Melville

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## Melville / Mashiro Kuji

* Restart
* Manga

**Melville** (メルヴィル), also known by her real name **Mashiro Kuji** (久慈真白), is one of the main protagonists of *Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart*.

Melville is part of Team Bell. she is a Magical Girl with a strong accent that makes it difficult for others to understand her.

 In *Black* a homunculus version of Melville appears and attacks Group 2 during the Second Mock Battle.

## Appearance

### Human

Mashiro comes from a tribal-like society, and although it's never mentioned the tribe she belongs to, it can be intended she had a wild-looking appearance that might resemble her Magical Girl form.

### Magical Girl

As a Magical Girl, Melville has long, light brown/pink-orange colored hair, with bangs going in the middle of her face, and the sides of her head have hair that comes down into small curls. She has two twin-tails that are split into two sections and are held up by deep violet roses and blackcurrant colored spiky vines wrapping around her hair and the same light brown/pink-orange eyebrows.

Her eyes are a more orange color than her hair with darker crossed slit pupils. She has short, orange-brown colored eyelashes, a dark blush, elf ears and is paler than other characters.

As for her outfit, Melville has clothes on similar to medieval clothing, with dark beige cloth covering her entire neck, beige shoulder pads, white cloth that leaves her chest open, and goes into a triangle shape right before the middle of her stomach. Under that, she has a dark purple bra. She has a bright red rose on her left breast, a bright red rose as a ring on her left hand, bone, blackcurrant and dark beige poofy jester pants with white at the bottom and a rodeo dust-colored cape with a deep violet poof at the end.

On her left thigh, she has blackcurrant spiky vines wrapped around and blackcurrant slips, with a strap that wraps around the lower half of her leg.

## Personality

At first, Melville is shown to be quite calm and collected and more often than not will not involve herself with others. However, this is all proven to be a façade, as by the stories conclusion she is shown to be quite sadistic with little regards for the lives of others. She adores Cranberry, striving to be exactly like her. Melville has a complex over this and excessively trained in hopes to be anywhere close to her. She's described as being exactly like Cranberry, whilst also being her own person.

She is shown to be extremely manipulative, and uses her magic and memories to her advantage, such as coaxing Rionetta into her plans. Despite her seemingly calm attitude, it's revealed that she's actually very emotional, and in the heat of the moment she's unable to stay calm, which eventually betraying other magical girls, especially other teammates and also allows Pechka to drag her underwater and lead her to her death.

## Magic

***Can change her color at will.***

Melville is able to change the color of any object, living or non-living, as long as she has touched it. She is able to choose to change the colors all at once or make the colors continuously changing. She can also affect the speed in which the colors change, and can make it possible for herself to blend in with her surroundings by changing her own colors.

Melville can set a specific duration for how long the colors stay changed, and her magic still remains even if Melville has died.

The magic can only be used for disturbing vision only. It's not effective against those who rely on other senses.

### Special Item(s)

* ***Harpoon:*** Melville's deadly weapon that has claimed the lives of several Magical Girls in the game.
* ***Miracle Coin:*** An in-game item of *Restart*. It increases the loot/item drop rate. It's a rare item that can only be obtained through events. She stole it from Masked Wonder.
* ***Power Talisman:*** An in-game loot item of *Restart*. It increases power.
* ***Bow of the Evil God:*** An in-game loot item of *Restart*. A stronger bow.

## Relationships

### Musician Of The Forest, Cranberry

Cranberry was Melville's mentor. Melville strives to be just like Cranberry. Her Magical Girl outfit is based on Cranberry's. She also helps her mentor during the selection test. Melville decided to continue Cranberry's legacy after her death.

### Detec Bell

Melville and Detec Bell are both on Team Bell. Melville does not trust her and tries to convince Lapis Lazuline to make a new team without Detec Bell.

Melville eventually kills Detec Bell in an attempt to prevent her from recovering everyone’s lost memories.

### Lapis Lazuline

Melville and Lapis Lazuline are both on Team Bell. Lazuline is the only one to understand her strange accent, and often translates her speech to other members of the group. When Melville decides to leave Team Bell, she attempts to convince Lazuline to join her. When she realizes that she was going to stay with Detec Bell, Melville gives up and leaves.

Once Lazuline figures out that Melville had been the one to kill Bell, it leads to the two of them fighting. Melville is astonished by both Lazuline’s fighting capabilities and the fact she could still sense her while Melville was invisible. Melville struggles to keep up for the first few seconds, but is eventually able to fatally wound Lazuline. However, Melville is shocked when the Lazuline is able to grab her ankle despite being deceased.

Melville dies believing that the only reason Lazuline managed to move was either an obsession or a grudge.

### Cherna Mouse

Melville and Cherna Mouse are both on Team Bell. Melville is the only member of Team Bell that can get Cherna to go according to her orders. When Cherna dies, Melville appears saddened.

Later on, it is revealed that Melville was the one who orchestrated Cherna Mouse's death. Melville doesn't regret her actions.

### Rionetta

When Melville found out about Rionetta's economic issues, she sent a briefcase full of money to her house. The briefcase also included a letter where Melville explained her plan to Rionetta and what she wanted her to do. Rionetta accepted Melville's offer, mostly because she was afraid of Melville, who somehow discovered her address more than to pay off her parents' debt.

After Genopsyko's death, Rionetta used her magic to control Genopsyko's corpse while Melville used hers to erase the wounds on her body, using this strategy they managed to kill another magical girl. Melville and Rionetta agreed to kill the rest of the magical girls and finish the game when they were the only remaining girls. Rionetta despised this idea but was afraid to reject Melville's plan.

Rionetta finally stood up against Melville after the death of one teammate of hers. Rionetta decided she wouldn't let her other teammates die at the hands of Melville. Melville, angered by Rionetta's betrayal, decides to throw an arrow to Rionetta, which ends Rionetta's life.

### Pechka

Melville targets Pechka and holds her hostage while threatening Clantail. She later comes to despise Pechka when the latter kept interrupting her plans.

### Clantail

Melville threatens Clantail while Pechka was held hostage and later fought each other after Pechka was free from Melville. Clantail is the one who eventually kills Melville for killing her friends.

### La Pucelle

During *Knight on the Day of the Offline Meetup*, Melville helped La Pucelle to escape from a Magical Girl Fanatics meeting with her dignity intact. She gave La Pucelle some clothes to wear after her outfit was torn. It's important to mention this was an order from Cranberry as a way to protect one of the magical girls who would participate in her selection test and not something that Melville selflessly did.

### Marika Fukuroi

Melville and Marika Fukuroi have trained together, hoping to surpass Cranberry.

### Tama

Although they never interacted, Melville despises Tama - not for killing Cranberry, but because her mentor was killed by the magical girl that Melville considered to be the weakest in the selection test.

## Etymology

### Real Name

* The name **Mashiro** means "pure white" (真白).
* Mashiro's surname **Kuji** means "long time" (久) (**ku**) and "kindness, compassion, charity, love, mercy, be affectionate" (慈) (**ji**).

## Trivia

* In Fanbook 1, Melville has the following stats:
Physical Ability: 4/5
Communication Skill: 1/5
Magic Rarity: 3/5
Magic Experience: 5/5
Mental Strength: 4/5
Stealthiness: 5/5
* Melville's name appears to be based on the novelist Herman Melville, best known for writing the novel *Moby-Dick*. Melville's real name, **Mashiro Kuji**, likely comes from "white whale" (Shiro = White, Kujira = Whale) further emphasizing the connection to *Moby-Dick* and references her use of harpoons and pursuit of revenge.
* The fanbook states that Melville is a nomadic traveler who lived in a tribal-like society where she hunted for food with bows. This life in the wilderness explains her accent and difficulty interacting with people.

## Reference

1. ↑ https://www.toranoana.jp/info/dojin/mahosyoujyo\_portal/character\_file.html