Matilda

Matilda is a white-haired Mixedblood from the Kwoiune family, an MBO officer, and a long-running ally of Gustav Oslov. Early chapters repeatedly spell her name “Maltida,” but later narration consistently establishes Matilda as the canonical form. Beneath her proud public manner, her defining purpose is the rescue of her childhood companion Princess Dahria, a goal that shapes her refusal of an arranged marriage, her pursuit of strength, and her central role in freeing Abruikis. (Chapters 90–1532)

Biography

Winning a place beside Gustav

Matilda first approaches Gustav during an interschool trip and asks to be his friend even though his reputation makes association with him socially costly. He assumes she wants something and rejects her, but she keeps talking to him, sits in his preferred place rather than demanding that he accommodate her, and later checks on him after a fire. Her persistence is not yet trust: Gustav explicitly withholds ally status and makes her future place beside him depend on what she can demonstrate in the MBO entrance test. (Chapters 90, 149, 200)

The entrance trials convert that one-sided request into practical cooperation. Matilda reveals a silver transformation that can reshape her arm into a blade and disrupt a machine after piercing it, then survives the Caskia Ruins with Gustav's emerging circle. During the ruins incident, outside control forces her to attack Angy; the resulting battle establishes both the resilience of her silver armor and its vulnerability to enough concentrated force. Once the control is broken, Matilda remains part of the group by choice, and Gustav increasingly treats her as an ally rather than a petitioner. (Chapters 206, 243–265)

The betrothal ploy and Dahria's message

The Kwoiune family tries to bind Matilda to Deitrick through betrothal. Matilda counters by naming Gustav as the standard any prospective husband must defeat, calculating that her family cannot readily produce someone capable of overcoming him. The ploy uses Gustav's strength to preserve her freedom, but it is not motivated by romance. When he demands the reason, she explains that marriage would place the obligations of a new household between her and the promise that governs her life. (Chapters 311, 339–343)

That promise began with Dahria, who lived with Matilda for roughly three years from the age of seven before being taken away. Matilda later receives a message revealing that her friend is the princess of Abruikis and pleading for rescue from the forces controlling the royal family and planet. Matilda believes she may be Dahria's only remaining avenue of help. She therefore rejects the betrothal even under the possibility that Dahria is already dead: if she cannot save her friend, she intends to free Abruikis in Dahria's memory. Gustav agrees to help when doing so will not conflict with his own objectives, turning Matilda's private vow into a long-term alliance. (Chapters 341–348)

MBO discipline and loyalty under pressure

MBO life places Matilda inside a durable peer group with Angy, Glade, E.E, and the other cadets around Gustav. She mediates disagreements, worries about Angy's changes in behavior, and defends Gustav from simplistic readings of his conduct without pretending that he is gentle. Her loyalty becomes most consequential when the MBO labels him a fugitive: Matilda joins the others in looking past the official accusation and supporting a plan built on their knowledge of his motives. (Chapters 374, 601, 709, 763–765)

Her own growth remains tethered to Abruikis. When the group recognizes how far Gustav has moved ahead, Matilda argues that they cannot accomplish their goals without increasing their ranks. She later accepts a dangerous five-star mission partly because every advancement brings her closer to the power needed to reach Dahria. This motive coexists with team duty rather than replacing it: Matilda fights through the Genxodus campaign, earns an IYSOP place, and contributes her adaptable silver defenses to a team whose survival depends on specialists protecting one another. (Chapters 1016, 1029, 1068–1326)

The oasis connection during IYSOP advances Matilda from peak Falcon to Kilo rank and unlocks further potential through her bloodline predecessors. Her battlefield control subsequently expands beyond personal armor: she can fortify allies, create wide barriers, and switch between weapons and shields. The progression gives her the minimum leverage needed to attempt the rescue she has been postponing for years, but it does not make her invulnerable or remove the need for collaborators, intelligence, and a method of disabling the royal family's slave shackles. (Chapters 1068, 1144, 1308–1326)

Freeing Abruikis

After IYSOP, Gustav explicitly returns to the promise of helping Dahria. Matilda works with Riole and the others on a separator machine capable of freeing everyone within its radius from the heart-linked slave shackles. She coordinates the people who must carry the device into Abruikis, accepts the risk of infiltrating a planet controlled by hostile generals, and enters the operation knowing that raw victory is useless if the shackles kill the people she is trying to save. Her role is consequently both strategic and martial: the rescue depends on placing the separator, protecting its operators, and keeping Dahria alive long enough for it to work. (Chapters 1058, 1345–1348)

On Abruikis, Matilda uses her silver substance to encapsulate multiple allies, give Oola and Riole armor-like protection, and build walls against incoming attacks. Oola's death drives her into rage, but she regains focus because abandoning Riole would sacrifice the larger mission. Against Ivreen she sends a minute silver projectile past his notice, expands it after penetration into a heated drill, and reshapes it into a flaming sword, killing him. A stronger general then cuts through her double-layer defense and severs her arm, a brutal reminder that ingenuity can overcome a peer while rank and force still define the upper limit of her armor. (Chapters 1350–1352)

The separator succeeds, Dahria and the royal household are freed, and Dahria assumes the position of Empress. Gustav's arrival prevents the remaining generals from reversing the outcome, but Matilda has already led the central rescue work and defeated one of the regime's commanders. The victory resolves the objective that shaped her life for more than a decade: Dahria is not merely extracted, but restored to the authority from which she can rebuild Abruikis. Matilda's development lies in reaching that result through planning and dependence on trusted allies rather than treating solitary strength as the only proof of devotion. (Chapters 1352–1357)

Dahria's testimony and a chosen departure

Matilda later accompanies Empress Dahria to Earth for Gustav's trial. Officials deliberately delay and obstruct their entry, but Matilda persists until Dahria can testify. Dahria's account of Abruikis and of Gustav's role in freeing it materially challenges the prosecution's portrayal of him; it also completes a reciprocal turn in her relationship with Matilda. The person Matilda once spent years trying to reach now crosses interplanetary and political barriers to help defend Matilda's ally. (Chapters 1516–1517)

After the trial, Matilda rejoins her friends and spends time with Dahria outside the immediate pressure of rescue. When the group later prepares to leave for Agon, Matilda has already departed with the Empress. Her final retained-corpus state is therefore neither captivity nor unfinished pursuit: she is alive, free of the marriage plan that threatened her agency, and able to choose a future beside the friend whose freedom defined her early adulthood. (Chapters 1520–1532)

Appearance and personality

Matilda is a tall, striking young woman with long white hair, a trait shared by members of the Kwoiune family. Her composed bearing is repeatedly described as proud or princess-like, and her bloodline adds a white rhombus mark or silvery dot to her forehead when active. Full transformation coats her skin in liquid-looking silver, while combat applications extend that material into armor, blades, lances, shields, walls, and free-moving orbs. (Chapters 206, 253–254, 742, 830, 1078–1084)

Her reputation for pride is grounded in a real tendency toward bluntness and social confidence, but it does not exhaust her character. Matilda is persistent enough to keep approaching Gustav after rejection, strategic enough to turn his reputation into protection against betrothal, and loyal enough to structure years of training around an endangered childhood friend. Under severe loss she can become furious and impulsive, yet the Abruikis mission shows that she can recover her priorities and protect others while grieving. Her strongest choices consistently preserve agency—first her own, then Dahria's, and eventually that of an entire enslaved royal population. (Chapters 90, 311–348, 1350–1357)

Bloodlines and abilities

Silver transmutation and construct shaping

The corpus does not supply a canonical name or origin account for Matilda's bloodline. Its basic mechanism is the production and control of a silvery substance that can coat her body, alter its form, and separate into controlled constructs. Her earliest assessment shows an arm becoming a blade and a pierced artificial intelligence turning silver and malfunctioning badly enough to attack another machine. This suggests that direct contact can transmit a disruptive transformation to some nonliving targets, but the story does not demonstrate the same conversion against living opponents and does not define its chemical or biological basis. (Chapter 206)

Matilda's most consistent application is armor. Liquid silver spreads over her body, hardens against strikes, and can grow spikes or reinforce a particular limb with multiple layers. She can reshape the same material into spears, large lances, broad shields, solid walls, drills, and sword-like edges, which lets her alternate between close combat, projectiles, and area defense without carrying a separate weapon. The material can also dissolve into floating orbs and reform at a distance, allowing attacks to approach at a small scale before expanding after they breach a target's guard. (Chapters 253–254, 1078–1084, 1350–1352)

The bloodline's later development is protective and distributive. Matilda can encapsulate several allies in silver, provide another person with an armor-like coating, and erect barriers large enough to support a group position. She can heat an embedded construct and rapidly change its shape, as shown by the tiny projectile that becomes a drill and then a flaming sword inside Ivreen. These applications reward preparation, proximity, and precise control; they are particularly valuable when a mission requires keeping a vulnerable operator alive rather than simply defeating an opponent. (Chapters 1308, 1350–1352)

The silver is durable, not absolute. Angy can cave in Matilda's armor with sufficient force, Gustav's repeated enhanced blows can riddle it with openings, and a much stronger general slices through a double-layer guard and her arm. Bloodline-dampening technology also restricts her access to these abilities. The latest detailed combat evidence is the Abruikis operation in Chapter 1352; later chapters confirm that Matilda remains active and alive, but do not establish a stronger form, a higher named rank, or removal of these limits. (Chapters 253–254, 635, 1123, 1352–1532)

Power progression

Relationships

• Princess Dahria: Dahria is Matilda's childhood companion, the cause behind her resistance to an arranged marriage, and the long-term purpose behind her pursuit of MBO strength. Matilda refuses to let uncertainty about Dahria's survival dissolve that purpose, then builds a coalition and a separator-based plan that restores Dahria's freedom and throne. Dahria later repays that constancy by traveling to Earth and testifying for Gustav despite official obstruction. (Chapters 341–348, 1029, 1345–1357, 1516–1532)
• Gustav Oslov: Matilda begins by seeking his friendship and tolerating his suspicion, then earns a place as a reliable ally. She uses his strength as a marriage deterrent, entrusts him with the truth about Dahria, and receives his conditional promise of help. Their bond matures through MBO missions and culminates in a rescue where Matilda supplies the plan and local purpose while Gustav provides decisive support against the remaining generals. (Chapters 90–200, 311–348, 1058, 1345–1357)
• Angy and Glade: Matilda shares residence, training, concern, and field danger with both women. She notices Angy's withdrawal, argues against hasty judgments within the group, and functions as a steady social link when personal tension threatens their cohesion. (Chapters 374, 601, 709, 802)
• The Kwoiune family: Her family supplies status and expectations rather than emotional security. Their attempt to arrange her marriage creates the immediate conflict that forces Matilda to articulate Dahria's importance and devise a way to retain control over her future. (Chapters 311, 339–348)

Items

Matilda is not the owner of a separately cataloged notable item in the retained corpus. She helps commission and deploy the separator machine used to break Abruikis's slave shackles, but the device is a mission asset built and operated through a wider rescue team rather than her personal property. (Chapters 1345–1354)