History Characters / AmbienceAFleetSymphonyThree

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: [[spoiler:except her hair is now red due to the XYZ virus infection as of chapter 320.]]

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: due to the awkwardness of her name when English speakers try to pronounce it for the first time, she has to correct a few people on it, including Damon when they meet for the first time.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:As Red Samidare, she reveals that she has many of the same powers that her mother has: the FlashStep, explosive blood, and her hatred of her sisters. The last one isn't a power, necessarily, but it may as well be.]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:when double-teamed by Javelin and Swordfish, she can't fight them both by herself, for as strong as she is. Being able to take on multiple enemies at once with her protocol might be possible with Abyssals, but fellow ship girls who are just as skilled, if not more, than she is are a much different story.]]

* RealityEnsues: Suzukaze is confronted by Damon, who makes it clear that his tolerance on her constant, near-perpetual insubordination has limits, and that he's not interested in spoiling her by giving her the wartime Arisaka rifle given them them by Mr. Harrison.

* FinalDeath: [[spoiler:Shigure does not come back with the Operation South Town fleet, as indicated in chapter 394, meaning that she is the story's first true loss.]]
** [[spoiler:subverted when the final passage at the end of chapter 395 reveals a hint of Shigure's true fate...]]

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.

* ElementalHair: snowy white hair to match her Icewater Protocol.

* ElementalHair: pink to match her [[spoiler:pink light.]]

* ElementalHair: blue to match her [[spoiler:blue water.]] [[spoiler:And later, when Red Samidare shows up, red to match her boiling blood.]]

* ElementalHair: bright red hair to match her Firewater Protocol.

* ElementalHair: straw-blonde to match her [[spoiler:straw-yellow flames.]]

* InSeriesNickname: Maribel. [[spoiler:If the name sounds familiar to [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} another certain character by the same name]], it's because Damon remembers the name mentioned by his mom and decides to give it to Murasame.]]

** [[spoiler:Her Passing Shower attack is reminiscent of VideoGame/{{Touhou}} spellcard attacks.]]

* ReluctantWarrior: states in chapter 30 when she exclaims that she doesn't want to have to get used to the feeling of murder. It's an attitude that she tries to maintain over the course of the story, but as time passes, she slowly sees her protocol and her duty to kill as a NecessaryEvil.

* FragileFlower: maintained and subverted at the same time. [[spoiler:despite being DrivenToMadness when her sisters find her, after being somewhat healed by Harusame, Samidare, and Umikaze, she at least makes an attempt to protect Samidare by daring to tell !Samidare to stay away from her. It ultimately gets her killed, but despite everything she's gone through, once she has a [[{{Pun}} clear mind,]] she still wants to protect her sisters.]]

* ItsPronouncedTroPay: due to the awkwardness of her name when English speakers try to pronounce it for the first time, she has to correct a few people on it, including Damon when they meet for the first time.

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!

* InsaneForgiveness: her key defining characteristic, and is demonstrated at multiple intervals throughout the story: she forgives Murasame and makes amends with her in terms of their sistership [[spoiler:after Murasame compelled Suzukaze is leave the fleet and was indirectly responsible for her banishment]], and she forgives Suzukaze in a sense [[spoiler:when she defeats Suzukaze at Houston after assuring her that she will always love her despite the things she'd suffered at Suzukaze's hands while in the city.]] It's even listed as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet.

* FinalDeath: [[spoiler:Shigure does not come back with the Operation South Town fleet, as indicated in chapter 394, meaning that she is the story's first true loss.]]

[[center: [- [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphony Main Character Page]] | [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonyOne Ship girls in general]] | [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonyTwo Destroyers (Kamikaze-class to Shiratsuyu-class)]] | '''[[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonyThree Destroyers (Asashio-class to Shimakaze-class)]]''' | [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonyFour Light and Heavy Cruisers]] | [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonyFive Battleships, Carriers, Submarines, and Auxiliaries]] | [[Characters/AmbienceAFleetSymphonySix Ship Girls of Other Nations]] -] ]]

[[folder:Kagerou-Class]]

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: in chapter 313, Kagerou retaliates back at the enemy defenders of a water utility center who are attacking them with grenade launchers like undermounted M-203's and standalone M-32's with a 40mm high explosive of her own, killing one of those soldiers.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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. Kagerou eventually has to explicitly take her to task over this overreaction.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:her name in English refers to the mysterious lights seen at sea, and her YRC power is to be able to create those lights in the form of green phosphorescent orbs that act as explosive traps.]]
* 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.]]
** [[spoiler:Shiranui uses Iori's Ura 1018-Shiki Yashiori attack, in which she hurls a handful of explosive green energy orbs at her opponent, as seen in [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters King Of Fighters 14.]]]]
* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.]]
** in chapter 335, she shouts [[Film/{{Dodgeball}} "If you can dodge a shell, you can dodge a ball!"]] before getting bashed by a shell a moment later.
* 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

* AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler:after Kagerou accidentally burns Damon with her Heat Wave, Amatsukaze starts berating him because she doesn't want to see the one she loves get hurt. Oops.]]
* 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.]]
** she uses Sakazaki Ryo's Shin Tenchi Haou-Ken punch to defeat an enemy light cruiser in chapter 366.
* 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.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Asashio accidentally ends up fatally shooting an innocent civilian man just trying to defend his home from Asashio when she breaks in in search of mercenary enemies to capture and interrogate. See below for more details.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: in chapter 313, [[spoiler:Asashio charges into a house in the suburbs in Midwest City during the second phase of Operation No Exit after being tipped off by Enterprise, who alerts whole fleet to signatures detected throughout the suburbs. A civilian man with a double-barreled shotgun comes out to defend his home when he hears Asashio breaking in through the living room window, and Asashio ends up shooting him in the stomach, fatally wounding him, and shortly after, the man's pregnant wife comes out after hearing the shot and begins to grieve for her dying husband. Asashio slowly realizes that she's just shot an innocent civilian instead of an enemy mercenary and, needless to say, reacts extremely poorly to the situation.]]
* 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.
* OhCrap: this is her reaction in its purest form when she witnesses her sister Arashio [[spoiler:punch her other sister Kasumi through two houses and almost a third.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: naturally, as a result of the incident mentioned above, Asashio [[spoiler:becomes extremely depressed at her actions and tries to apologize to the wife of the civilian man she's shot on accident, but the woman rejects her apology and yells her into cowering silence.]]
* 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.]]
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: ties in with OhCrap, as the narration explicitly describes her reaction to [[spoiler:Arashio punching Kasumi]] in this manner.

!!Arashio

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: in chapter 313, when she punches Kasumi so hard that she goes through several houses, at the third and last house, Kasumi ends up slamming into a mercenary through a window so hard that his head gets impaled against a doorknob. Ouch.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Arashio loses both of her arms that get shot off when she gets hit by fifteen cruiser shells in chapter 335.]]
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:with her newly acquired Storm Protocol, she can fire special ice shells from her cannons that, instead of exploding on contact against an opponent, will pierce Abyssal armor. She's also able to use her Ice Storm attack because of it as well.]]
* BlowYouAway: [[spoiler:gains wind powers thanks to her Storm Protocol.]]
* 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.
* DefiantToTheEnd: in chapter 335, Arashio realizes too late that her tunnel-visioning on a wounded Ta-Class battleship to finish her off has caused her to break off away from her comrades and dive too deep into Abyssal waters, causing her to get surrounded. She decides to go after her original target anyway and successfully snipes both the Ta-Class and an accompanying Ru-Class battleship and tries her best to resist the overwhelming force of Abyssals before going down.
* MegatonPunch: perhaps the ''strongest'' (or at least the rawest) such punch seen in the whole story, [[spoiler:Arashio punches Kasumi so hard that the latter is sent through a grand total of six layers of house walling before an unfortunate enemy mercenary helps stop her by cushioning her against a door that's behind him - and Kasumi pays him back by accidentally stabbing his head against the doorknob so hard that it impales his brain.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:in chapter 313, Arashio shatters her own personality by punching Kasumi through two houses and almost a third.]]
* RageBreakingPoint: Arashio has always been portrayed as a somewhat more tragic but otherwise true-to-canon ship girl in the story (but again, like many other minor characters in the story, this may simply be because the narration hasn't been able to flesh out her character as much as others), but what Kasumi said in chapter 313 [[spoiler:clearly makes her pissed off enough to send her own ship sister flying through a couple of houses.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:demonstrates a small capacity for electricity with her Storm Protocol, but given its description in chapter 335, it doesn't seem like this is Arashio's forte.]]
* {{Shoutout}}: given her name and her [[spoiler:new Storm Protocol, she's most likely giving one to Storm of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.]]
** [[spoiler:indeed, in chapter 335, she uses Storm's Ice Storm super from VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3, albeit probably a smaller version of it.]]
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:perhaps turned UpToEleven, even. After making Kasumi blast off, she begins to apologize to the wife when New Jersey comes in to investigate the great crashing noises in the house that they are in.]]
* {{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.

!!Kasumi

* DashAttack: performs one in chapter 367, attacking a Ri-Class heavy cruiser with a bit of a FlashStep maneuver that doesn't take her very far, but it allows her to cause the Ri-Class to explode in white haze and severely disables her, allowing Kasumi to finish her off.
* EveryoneHasStandards: even Kasumi can't stand Akebono's constant antipathy towards Damon, as demonstrated in chapter 280.
* GameOfChicken: in chapter 313, an enemy Humvee driver operates his vehicle to run Kasumi over in the water utility plant. Kasumi, being a ship girl, doesn't back down, and the mercenary, not knowing just what Kasumi is, charges at her anyway. [[CaptainObvious You should already know how this one ends.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:gets stabbed by a Ne-Class's claws in chapter 367 that severs her spine, but luckily for her, Harusame and Umikaze are nearby, whom Asashio calls to administer rapid healing to Kasumi to get her back into the fight.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: in chapter 335, Kasumi tears off one of the lower teeth of a Ho-Class cruiser and uses it to slash it nearly to death. Since it seems like Smartsteel blades can harm Smartsteel armor, why not take it from your enemy?
* {{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.
* MegatonPunch: in above-mentioned GameOfChicken with the enemy Humvee, she sends the Humvee flying fifty meters backwards and causes it to land upside down on the ground.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Kasumi puts the wife of the innocent civilian man whom Asashio has accidentally shot at gunpoint and gives her this - except the one that Kasumi gives only has one choice.]]
* SeenItAll: this is part of her argument with the wife of the civilian man [[spoiler:whom Asashio shoots on accident in chapter 313. Kasumi argues with her that if she's trying to essentially guilt-trip them over her dying husband, it won't work, because Kasumi and her sisters have seen all that war has to offer and thus have lost more than the woman ever will.]]
--> Kasumi: [[spoiler:"We've lost more friends and comrades than you have friends, period! You think we need to care about you losing your husband?!"]]
* {{Shoutout}}: when the story narration is describing the moments just before the GameOfChicken that Kasumi has with the enemy Humvee, it explicitly calls her [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} "a goddamn destroyer and a half."]]
* 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.

[[/folder]]

[[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

* DeadlyGas: in chapter 378, she and her squadron are defeated by a surge of Inner Circle reinforcements [[spoiler:who then subject them to Nova Gas, a specifically manufactured biological weapon intended to attack ship girls because the gas targets their Smartsteel cells.]]
* {{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.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:her YRC power allows her to hurl waves of black and pink energy from her left and right arms, respectively. Naganami's name in English literally means "long waves".]]
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:her YRC power is called the [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 Wave Motion Guns.]]
* TearsOfBlood: one of the results of being exposed to [[spoiler:Nova Gas.]]

!!Asashimo

* BoomHeadshot: her kills with her hidden wristwatch blade have to be this, or otherwise hit vital areas on her enemies.
* 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.]]
* DeadlyGas: in chapter 378, she and her squadron are defeated by a surge of Inner Circle reinforcements [[spoiler:who then subject them to Nova Gas, a specifically manufactured biological weapon intended to attack ship girls because the gas targets their Smartsteel cells.]]
* InvisibilityCloak: [[spoiler:downplayed. The new hood on her uniform lets her erase her own presence from outlying electronic detection measures, but she herself is still perfectly visible.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:her YRC power allows her to fire off blasts of frost from her hands. Asashimo's name in English literally means "morning frost".]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: also a Shout-out to Franchise/AssassinsCreed: "Rest in peace, bitch."
* {{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. [[spoiler:And for Operation 300, she receives a hood on her uniform that probably makes her look like an Assassin and keeps her underwrist blade.]]
** and in chapter 301, she actually does fight like an Assassin.
** [[spoiler:her YRC power is called [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps the Winter's Howl]].]]
* TheSneakyGuy: chapter 300 reveals that [[spoiler:Asashimo gets a special hood sewn onto her uniform that removes her presence from radar and other electronic peripherals.]]
* TearsOfBlood: one of the results of being exposed to [[spoiler:Nova Gas.]]

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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.
* EyeScream: loses her eyesight in chapter 382 when a Ne-Class catches her off-guard and claws her face, hitting her eyes in the process and destroying them.
* 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.
* {{Shoutout}}: her Chiron Step attack is the Hero Skill of Achilles in VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest.
* 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!

Because she is Samidare. Technically, the previous Samidare and the birth mother of the current one.

** [[spoiler:Shiranui uses Iori's Ura 1018-Shiki Yashiori attack, in which she hurls a handful of explosive green energy orbs at her opponent, as seen in [[VideoGame/KingOfFighters King Of Fighters 14.]]]]

** in chapter 365, she explains that the evil sides of Samidare and Suzukaze are the results of a special magic program that the Moebius project installed in them as a buffer state to their final angelic forms, and that the magic program is called the [[VideoGame/FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]. She also reveals that she shares the same mark as her daughter, meaning that there is a possible Geese-Rock Howard-esque relationship between them.

** in chapter 365, she explains that the evil sides of Samidare and Suzukaze are the results of a special magic program that the Moebius project installed in them as a buffer state to their final angelic forms, and that the magic program is called the [[VideoGame/GarouMarkofTheWolves Mark of the Wolves]]. She also reveals that she shares the same mark as her daughter, meaning that there is a possible Geese-Rock Howard-esque relationship between them.