#lilimash

Mash's name is actually most likely derived from "Matthew"! which we can assume because in the first year's valentine's event she wrote her name as such on the cake she makes for it (it's fixed to "Mash" the year after)

AS FOR MASH AND LILITH (LiliMash? Mashlith? idk)

well first of all I should be up-front in saying: I don't speak Japanese and I can't read it either so everything I am about to say is based off of fragmented secondhand information which may not be perfectly accurate BUT you don't need much more when you have enough yuri madness-

The scene that covers the main thrust of their beef is here (starting at 6:33), but if you don't have time to watch it the tl;dr is Lilith asked Mash to figure out how she feels about her and Mash figures that she hates her, which she confirms and then goes on to say what she loves about humanity is that they're fickle and imperfect and emotional and hates that Mash's inability to bring herself to truly hate anyone goes against this, that it makes her too pure, so she hates her for it

"this is a lot of hate"

YES, HOWEVER- an important piece of context is that Mash is a homunculus, she was grown in a lab for the express purpose of working for the future of humanity as a demi-servant, that taken with Lilith being a demoness this means both of the women in the conversation have had experience in being treated as inhuman, so while the text is "I hate you for your purity" you can subtextually read it as "I hate you because you're wasting your chance to be human"

Now, building on this, we have Lilith's 3rd NP: "To You, A Misled and Faint Prayer"

While it's already fruity as hell to dedicate an entire NP to a specific individual ("A present for Mash Kyrielight" like, okay lesbotron5000), The part that makes me lose my mind is "I'm sure I will always hate you. Just like you will always hate me too"

If you just take this at face it's "we will always hate each other" BUT with the additional context that one of the things Lilith loves about humanity is their ability to hate one another and considers it a quintessential piece of the human experience recontextualizes it and allows it to instead be read as "I will always treat you as human, and you will always treat me as human in turn"

"so do they like each other or hate each other?"

Yes!

It's messy and it's complicated and they're so similar but so intractably different and they want to kick the shit out of each other and that conflict pushes them apart but also brings them so so close and