Murasaki Shikibu is a Rider-class Servant in the Fate series, depicted as a beautiful woman with a goth look featuring black and purple colors, long black hair, pale skin, and a black parasol. She embodies the quiet honor student type but is genuinely a natural airhead, with a mental age of 19. In Chaldea, she serves as the librarian in the Gnome Chaldea library, where she is well-known among Servants who frequent it. She first meets Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight during a Valentine's event investigating a book-reading phenomenon. Her story involves losing consciousness after eating experimental chocolate, connecting to a dream world influenced by the Holy Grail and her perceptions, including a rival figure based on Sei Shonagon.