Matilda

***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD** This whole character page contains major spoilers for the end of the third arc of Spy Classroom. Continue at your own risk.*

## Matilda

* Anime
* Light Novel
* Manga

## Personal Info

### Country of orgin

Lylat Kingdom (Claim)
Galgad Empire (reality)

## Debuts

### **Anime Debut**

Episode 13

**Matilda** was a character introduced in *Spy Classroom*. She was the mother of Forgetter.

## Appearance

Matilda is short and has big bright eyes and appears to be in her mid-thirties. Her hair is wispy and has pale skin that makes her appear sickly. She wears a gray blouse.

## Personality

Matilda is a hard personality to make sense of as she hides her true intentions and emotions under a web of lies. On the surface, Matilda appears protective and slightly neurotic, very much concerned about her child and focused on getting her back home, but also caring about her wellbeing and her friends, not against her new identity as Annette or that she developed into a new person after they were estranged and she developed amnesia. Throughout the novel she tries to convince Monika and Thea to give her a chance to live with her daughter.

Under the surface however, her personality is takes a completely different turn. Matilda, when not putting up a front, speaks with a drawl. Matilda is unhinged, unpredictable and downright sadistic. This behavior causes her to act carelessly, the entire hunt down started because she killed people 'because she wanted to.'She speaks of mass murder and commits murder without care. When describing the horrific acts of abuse she commited against Annette, she described it all with a while radiating ecstasy.

## Plot

### Prior to Losing Annette

Matilda originally worked as an Imperial engineer, but when her husband died young and she didn't have enough money to provide for her daughter, she turned to espionage work to make ends meet. Matilda was assigned to work for a foreign manufacturer and use her position to bring in cash to operatives who were on infiltration missions in foreign nations.  Matilda lost Annette four years ago when they went to visit the Republic but the two got into a train accident. She was taken to the hospital but Annette had already gone missing. After losing her daughter, she was a shell of her former self, continuing to work as a spy as she saw it was the easiest thing to do.

When talking to White Spider unfiltered though, Matilda admits to a far different story. According to Matilda, Annette was a baby she found stuffed in the trash can at a train station. Matilda adopted and had Annette underwent plastic surgery to pass as Matilda's daughter, crushing her eye in the process, since she thought the girl would be a useful prop for her spy work. Matilda regularly abused Annette, telling White Spider that she beat Annette because she creeped her out and could never tell what was going on inside her head. Matilda regretted not leaving Annette in the trash can where she found her. Eventually, Matilda got so paranoid of Annette that she started hitting her with her cobalt-blue toolbox until Annette lose her memories. Matilda later regretted that she should had killed the girl instead.

### Volume 3

According to her business card. She was an engineer from the Lylat Kingdom and worked for a company that produced heavy machinery. A newer corporation known for its high quality work. They had a warranty program where they'd send their engineers from their headquarters in Lylat to personally deal with broken equipment. Matilda said she had come to the hotel Annette, Thea, Monika, and Erna were staying at at the time of Volume 3.

Matilda claimed she was being chased by debt collects. Her toolbox was stolen, so she needed the money to buy it back from a pawn shop. She used her passport as collateral to borrow money to gamble it back, but instead got duped and lost everything.

In reality, Matilda was responsible for the murder of the Lylat spy, and found a way to escape that involved taking advantage of her unwitting daughter. Thea, Monika and Erna were so useful to Matilda that she decided to go along with their plan and how they 'ate up' every lie she fed at them.

Matilda was planning on giving Annette her blue toolbox with a bomb inside. She wanted to kill Annette and the team for her own amusement. Unfortunately, Annette knew the kind of person she was and knew that she was planning on killing her so she also gave Matilda a bomb. The bomb went off while Matilda was in the shipping container as Annette and Klaus looked on.

## Skills

### Engineering

Matilda demonstrates some level of engineering expertise. She is able to construct contraptions, such as setting up traps to kill the debt collectors and rigging a toolbox with a bomb. She also teaches Annette some new skills and introduce useful tools such as a paint that can be used to deceive by concealing markings on objects.

### Acting

Matilda's acting is so unnatural that it becomes uncanny when she breaks character. It is hard to tell whether Matilda is being truthful or not even out of character as well.

## Relationships

### Annette

When Matilda and Annette were still living together. Matilda claims that she could not count how many times Annette sneaked into her workshop and tinkered with the machines. Even though Matilda didn't teach her how. Matilda claimed that when she saw Annette at home with Lamplight that she looked happy and that it meant the world to her.When Monika and Thea set up a dinner date for them to actually converse after the two had been estranged for so long. Neither of them could make any progress and only engaged in shallow small talk. However after the dinner date and when the Lamplight girls recovered Matilda's toolbox, both Annette and Matilda engaged in a lively conversation regarding machinery and engineering.

However when with White Spider, Matilda admits with no prior interrogation that she is just using Annette, and had actually been an abusive parent prior to Annette losing her memories, which Matilda directly caused after beating Annette over the head with her toolbox. White Spider, upon asking Matilda if she had any maternal love for the girl replied that she had not a single bit. Calling Annette a creepy brat. Without hesitation and without remorse. She admitted that she never held any love for her at all, but did feel remorse after her eye was crushed during the plastic surgery Annette undergone to let her pass as her daughter. Matilda thought Annette was strange and twisted to her core, which was the reason in her justification to White Spider why she beat her. That he wouldn't get it unless he met her himself. That when Annette grew up, she started getting even more alien and was so scared she started hitting her over and over. That was until she beat her so hard she beat all the memories out of Annette. Looking back, Matilda regrets not killing her instead, to quote: "When dealing with something defective, you have to make sure you dispose of it properly."

Upon reuniting with Annette, she thought she had her daughter eating out of her hand.

### Dreamspeaker

When it comes to Thea, Matilda regards her as a nobody. Too soft and incredibly easy to manipulate. According her her, in all her life, she had never met someone so naïve and easy to take advantage of as Thea.

## Gallery

Matilda's reunion with Annette mangaMatilda rough design by Tomari
## Trivia

* According to Matilda, Matilda is not an alias, It's her real name. As per reason she chose to introduce herself using that name despite her already having an alias.

## References

1. ↑ Volume 3 page 146
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Volume 3 page 147
3. ↑ Volume 3 page 108
4. ↑ *Spy Classroom* Volume 3, Page 60
5. ↑ *Spy Classroom* Volume 3, Page 74
6. ↑ Volume 3 page 181
7. ↑ *Spy Classroom* Volume 3, Page 62
8. ↑ Volume 3 page 170