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* BigSisterWorship: she keeps her idolization of Warspite when they meet for the first time in chapter 300 and does her best to help Zara and Pola adjust to having Warspite as part of their fleet.
* PoirotSpeak: the Italian ship girls are by far the most frequent users of this, though Libeccio is perhaps the least egregious example amongst them.
* PoirotSpeak: the Italian ship girls are by far the most frequent users of this, though Libeccio is perhaps the least egregious example amongst them.
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* Germanic Efficiency: reinforced in the passive ability "German Engineering" that all German ship girls share, which allows all of them to have their fatigue and insanity gain rates reduced by 50%.
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* NecessaryDrawback: besides their [[{{Trigger} Triggers]], both Z-1 and Z-3 have a Cost rating of 3, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 required by Japanese ship girls.
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* TheAce: much like the Shiratsuyu-Class of the Combined Fleet, the German destroyers have very high armor and health points and strong base stats in their entries in the stat sheet. They also have the highest level caps of any destroyer in the story thus introduced at 150.
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* TheAce: much like the Shiratsuyu-Class of the Combined Fleet, the German destroyers have very high armor and health points and strong base stats in their entries in the stat sheet. They also have the highest level caps of any destroyer in the story thus introduced at 150.
* BadassBandolier: she carries a large bandolier of magazines for her HG-40 around her waist.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Lebe uses a modernized WWII-era MP-40 submachine gun with a 40-round magazine.
* Germanic Efficiency: reinforced in the passive ability "German Engineering" that all German ship girls share, which allows all of them to have their fatigue and insanity gain rates reduced by 50%.
* NecessaryDrawback: besides their [[{{Trigger} Triggers]], both Z-1 and Z-3 have a Cost rating of 3, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 required by Japanese ship girls.
* {{Shoutout}}: her primary firearm is the HG-40, a modernized MP-40, and it's one to the DLC weapon of the same name seen in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3.
* {{Trigger}}: all German ship girls have some kind of passive debuff, perhaps as a NecessaryDrawback to prevent them from being overly superior stats-wise. For Z-1, this comes in the form of taking double damage from airstrikes, a reference to the demise of her RealLife counterpart.
!Z-3 Max Schultz
* {{Determinator}}: a 9 in endurance.
* Germanic Efficiency: reinforced in the passive ability "German Engineering" that all German ship girls share, which allows all of them to have their fatigue and insanity gain rates reduced by 50%.
* GunsAkimbo: she uses two MP7-A2 submachine guns as her firearms of choice, each to shoot one-handed.
* NecessaryDrawback: besides their [[{{Trigger} Triggers]], both Z-1 and Z-3 have a Cost rating of 3, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 required by Japanese ship girls.
* {{Trigger}}: all German ship girls have some kind of passive debuff, perhaps as a NecessaryDrawback to prevent them from being overly superior stats-wise. For Z-3, this comes in the form of taking double damage from naval mines and additional damage from enemy torpedoes, a reference to the demise of her RealLife counterpart.
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!Z-1 Leberecht Maass
* TheAce: much like the Shiratsuyu-Class of the Combined Fleet, the German destroyers have very high armor and health points and strong base stats in their entries in the stat sheet. They also have the highest level caps of any destroyer in the story thus introduced at 150.
* BadassBandolier: she carries a large bandolier of magazines for her HG-40 around her waist.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Lebe uses a modernized WWII-era MP-40 submachine gun with a 40-round magazine.
* Germanic Efficiency: reinforced in the passive ability "German Engineering" that all German ship girls share, which allows all of them to have their fatigue and insanity gain rates reduced by 50%.
* NecessaryDrawback: besides their [[{{Trigger} Triggers]], both Z-1 and Z-3 have a Cost rating of 3, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 required by Japanese ship girls.
* {{Shoutout}}: her primary firearm is the HG-40, a modernized MP-40, and it's one to the DLC weapon of the same name seen in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3.
* {{Trigger}}: all German ship girls have some kind of passive debuff, perhaps as a NecessaryDrawback to prevent them from being overly superior stats-wise. For Z-1, this comes in the form of taking double damage from airstrikes, a reference to the demise of her RealLife counterpart.
!Z-3 Max Schultz
* {{Determinator}}: a 9 in endurance.
* Germanic Efficiency: reinforced in the passive ability "German Engineering" that all German ship girls share, which allows all of them to have their fatigue and insanity gain rates reduced by 50%.
* GunsAkimbo: she uses two MP7-A2 submachine guns as her firearms of choice, each to shoot one-handed.
* NecessaryDrawback: besides their [[{{Trigger} Triggers]], both Z-1 and Z-3 have a Cost rating of 3, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 required by Japanese ship girls.
* {{Trigger}}: all German ship girls have some kind of passive debuff, perhaps as a NecessaryDrawback to prevent them from being overly superior stats-wise. For Z-3, this comes in the form of taking double damage from naval mines and additional damage from enemy torpedoes, a reference to the demise of her RealLife counterpart.
* UnorthodoxReload: Max wears a special utility belt that has two forward magazine ejection ports so that when she requires a reload for her MP7 submachine guns, all she needs to do is throw the spent magazines out, fit the bottoms of the mag receivers against the ejection ports of her belt at her sides, and let her belt reload her guns for her so that the only manual part of her reloading would be to load the first bullet. Just so that she doesn't have to go through this trouble, Max will ''always'' shoot her guns in such a way that she will always have the last bullet in each gun remaining in the chambers so that she won't have to load their chambers manually.
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* MegatonPunch: an unusual case for this trope because this time, it's actually pretty serious: !Samidare at one point smashes her fists in a overhead hammerhead blow onto Shigure's head, and the force is so great that Shigure goes bouncing off the water and flying at least thirty feet into the air.
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* {{Troll}}: does this to Kasumi at the end of chapter 295, when she takes a picture with her eyes of Kasumi half-heartedly making a Banzai cheer with Asashio and saves it to her hard drive. Kasumi isn't very pleased.
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* HavingABlast: more so this than any other destroyer class. The story seems to be quite fond of having the Kagerou-Class be the fleet's resident artillery support destroyers, and they even carry undermounted grenade launchers with their assault rifles for that additional bit of explosive ordnance.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: almost does this in chapter 295, when Kasumi yells at her for nearly blowing the advancing fleet up with one of her shots onto a nearby bunker.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: when the National Guard soldier in chapter 295 mistakenly looks up her skirt trying to talk to her, she threatens him with her 12.7cm cannon module.
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* DoNotRunWithAGun: creatively averted - Kagerou gets the idea of turning herself and her sisters in chapter 295 into mobile firing turrets by standing on top of a few friendly APC's and deploying their guns while on top of the vehicles so that the they can drive the destroyers around while the girls still provide artillery cover.
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* {{Cyborg}}: In chapter 293, Sanford reveals that !Samidare and the other first-generation Shiratsuyus are not constructed ship girls, but rather magically-capable humans augmented with Smartsteel parts and viruses that would turn everything organic short of the brain into Smartsteel.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:when she tests out her YRC power for the first time, Kagerou, not knowing what it would exactly do, accidentally ends up giving Damon severe third-degree burns on his arms, and she's struck aghast at the effects.]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:her name in English means "heat haze", and her YRC power is to be able to release a deadly heat wave from her body in a circular area of effect.]]
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* CoatCape: after her second fight with the Shiratsuyu-Class, she dons her Victorian longcoat like this before disappearing from the scene with Sandman.
* CruelMercy: after defeating the Shiratsuyu-Class a second time at the end of chapter 292, she uses this as the excuse for why she is leaving most of them behind alive. She wants to savor their despair and suffering that brews in them during the time between that fight and their next.
* CruelMercy: after defeating the Shiratsuyu-Class a second time at the end of chapter 292, she uses this as the excuse for why she is leaving most of them behind alive. She wants to savor their despair and suffering that brews in them during the time between that fight and their next.
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** she then defeats Shigure in chapter 292 by sticking her with a [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} plasma grenade]] that blows off Shigure's right arm.
** she also puts Suzukaze out of combat by performing Evil Ryu's Ryusokyaku axe kick from VideoGame/StreetFighterIV.
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** she then defeats Shigure in chapter 292 by sticking her with a [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} plasma grenade]] that blows off Shigure's right arm.
** she also puts Suzukaze out of combat by performing Evil Ryu's Ryusokyaku axe kick from VideoGame/StreetFighterIV.
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* MythologyGag: the chapter title of 291 is named "Champion of Koprulu". Koprulu is mentioned in the alternate universe story of A:AFS, Fanfic/AmbiencePlatoonMoebiusFour as the home sector of the Abyssals for that story.
* MythologyGag: the chapter title of 291 is named "Champion of Koprulu". Koprulu is mentioned in the alternate universe story of A:AFS, Fanfic/AmbiencePlatoonMoebiusFour as the home sector of the Abyssals for that story.
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* TheStoic: She hasn't crack a single smile ever since joining the fleet, and she seems dead serious all the time. [[ThinkNothingOfIt She also shoots down the praise that Haida and New Jersey give]] regarding her legendary last stand at Samar during the war, saying that duty was and continues to be her primary motivation to fight. On top of this, when she gets accused of [[HumbleHero trying to be humble]], she shoots ''that'' down too, saying that humbleness has nothing to do with the willingness to serve her country.
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* HiddenDepths: the American ship girls state that she was the one who originally discovered, researched, and produced navitasium by studying its core component, serenity, the latent energy produced and used by the Abyssals. Her ordeal as part of Seal Team Six's highly questionable experiments on her and her sister of the first-generation Shiratsuyu-Class also counts.
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!Johnston
The ship girl incarnation of the U.S.S. ''Johnston'', DD-557.
* AffectionateNickname: both New Jersey and Haida call Johnston "Johnny", which, so far, she seems to accept or at least tolerate.
* AnAxeToGrind: not just one, mind you. She's described when she arrives at MAPS to join the fleet to be wearing an entire collection of them, including war hatchets, tomahawks, ''and'' combat axes. She takes this UpToEleven because she wears sets of them around her thighs like bandoliers.
* BadassNative: built with a much darker skin tone than the more fair-skinned Japanese or American ship girls, comparable to that of Musashi's, to reflect the Cherokee and Creek heritage of her wartime captain, Lt. Commander Ernest Edwin Evans. She also makes her appearance fully geared for war, and among her personal arsenal is a collection of not combat knives, but ''war hatchets and tomahawks.''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: at the end of chapter 266, the final segment depicts a short dialogue between two people, who are shortly joined by Eagle. Now that Haida and Johnston are introduced, those two people at the end of chapter 266 are none other than Haida and Johnston, judging by Haida's "eh" VerbalTic and Johnston's handling of a war hatchet.
* FriendlyEnemy: many of the Japanese warships Johnston faced during the Battle off Samar are indeed part of Damon's fleet, but the one who dares to approach her is none other than Kongou, who offers to show Johnston and Haida around the base. Funnily enough, Johnston doesn't recognize her when they meet in person, so Kongou has to remind her who she is (Kongou had shot Johnston with several shells but failed to sink her, because her armor-piercing shells, while they did cut Johnston's speed in half by passing through her engine room, failed to detonate on her armorless hull).
* GenderBlenderName: Johnston, and to an even greater extent, her nickname of Johnny. She doesn't seem to mind, though.
* MythologyGag: she first appeared over a year and a half prior to her introduction to this story in another Kantai Collection fanfic written by the same author, titled [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11109362/11/One-Shot-Fleet "Firebirds 3".]]
* OddFriendship: with Haida, because they had been built and activated at the same time by Lukenstor. She denies seeing her as a friend, but she still hangs around her during the fleet's beach day.
* RedBaron: in-story: when she arrives, Murakumo reveals that Johnston's last stand in the war immortalized her even among them as a legendary destroyer who dared to do - and did - the impossible. This is a reference to the fact that Johnston's survivors witnessed several Japanese officers paying their respects to Johnston as she sank by saluting. Though, the sudden and unexpected introduction of Johnston to the fleet cause a fair bit of awkwardness, as the Japanese ship girls could never have predicted Johnston being reincarnated again as a ship girl like themselves.
* {{Shoutout}}: her uniform is based on [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1680610?tags=uss_johnston_(dd-557) u-tan (timerush90)'s Johnston design.]]
* TheStoic: she doesn't crack a single smile ever since joining the fleet, and she seems dead-serious all the time. She also shoots down the praise that Haida and New Jersey recite about her regarding her legendary last stand at Samar during the war, saying that duty was and continues to be her primary motivation to fight. On top of this, when she gets accused for trying to be humble, she shoots ''that'' down too, saying that humbleness has nothing to do with the willingness to serve her country.
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!Haida
The ship girl incarnation of the H.M.C.S. ''Haida'', G-63.
* AnAxeToGrind: like Johnston, she also carries a war hatchet as part of her personal inventory to reflect her native attribute (she shares her name with a Native American tribe indigenous to the Pacific Northwest), though she only keeps one.
* BadassNative: subverted heavily; her appearance is that of a Caucasian teenager, but she does have a war hatchet as opposed to the military-standard combat knife as her bladed melee weapon.
* FashionableAsymmetry: she wears a singular earring on her left earlobe, a {{Shoutout}} to the weapon keychains seen in [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Six: Siege.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: at the end of chapter 266, the final segment depicts a short dialogue between two people, who are shortly joined by Eagle. Now that Haida and Johnston are introduced, those two people at the end of chapter 266 are none other than Haida and Johnston, judging by Haida's "eh" VerbalTic and Johnston's handling of a war hatchet.
* OddFriendship: with Johnston, because they had been built and activated at the same time by Lukenstor. Johnston denies seeing her as a friend, but she still hangs around her during the fleet's beach day.
* {{Shoutout}}:
** her design is based on [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2248761?tags=myuto_(advent_retribution) myuto (advent retribution)'s HMCS Haida.]]
** her equipment is one to [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Six: Siege]], of which she comes equipped with many of the same weapons and gear of Canadian operator Buck, including his assault rifle, his signature undermounted shotgun, and his sidearm. She even sports the name of his unit, the Joint Task Force 2, on the backs of her gloves, and she wears a small earring on her left earlobe that's shaped like a 6, just like the weapon keychain. And to top it all off, the war hatchet that acts as her bladed melee weapon that she has sports the letters "BLACK ICE" along its blade, the name of the DLC pack that introduced the JTF-2 operators into the game.
* VerbalTic: she ends almost ''all'' of her sentences with the stereotypical Canadian "eh".
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!Johnston
The ship girl incarnation of the U.S.S. ''Johnston'', DD-557.
* AffectionateNickname: both New Jersey and Haida call Johnston "Johnny", which, so far, she seems to accept or at least tolerate.
* AnAxeToGrind: not just one, mind you. She's described when she arrives at MAPS to join the fleet to be wearing an entire collection of them, including war hatchets, tomahawks, ''and'' combat axes. She takes this UpToEleven because she wears sets of them around her thighs like bandoliers.
* BadassNative: built with a much darker skin tone than the more fair-skinned Japanese or American ship girls, comparable to that of Musashi's, to reflect the Cherokee and Creek heritage of her wartime captain, Lt. Commander Ernest Edwin Evans. She also makes her appearance fully geared for war, and among her personal arsenal is a collection of not combat knives, but ''war hatchets and tomahawks.''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: at the end of chapter 266, the final segment depicts a short dialogue between two people, who are shortly joined by Eagle. Now that Haida and Johnston are introduced, those two people at the end of chapter 266 are none other than Haida and Johnston, judging by Haida's "eh" VerbalTic and Johnston's handling of a war hatchet.
* FriendlyEnemy: many of the Japanese warships Johnston faced during the Battle off Samar are indeed part of Damon's fleet, but the one who dares to approach her is none other than Kongou, who offers to show Johnston and Haida around the base. Funnily enough, Johnston doesn't recognize her when they meet in person, so Kongou has to remind her who she is (Kongou had shot Johnston with several shells but failed to sink her, because her armor-piercing shells, while they did cut Johnston's speed in half by passing through her engine room, failed to detonate on her armorless hull).
* GenderBlenderName: Johnston, and to an even greater extent, her nickname of Johnny. She doesn't seem to mind, though.
* MythologyGag: she first appeared over a year and a half prior to her introduction to this story in another Kantai Collection fanfic written by the same author, titled [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11109362/11/One-Shot-Fleet "Firebirds 3".]]
* OddFriendship: with Haida, because they had been built and activated at the same time by Lukenstor. She denies seeing her as a friend, but she still hangs around her during the fleet's beach day.
* RedBaron: in-story: when she arrives, Murakumo reveals that Johnston's last stand in the war immortalized her even among them as a legendary destroyer who dared to do - and did - the impossible. This is a reference to the fact that Johnston's survivors witnessed several Japanese officers paying their respects to Johnston as she sank by saluting. Though, the sudden and unexpected introduction of Johnston to the fleet cause a fair bit of awkwardness, as the Japanese ship girls could never have predicted Johnston being reincarnated again as a ship girl like themselves.
* {{Shoutout}}: her uniform is based on [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1680610?tags=uss_johnston_(dd-557) u-tan (timerush90)'s Johnston design.]]
* TheStoic: she doesn't crack a single smile ever since joining the fleet, and she seems dead-serious all the time. She also shoots down the praise that Haida and New Jersey recite about her regarding her legendary last stand at Samar during the war, saying that duty was and continues to be her primary motivation to fight. On top of this, when she gets accused for trying to be humble, she shoots ''that'' down too, saying that humbleness has nothing to do with the willingness to serve her country.
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[[folder:Tribal-Class]]
!Haida
The ship girl incarnation of the H.M.C.S. ''Haida'', G-63.
* AnAxeToGrind: like Johnston, she also carries a war hatchet as part of her personal inventory to reflect her native attribute (she shares her name with a Native American tribe indigenous to the Pacific Northwest), though she only keeps one.
* BadassNative: subverted heavily; her appearance is that of a Caucasian teenager, but she does have a war hatchet as opposed to the military-standard combat knife as her bladed melee weapon.
* FashionableAsymmetry: she wears a singular earring on her left earlobe, a {{Shoutout}} to the weapon keychains seen in [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Six: Siege.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: at the end of chapter 266, the final segment depicts a short dialogue between two people, who are shortly joined by Eagle. Now that Haida and Johnston are introduced, those two people at the end of chapter 266 are none other than Haida and Johnston, judging by Haida's "eh" VerbalTic and Johnston's handling of a war hatchet.
* OddFriendship: with Johnston, because they had been built and activated at the same time by Lukenstor. Johnston denies seeing her as a friend, but she still hangs around her during the fleet's beach day.
* {{Shoutout}}:
** her design is based on [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2248761?tags=myuto_(advent_retribution) myuto (advent retribution)'s HMCS Haida.]]
** her equipment is one to [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Six: Siege]], of which she comes equipped with many of the same weapons and gear of Canadian operator Buck, including his assault rifle, his signature undermounted shotgun, and his sidearm. She even sports the name of his unit, the Joint Task Force 2, on the backs of her gloves, and she wears a small earring on her left earlobe that's shaped like a 6, just like the weapon keychain. And to top it all off, the war hatchet that acts as her bladed melee weapon that she has sports the letters "BLACK ICE" along its blade, the name of the DLC pack that introduced the JTF-2 operators into the game.
* VerbalTic: she ends almost ''all'' of her sentences with the stereotypical Canadian "eh".
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As per Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers, no trope names will be spoiler-marked. In addition, the very presence of certain names on this list may constitute spoilers by itself. YouHaveBeenWarned!
Due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, many of whom can be found on the character pages for ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' and ''VideoGame/WarshipGirls'', only tropes relevant to how they are different here should be listed.
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[[folder:Kagerou-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: all Kagerou-Class members have access to offensive support abilities that either help themselves or allies directly or with special fire missions to assist with combat. Due to the nature of these class abilities, the Kagerou-Class as a whole can be considered [[CloseRangeCombatant Close Range Combatants]], with Amatsukaze being the most prominent example in-story.
!!Kagerou
* {{Charisma}}: Kagerou stands out, with a 9 in charisma.
* CloudCuckoolander: averted from fanworks; in this story, Kagerou behaves just like an ordinary teenage girl.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that grants a small amount of additional combat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them into combat.
* FemaleGaze: gives one of these to Damon when he takes off his shirt at base to reveal his well-toned body honed from years of physical work.
* JackOfAllStats: has 5's in all combat stats.
* {{Shoutout}}: she uses an MK-16 EGLM RCO for much of the story, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
** [[spoiler:Her new ability through Damon's YRC is one to Firebreak's Heat Wave specialist ability in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Greifswald Bay.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO.
* WhatTheHellHero: gives one of these to Shiranui for the latter overreacting to her BerserkButton of being called Nui-chan by someone who isn't Kagerou.
!!Shiranui
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay protecting Kagerou.]]
* BerserkButton: she ''hates'' being called "Nui-chan" or anything "Nui" related, because only Kagerou can call her that.
* BloodKnight: absolutely remains one in this story as well.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: averted - Kagerou is the one who needs to rein her in at times.
* ConflictingLoyalty: she's one of the girls who have obvious conflicting interests between meeting the needs of her sisters and those of the fleet. Usually she chooses the former over the latter.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Vengeance Protocol gives her incredible combat bonuses but penalizes her harshly if she stays in-protocol for longer than her body can allow.
* {{Determinator}}: as disagreeable and sociopathic as she is, Shiranui is truly stubborn in combat - she's battled Kongou in a one-on-one (even though she did eventually lose), tanked a whole bunch of 5-inch shells from enemy Abyssal light cruisers at Cayo Romano, and she's got a whopping 9 in endurance to reinforce this trait.
* DumbMuscle: like Yuudachi, she qualifies with an intelligence rating of a mere 2 and seems to focus solely on the safeties and interests of her sisters, mainly Kagerou. The fact that she has 0's in both charisma and negotiation doesn't help at all.
* {{Foil}}: is this to Shigure. While Shigure doesn't at all like using her emotions to fuel her strength (or more specifically, she doesn't like using her protocol), Shiranui revels in it and doesn't ever think twice about using her own protocol.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:see BackFromTheDead above.]]
* IfIWantedYouDead: is implied to be capable of this, as indicated by Sanford when he talks to Damon about her.
* MightyGlacier: compared to her sisters in her class. She has an 8 in defense and has the most amount of health at 1150 hit points, but she's only got a speed rating of 4.
* MoralMyopia: Shiranui doesn't care if she needs to put the needs of her sisters before those of the fleet, but when [[spoiler:Suzukaze]] acts similarly, she disapproves heavily.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: is given a gun to shoot Damon if she truly doesn't want him to drag a critically wounded Kagerou along with them into battle.
* RealityEnsues: despite her best efforts in [[spoiler:avenging the wounded Kagerou at the English Channel]] by facing off against Kongou, Shiranui just can't beat her since a mere destroyer can't hope to match a battleship's sheer strength.
* {{Shoutout}}: like Kagerou, she uses the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
* SuperMode: her Vengeance Protocol, but it can become a DeadlyUpgrade real quick if Shiranui isn't careful...which she isn't.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: in chapter 147, when an NDP soldier is already succumbing to a MultipleGunshotDeath, she blows him up with an M-203 HE grenade fired from her EGLM undermounted grenade launcher.
* ThirdPersonPerson: averted, Shiranui uses standard first person to refer to herself.
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO, just like Kagerou's.
!!Kuroshio
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay.]]
* KansaiRegionalAccent: in this story, Kuroshio's Kansai ethnicity is even cemented as a passive ability called "Osaka Syndrome" that reduces ally fatigue gain rates by 20% within 25 meters.
* {{Shoutout}}: she uses the MK-16 SCAR-L Holo, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
** [[spoiler:Her new ability through Damon's YRC is K`'s Blackout ability from VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L Holo. With the exception of Amatsukaze, it appears that the Kagerou-Class seem to have made the SCAR-L family of weapons their signature rifles.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Kuroshio, who speaks with a Kansai regional accent ingame (and thus in this story as well), has a very odd accent when she speaks English because accents are extremely difficult to translate accurately from language to language. For sure, though, she speaks very informally.
!!Amatsukaze
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks twice, first at Cayo Romano and second at Greifswald Bay.]]
* BulletCatch: saves Damon by catching a shotgun slug fired at him with her Ignition Glove.
* CastFromHitPoints: one of her attacks, Tenjou no Kasai, is an [[AwesomeButImpractical instant disintegration attack]] but requires Amatsukaze to sacrifice 300 hit points in order to use it due to how stressful on her body it is to be used, according to the stat sheet.
* CloseRangeCombatant: invokes this with her heavy reliance on her Ignition Glove and her fire-based melee attacks, her high speed, and excellent reflexes, and in just about every conflict, both on land and at sea, she's usually depicted assuming an aggressive front-line role for the fleet. It's even reinforced in her entry in the stat sheet, in which she has a passive ability that specifically gives her combat bonuses for staying close to the enemy in combat and rewards her for not getting hit while in the fray.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:her death at Cayo Romano involves the Re-Class ripping out her badly damaged Atalantian Reactor right out of her chest, and that's not counting all the molten fuel that the reactor's been leaking into her chest in the meantime after being set on overdrive.]]
* DeflectorShields: gains one as a result of her Kai remodel.
* {{Determinator}}: best demonstrated during Operation Dualsight, when she sets her reactor on 175% overdrive [[DeadlyUpgrade that causes her reactor to begin bleeding burning fuel into her body]] and defeats numerous Abyssal cruisers. She even manages to deal a heavy blow onto the Re-Class before finally going down.
* DoNotCallMePaul: gets very angry at Damon for not only butchering her name but also lazily shortening her name to "Amy" for simplicity's sake. She never lives it down. [[spoiler:After Damon saves the fleet from Blackwood, Amatsukaze mentions that she won't mind too much if Damon calls her Amy henceforth...]]
* ElementalPunch: with her Ignition Glove. When she receives her Kai upgrade, she can extend this to her kicks as well.
* FashionableAsymmetry: like her ingame rendition, she has a single white glove on her right hand only, but it's no ordinary glove: called the Ignition Glove, it gives Amatsukaze a fiery edge to her physical attacks.
* FragileSpeedster: Even moreso than in the game. Her defense and armor point ratings are markedly lower than average compared to other destroyers, but in exchange, she has very high speed, agility, and reflex ratings and is equipped with a specialized internal reactor, called the Atalantian Reactor Mk. I, that gives her the speed that makes her the second fastest ship girl in the fleet, bar her own sister, Shimakaze.
* GlassCannon: ties in with FragileSpeedster. Not only is she the second fastest ship girl in the fleet, but she's also performed some of the story's most lethal attacks, such as Tenjou no Kasai and Shirohasu Senpuukyaku.
* ICallItVera: has this relationship with her turret buddy, whom she calls Rensouhou-kun, just like in the game. Except, in the context of this story, Rensouhou-kun can spot enemies, calculate ballistics information for Amatsukaze, and can even use her assault rifle to cover her in combat.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Does this when she tries to get the others to leave her behind after taking crippling damage from [[spoiler:Shimakaze]] at Atlanta.
* NecessaryDrawback: while not explicitly mentioned at all in the story, the stat sheet gives her a "cost" rating of 4 when the vast majority of destroyers won't ever have cost ratings over 2 (it's more comparable to cruiser levels of resource consumption), so it's implied that for how strong of a destroyer she is, Amatsukaze typically consumes more food, steel, bauxite, and fuel than her peers. Also mentioned in the stat sheet is her level cap: while most other destroyers have max levels of anywhere between 90 to 120, Amatsukaze is capped at 75.
* PlayingWithFire: thanks to her Ignition Glove, a special glove that burns at will. [[spoiler:If she uses a navitasium cube, her Ignition Glove has up to two more tiers of strength.]]
* ShootTheBullet: more like kicking it...and not just a bullet, either. She pulls this off in chapter 149, when an NDP tank fires a 120mm round at her, and she jumps up and kicks it away.
* {{Shoutout}}: she seems to be fond of using a few of Ken Masters' attacks from VideoGame/StreetFighter, like the Shinryuken and Guren Senpuukyaku (renamed Shirohasu Senpuukyaku).
** [[spoiler:She gains a new ability through Damon's YRC called Illusion, the same one used by Fox in the VideoGame/SuperSmashBros series.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Shimakaze. While her relationship with her is known in the game, in this story, Amatsukaze and Shimakaze both view each other as sisters, especially before Damon acquires more Kagerou-Class destroyers for his fleet. And because they're the two fastest ship girls in the fleet, they're practically always sortieing together as a tag-team duo to break enemy lines for the rest of the fleet.
* {{Tsundere}}: shows signs of this when [[spoiler:she mentions after Damon saves the fleet from Blackwood that she no longer minds it too much if Damon keeps calling her Amy, something she always hated prior to this event.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the [[http://hk-usa.com/hk-models/hk416/ H&K-416 assault rifle]] that she uses for much of the story.
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[[folder:Asashio-Class]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, all Asashio-Class members so far gain access to protocols that they didn't have before.]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Asashio-Class members, like the Mutsuki-Class, have access to defensive support abilities that focus on keeping other allies alive, but some of their abilities also help their allies fight better against their enemies.
!!Asashio
* AnimalMotifs: her new [[spoiler:Cerberus Protocol]] portrays her as houndlike, just like the Shiratsuyu-Class, perhaps due to the ingame fanbase's comparisons of her unfailing loyalty to the Admiral to that of a dog.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that grants small combat bonuses to her sisters in combat.
* {{Determinator}}: her Endurance rating is 9, with a Will rating of 70%. Asashio even has this trope as a passive ability that gives her major conditional endurance-related bonuses to reinforce this, ''and'' she maintains a unique status of being the only ship girl who can still sortie at 100% fatigue.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: is always loyal to whoever is her designated Admiral, even to the Harper family during her time at Nashville, but she learns after joining the Combined Fleet that some people do not deserve to be obeyed. Nevertheless, this trait is cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet that gives her combat bonuses for fighting with any commanding human of the fleet.
* SeriousBusiness: whenever she talks, Asashio ''always'' means what she says, even through her Cerberus Protocol, even when she's asking for a cheek rub.
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:her new Cerberus Protocol visibly changes her appearance by making her hair longer and giving her doggie hair ears, but her new combat capabilities are yet to be explored.]]
!!Arashio
* BreakTheCutie: possesses the Scarred passive debuff [[spoiler:due to her status as a "victim" ship girl of Nashville.]]
** ThePowerOfLove: but the debuffs she suffers because of this can be negated if she deploys with at least one ship sister into combat.
* {{Shoutout}}: given her name and her [[spoiler:new Storm Protocol, she's most likely giving one to Storm of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.]]
!!Kasumi
* EveryoneHasStandards: even Kasumi can't stand Akebono's constant antipathy towards Damon, as demonstrated in chapter 280.
* {{Jerkass}}: just like Akebono, Kasumi stays true to her ingame rendition and is quite hostile towards Damon, but since Akebono seems to be given more of the spotlight throughout the story, Kasumi's behavior tends to get overshadowed by Akebono's.
* SirSwearsALot: just like Akebono, she too has the Shitmouth passive ability that gives her trivial combat bonuses at the penalty of a double fatigue gain rate and small insanity gain rate when deployed with Damon.
* {{Tsundere}}: is this to her sisters, and probably one to Damon, as of the later chapters, anyway.
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[[folder:Yuugumo-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Yuugumo-Class members have access to unique abilities that enhance the potency of resources consumed mid-fight, depending on the type of resource consumed.
!!Naganami
* {{Fangirl}}: averted, she has made no such mention of Tanaka Raizou, her warship-era captain, throughout the story, not even in her Fleet Log.
* HotBlooded: subverted, she's not nearly as hot-blooded as she is ingame, though she has no problem making friends with Shimakaze (who herself is more level-headed in this story too). Though, not having any of her ship sisters around in the fleet to hang out with might have something to do with this.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: specifically, I Just Want To Have My Sisters. At the time of her introduction to the fleet, Naganami is the only one of the Yuugumo-Class to be present, [[spoiler:and it takes over a hundred and fifty chapters for the next Yuugumo-Class, Asashimo, to come along.]] Naturally, Naganami is upset by this and feels isolated, but luckily Shimakaze was there to befriend her in her sisters' places.
!!Asashimo
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:she somehow fell into the possession of the Typewriters, a local Inner Chicago gang with a vendetta against New Chicago and its people, and was conducting burglaries on various gun shops like the Full Metal Jacket that Damon is a frequent patron of before she got captured.]]
* {{Shoutout}}: to VideoGame/AssassinsCreed during her introduction to the story, as she appears wearing a hooded cape and wields an under-wrist blade capable of piercing Smartsteel armor, as Yuudachi finds out the hard way.
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[[folder:Independent/single-member classes]]
!!Shimakaze
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: highly in contrast to both her ingame and anime renditions, she's much less of a BoisterousBruiser and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and, like Murasame, takes her role in the fleet quite seriously, especially because she's the fastest ship girl in the fleet and she knows it. In contrast to other Kantai Collection works and fanworks, in this story, she's much less of a {{Jerkass}} as well, able to befriend Naganami when the latter joins the fleet and make her feel at home in the fleet when Naganami has no sister of her own from the Yuugumo-Class with her at the moment.
* AttackDrone: what her Rensouhou-chan turret buddies are, just like in the anime. However, in the story, because they're like miniature mobile firing platforms, Shimakaze can get very creative with how she sets up artillery strikes with them, including throwing them all up into the air and performing a DeathFromAbove with cannon shells. In addition, unlike Amatsukaze, Shimakaze possesses a gearbox, but it's completely nonfunctional in terms of combat capability and is strictly used to carry her turrets around on her back.
* CloseRangeCombatant: is this even more so than Amatsukaze. Basically, whatever Amatsukaze can do, Shimakaze can (technically) do better, minus the fire attacks that Amatsukaze can pull off.
* FragileSpeedster: practically the embodiment of this in the fleet. Unlike her ingame rendition, according to the stat sheet, she's got lower than average hit points, almost nonexistent armor points, and a [[GlassCannon miserable defense rating]]. However, when normally the max rating for any category is 9, Shimakaze has a 15 in speed and a 10 in endurance, with maxed-out ratings in agility and reflexes. She even has a unique, specialized reactor that's been built just for her, an upgraded and more efficient version of Amatsukaze's Atalantian Reactor, called the Atalantian Reactor Mk. II, that gives her the speed that she's known for.
* GlassCannon: just like her sister and ties in with FragileSpeedster. When they first meet, [[spoiler:she defeats Amatsukaze by subjecting her to a case of ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by thrusting her arm through her chest, crippling her.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: seemingly averted in this story compared to the 4koma and other fanworks. While it is true that Shimakaze usually only hangs out with Amatsukaze most of the time and almost exclusively fights with her in battle, she doesn't seem to show any difficulty in interacting with others. She also has a special friendship with Naganami, most likely due to their historic relationship.
* NecessaryDrawback: while not explicitly mentioned at all in the story, the stat sheet gives her a "cost" rating of 4 when the vast majority of destroyers won't ever have cost ratings over 2 (it's more comparable to cruiser levels of resource consumption), so it's implied that for how strong of a destroyer she is, Shimakaze, like Amatsukaze, typically consumes more food, steel, bauxite, and fuel than her peers. And also just like Amatsukaze, according to the stat sheet, Shimakaze has a much lower than average level cap, even lower than Amatsukaze at 50.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Amatsukaze. While her relationship with her is known in the game, in this story, Shimakaze and Amatsukaze both view each other as sisters. Shimakaze even cements this by affectionately calling Amatsukaze "Amatsu-nee". And because they're the two fastest ship girls in the fleet, they're practically always sortieing together as a tag-team duo to break enemy lines for the rest of the fleet.
* WeaponOfChoice: to fit her role as a CloseRangeCombatant, shows an apparent affinity for combat shotguns, such as the [[http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/usa/atchisson-aa-12-e.html AA-12 automatic shotgun]] or the [[http://www.keltecweapons.com/our-guns/pistol/ksg Kel-Tec KSG-12 pump action.]]
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!Unavoidable {{Walking Spoiler}}s past this point!
[[folder:Shiratsuyu-class (first generation)]]
! !Samidare
A mysterious figure who looks just like Samidare.
Because she is Samidare. Technically, the previous Samidare and the birth mother of the current one.
* AllYourPowersCombined: She has access to all the Protocols of the Shiratsuyu-class.
* ArchnemesisDad: She views all the second-generation Shiratsuyu-class as abominations, but especially loathes her "daughter".
* BadassLongcoat: wears a Victorian-styled one over her standard uniform, which is implied to be the same as the second-generation Samidare's.
* BloodyMurder: If she uses her nodachi to inflict a nonlethal wound on you, it stays so that she can detonate it at any time. Though, whether or not it's actual exploding blood itself that !Samidare employs is yet to be confirmed.
* FlashStep: a frequent user of this in combat.
* FreakOut: Her personality used to be sweet and angelic like in canon. It's never been the same after what SEAL Team Six did to the first-generation Shiratsuyus.
* HiddenDepths: the American ship girls state that she was the one who originally discovered, researched, and produced navitasium by studying its core component, serenity, the latent energy produced and used by the Abyssals. Her ordeal as part of Seal Team Six's highly questionable experiments on her and her sister of the first-generation Shiratsuyu-Class also counts.
* {{Homage}}: one to Lady Maria of Bloodborne - blade, blood-related power, clothing, down to the tricorne hat. Even the scene when she and the Shiratsuyu-Class meet for the first time in Houston is akin to the cutscene in Bloodborne, when the player meets Lady Maria for the first time, down to the dialogue she speaks to the destroyers.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: demonstrates plenty of Iaijutsu moves and techniques.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: specifically, a nodachi...that she can split into two.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: Seems to be her agenda wherever she goes, with her own daughter and nieces being the most prominent examples.
* NiceHat: a tricorne hat reminiscent of eighteenth century hatwear.
* {{Shoutout}}: two of her named attacks, Suzukaze Zantetsuken and Samidare Gaeshi, are named after the Hero skills of Ishikawa Goemon and Sasaki Kojiro from VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest respectively.
* TheStoic: the only two times she's been shown to show any emotion are just before Samidare's emergence from Suzukaze's stasis cell and when she spends some time with Admiral Kevinson.
* TragicKeepsake: She keeps her hair tied up with a red ribbon from the first Shigure.
* VeteranUnit: she was part of Seal Team Six (different from Sanford's Seal Team Six), the elite Navy Seal Team that comprised of herself and the four American ship girls Iowa, Wisconsin, Enterprise, and Yorktown, who served throughout the first half of the nuclear apocalypse defending the United States from both human and Abyssal attackers during the Federation War and the Typhoon Wars.
* WhenSheSmiles: she's actually a very pleasant woman when she interacts with her Admiral if they're not talking about their operations.
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As per Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers, no trope names will be spoiler-marked. In addition, the very presence of certain names on this list may constitute spoilers by itself. YouHaveBeenWarned!
Due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, many of whom can be found on the character pages for ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' and ''VideoGame/WarshipGirls'', only tropes relevant to how they are different here should be listed.
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[[folder:Kagerou-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: all Kagerou-Class members have access to offensive support abilities that either help themselves or allies directly or with special fire missions to assist with combat. Due to the nature of these class abilities, the Kagerou-Class as a whole can be considered [[CloseRangeCombatant Close Range Combatants]], with Amatsukaze being the most prominent example in-story.
!!Kagerou
* {{Charisma}}: Kagerou stands out, with a 9 in charisma.
* CloudCuckoolander: averted from fanworks; in this story, Kagerou behaves just like an ordinary teenage girl.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that grants a small amount of additional combat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them into combat.
* FemaleGaze: gives one of these to Damon when he takes off his shirt at base to reveal his well-toned body honed from years of physical work.
* JackOfAllStats: has 5's in all combat stats.
* {{Shoutout}}: she uses an MK-16 EGLM RCO for much of the story, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
** [[spoiler:Her new ability through Damon's YRC is one to Firebreak's Heat Wave specialist ability in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Greifswald Bay.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO.
* WhatTheHellHero: gives one of these to Shiranui for the latter overreacting to her BerserkButton of being called Nui-chan by someone who isn't Kagerou.
!!Shiranui
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay protecting Kagerou.]]
* BerserkButton: she ''hates'' being called "Nui-chan" or anything "Nui" related, because only Kagerou can call her that.
* BloodKnight: absolutely remains one in this story as well.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: averted - Kagerou is the one who needs to rein her in at times.
* ConflictingLoyalty: she's one of the girls who have obvious conflicting interests between meeting the needs of her sisters and those of the fleet. Usually she chooses the former over the latter.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Vengeance Protocol gives her incredible combat bonuses but penalizes her harshly if she stays in-protocol for longer than her body can allow.
* {{Determinator}}: as disagreeable and sociopathic as she is, Shiranui is truly stubborn in combat - she's battled Kongou in a one-on-one (even though she did eventually lose), tanked a whole bunch of 5-inch shells from enemy Abyssal light cruisers at Cayo Romano, and she's got a whopping 9 in endurance to reinforce this trait.
* DumbMuscle: like Yuudachi, she qualifies with an intelligence rating of a mere 2 and seems to focus solely on the safeties and interests of her sisters, mainly Kagerou. The fact that she has 0's in both charisma and negotiation doesn't help at all.
* {{Foil}}: is this to Shigure. While Shigure doesn't at all like using her emotions to fuel her strength (or more specifically, she doesn't like using her protocol), Shiranui revels in it and doesn't ever think twice about using her own protocol.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:see BackFromTheDead above.]]
* IfIWantedYouDead: is implied to be capable of this, as indicated by Sanford when he talks to Damon about her.
* MightyGlacier: compared to her sisters in her class. She has an 8 in defense and has the most amount of health at 1150 hit points, but she's only got a speed rating of 4.
* MoralMyopia: Shiranui doesn't care if she needs to put the needs of her sisters before those of the fleet, but when [[spoiler:Suzukaze]] acts similarly, she disapproves heavily.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: is given a gun to shoot Damon if she truly doesn't want him to drag a critically wounded Kagerou along with them into battle.
* RealityEnsues: despite her best efforts in [[spoiler:avenging the wounded Kagerou at the English Channel]] by facing off against Kongou, Shiranui just can't beat her since a mere destroyer can't hope to match a battleship's sheer strength.
* {{Shoutout}}: like Kagerou, she uses the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
* SuperMode: her Vengeance Protocol, but it can become a DeadlyUpgrade real quick if Shiranui isn't careful...which she isn't.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: in chapter 147, when an NDP soldier is already succumbing to a MultipleGunshotDeath, she blows him up with an M-203 HE grenade fired from her EGLM undermounted grenade launcher.
* ThirdPersonPerson: averted, Shiranui uses standard first person to refer to herself.
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L EGLM RCO, just like Kagerou's.
!!Kuroshio
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay.]]
* KansaiRegionalAccent: in this story, Kuroshio's Kansai ethnicity is even cemented as a passive ability called "Osaka Syndrome" that reduces ally fatigue gain rates by 20% within 25 meters.
* {{Shoutout}}: she uses the MK-16 SCAR-L Holo, a weapon found in [[VideoGame/DayZ DayZ Origins and other DayZ Arma 2 mods.]]
** [[spoiler:Her new ability through Damon's YRC is K`'s Blackout ability from VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the MK-16 SCAR-L Holo. With the exception of Amatsukaze, it appears that the Kagerou-Class seem to have made the SCAR-L family of weapons their signature rifles.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Kuroshio, who speaks with a Kansai regional accent ingame (and thus in this story as well), has a very odd accent when she speaks English because accents are extremely difficult to translate accurately from language to language. For sure, though, she speaks very informally.
!!Amatsukaze
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks twice, first at Cayo Romano and second at Greifswald Bay.]]
* BulletCatch: saves Damon by catching a shotgun slug fired at him with her Ignition Glove.
* CastFromHitPoints: one of her attacks, Tenjou no Kasai, is an [[AwesomeButImpractical instant disintegration attack]] but requires Amatsukaze to sacrifice 300 hit points in order to use it due to how stressful on her body it is to be used, according to the stat sheet.
* CloseRangeCombatant: invokes this with her heavy reliance on her Ignition Glove and her fire-based melee attacks, her high speed, and excellent reflexes, and in just about every conflict, both on land and at sea, she's usually depicted assuming an aggressive front-line role for the fleet. It's even reinforced in her entry in the stat sheet, in which she has a passive ability that specifically gives her combat bonuses for staying close to the enemy in combat and rewards her for not getting hit while in the fray.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:her death at Cayo Romano involves the Re-Class ripping out her badly damaged Atalantian Reactor right out of her chest, and that's not counting all the molten fuel that the reactor's been leaking into her chest in the meantime after being set on overdrive.]]
* DeflectorShields: gains one as a result of her Kai remodel.
* {{Determinator}}: best demonstrated during Operation Dualsight, when she sets her reactor on 175% overdrive [[DeadlyUpgrade that causes her reactor to begin bleeding burning fuel into her body]] and defeats numerous Abyssal cruisers. She even manages to deal a heavy blow onto the Re-Class before finally going down.
* DoNotCallMePaul: gets very angry at Damon for not only butchering her name but also lazily shortening her name to "Amy" for simplicity's sake. She never lives it down. [[spoiler:After Damon saves the fleet from Blackwood, Amatsukaze mentions that she won't mind too much if Damon calls her Amy henceforth...]]
* ElementalPunch: with her Ignition Glove. When she receives her Kai upgrade, she can extend this to her kicks as well.
* FashionableAsymmetry: like her ingame rendition, she has a single white glove on her right hand only, but it's no ordinary glove: called the Ignition Glove, it gives Amatsukaze a fiery edge to her physical attacks.
* FragileSpeedster: Even moreso than in the game. Her defense and armor point ratings are markedly lower than average compared to other destroyers, but in exchange, she has very high speed, agility, and reflex ratings and is equipped with a specialized internal reactor, called the Atalantian Reactor Mk. I, that gives her the speed that makes her the second fastest ship girl in the fleet, bar her own sister, Shimakaze.
* GlassCannon: ties in with FragileSpeedster. Not only is she the second fastest ship girl in the fleet, but she's also performed some of the story's most lethal attacks, such as Tenjou no Kasai and Shirohasu Senpuukyaku.
* ICallItVera: has this relationship with her turret buddy, whom she calls Rensouhou-kun, just like in the game. Except, in the context of this story, Rensouhou-kun can spot enemies, calculate ballistics information for Amatsukaze, and can even use her assault rifle to cover her in combat.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Does this when she tries to get the others to leave her behind after taking crippling damage from [[spoiler:Shimakaze]] at Atlanta.
* NecessaryDrawback: while not explicitly mentioned at all in the story, the stat sheet gives her a "cost" rating of 4 when the vast majority of destroyers won't ever have cost ratings over 2 (it's more comparable to cruiser levels of resource consumption), so it's implied that for how strong of a destroyer she is, Amatsukaze typically consumes more food, steel, bauxite, and fuel than her peers. Also mentioned in the stat sheet is her level cap: while most other destroyers have max levels of anywhere between 90 to 120, Amatsukaze is capped at 75.
* PlayingWithFire: thanks to her Ignition Glove, a special glove that burns at will. [[spoiler:If she uses a navitasium cube, her Ignition Glove has up to two more tiers of strength.]]
* ShootTheBullet: more like kicking it...and not just a bullet, either. She pulls this off in chapter 149, when an NDP tank fires a 120mm round at her, and she jumps up and kicks it away.
* {{Shoutout}}: she seems to be fond of using a few of Ken Masters' attacks from VideoGame/StreetFighter, like the Shinryuken and Guren Senpuukyaku (renamed Shirohasu Senpuukyaku).
** [[spoiler:She gains a new ability through Damon's YRC called Illusion, the same one used by Fox in the VideoGame/SuperSmashBros series.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Shimakaze. While her relationship with her is known in the game, in this story, Amatsukaze and Shimakaze both view each other as sisters, especially before Damon acquires more Kagerou-Class destroyers for his fleet. And because they're the two fastest ship girls in the fleet, they're practically always sortieing together as a tag-team duo to break enemy lines for the rest of the fleet.
* {{Tsundere}}: shows signs of this when [[spoiler:she mentions after Damon saves the fleet from Blackwood that she no longer minds it too much if Damon keeps calling her Amy, something she always hated prior to this event.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: the [[http://hk-usa.com/hk-models/hk416/ H&K-416 assault rifle]] that she uses for much of the story.
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[[folder:Asashio-Class]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, all Asashio-Class members so far gain access to protocols that they didn't have before.]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Asashio-Class members, like the Mutsuki-Class, have access to defensive support abilities that focus on keeping other allies alive, but some of their abilities also help their allies fight better against their enemies.
!!Asashio
* AnimalMotifs: her new [[spoiler:Cerberus Protocol]] portrays her as houndlike, just like the Shiratsuyu-Class, perhaps due to the ingame fanbase's comparisons of her unfailing loyalty to the Admiral to that of a dog.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that grants small combat bonuses to her sisters in combat.
* {{Determinator}}: her Endurance rating is 9, with a Will rating of 70%. Asashio even has this trope as a passive ability that gives her major conditional endurance-related bonuses to reinforce this, ''and'' she maintains a unique status of being the only ship girl who can still sortie at 100% fatigue.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: is always loyal to whoever is her designated Admiral, even to the Harper family during her time at Nashville, but she learns after joining the Combined Fleet that some people do not deserve to be obeyed. Nevertheless, this trait is cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet that gives her combat bonuses for fighting with any commanding human of the fleet.
* SeriousBusiness: whenever she talks, Asashio ''always'' means what she says, even through her Cerberus Protocol, even when she's asking for a cheek rub.
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:her new Cerberus Protocol visibly changes her appearance by making her hair longer and giving her doggie hair ears, but her new combat capabilities are yet to be explored.]]
!!Arashio
* BreakTheCutie: possesses the Scarred passive debuff [[spoiler:due to her status as a "victim" ship girl of Nashville.]]
** ThePowerOfLove: but the debuffs she suffers because of this can be negated if she deploys with at least one ship sister into combat.
* {{Shoutout}}: given her name and her [[spoiler:new Storm Protocol, she's most likely giving one to Storm of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.]]
!!Kasumi
* EveryoneHasStandards: even Kasumi can't stand Akebono's constant antipathy towards Damon, as demonstrated in chapter 280.
* {{Jerkass}}: just like Akebono, Kasumi stays true to her ingame rendition and is quite hostile towards Damon, but since Akebono seems to be given more of the spotlight throughout the story, Kasumi's behavior tends to get overshadowed by Akebono's.
* SirSwearsALot: just like Akebono, she too has the Shitmouth passive ability that gives her trivial combat bonuses at the penalty of a double fatigue gain rate and small insanity gain rate when deployed with Damon.
* {{Tsundere}}: is this to her sisters, and probably one to Damon, as of the later chapters, anyway.
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[[folder:Yuugumo-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Yuugumo-Class members have access to unique abilities that enhance the potency of resources consumed mid-fight, depending on the type of resource consumed.
!!Naganami
* {{Fangirl}}: averted, she has made no such mention of Tanaka Raizou, her warship-era captain, throughout the story, not even in her Fleet Log.
* HotBlooded: subverted, she's not nearly as hot-blooded as she is ingame, though she has no problem making friends with Shimakaze (who herself is more level-headed in this story too). Though, not having any of her ship sisters around in the fleet to hang out with might have something to do with this.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: specifically, I Just Want To Have My Sisters. At the time of her introduction to the fleet, Naganami is the only one of the Yuugumo-Class to be present, [[spoiler:and it takes over a hundred and fifty chapters for the next Yuugumo-Class, Asashimo, to come along.]] Naturally, Naganami is upset by this and feels isolated, but luckily Shimakaze was there to befriend her in her sisters' places.
!!Asashimo
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:she somehow fell into the possession of the Typewriters, a local Inner Chicago gang with a vendetta against New Chicago and its people, and was conducting burglaries on various gun shops like the Full Metal Jacket that Damon is a frequent patron of before she got captured.]]
* {{Shoutout}}: to VideoGame/AssassinsCreed during her introduction to the story, as she appears wearing a hooded cape and wields an under-wrist blade capable of piercing Smartsteel armor, as Yuudachi finds out the hard way.
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!!Shimakaze
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: highly in contrast to both her ingame and anime renditions, she's much less of a BoisterousBruiser and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and, like Murasame, takes her role in the fleet quite seriously, especially because she's the fastest ship girl in the fleet and she knows it. In contrast to other Kantai Collection works and fanworks, in this story, she's much less of a {{Jerkass}} as well, able to befriend Naganami when the latter joins the fleet and make her feel at home in the fleet when Naganami has no sister of her own from the Yuugumo-Class with her at the moment.
* AttackDrone: what her Rensouhou-chan turret buddies are, just like in the anime. However, in the story, because they're like miniature mobile firing platforms, Shimakaze can get very creative with how she sets up artillery strikes with them, including throwing them all up into the air and performing a DeathFromAbove with cannon shells. In addition, unlike Amatsukaze, Shimakaze possesses a gearbox, but it's completely nonfunctional in terms of combat capability and is strictly used to carry her turrets around on her back.
* CloseRangeCombatant: is this even more so than Amatsukaze. Basically, whatever Amatsukaze can do, Shimakaze can (technically) do better, minus the fire attacks that Amatsukaze can pull off.
* FragileSpeedster: practically the embodiment of this in the fleet. Unlike her ingame rendition, according to the stat sheet, she's got lower than average hit points, almost nonexistent armor points, and a [[GlassCannon miserable defense rating]]. However, when normally the max rating for any category is 9, Shimakaze has a 15 in speed and a 10 in endurance, with maxed-out ratings in agility and reflexes. She even has a unique, specialized reactor that's been built just for her, an upgraded and more efficient version of Amatsukaze's Atalantian Reactor, called the Atalantian Reactor Mk. II, that gives her the speed that she's known for.
* GlassCannon: just like her sister and ties in with FragileSpeedster. When they first meet, [[spoiler:she defeats Amatsukaze by subjecting her to a case of ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by thrusting her arm through her chest, crippling her.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: seemingly averted in this story compared to the 4koma and other fanworks. While it is true that Shimakaze usually only hangs out with Amatsukaze most of the time and almost exclusively fights with her in battle, she doesn't seem to show any difficulty in interacting with others. She also has a special friendship with Naganami, most likely due to their historic relationship.
* NecessaryDrawback: while not explicitly mentioned at all in the story, the stat sheet gives her a "cost" rating of 4 when the vast majority of destroyers won't ever have cost ratings over 2 (it's more comparable to cruiser levels of resource consumption), so it's implied that for how strong of a destroyer she is, Shimakaze, like Amatsukaze, typically consumes more food, steel, bauxite, and fuel than her peers. And also just like Amatsukaze, according to the stat sheet, Shimakaze has a much lower than average level cap, even lower than Amatsukaze at 50.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Amatsukaze. While her relationship with her is known in the game, in this story, Shimakaze and Amatsukaze both view each other as sisters. Shimakaze even cements this by affectionately calling Amatsukaze "Amatsu-nee". And because they're the two fastest ship girls in the fleet, they're practically always sortieing together as a tag-team duo to break enemy lines for the rest of the fleet.
* WeaponOfChoice: to fit her role as a CloseRangeCombatant, shows an apparent affinity for combat shotguns, such as the [[http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/usa/atchisson-aa-12-e.html AA-12 automatic shotgun]] or the [[http://www.keltecweapons.com/our-guns/pistol/ksg Kel-Tec KSG-12 pump action.]]
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!WARNING!
!Unavoidable {{Walking Spoiler}}s past this point!
[[folder:Shiratsuyu-class (first generation)]]
! !Samidare
A mysterious figure who looks just like Samidare.
Because she is Samidare. Technically, the previous Samidare and the birth mother of the current one.
* AllYourPowersCombined: She has access to all the Protocols of the Shiratsuyu-class.
* ArchnemesisDad: She views all the second-generation Shiratsuyu-class as abominations, but especially loathes her "daughter".
* BadassLongcoat: wears a Victorian-styled one over her standard uniform, which is implied to be the same as the second-generation Samidare's.
* BloodyMurder: If she uses her nodachi to inflict a nonlethal wound on you, it stays so that she can detonate it at any time. Though, whether or not it's actual exploding blood itself that !Samidare employs is yet to be confirmed.
* FlashStep: a frequent user of this in combat.
* FreakOut: Her personality used to be sweet and angelic like in canon. It's never been the same after what SEAL Team Six did to the first-generation Shiratsuyus.
* HiddenDepths: the American ship girls state that she was the one who originally discovered, researched, and produced navitasium by studying its core component, serenity, the latent energy produced and used by the Abyssals. Her ordeal as part of Seal Team Six's highly questionable experiments on her and her sister of the first-generation Shiratsuyu-Class also counts.
* {{Homage}}: one to Lady Maria of Bloodborne - blade, blood-related power, clothing, down to the tricorne hat. Even the scene when she and the Shiratsuyu-Class meet for the first time in Houston is akin to the cutscene in Bloodborne, when the player meets Lady Maria for the first time, down to the dialogue she speaks to the destroyers.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: demonstrates plenty of Iaijutsu moves and techniques.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: specifically, a nodachi...that she can split into two.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: Seems to be her agenda wherever she goes, with her own daughter and nieces being the most prominent examples.
* NiceHat: a tricorne hat reminiscent of eighteenth century hatwear.
* {{Shoutout}}: two of her named attacks, Suzukaze Zantetsuken and Samidare Gaeshi, are named after the Hero skills of Ishikawa Goemon and Sasaki Kojiro from VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest respectively.
* TheStoic: the only two times she's been shown to show any emotion are just before Samidare's emergence from Suzukaze's stasis cell and when she spends some time with Admiral Kevinson.
* TragicKeepsake: She keeps her hair tied up with a red ribbon from the first Shigure.
* VeteranUnit: she was part of Seal Team Six (different from Sanford's Seal Team Six), the elite Navy Seal Team that comprised of herself and the four American ship girls Iowa, Wisconsin, Enterprise, and Yorktown, who served throughout the first half of the nuclear apocalypse defending the United States from both human and Abyssal attackers during the Federation War and the Typhoon Wars.
* WhenSheSmiles: she's actually a very pleasant woman when she interacts with her Admiral if they're not talking about their operations.
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