- For the Mai-HiME counterpart, see Mashiro Kazahana.
Mashiro Blan de Windbloom (マシロ・ブラン・ド・ヴィントブルーム Mashiro Buran Do Vintoburūmu) is the princess (and later Queen) of Windbloom in the Mai-Otome series. Her Otome is the Blue Sky Sapphire Arika Yumemiya and Neptune Emerald Nina Wáng (temporarily). Her personality is completely opposite to her Mai-HiME incarnation. Rather than the polite, selfless and reserved attitude of the former, Mashiro Blan de Windbloom is boisterous, selfish, and arrogant.
There are doubts on whether her blood actually belongs to the royal bloodline or not. Later in the anime, this is proven to be true upon Sergay's mission to find out who the true heiress is. Mashiro has a pet cat named Mikoto which has been with her since her early childhood. She has a love-hate relationship with Nagi, leaning more towards the 'hate' end of the spectrum. It was never made clear in Mai-Hime what her true age was but in Mai-Otome it is explicitly said that she is 14-years-old and later turns 15.
Her first appearance is seen in episode 1 when she is avoiding her duties as the princess. She is seen cornered on top of a roof by what seems to be a special unit of palace guards under the command of Sakomizu to bring her back to the palace. With no other methods to escape, she jumps from the building to be saved by Arika and Nina. Believing the guards to be kidnappers, they then helped her escape.
The Ruler of Windbloom
Initially, Mashiro does not like to perform her duties as the ruler of Windbloom. In addition to her selfish and arrogant attitude, she often skips out of performing her duties. As time passed, Mashiro pushed the people around her harder and harder. She would repeatedly shirk her responsibilities in order to visit Garderobe and laugh at Arika's clumsy attempts at Otome training. When the date of her birthday drew near, she increased the taxes to raise more money for the rebuilding of her castle and her own birthday celebration. As Sergay Wáng noted, the city was suffering from increasing unemployment. Small glimpses of her past revealed that when Mashiro was young, she was completely spoiled as a child, being given virtually anything she wanted on demand. When she overheard some of the rumors that she was not the true princess, Mashiro's behavior worsened due to her highly increased feelings of insecurity and inadequacy.
When Takumi Tokiha visits Windbloom, he tells Mashiro that the queen should be doing better things and addressing the issues of her kingdom. Mashiro becomes defensive and states that the people should be working, but her argument is refuted by Takuima, stating that the people can't work because there are no jobs and that the queen isn't doing her duty properly to create jobs. He also states that the people can't afford to eat bread. Mashiro becomes defensive and responds with "If they don't have any bread, then they can eat candy!". This is a reference to last French Queen Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" quote. This shows how inexperienced Mashiro at running a country and how poor a job she has done as the queen of Windbloom.
Mashiro Avoiding Studies
Being shown the realities of her own city, she was appalled by the poverty that plagued Windbloom. Her encounter with Takumi caused Mashiro to feel great shame, thinking herself to be a useless queen. She withdrew to her room and sulked in solitude for days. On Chie's advice, Aoi brought Arika to talk with her. The two girls discussed their feelings and uncertainties, resulting in the both of them breaking down into emotional tears. Once calmed, the two made a pact that they would be "racing" to see who could achieve her dream first: Would Arika become a Meister Otome first, or would Mashiro become a queen who could bring happiness to her country first? Mashiro declared herself to be "reborn". Later on in the anime, she is taught by Mai Tokiha, the older syster of Takumi, on how to become a better ruler before returning to reclaim Windbloom.
In episode 23, Miyu lectures and addresses Mashiro's insecurities, stating that every human has a will of their own and will set a path to what needs to be done. Miyu alludes to Mashiro's qualities of a ruler and her insecurity of being the fake princess. The quality of the ruler isn't determined by the blood they inherit or belong to, but rather the actions they will take.
Contracts
Mashiro has made three contracts. In the anime, she makes one interim contract with Nina Wáng and a permanent contract with Arika Yumemiya. She makes a second interim contract with Nina in My-Otome Zwei.
During episode 1, a SLAVE attacked Mashiro and on Nina's advice, she acted as an interim master to allow Nina to fight in her Coral robe.
In episode 7, Mashiro, accompanied by Arika, accidentally sounds Harmonium, shattering both of their Coral GEMs. A SLAVE then comes after the two of them. The Blue Sky Sapphire protects the two by blasting the SLAVE. With the SLAVE temporarily out of action, the pendant released its two GEMs so Mashiro and Arika could make a contract. With the Sapphire robe, Arika easily defeats the SLAVE. However, when Arika is injured in the fight, she sees Mashiro injured as well and remembers Natsuki's words; once a contract is made, an Otome will be sharing her life with her master. If she falls, so does her master and vice versa.
In Mai-Otome Zwei episode 4, Nina approaches her with the Neptune Emerald GEM requesting an interim contract, which Mashiro obliges. Arika and Nina then work together to destroy Yuna.