Mash Kyrielight (Shielder)

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Servant of Shield

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Voiced by: Risa Taneda (original) and Rie Takahashi (September 2016 onwards) (Japanese), Erica Mendez (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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A — I

Adaptational Badass: Her Noble Phantasm, Lord Chaldeas/Lord Camelot, provides a party wide defense buff, and later an attack buff but does nothing else. In the various anime adaptations of the game, its given an Attack Reflector ability, allowing Mash to reflect her enemies attack back at them for a surprise.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair colour is a lilac closer to purple in the Game and supplementary material, even in the First Order movie. However, in the Babylonia anime adaptation, her hair is distinctly drawn as a bright pink.
Animation Bump:
- Her attack animations ended up being buffed when Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table, 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 fading away like most Servants do.
Antagonistic Offspring: She unintentionally serves as this towards Lancelot during the Orleans and Camelot Singularities, as neither was aware of the fact that she fused with Galahad. This trope is played straight with Berserker Lancelot but she subverts this during Camelot when Saber Lancelot joins Chaldea in defeating the Lion King.
The Anti-Nihilist: 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 Singularities fade when finished, she still keeps her experiences of them, meaning that her journey had value. Hardships make people strong and bring them together, and Goetia's world is empty of hardships. And while life must ultimately end, as a human being, she finds meaning and peace in death.
Armor-Piercing Attack: Her Black Barrel Bolt skill in her Ortinax costume gives her a a massive buff to her Buster card damage (100% Buster damage buff and crit damage buff) on top of allowing her to ignore defense buffs. This allows her deal an insanely high Buster hit that ignores defenses and will deal not only twice as much damage, but twice as much crit damage.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: 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.
Attack Reflector: In the First Order adaptation, her first use of Lord Chaldeas not only blocks Saber Alter's Excalibur Morgan, but sends it right back into her face.
Back from the Dead: In the Final Singularity, she dies in a Heroic Sacrifice, tanking Ars Almadel Salomonis, but Fou uses all of his accumulated energy to resurrect her and give her a normal lifespan.
Badass Adorable: 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 Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot when she learns the name of the Servant she fused with, Galahad, and how to properly use his Noble Phantasm.
Balance Buff: As the story has gone on, several of Mash's skills have been buffed.
- Transient Wall of Snowflakes was buffed before the Final Boss of Camelot to Exalted Impervious Wall of Snowflakes. The defense buff was increased by 5%, and also now reduces the total damage received by 2000 for one attack, allowing her to protect her allies much better then before and in some cases tank an enemies NP and survive.
- Lord Chaldeas was buffed into Lord Camelot at the same time to now provide a party wide attack buff save herself.
- Her Ortinax skill set received a buff to Bunker Bolt changing it to Black Barrel Replica. Said buff doubled the Buster and crit damage buff, and gave her a ignoring defense effect, allowing her to be more offensively viable.
- Her Ortinax skills were buffed again in Nahui Mictlan, with Tragic Shield of Rousal becoming Paradox Cylinder C. This added a three-turn Ignore Invincible buff and the generation of 20-30 critical stars.
BFG: Sion's upgrade for the Ortinax suit is a massive futuristic gun. And it's not just any gun, but the Black Barrel Replica. Mash uses it to kill Aphrodite, Demeter and Zeus in Olympus as well as Cernunnos in Avalon le Fae.
Bespectacled Cutie: When not in battle, she's pretty cute and has a slightly nerdy look to her overall.
Big Damn Heroes: 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 Ortinax suit and blocks the lightning bolt with her shield, saving the two.
Blank Slate: She was pretty much the Emotionless Girl as a child, being so completely innocent that she maintained a perfect logic and wasn't guided by her emotions. This was a specific design feature of hers, Chaldea creating her to be so innocent and good-natured that any Heroic Spirit would be capable of assimilating with her. Even then they expected this to change due to the pain she endured during check-ups and experiment, but to their surprise she remained innocent and bore no hatred because she considers herself separate to everyone else. Because she doesn't compare herself to others, she feels no envy, and instead looks up to the good in everyone and admires people just because they exist. She only developed a personality and dreams of her own from her tutorship under Romani, her friendship with the Protagonist, and the various sights, people, and life lessons from Heroic Spirits during her travels in the Singularities.
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: 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.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: 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.
Breast Plate: Played straight. Kintoki is rather flustered by Mash as a result of it.
Brought Down to Normal: 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. 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, keeping with his personal opinion in -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM-, 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. However, Avalon La Fae hints that the true reason for this is Mash's own wavering resolve, with Aesc predicting that when she finds her reason to fight beyond mere duty her powers will be restored.
Buxom Beauty Standard: As shown in the Lostbelt Part 2 opening, her breasts are large enough that she can have a Modesty Bedsheet when she rises from her bed without using her hands; the blanket gets caught on her bountiful bosom. They were also the subject of focus long prior to that, such as Fou's love and attention for them and Servants like Scáthach to liken them to marshmallows, leading to one of her nicknames.
Call-Back: Following her Big Damn Heroes moment in the Anastasia Lostbelt is a flashback to when she took Goetia's Ars Armadel Salomonis at the cost of her life.
Cannot Tell a Lie: The protagonist notes that Mash is like this during the second Christmas event, "The Little Santa Alter," which was why she wasn't told about the plan to save Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, unlike everyone else.
Can't Catch Up:
- 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.
- Suffers this in the Lostbelt chapters as well. Ortinax Mash is, strictly speaking, not as good as her regular form due to a half offensive, half tank skill set, in particular losing her incredibly good Shield of Rousing Resolution and Wall Of Snowflakes combo that made her so useful in part one. She is also still only able to level up to 80, meaning she literally cannot catch up and benefit from the roughly ten-twenty levels of stats she could get from being grailed like other units. This especially sticks out in Lostbelt 5.2 Olypmus where she is required in many fights; even with both a Balance Buff and a special buff she gets, she struggles to keep up with how difficult the chapter is, and tends to be more dead weight rather than being helpful.
Can't Drop the Hero: Because she's your constant companion throughout the story and eventually required in several fights, Mash can't be burned for materials or stored in the Second Archive.
Can't Hold Her Liquor: Her alcohol tolerance is so low that she can pretty much get drunk off of atmosphere without actually drinking anything alcoholic. At one point she drinks something she discovers is a non-alcoholic cocktail and panics because it being called a cocktail is enough for her to get drunk off of it.
Character Development:
- 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.
- Mash generally becomes more open overtime as she understands her emotions better. This is reflected in her expression sheets; Her Stage 1 expression sheet from when she's still a borderline Blank Slate has a rather limited emotional range with only slight smiles and lacks any sort of crying expressions compared to the more lively expressions of her later forms as she becomes more human.
Characterization Marches On: Okeanos features a scene where the protagonist gets drunk and Mash has to act as the voice of reason. This contrasts with pretty much every later scene of Mash and alcohol in the same room where she distinctly Can't Hold Her Liquor with everyone else having to keep her drunk antics in check.
Cleavage Window: What her leotard shows underneath her breastplate.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Whenever other female Servants try to make advances on the protagonist, she is always the first to raise objections.
Covert Pervert: While she's generally rather reserved, when she gets into something, she really gets into it. A scene of her discussing various smells she enjoys has her admit she got a little dizzy entering the protagonist's room, and a moment where the cast uses the protagonist as bait for Anne and Mary Read has Mash fail to show up at first and then arrive blushing saying that she was too busy watching to remember the plan. The fact that her 2020 April Fools' art by Riyo involves her blushing while looking at her VR headgear invokes this.
Criminal Amnesiac: In "Lostbelt No. 6: Faerie Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae", she loses her memories due to exposure to the Lostbelt's version of the Nameless Forest and Lostbelt Morgan gets her to join her forces as Fairy Knight Galahad. However, despite losing her memories, her heroic personality remains and she tries to save people.
Crutch Character: Zig-Zagged. In Observer on Timeless Temple, she's one of the best units for her free cost and excellent tanking ability...at least around the end of the first arc. During the middle portion of the first arc, she tends to not be around in many people's parties thanks to her levels being tied to story progression while other servants could go well past her current level at the time. This changes after Camelot and Babylonia due to various buffs and max level increases. However, in Cosmos in the Lostbelt, you're forced to use her inferior Ortinax form, which doesn't do a good job of tanking or dealing damage, meaning that while she can support the party for a while, it's better to use other Servants who can do her former job better, even with the increased cost. Thankfully, around a certain point in Lostbelt 6: Avalon Le Fae, she regains her previous skillset, allowing players who preferred her original kit to switch between the two if they desire, but she's stuck in Ortinax again for Lostbelt 7: Nahui Mictlan. This is not a problem in non-main story quests, however, as since her original form is available to use regardless of place in the timeline so she can still do her job as a tank.
Curtains Match the Window: She has purple hair and eyes. Inverted in the Babylonia anime, where her hair is pink.
Cute Bruiser: A sweet, caring, wide-eyed girl charges into combat with her trusty shield to bludgeon her foes into submission.
Dangerous 16th Birthday: 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.
Demoted to Extra:
- After being one of the stars of Part One, she's almost nearly absent in Epic of Remnant as she can't use her Demi-Servant abilities and has to stay in Chaldea (with its infamously spotty reception in Singularities). She later becomes active again after she gets the Ortinax suit in Cosmos in the Lostbelt.
- Also 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).
Depending on the Artist: The exact shade of color her hair is tends to vary, with it sometimes being less lavender and more bright pink. To give an idea of how inconsistent the color of her hair is between different artworks, all three of her Figma figures share the same head sculpt but color the hair differently from each other.
Designer Babies: Mash is one specifically created in order to be a living catalyst to summon a Heroic Spirit as a Demi-Servant. 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 and badass from there, 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.
Didn't Think This Through: 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.
Discard and Draw: 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.
Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Part of her Extra profile feels nonsensical in the English version due to a mistranslation. The final sentence in it reads "The Beast of the Stars silently watches over her" which never happens in the game. This is because "Star" and "Planet" use the same word in Japanese, so if you instead used "Beast of the Planet", you would get Fou AKA Primate Murder.
Dude Magnet: She gets hit on by multiple guys throughout her adventures, such as Fionn, Caesar, Roland, or in Shakespeare’s interlude.
Dying Moment of Awesome: 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, and succeeds. Though her body evaporates from the sheer power of the attack, her shield remains standing, completely unscathed, because it is her will and her love that hold up Lord Camelot.
Emergency Transformation: 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 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.
Even the Girls Want Her: Discussed 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.
Everyone Can See It: Mash's obvious crush on the protagonist is something she's a bit embarassed about. It's therefore a shame that every single Servant with an ounce of observational skills figures it out almost immediately. By the Enma-tei event, Beni-enma is convinced they're a married couple!
Everybody Knew Already: In Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot, the characters themselves complain about the fact that Sherlock revealed Mash's Heroic Spirit identity when they already figured it out.
Exposed to the Elements: 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. 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 Sherlock Holmes (and has seen at least part of the Jeremy Brett TV series), and when they meet the real deal in Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table 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 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. Come Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot, she is upgraded into a 4-star with her third ascension.
Form-Fitting Wardrobe: 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 my daughter wearing? It's a little...
Friend-or-Idol Decision: In the first part of "Avalon le Fae", she's given a choice between killing Beryl and retrieving the Black Barrel or saving Boggart from falling to his death. While amnesiac, she still recognizes that Beryl is too dangerous to let roam free and that the Black Barrel is of immense importance, but she can't bring herself to abandon her "husband".
Gameplay and Story Segregation:
- Even after she loses her powers at the end of Part 1, you can still field her like normal during Epic of Remnant.
- Similarly, because completing Epic of Remnant isn't a requirement to unlock Cosmos in the Lostbelt and can be played simultaneously, Mash's Ortinax outfit can be used once it's unlocked despite the former taking place before the events of Cosmos.
- In the three anime, First Order, Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, and -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM-, it's implied that there is splashback damage that occurs to an enemy whenever they attack Mash's Lord Camelot. This is not present in the game.
Gender-Blender Name: "Mash" is not exactly a common girl's name, with its rare uses being masculine. Some transliterations name her Matthew, which is even more obviously male.
Glacier Waif: Despite her small size, she has incredible defensive abilities.
Guardian Entity: 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.
Guest Fighter: She becomes a playable character in Melty Blood :Type Lumina.
Gun Nut: During the third summer event, she signs up for Scathach's marksmanship course and is overjoyed to be able to utilize a variety of military-grade equipment, including the latest rifles and sniper rifles. Even the protagonist, who is often Hot-Blooded themselves, is taken aback by how fired up Mash is.
Hammerspace: She can carry food, water, and sleeping bags in her shield. Fou often sneaks into her shield to come with them to singularities and lostbelts.
Heroic Sacrifice:
- 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.
- 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 Back from the Dead in time to save the protagonist from the destroyed Temple of Solomon.
Heroic Willpower: While shy, she possesses an iron will. So much so that she was able to prevent Galahad from using her body to assassinate Marisbury Animusphere.
Hidden Buxom: You can't originally see them because of her conservative civilian clothes, but she's quite stacked, with her chest considered by other Servants like Scáthach to be like 'soft marshmallows'. They're emphasized greatly in her armor. Fou even notes in the "Dangerous Beast" card how Mash looks more endowed without a shirt on.
Hollywood Pudgy: Her figure is usually concealed by her outfit, but her appearance on the Craft Essence “Dangerous Beast” lampshades this trope In-Universe.
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...)
Improbable Weapon User: Wields a massive shield several times her size in battle as Shielder.
Impossible Hourglass Figure: Zigzagged depending on the artist, but at times she gets this figure when wearing her leotard. Other times it leans towards Hartman Hips, as while she is fairly busty, her petite size and small waist emphasises her wide hips, thighs and butt. Taken up to eleven in the turas:realta manga, but the same is done for every female character.
Inconsistent Spelling:
- 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 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".
In-Series Nickname: "Shieldy". Both Caster Tamamo and Mysterious Heroine X call Mash this in the former's Interludes and the latter's event. Jaguar Warrior calls her "Mashy" in Jaguar Warrior's Interlude, and Mash remarks "That's new."
Instant Armor: She can switch between armor and civilian clothes at will.
Insult of Endearment: She frequently chastises Dr. Roman for being a pervert, but there's no actual malice. "Initium Iter" reveals that he encouraged her to form her own opinions as part of her growth as a person, which is why he so easily takes these in stride.
Interface Spoiler: Players who start playing the game after the Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table 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.
Intoxication Ensues: 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.

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Jack of All Stats: 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.
Jerkass to One: Mash is incredibly kind to everyone but Saber Lancelot due to Galahad's issues with Lancelot and his reluctant loyalty to the Lion King in the Camelot Singularity. It's something of a running gag in events that Saber Lancelot does his best to hide from her.
Jiggle Physics: 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.
Just One Second Out of Sync: 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. The resemblance to Avalon's function is most likely not a coincidence.
Kirk Summation: Goetia shows Mash a dream of the world it hopes to create, a 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.
Kill the God: During the Olympus Lostbelt she gets access to the Black Barrel Replica by transforming her shield into a cannon and kills Demeter and Aphrodite's True Forms.
Knight in Shining Armor: The Servant she fused with is none other than Galahad.
The Last Dance: 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.
Leitmotif: Melty Blood :Type Lumina gives her "A Fateful Crossroads" as her main theme in the game.
Leotard of Power: Beneath her armor, she wears this.
Locked Out of the Loop: In "The Little Santa Alter", she's the only one (possibly even excluding the player, as there's plenty of foreshadowing throughout the event) who doesn't know that almost every Servant in the event has been working together with the Master to save Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, including the "villains". This is because she Cannot Tell a Lie and would leak the plan almost instantly (as she almost does with Santa Island Mask's identity before the protagonist loudly covers it up). Per usual demonstrations of the trope, she's pretty upset when she finds out at the end of the event and takes it out on Dr. Roman and the Master.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: 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. 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 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. Her body gave out long before her will did.
Magikarp Power:
- 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 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. As it turns out, while Ortinax Mash's skillset left a lot of players unimpressed due to several issues listed in the trope below, she went back to her orginial powerful form in Avalon La Fae due to her getting amnesia which made her forget about her insecurities.
Master of None: Ortinax Mash is this compared to her base form. Where as her first skillset was focused on tanking and had three powerful forms of defense/tanking, Ortinax Mash has downgraded versions of her skill sets, and replaces her party-wide defense buff with a Buster card buff. This results in her not being particularly powerful; she maintains the same Stone Wall stat line and card-type, meaning she lacks the power to hit hard without a lot of support, and her tanking options are reduced to the point of being hard to use. Even with her Black Barrel Bolt buff, she still struggles to maintain good damage output at times.
Meaningful Name:
- Her purported surname, Kyrielight, contains the Greek/Latin word kyrie, literally meaning "lord", and is also a shorthand for a Christian prayer^notei.e. Kyrie eleison, "Lord, have mercy". It could therefore be interpreted as "Light of the Lord" or "Lord of Light" — which, considering her separate identity as a legendary knight who found the Holy Grail (and thus the protection of God), makes perfect sense.
- Her Ortinax mode is named after a magical species of fish in the Euphrates river. The rib bone of an Ortinax made one half of the crosspiece on the Sword with the Strange Hangings (the sword of Galahad).
Mission Control: 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.
Modesty Bedsheet: Has one in the Lostbelt Part 2 opening. However, she doesn't purposely keep the bedsheet covering herself with her hands or something. It's an unintentional effect of her breasts being large enough that the blanket gets caught on them as she rises, without her having to even do anything to keep it there.
Moment of Weakness: Downplayed in Lostbelt N°6. Due to a combination of her Induced Amnesia and her own personality, Mash leaves behind the Black Barrel in Sheffield, not wanting to do anything more with its destructive power after Boggart used it against Morgan's soldiers. Mash acknowledges her own lapse of judgement after regaining her memories and being in a situation where the Black Barrel is needed, luckily for everyone, Habetrot had taken the Black Barrel and kept it hidden until the time was right.
Morality Chain:
- To Ophelia, as she desperately wants to rekindle her friendship with Mash. Ophelia even deliberately debuffs Sigurd whenever he attacks Mash in one fight.
- Also to Fou, as her interactions with him give him an understanding of humanity, which prevents him from becoming Beast IV.
Mundane Utility:
- Lancelot's first Interlude has her use her shield as a picnic blanket, which becomes a problem when monsters attack because she can't fight back without dumping everyone's lunches onto the ground.
- She uses her shield to grind up corn for cooking in Lostbelt 7. She internally wonders if the Knights of the Round would judge her for such a mundane use of her shield.
Naïve Newcomer: 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 outside of story missions where she's locked into the Ortinax. The skills may also be intentionally underpowered like the first form was at the start of the game.
- When Galahad was first summoned, Mash was very powerful, effortlessly dodging and tanking Chaldea's lasers that could melt steel, and then punching through a Bounded Field. After Mash stopped him via Fighting from the Inside, he mentally withdrew and she started from scratch as a Servant.
Neural Implanting: During her childhood, all of her knowledge was simply uploaded into her by the SHEBA system, thus she has rather detailed knowledge of certain things and definitions, such as what the name Roman meant or the nature of a "Sempai" and "Kouhai". This also means that her understanding was very limited, as due to being confined in a single room, all of her knowledge came from SHEBA and she could not form her own view or opinion; only repeat what SHEBA had told her something meant. This changed when Romani became her physician.
Nice Girl: She's very sweet to everyone with the exception of Lancelot^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.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After being sent back in time in Lostbelt 6, she attempts to prevent the whole scenario by warning Aesc about her impending failure and subsequent fate as Morgan. Aesc, ever the optimist, disregards her warning and when she does indeed fail like Mash said, she breaks. Because of this, Mash is arguably responsible for the rise of Morgan and the subsequent subjugation of Britain.
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: 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 (or, according to Babylonia episode 0, a living catalyst for summons).
No-Sell: Her second skill negates any damage dealt to a target. This combos nicely with her third skill that taunts enemies into attacking her.
Non-Standard Skill Learning: Mash gains her skills and ascensions via plot progression, meaning that it takes her longer than other Servants to reach her potential.
Not Allowed to Grow Old: Her limited life-span aside, Marisbury explains that due to fusing with a Heroic Spirit, her body will maintain itself when she reaches her physical peak and will not age as she grows older. Now that she can live a full life, she will show that she will always maintain the same appearance as she does now. This is even shown in Babylonia Episode 0, where she visibly ages when first possessed by Galahad despite only being 10 years old^note, only reverting when Galahad seals himself away.
Not So Above It All:
- 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.
- She tends to play the role of Only Sane Man during GUDAGUDA events, but when offered the role of chief retainer to you as the daimyo of the new "Chaldea Clan", she takes it so readily that her character tag changes to "Chief Retainer Mash" before she orders a nameless infantryman to bring her a map. When you start a battle in a new zone during the event, she's the one on the front lines rallying the troops with a Battle Cry that would make Iskandar proud. Even Nobbu is surprised by how excited she is about it.
Obliviously Beautiful: 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 plain in comparison to the other female Servants, and in her VR event, she thinks that her own body is unsightly.
Ominous Visual Glitch: After her story-mandated nerf in part 2, every usage of Lord Camelot, or rather Mold Camelot, ends up absolutely covered in black squares.
Only Sane Man: Despite inexperience, Mash approaches most things with modest yet extensive textbook generic knowledge and common sense. She's in the wrong genre for that.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Francis Drake's first Interlude, Mash becomes so terrified of Blackbeard that she refers to the protagonist by name.
Pile Bunker: The Bunker Bolt is one equipped to Ortinax' shield.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: When wearing her normal clothes she looks quite proper, though as Shielder she's quite Stripperiffic.
Power Up Letdown: The Black Barrel buff gives her increased Buster Atk damage and increased Critical damage while also giving her the ability to ignore enemy Defense buffs. Problem is, it does nothing to help her tanking, which is her primary role in the first place.
Rage Breaking Point: Mash spends the majority of Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot witnessing the atrocities committed by the Lion King and her knights, and later learns that the Lion King's true plan wouldn't "save" humanity in the conventional sense. However, what really enrages her is 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 ascending to 3rd Ascension, challenging Lancelot to a duel, and winning.
Raised in a Lab: In the prologue of the Sixth Singularity, it's revealed that Mash is a genetically engineered child to have perfect magic circuits in order to host a heroic spirit, and had a predetermined life span. In addition, due to being raised in a sterile environment, she could not go outside. She was also not the only one, though all the others died. After said spirit called out the scientists and magi involved, they stopped the experiments out of guilt, and gave her as much freedom in Chaldea as they could. Most of their issues are solved at the end of the first part of the game.
Really 700 Years Old: A bit of an odd example. During the end of Avalon le Fae Part 1, Mash gets caught in Morgan's Black Mirror spell and gets teleported away. Except that the spell actually threw her 2,400 years into the past with no way to return back to the present day. Because of this, Mash had to take The Slow Path approach and be frozen in ice so that Chaldea can find her in Orkney. So while she hasn't actively lived for that long, her actual age is much greater than it normally should be.
Rei Ayanami Expy: 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.
Dr Roman: Umhm. To see Mash, who's serious, quiet, and frankly, kind of mysterious, grow up to be such a fine lady…
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: 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.
Dr. Roman: It depends on the city, but Mash's Servant form could be considered indecent in some places.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: A lavender-haired Nice Girl with a fundamentally optimistic outlook on life.
Series Mascot: 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.
Set Swords to "Stun": A Running Gag 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.
Sexy Silhouette: In Fate/Grand Order VR the towel that hangs over Mash's shoulder-high changing screen falls away just as she strips out of her clothes, leaving this in its wake.
Shield Bash: 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.
Single Specimen Species: "Species" in this case meaning Servant Class; Mash has been the only Shielder-class Servant present in the game since launch unless counting Galahad, the Servant she's fused with who has yet to appear as a playable Servant himself.
Signature Mon: Chaldea's summoning system allows the protagonist to summon multiple Servants that serve and fight for them. You are almost always accompanied with Demi-Servant Mash Kyrielight, the Shielder, who is also your first Servant and the game's Series Mascot. In Singularities, Lostbelts and a couple of events and Interludes (especially the early ones), she's usually the only Servant (aside from the Servant whose Interlude you're playing) to stand beside you. Guest Servants aren't Servants you own, so they don't count as your Mons. Mash is unique in that her Ascensions, Rank-Ups, Bond Level and Noble Phantasm Level are story-locked, she is the only Servant who changes her rarity throughout the game, and she cannot be consumed by other Servants or be burned, so you can never get rid of her. She cannot even be put into the Second Archive. Mash also serves as the protagonist's main Love Interest and compared to other Servants, she has the largest character arc. And unlike other Servants, her bond is based on story completion and you cannot obtain multiple Saint Graphs of her nor can you enhance her via Palingenesis.
Simple, yet Awesome: She's one of the best examples of this trope in this game, especially after the completion of Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot - she's one of the best tanks in the game, due to her Stone Wall 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 until completing Lostbelt 6: Avalon le Fae, meaning that until then you can't gain any bond points with her. But even then, as of Cosmos in the Lostbelt, she has a passive skill that boosts BP for other party members (20% for the Lostbelts, 5% for events), meaning that the player can sacrifice a sixth party member for extra BP or vice versa.
Sleeps in the Nude: The second opening of Cosmos in the Lostbelt shows Mash sleeping in the buff before awakening, the sheet preserving her modesty only being held up by her generous chest. It can also be inferred that, since any other sleepwear she's been shown to wear are hospital gowns, that Mash might sleep in bed nude normally.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: 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.
Speaks Fluent Animal: 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 his sacrifice, she's confused because while she can still understand him, all he says are simple things like wanting candy.
Starter Mon: Every player starts out with Mash as their first Servant. While the player will obtain at least one guaranteed out of ten (later 14) 4* Servants, it's still random whom the player might get. Mash is the one Servant every single player will always have, regardless of choice.
Stone Wall: 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 fully-upgraded 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 incredibly valuable unit for stall-based teams or challenge quests.
Stripperiffic: 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.
Sultry Bangs: Her hair covers her right eye, adding a mysterious allure to her otherwise cute image, especially in her more fanservicey pics. She even has her hair like this when wearing glasses which, while providing a shy-bookworm-girl type of Hiding Behind Your Bangs image, looks particularly unusual.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: When Galahad is first summoned as shown in episode 0 of the Babylonia anime, Mash's eyes shine and they smash out of her restraints and attack the Chaldea crew. When Mash takes control back they go mismatched and then go out as she faints.
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Her Shielder class has no strengths or weaknesses, taking and dealing neutral damage to all other classes.
Technicolor Eyes: Even in the Nasuverse, purple is an unusual eye color. It's most likely a result of her origin as an artificially conceived human.
Terrible Artist: 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. In Lostbelt No. 1, the best Holmes can muster up as a compliment for her picture on a kite is it would serve as a good charm to ward off evil spirits.
Throwing Your Shield Always Works: The 4th Anniversary video has her throwing her shield like a discus at a Chimera so Izou can jump on and ride it past the snake tail and carve it.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: While her Ortinax form has a couple of issues, the Tunguska Sanctuary allows some usage for the form as if Ortinax Mash uses her Black Barrel skill, Habetrot will come to the fight to fire off her Noble Phantasm before any attacks are made while removing all Invincibility buffs from all enemies as well as inflicting Damage Resistance Down, and Damage Down on all enemies for four turns.
Took a Level in Badass:
- After learning that 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 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 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.
- In Lostbelt 5.2 Olympus, Mash upgrades her shield to now have Black Barrel Replica, allowing her to kill Gods in exchange for the Protagonist needing to use a Command Seal. This is reflected in Bunker Bolt getting a fairly good buff.
- In-game, if the player completes Lostbelt 6 Avalon Le Fae, she will be grailed to Level 90, raising her HP and ATK stats.
- Mash's unique class, Shielder, offers absolutely zero offensive and defensive advantages against other classes. But with the introduction of Append Skills in the 6th anniversery, Mash gains possibly the best one of the bunch. A skill that increases her attack against all Extra class enemies (Including Beasts), giving FTP players an offensive option that they would most likely lack.
- In Lostbelt 7 Nahui Mictlan, Mash incorporates a Paradox Cylinder into her shield, which in-game adds offensive functions to her Tragic Shield of Rousal skill.
Unknowingly in Love: Her naivety from growing up sheltered means she doesn't quite understand her crush on the protagonist, despite constantly blushing around him/her and being the first to object to other Servants' advances on them. According to her, she only knows about love in theory and not in practice.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Twofold actually. While she never calls Romani by any parental title, Mash does call him out on his behavior. Mash is also this to Saber Lancelot. Every time the two interact, she calls him out on his flirting. Downplayed, as Mash has shown she can be just as nuts as those two
Walking Swimsuit Scene: An alternate costume introduced for her with the first Summer event's rerun means this is in effect for her as she can wear her swimsuit in any battle, even off the beach. The same works with a bikini from a later event.
The World Is Just Awesome: Part of the reason why she calls the protagonist her "senpai" is because 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 Genki Girl when visiting a Japanese city like Misaki City during "Garden of Order".
Your Days Are Numbered: 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 a 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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