagonist is asked by Arash to keep meeting Arthur a secret from the other ''Prototype'' servants besides himself, Jekyll, and (Proto) Cu Chulainn. Said servants being Brynhild, Ozymandias, Paracelsus, and Serenity, due to their rather bad history with him as shown in ''Prototype Fragments''.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Because they fell asleep during the Master debriefing, the protagonist was taken off the mission to Fuyuki and ran into Dr. Roman, engaging in a conversation with him while he was slacking off in their room. This allows the two of them to dodge the explosion in the control room, not only allowing them to rescue Mash and become the sole Master left to save the future, but also allowing Dr. Roman to take command of Chaldea. [[spoiler: Professor Lev notes this when you confront him in the Final Order, commenting that he wanted Dr. Roman in particular to die in the explosion.]]
* TheStrategist: Their role in combat is to advise their Servants on how to fight and draft battle plans in each Singularity with advice from Roman and Mash. They're actually really good at it, with almost any Servant under their care growing to place absolute faith in their commands.
* SupportPartyMember: Sort of. While not exactly within their party of Servants, the protagonist stands on the sideline and supports their Servants from there. They give them the commands, can use magic to heal them, buff them, debuff the enemy or switch out Servants, etc.
* SupportingProtagonist: While the protagonist is an essential character, the narrative of Season 1 is more about Mash's story and then [[spoiler:Roman's]].
* SweetTooth: The Valentine's event shows they have quite a liking for chocolate.
* TooManyBelts: While both protagonists wear normal belts, they have a couple extra. The female protagonist has two belts across her chest (above and below her breasts, assumedly [[MaleGaze for emphasis]]), while the male protagonist has one across the top of his chest just below his collarbone. ''First Order'' shows that this is actually standard Master attire for Chaldea.
* TricksterArchetype: The Mage Association Mystic Code virtually allows you to fill up your Servants' NP gauge quicker as well as reshuffle your Servants' Attack cards, allowing you to mess around with the rules and save yourself in a pinch.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: The Brilliant Summer Mystic Code can be worn by the player 24/7, even in environments where it'd be impractical.
* WeakButSkilled: Not them, but rather their Servants become this when compared to other versions of themselves summoned by other Masters. While they don't normally have the same level of strength, though their parameters rarely seem to suffer, in their Noble Phantasms they have access to skills and abilities they would normally never be able to access; this, combined with the [[QuantityVsQuality quantity of Servants that they have]] makes them a formidable opponent due to their [[TheStrategist ability]] to use their Servants so well.
* WhiteMage: The Atlas Academy Uniform allows you to buff up your servants and cure their status ailments, allowing them to fight at full power. This becomes plot-relevant in Shimosa as [[spoiler:its ability to remove debuffs is what the protagonist uses to remove Caster Limbo's curse on Musashi.]]
* WhoWearsShortShorts: The female protagonist when wearing the Tropical Summer Mystic Code.
* WorthyOpponent: The protagonist is acknowledged as such by several of their enemies, coming more frequently as the story progresses and their victories become more numerous.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Heroic Spirits all tend to have a dim view on "regular people," seeing them as prey, cannon fodder, non-entities, or hapless peons who need to be ruled over. Most of them eventually take a shine to the protagonist and are surprised to find such heroism in a common person.
* YouAreInCommandNow: The protagonist was initially taken off the mission for being inferior to all the other potential Masters (and sleeping during the initial mission briefing), but all the other Masters ended up in critical condition, leaving them as the only Master available.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Many Servants become attached to them because they're similar (or at least according to the Servant's belief) to the Servants' beloved. This is especially prevalent for the Evil alignment Servants, who barely restrain from their more evil urges or going into rampages because of this trope is at work. It's not exactly beneficial with Brynhild, though, since she ''kills'' anyone that reminds her of Sigurd.
* YouWillBeSpared: Gorgon, likely the most destructive and evil of the Servants you can acquire, still plans to kill everyone in the world even after you've maxed out her bond. However, once you do so, she graciously offers the protagonist a painless death after she's finished with everyone else.
* ZettaiRyouiki: The female protagonist while wearing the Atlas Academy Uniform and Arctic Region Chaldea Uniform.
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->'''Rarity:''' R (3*) / SR (4*) after Camelot chapter\\
'''ID:''' No. 1\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood\\
'''Attribute''': Earth\\
'''Origin:''' Original (Mash)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order'' [[note]]First conceptualized in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' material book[[/note]]\\
'''Background development''': Kinoko Nasu\\
'''Illustrated by:''' Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda (original) and Creator/RieTakahashi (September 2016 onwards) (Japanese), Creator/EricaMendez (''-First Order-'' anime and ''VR'') (English)\\
'''Live actor''': Akari Nanao
Mash is a former member of Chaldea's Team A and the only known successful example of a Demi-Servant, a human fused with a Heroic Spirit. Her abilities lay dormant before the story begins. When she and the protagonist are sent to Fuyuki after the explosion at Chaldea, her abilities awaken, making her the first example of a Shielder class Servant seen in the series. She has a tendency to refer to people she considers more experienced than her as 'senpai' and only very rarely refers to the protagonist as anything else.
The character of Shielder was reused from an initial concept idea from ''Fate/stay night'' as the "Stray Servant" and heroine candidate.
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* AnimationBump:
** Her attack animations ended up being buffed when Camelot rolled around, going from her having the same mostly generic attack animations, to having more unique animations that account for her shield. Her Noble Phantasm is also buffed in animation after she learns the true identity of the Heroic Spirit she fused with.
** As of release of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', her sprites' proportions and animations are revamped, she blocks with her shield when taking damage similar to King Hassan, and her death animation is changed to simply retreating instead of [[DisappearsIntoLight fading away]] like most Servants do.
* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler: While she agrees with Goetia that life can indeed be cruel and that death is frightening, she refuses to accept his vision for the world because, while the Singularity fade when finished, she still keeps her experiences of them, meaning that her journey had value. Hardships make people strong, and Goetia's world is empty of hardships.]]
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Kyrielight appears to be a completely made-up name, composed of ''kyrie'', the Greek word for lord, with the English word ''light'' shoved onto the end. Mash, on the other hand, is a real name in Hebrew.
* AttackReflector: In the ''First Order'' adaptation, her first use of Lord Chaldeas not only blocks Saber Alter's [[SwordBeam Excalibur Morgan]], but sends it right back into her face.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She dies in a HeroicSacrifice, tanking Ars Almadel Salomonis, but Fou uses all of his accumulated energy to resurrect her and give her a normal lifespan.]]
* BadassAdorable: Mash is endearingly faithful to the protagonist, and is not only your earliest unit, but also a very useful defense-based Servant, notably being one of the best [=SRs=] in the game after being upgraded near the end of Camelot [[spoiler:when she learns the name of the Servant she fused with, Galahad, and how to properly use his Noble Phantasm.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:When Ivan the Terrible fires a lightning bolt aimed towards the protagonist and Antonio Salieri and no one could save them, Mash comes in her Orthenaus suit and blocks the lightning bolt with her shield, saving the two.]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: She is usually the straight man to Dr. Roman's antics, chastising him for his more perverted and lazy antics. She is also this with the protagonist at times, as shown near the beginning of Okeanos after the protagonist has one too many drinks.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Notable during the "Fate/Accel Zero Order" event as one of the few times it becomes silly when she reprimands you for referring to Saber as Mysterious Heroine X, stating that this was a "serious event" and they don't have time for jokes. She also breaks the fourth wall to tell the player they shouldn't be staying up to wait for the daily resets if they admit to feeling tired.
* BreastPlate: Played straight. Kintoki is rather flustered by Mash as a result of it.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After the battle with Goetia,]] for some reason, Mash's Heroic Spirit refuses to help her anymore, so she is in mission control duty during [=EoR=]. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Although you can still use her for battles that ostensibly take place in this arc.]] In the ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' prologue, the protagonist uses a Command Spell to restore her Demi-Servant abilities. It's not enough however as, [[spoiler:keeping with his personal opinion in ''Moonlight/Lost Room'', Galahad refuses to cooperate and is only helping because the Command Spell is forcing him to, meaning Mash and the others have to compensate for it. In a sense, Mash is back to square one. With the beginning of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', her Noble Phantasm now is heavily glitched and distorted when Mash uses it, its name changing to Mold Camelot Now, a Fragile Fortress of Distant Utopia, to reflect this.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Following her BigDamnHeroes moment in the Anastasia Lostbelt is a flashback to when she took Goetia's Ars Armadel Salomonis at the cost of her life.]]
* CanNotTellALie: The protagonist notes that Mash is like this during the Christmas 2016 event, which was why [[spoiler: she wasn't told about the plan to save Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, unlike everyone else.]]
* CantCatchUp: Suffers this a bit in the Babylonia singularity, though not because she is a bad unit. The issue is that the enemies become very high level, and very strong. As a result, she can, even if at max level for that point with good Craft Essences, be killed easily by some of the bosses with ease if not setup right. Thankfully, her level cap is increased to level 80 after the Singularity, allowing her to be as strong as Four star Servants in stats, with the extra benefit of her free cost.
* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the story, she becomes more confident in herself and as a Demi-Servant. To reflect this, the Chapter 5 update gave her several new animations and voice lines.
* CleavageWindow: What her leotard show underneath her breastplate.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Whenever other female Servants try to make advances on the protagonist, she is always the first to raise objections.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: It's mentioned in ''mortalis:stella'' that her sixteenth birthday is the day of the Fuyuki expedition. On that day, the world proceeds to end and Mash is flung into a plethora of dangerous missions on the slim hope of saving history from being erased.
* DemotedToExtra: In a one-shot gag scenario in a magazine due to the female protagonist becoming Shielder in her place (her true intention was to get more screentime as she was upset that the male protagonist was chosen as the main character). Also, she's almost nearly absent in ''Epic of Remnant'', as she can't use her Demi-Servant abilities. She later becomes active again after she gets the Orthenaus suit in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt''.
* DesignerBabies: Mash is one specifically created in order to be a living catalyst to summon a Heroic Spirit as a Demi-Servant. [[spoiler:The fusion succeeded, but the Heroic Spirit remained dormant until now because it didn't want to cooperate with Chaldea under its previous director. Moreover, she only has a lifespan of 18 years. Dr. Roman even name-drops this trope when explaining Mash's true nature to the protagonist.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Her shield literally runs on determination - the stronger her heart is, the stronger her shield is. Near the beginning, she can already tank ''Excalibur Morgan'', and she only gets more confident [[TookALevelInBadass and badass]] from there, [[spoiler:to the point where even though her body is destroyed, her shield still manages to protect the protagonist from ''Ars Almadel Salamonis'', a Noble Phantasm ''capable of destroying the world'', and still remain intact even as her physical condition deteriorated to the point that she considered it likely that she would not return from the mission.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In France during the Hundred Years War, she greets a group of French soldiers in English. Predictably, they assume she is the enemy and attack.
* DiscardAndDraw: Around the end of Anastasia, she gets a new outfit that changes up her skills when wearing it. Her first skill is completely changed from party-wide Defense buff to Buster and Buster Crit buff to herself, her second skill is completely changed from targetable invincibility and NP Charge to taunt and NP Charge to herself, her third skill replaces the NP gain buff with invincibility while doing self-damage and her Noble Phantasm loses the attack buff it got while changing the three-turn damage cut to three times, five-turn damage cut.
* DudeMagnet: She gets hit on by multiple guys throughout her adventures, such as Fionn, Caesar, Roland, or in Shakespeare’s interlude.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Already on her last legs due to her failing body, Mash gives her life to block Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis, a Noble Phantasm ''explicitly stated to be able to destroy the planet'' through sheer force, and succeeds. Though her body evaporates from the sheer power of the attack, her shield remains standing, completely unscathed.]]
* EmergencyTransformation: Not as life-threatening/urgent as most examples, but come ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', Mash now needs to augment her Demi-Servant form with cybernetics[=/=]{{Magitek}} appendages whenever she needs to deploy [[spoiler:due to Galahad only giving her minimal access to his skills]]. It was one of Marisbury's plans to help stabilize any potential hiccups in a Demi-Servant after fusing with a Heroic Spirit.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Da Vinci, who claims that Mash would fit this trope. To Mash's credit, she does catch the eyes of many men and, to an extent, Nero.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: In Camelot, the characters themselves complain about the fact that Sherlock revealed Mash's Heroic Spirit identity when they already figured it out.
* ExposedToTheElements: In ''First Order'', Fujimaru asks her if she is cold in her skimpy outfit. She remarks that she doesn't feel the cold at all, and guesses that it's a trait all Servants share. [[spoiler:Galahad's refusal to cooperate with her in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' seems to have removed this trait from Mash as she needs a parka for the first Lostbelt.]]
* {{Fangirl}}:
** She's an avid reader of Literature/SherlockHolmes, and when they meet the real deal in Camelot, she's barely able to contain her excitement to be able to talk with him.
** "Garden of Order" reveals that she's one towards [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Leonidas]] as well. As a fellow shield-wielding Servant, she looks up to him. When the heroes find him in the Ogawa Apartment complex, she flat-out refuses to believe that the building could have drawn out any dark side within him and proceeds to rant about how someone as brave and awesome as Leonidas couldn't possibly have a dark side to bring out.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With the Onigashima event's release, her level cap was also increased by 10, and she became a level 70 3-star Servant who hadn't reached her final stage. [[spoiler:Come Camelot, she is upgraded into a 4-star with her third ascension.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe: Her Servant armor is so snug it flaunts her body proportions nicely. {{Lampshaded}} by basically any man that looks at her closely enough.
--> '''Saber Lancelot:''' Um, what's [[spoiler:my daughter]] wearing? It's a little...
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Even after [[spoiler:she loses her powers at the end of Part 1, you can still field her like normal during ''Epic of Remnant''.]]
* GlacierWaif: Despite her small size, she has incredible defensive abilities.
* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Galahad originally served as this to Mash, protecting her ever since he was summoned into her ten years ago without revealing himself so Chaldea couldn't abuse her.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
** The Heroic Spirit fused to her sacrificed its identity in order to save Mash during the central room bombing, making her into Shielder in the process and obtaining several of its traits and memories.
** [[spoiler:Mash herself does this, deploying Lord Camelot one last time to block Ars Almadel Salomonis, saving the protagonist at the cost of her life. Fou brings her BackFromTheDead in time to save the protagonist from the destroyed Temple of Solomon.]]
* HiddenBuxom: You can't see them because of her conservative clothes, but she's quite stacked, with her chest considered by other Servants like Scáthach to be like '[[FanNickname/FateGrandOrder soft marshmallows]]'. They're emphasized greatly in her armor.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Wields a massive shield several times her size in battle as Shielder.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Zigzagged depending on the artist, but at times she gets this when down to her leotard. Leans towards HartmanHips, as while she is fairly busty, her petite size emphasises her (sometimes)wide hips and plush thighs to this extent. Taken UpToEleven in the Turas Realta manga, but the same is done for every female there.
* InSeriesNickname: Caster Tamamo calls Mash "Shieldy" in the former's Interludes.
* InstantArmor: She can switch between armor and civilian clothes at will.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Players who start playing the game after the Camelot update will quickly find out from their support list what her true Noble Phantasm is and that she gets an upgrade into a 4* Servant.
* IntoxicationEnsues: In Rashoumon, she absorbs the poison in the fog surrounding Kyoto and promptly becomes drunk from its properties within. As a Shielder, though, she blocks the effects from reaching the protagonist.
* JackOfAllStats: As a Shielder (meaning she is outside of the Servant class triangle system), Mash does no bonus damage to and takes none from any Servant class. Her abilities are all-round useful, mostly to keep the party alive.
* JigglePhysics: Has this in ''Fate/Grand Order VR'' due to mostly wearing only her leotard for her sessions, allowing her breasts to bounce with the slightest movements.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Her Obscurant Wall of Chalk skill works like this, shifting the target out of the time axis in order to avoid any attack for 1 turn. If the skill had a better rank, attacks from a higher order dimension wouldn't do anything either.[[spoiler:The resemblance to Avalon's function is most likely not a coincidence.]]
* KirkSummation: [[spoiler:Goetia shows Mash a dream of a utopian place where everyone seems happy and nobody dies. Mash rejects it, explaining that without sorrow or death, Solomon's proposed world is ultimately empty.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Servant she fused with is [[spoiler:none other than [[Myth/KingArthur Galahad]].]]
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Mash's body begins to reach its limit at the beginning of Grand Time Temple of Solomon, and Da Vinci predicts that she only has enough life left in her for one last mission. She's fully aware of this and proceeds with the mission anyway.]]
* LeotardOfPower: Beneath her armor, she wears this.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her Noble Phantasm, Lord Chaldeas: Virtual Noble Phantasm Pseudo-Deployment/Foundation of Anthropic Principle'. Because she doesn't understand the actual function of the shield nor its true name, she cannot benefit from the full effects of its use for most of the story. [[spoiler:Lord Camelot, the proper Noble Phantasm of Galahad, has strength proportional to the willpower of the user. 'So long as the heart does not break, those castle walls too shall never crumble.' Use of Lord Camelot allows her at various points to block Excalibur, Rhongomyniad and even [[EarthShatteringKaboom Ars Almadel Salomonis.]] Though Mash herself was killed with the last attack, the protagonist standing behind her was safe... along with the shield itself, which was left standing and completely intact. [[{{Determinator}} Her body gave out long before her will did.]]]]
* MagikarpPower
** Because her ascensions and skills are tied to story progression, she wasn't considered good for much beyond holding a CE early on. However, chapters like London improved her skills, her level cap raised, she eventually received a rarity upgrade and her NP was improved, making her perhaps the best SR Servant in the game, though with limited functionality in an offensive metagame.
** In part 2 as far as the story[[note]]Her first form is still available except in story missions[[/note]] goes she's been sent back to square one and needs to build up her own skill set. Da Vinci implies that her abilities are sure to improve as she gains more confidence in herself and what she personally can do. Notably, her alternate form for part 2 has left many players quite unimpressed, but if improved upon as the story implies that would help compensate.
* MeaningfulName: Her purported surname, ''Kyrielight'', contains the Greek/Latin word ''kyrie'', literally meaning "lord", and is also a shorthand for a Christian prayer[[note]]i.e. ''Kyrie eleison'', "Lord, have mercy"[[/note]]. It could therefore be interpreted as [[LightIsGood "Light of the Lord" or "Lord of Light"]] -- which, considering her separate identity as [[spoiler:a legendary knight who found the Holy Grail (and thus the protection of God)]], makes perfect sense.
* {{Meganekko}}: When not in battle, she's pretty cute and has a slightly nerdy look to her overall.
* MissionControl: She takes on this role in ''Epic of Remnant'' as the loss of her Servant abilities makes it too dangerous for her to go on field missions with the protagonist.
* MoralityChain:
** [[spoiler:To Ophelia, as she desperately wants to rekindle her friendship with Mash. Ophelia even deliberately debuffs Sigurd whenever he attacks Mash in one fight.]]
** [[spoiler: Also to Fou, as her interactions with him give him an understanding of humanity, which prevents him from becoming Beast IV.]]
* MythologyGag: Shielder is called the "Stray Servant" because her original design was called that. She was a heroine candidate during the initial development of ''Fate/stay night'' who was left unused in the final version. She was considered along with Rider and Caster to be a possible heroine, but she was cut due to the plot beginning to stray so as to keep it manageable for the player. As Saber is a "Servant of the Sword", she was to be her rival as a Shielder, "Servant of the Shield". She would have been an "abandoned puppy" type heroine who killed her Master during the Fourth Holy Grail War and went on a rampage, surviving into the Fifth Holy Grail War in a similar manner to Gilgamesh.
* NaiveNewcomer: Due to being sheltered in Chaldea for all of her life, she has a very optimistic and naive outlook on the world. While she never truly becomes jaded, her adventures in the Singularities make her wiser, allowing her to mature and direct what she's learned towards her goals.
* {{Nerf}}: Her second form, unlocked at the end of the first Lostbelt chapter, is pretty strictly inferior to her original style as it attempts to make her a hybrid tank/DPS character, but she doesn't have the attack to be a buster crit Servant, especially without gaining any offensive advantages. To get said buster crit skill she had to sacrifice what is probably her best skill. Her NP generation decreases with the change to her third skill and she loses the support option of granting NP charge and invincibility to an ally with her second. Fortunately, this is a changeable costume so she can still fulfill her old role. The skills may also be intentionally underpowered like the first form was at the start of the game.
* NiceGirl: She's very sweet to everyone with the exception of [[spoiler:Lancelot]][[note]]strangely, this only applies to [[spoiler: Saber Lancelot;]] Berserker Lancelot she seemingly has no problems with[[/note]] and is generally very easy-going. Unless she gets jealous of someone getting the protagonist's affections, in which case she sulks a lot and becomes very passive-aggressive.
* NonStandardSkillLearning: Mash gains her skills and ascensions via plot progression, meaning that it takes her longer than other Servants to reach her potential.
* NoSell: Her second skill negates any damage dealt to a target. This combos nicely with her third skill that taunts enemies into attacking her.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: [[spoiler:She is a one-of-a-kind Demi-Servant because she was the first one to be fused with a Heroic Spirit, with subsequent attempts to replicate her success failing as all of them were horrified at what Chaldea was doing with children. Marisbury then cancelled the fusion experiments but kept her around because she could still be a Master.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Mash tries to stay focused on the task at hand and rein the player character in when they start to slack off, but given her cloistered upbringing she tends to get distracted herself with all the new things she's seeing for the first time.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Averted. Her third skill [[PracticalTaunt forces enemies to attack her]] and increases her NP gain. At first glance, it may look like the skill is intended to increase the the gauge she gains from taking all those hits, but the fact that the NP generation buff disappears after your turn(but before the enemy attacks) and she has two Arts cards makes it so it was intended to be used with it instead.
* ObliviouslyBeautiful: The Protagonist, Roman, Fou, da Vinci, and many Servants tend to see Mash as a very beautiful young woman with an excellent body to the point that Fionn wants to marry her, but Mash herself is completely confused as to why people would find her attractive, with the second part of the first Summer event showing that she considers herself [[IAmNotPretty plain]] in comparison to the other female Servants, and in her VR event, she thinks that her own body is unsightly.
* OminousVisualGlitch: After her nerf in part 2, [[spoiler:every usage of Lord Camelot, or rather Model Camelot, ends up absolutely covered in black squares]].
* OnlySaneMan: Despite inexperience, Mash approaches most things with modest yet extensive textbook generic knowledge and common sense. She's in the wrong genre for that.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: When wearing her normal clothes she looks quite proper, though as Shielder she's quite {{Stripperiffic}}.
* PurpleEyes: Even in the Nasuverse, purple is an unusual eye color. It's most likely a result of her origin as an artificially conceived human.
* RageBreakingPoint: Mash spends the majority of the Camelot chapter witnessing the atrocities committed by the Lion King and her knights, and later learns that [[spoiler:the Lion King's true plan wouldn't "save" humanity in the conventional sense.]] However, what really enrages her is [[spoiler:learning that the Lion King's knights, particularly Lancelot, all knew about the true scope of her plans and went along with it anyway.]] Her sheer rage leads to her [[spoiler:ascending to 3rd Ascension, challenging Lancelot to a duel, and ''winning''.]]
* SenpaiKohai:
** The ''kohai'' to the protagonist's ''senpai'', even though she technically has seniority as a member of Chaldea. It's later explained that she sees the protagonist as her senior in terms of "living" since she lived her whole life within the walls of Chaldea.
** She also has a similar admiration for [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Leonidas]], her senior in the realm of greatshield wielding.
* SeriesMascot: Mash is the primary flagship mascot of ''Grand Order'', alongside Jeanne d'Arc, Altria, Arthur, and sometimes the female protagonist as presented in ''Learning with Manga! FGO''.
* SetSwordsToStun: A RunningGag that develops over the Singularities is that Mash should try hitting human enemies with the back of the sword... proverbially, since she fights with a shield. Nonetheless, it's perfectly effective at incapacitating, and not killing, human bandits and such.
* SexySilhouette: In ''Fate/Grand Order VR'' the towel that hangs over Mash's shoulder-high changing screen falls away just as she strips down to her underwear, leaving this in its wake.
* ShieldBash: She'll do this in her second set of animations, mainly by slamming the shield forward straight into the enemies' face. The anime has her outright using the large cross part of her shield like a claymore or club to smash her opponents.
* SimpleYetAwesome: She's one of the best examples of this trope in this game, ''especially'' after the completion of Camelot - she's one of the best tanks in the game, due to her StoneWall skillset and high health pool, as well as the fact that she takes normal damage from ''every'' class in the game, ''even Berserkers''. As a shielder-class servant, she deals normal damage to ''all'' classes in the game, meaning she's got good damage dealing potential. And unlike most Servants, her ascensions are tied to story progression, meaning you don't have to worry about not having ascension materials either). The only drawback is that her bond level is ''also'' tied to story progression, meaning that you can't earn bond points with her.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She can easily talk to Fou, though given that his speech is supposedly quite spoilery she either doesn't tell us everything he says or doesn't understand everything herself. However, after [[spoiler:his sacrifice]], she's confused because while she can still understand him, all he says are simple things like wanting candy.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Opinions differed over whether her name was Mashu, Mash, or Marche before her Valentine's Craft Essence came out with the name Matthew written on it. Due to the cursive writing on the picture, fans briefly argued over if her name was Matthew or Mattheu, or preferred one of the three aforementioned names. Official Grand Order merchandise spells her name as Mash, further complicating the issue. The official translation of the anime uses Mash and the Valentine's CE was updated for the 2017 rerun to have Mash written on it, making it the official name.
** Her last name can either be interpreted as Kyrielight or Kyrielite. The official anime and game localization use the former. But there's at least one instance in the game where it's spelled as "Kyrielite".
* StoneWall: Her Strength is an average C and her Agility is low at D, but her Endurance is A-ranked and she possesses several skills to mitigate damage, especially when the attacks are aimed at her allies. In gameplay, she has a great deal of HP, and her Noble Phantasm increases party defense, cuts a flat amount of damage after that and then boosts party attack for everyone except her. She's one of the best SR Servants as a result, due to her ability to cut enemy damage to almost nothing. With her skills, stats and ''zero'' unit cost, she makes an incredible valuable unit for stall based teams or challenge quests.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fategrandorder/images/f/f6/DangerousBeast.png/revision/latest?cb=20170624151022 Her Halloween costume]] for the second Halloween event, as seen on the Dangerous Beast craft essence, can be aptly described as some string and two strategically placed tufts of fur to cover her nipples.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Her Shielder class has no strengths or weaknesses, taking and dealing neutral damage to all other classes.
* TerribleArtist: Her drawings aren't very good, ranging from an okay picture of Arash to being incredibly simplistic to just drawing an outline of a bell and labeling it bell.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** After learning that [[spoiler: the Servant she's fused to is Galahad, and that Lancelot knew about the Lion King's true plan and sided with her anyway,]] her sheer rage at the latter revelation causes her to ascend to her third form and [[spoiler:defeat Lancelot in a duel.]] In-game, she gets a rarity upgrade to SR/4*, a level cap increase, and an upgrade to her first skill.
** She unlocks the true form of her Noble Phantasm [[spoiler:Lord Camelot]] in time for the final battle of the chapter. After that it also boosts party attack by 30%, though this buff doesn't affect her.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: An alternate costume introduced for her with Chaldea Summer 2016's rerun means this is in effect for her as she can wear her swimsuit in any battle, even off the beach.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Part of the reason why she calls the protagonist her "senpai" is becomes they have more real-world experience than she does, since she has never left the confines of Chaldea. She gets especially excited when visiting the various locales of the Singularities and practically becomes a GenkiGirl when visiting a Japanese city like Misaki City during "Garden of Order".
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: In the prologue of Chapter 6, Dr. Roman tells you that as a Designer Baby, Mash's lifespan was preset to last only 18 years. She's already 16 at the beginning of the game and her collapse at the end of Chapter 5 shows the continued use of her Demi-Servant abilities are steadily, but fatally, shaving off the remaining two years she has left. By the final battle, she only has an few days left to live, and going to Salomon will kill her regardless of the outcome. While she is incinerated protecting the protagonist from Ars Almadel Salomonis, Fou uses all of the power he collected over his long time in existence to revive her and also give her a normal lifespan.]]
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[[folder:Fou]]
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-> '''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Taiki\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Drama CD and the ''-First Order-'' anime) (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)
Fou is an animal that appears to be able to freely walk around the Chaldea Security Organization's complex, and has a notable attachment to Mash. The protagonist meets it alongside Mash, and it then tends to come along on the various Singularity missions.
For more information, please see the Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts page.
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[[folder:Olga Marie Animusphere]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Drama CD), Madoka Yonezawa (''Fate/Grand Order -First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime) (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)
A member of the prestigious Animusphere family of magi and the current director of Chaldea. She monitors the future and is trying to prevent the extinction of humanity.
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* AdvertisedExtra:
** She was quite heavily promoted in prelude material, has a well known [[Creator/MegumiToyoguchi seiyuu]] and is featured quite a bit in the official gag manga. In the game, however, she's killed right at the beginning, sticks around in the first chapter, then eventually she literally fades from the story completely.
** A lampshade is hung in the official gag manga that takes place after the prologue.
---> "Why isn't she appearing?"
---> "Wait... didn't you play the story?"
* AlternateTimeline: She shows up in ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' and the 2015 ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' manga which both take place in alternate timelines. [[spoiler:''Moonlight/Lostroom'' also reveals that there was a facet of possibility where ''she'' was the main mission control during the seven Orders, not Dr. Roman, but that possibility isn't the "correct history".]]
* {{Astrologer}}: Her family is the current head of the Astrology department of the Clock Tower.
* BrokenPedestal: Lev, the one person she has absolute faith in, reveals that he killed her and was scheming against her the whole time. This revelation coming from her trusted mentor and the person she was putting her faith into for fixing everything shocks her and she feebly tries to dismiss what he's saying as lies.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: She reveals in ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' that [[spoiler:she actually has a lot of anxiety about saving the legacy and history of humanity and wonders if she'll ever truly be happy]].
* DayInTheLimelight: ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' gives her a lot of screentime and we get more of her mindset about being the head of Chaldea at such a young age.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: [[spoiler:''Moonlight/Lostroom'' reveals that she really doesn't know what the damn hell she's even doing at Chaldea - she deeply respects her father's mission but she has ''no idea'' how she can really meaningfully contribute to furthering the mission, especially since she can't be the Master she desperately wants to be.]]
* {{Expy}}: Nasu wrote on his blog that she's essentially [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Touko]] minus all the philosophical exposition.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' reveals that she honestly doesn't care about protecting the Human Order but more proving that she can handle the responsibilities of such a large task.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Nasu mentions in the ''-First Order-'' booklet that she's been dying over and over again in Chaldeas after being thrown in there by Lev.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite how she treats the protagonist she isn't as mean as she suggests. [[spoiler:She was outright appalled at the inhumane treatment of Mash and the other DesignerBabies at the hands of her father. If not for Mash's inability to survive outside Chaldea she likely would have let her live in the outside world. This is especially poignant considering she thought that Mash would try to kill her and she let her live anyway.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She's pretty abusive towards the protagonist, one of the first things she does is berate them for their lack of talent as a Master. She tells her subordinates that since they agreed to join Chaldea, they are her soldiers and should be ready to die if she asks it of them.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She is right that the protagonist shouldn't be sent in as a Master when there are far more experienced choices and they haven't even gone through basic training.
* IneptMage: Played with. She's essentially the reverse of [[LightNovel/FateZero Matou Kariya]]. While Matou Kariya was pretty mediocre in all aspects of Magecraft, he had surprisingly high "compatibility" as a Master. Olga Marie is, on the other hand, an extremely high-class Magus who has zero compatibility with the role of a Master, to the point where she can't even summon a Servant. [[spoiler:This is why she dreams, desperately, of being a great Master who is saving human history alongside Fujimaru during ''Moonlight/Lostroom''. The fact that she's actually incapable of forwarding the great cause of Animusphere leaves her DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.]]
* KilledOffForReal: She is killed by Lev's bomb used to incapacitate the other Chaldea Masters, but manages to rayshift to Fuyuki alongside Mash and the protagonist as a soul. Unfortunately, Lev shows up and sends her back to the present, seemingly destroying her soul permanently.
* MagicalIncantation: Her family has a specialized incantation for all of their spells: "Stars. Cosmos. Gods. Animus. Ampule. Unbirth. Anima. Animusphere." In ''First Order'', "Ampule, Unbirth" is replaced with "Hollow. Void." in the chant and in ''Case Files'', "Antorum" is used in place of "Ampule".
%%* MysticalWhiteHair
%%* ProperTightsWithASkirt
* {{Tsundere}}: To the main protagonist. Roman notes spending time with them in Fuyuki has softened her up.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She's killed unceremoniously by Lev at the end of Fuyuki and a lot of her characterization is filled in by Dr. Roman after her death. The anime specials do a lot to fill in her character.
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[[folder:Dr. Romani Archaman]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Drama CD and the ''-First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime) (Japanese), Creator/XanderMobus (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)\\
'''Live actor''': Takuya Ide
More known as Dr. Roman, he is the head of Chaldea's medical ward. He is responsible for making sure the Master candidates stay in good health. After the prologue, he becomes the Director stand-in.
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* {{Adorkable}}: He has his moments, especially when his hobbies come up. He's even rerouted some unnecessary parts of Chaldea's power supply to power an idol simulation! [[spoiler:Those moments were even present in his original existence as Solomon, whose High-Speed Incantation is ranked down to C because he ''gets anxious and makes mistakes in his chants''.]]
* TheAntiNihilist: Romani is a pessimist and agrees that life is basically just a countdown towards farewells and death, but still thinks each life and its journey is beautiful.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Subverted. Camelot introduces a lot of clues that he is Solomon in disguise, leading Sherlock Holmes to become wary of Roman and warn the other heroes to do the same. The Final Order reveals that this is true - but at the same time the "Solomon" antagonizing humanity is an impostor.]]
* {{Biseinen}}: Between his long-flowing hair and fine features, he's a ''very'' pretty looking man.
* BrokenPedestal: He's heavily shocked by the revelation of Solomon trying to destroy the world and desperately tries to use Sheba to prove that he isn't behind this. When Mash and the protagonist come back from London, he's going through a nervous breakdown. [[spoiler:Later reveals implies that this is less admiration being broken and more shock at his body being used by someone else.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: It's revealed that he is actually the real Heroic Spirit Solomon who used the Holy Grail to incarnate himself as a human.]]
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: [[spoiler:He tries to claim that the enemies Chaldea are facing can't be Solomon's Demon Gods because the wise and just Solomon wouldn't be associated with such disgusting and nasty monsters.]]
* ButtMonkey: He's the butt of many jokes and jabs in the series, much to his chagrin.
-->'''Dr. Roman:''' ''[talking about the similarities between him and Mozart]'' Thanks, Amadeus! I've never been this unhappy about praise in my life!
* ConspicuousGloves: Since he's a doctor, it makes some sense for him to wear them. Since he's hardly ever doing anything medical in the story, it makes less sense. And they don't look like medical gloves anyway. It turns out there's a ring under one of them...
* CovertPervert: When Orion wants to peep on the girls in the hot springs chapter of the Anthology Manga, he gladly goes with the idea. In addition, he tries to record Mata Hari's stripping during the Halloween 2015 event and is disappointed when she doesn't. [[spoiler:After the finale's reveals about him, in hindsight, it was probably a trait he inherited from his father.]]
** He's also downright distraught in the Anthology Manga when Emiya knits belly warmers for all the scantily-clad female Servants. And Mash has apparently found his porn folder and blackmails him by threatening to delete it.
* CowardlyLion: He refers to himself as a coward several times, [[spoiler: yet at the final battle, even when Goetia taunts him for being too cowardly to use Ars Nova to erase himself from existence, he without hesitation goes ahead with using it to help the protagonist.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: He has some sort of ace in the hole ability that's similar to a Holy Grail according to Da Vinci who knows the full details. He tries not to think about it and is terrified of using it because after doing so, it will make him disappear. It's revealed in the final battle to be Solomon's last ring and final Noble Phantasm, Ars Nova, the act of returning God's gifts which erases him completely from the Throne of Heroes.]]
* DoubleTake: Da Vinci's presence with the protagonists is so reassuring when he reestablishes contact with them in Lancelot's camp, he forgets for a moment that the last time they had discussed her, she had blown herself up.
-->"I’m glad you’re okay. Da Vinci’s even there. Good. All is right in the worl-"\\
"SAY [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAT]]!? IS THAT DA VINCI-CHAN!?!? You survived getting blown into a bazillion pieces!?!?!?"
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's introduced slacking off from Chaldea's first operation, eating some cake in a supposedly unused room - now Fujimaru's room, since they too were banned from the same operation. However, after the initial awkwardness Roman quickly becomes The Protagonist's friend, making them coffee and teaching them about Chaldea's various facilities to help them get used to the place.
* FanBoy:
** Of King Solomon, considering the King of Magic his hero and denying that his magecraft has any role in the Singularities. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that Roman ''is'' Solomon, and was instead voicing his dislike of the idea that his magecraft was being used for evil. He really just [[SureLetsGoWithThat rolled with the "Solomon fanboy" misconception]] to keep his true identity a secret.]]
** He's also a big fan of a Virtual Idol, MagiāMari, often consulting her for advice mid-mission and getting gleefully nihilistic and unhelpful responses. [[spoiler:As it turns out, this site was actually run by Merlin from the Garden of Avalon, presumably as a way of interacting with Chaldea aside from Fou.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: A downplayed case. He's never outright disliked, but Mash, the player character, and tag along servants are all quick to point out his various flaws and mistakes.
* GeniusSweetTooth: He admits to liking sweets quite a bit, saying that it's vital for anyone who works with their brain.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: He leaves this behind to the protagonist as he ceased to exist.]]
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Your medic and mission control was actually the real King Solomon all along.]]
* HandBehindHead: It's his default pose. He's flustered and sheepish often enough for it to be appropriate.
* HateAtFirstSight: [[{{Downplayed}} Maybe not outright hate,]] but his [[spoiler:Solomon]] profile points out that almost every Servant will instinctively blame him for their problems and find reasons to insult him. The only exceptions are contrarians, Berserkers, and [[NiceGuy Bedivere]].
* HeroicRROD: Da Vinci clarifies in Camelot that he could eventually hit one and that she's somewhat worried about his health; he takes all kinds of medicine and drugs to be able to run all of Chaldea alone while also having to be the emotional support and MissionControl for Mash and the Protagonist, and is getting little to no sleep.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He uses the last Ring of Solomon to re-enact his returning of God's gifts and erase himself from the Throne of Heroes in order to weaken King Goetia.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:Goetia could have used his own Clairvoyance to easily figure out that Roman was an incarnated Solomon, but Roman's wish to become a completely normal human without any Magic Circuits meant that Goetia just dismissed him as unremarkable and passed over him. This proved to be vital in defeating Goetia, because if the truth about Roman was discovered then he couldn't have gotten close enough to the rest of Solomon's rings to be able to activate Ars Nova and mortally wound Goetia. Indeed, when Roman reveals his true identity, Goetia curses Flauros for being unable to see through Roman despite spending so much time around him in the Clock Tower.]]
* HollywoodNerd: ''Fate/Grand Order'' would have you believe Roman is a hopelessly undateable nerd.
* HospitalHottie: Definitely.
* {{Hypocrite}}: It's noted he tends to be optimistic and encouraging to others despite being a pessimist himself, making his encouragement feel shallow.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: He wished on the Holy Grail to give up all his powers as Solomon, because he wanted to live a life where he lived of his own volition rather than according to the will of the people and the voice of God.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Despite having a chance to live as a normal human, the vision he received made him realize he had to help humanity prepare, sacrificing his one chance at normalcy to serve the people. His one comfort being the people he met in this new life.]]
* ImprobableAge: He became Chaldea's medical director at twenty-two, which Holmes notes should not be possible for an ordinary person.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: He's a doctor and is seen wearing a lab coat constantly.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** [[spoiler: He didn't know about the Heroic Spirit fusion project and regrets being unable to prevent what had happened.]]
** [[spoiler: By Holmes's request, he's in the dark about his meeting with the heroes and the things they learned unrelated to the Camelot singularity.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:After he used his wish to become a human being who could live of his own volition, Solomon took the name "Romani" because he fell in love with the idea of Romanticism - in particular, its emphasis on free expression of the individual.]]
* MissingMissionControl: Certain events such as "Prison Tower" and "Starry Xuanzang Goes to India" feature no MissionControl due to circumstances preventing communications (stuck in a dream, suddenly Rayshifted to unknown coordinates, etc.)
** It's PlayedForLaughs during Tamamo Cat's first interlude, he's gone out for a lunch break and won't be available unless it's a critical emergency.
** Ozymandias's desert in Chapter 6 messes with communications. [[spoiler: Sherlock Holmes exploits this to meet with the heroes without Roman knowing.]]
* MissionControl: He typically appears as a hologram to communicate with the heroes from the Rayshift control panel.
* MrExposition: He and Mash share the role of providing insight into the history of Servants, the Singularities, and generally hyping up Servants you're about to fight. Roman himself is especially knowledgeable about the mechanics of magecraft and famous magi, ''especially'' Solomon, despite not being able to use magecraft himself. [[spoiler:This is because he ''is'' Solomon, albeit the summoned Caster version who wished to be a normal human and is very much on your side.]]
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:In chapter 6, Holmes reveals that no records of him exist before 2004, when he was working as Olga-Marie's father's assistant in the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. Da Vinci knows that, but believes that it doesn't make him any less of a good guy. Holmes ''does'' admit that it's possible that Hermes could have records on him, but that would require sifting through billions of irrelevant files and the Hermes archives change yearly so it's highly unlikely they'd be able to find anything. It turns out that there are no records of him is because the man known as Dr. Roman ''didn't exist'' before 2004, and was in fact King Solomon summoned as a Caster-class Servant.]]
* NiceGuy: Very friendly to you from the moment you first meet him, and his moral compass is just as strong as Mash and the protagonist's. His niceness unfortunately is only a way for him to be "everybody's friend" without getting attached to any of them.
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: In the dream sequence before Babylonia, where he gets eyes like Solomon, a twisted, nightmarish grin and red and black marks on his cheeks. This, of course, Goetia messing with Mash.]]
* NonProtagonistResolver: [[spoiler: His Ars Nova is what ultimately ends Goetia. It's the protagonist's job to make sure he doesn't take everything down in his dying moments.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Despite specifically being a medical doctor, Roman doesn't have much trouble assuming the operation and maintenance of much of the technology at Chaldea, expositing at length about magecraft and Servants' historical/mythological background, or creating an AI duplicate of his favorite net idol to chat with. [[spoiler:Considering his true identity as Solomon, one of the most brilliant men to ever live, it probably comes naturally to him]]. The School of Chaldea CE directly comments on it.
-->'''Da Vinci:''' Medical, observation, event restoration, even equipment maintenance... You've really been busy lately, Romani.
* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler: Marisbury had considered Solomon and by extension, Dr. Roman, to be his first and only friend in life.]]
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: His full name is Romani Archaman, but he acknowledges that everyone calls him Dr. Roman anyway. Da Vinci tends to call him "Romani-kun" instead.
* {{Otaku}}: Not only is he a huge fan of a certain idol, he has an incredible obsession with sweets, having a gigantic private collection of rare and valuable candies. Mash assumes in the "Starry Xuanzang Goes to India" prologue that the large collection of books in a Chaldea warehouse ''must'' be his since he's the one person she knows to obsessively hoard objects he's passionate about. He denies it as they belong to someone else.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's the closest thing Mash has to a father, and she does care deeply about him despite her ribbing. He brought her books, always encouraged and fought for her place in Chaldea, and even [[spoiler:named her]].
* PornStash: According to Mash, he has a "secret" folder on the Chaldea computer network, which relates to "the hobbies of a 30-year-old bachelor". She threatens to delete it to get him to behave more seriously during the Septem storyline.
* RedheadInGreen: Lucky that the uniform is a flattering color on him.
* RedheadsAreUncool: So uncool that almost everyone he meets immediately feels compelled to pick on him, and even Mash can't reassure him without getting in a few digs about his dorky hobbies first. Awkward, brainy, etc., basically a ''huge nerd''. And he has orangey hair. [[spoiler:By contrast, his original form as King Solomon has MysticalWhiteHair, and has a lot of power and respect to his name as the King of Magic (even if his personality isn't really any different).]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: He reveals in the final battle that he's actually the Solomon summoned by Marisbury, who used his wish on the Holy Grail to "become human". However, on the very cusp of losing his Clairvoyance skill, he had a vision of humanity's demise, concluded that he was involved somehow, and spent the next ten years doing everything he could to prevent the coming disaster.]]
* RingOfPower: Something the party observes while talking to Holmes; [[spoiler: Solomon has nine gold rings and one silver, while Roman has a gold ring he claims is from his now-divorced marriage. It's revealed in the final battle that it is the last Ring of Solomon, which God told him to store separately from the other nine and became the catalyst that Marisbury used to summon him as a Heroic Spirit. As the actual artifact and not something drawn from the Throne of Heroes, it is the one ability of his Heroic Spirit self that Roman is able to keep.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female. [[spoiler: It's possible that Arthur was one of the Servants he crushed as Solomon in the Fuyuki Grail War.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game [[spoiler: before Chapter 4's end.]] When David states that it's most likely that Solomon's responsible for what's going on, Roman uses Sheba to look at the past at Solomon's era and since he's there in the past, Solomon, therefore, has nothing to do with the destruction of the world. [[spoiler:This is all due largely to him not wanting to think about the implications of a "Solomon" running around the singularities, as he knows better than anyone what that truly means.]]
* StealthPun: It is regularly joked that Roman is probably a thirty-year-old virgin, also known on the internet as [[spoiler:a wizard]].
* SureLetsGoWithThat: [[spoiler:Chaldea mistakes him a Solomon fanboy because of his attempts to deny that Solomon's powers and demons were responsible for the Singularities. Though he's really attempting to deny it because he doesn't like the idea of someone running amok with his magecraft, everyone just assumes that he simply likes Solomon a lot. Because he can't come out and say that he used to be Solomon, Roman has to roll with this misconception. Later, when he has a nervous breakdown upon seeing Goetia running around in his original body, he keeps up this "Solomon fanboy" notion and plays it off as suffering a BrokenPedestal regarding his hero.]]
* TeamDad: He has to take care of everyone and he runs himself ragged when he loses contact with the protagonist.
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:He tells Da Vinci that Romani and Solomon are basically two different people by now, and refers to the King of Mages as "he" and "Solomon" rather than "I" when talking about his past.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, this is one of his specialties. Unfortunately, he's the only one and has to maintain the mental and physical health of everyone who isn't dead at Chaldea.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: [[spoiler:Justified. His plan to defeat Goetia wouldn't have worked if the rest of Chaldea knew about it, because Roman needed to be able to get close to Goetia in order to activate Ars Nova (it requires all ten rings to be gathered together in order to activate, [[LoopholeAbuse though not necessarily in possession of the same people]]). If the rest of Chaldea knew about Roman's true identity as well as Ars Nova, then Goetia would have learned about it as well and could have easily adapted his plans to keep Roman out of the picture.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After resolving the London Singularity, they find him in a slump after seeing that Solomon was actually the mastermind behind the Singularities. Mash breaks him out by reminding him of how he salvaged Chaldea, rescued those who survived and took charge of restoring the timeline.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After the disaster that occurred with the initial Rayshift, he was appointed commander despite only being Head Medic because everyone else above him died.
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[[folder:Marisbury Animusphere]]
->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
Olga Marie's deceased father. The founder and previous director of Chaldea.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: His first name is comprised of two first names that were then just mashed together like Olga Marie's.
* CrazyPrepared: He had a number of contingencies in place just in case things went south. Like in the case that rayshifting failed to work with humans, [[spoiler: he had a True Ancestor on the team so that someone would survive the process]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: Posthumously as despite all his great labors and painstaking lengths taken to protect humanity, [[spoiler:internal sabotage from his subordinates was the one scenario he appeared to have never thought of as [[ManchurianAgent Lev]] bombs the Control Room and Wodime uses his intimate knowledge of the observatory to attack it remotely.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: He had committed suicide for some unknown reason in his office. [[spoiler: It was actually a murder that was arranged to look like a suicide.]]
* Fiction500: [[spoiler: He used the Grail to give himself funds on par with a national budget to build Chaldea.]]
* {{Foil}}: His motivation for [[spoiler:winning the 2004 Grail War (i.e. getting money and recognition)]] is almost like [[spoiler:Waver Velvet's initial motivation for joining the 1994 Grail War of ''LightNovel/FateZero'']]. However, his motivation is not seen as selfish/negative, if only because [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist this wish was designed to bring forth Chaldea to existence]], which allows the good guys' world-saving shenanigans possible in the first place.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: He's connected to the divergent AlternateTimeline of F/GO, having been the winner of the 2004 Fuyuki Holy Grail War.]]
* ForeseeingMyDeath: [[spoiler: Part of the reason he was desperate enough to resort to using the Grail to give him funds for Chaldea is that he knew he would die in a decade and wished to see the completion of Chaldea before that happened.]]
* TheGhost: Is only talked about in Camelot, since he's, you know, dead. He shows up in [[spoiler:Dr. Roman's flashbacks]], only in text before the final battle with Solomon, and even in that one appearance "on-camera" in-game he's represented by a nondescript cloaked figure covered entirely in shadow. In the ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA, his appearance in the Chaldea command center is just a hazy, light-filled outline.
* MundaneWish: [[spoiler:He uses the Holy Grail, a magical object of almost unimaginable power, to make a lot of money and have his colleagues respect his ideas. He's still one of the most successful users of the Grail so far, especially given he managed to circumvent [[LiteralGenie the Grail's main limitation]] by knowing exactly what he wanted and how to attain it.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: He died five years before the start of the game.
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler: Holmes speculates that his wish for the Holy Grail was for prosperity since, after the war, his family's theories which were dismissed as abstract and impractical by the Association had suddenly been acknowledged, he had a sudden string of several successes, and Chaldea was transformed from a simple observatory into the facility of the present that you see at the beginning of the game. Which was confirmed with a flashback at the beginning of Grand Time Temple Solomon, he used the Grail to give him money for funding Chaldea.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He authorized the Seraphix Master experiments which were directly responsible for providing Beast III-R the power she needed to grow.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Holmes hypothesizes that he was being manipulated by a third party, with his leading guess being either Lev Reinol or Dr. Roman.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The man had noble ideals but ''terrible'' methods, notably involving [[spoiler: a whole lot of child experiments. It's the main reason even though Mash's fusion with a Spirit was successful, Galahad (as the most LawfulGood of the Round Table) refused to manifest and stayed dormant.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:It's unclear exactly how far or how bad it went, but not only did he direct the apparently very harsh project that led to Mash's birth and creation but, given the timeframe involved, he must have signed off on the Seraphix leyline experiments with Master candidates, which definitely involved children.]]
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[[folder:Mabel Macintosh]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
A relatively low-level employee aboard the Chaldea Foundation's Seraphix platform, she is one of the few survivors encountered when the Chaldea group finally manage to infiltrate SE.RA.PH in its relevant chapter. She's able to provide the team with several crucial pieces of information to aid their investigation of the crisis that has engulfed Seraphix.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She's gunned down without mercy by Emiya Alter once he sides with Sesshouin. However, she turns out to have been Sesshouin herself in disguise the whole time, with Tamamo Cat seeing right through her once she ''miraculously'' reappears.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The real Mabel has been dead since long before you encounter her after the first Passionlip fight. In fact, there's some doubt as to whether she ever even existed in the first place, with Arnold Beckman not remembering anyone with that name, despite supposedly being trapped in the same room with her for an undisclosed amount of time. Then again, given [[ItsAllAboutMe his attitude]], it's possible he just never learned her name in the first place.]]
* FantasticRacism: Of a sort. She's incredibly uncomfortable around Alter Egos, though that's in part because she watched them slaughter a great many of her colleagues and friends.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mentions having some bad memories of Seraphix's church. [[spoiler: This was Sesshouin's former workplace, and where she hid after her corruption by Zepar reached a breaking point.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: She's got big ol' glasses and a typically meek matching personality. The Chaldea servant team are somewhat amazed that she even managed to survive.
* NiceGirl: Her issues with Alter Egos aside, she's generally pretty nice and helpful, though she's not terribly useful in the crazy digital hell that SE.RA.PH has become. Still, she does what she can. [[spoiler:So, [[DeadPersonImpersonation unsurprisingly]]...]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Mabel, Maybell (or a variant thereof), or ''Marble''? They're all valid options for the kana of her name, and no English transliteration is provided.
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[[folder:Arnold Beckman]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
Another employee of the Seraphix platform, and the Secretary to the platform's Commander.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: By the time EMIYA Alter kills him, he apparently was planning to kill the Protagonist for ignoring his orders to save Meltlilith, judging by the fact he asked him to go retrieve some poison for him.]]
* ControlFreak: He reveals himself to be this once rescued, as he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Had the Vice Director of Seraphix killed when he tried to stand up against Beckman's takeover of the platform, effectively becoming the highest ranked staff member remaining.]]
* MissionControl: Once he's rescued, he assumes this role for the team. He's a far cry from Dr. Roman's gentle encouragement, however.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:You're probably going to be deeply suspicious of him from the logs. While he definitely had a hand in Chaldea's cruel experiments within Seraphix, ultimately he's just a pawn to the larger forces at work in SE.RA.PH and is disposed of without ceremony when he's no longer useful.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist [[spoiler: to abandon Meltlilith]], the Protagonist cuts the comm line and heads off [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to save their friend]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he pulled this off after the 100x time dilation of Seraphix began.]]
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[[folder:Jeancle Abel Meunière]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
One of Chaldea's staff members who has stuck with them through thick and thin, even as the world is threatened multiple times.
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* AscendedExtra: Initially a faceless extra introduced as the reason why Astolfo was able to sneak into a Rayshift coffin for Agartha, he was given official artwork for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' and a minor supporting role which is a lot more than any other Chaldea staff member besides the main characters have gotten.
* StraightMan: He's been saddled with the role of having to keep Gordolf and his often silly, privileged, or cowardly ideas in check.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His last name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuni%C3%A8re_sauce the name of a French sauce]]. Gordolf rattles off a bunch of sauces when he can't remember Meunière's name because that's the one trait he has to go off on.
* WorthIt: He's totally fine with getting his pay docked for illegally smuggling Servants into the Rayshifting process because Astolfo was the one who wanted it done.
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[[folder:Gordolf Musik]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
The new director of Chaldea. He bought all of Chaldea on behalf of the Mage's Association in order to preserve it. After the attack on Chaldea, he stays alongside your team to try and preserve humanity's future.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: Comes from a relatively long lineage of alchemists.
* AnatomyArsenal: He talks about being able to turn his fist into metal, not unlike [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Gordes]].
* BadassDriver: During the first Lostbelt, Gordolf drives the Shadow Border with a surprisingly large amount of experience and skill, no doubt due to his racing hobby.
* BigEater: He claims that as director of Chaldea, he's required to consume more calories to manage his staff. [[spoiler:It backfires on him at the beginning of the third Lostbelt, as Koyanskaya poisoned the cake he was eating for a midnight snack.]]
* TheCameo: He makes an appearance as "Aloha Man" in the Summer 2018 event, taking a vacation in Hawaii before he comes to Antarctica to assume full control of Chaldea. It's lampshaded by the protagonist who thinks they just saw a glimpse of someone very important they've met or will meet in the future.
* LovableCoward: He frequently expresses the desire to drive away from danger or dive into Imaginary Number Space at the first glimpse of possible danger, but is vetoed by Holmes or da Vinci. [[spoiler:In the second Lostbelt, he gives up the Paper Moon to Sigurd and it's pointed out that not only did this get Sigurd to accomplish his goal and retreat, stopping further damage to their base, if Gordolf ''hadn't'' intervened at that point, Mash would likely have died. The Paper Moon can be reclaimed, Mash's life cannot.]]
* MythologyGag: There are a few times where he namedrops [[Characters/FateApocryphaBlackFaction Toole]] as his childhood tutor. In ''[[AllThereInTheManual Fate/Apocrypha Material]]'' (and as seen in the Apocrypha anime), Toole became the Musik son's tutor after the Great Holy Grail War was over. Even though this is a different timeline, it looks like that [[InSpiteOfANail still happened]].
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:When the ''Shadow Border'' prepares to exit Imaginary Number Space, he panics because they weren't given enough time to put on seatbelts, claiming that experience has taught him seatbelts are incredibly vital when you're in a vehicle.]]
* PetTheDog: The reason he came to Hawaii was to bring his homunculi to enjoy the tropics as one last final rest before they expired.
* PuppetKing: Seems relatively friendly but doesn't really know what's going on. [[spoiler:He's simply a patsy for the antagonists to legally take control of Chaldea without arousing suspicion. Despite this, the protagonist still treats him as the director and takes him with them as they flee the antagonists. He's appointed Captain of the ''Shadow Border'' despite it being clear that Holmes and the protagonist are going to do all the heavy lifting for fighting the Crypters.]]
* ShelteredAristocrat: It's obvious from the get-go that he hasn't really experienced society outside of the Clock Tower, and he's out of his depth when he arrives at Chaldea. [[spoiler:Even aboard the ''Shadow Border'', Holmes and da Vinci do their best to pamper him to avoid any unnecessary conflict.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He is a scion of a magus family that has only really lived longer than most and accumulated more resources than others and haven't done anything to truly impact the world of magecraft. Even so, he thinks highly of himself to the point that he can come off as insensitive, even if he doesn't mean it.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Koyanskaya's attempt to assassinate the protagonist with a poisoned cake partly fails because he ate half the cake as a midnight snack. The cake happened to have just enough poison to kill them, even with the poison immunity from Mash, but by only eating half, they at least have ten days to find a cure (though Gordolf isn't so lucky and will die on the tenth day). Though she later implies it failing was part of the plan.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks almost identical to [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Gordes Musik Yggdmillenia]], with the only real difference being looking slightly younger and having a curvy mustache as oppose to Gordes's toothbrush one. It's been implied rather strongly, but not yet stated outright, that he ''is'' the son of the ''GO'' universe's Gordes (Yggdmillenia not existing in ''GO'').
* SupremeChef: Or so he claims. He believes that his carbonara [[spoiler:would be enough to get Kadoc talking but Gordolf doesn't get the chance to test it because of Kotomine's attack.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:He was duped by his secretary into buying all of Chaldea so she and her collaborators could eliminate their enemies in one fell swoop. Gordolf is shocked by the revelation that he was never really in control and is still trying to comprehend it by the end of the prologue.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Koyanskaya orders him to be offed once the assault on the observatory begins since he was simply a means of obtaining Chaldea.]]
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[[folder:Sion Eltnam Sokaris]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi
An alternate version of Sion Eltnam Atlasia who, having foreseen the alien invasion in 2018, fled to the Wandering Sea in hopes of Chaldea's arrival.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: Sure she may drink artificial blood but she isn't a vampire or Dead Apostle.
* AllUpToYou: She had to bet on Chaldea pulling through everything because informing them would've interfered with her calculations.
* AlternateSelf: This is the Sion who hails from ''Fate'' timelines, with the most obvious difference in the last name as she never became head of Atlas. Though she does consume blood, she isn't vampiric and has a lot less angst overall.
* CassandraTruth: Through her calculations, she found the entity that would actually end the world but because Atlas is so obsessed with finding every single end of the world possible and dealing with them, they were too caught up to listen to her warnings, never mind actually doing anything about them.
* TheEngineer: She takes on this role in the Chaldea crew, providing them with new tech and enhancing what they have to help them in their fight against the Lostbelts. She also invented the Paper Moon tech which they've been using previously to enter Imaginary Numbers Space.
* GenkiGirl: Much more cheerful than her ''Melty Blood'' counterpart, mainly because Zepia didn't go insane and become a Dead Apostle Ancestor.
* SixthRanger: Even with the reshuffling of Chaldea's ranks in the ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' prologue, she joins up with them only after they finish off two Lostbelts.
* SoleSurvivingScientist: The magical equivalent of this, as she calculated the actual threat that could end the world, but with no one at Atlas willing to help, she fled to the Wandering Sea to protect herself with all other magi besides Gordolf and the protagonist inevitably dying as the Alien God wiped out humanity. The magi in the Wandering Sea are equally unwilling to help and have essentially shut themselves off from the world, though they did at least give her space to work on her projects.
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[[folder:Protagonist (Ritsuka Fujimaru)]]
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->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood (LawfulNeutral in the English version)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by:''' Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Male, Drama CD and the ''-First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime), Creator/TomokoKaneda (Both, ''Learning with Manga!'' anime) (Japanese); Creator/GriffinBurns (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)\\
'''Live actors:''' Ryo Saeki [2017]; ShÅichirÅ Oomi [2019-Current] (Male, Stage Play), Renna Okada [2017]; Mioka Sakamoto [2019-Current] (Female, Stage Play)
They are the last Master available in Chaldea after their destruction in the Prologue. Actually a total newbie in terms of magecraft, they have now become the last hope for humanity.
Once they save humanity, they stay on with Chaldea, preparing for their inevitable departure... before certain circumstances get in the way.
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* TheAce: They don't ''start'' as such, but by the time of Camelot, Babylonia and the extra events around then, they've absolutely become this in terms of being a Master of Servants. [[spoiler:Holmes points out that your method of Servant usage is absolutely remarkable, and that obtaining not just the contracts but the ''loyalty'' of so many Servants (including numerous Servants with [[AntiHero extremely questionable morality]]) is unheard of.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler:by the time Christmas 2016 rolls around, the protagonist has enough experience with Servants to arrange the entire experience of Jeanne Alter Santa Lily getting to the sea, so that she won't simply disappear in a PuffOfLogic.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The female protagonist's chibi-fied mascot version, "Gudako", has a completely different personality in certain promotional material, as well as in live events. She's depicted as an erratic and hostile KickChick and troublemaker who seeks attention, breaks the fourth wall and has suffered horrible experiences with the gacha system.
* {{Adorkable}}: They're easily swayed by the oddness of some of the more eccentric Servants such as Romulus and Blackbeard.
* AllLovingHero: Described as "remarkably lacking in biases and prejudices", they manage to at least get a working relationship with even the most evil and devious Servants, who are often surprised by just how well they treat the Servants under their employ regardless of where they come from or who they were in life, or even if they tried to murder the protagonist in previous Singularities and events. [[spoiler:They're even willing to fulfill ''Goetia's'' final wish of having someone see his final moments.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: Is given the rank of "Cause" by the Mage's Association after part one ends (it's the ''third lowest'' rank in the Association). It's not that impressive of a title, though it still implies significantly more ability than the protagonist possesses. However, the protagonist also happens to have a veritable army of superpowered humans at their beck and call, any one of whom could probably devastate the Association on their own if they pleased. El-Melloi also mentions that despite his very prestigious position in the Clock Tower his own abilities as a mage are very close to the protagonist, so titles be damned.
* AmbiguouslyBi: In the main game, similar to [[VideoGame/FateExtra Hakuno]], the female protagonist expresses attraction to female Servants as well.
* AscendedFanboy: Some dialogue options from the protagonist like with Avicebron's golems and during the third Halloween event indicate that they're into mecha and are absolutely delighted that some of the Servants have made their fantasies come to life.
** The Prysma Illya event also implies they're into the magical girl genre.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:They're actually killed by Beast III-R near the end of the SE.RA.PH chapter, but Meltlilith used her Alter Ego power to make sure they would win the next round]]. They also have a pseudo-resurrection with the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code's Guts skill.
* BareYourMidriff: The female protagonist when wearing the Tropical Summer Mystic Code.
* TheBeard: Medusa's Interlude involves them being one for her as she wishes to fulfill her sisters' pranks without actually having to enter an arranged marriage.
* BlackMage: The Chaldea Battlesuit stuns an enemy and also buffs all Servants to hit harder. It can also can switch your frontline Servant with sub-members, allowing you to be more creative with tactics.
* BookDumb: A modern mage who initially had little interest in history or mythology, their more learned allies or even some of their Servants have to take [[AudienceSurrogate time to explain the circumstances of the Singularities and the important figures therein.]]
* BuxomIsBetter: As stated in Caster of Okeanos' third bond line:
-->'''Caster of Okeanos''': You like people with plentiful assets?! Well, I'm confident in my technique! Mhm... I'll do my best!
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: The protagonist can't even fall asleep without being dragged into a dangerous adventure (which could result in them perishing if their dream self is "killed").
* TheCameo: Fujimaru's female counterpart appears in the ''First Order'' OVA as another one of the forty-eight Master candidates of Chaldea.
* CanonName: In the anime, the male protagonist's name is Ritsuka Fujimaru. The stage play adaptation uses the same name for the female protagonist.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Quickly becomes drunk while partying with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Francis Drake]] in the Okeanos singularity. An oddity as the protagonist is later mentioned to be immune to illness and poisons by means of their contract with Mash, though it could be argued that being drunk (non-lethally at that) doesn't count as an illness or poison.
* CharacterDevelopment: They begin Part 1 scared but determined, and end it as an experienced and loyal Master.
* ChickMagnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, a lot of the female ones will fall in love with the protagonist, even if the protagonist is female.
* ClarkKentOutfit: [[http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Brilliant_Summer.png As the swimsuit shows, the male protagonist is actually decently ripped.]] Apparently running around in Singularities trained his body well.
* CleavageWindow: The Chaldea Battlesuit has one for the female protagonist.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The protagonist isn't much of a mage outside of their high compatibility with Servants, and many of their spells come courtesy of their Mystic Codes, which also double as their outfits.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Some of their responses can range from using the wrong language, to having strange greetings, to generally having SkewedPriorities.
---> '''Protagonist''': True Alligators are clueless.
* {{Cosplay}}: Some Mystic Codes reference other iconic outfits from the ''Fate'' series and occasionally other parts of the Nasuverse.
** Two Mystic Codes are Atlas Academy and Mage Association uniforms.
** For the 5 Million Downloads Campaign, they get the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code, which are a homage to Saber's casual clothes for the female protagonist and Arthur's WaistcoatOfStyle from ''Fragments'' for the male protagonist. The Mystic Code itself carries two gameplay equivalents of their skills, Mana Burst and Instinct.
** As part of the promotion for Fate/Accel Zero Order, the Royal Brand Mystic Code is based on Saber's black suit ensemble from ''LightNovel/FateZero'' for the female protagonist and [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/b/bd/Royal_brand.png/revision/latest?cb=20160809075303 the fitting of the male protagonist's suit virtually renders him the spitting image of her master]], [[AntiHero Emiya Kiritsugu]]. Heck, even their expressions match the characters the clothes represent.
** As part of the promotion for ''VideoGame/FateExtella'', they get [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/9/92/Memory_of_Lunar_Mare.png/revision/latest?cb=20161103091056 Memory of Lunar Mare]], Hakuno's original school uniform from ''VideoGame/FateExtra''.
** For the pre SE.RA.PH chapter promotion, they got Hakuno's school uniform from ''CCC'', Memory from the Far Side of the Moon.
** For the ''Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower'' commemoration event, they have the Homurahara school uniform. They came with three skills, "Code: F", "Code: U", and "Code: H", representing the three routes of ''Fate/stay night'': Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel respectively.
* CostumeEvolution: As far as the main story is concerned, the protagonist's default outfit is the white standard Chaldea Mystic Code. At the beginning of the Anastasia Lostbelt, they switch to the black Chaldea Arctic Region Mystic Code and it appears it will be their new default outfit for the Lostbelts.
* CostumePorn: Besides the Mystic Codes, the protagonist is also depicted in various outfits through event Craft Essences.
* CovertPervert: They have their moments, but especially seen when they join in on Roman and Fou's antics to peep on the girls or comment on Servants' titillating appearances.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The protagonist is a magus who is specialized as a Master to command multiple Servants at once, but in terms of magecraft, they are painfully mediocre, such that they are likely to lose when engaged in a WizardDuel against most named magi within the entire Type-Moon franchise.
* DarkReprise: The ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA highlights scenes from previous Singularities from Part 1, showing that while the protagonist has tried to be as brave and helpful as he could, he has always felt an acute sense of powerlessness amidst all the bedlam, culminating in a scene from the very first level past the prologue (one of the easiest of the bunch) where he can do little but stare in helpless horror as an army of Jeanne Alter's dragons devastate a nearby castle.
* DeadpanSnarker: Some of their responses definitely can make them this. Such examples include some of their interactions with Olga Marie.
---> '''Protagonist''': Aye aye, great director Olga Marie.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey:
** Swimsuit Tamamo offers you a cocktail which basically amounts to a date rape drug. Whether the protagonist drank it or not and then if they did the deed is left up to the player's imagination.
** During Valentine's Day, Fergus invites the protagonist to have a one-night stand with him.
** Edmond Dantes' Valentine's scene is very suggestive, though there's nothing outright explicit about it.
* DiscardAndDraw: Servants summoned by them tend to be weaker than they would have been if summoned by the more powerful mages most commonly seen in Holy Grail Wars, but in exchange might have access to alternate abilities or equipment that would have typically been withheld from them in a conventional manifestation. For example, unlike the one Illya summoned in the original show, the Protagonist's Heracles at his most powerful can only resurrect himself about four times, but possesses Valor and Nine Lives, making him a more skilled combatant.
* DraggedIntoDrag: At a dance party in Shinjuku, the protagonist is forced to crossdress: the male one into a dress and the female one into a suit (hence the chapter PV where she's wearing a suit). [[spoiler:The reason this is done is because Yan Qing, who's disguised himself as a yakuza member, will have a different reaction compared to his peers.]]
* TheDreaded: By the time of Camelot, their exploits and achievements are well known by almost all the Servants, to the point that when Goddess Rhongomyniad learns that they will be arriving in Camelot soon, she ''immediately'' orders her Knights to intercept them, recognizing they're the only one capable of stopping her plans.
* DudeMagnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, several male Servants will fall in love with you, although the number pales in comparison to the females.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: If your protagonist is female, some female Servants (such as Medusa, Serenity, and Kiyohime) will acknowledge this, but are still interested in having a relationship.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Two of the game's confirmed bisexual men are Astolfo and Fergus, both of whom show some interest in the protagonist, though Fergus makes it clear he doesn't intend to pursue a relationship. Although he still invites the male protagonist for a one-night stand in Valentine 2017.
* ExposedToTheElements: They receive a new Mystic Code to deal with the extreme cold of the Russia Lostbelt. However these clothes don't seem to actually suit a ''-100°C'' environment, especially the female one with a DangerouslyShortSkirt with her thighs and knees exposed to the cold. Everyone else including Mash is either wearing heavy clothing, staying in the ''Shadow Border'', or magically resistant to harsh weather. Probably justified as this Mystic Code is their "default" outfit for the rest of the Lostbelts.
* {{Expy}}: The two design-wise are [[WordOfGod confirmed by Takashi Takeuchi]] as [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] versions of Rin and Shirou. This led to fanart depicting them as Rin & Shirou's children, though this is biologically impossible in-universe[[note]]For context, ''[=F/SN=]'' takes place in 2004 while ''[[=F/GO=]'' starts in 2015-2017 depending on which version is being played. Even if Rin was impregnated by Shirou during the time of the original visual novel, the protagonist could only be at most 13 at the start of ''[=F/GO=]''[[/note]].
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Being subjected to experiencing all the Singularities and the kinds of shenanigans their Servants get up to has led to the protagonist reacting with very little shock to suddenly being plunged into a wacky new situation. It gets to the point where even Sieg as a giant dragon suddenly kidnapping them in a dream leads to them calmly guessing that something has gone wrong and this dragon needs their help hence the sudden appearance in a dream.
* FriendZone: While many female Servants will waifu for them and males will consider them to have an extremely close bond, a few Servants will either Friend or Master Zone them depending. Tomoe Gozen, for example, will consider them to be a good Master and almost like her own child, Jack considers them to be her mother regardless of player gender, and most female Servants who already had a love interest will have similar reactions, such as Medea considering the protagonist to be a little brother or sister. For male Servants, Gilgamesh will accept close followers, but has only one friend, while Ozymandias is in theory less picky, but in practice refuses to acknowledge that anyone could match up to Moses. Though these two actually do get along fairly well with each other, oddly enough.
* GameFavoredGender: Other characters generally react to the player character as if they were male. You can count the number of times the game acknowledges a female player on one hand, Valentines and White Day notwithstanding. Most ''FGO'' adaptations, like the Drama CD, the ''First Order'', ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' and Babylonia anime, and the ''mortalis:stella'', ''turas:realta'', Shinjuku, Agartha and SE.RA.PH manga, use the male protagonist, while the Shimosa, Salem and ''Duel'' manga use the female protagonist, and the stage plays and trailers use both male and female. The female protagonist is also the main one used in the ''Learning with Manga!'' spin-off, making her the secondary de facto mascot since it's in the public eye more than the other manga adaptations.
* GlassCannon: The Royal Brand Mystic Code (from "Fate/Accel Zero Order") is virtually a god-send for almost all Assassins, Riders and any Servants with a Quick-based deck, allowing them to hit hard with Quick cards and ensure their attacks will connect. Considering the suit is virtually a homage to Emiya Kiritsugu[[note]]who once said he may be better off with an Assassin Servant due to his fighting tactics[[/note]], it's very appropriate.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: [[spoiler:The protagonist, equipped with Mash's shield and powering themselves up by burning a command spell, starts a fistfight with Human King Goetia and wins.]]
* HairDecorations: The female protagonist has a yellow hair scrunchie that holds up her side ponytail.
* HealingHands: Can heal their servants, either through a form of magecraft or through Command Spells.
* HeroicBSOD: Went into this when the protagonist learned about the consequences of eliminating the first Lostbelt near the end, but was able to snap out of it thanks to [[spoiler:Patxi, who sacrificed himself to save them from being shot down by the rebels, and under his dying breath, gave the protagonist the motivation to continue on their mission regardless what will happen]].
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Though he is far more normal than the situations around him, ''Lostroom'' Fujimaru belittles himself as a mediocrity. While normal, he's far from mediocre (at least physically) as he uses fingertip pushups, which are more advanced than normal pushups, to train his body and even manages to kick a well-trained Roman soldier away during a battle. Both of which are not something to scoff at. He's just very poor in term of magic potential.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:The Mages Association declares them a heretic in Chapter 2's prologue due to them breaking countless laws during Chapter 1 and ''Epic of Remnant''. Anastasia's attack quickly makes the declaration moot, however.]]
* HiddenDepths: Two notable ones.
** At one point, the protagonist can say that their adventure sometimes doesn't feel real to them, implying that they've coped with being unexpectedly thrown into the Grand Order by dissociating from it.
** Medb's observation of them during "Prisma Codes" leads her to conclude that for all their efforts, they would rather be forgotten by history.
* HotBlooded: Some of their dialogue options can make them come across as this, particularly during events like the Scathach Trial Quest, where they're taken in by the Celtic-ness of Scathach and Fergus, responding to many of their questions with a resounding "YEAH!" Mash lampshades this.
-->'''Mash:''' Senpai, you're ''really'' trying to be a Celt, aren't you?
** Likewise, a small running gag is many times when Rome is mentioned, a dialogue choice often offers the option to shout ROMA! Crosses over with AscendedMeme.
** While Ritsuka Fujimaru plays the more straightforward hero in ''First Order'', when it comes to animated gag scenarios like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxEjKDlua8 Himuro no Tenchi crossover]], he shows enthusiasm and hot blood to the point of SuddenlyShouting when it comes to rolling for Servants.
-->'''Fujimaru''': Well, obviously... '''SAINT QUARTZ GACHA!!'''
-->'''Fujimaru''': If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! '''IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!'''
* HumongousMecha: Gets a brief stint piloting [[spoiler:Avicebron's Golem Keter Malkuth, powered by Avicebron sacrificing himself to act as his core, in order to match Ivan's mammoth.]]
* IdiotHair: The female protagonist has one.
* IneptMage:
** Even after being a Master for over two years, they still aren't that skillful as a magus outside of their Mystic Codes, which comes into play in Anastasia such as how they can't reinforce their eyes to [[spoiler:spot Ivan's crown, which is his weak point]]. The most they can do is cast Gandr, though it is only brought up during Helena's Valentine scene.
** Amusingly, this is why Jack is fine with them being her Master according to "Inheritance of Glory". Normally all magi have the worst compatibility with Jack due to her being exorcized by one, but since they suck at being mages she doesn't really hate them.
* InSeriesNickname: While most Servants refer to him/her as "Master" or whatever name the player set, certain Servants refer to him/her by other variants of "master" like "Lord Magus" (Cursed Arm Hassan), "Contractor" (King Hassan), "''Aruji-dono''"[[note]]Roughly "my lord"[[/note]] (Ushiwakamaru), "''Danna-han''"[[note]]double meaning of both "master" and "husband"[[/note]] (Shuten Douji), and "''Oyakata-sama''"[[note]]An even more formal version of "My lord" akin to saying "Your lordship"[[/note]] (Assassin Paradiso), or actual nicknames like "Senpai", "Mommy" (Jack), "Puppy" if male and "Deerlet" if female (Elizabeth), "Boss" (Kintoki), "Reindeer-san" (Jeanne Alter Santa Lily), and even "Maa-chan" (Osakabe-hime).
* IronButtMonkey: Being the Master of a Shielder makes them significantly hardier to physical and mystical injury than most mages. However, this encourages the mindset among their other Servants that they can drag them into all sorts of dangerous situations while paying little heed to their safety, so long as they remember to shanghai Mash as well so they can cut loose without fear.
* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate:
** The ''First Order'' booklet that came with the ''First Order'' Blu-Ray details how they became a Master candidate for Chaldea. An employee of Chaldea was searching for candidates in Japan, via a blood donation event. Fujimaru decided to donate their blood and turns out, they have ''100% affinity'' for being a Master. The employee then pressured them to accept the job, even chasing them to their home.
** [[spoiler:This gains ''vastly'' more sinister undertones during the SE.RA.PH chapter, as it is revealed that Chaldea had been recruiting Master candidates for some time prior to the Fuyuki Point F crisis... but these Master candidates met with a far, ''far'' darker [[PeopleJars fate]] than the ones who went to the Chaldea complex proper. Sheer timing is mostly what prevented the protagonist from becoming part of the Seraphix experiments.]]
* JackOfAllStats: With an attack buff, healing, and a one-turn all-dodge available, the initial Chaldea Mystic Code stands here in contrast to the rest. It almost trends into MasterOfAll territory, since while it's not quite ''comprehensively'' better than other choices, the attack buff and heal are both the strongest of their kind available to any Mystic Code or Servant (the attack buff, in particular, is the strongest single-target attack steroid ''in the game''), and you can't ever really go wrong with the initial outfit.
** The Brilliant Summer Mystic Code (i.e. the swimwear) also falls under here (even if mostly for Quick/stargen servants), with it providing a party-wide Quick cards buff, heal and invulnerability break/pierce.
** The debut of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' gives us the Chaldea Arctic Uniform, which while nearly-identical to the original Chaldea MC, actually has the usual dodge, a combo attack-NP power up, and a combo healing/DEF debuff cleanser. It's not by much, but it's still technically superior.
* KidHero: On multiple occasions, it's scrupulously noted that they're too young to drink.
* LastNameBasis: In the anime, the protagonist is generally referred to by his last name, Fujimaru.
* LastOfHisKind: The last mage of human history since the other contemporary magi are now dead after the earth's incineration, in critical condition and are currently frozen or killed during the plot. Even in ''Epic of Remnant'', they're the only Master Chaldea has on hand for the several crises that pop up. Averted in ''Lostbelt'' as they now must confront seven other Masters to save humanity's future.
* LightningBruiser:
** Not the suit itself, but the Anniversary Blonde (Altria/Arthur's casual clothes) Mystic Code buffs up Buster command cards and provides Battle Continuation. While you are expected to use it on most Sabers (who normally have Buster Noble Phantasms and well-rounded stats), using these skills on your {{Glass Cannon}}s (such as almost all [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBerserkers Berserkers]], or [[Characters/FateGrandOrderExtra Jeanne Alter]]) can turn them into even more terrifying attack units.
** The Fragment of 2004 Mystic Code (Homurahara school uniform) has the same effect, upping star attraction for a unit's Buster cards to increase chances of critical attacks for a Servant with low star attraction like Berserkers or Avengers, enhancing their NP gain to make it easier for them to build their NP gauge, and an NP attack buff to make them more powerful.
* MagicKnight: Likely the expected play style of the ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'', ''VideoGame/FateExtella'' and [[BeachEpisode Tropical Summer]] suits: with buffing Arts cards and preventing enemy buffs/debuffs (all), increasing star generation (''EXTRA''), sucking out the enemy's NP gauges (''Extella''), or charging the NP of your Servants (Tropical), you are expected to sabotage your enemies' spells and be able to hit harder (either with normal attacks or Noble Phantasms). All of them are nigh-essential support when using offensive Casters and other Arts-based Servants (such as Vlad III, both versions of Nero, Robin Hood and the like - and conveniently, guess where those latter two are from?).
* MagneticHero: While they are subpar as far as their potential as a magus goes, they are noted to be amazing as a Master, capable of getting along with even the craziest of Servants. At this point they are a unique existence simply by their having fought alongside more of humanity's greatest individuals than anyone can claim.
* MoralityChain: ObviouslyEvil Servants like Gorgon or Kiara flat-out tell the protagonist that they are the only thing preventing them from destroying the world ''now''. They also show how susceptible Jack is to outside influences. Under Reika, she was a murderous cannibal, but with the protagonist she's just a slightly unhinged but otherwise friendly little girl.
* MoralityPet: They help bring out some Evil Servants' better sides. Carmilla, for example, is genuinely loyal and wishes she had known someone like them when she was Liz's age so she could have ended up better than she did (and, likewise, Liz is better-adjusted in ''GO'' in part due to the protagonist's influence), while Archer of Shinjuku considers them to be the first person he's ever really cared about. Lancer Altria also sees them as such and it's pointed out in her Interlude that the fact she cares so much about them is what makes her fundamentally different from [[TranshumanTreachery the Lion King]].
* MysteriousPast: The protagonist's past before arriving in Chaldea is completely unknown outside of having a normal school life. According to [[WordOfGod Kinoko Nasu]], since ''Fate/Grand Order'' was designed as a mobile game, they are avatars for the players themselves, so he didn't really write any backstory beyond "they are someone who saw the recruitment flyer at a station, applied and got accepted into the job, and somehow ended up getting taken into Chaldea."
* NiceGuy: Both protagonists go out of their way to make their Servants' lives as comfortable as possible, providing them with all sorts of refreshments in their downtime and taking the time to get to know each and every one of them.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:As Galahad furiously points out, the ''only'' reason the Crypters have become a threat was because the protagonist defeated Goetia, who was actually revealed to be trying to ''stop'' them the entire time.]]
* NonActionGuy: The protagonist obviously can't directly take part in battles, only direct their Servants and offer support spells whenever possible.
* NoSell: As Master of Shielder, they are protected from all illnesses and impurities. This allows them to survive the demonic fog during the London Singularity, the AccidentalKiss with [[PoisonousPerson Hassan of Serenity]], and shields them from the effect of Shuten-douji's intoxicating mist during the Rashoumon event. However, Mash herself is still vulnerable to these effects since her skills only protect her allies.
* ObliviousToLove: Some Servants clearly flirt with or proposition the protagonist in My Room lines, but it frequently flies over their head, much to their chagrin.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: They're normal high school students who didn't even know about magic prior to joining Chaldea.
* PowerTattoo: Their Command Spells, which in this game are used to provide potent healing abilities and offensive boons (one of them can be used to either heal a Servant to full health or increase their NP gauge by 100%, while all three can be used to revive the entire party after a TotalPartyKill with 100% NP gauges each). Unlike in other media, they can restore their own Command Seals one at a time. However, they need 24 hours to regenerate each one, meaning they still need to be used conservatively.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: The female protagonist when wearing the default costume or Mage Association Mystic Code.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Several interludes involve the protagonist getting involved while they are asleep. For the most part they simply help the servant in question, but Hokusai's trial quest reveals [[spoiler:they have a natural weakness to mental interference, which the Outer God that transformed Hokusai into a Foreigner sought to use to infect the protagonist with its madness to infiltrate Chaldea.]]
* PunchAWall: In the opening of Camelot the game uses sound effects to make clear this is what the protagonist does when they learn about [[spoiler:the circumstances of Mash's confinement to Chaldea and her now dwindling lifespan.]]
* PunnyName: "Fujimaru" is effectively a way of writing "FGO" (Fuji to FG needs no comment, while "maru" means circle).
* PurelyAestheticGender: While the game generally expects a male protagonist (see GameFavoredGender), there are only minor, gender-specific story changes and no mechanical effects. You can even switch your gender sprites whenever you want to, which is nice for experiencing the other gender's occasional flavor text. That said, this is averted in ''First Order'', where the female character sprite [[StaticRoleExchangeableCharacter exists as one of the original 30 Masters]] injured in the initial assault at Chaldea.
* QuantityVsQuality: A very rare heroic example of Quantity against the Quality of their opponents. While their foes in any given level might start with the same or even greater amounts of Servants as them, their inability to work together allows the Protagonist to overcome them one-by-one with his slapdash, but ultimately cohesive, team.
* RankUp: For their efforts in the Grand Order, the Mages' Association promotes them to the rank of "Cause". It's only a lower middle level title, but one that the protagonist absolutely doesn't merit under normal circumstances.
* {{Retirony}}: With human history seemingly at peace, they were preparing to return to Japan to reunite with their family after ''Epic of Remnant'', but the Crypters had other ideas.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Despite the protagonist being an ordinary person, Mash finds them appealing ''because'' of said ordinariness, as her conditions means that she cannot live the ordinary life that they've had up to the point where they joined Chaldea.
** [[spoiler:During Fujimaru's discussion with Olga in the ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA, he explicitly makes the point that he is mediocre at best in magic and several other fields but he has to make do with what he can improvise, because he is humanity's last hope for saving the world. This surprises her as she thought he would give in to the hopelessness of the situation.]]
** [[spoiler:This actually ends up being the main reason Bael seeks revenge for Goetia's defeat in ''Epic of Remnant'', as he cannot accept that someone as painfully average as the Protagonist managed to defeat the King of Demons, and not one of their Servants.]]
* RomanticWingman: For Fergus' interlude, he's trying to get laid with the female Servants with the protagonist's help. Unfortunately for him, the first two he runs across are Brynhild and Kiyohime. Brynhild finds him attractive so she tries to kill him, while Kiyohime tries to kill him for lack of fidelity. Lastly, he tries to convince Nightingale he's suffering from love sickness and needs some sexual healing and she agrees to help, though she does her best to kill him first. Unfortunately, she feels that the true victor of the battle is the protagonist, since they're Fergus' Master, so she offers to sleep with them instead.
* SecretKeeper: The protagonist is asked by Arash to keep meeting Arthur a secret from the other ''Prototype'' servants besides himself, Jekyll, and (Proto) Cu Chulainn. Said servants being Brynhild, Ozymandias, Paracelsus, and Serenity, due to their rather bad history with him as shown in ''Prototype Fragments''.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Because they fell asleep during the Master debriefing, the protagonist was taken off the mission to Fuyuki and ran into Dr. Roman, engaging in a conversation with him while he was slacking off in their room. This allows the two of them to dodge the explosion in the control room, not only allowing them to rescue Mash and become the sole Master left to save the future, but also allowing Dr. Roman to take command of Chaldea. [[spoiler: Professor Lev notes this when you confront him in the Final Order, commenting that he wanted Dr. Roman in particular to die in the explosion.]]
* TheStrategist: Their role in combat is to advise their Servants on how to fight and draft battle plans in each Singularity with advice from Roman and Mash. They're actually really good at it, with almost any Servant under their care growing to place absolute faith in their commands.
* SupportPartyMember: Sort of. While not exactly within their party of Servants, the protagonist stands on the sideline and supports their Servants from there. They give them the commands, can use magic to heal them, buff them, debuff the enemy or switch out Servants, etc.
* SupportingProtagonist: While the protagonist is an essential character, the narrative of Season 1 is more about Mash's story and then [[spoiler:Roman's]].
* SweetTooth: The Valentine's event shows they have quite a liking for chocolate.
* TooManyBelts: While both protagonists wear normal belts, they have a couple extra. The female protagonist has two belts across her chest (above and below her breasts, assumedly [[MaleGaze for emphasis]]), while the male protagonist has one across the top of his chest just below his collarbone. ''First Order'' shows that this is actually standard Master attire for Chaldea.
* TricksterArchetype: The Mage Association Mystic Code virtually allows you to fill up your Servants' NP gauge quicker as well as reshuffle your Servants' Attack cards, allowing you to mess around with the rules and save yourself in a pinch.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: The Brilliant Summer Mystic Code can be worn by the player 24/7, even in environments where it'd be impractical.
* WeakButSkilled: Not them, but rather their Servants become this when compared to other versions of themselves summoned by other Masters. While they don't normally have the same level of strength, though their parameters rarely seem to suffer, in their Noble Phantasms they have access to skills and abilities they would normally never be able to access; this, combined with the [[QuantityVsQuality quantity of Servants that they have]] makes them a formidable opponent due to their [[TheStrategist ability]] to use their Servants so well.
* WhiteMage: The Atlas Academy Uniform allows you to buff up your servants and cure their status ailments, allowing them to fight at full power. This becomes plot-relevant in Shimosa as [[spoiler:its ability to remove debuffs is what the protagonist uses to remove Caster Limbo's curse on Musashi.]]
* WhoWearsShortShorts: The female protagonist when wearing the Tropical Summer Mystic Code.
* WorthyOpponent: The protagonist is acknowledged as such by several of their enemies, coming more frequently as the story progresses and their victories become more numerous.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Heroic Spirits all tend to have a dim view on "regular people," seeing them as prey, cannon fodder, non-entities, or hapless peons who need to be ruled over. Most of them eventually take a shine to the protagonist and are surprised to find such heroism in a common person.
* YouAreInCommandNow: The protagonist was initially taken off the mission for being inferior to all the other potential Masters (and sleeping during the initial mission briefing), but all the other Masters ended up in critical condition, leaving them as the only Master available.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Many Servants become attached to them because they're similar (or at least according to the Servant's belief) to the Servants' beloved. This is especially prevalent for the Evil alignment Servants, who barely restrain from their more evil urges or going into rampages because of this trope is at work. It's not exactly beneficial with Brynhild, though, since she ''kills'' anyone that reminds her of Sigurd.
* YouWillBeSpared: Gorgon, likely the most destructive and evil of the Servants you can acquire, still plans to kill everyone in the world even after you've maxed out her bond. However, once you do so, she graciously offers the protagonist a painless death after she's finished with everyone else.
* ZettaiRyouiki: The female protagonist while wearing the Atlas Academy Uniform and Arctic Region Chaldea Uniform.
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[[folder:Mash Kyrielight (Shielder)]]
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->'''Rarity:''' R (3*) / SR (4*) after Camelot chapter\\
'''ID:''' No. 1\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood\\
'''Attribute''': Earth\\
'''Origin:''' Original (Mash)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order'' [[note]]First conceptualized in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' material book[[/note]]\\
'''Background development''': Kinoko Nasu\\
'''Illustrated by:''' Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda (original) and Creator/RieTakahashi (September 2016 onwards) (Japanese), Creator/EricaMendez (''-First Order-'' anime and ''VR'') (English)\\
'''Live actor''': Akari Nanao
Mash is a former member of Chaldea's Team A and the only known successful example of a Demi-Servant, a human fused with a Heroic Spirit. Her abilities lay dormant before the story begins. When she and the protagonist are sent to Fuyuki after the explosion at Chaldea, her abilities awaken, making her the first example of a Shielder class Servant seen in the series. She has a tendency to refer to people she considers more experienced than her as 'senpai' and only very rarely refers to the protagonist as anything else.
The character of Shielder was reused from an initial concept idea from ''Fate/stay night'' as the "Stray Servant" and heroine candidate.
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* AnimationBump:
** Her attack animations ended up being buffed when Camelot rolled around, going from her having the same mostly generic attack animations, to having more unique animations that account for her shield. Her Noble Phantasm is also buffed in animation after she learns the true identity of the Heroic Spirit she fused with.
** As of release of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', her sprites' proportions and animations are revamped, she blocks with her shield when taking damage similar to King Hassan, and her death animation is changed to simply retreating instead of [[DisappearsIntoLight fading away]] like most Servants do.
* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler: While she agrees with Goetia that life can indeed be cruel and that death is frightening, she refuses to accept his vision for the world because, while the Singularity fade when finished, she still keeps her experiences of them, meaning that her journey had value. Hardships make people strong, and Goetia's world is empty of hardships.]]
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Kyrielight appears to be a completely made-up name, composed of ''kyrie'', the Greek word for lord, with the English word ''light'' shoved onto the end. Mash, on the other hand, is a real name in Hebrew.
* AttackReflector: In the ''First Order'' adaptation, her first use of Lord Chaldeas not only blocks Saber Alter's [[SwordBeam Excalibur Morgan]], but sends it right back into her face.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She dies in a HeroicSacrifice, tanking Ars Almadel Salomonis, but Fou uses all of his accumulated energy to resurrect her and give her a normal lifespan.]]
* BadassAdorable: Mash is endearingly faithful to the protagonist, and is not only your earliest unit, but also a very useful defense-based Servant, notably being one of the best [=SRs=] in the game after being upgraded near the end of Camelot [[spoiler:when she learns the name of the Servant she fused with, Galahad, and how to properly use his Noble Phantasm.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:When Ivan the Terrible fires a lightning bolt aimed towards the protagonist and Antonio Salieri and no one could save them, Mash comes in her Orthenaus suit and blocks the lightning bolt with her shield, saving the two.]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: She is usually the straight man to Dr. Roman's antics, chastising him for his more perverted and lazy antics. She is also this with the protagonist at times, as shown near the beginning of Okeanos after the protagonist has one too many drinks.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Notable during the "Fate/Accel Zero Order" event as one of the few times it becomes silly when she reprimands you for referring to Saber as Mysterious Heroine X, stating that this was a "serious event" and they don't have time for jokes. She also breaks the fourth wall to tell the player they shouldn't be staying up to wait for the daily resets if they admit to feeling tired.
* BreastPlate: Played straight. Kintoki is rather flustered by Mash as a result of it.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After the battle with Goetia,]] for some reason, Mash's Heroic Spirit refuses to help her anymore, so she is in mission control duty during [=EoR=]. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Although you can still use her for battles that ostensibly take place in this arc.]] In the ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' prologue, the protagonist uses a Command Spell to restore her Demi-Servant abilities. It's not enough however as, [[spoiler:keeping with his personal opinion in ''Moonlight/Lost Room'', Galahad refuses to cooperate and is only helping because the Command Spell is forcing him to, meaning Mash and the others have to compensate for it. In a sense, Mash is back to square one. With the beginning of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', her Noble Phantasm now is heavily glitched and distorted when Mash uses it, its name changing to Mold Camelot Now, a Fragile Fortress of Distant Utopia, to reflect this.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Following her BigDamnHeroes moment in the Anastasia Lostbelt is a flashback to when she took Goetia's Ars Armadel Salomonis at the cost of her life.]]
* CanNotTellALie: The protagonist notes that Mash is like this during the Christmas 2016 event, which was why [[spoiler: she wasn't told about the plan to save Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, unlike everyone else.]]
* CantCatchUp: Suffers this a bit in the Babylonia singularity, though not because she is a bad unit. The issue is that the enemies become very high level, and very strong. As a result, she can, even if at max level for that point with good Craft Essences, be killed easily by some of the bosses with ease if not setup right. Thankfully, her level cap is increased to level 80 after the Singularity, allowing her to be as strong as Four star Servants in stats, with the extra benefit of her free cost.
* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the story, she becomes more confident in herself and as a Demi-Servant. To reflect this, the Chapter 5 update gave her several new animations and voice lines.
* CleavageWindow: What her leotard show underneath her breastplate.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Whenever other female Servants try to make advances on the protagonist, she is always the first to raise objections.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: It's mentioned in ''mortalis:stella'' that her sixteenth birthday is the day of the Fuyuki expedition. On that day, the world proceeds to end and Mash is flung into a plethora of dangerous missions on the slim hope of saving history from being erased.
* DemotedToExtra: In a one-shot gag scenario in a magazine due to the female protagonist becoming Shielder in her place (her true intention was to get more screentime as she was upset that the male protagonist was chosen as the main character). Also, she's almost nearly absent in ''Epic of Remnant'', as she can't use her Demi-Servant abilities. She later becomes active again after she gets the Orthenaus suit in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt''.
* DesignerBabies: Mash is one specifically created in order to be a living catalyst to summon a Heroic Spirit as a Demi-Servant. [[spoiler:The fusion succeeded, but the Heroic Spirit remained dormant until now because it didn't want to cooperate with Chaldea under its previous director. Moreover, she only has a lifespan of 18 years. Dr. Roman even name-drops this trope when explaining Mash's true nature to the protagonist.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Her shield literally runs on determination - the stronger her heart is, the stronger her shield is. Near the beginning, she can already tank ''Excalibur Morgan'', and she only gets more confident [[TookALevelInBadass and badass]] from there, [[spoiler:to the point where even though her body is destroyed, her shield still manages to protect the protagonist from ''Ars Almadel Salamonis'', a Noble Phantasm ''capable of destroying the world'', and still remain intact even as her physical condition deteriorated to the point that she considered it likely that she would not return from the mission.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In France during the Hundred Years War, she greets a group of French soldiers in English. Predictably, they assume she is the enemy and attack.
* DiscardAndDraw: Around the end of Anastasia, she gets a new outfit that changes up her skills when wearing it. Her first skill is completely changed from party-wide Defense buff to Buster and Buster Crit buff to herself, her second skill is completely changed from targetable invincibility and NP Charge to taunt and NP Charge to herself, her third skill replaces the NP gain buff with invincibility while doing self-damage and her Noble Phantasm loses the attack buff it got while changing the three-turn damage cut to three times, five-turn damage cut.
* DudeMagnet: She gets hit on by multiple guys throughout her adventures, such as Fionn, Caesar, Roland, or in Shakespeare’s interlude.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Already on her last legs due to her failing body, Mash gives her life to block Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis, a Noble Phantasm ''explicitly stated to be able to destroy the planet'' through sheer force, and succeeds. Though her body evaporates from the sheer power of the attack, her shield remains standing, completely unscathed.]]
* EmergencyTransformation: Not as life-threatening/urgent as most examples, but come ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', Mash now needs to augment her Demi-Servant form with cybernetics[=/=]{{Magitek}} appendages whenever she needs to deploy [[spoiler:due to Galahad only giving her minimal access to his skills]]. It was one of Marisbury's plans to help stabilize any potential hiccups in a Demi-Servant after fusing with a Heroic Spirit.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Da Vinci, who claims that Mash would fit this trope. To Mash's credit, she does catch the eyes of many men and, to an extent, Nero.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: In Camelot, the characters themselves complain about the fact that Sherlock revealed Mash's Heroic Spirit identity when they already figured it out.
* ExposedToTheElements: In ''First Order'', Fujimaru asks her if she is cold in her skimpy outfit. She remarks that she doesn't feel the cold at all, and guesses that it's a trait all Servants share. [[spoiler:Galahad's refusal to cooperate with her in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' seems to have removed this trait from Mash as she needs a parka for the first Lostbelt.]]
* {{Fangirl}}:
** She's an avid reader of Literature/SherlockHolmes, and when they meet the real deal in Camelot, she's barely able to contain her excitement to be able to talk with him.
** "Garden of Order" reveals that she's one towards [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Leonidas]] as well. As a fellow shield-wielding Servant, she looks up to him. When the heroes find him in the Ogawa Apartment complex, she flat-out refuses to believe that the building could have drawn out any dark side within him and proceeds to rant about how someone as brave and awesome as Leonidas couldn't possibly have a dark side to bring out.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With the Onigashima event's release, her level cap was also increased by 10, and she became a level 70 3-star Servant who hadn't reached her final stage. [[spoiler:Come Camelot, she is upgraded into a 4-star with her third ascension.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe: Her Servant armor is so snug it flaunts her body proportions nicely. {{Lampshaded}} by basically any man that looks at her closely enough.
--> '''Saber Lancelot:''' Um, what's [[spoiler:my daughter]] wearing? It's a little...
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Even after [[spoiler:she loses her powers at the end of Part 1, you can still field her like normal during ''Epic of Remnant''.]]
* GlacierWaif: Despite her small size, she has incredible defensive abilities.
* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Galahad originally served as this to Mash, protecting her ever since he was summoned into her ten years ago without revealing himself so Chaldea couldn't abuse her.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
** The Heroic Spirit fused to her sacrificed its identity in order to save Mash during the central room bombing, making her into Shielder in the process and obtaining several of its traits and memories.
** [[spoiler:Mash herself does this, deploying Lord Camelot one last time to block Ars Almadel Salomonis, saving the protagonist at the cost of her life. Fou brings her BackFromTheDead in time to save the protagonist from the destroyed Temple of Solomon.]]
* HiddenBuxom: You can't see them because of her conservative clothes, but she's quite stacked, with her chest considered by other Servants like Scáthach to be like '[[FanNickname/FateGrandOrder soft marshmallows]]'. They're emphasized greatly in her armor.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Wields a massive shield several times her size in battle as Shielder.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Zigzagged depending on the artist, but at times she gets this when down to her leotard. Leans towards HartmanHips, as while she is fairly busty, her petite size emphasises her (sometimes)wide hips and plush thighs to this extent. Taken UpToEleven in the Turas Realta manga, but the same is done for every female there.
* InSeriesNickname: Caster Tamamo calls Mash "Shieldy" in the former's Interludes.
* InstantArmor: She can switch between armor and civilian clothes at will.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Players who start playing the game after the Camelot update will quickly find out from their support list what her true Noble Phantasm is and that she gets an upgrade into a 4* Servant.
* IntoxicationEnsues: In Rashoumon, she absorbs the poison in the fog surrounding Kyoto and promptly becomes drunk from its properties within. As a Shielder, though, she blocks the effects from reaching the protagonist.
* JackOfAllStats: As a Shielder (meaning she is outside of the Servant class triangle system), Mash does no bonus damage to and takes none from any Servant class. Her abilities are all-round useful, mostly to keep the party alive.
* JigglePhysics: Has this in ''Fate/Grand Order VR'' due to mostly wearing only her leotard for her sessions, allowing her breasts to bounce with the slightest movements.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Her Obscurant Wall of Chalk skill works like this, shifting the target out of the time axis in order to avoid any attack for 1 turn. If the skill had a better rank, attacks from a higher order dimension wouldn't do anything either.[[spoiler:The resemblance to Avalon's function is most likely not a coincidence.]]
* KirkSummation: [[spoiler:Goetia shows Mash a dream of a utopian place where everyone seems happy and nobody dies. Mash rejects it, explaining that without sorrow or death, Solomon's proposed world is ultimately empty.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Servant she fused with is [[spoiler:none other than [[Myth/KingArthur Galahad]].]]
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Mash's body begins to reach its limit at the beginning of Grand Time Temple of Solomon, and Da Vinci predicts that she only has enough life left in her for one last mission. She's fully aware of this and proceeds with the mission anyway.]]
* LeotardOfPower: Beneath her armor, she wears this.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her Noble Phantasm, Lord Chaldeas: Virtual Noble Phantasm Pseudo-Deployment/Foundation of Anthropic Principle'. Because she doesn't understand the actual function of the shield nor its true name, she cannot benefit from the full effects of its use for most of the story. [[spoiler:Lord Camelot, the proper Noble Phantasm of Galahad, has strength proportional to the willpower of the user. 'So long as the heart does not break, those castle walls too shall never crumble.' Use of Lord Camelot allows her at various points to block Excalibur, Rhongomyniad and even [[EarthShatteringKaboom Ars Almadel Salomonis.]] Though Mash herself was killed with the last attack, the protagonist standing behind her was safe... along with the shield itself, which was left standing and completely intact. [[{{Determinator}} Her body gave out long before her will did.]]]]
* MagikarpPower
** Because her ascensions and skills are tied to story progression, she wasn't considered good for much beyond holding a CE early on. However, chapters like London improved her skills, her level cap raised, she eventually received a rarity upgrade and her NP was improved, making her perhaps the best SR Servant in the game, though with limited functionality in an offensive metagame.
** In part 2 as far as the story[[note]]Her first form is still available except in story missions[[/note]] goes she's been sent back to square one and needs to build up her own skill set. Da Vinci implies that her abilities are sure to improve as she gains more confidence in herself and what she personally can do. Notably, her alternate form for part 2 has left many players quite unimpressed, but if improved upon as the story implies that would help compensate.
* MeaningfulName: Her purported surname, ''Kyrielight'', contains the Greek/Latin word ''kyrie'', literally meaning "lord", and is also a shorthand for a Christian prayer[[note]]i.e. ''Kyrie eleison'', "Lord, have mercy"[[/note]]. It could therefore be interpreted as [[LightIsGood "Light of the Lord" or "Lord of Light"]] -- which, considering her separate identity as [[spoiler:a legendary knight who found the Holy Grail (and thus the protection of God)]], makes perfect sense.
* {{Meganekko}}: When not in battle, she's pretty cute and has a slightly nerdy look to her overall.
* MissionControl: She takes on this role in ''Epic of Remnant'' as the loss of her Servant abilities makes it too dangerous for her to go on field missions with the protagonist.
* MoralityChain:
** [[spoiler:To Ophelia, as she desperately wants to rekindle her friendship with Mash. Ophelia even deliberately debuffs Sigurd whenever he attacks Mash in one fight.]]
** [[spoiler: Also to Fou, as her interactions with him give him an understanding of humanity, which prevents him from becoming Beast IV.]]
* MythologyGag: Shielder is called the "Stray Servant" because her original design was called that. She was a heroine candidate during the initial development of ''Fate/stay night'' who was left unused in the final version. She was considered along with Rider and Caster to be a possible heroine, but she was cut due to the plot beginning to stray so as to keep it manageable for the player. As Saber is a "Servant of the Sword", she was to be her rival as a Shielder, "Servant of the Shield". She would have been an "abandoned puppy" type heroine who killed her Master during the Fourth Holy Grail War and went on a rampage, surviving into the Fifth Holy Grail War in a similar manner to Gilgamesh.
* NaiveNewcomer: Due to being sheltered in Chaldea for all of her life, she has a very optimistic and naive outlook on the world. While she never truly becomes jaded, her adventures in the Singularities make her wiser, allowing her to mature and direct what she's learned towards her goals.
* {{Nerf}}: Her second form, unlocked at the end of the first Lostbelt chapter, is pretty strictly inferior to her original style as it attempts to make her a hybrid tank/DPS character, but she doesn't have the attack to be a buster crit Servant, especially without gaining any offensive advantages. To get said buster crit skill she had to sacrifice what is probably her best skill. Her NP generation decreases with the change to her third skill and she loses the support option of granting NP charge and invincibility to an ally with her second. Fortunately, this is a changeable costume so she can still fulfill her old role. The skills may also be intentionally underpowered like the first form was at the start of the game.
* NiceGirl: She's very sweet to everyone with the exception of [[spoiler:Lancelot]][[note]]strangely, this only applies to [[spoiler: Saber Lancelot;]] Berserker Lancelot she seemingly has no problems with[[/note]] and is generally very easy-going. Unless she gets jealous of someone getting the protagonist's affections, in which case she sulks a lot and becomes very passive-aggressive.
* NonStandardSkillLearning: Mash gains her skills and ascensions via plot progression, meaning that it takes her longer than other Servants to reach her potential.
* NoSell: Her second skill negates any damage dealt to a target. This combos nicely with her third skill that taunts enemies into attacking her.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: [[spoiler:She is a one-of-a-kind Demi-Servant because she was the first one to be fused with a Heroic Spirit, with subsequent attempts to replicate her success failing as all of them were horrified at what Chaldea was doing with children. Marisbury then cancelled the fusion experiments but kept her around because she could still be a Master.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Mash tries to stay focused on the task at hand and rein the player character in when they start to slack off, but given her cloistered upbringing she tends to get distracted herself with all the new things she's seeing for the first time.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Averted. Her third skill [[PracticalTaunt forces enemies to attack her]] and increases her NP gain. At first glance, it may look like the skill is intended to increase the the gauge she gains from taking all those hits, but the fact that the NP generation buff disappears after your turn(but before the enemy attacks) and she has two Arts cards makes it so it was intended to be used with it instead.
* ObliviouslyBeautiful: The Protagonist, Roman, Fou, da Vinci, and many Servants tend to see Mash as a very beautiful young woman with an excellent body to the point that Fionn wants to marry her, but Mash herself is completely confused as to why people would find her attractive, with the second part of the first Summer event showing that she considers herself [[IAmNotPretty plain]] in comparison to the other female Servants, and in her VR event, she thinks that her own body is unsightly.
* OminousVisualGlitch: After her nerf in part 2, [[spoiler:every usage of Lord Camelot, or rather Model Camelot, ends up absolutely covered in black squares]].
* OnlySaneMan: Despite inexperience, Mash approaches most things with modest yet extensive textbook generic knowledge and common sense. She's in the wrong genre for that.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: When wearing her normal clothes she looks quite proper, though as Shielder she's quite {{Stripperiffic}}.
* PurpleEyes: Even in the Nasuverse, purple is an unusual eye color. It's most likely a result of her origin as an artificially conceived human.
* RageBreakingPoint: Mash spends the majority of the Camelot chapter witnessing the atrocities committed by the Lion King and her knights, and later learns that [[spoiler:the Lion King's true plan wouldn't "save" humanity in the conventional sense.]] However, what really enrages her is [[spoiler:learning that the Lion King's knights, particularly Lancelot, all knew about the true scope of her plans and went along with it anyway.]] Her sheer rage leads to her [[spoiler:ascending to 3rd Ascension, challenging Lancelot to a duel, and ''winning''.]]
* SenpaiKohai:
** The ''kohai'' to the protagonist's ''senpai'', even though she technically has seniority as a member of Chaldea. It's later explained that she sees the protagonist as her senior in terms of "living" since she lived her whole life within the walls of Chaldea.
** She also has a similar admiration for [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Leonidas]], her senior in the realm of greatshield wielding.
* SeriesMascot: Mash is the primary flagship mascot of ''Grand Order'', alongside Jeanne d'Arc, Altria, Arthur, and sometimes the female protagonist as presented in ''Learning with Manga! FGO''.
* SetSwordsToStun: A RunningGag that develops over the Singularities is that Mash should try hitting human enemies with the back of the sword... proverbially, since she fights with a shield. Nonetheless, it's perfectly effective at incapacitating, and not killing, human bandits and such.
* SexySilhouette: In ''Fate/Grand Order VR'' the towel that hangs over Mash's shoulder-high changing screen falls away just as she strips down to her underwear, leaving this in its wake.
* ShieldBash: She'll do this in her second set of animations, mainly by slamming the shield forward straight into the enemies' face. The anime has her outright using the large cross part of her shield like a claymore or club to smash her opponents.
* SimpleYetAwesome: She's one of the best examples of this trope in this game, ''especially'' after the completion of Camelot - she's one of the best tanks in the game, due to her StoneWall skillset and high health pool, as well as the fact that she takes normal damage from ''every'' class in the game, ''even Berserkers''. As a shielder-class servant, she deals normal damage to ''all'' classes in the game, meaning she's got good damage dealing potential. And unlike most Servants, her ascensions are tied to story progression, meaning you don't have to worry about not having ascension materials either). The only drawback is that her bond level is ''also'' tied to story progression, meaning that you can't earn bond points with her.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She can easily talk to Fou, though given that his speech is supposedly quite spoilery she either doesn't tell us everything he says or doesn't understand everything herself. However, after [[spoiler:his sacrifice]], she's confused because while she can still understand him, all he says are simple things like wanting candy.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Opinions differed over whether her name was Mashu, Mash, or Marche before her Valentine's Craft Essence came out with the name Matthew written on it. Due to the cursive writing on the picture, fans briefly argued over if her name was Matthew or Mattheu, or preferred one of the three aforementioned names. Official Grand Order merchandise spells her name as Mash, further complicating the issue. The official translation of the anime uses Mash and the Valentine's CE was updated for the 2017 rerun to have Mash written on it, making it the official name.
** Her last name can either be interpreted as Kyrielight or Kyrielite. The official anime and game localization use the former. But there's at least one instance in the game where it's spelled as "Kyrielite".
* StoneWall: Her Strength is an average C and her Agility is low at D, but her Endurance is A-ranked and she possesses several skills to mitigate damage, especially when the attacks are aimed at her allies. In gameplay, she has a great deal of HP, and her Noble Phantasm increases party defense, cuts a flat amount of damage after that and then boosts party attack for everyone except her. She's one of the best SR Servants as a result, due to her ability to cut enemy damage to almost nothing. With her skills, stats and ''zero'' unit cost, she makes an incredible valuable unit for stall based teams or challenge quests.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fategrandorder/images/f/f6/DangerousBeast.png/revision/latest?cb=20170624151022 Her Halloween costume]] for the second Halloween event, as seen on the Dangerous Beast craft essence, can be aptly described as some string and two strategically placed tufts of fur to cover her nipples.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Her Shielder class has no strengths or weaknesses, taking and dealing neutral damage to all other classes.
* TerribleArtist: Her drawings aren't very good, ranging from an okay picture of Arash to being incredibly simplistic to just drawing an outline of a bell and labeling it bell.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** After learning that [[spoiler: the Servant she's fused to is Galahad, and that Lancelot knew about the Lion King's true plan and sided with her anyway,]] her sheer rage at the latter revelation causes her to ascend to her third form and [[spoiler:defeat Lancelot in a duel.]] In-game, she gets a rarity upgrade to SR/4*, a level cap increase, and an upgrade to her first skill.
** She unlocks the true form of her Noble Phantasm [[spoiler:Lord Camelot]] in time for the final battle of the chapter. After that it also boosts party attack by 30%, though this buff doesn't affect her.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: An alternate costume introduced for her with Chaldea Summer 2016's rerun means this is in effect for her as she can wear her swimsuit in any battle, even off the beach.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Part of the reason why she calls the protagonist her "senpai" is becomes they have more real-world experience than she does, since she has never left the confines of Chaldea. She gets especially excited when visiting the various locales of the Singularities and practically becomes a GenkiGirl when visiting a Japanese city like Misaki City during "Garden of Order".
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: In the prologue of Chapter 6, Dr. Roman tells you that as a Designer Baby, Mash's lifespan was preset to last only 18 years. She's already 16 at the beginning of the game and her collapse at the end of Chapter 5 shows the continued use of her Demi-Servant abilities are steadily, but fatally, shaving off the remaining two years she has left. By the final battle, she only has an few days left to live, and going to Salomon will kill her regardless of the outcome. While she is incinerated protecting the protagonist from Ars Almadel Salomonis, Fou uses all of the power he collected over his long time in existence to revive her and also give her a normal lifespan.]]
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[[folder:Fou]]
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-> '''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Taiki\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Drama CD and the ''-First Order-'' anime) (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)
Fou is an animal that appears to be able to freely walk around the Chaldea Security Organization's complex, and has a notable attachment to Mash. The protagonist meets it alongside Mash, and it then tends to come along on the various Singularity missions.
For more information, please see the Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts page.
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[[folder:Olga Marie Animusphere]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Drama CD), Madoka Yonezawa (''Fate/Grand Order -First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime) (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)
A member of the prestigious Animusphere family of magi and the current director of Chaldea. She monitors the future and is trying to prevent the extinction of humanity.
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* AdvertisedExtra:
** She was quite heavily promoted in prelude material, has a well known [[Creator/MegumiToyoguchi seiyuu]] and is featured quite a bit in the official gag manga. In the game, however, she's killed right at the beginning, sticks around in the first chapter, then eventually she literally fades from the story completely.
** A lampshade is hung in the official gag manga that takes place after the prologue.
---> "Why isn't she appearing?"
---> "Wait... didn't you play the story?"
* AlternateTimeline: She shows up in ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' and the 2015 ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' manga which both take place in alternate timelines. [[spoiler:''Moonlight/Lostroom'' also reveals that there was a facet of possibility where ''she'' was the main mission control during the seven Orders, not Dr. Roman, but that possibility isn't the "correct history".]]
* {{Astrologer}}: Her family is the current head of the Astrology department of the Clock Tower.
* BrokenPedestal: Lev, the one person she has absolute faith in, reveals that he killed her and was scheming against her the whole time. This revelation coming from her trusted mentor and the person she was putting her faith into for fixing everything shocks her and she feebly tries to dismiss what he's saying as lies.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: She reveals in ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' that [[spoiler:she actually has a lot of anxiety about saving the legacy and history of humanity and wonders if she'll ever truly be happy]].
* DayInTheLimelight: ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' gives her a lot of screentime and we get more of her mindset about being the head of Chaldea at such a young age.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: [[spoiler:''Moonlight/Lostroom'' reveals that she really doesn't know what the damn hell she's even doing at Chaldea - she deeply respects her father's mission but she has ''no idea'' how she can really meaningfully contribute to furthering the mission, especially since she can't be the Master she desperately wants to be.]]
* {{Expy}}: Nasu wrote on his blog that she's essentially [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Touko]] minus all the philosophical exposition.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: ''Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' reveals that she honestly doesn't care about protecting the Human Order but more proving that she can handle the responsibilities of such a large task.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Nasu mentions in the ''-First Order-'' booklet that she's been dying over and over again in Chaldeas after being thrown in there by Lev.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite how she treats the protagonist she isn't as mean as she suggests. [[spoiler:She was outright appalled at the inhumane treatment of Mash and the other DesignerBabies at the hands of her father. If not for Mash's inability to survive outside Chaldea she likely would have let her live in the outside world. This is especially poignant considering she thought that Mash would try to kill her and she let her live anyway.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She's pretty abusive towards the protagonist, one of the first things she does is berate them for their lack of talent as a Master. She tells her subordinates that since they agreed to join Chaldea, they are her soldiers and should be ready to die if she asks it of them.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She is right that the protagonist shouldn't be sent in as a Master when there are far more experienced choices and they haven't even gone through basic training.
* IneptMage: Played with. She's essentially the reverse of [[LightNovel/FateZero Matou Kariya]]. While Matou Kariya was pretty mediocre in all aspects of Magecraft, he had surprisingly high "compatibility" as a Master. Olga Marie is, on the other hand, an extremely high-class Magus who has zero compatibility with the role of a Master, to the point where she can't even summon a Servant. [[spoiler:This is why she dreams, desperately, of being a great Master who is saving human history alongside Fujimaru during ''Moonlight/Lostroom''. The fact that she's actually incapable of forwarding the great cause of Animusphere leaves her DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.]]
* KilledOffForReal: She is killed by Lev's bomb used to incapacitate the other Chaldea Masters, but manages to rayshift to Fuyuki alongside Mash and the protagonist as a soul. Unfortunately, Lev shows up and sends her back to the present, seemingly destroying her soul permanently.
* MagicalIncantation: Her family has a specialized incantation for all of their spells: "Stars. Cosmos. Gods. Animus. Ampule. Unbirth. Anima. Animusphere." In ''First Order'', "Ampule, Unbirth" is replaced with "Hollow. Void." in the chant and in ''Case Files'', "Antorum" is used in place of "Ampule".
%%* MysticalWhiteHair
%%* ProperTightsWithASkirt
* {{Tsundere}}: To the main protagonist. Roman notes spending time with them in Fuyuki has softened her up.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She's killed unceremoniously by Lev at the end of Fuyuki and a lot of her characterization is filled in by Dr. Roman after her death. The anime specials do a lot to fill in her character.
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[[folder:Dr. Romani Archaman]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Drama CD and the ''-First Order-''/''Moonlight/Lostroom'' anime) (Japanese), Creator/XanderMobus (''-First Order-'' anime) (English)\\
'''Live actor''': Takuya Ide
More known as Dr. Roman, he is the head of Chaldea's medical ward. He is responsible for making sure the Master candidates stay in good health. After the prologue, he becomes the Director stand-in.
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* {{Adorkable}}: He has his moments, especially when his hobbies come up. He's even rerouted some unnecessary parts of Chaldea's power supply to power an idol simulation! [[spoiler:Those moments were even present in his original existence as Solomon, whose High-Speed Incantation is ranked down to C because he ''gets anxious and makes mistakes in his chants''.]]
* TheAntiNihilist: Romani is a pessimist and agrees that life is basically just a countdown towards farewells and death, but still thinks each life and its journey is beautiful.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Subverted. Camelot introduces a lot of clues that he is Solomon in disguise, leading Sherlock Holmes to become wary of Roman and warn the other heroes to do the same. The Final Order reveals that this is true - but at the same time the "Solomon" antagonizing humanity is an impostor.]]
* {{Biseinen}}: Between his long-flowing hair and fine features, he's a ''very'' pretty looking man.
* BrokenPedestal: He's heavily shocked by the revelation of Solomon trying to destroy the world and desperately tries to use Sheba to prove that he isn't behind this. When Mash and the protagonist come back from London, he's going through a nervous breakdown. [[spoiler:Later reveals implies that this is less admiration being broken and more shock at his body being used by someone else.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: It's revealed that he is actually the real Heroic Spirit Solomon who used the Holy Grail to incarnate himself as a human.]]
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: [[spoiler:He tries to claim that the enemies Chaldea are facing can't be Solomon's Demon Gods because the wise and just Solomon wouldn't be associated with such disgusting and nasty monsters.]]
* ButtMonkey: He's the butt of many jokes and jabs in the series, much to his chagrin.
-->'''Dr. Roman:''' ''[talking about the similarities between him and Mozart]'' Thanks, Amadeus! I've never been this unhappy about praise in my life!
* ConspicuousGloves: Since he's a doctor, it makes some sense for him to wear them. Since he's hardly ever doing anything medical in the story, it makes less sense. And they don't look like medical gloves anyway. It turns out there's a ring under one of them...
* CovertPervert: When Orion wants to peep on the girls in the hot springs chapter of the Anthology Manga, he gladly goes with the idea. In addition, he tries to record Mata Hari's stripping during the Halloween 2015 event and is disappointed when she doesn't. [[spoiler:After the finale's reveals about him, in hindsight, it was probably a trait he inherited from his father.]]
** He's also downright distraught in the Anthology Manga when Emiya knits belly warmers for all the scantily-clad female Servants. And Mash has apparently found his porn folder and blackmails him by threatening to delete it.
* CowardlyLion: He refers to himself as a coward several times, [[spoiler: yet at the final battle, even when Goetia taunts him for being too cowardly to use Ars Nova to erase himself from existence, he without hesitation goes ahead with using it to help the protagonist.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: He has some sort of ace in the hole ability that's similar to a Holy Grail according to Da Vinci who knows the full details. He tries not to think about it and is terrified of using it because after doing so, it will make him disappear. It's revealed in the final battle to be Solomon's last ring and final Noble Phantasm, Ars Nova, the act of returning God's gifts which erases him completely from the Throne of Heroes.]]
* DoubleTake: Da Vinci's presence with the protagonists is so reassuring when he reestablishes contact with them in Lancelot's camp, he forgets for a moment that the last time they had discussed her, she had blown herself up.
-->"I’m glad you’re okay. Da Vinci’s even there. Good. All is right in the worl-"\\
"SAY [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAT]]!? IS THAT DA VINCI-CHAN!?!? You survived getting blown into a bazillion pieces!?!?!?"
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's introduced slacking off from Chaldea's first operation, eating some cake in a supposedly unused room - now Fujimaru's room, since they too were banned from the same operation. However, after the initial awkwardness Roman quickly becomes The Protagonist's friend, making them coffee and teaching them about Chaldea's various facilities to help them get used to the place.
* FanBoy:
** Of King Solomon, considering the King of Magic his hero and denying that his magecraft has any role in the Singularities. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that Roman ''is'' Solomon, and was instead voicing his dislike of the idea that his magecraft was being used for evil. He really just [[SureLetsGoWithThat rolled with the "Solomon fanboy" misconception]] to keep his true identity a secret.]]
** He's also a big fan of a Virtual Idol, MagiāMari, often consulting her for advice mid-mission and getting gleefully nihilistic and unhelpful responses. [[spoiler:As it turns out, this site was actually run by Merlin from the Garden of Avalon, presumably as a way of interacting with Chaldea aside from Fou.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: A downplayed case. He's never outright disliked, but Mash, the player character, and tag along servants are all quick to point out his various flaws and mistakes.
* GeniusSweetTooth: He admits to liking sweets quite a bit, saying that it's vital for anyone who works with their brain.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: He leaves this behind to the protagonist as he ceased to exist.]]
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Your medic and mission control was actually the real King Solomon all along.]]
* HandBehindHead: It's his default pose. He's flustered and sheepish often enough for it to be appropriate.
* HateAtFirstSight: [[{{Downplayed}} Maybe not outright hate,]] but his [[spoiler:Solomon]] profile points out that almost every Servant will instinctively blame him for their problems and find reasons to insult him. The only exceptions are contrarians, Berserkers, and [[NiceGuy Bedivere]].
* HeroicRROD: Da Vinci clarifies in Camelot that he could eventually hit one and that she's somewhat worried about his health; he takes all kinds of medicine and drugs to be able to run all of Chaldea alone while also having to be the emotional support and MissionControl for Mash and the Protagonist, and is getting little to no sleep.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He uses the last Ring of Solomon to re-enact his returning of God's gifts and erase himself from the Throne of Heroes in order to weaken King Goetia.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:Goetia could have used his own Clairvoyance to easily figure out that Roman was an incarnated Solomon, but Roman's wish to become a completely normal human without any Magic Circuits meant that Goetia just dismissed him as unremarkable and passed over him. This proved to be vital in defeating Goetia, because if the truth about Roman was discovered then he couldn't have gotten close enough to the rest of Solomon's rings to be able to activate Ars Nova and mortally wound Goetia. Indeed, when Roman reveals his true identity, Goetia curses Flauros for being unable to see through Roman despite spending so much time around him in the Clock Tower.]]
* HollywoodNerd: ''Fate/Grand Order'' would have you believe Roman is a hopelessly undateable nerd.
* HospitalHottie: Definitely.
* {{Hypocrite}}: It's noted he tends to be optimistic and encouraging to others despite being a pessimist himself, making his encouragement feel shallow.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: He wished on the Holy Grail to give up all his powers as Solomon, because he wanted to live a life where he lived of his own volition rather than according to the will of the people and the voice of God.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Despite having a chance to live as a normal human, the vision he received made him realize he had to help humanity prepare, sacrificing his one chance at normalcy to serve the people. His one comfort being the people he met in this new life.]]
* ImprobableAge: He became Chaldea's medical director at twenty-two, which Holmes notes should not be possible for an ordinary person.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: He's a doctor and is seen wearing a lab coat constantly.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** [[spoiler: He didn't know about the Heroic Spirit fusion project and regrets being unable to prevent what had happened.]]
** [[spoiler: By Holmes's request, he's in the dark about his meeting with the heroes and the things they learned unrelated to the Camelot singularity.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:After he used his wish to become a human being who could live of his own volition, Solomon took the name "Romani" because he fell in love with the idea of Romanticism - in particular, its emphasis on free expression of the individual.]]
* MissingMissionControl: Certain events such as "Prison Tower" and "Starry Xuanzang Goes to India" feature no MissionControl due to circumstances preventing communications (stuck in a dream, suddenly Rayshifted to unknown coordinates, etc.)
** It's PlayedForLaughs during Tamamo Cat's first interlude, he's gone out for a lunch break and won't be available unless it's a critical emergency.
** Ozymandias's desert in Chapter 6 messes with communications. [[spoiler: Sherlock Holmes exploits this to meet with the heroes without Roman knowing.]]
* MissionControl: He typically appears as a hologram to communicate with the heroes from the Rayshift control panel.
* MrExposition: He and Mash share the role of providing insight into the history of Servants, the Singularities, and generally hyping up Servants you're about to fight. Roman himself is especially knowledgeable about the mechanics of magecraft and famous magi, ''especially'' Solomon, despite not being able to use magecraft himself. [[spoiler:This is because he ''is'' Solomon, albeit the summoned Caster version who wished to be a normal human and is very much on your side.]]
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:In chapter 6, Holmes reveals that no records of him exist before 2004, when he was working as Olga-Marie's father's assistant in the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. Da Vinci knows that, but believes that it doesn't make him any less of a good guy. Holmes ''does'' admit that it's possible that Hermes could have records on him, but that would require sifting through billions of irrelevant files and the Hermes archives change yearly so it's highly unlikely they'd be able to find anything. It turns out that there are no records of him is because the man known as Dr. Roman ''didn't exist'' before 2004, and was in fact King Solomon summoned as a Caster-class Servant.]]
* NiceGuy: Very friendly to you from the moment you first meet him, and his moral compass is just as strong as Mash and the protagonist's. His niceness unfortunately is only a way for him to be "everybody's friend" without getting attached to any of them.
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: In the dream sequence before Babylonia, where he gets eyes like Solomon, a twisted, nightmarish grin and red and black marks on his cheeks. This, of course, Goetia messing with Mash.]]
* NonProtagonistResolver: [[spoiler: His Ars Nova is what ultimately ends Goetia. It's the protagonist's job to make sure he doesn't take everything down in his dying moments.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Despite specifically being a medical doctor, Roman doesn't have much trouble assuming the operation and maintenance of much of the technology at Chaldea, expositing at length about magecraft and Servants' historical/mythological background, or creating an AI duplicate of his favorite net idol to chat with. [[spoiler:Considering his true identity as Solomon, one of the most brilliant men to ever live, it probably comes naturally to him]]. The School of Chaldea CE directly comments on it.
-->'''Da Vinci:''' Medical, observation, event restoration, even equipment maintenance... You've really been busy lately, Romani.
* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler: Marisbury had considered Solomon and by extension, Dr. Roman, to be his first and only friend in life.]]
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: His full name is Romani Archaman, but he acknowledges that everyone calls him Dr. Roman anyway. Da Vinci tends to call him "Romani-kun" instead.
* {{Otaku}}: Not only is he a huge fan of a certain idol, he has an incredible obsession with sweets, having a gigantic private collection of rare and valuable candies. Mash assumes in the "Starry Xuanzang Goes to India" prologue that the large collection of books in a Chaldea warehouse ''must'' be his since he's the one person she knows to obsessively hoard objects he's passionate about. He denies it as they belong to someone else.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's the closest thing Mash has to a father, and she does care deeply about him despite her ribbing. He brought her books, always encouraged and fought for her place in Chaldea, and even [[spoiler:named her]].
* PornStash: According to Mash, he has a "secret" folder on the Chaldea computer network, which relates to "the hobbies of a 30-year-old bachelor". She threatens to delete it to get him to behave more seriously during the Septem storyline.
* RedheadInGreen: Lucky that the uniform is a flattering color on him.
* RedheadsAreUncool: So uncool that almost everyone he meets immediately feels compelled to pick on him, and even Mash can't reassure him without getting in a few digs about his dorky hobbies first. Awkward, brainy, etc., basically a ''huge nerd''. And he has orangey hair. [[spoiler:By contrast, his original form as King Solomon has MysticalWhiteHair, and has a lot of power and respect to his name as the King of Magic (even if his personality isn't really any different).]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: He reveals in the final battle that he's actually the Solomon summoned by Marisbury, who used his wish on the Holy Grail to "become human". However, on the very cusp of losing his Clairvoyance skill, he had a vision of humanity's demise, concluded that he was involved somehow, and spent the next ten years doing everything he could to prevent the coming disaster.]]
* RingOfPower: Something the party observes while talking to Holmes; [[spoiler: Solomon has nine gold rings and one silver, while Roman has a gold ring he claims is from his now-divorced marriage. It's revealed in the final battle that it is the last Ring of Solomon, which God told him to store separately from the other nine and became the catalyst that Marisbury used to summon him as a Heroic Spirit. As the actual artifact and not something drawn from the Throne of Heroes, it is the one ability of his Heroic Spirit self that Roman is able to keep.]]
* SecretKeeper: Roman met Arthur sometime before the story proper and kept it a secret from everyone but Da Vinci. Which is why he was surprised by Altria (Alter) in the Fuyuki Singularity being female. [[spoiler: It's possible that Arthur was one of the Servants he crushed as Solomon in the Fuyuki Grail War.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to acknowledge the idea that Solomon has anything to do with the Demon Pillars, grails or singularities that have been popping up throughout the game [[spoiler: before Chapter 4's end.]] When David states that it's most likely that Solomon's responsible for what's going on, Roman uses Sheba to look at the past at Solomon's era and since he's there in the past, Solomon, therefore, has nothing to do with the destruction of the world. [[spoiler:This is all due largely to him not wanting to think about the implications of a "Solomon" running around the singularities, as he knows better than anyone what that truly means.]]
* StealthPun: It is regularly joked that Roman is probably a thirty-year-old virgin, also known on the internet as [[spoiler:a wizard]].
* SureLetsGoWithThat: [[spoiler:Chaldea mistakes him a Solomon fanboy because of his attempts to deny that Solomon's powers and demons were responsible for the Singularities. Though he's really attempting to deny it because he doesn't like the idea of someone running amok with his magecraft, everyone just assumes that he simply likes Solomon a lot. Because he can't come out and say that he used to be Solomon, Roman has to roll with this misconception. Later, when he has a nervous breakdown upon seeing Goetia running around in his original body, he keeps up this "Solomon fanboy" notion and plays it off as suffering a BrokenPedestal regarding his hero.]]
* TeamDad: He has to take care of everyone and he runs himself ragged when he loses contact with the protagonist.
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:He tells Da Vinci that Romani and Solomon are basically two different people by now, and refers to the King of Mages as "he" and "Solomon" rather than "I" when talking about his past.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, this is one of his specialties. Unfortunately, he's the only one and has to maintain the mental and physical health of everyone who isn't dead at Chaldea.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: [[spoiler:Justified. His plan to defeat Goetia wouldn't have worked if the rest of Chaldea knew about it, because Roman needed to be able to get close to Goetia in order to activate Ars Nova (it requires all ten rings to be gathered together in order to activate, [[LoopholeAbuse though not necessarily in possession of the same people]]). If the rest of Chaldea knew about Roman's true identity as well as Ars Nova, then Goetia would have learned about it as well and could have easily adapted his plans to keep Roman out of the picture.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After resolving the London Singularity, they find him in a slump after seeing that Solomon was actually the mastermind behind the Singularities. Mash breaks him out by reminding him of how he salvaged Chaldea, rescued those who survived and took charge of restoring the timeline.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After the disaster that occurred with the initial Rayshift, he was appointed commander despite only being Head Medic because everyone else above him died.
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[[folder:Marisbury Animusphere]]
->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
Olga Marie's deceased father. The founder and previous director of Chaldea.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: His first name is comprised of two first names that were then just mashed together like Olga Marie's.
* CrazyPrepared: He had a number of contingencies in place just in case things went south. Like in the case that rayshifting failed to work with humans, [[spoiler: he had a True Ancestor on the team so that someone would survive the process]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: Posthumously as despite all his great labors and painstaking lengths taken to protect humanity, [[spoiler:internal sabotage from his subordinates was the one scenario he appeared to have never thought of as [[ManchurianAgent Lev]] bombs the Control Room and Wodime uses his intimate knowledge of the observatory to attack it remotely.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: He had committed suicide for some unknown reason in his office. [[spoiler: It was actually a murder that was arranged to look like a suicide.]]
* Fiction500: [[spoiler: He used the Grail to give himself funds on par with a national budget to build Chaldea.]]
* {{Foil}}: His motivation for [[spoiler:winning the 2004 Grail War (i.e. getting money and recognition)]] is almost like [[spoiler:Waver Velvet's initial motivation for joining the 1994 Grail War of ''LightNovel/FateZero'']]. However, his motivation is not seen as selfish/negative, if only because [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist this wish was designed to bring forth Chaldea to existence]], which allows the good guys' world-saving shenanigans possible in the first place.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: He's connected to the divergent AlternateTimeline of F/GO, having been the winner of the 2004 Fuyuki Holy Grail War.]]
* ForeseeingMyDeath: [[spoiler: Part of the reason he was desperate enough to resort to using the Grail to give him funds for Chaldea is that he knew he would die in a decade and wished to see the completion of Chaldea before that happened.]]
* TheGhost: Is only talked about in Camelot, since he's, you know, dead. He shows up in [[spoiler:Dr. Roman's flashbacks]], only in text before the final battle with Solomon, and even in that one appearance "on-camera" in-game he's represented by a nondescript cloaked figure covered entirely in shadow. In the ''Moonlight/Lostroom'' OVA, his appearance in the Chaldea command center is just a hazy, light-filled outline.
* MundaneWish: [[spoiler:He uses the Holy Grail, a magical object of almost unimaginable power, to make a lot of money and have his colleagues respect his ideas. He's still one of the most successful users of the Grail so far, especially given he managed to circumvent [[LiteralGenie the Grail's main limitation]] by knowing exactly what he wanted and how to attain it.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: He died five years before the start of the game.
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler: Holmes speculates that his wish for the Holy Grail was for prosperity since, after the war, his family's theories which were dismissed as abstract and impractical by the Association had suddenly been acknowledged, he had a sudden string of several successes, and Chaldea was transformed from a simple observatory into the facility of the present that you see at the beginning of the game. Which was confirmed with a flashback at the beginning of Grand Time Temple Solomon, he used the Grail to give him money for funding Chaldea.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He authorized the Seraphix Master experiments which were directly responsible for providing Beast III-R the power she needed to grow.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Holmes hypothesizes that he was being manipulated by a third party, with his leading guess being either Lev Reinol or Dr. Roman.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The man had noble ideals but ''terrible'' methods, notably involving [[spoiler: a whole lot of child experiments. It's the main reason even though Mash's fusion with a Spirit was successful, Galahad (as the most LawfulGood of the Round Table) refused to manifest and stayed dormant.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:It's unclear exactly how far or how bad it went, but not only did he direct the apparently very harsh project that led to Mash's birth and creation but, given the timeframe involved, he must have signed off on the Seraphix leyline experiments with Master candidates, which definitely involved children.]]
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[[folder:Mabel Macintosh]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
A relatively low-level employee aboard the Chaldea Foundation's Seraphix platform, she is one of the few survivors encountered when the Chaldea group finally manage to infiltrate SE.RA.PH in its relevant chapter. She's able to provide the team with several crucial pieces of information to aid their investigation of the crisis that has engulfed Seraphix.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She's gunned down without mercy by Emiya Alter once he sides with Sesshouin. However, she turns out to have been Sesshouin herself in disguise the whole time, with Tamamo Cat seeing right through her once she ''miraculously'' reappears.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The real Mabel has been dead since long before you encounter her after the first Passionlip fight. In fact, there's some doubt as to whether she ever even existed in the first place, with Arnold Beckman not remembering anyone with that name, despite supposedly being trapped in the same room with her for an undisclosed amount of time. Then again, given [[ItsAllAboutMe his attitude]], it's possible he just never learned her name in the first place.]]
* FantasticRacism: Of a sort. She's incredibly uncomfortable around Alter Egos, though that's in part because she watched them slaughter a great many of her colleagues and friends.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mentions having some bad memories of Seraphix's church. [[spoiler: This was Sesshouin's former workplace, and where she hid after her corruption by Zepar reached a breaking point.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: She's got big ol' glasses and a typically meek matching personality. The Chaldea servant team are somewhat amazed that she even managed to survive.
* NiceGirl: Her issues with Alter Egos aside, she's generally pretty nice and helpful, though she's not terribly useful in the crazy digital hell that SE.RA.PH has become. Still, she does what she can. [[spoiler:So, [[DeadPersonImpersonation unsurprisingly]]...]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Mabel, Maybell (or a variant thereof), or ''Marble''? They're all valid options for the kana of her name, and no English transliteration is provided.
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[[folder:Arnold Beckman]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
Another employee of the Seraphix platform, and the Secretary to the platform's Commander.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: By the time EMIYA Alter kills him, he apparently was planning to kill the Protagonist for ignoring his orders to save Meltlilith, judging by the fact he asked him to go retrieve some poison for him.]]
* ControlFreak: He reveals himself to be this once rescued, as he tries to take command of the overall mission since he believes himself to be the ranking member of Chaldea on site. He doesn't ''quite'' understand who he's talking to when it comes to dealing with the protagonist, though.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Had the Vice Director of Seraphix killed when he tried to stand up against Beckman's takeover of the platform, effectively becoming the highest ranked staff member remaining.]]
* MissionControl: Once he's rescued, he assumes this role for the team. He's a far cry from Dr. Roman's gentle encouragement, however.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:You're probably going to be deeply suspicious of him from the logs. While he definitely had a hand in Chaldea's cruel experiments within Seraphix, ultimately he's just a pawn to the larger forces at work in SE.RA.PH and is disposed of without ceremony when he's no longer useful.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: He tries to invoke this, but it's obvious that they're only following his orders half because they don't want to argue about it and half because it's what they were planning on doing anyway. Once he orders the Protagonist [[spoiler: to abandon Meltlilith]], the Protagonist cuts the comm line and heads off [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to save their friend]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he pulled this off after the 100x time dilation of Seraphix began.]]
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[[folder:Jeancle Abel Meunière]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
One of Chaldea's staff members who has stuck with them through thick and thin, even as the world is threatened multiple times.
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* AscendedExtra: Initially a faceless extra introduced as the reason why Astolfo was able to sneak into a Rayshift coffin for Agartha, he was given official artwork for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' and a minor supporting role which is a lot more than any other Chaldea staff member besides the main characters have gotten.
* StraightMan: He's been saddled with the role of having to keep Gordolf and his often silly, privileged, or cowardly ideas in check.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His last name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuni%C3%A8re_sauce the name of a French sauce]]. Gordolf rattles off a bunch of sauces when he can't remember Meunière's name because that's the one trait he has to go off on.
* WorthIt: He's totally fine with getting his pay docked for illegally smuggling Servants into the Rayshifting process because Astolfo was the one who wanted it done.
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[[folder:Gordolf Musik]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''Fate/Grand Order''
The new director of Chaldea. He bought all of Chaldea on behalf of the Mage's Association in order to preserve it. After the attack on Chaldea, he stays alongside your team to try and preserve humanity's future.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: Comes from a relatively long lineage of alchemists.
* AnatomyArsenal: He talks about being able to turn his fist into metal, not unlike [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Gordes]].
* BadassDriver: During the first Lostbelt, Gordolf drives the Shadow Border with a surprisingly large amount of experience and skill, no doubt due to his racing hobby.
* BigEater: He claims that as director of Chaldea, he's required to consume more calories to manage his staff. [[spoiler:It backfires on him at the beginning of the third Lostbelt, as Koyanskaya poisoned the cake he was eating for a midnight snack.]]
* TheCameo: He makes an appearance as "Aloha Man" in the Summer 2018 event, taking a vacation in Hawaii before he comes to Antarctica to assume full control of Chaldea. It's lampshaded by the protagonist who thinks they just saw a glimpse of someone very important they've met or will meet in the future.
* LovableCoward: He frequently expresses the desire to drive away from danger or dive into Imaginary Number Space at the first glimpse of possible danger, but is vetoed by Holmes or da Vinci. [[spoiler:In the second Lostbelt, he gives up the Paper Moon to Sigurd and it's pointed out that not only did this get Sigurd to accomplish his goal and retreat, stopping further damage to their base, if Gordolf ''hadn't'' intervened at that point, Mash would likely have died. The Paper Moon can be reclaimed, Mash's life cannot.]]
* MythologyGag: There are a few times where he namedrops [[Characters/FateApocryphaBlackFaction Toole]] as his childhood tutor. In ''[[AllThereInTheManual Fate/Apocrypha Material]]'' (and as seen in the Apocrypha anime), Toole became the Musik son's tutor after the Great Holy Grail War was over. Even though this is a different timeline, it looks like that [[InSpiteOfANail still happened]].
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:When the ''Shadow Border'' prepares to exit Imaginary Number Space, he panics because they weren't given enough time to put on seatbelts, claiming that experience has taught him seatbelts are incredibly vital when you're in a vehicle.]]
* PetTheDog: The reason he came to Hawaii was to bring his homunculi to enjoy the tropics as one last final rest before they expired.
* PuppetKing: Seems relatively friendly but doesn't really know what's going on. [[spoiler:He's simply a patsy for the antagonists to legally take control of Chaldea without arousing suspicion. Despite this, the protagonist still treats him as the director and takes him with them as they flee the antagonists. He's appointed Captain of the ''Shadow Border'' despite it being clear that Holmes and the protagonist are going to do all the heavy lifting for fighting the Crypters.]]
* ShelteredAristocrat: It's obvious from the get-go that he hasn't really experienced society outside of the Clock Tower, and he's out of his depth when he arrives at Chaldea. [[spoiler:Even aboard the ''Shadow Border'', Holmes and da Vinci do their best to pamper him to avoid any unnecessary conflict.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He is a scion of a magus family that has only really lived longer than most and accumulated more resources than others and haven't done anything to truly impact the world of magecraft. Even so, he thinks highly of himself to the point that he can come off as insensitive, even if he doesn't mean it.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Koyanskaya's attempt to assassinate the protagonist with a poisoned cake partly fails because he ate half the cake as a midnight snack. The cake happened to have just enough poison to kill them, even with the poison immunity from Mash, but by only eating half, they at least have ten days to find a cure (though Gordolf isn't so lucky and will die on the tenth day). Though she later implies it failing was part of the plan.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks almost identical to [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Gordes Musik Yggdmillenia]], with the only real difference being looking slightly younger and having a curvy mustache as oppose to Gordes's toothbrush one. It's been implied rather strongly, but not yet stated outright, that he ''is'' the son of the ''GO'' universe's Gordes (Yggdmillenia not existing in ''GO'').
* SupremeChef: Or so he claims. He believes that his carbonara [[spoiler:would be enough to get Kadoc talking but Gordolf doesn't get the chance to test it because of Kotomine's attack.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:He was duped by his secretary into buying all of Chaldea so she and her collaborators could eliminate their enemies in one fell swoop. Gordolf is shocked by the revelation that he was never really in control and is still trying to comprehend it by the end of the prologue.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Koyanskaya orders him to be offed once the assault on the observatory begins since he was simply a means of obtaining Chaldea.]]
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[[folder:Sion Eltnam Sokaris]]
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->'''First Appearance''': ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi
An alternate version of Sion Eltnam Atlasia who, having foreseen the alien invasion in 2018, fled to the Wandering Sea in hopes of Chaldea's arrival.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: Sure she may drink artificial blood but she isn't a vampire or Dead Apostle.
* AllUpToYou: She had to bet on Chaldea pulling through everything because informing them would've interfered with her calculations.
* AlternateSelf: This is the Sion who hails from ''Fate'' timelines, with the most obvious difference in the last name as she never became head of Atlas. Though she does consume blood, she isn't vampiric and has a lot less angst overall.
* CassandraTruth: Through her calculations, she found the entity that would actually end the world but because Atlas is so obsessed with finding every single end of the world possible and dealing with them, they were too caught up to listen to her warnings, never mind actually doing anything about them.
* TheEngineer: She takes on this role in the Chaldea crew, providing them with new tech and enhancing what they have to help them in their fight against the Lostbelts. She also invented the Paper Moon tech which they've been using previously to enter Imaginary Numbers Space.
* GenkiGirl: Much more cheerful than her ''Melty Blood'' counterpart, mainly because Zepia didn't go insane and become a Dead Apostle Ancestor.
* SixthRanger: Even with the reshuffling of Chaldea's ranks in the ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' prologue, she joins up with them only after they finish off two Lostbelts.
* SoleSurvivingScientist: The magical equivalent of this, as she calculated the actual threat that could end the world, but with no one at Atlas willing to help, she fled to the Wandering Sea to protect herself with all other magi besides Gordolf and the protagonist inevitably dying as the Alien God wiped out humanity. The magi in the Wandering Sea are equally unwilling to help and have essentially shut themselves off from the world, though they did at least give her space to work on her projects.
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