Mashu Kyrielight - Shielder

 Mashu Kyrielight

Japanese Name: マシュ・キリエライト

AKA: Mashu Kirielite, Mash (Official Translation)

Mashu Kyrielight, also known as Shielder, is the first Servant in Fate/Grand Order.

Background

Shielder's True Name is Mash Kyrielight, a Demi-Servant human fused with the Heroic Spirit Galahad. She herself initially does not know the identity of the Servant fused with her. In the year 2000, Mash was created from artificial fertilization and genetic editing. She is actually a Designer Baby, a magus genetically engineered under the orders of Chaldea's late director, ‎Marisbury Animusphere, to be a prime vessel for a Heroic Spirit's soul. The project aimed to control the powers of Heroic Spirits by binding them to a compatible mortal vessel in order to produce Demi-Servants.

In 2010, when Mash was aged 10, Chaldea performed their second Heroic Spirit summoning. While the project succeeded in summoning and binding a spirit to Mash, the spirit failed to awaken. Galahad decried Chaldea's brutal experiments, briefly taking over her body in an attempt to escape, but when Mash began to resist his control he realized that she would die in his absence. He remained in her body so she could survive, but refused to awaken. He would not form a Demi-Servant contract with her until the events at Singularity F, and even then he immediately returned to a dormant state without revealing his True Name to Mash after bestowing his abilities to her.

After the research team deemed the project a failure, Mash was left to Chaldea's care. However, due to being a genetically engineered organism not dissimilar to a Homunculus, her life-span was set since her conception. She was given eighteen years to live and while she was aware of this fact, she kept it a secret between herself and Dr. Romani, her physician. By the start of the story, Mash has already lived sixteen years of her life giving her a mere two years left, at best.

Appearance

Mash is a young woman with short lilac hair, lavender eyes and fair skin. Her figure is fairly athletic, and her breasts have elicited comments (some of which are rather crude) from several other Servants about her physique and have also garnered her the nickname "Mashmallow".

In her casual outfit, Mash wears rectangular frame glasses, a grey hoodie over a black shirt over a white-collar shirt, a red tie, a black skirt and tights, and brown shoes. In her Demi-Servant outfit Mash wears skin-tight black and purple armor that resembles an extremely short mini-dress that exposes her butt, emphasizes her breasts, and reveals her panties. There is a hole that exposes her stomach area. She also wears black gauntlets and boots, a garter on her right thigh, a large cross-shaped shield and she doesn't wear her glasses. With Ortinax equipped, she wears a more technologically advanced suit of armor with thigh-high boots and a visor, which have been designed to enhance her physical capabilities and compensate for Galahad's refusal to cooperate with her.