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* BornUnlucky: as if her historical background as a warship didn't treat her badly enough, [[spoiler:in this story, she's found captured by !Samidare, who uses her as a shield at first to prevent the Shiratsuyu-Class from attacking her, giving her time to convey to them hints about the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class. Once she's had enough of Yamakaze's talking, !Samidare summarily stabs her through the chest and cripples her, then kills her off for good to make her the first ship girl to die by a headshot that destroys her brain after she's done fighting the rest of her sisters. Add to all this the fact that when Samidare tries to heal Yamakaze, she finds that Yamakaze's body shows signs of prolonged starvation because it's not healing anywhere near as fast as she expects, and it's most definitely not the Brightwater Protocol's fault.]]
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* BornUnlucky: as if her historical background as a warship didn't treat her badly enough, [[spoiler:in this story, she's found captured by !Samidare, who uses her as a shield at first to prevent the Shiratsuyu-Class from attacking her, giving her time to convey to them hints about the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class. Once she's had enough of Yamakaze's talking, !Samidare summarily stabs her through the chest and cripples her, then kills her off for good to make her the first ship girl to die by a headshot that destroys her brain after she's done fighting the rest of her sisters. Add to all this the fact that when Samidare tries to heal Yamakaze, she finds that Yamakaze's body shows signs of prolonged starvation because it's not healing anywhere near as fast as she expects, and it's most definitely not the Brightwater Protocol's fault. Add to this fact another one that she's been stuck inside her own shipping crate ever since she was shipped to the US before the nuclear war conscious and with no way of getting herself out, and this is perhaps the single worst set of cards dealt to any ship girl, and especially traumatizing to Yamakaze in particular due to her historical RealLife counterpart's demise.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:she was stuck inside her own shipping crate for nineteen years all the way through the nuclear apocalypse with no one to talk to, save for the occasional looting bandit party who couldn't break her free, living on ship supplies that was only meant to last her a few weeks at best. Sanford also adds that for her to have survived for this long on such a meager amount of rations, she needed to have rationed her own supplies knowing no one was going to find her for a long time. Sanford says out of all the ship girls with tragic backstories, Yamakaze is the one he pities the most.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:she was stuck inside her own shipping crate for nineteen years all the way through the nuclear apocalypse with no one to talk to, save for the occasional looting bandit party who couldn't break her free, living on ship supplies that was only meant to last her a few weeks at best. Sanford also adds that for her to have survived for this long on such a meager amount of rations, she needed to have rationed her own supplies knowing no one was going to find her for a long time. Sanford says out of all the ship girls with tragic backstories, Yamakaze is the one he pities the most.]]
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: [[spoiler:when reconstructing her, Sanford informs Damon that Yamakaze somehow got reactivated, either due to carelessness or a glitch in her programming, sometime before reaching the United States and was stuck for nineteen years inside her own shipping crate at her original destination, Arnold AFB near Nashville. As proof, Sanford and Mr. Araki find out that she's had active memories archived from all the way back in 2010. This explains why Yamakaze was in the state that she was when the rest of the Shiratsuyu-Class met her for the first time at Booneville.]]
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* BloodIsTheNewBlack: [[spoiler:she's seen with blood flooding down all around her scalp and head because !Samidare's overhead hammerhead swing has just caved in part of her head and broke her skull.]]
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** Umikaze a [[AnIcePerson cold-blooded]] ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend who's been [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide [[RapeisASpecialKindOfEvil once before]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge wants revenge against a certain relative.]]]]
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: a SurvivorsGuilt-ridden ReluctantPsycho, an anchor-flinging semi-{{Yandere}}, a BadassAdorable canine-like AxCrazy BloodKnight [[SweetTooth who happens to like doughnuts]], an OntologicalMystery [[CastFromHitPoints whose hair happens to be edible]], a CuteClumsyGirl who's prone to both [[FacePlant faceplanting]] [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction and destroying entire cities]]]], a [[AnIcePerson cold-blooded]] ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend who's been DrivenToSuicide, a PyroManiac, and a mass-murdering OneWingedAngel who can [[LudicrousGibs vaporize human beings with as much ease as tearing a piece of paper in half]]. Shiratsuyu is currently the only one who can truly claim she's as [[BadassNormal normal as can be,]] and she's the one [[ThisIsGonnaSuck who needs to keep her sisters in line.]]
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** Shiratsuyu is an [[spoiler:[[ShockAndAwe electric, plasma sword-swinging, particle accelerator-firing]]]] CoolBigSis who's tried to go ''back'' to the Coalition faction that's oppressed her because she thought it was the only thing she could have done for [[spoiler:Murasame]]. She's also the [[BadassNormal most normal]] in her class.
** Shigure is a SurvivorsGuilt-riddenReluctantPsycho, ReluctantPsycho who [[spoiler:[[BloodyMurder uses blood, tendrils made of blood, and flames made of blood]]]] and [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] to annihilate anyone she feels like killing.
** Murasame is ananchor-flinging anchor-swinging semi-{{Yandere}}, who can use her anchor [[spoiler:that can also turn into a demonic katana]] [[spoiler:with just her teeth if need be.]]
** Yuudachi is a BadassAdorable canine-like AxCrazy BloodKnight[[SweetTooth [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking who happens to like doughnuts]], doughnuts]] and can [[spoiler:spawn infernal yellow flames and [[ImAHumanitarian snacks on Abyssal bones]]]].
** Harusame is an OntologicalMystery [[CastFromHitPoints whose hair happens to beedible]], edible]] and has been [[spoiler:DrivenToMadness by a certain relative's reality marble]].
** Samidare is a CuteClumsyGirl who's prone to both [[FacePlant faceplanting]] [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction and destroying entirecities]]]], cities]]]].
** Umikaze a [[AnIcePerson cold-blooded]] ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend who's beenDrivenToSuicide, a PyroManiac, [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide [[RapeisASpecialKindOfEvil once before]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge wants revenge against a mass-murdering OneWingedAngel certain relative.]]]]
** Yamakaze is an [[spoiler:abused BrokenBird who's also been DrivenToMadness after being exposed to the [[AwfulTruth truth about the Shiratsuyu-Class.]]]]
** Kawakaze is a PyroManiac [[spoiler:who can also fly]].
** Suzukaze is a [[spoiler:[[DropTheHammer gravity hammer-swinging]]]] [[spoiler:mass-murdering OneWingedAngel]] who can[[LudicrousGibs [[spoiler:[[LudicrousGibs vaporize human beings with as much ease as tearing a piece of paper in half]]. Shiratsuyu is currently by ripping apart the only one who can truly claim she's as [[BadassNormal normal as can be,]] and she's the one [[ThisIsGonnaSuck who needs to keep her sisters water molecules in line.]]their bodies]]]].
** Shiratsuyu is an [[spoiler:[[ShockAndAwe electric, plasma sword-swinging, particle accelerator-firing]]]] CoolBigSis who's tried to go ''back'' to the Coalition faction that's oppressed her because she thought it was the only thing she could have done for [[spoiler:Murasame]]. She's also the [[BadassNormal most normal]] in her class.
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** Yuudachi is a BadassAdorable canine-like AxCrazy BloodKnight
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** Yamakaze is an [[spoiler:abused BrokenBird who's also been DrivenToMadness after being exposed to the [[AwfulTruth truth about the Shiratsuyu-Class.]]]]
** Kawakaze is a PyroManiac [[spoiler:who can also fly]].
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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: at the end of chapter 295, when the girls need to shoot down a couple of enemy helicopters, Murakumo, Shirayuki, and Hatsuyuki all find AT-4 rocket launchers dropped by the enemies they've killed and try to shoot down one of the choppers. Both Murakumo and Shirayuki miss, but Hatsuyuki, who's apparently learned how to handle rocket launchers like the AT-4 from somewhere, nails the chopper and downs it instantly.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: a downplayed version: [[spoiler:in the beginning of chapter 295, when the fleet first meets with the commander of the Rangers, Colonel Fodemski, he offers Murakumo a secret deal that involves the ship girls agreeing to capture the Whitewater commander Jared Imwalle and bring him back alive to the Rangers because the Colonel has some [[ItsPersonal personal business with him.]] In exchange, because his desire for personal vindication is so great, he offers to give her a satellite radio that she can use to contact him or his lieutenants so that she can call in one favor of any kind from them, so long as it's something the Rangers can do with reasonable deniability and within reasonable boundaries. Murakumo eventually does take this deal, figuring that this favor could come in very useful to perhaps get Damon out of a tight pinch if such a scenario were to happen.]]
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* OnrushingArmy: orders her sub-fleet in chapter 295 to assault the Little Rock Air Base in this fashion - because they're ship girls who don't get affected by bullets for the most part, along with precision artillery strikes from the Kagerou-Class, this simple tactic works out brilliantly.
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* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:is left in this state after Sanford tells her the truth about her and her class.]]
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* ThisCannotBe: her reaction to [[spoiler:Sanford spilling the beans on the Moebius Four project that she and her sisters were a result of.]]
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* EarCleaning: does this with Kawakaze for Damon in chapter 282. Even the chapter title is this in Japanese.
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* EarCleaning: does this with Umikaze for Damon in chapter 282. Even the chapter title is this in Japanese.
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* GlassCannon: perhaps the most standout example of all destroyer classes. Their protocols give them powers and strengths that can't be matched by any other power, not even by the powers given to other ship girls through [[spoiler:Damon's YRC]]. For comparison's sake, the only power that can compete with the Shiratsuyu-Class's powers is the Yamato Cannon, and that's a ''battleship-specific'' ship weapon. However, they still are limited to destroyer-tier health and armor pools.
** [[spoiler:her name, Shiratsuyu, means "White Dew" in English. Her Alpha Protocol, with Damon's YRC help, enables her to use electricity-based powers that generate white streaks of lightning - and [[NonIndicativeName definitely has nothing to do with dew.]]]]
* BackpackCannon: averted - Shigure departs from her canon equipment setup and uses dual-wielding arm cannons that's standard in the story.
* {{Bokukko}}: subverted; since the story is written in English, there's naturally no mention of this, but there's no reason why she can't talk like this when speaking in Japanese.
* BornLucky: in the general scope of the story, is actually this. She, along with Yuudachi, gets found by Damon and the fleet relatively early on in the story, has a strong protocol that's both versatile in all situations and is default to her skillset, and grows to become one of the strongest destroyers in the fleet. Compared to other ship girls, she's drawn another set of good cards for this second life as a ship girl.
* BornLucky: in the general scope of the story, is actually this. She, along with Yuudachi, gets found by Damon and the fleet relatively early on in the story, has a strong protocol that's both versatile in all situations and is default to her skillset, and grows to become one of the strongest destroyers in the fleet. Compared to other ship girls, she's drawn another set of good cards for this second life as a ship girl.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, Shigure now has control over flames that are colored bloody red.]]
* RedBaron: averted; there's no mention of her title "Shigure of Sasebo", and she doesn't call herself this either.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: heavily subverted - there's only once, twice tops, that Shigure utters the words, "I'm disappointed in you".
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: subverted, she's not a moron ''and'' she's much more badass.
* DumbBlonde: subverted. While her intelligence stat is admittedly low, she can make rational decisions even when in her Nightmare Protocol, which, mind you, many of her sisters can't.
* GenkiGirl: maintained. Whenever she's off duty and not training, she's a happy-go-lucky girl who's always looking for things to do and games to play.
* ObliviousToLove: averted; Yuudachi, like her sisters, grows feelings for Damon over the course of the story and comfortably expresses her affection to him.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, Yuudachi gains control over straw-yellow-colored hair, the same color as her hair.]]
* RedBaron: subverted; she probably only ever calls herself the Nightmare of Solomon once, maybe twice, in the whole story.
* ValleyGirl: humorously averted; because the story decides to keep Yuudachi's VerbalTic of "Poi" without translating it into English, so she inadvertently avoids sounding like a true ValleyGirl.
* IconicItem: while the story doesn't explicitly mention a rice container as part of her ship loadout, her "Supplier" passive ability does acknowledge it by making it a portable storage container that can carry a set amount of ship supplies to resupply ship girls on the go.
* PunnyName: see VisualPun below.
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* VerbalTic: subverted; compared to more unique Verbal Tics like Yuudachi's "poi", Harusame's "desu" is more standard and isn't shown in the story's dialogue, as opposed to Kongou's. But again, there's no reason why Harusame can't have this tic while speaking in Japanese.
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* PunnyName: averted; no one's heard confusing her name with the rainy phenomenon that she shares her name with.
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* {{Fangirl}}: only slightly subverted; she doesn't go ''full'' fangirl over Sendai, but they are described to be close friends and are depicted eating dinner together the night Damon makes the fleet Burgundy meat stew.
* FieryRedhead: now taken literally with her Firewater Protocol.
* FieryRedhead: now taken literally with her Firewater Protocol.
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* IronicName: just like her ingame self, her name contrasts sharply with herself - not only her personality, but also her protocol.
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* NonIndicativeName: her Brightwater Protocol doesn't have anything to do with water. This is a common trend for the latter half of the Shiratsuyu-Class, whose protocols all end in "water".
** averted in chapter 292 - [[spoiler:when Samidare gets the idea of drawing her own blood to see if she could use it to extinguish the flames burning Yuudachi alive, her blood turns into bright blue water, turning this trope into a case of MeaningfulName.]]
** averted in chapter 292 - [[spoiler:when Samidare gets the idea of drawing her own blood to see if she could use it to extinguish the flames burning Yuudachi alive, her blood turns into bright blue water, turning this trope into a case of MeaningfulName.]]
* NonIndicativeName: her Icewater protocol has nothing to do with water - unless, of course, you consider ice and water the same entity, only in different forms.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: their second battle against [[spoiler:!Samidare starts off as this for Umikaze, after she witnesses her stab and cripple Yamakaze with her sword through the chest.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:how Yamakaze dies in chapter 292.]]
* BornUnlucky: as if her historical background as a warship didn't treat her badly enough, [[spoiler:in this story, she's found captured by !Samidare, who uses her as a shield at first to prevent the Shiratsuyu-Class from attacking her, giving her time to convey to them hints about the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class. Once she's had enough of Yamakaze's talking, !Samidare summarily stabs her through the chest and cripples her, then kills her off for good to make her the first ship girl to die by a headshot that destroys her brain after she's done fighting the rest of her sisters. Add to all this the fact that when Samidare tries to heal Yamakaze, she finds that Yamakaze's body shows signs of prolonged starvation because it's not healing anywhere near as fast as she expects, and it's most definitely not the Brightwater Protocol's fault.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:she starts off as one the instant she's introduced to the story. Talk about truly being BornUnlucky...]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:how her sisters find her at the end of chapter 290. With further details in the following two chapters, it can be implied that this was due to an unknown period of starvation inflicted on Yamakaze and her exposure to the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class, most likely through !Samidare.]]
* 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.]]
* BornUnlucky: as if her historical background as a warship didn't treat her badly enough, [[spoiler:in this story, she's found captured by !Samidare, who uses her as a shield at first to prevent the Shiratsuyu-Class from attacking her, giving her time to convey to them hints about the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class. Once she's had enough of Yamakaze's talking, !Samidare summarily stabs her through the chest and cripples her, then kills her off for good to make her the first ship girl to die by a headshot that destroys her brain after she's done fighting the rest of her sisters. Add to all this the fact that when Samidare tries to heal Yamakaze, she finds that Yamakaze's body shows signs of prolonged starvation because it's not healing anywhere near as fast as she expects, and it's most definitely not the Brightwater Protocol's fault.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:she starts off as one the instant she's introduced to the story. Talk about truly being BornUnlucky...]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:how her sisters find her at the end of chapter 290. With further details in the following two chapters, it can be implied that this was due to an unknown period of starvation inflicted on Yamakaze and her exposure to the truth behind the Shiratsuyu-Class, most likely through !Samidare.]]
* 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.]]
* LeaveMeAlone: [[spoiler:her words to her sisters during their first moments meeting one another. Yamakaze says that her sisters should have never come for her if they'd known what they were about to get themselves into.]]
* MythologyGag: in the game, Yamakaze's sinking line has her calling out to Umikaze and Kawakaze, her sisters who were part of her destroyer division in World War II. [[spoiler:When !Samidare stabs Yamakaze through the back of the chest the first time to kick off the fight between her and the Shiratsuyu-Class, Yamakaze barely manages to utter those same two sisters' names before she falls.]]
* NonIndicativeName: her Clearwater Protocol has nothing to do with water. Instead, Yamakaze's power controls wind and is able to "purify" things and people.
* MythologyGag: in the game, Yamakaze's sinking line has her calling out to Umikaze and Kawakaze, her sisters who were part of her destroyer division in World War II. [[spoiler:When !Samidare stabs Yamakaze through the back of the chest the first time to kick off the fight between her and the Shiratsuyu-Class, Yamakaze barely manages to utter those same two sisters' names before she falls.]]
* NonIndicativeName: her Clearwater Protocol has nothing to do with water. Instead, Yamakaze's power controls wind and is able to "purify" things and people.
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* SemiDivine: [[spoiler:what the second-generation is truly meant to be. Given what Samidare and Suzukaze had become in Houston, this may explain their angelic transformations.]]
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* {{Shoutout}}: according to Sanford, [[spoiler:Yamakaze can still be reconstructed despite dying from a stab to the head, but upon reconstruction, Yamakaze must relearn all of her basic ship girl skills like standing/walking on water, cruising, controlling her weapons, etc. from scratch. This is a subtle reference to VideoGame/DarkestDungeon, in which there is a very rare town event that allows you to resurrect one adventurer who's died in your game, but he/she comes back with no equipment and all stats reset to 0.]]
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* HiddenDepths: ''Oh boy.''
** [[spoiler:Sanford explains the truth of the Shiratsuyu-Class in chapter 293: there were indeed two classes of Shiratsuyu-Class, the first generation and the second generation. The first class all used to be human teenage girls between the ages of 15 to 18, who were either acquired from orphanages or kidnapped from their homes around the world due to their incredibly high latent magic potentials. The Moebius team then replaced their limbs with serenity-filled Smartsteel limbs that circulated viruses containing Smartsteel DNA in their bodies to turn their bodies into Smartsteel as well, except for the brain, due to its organic complexity. This means that the first generation started out as human but were forced to become ship girls for the sake of ensuring the success of the rest of the F.L.E.E.T. Project. Once their roles were fulfilled, they were put through a final phase of their program that intended to create a sub-species of humans with enough power to be labelled as demi-gods, and they were the second-generation Shiratsuyu-Class. Their insane protocols, skills, abilities, and capabilities as ship girls are attributed to their natures as hybrid organic and artificial beings, the combination of technology based on magic and the laws of natural life, essentially drawing the good parts of both without the disadvantages of either. Now, their status as ship girls is revealed to be nothing more than a labeling disguise, as technically they are not actually ship girls and simply have the skills of them.]]
** [[spoiler:Sanford explains the truth of the Shiratsuyu-Class in chapter 293: there were indeed two classes of Shiratsuyu-Class, the first generation and the second generation. The first class all used to be human teenage girls between the ages of 15 to 18, who were either acquired from orphanages or kidnapped from their homes around the world due to their incredibly high latent magic potentials. The Moebius team then replaced their limbs with serenity-filled Smartsteel limbs that circulated viruses containing Smartsteel DNA in their bodies to turn their bodies into Smartsteel as well, except for the brain, due to its organic complexity. This means that the first generation started out as human but were forced to become ship girls for the sake of ensuring the success of the rest of the F.L.E.E.T. Project. Once their roles were fulfilled, they were put through a final phase of their program that intended to create a sub-species of humans with enough power to be labelled as demi-gods, and they were the second-generation Shiratsuyu-Class. Their insane protocols, skills, abilities, and capabilities as ship girls are attributed to their natures as hybrid organic and artificial beings, the combination of technology based on magic and the laws of natural life, essentially drawing the good parts of both without the disadvantages of either. Now, their status as ship girls is revealed to be nothing more than a labeling disguise, as technically they are not actually ship girls and simply have the skills of them.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:when Shiratsuyu's sword explodes in her hand, the narration compares Shiratsuyu's hand and arm afterwards to a piece of electrical wire whose end is burst open, with insulation and wiring flopping everywhere.]]
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* ThePowerOfBlood: Type AB, [[spoiler:like Shigure. In chapter 292, Samidare gets the morbid idea of biting her own tongue to draw blood as a desperate attempt to heal Yuudachi of the flames that are burning her alive. It works, because Samidare turns her own blood into liquid Brightwater Protocol energy with which she uses to put out the flames.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:stabbed through the middle of her chest by !Samidare's nodachi, destroying the portion of her spine that it passes through.]]
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* MoreDakka: it seems Harusame has been assigned to be her class's squad support gunner, because her M-4 Carbine comes with 50-round X-15 drum magazines.
* {{Shoutout}}: as of chapter 285, her new rifle, an M-4 Carbine with 50-round X-15 drum mags, has the [[VideoGame/{{Counterstrike}} Bullet Rain]] weapon skin to match her squad support role.
* MoreDakka: as of chapter 285, she is now the only ship girl in her class to carry three separate weapons: her Type 38, her M-4 Carbine, and her USP-45 sidearm.
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!!Yamakaze
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: she now has the distinction of being ''the quickest'' among the ship girls pulled from the game and put into this story right as they were implemented - ''within a single day.''
* TearsOfBlood: she sheds one of these when she [[spoiler:meets her sisters for the first time during their mission to confront !Samidare and Sandman.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: she now has the distinction of being ''the quickest'' among the ship girls pulled from the game and put into this story right as they were implemented - ''within a single day.''
* TearsOfBlood: she sheds one of these when she [[spoiler:meets her sisters for the first time during their mission to confront !Samidare and Sandman.]]
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[[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 Rest of the Fleet and other ship girls]] | -] ]]
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:Mutsuki-Class]]
* CantCatchUp: an issue of concern among the Mutsuki-Class destroyers is their historic inferiority to more modern destroyers like the Fubuki-Class and the Shiratsuyu-Class; this is a pet peeve of Mutsuki's and Kikuzuki's, and Kisaragi is very concerned about this as well (really only Satsuki doesn't seem to care). This is reflected in the stat sheet, where all Mutsuki-Class destroyers generally have noticeably lower-than-average stats, armor points, hit points, and maximum level caps.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[spoiler:as of chapter 262, with the help of Damon's YRC, the Mutsuki-Class all sport white crescent moon outlines in their eyes.]]
** [[spoiler:and with the revelation in chapter 263 that Kikuzuki's eyes may be more than just a cosmetic change, since the story doesn't make any clear distinctions between each of the Mutsuki-Class's eyes, there may be a chance that the rest of the Mutsuki-Class also possess the abilities granted by Kikuzuki's eyes.]]
*** [[spoiler:confirmed in chapter 274, when Satsuki herself uses her crescent moon eyes to slow time to be able to cut down all of Murasame's energy bullets with impossible speed.]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Mutsuki-Class members have access to defensive support abilities that focus on keeping other allies alive and prolong their fighting in battle.
** Several of the Mutsuki-Class' class abilities are taken straight from Sengoku Rance.
!!Mutsuki
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:during Operation Atlanta, Mutsuki gets heavily damaged when an enemy Javelin missile detonates practically on top of her and rips both of her legs off.]]
* BigLittleSister: reinforced from her anime rendition, but Mutsuki herself explicitly recognizes this in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, when she acknowledges that her sister Kisaragi can fill that big sister archetype much better than she can.
* CoolBigSis: being the lead destroyer of her class, Mutsuki has a passive ability because of it that allows her to grant passive stat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them in combat.
* DespairEventHorizon: as discussed in her Fleet Log, she goes through a small and brief one during Operation Atlanta, when she's compelled to shoot and kill an enemy who's about to shoot Satsuki and laments her decision to do this to herself, wondering if killing the man was absolutely necessary.
* DoesntLikeGuns: started out this way at first, according to her Fleet Log, in that she didn't like the idea of ship girls like herself being used as augmented infantry, and, like Ushio, didn't like the idea of using a gun to shoot and kill people. However, the first major operation that had her see heavy combat action, Operation Atlanta, quickly changed her mind on this matter, and now she believes that if she does not fight, no matter what the method of fighting she must partake, something may happen to her or her sisters as a direct result.
* HiddenDepths: part of the reason why Mutsuki fights as a ship girl is because of her historical awareness about herself and her ship class, about how she and the rest of the Mutsuki-Class were outdated warships by the time of the second World War, and in light of this, she wants to fight to prove to herself and to everyone else who cares to see that she and her sisters are just as effective at fighting and being dutiful, effective ship girls as any other. It's to the point where her Fleet Log even mentions that Mutsuki's pet peeve is more technologically advanced destroyers, namely the Fubuki-Class or the Shiratsuyu-Class, but she seems to be able to control this pet peeve quite well if that's truly the case.
* GenkiGirl: she's portrayed in this story closer to her ingame rendition than her anime rendition. However, while she's certainly energetic, cheerful, and playful for the most part, she's not exactly a MotorMouth like she is ingame.
* GreenEyedMonster: her Fleet Log states that Mutsuki pouts a little every time she sees Yuudachi get a pat or a head rub from Damon, but since apparently they're best buddies, she doesn't mind that much.
* MercyKill: in chapter 145, she ends the suffering of a fatally wounded NDP soldier. When Kikuzuki asks her why she did this, Mutsuki replies that the man's expression reminded her of the time when Damon did the same for one of the irradiated foxes that attacked them during Operation Nashville.
* MorphWeapon: [[spoiler:Mutsuki's scythe, which has three forms: its default scythe mode, a staff mode, and a sniper mode.]]
* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: underneath Mutsuki's Type 69 Yuri-dar ability in her entry in the stat sheet, the narration goes as follows:
--> -this passive ability does absolutely nothing useful, so stop reading this and move on.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: basically what Mutsuki considers her new life as a ship girl, in order to continue her warship's original desire to prove that the Mutsuki-Class is not obsolete and can still fight just as well as any other destroyer class.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: for the most part, Mutsuki is more or less portrayed just like she is in the game. However, at two points in the story [[spoiler:first when Damon puts down a wounded, irradiated fox on their way to Nashville and second when Mutsuki herself puts a fatally wounded NDP soldier out of his misery in Germany]], Mutsuki suddenly grows extremely pensive and can't bring herself to act like the GenkiGirl that she usually is.
* RepressedMemories: she remembers her desire as a warship to prove to her country that the Mutsuki-Class could fight just as well as any other more recent and modernized destroyer class, so the fact that she and Kisaragi were both sunk early on in the war doesn't sit too well with her.
* {{Shoutout}}: a two-fer:
** [[spoiler:Mutsuki's scythe in its scythe form is one to [[WebAnimation/{{Rwby}} Ruby Rose's]] HCSS, almost definitely because Mutsuki and Ruby appear to be [[{{Expy}} Expies]] to one another. According to Mutsuki herself, the scythe in its standard form is also called 'Rose mode', to further reinforce this shout-out. In addition, like Ruby's HCSS, Mutsuki's scythe also has a sniper rifle mode, but the scythe physically morphs into a sniper rifle that uses enormous 14.5x114mm anti-tank rounds.]]
** [[spoiler:The scythe also has a third mode that changes it into a staff topped with a three-pronged clover, one to the Leangle Rouzer wielded by Mutsuki Kamijo in Series/KamenRiderBlade.]]
** she's also got a more subtle one to [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1911873?pool_id=7261 ichimi's Secretary Fleet Girl Nagatsuki-chan]] webcomic with her passive ability that allows her to sense whenever someone awakes to yuri.
* SinisterScythe: [[spoiler:except, thankfully, it's not sinister.]]
* SmallGirlBigGun: except not with a gun. [[spoiler:She now has a scythe that's nearly twice her height. [[DoubleSubversion That can also change into a sniper rifle that's just as tall.]]]]
* StockKisses: receives one from Damon on the forehead, but gets knocked out from the embarrassment as soon as she gets it.
* ThoseTwoGirls: heavily subverted from the game/anime. Kisaragi is found first on her own without her sisters, as Mutsuki, Satsuki, and Kikuzuki are acquired afterwards, so she and Kisaragi aren't necessarily depicted as inseparable (though it appears that, once these four are in the fleet, they all hang out together for the most part).
** Also seemingly subverted with Yuudachi from the anime trio, but her Fleet Log does mention that she and Yuudachi are best friends, so it can be assumed that the story simply doesn't depict their interactions. Though, this being said, her Fleet Log does detail their relationship in regards to the falling-out between Murasame and Kisaragi, in which Yuudachi declares that she won't let this incident harm her friendship with Mutsuki.
* TookALevelInBadass: her Fleet Log mentions that she didn't want to use firearms or fight like a regular ground soldier at first, but within one major combat operation, Mutsuki sheds all doubt and hesitation to be able to fight to protect her friends and sisters, even if it means fighting in a way that she didn't initially like.
** [[spoiler:with Damon's help via YRC, Mutsuki gains a triple-mode scythe that can change into a staff and a sniper rifle meant to take out tanks.]]
* VerbalTic: seemingly averted, since she doesn't add "nanodesu" or "nyaa", and she hasn't been throwing around her ingame Kai-2 "nyashii". [[spoiler:But the story makes a point to include the "nyashii" as part of Mutsuki's new shapeshifting scythe, when, in its sniper mode, literally has "nyashii" written in hiragana along the end of the barrel.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: also averted, as Mutsuki in-story hasn't been vying for Damon's approval. However, in light of recent events, this may only be because the story hasn't portrayed her personal relationship with Damon adequately enough for the readers to know.
!!Kisaragi
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: initially was TheWoobie when she finds out what happened to her in Trenton while she was still deactivated, but with Damon's care, she quickly returns to normal. However, her ordeal still has a lingering effect on her usual psyche, as she's nowhere near as flirty and promiscuous as her ingame rendition.
* AintTooProudToBeg:
** In chapter 106, she bows in apology to Murasame for her role in Suzukaze's abandonment of the fleet.
** in chapter 186, Kisaragi offers Damon her body in exchange for Kai remodels for her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class, though Damon declines her offer while promising her he'll keep her concerns in mind.
* BerserkButton: averted. Like many of the ship girls whose warship counterparts sank early on in the war, she thankfully never had a chance to develop feelings of deep-seeded animosity towards America and thus could handle working the US Navy before the nuclear war happened.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:gets broken in one fell swoop when Damon informs her that she's been raped once she's brought to the underground facility in Trenton for repairs. The repairs are implied to repair her emotional and psychological states, though, as stated above, her personality is perhaps permanently damaged, if only a little, by the irreparable trauma she's inflicted herself with upon the revelation.]]
* CantCatchUp: has a very real fear of this after the Germany arc concludes, noting that due to the historical accuracy with which the ship girls have been built, she and her sisters, being outdated destroyers by the time of the second World War, will inevitably fall behind with little they can do about it.
* CultureClash: feared a form of this, as her Fleet Log reveals, before being shipped over to America, because she didn't feel comfortable being herself in a foreign country where she may not understand the culture as much as she should.
* CuteBruiser: while all ship girls are this to a considerable extent, Kisaragi, because of her very good looks and body, is a prominent example of this.
* DespairEventHorizon: like the other ship girls who had feelings for Damon, she goes through a one [[spoiler:following his death at Little Rock.]] But unlike other ship girls', Kisaragi's is much worse and causes her to be filled with despair and longing, to the point where she even raids Damon's old room at the office building at the MAPS base just so that she can sleep with his blanket. [[spoiler:Eventually, she even targets his old rifle that is given to Murasame, and that doesn't end well at all.]]
* {{Doublethink}}: while not discussed in her Fleet Log, Kisaragi does seem to demonstrate this. [[spoiler:On one hand, she fears the stigma of being seen as "used goods" because she'd been raped. But on the other hand, it's implied she didn't want her body to be restored back to being a virgin even though she had the option to because a surgery might be able to fix her body, but it can't heal the pain.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: is seized by jealousy when she finds out that Murasame has been given Damon's rifle, the MK-14, the result of her personal affection for him and her grief over his death at Little Rock.
** also in chapter 186, she admits to having small feelings of jealousy watching other destroyers outpace her and her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class in terms of combat performance, particularly the Shiratsuyu-Class, but this time it's subverted, as it's nothing malicious.
* EyeScream: loses an eye to a piece of shrapnel in chapter 86.
* LoveAtFirstSight: not necessarily the ''first'' sight...more like the second. Her Fleet Log explains that following her repairs [[spoiler:after her rape]], she replayed back the memory files she'd received from other ship girls and viewed clips of Damon's interactions with the fleet over time, and upon realizing Damon's devotion to his fleet, [[spoiler:especially in context with Operation Trenton]], Kisaragi got smitten.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Damon has always noted the extraordinary levels of beauty that the ship girls as a whole generally offers over baseline humans, but in Kisaragi's Fleet Log in chapter 118, she particularly stands out as having body proportions and looks that could fool anyone into thinking that she definitely wasn't built as a weapon of war.
* PluckyGirl: was this before the nukes fell, as her Fleet Log describes her optimism for her future as a US Navy auxiliary personnel and for the chance to work to become the best destroyer produced out of the F.L.E.E.T. Project. [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie Then Trenton happened.]]]]
* ThePowerOfLove: her Rouse passive ability benefits both herself and Damon so long as they deploy together into combat: she gains a much needed +1 to all stats, +50% experience gain, and nullification of her [[StandardStatusEffects Scarred]] passive debuff effects, and Damon, in turn, receives +50 all weapon damage and a +1 all stats of his own.
* PuppyLove: wanted to pursue this kind of romantic relationship with prospective guys, mainly by innocent flirting and the like. [[spoiler:[[{{Understatement}} The nukes and the people of Trenton had something else to say about that.]]]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:she suffers this while her body was still deactivated at Trenton, though the fact that she isn't able to remember it doesn't exactly comfort her when she finds out about it. Her Fleet Log goes into disturbing detail about how her rapists, due to the condition of Kisaragi's body while deactivated, [[{{Squick}} were basically having their way]] [[ILoveTheDead with a dead body.]]]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: at the time of the Trenton mini-arc, the Kantai Collection anime was airing, so as a possible reference to the fanbase's trend [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/9670 "Saving Destroyer Kisaragi-chan"]], the author slipped in Kisaragi as a new addition to the fleet in the story.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: delivers one to Murasame a week after their falling out, telling her that she's become a disappointment to her sisters for showing such angst over Damon's death instead of being a stronger person and managing it. She drops her own WhamLine by telling Murasame that Samidare, who has suffered the most from Suzukaze's banishment, deserves much better than her for a big sister.
* ReallyGetsAround: but not in a good way. One of the fears Kisaragi had [[spoiler:following her rape]] was that people would think of her as "used goods" following the incident. Her deep appreciation for Damon as her Admiral revolves greatly around his disregard for (or simply ignorance of) this possible stigma and continue to care for her as part of his fleet.
* RepressedMemories: subverted; in her Fleet Log, she makes it clear that she doesn't feel ashamed of her warship self for having been the second major warship to sink in the Pacific War, but she did fear that during her would-have-been service in the US Navy, other ship girls might have made fun of her about this particular historical incident, so she was resolved to overcome the difficulty of her feelings about her warship memories as quickly as possible.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler: the invisible sword she gets by way of Damon's YRC is named Yukianesa, the same name of [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi's sword.]]]]
* StockKisses: gives one to Damon in chapter 55, in thanks for his efforts in rescuing her and bringing her in as part of the fleet.
** gives another one in chapter 264, this time on the tip of his nose, as thanks for granting her and her sisters their newfound powers and weapons [[spoiler:due to their interactions with his YRC energy.]]
* TheTease: surprisingly subverted - simply for the reason that she doesn't tease as much as her ingame rendition does and instead is much more direct with Damon.
* WasOnceAMan: a twist on this trope: [[spoiler:Kisaragi considered her humanity stolen away by the people who raped her immediately following her revelation of the incident. She eventually does get over it, though.]]
* VanityIsFeminine: subverted, since Kisaragi in this story doesn't boast about her beauty anywhere near as much as she does in the game, though when it comes to Damon, she isn't afraid to tell him what her good points are.
!!Satsuki
* AnimeHair: in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, Satsuki opens it up by wondering right away why anyone thought it was a good idea to give a ship girl like her blonde hair. She also wonders what a Japanese girl like herself is doing with blonde hair, but she also indirectly questions the more exotic hair colors of her fellow ship girls too.
* ArtificialHuman: discussed in her Fleet Log, where Satsuki notes the genetically modified bodies that their "souls" and memories are now housed in. Also ties in with SuperSoldier, as she describes the powers that her genetically modified body gives her due to its cybernetic enhancements thanks to its Smartsteel construct.
* AxCrazy: discussed in her Fleet Log: Satsuki questions her enjoyment of battle, asking herself if it's alright for her to enjoy fighting as much as she does. She wonders if maybe she's enjoying fighting too much, beyond what is mentally healthy for her, but at least she can be sure that she's nowhere near as bad as the other [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] in the fleet.
* BloodKnight: she's the most battle-happy and combat-enthusiastic member of the Mutsuki-Class out of those currently part of the fleet - her Fleet Log goes into detail about how Satsuki only felt truly reestablished as a ship girl once she participated in her first major combat mission as part of the Combined Fleet during the Newfoundland operation, as the thrill of fighting helped get her back into the groove of things. But since there are so many other [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] in the fleet, she just happens to be overshadowed by them as the prominent Blood Knights of the fleet; she's also nowhere near as AxCrazy as the others are. Or, at least, she doesn't think she is.
* Determinator: in chapter 103, the post-Operation Dualsight report details that Satsuki suffered heavy damage covering some of the fleet's light cruisers from the Abyssals' advance. Her entry in the stat sheet justifies her combat action, listing her endurance at 8, which none of her sisters currently in the fleet cannot match anywhere as near.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: she mentions in her Fleet Log that she had a hard time getting used to the fact that she was now a ship girl, sixty-five years into the future, and now able to see her fellow destroyers and ship girls in the flesh, as fellow ship girls, following initial activation. It got worse following her reactivation, when she got told that now, she's been transported again another two decades into the future, waking up to the world that's devastated by nuclear war.
* GunsAkimbo: this is actually listed in her entry in the stat sheet as a default passive ability, which grants Satsuki more experience for dual-wielding guns, a faster learning rate to using unfamiliar dual-wielded weapons, and an AOE effect that helps other allies around her also learn how to dual-wield faster.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: implied to have a bit of this opinion in her Fleet Log, when she wonders why humans would ever think nuking the world in the name of war was ever a good idea.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler:gains one through her interaction with Damon's YRC.]]
* LampshadeHanging: in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, Satsuki can't help but wonder if their developers were technomancers or something, to be able to draw out memories and "souls" of warships when warships don't exactly have such things - at least, not according to common perception about objects.
* MoreDakka: she's one of the destroyers who opts for a dual-wielded infantry style, rocking double Magpul FMG-9's for a good portion of the story.
* OrnamentalWeapon: [[spoiler:perhaps averted, because she gains a katana through her interaction with Damon's YRC, and other ship girls who have gained weapons through their own YRC-induced powers know how to use their respective weapons, so Satsuki should know how to use her katana.]]
* RepressedMemories: A minor case, but in her Fleet Log, regarding [[spoiler:Damon's death]], Satsuki wishes that this won't mean that her Admiral will be changed every year, as what had happened with her warship self in the war.
* {{Shoutout}}: gives one to LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima when she likens her situation as a ship girl to a certain Japanese boy becoming a familiar.
** [[spoiler:The katana she gains from Damon's YRC is more or less identical to the one wielded by Johnny from VideoGame/GuiltyGear.]]
** [[spoiler:And the finishing move she uses on Murasame to end their spar is Hibiki's Heavenly Spirit of Victory super from VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium.]]
!!Kikuzuki
* AnArmAndALeg: like Mutsuki before her, during Operation Dualsight, Kikuzuki loses both of her legs to a 12.5in shell that she bodyblocks for Kasumi.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: averted from her ingame rendition, as she speaks modern-day, conversational English and Japanese, according to her in-story dialogue lines. However, she does sometimes try to talk this way (although she gets weird looks from other ship girls for doing so) and highly admires Amagi's mannerisms of speech.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank at Greifswald Bay during the final engagement between the fleet and the Abyssals.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Like Mutsuki, she doesn't like it when people point out to her that she and her sisters were technologically inferior to other destroyer classes from the war, but Kikuzuki takes it even further and is willing to fight people to prove that they aren't, at least not in this life as a ship girl.
** Still has a grudge against Americans even as a ship girl, since she can't forget [[spoiler:what the Americans did to her when they found her sunken warship body at Gatuvu Island.]]
* ColdSniper: minus the sniper. She is by far the coldest and most aloof among her sisters present in the fleet, which helps contribute to her IWorkAlone tendencies.
* TheCynic: subverted from her ingame rendition but otherwise played straight: in this story, Kikuzuki doesn't seem opposed to war and fighting, although she's explicitly not as AxCrazy or as much of a BloodKnight as others, instead seeing her duties as a ship girl as an opportunity to prove to the rest of the fleet that she and her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class are not weak or technologically inferior. However, when it comes to men, specifically Damon's relationships with her sisters, she heavily distrusts him and doesn't think that he'll stay faithful to any one of her sisters because the rest of the fleet will distract him and render him to be just like any other degenerate human male who can't control his lustful desires.
* DoesNotLikeMen: as part of her RepressedMemories, according to her sisters, it can be implied that Kikuzuki really doesn't like men [[spoiler:because of how her warship self was treated back in the second World War, when she was abandoned at Gatuvu Island by her crew and left to sink when the high tide rolled in, only to be discovered, raised out of the water, and salvaged heavily by the Americans who shortly captured the island afterwards.]] While this could be seen as a case of MisanthropeSupreme at first, Kikuzuki specifically mentions in chapter 264 that she has strong feelings about Damon possibly abandoning her sisters after he's through with them and has had his fun with them, using such phrases as "because you men are all the same" and other misandrous comments.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Damon gives her the nickname of Cookie, since he doesn't want to put in the effort to learn how to say her name properly (or just to take the time to say it slowly), and Kikuzuki, not surprisingly, hates it, given her personality. But it seems like, just like Amatsukaze before her, past [[spoiler:the stolen fleet arc]], she doesn't mind the nickname anywhere near as much as she did, though she'd probably rather be called by her proper name and only tolerates it.
* EpiphanicPrison: In chapter 277 Damons tells her that she herself is the one who is seeing herself as a HumanWeapon rather than a person and she alone is the only one who can break herself out of her negative perspective.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: while all of her sisters have crescent moon eyes now [[spoiler:thanks to Damon's YRC]], they all have big, fancy weapons that are all at least katana-grade, while Kikuzuki endsd up with only a humble pocket knife. Kikuzuki claims not to mind all that much, but she doesn't explain why. [[spoiler:The next chapter, she demonstrates that she has a terrifying power to rip people into nineteen pieces instantly with that very same knife.]]
* GlassCannon: has an 8 in attack but a 1 in defense.
* HeroicSacrifice: she takes a hit for Kasumi that blows both of her legs off during Operation Dualsight, according to the post-operation damage report in chapter 103.
* HiddenDepths: according to her Fleet Log, she wants nothing more to go on to become as powerful a ship girl as physically possible, and look cool and badass while at it - almost to chuunibyou levels, even.
* IllKillYou: delivers one to Damon in chapter 264, threatening him if he ever dares to commit to a relationship with any one of her sisters and later abandons them or proves to be unfaithful. She even goes beyond just threatening to kill him and tells him that [[UpToEleven she'll erase him from existence.]]
* InSeriesNickname: when she first joins the fleet, Damon, thanks to his unfamiliarity with Japanese names, tries to pronounce her name but gives up quickly and just calls her Cookie, which gets the rest of the Mutsuki-Class to call her that too in jest.
* IWorkAlone: because of her cold and aloof personality, she fights better if she's alone, as indicated by her Solo Operator passive ability that's listed in her entry in the stat sheet.
* MagicalEye: [[spoiler:seems to have this in light of her Jyuku Bunkatsu attack that she pulls off in chapter 263: when she activates her eyes, the world slows to a near-standstill except for herself, her movement becomes staticky and frame-like, and an incessant echoing is all that she can hear - but she dices five different people into nineteen pieces at the same time. While Kikuzuki's sisters all have crescent moon eye designs as well, Kikuzuki's stands out because the story narration seems to imply that it's Kikuzuki's eyes that allow her to enter this state and use her Jyuku Bunkatsu.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: a metaphorical case: [[spoiler:heavily implied by Kisaragi in chapter 264 when she's explaining to Damon the possible reasons for Kikuzuki's confrontational behavior - the anecdote about Kikuzuki's warship self being raised out of the water where she sank at Gatuvu Island and salvaged suggests that the Americans salvaging her was more or less a rape in itself.]]
* RepressedMemories: chapter 264 has Kikuzuki's sisters explain to Damon why she's so aloof and cold towards people as she is. According to them, [[spoiler:Kikuzuki harbors a sharp hatred of humans because of what her warship self went through during its process of sinking and following its sinking, so she has trouble accepting the fact that her sisters are showing affection towards their Admiral because she's afraid that Damon will abandon them just as how her crew had abandoned her and left her to be salvaged by the Americans.]] This sentiment is implied to be reinforced by her thoughts in her Fleet Log in chapter 118.
* {{Shoutout}}: has multiple to VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}, specifically [[spoiler:Tohno Shiki]].
** With [[spoiler:the help of Damon's YRC]], Kikuzuki gains a pocket knife that not only looks like [[spoiler:Shiki's knife]], but it also has the kanji 九夜 etched into the base of the blade, with her own name etched on the other side.
** in chapter 263, in order to get past some guards and escape the building that she and Hibiki are in, Kikuzuki uses a custom variation of [[spoiler:Shiki's Seventeen Piece Dissection attack]] as seen in VideoGame/MeltyBlood to eliminate the opposition. The narration even goes to length to describe Kikuzuki's attack in a similar way: slowed time, eerie echoing, Kikuzuki's frame-by-frame movement, and a distant shattering of glass when her attack lands.
** in chapter 264, Kikuzuki makes yet another reference to [[spoiler:Tohno Shiki's power, off of which her own is based]]:
--> Kikuzuki: [[spoiler:"...I'm going to kill you, and make it so that you never existed..."]]
* {{Tsundere}}: for as much animosity that she may harbor towards Damon and as much annoyance with which she regards him, she still secretly admires his willingness to protect his ship girls, such as refusing to abandon Amatsukaze despite her request to do so and ensuring her safety at the risk of his own. However, this is still heavily subverted because it's very clear that she still does not trust him, especially in light of her sisters' developing relationships with him, to the point where she threatens to kill him if he decides to get into a relationship with any of her sisters and proves to be unfaithful to them - Kikuzuki even goes so far as to say that she felt secretly relieved when Damon [[spoiler:died the first time around at Little Rock.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: she discusses this with her sisters on their flight to Berlin at the start of the Germany campaign. Kikuzuki believes that Damon, as an Admiral, didn't do anything spectacular or noteworthy during his brief tenure, while her sisters disagree. This being said, this was after [[spoiler:Damon's death at Little Rock]], so Kikuzuki's opinion of Damon may have changed after [[spoiler:his duel with Blackwood]]. And considering that she's at least tolerating him calling her Cookie still, this seems to be the case.
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[[folder:Fubuki-Class]]
* VideogameObjectives: in the stat sheet, the Fubuki-Class have access to abilities that allow them to complete objectives faster or more efficiently and also grant them combat bonuses for using such abilities to complete objectives.
!!Shirayuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:not once, but twice - she sinks during Operation Dualsight at Cayo Romano and during the final engagement between the fleet and the Abyssals at Greifswald Bay in Germany.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's described as one of the very few destroyers produced by the F.L.E.E.T. Project to have a positive and optimistic attitude coupled with a soft and gentle persona, but she will willingly fight and give her all in combat if it's asked of her. She also claims that if she had ended up being found by Damon during his initial travels in the South rounding up lost ship girls instead of being captured by the Coalition forces in Orlando, she would have gladly fought at his side to search for her missing sisters and fellow ship girls.
* CommonalityConnection: it's mentioned in Arashio's Fleet Log that Shirayuki has become good friends with Arashio during the brief interim period between the end of Operation Dualsight and before the beginning of the Germany campaign, as they both sank in the same battle during the second World War, the Battle of Bismarck Sea.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: her stay in Orlando counts as this. Shirayuki recalls her memories spent in the drug-infested city, such as watching people high on LSD jump off buildings to their deaths. This is perhaps HarsherInHindsight because Japanese culture tends to label illegal drug usage as highly taboo, so Shirayuki must have been horrified having to stay in a city like Orlando.
* EmbarrassingNickname: the "Generic Five" moniker that Shirayuki and her ship sisters (except for Murakumo) have received from their devs. Shirayuki explicitly states that she would very much so to not have such a nickname.
* HiddenDepths: if you look at Shirayuki's entry in the stat sheet, you'll see that her insanity rating is only 10%, and this is taking into account her ordeal as a ship girl living in Orlando...meaning that for as much of a ShrinkingViolet she might be, she has some strong mental fortitude to emerge from her imprisonment, especially one spent in a decrepit drug-infested city that Orlando has become due to the drug-trafficking trade in the area.
** Reinforced in her Fleet Log in chapter 135, in which she's explicitly mentioned to be the strongest in terms of mental fortitude compared to Hatsuyuki and Goya. Shirayuki is willing to bear hardship, no matter how tough it gets, as her ordeal in Orlando demonstrates.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: her main regret regarding her past warship life, because she sank relatively early in the war and now, as a ship girl looking back, feels that she wasn't able to serve her country as much as she otherwise could have. While she's not crying over it every day, per se, it's still something she keeps in mind to remind herself that she must do her absolute best in this life as a ship girl.
* ThePowerOfLove: During her stay in Orlando, taking care of her scared sister Hatsuyuki allowed her to be able to keep her mind off resorting to hatred and resentment towards the city and prevent her attitude and personality from degenerating and help maintain Hatsuyuki's mental sanity at the same time.
* TheReliableOne: her Fleet Log states that like Taihou in Charlotte, she stepped up to be the comforting big sister to Hatsuyuki and, to a certain extent, to Goya as well.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Lampshades this in her Fleet Log, where she recognizes that her developers must have worked very hard to code the programs for her and the ship girls that make it possible for them to use their ship girl strength and powers without having to worry about the possible repercussions of using them - such as feeling the same amount of pain as a normal human would trying to lift an object that's far too heavy while doing exactly that.
* {{Shoutout}}: one in her Fleet Log - Ayumu Aikawa from LightNovel/IsThisAZombie gets referenced, but not in name.
* ThoseTwoGirls: is usually seen with her sister Hatsuyuki during the few times the story does mention her. There's a possibility that [[FridgeLogic the reason for this is due to her ordeal as a ship girl of one of the Coalition factions spent in Orlando was spent with Hatsuyuki, her only ship sister at the time, and thus does not want to part with her sister,]] even if she did have the mental fortitude to come out of the city in good mental health, as discussed above.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Shirayuki's Fleet Log reveals that the developers of the project had an inside joke among them to call Shirayuki and her sisters Fubuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, and Isonami the "Generic Five" due to how similarly they all turned out physically to one another. Shirayuki lampshades this by wondering why Murakumo, the other immediate Fubuki-Class destroyer, was given white-ish hair and not, for example, herself or Fubuki, whose [[MeaningfulName names]] actually refer to snow-related natural phenomena.
!!Hatsuyuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:like her sister Shirayuki, has sunk twice so far in the story: once at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight and once at Greifswald Bay in northern Germany.]]
* BreakTheCutie: surprisingly, she's the one who suffers this the most among the ship girls of Orlando, not Chitose, who is Orlando's victim ship girl. See NothingIsScarier below.
* CommonalityConnection: since Yayoi, another lazy ship girl with whom Hatsuyuki is good friends in the 4koma, is not yet present in the story, she hangs out a lot with Yuubari, who came with a datacache full of anime shows already burned onto her storage files, and is stated to have been watching plenty of anime with her during the evenings back at base.
* DrawAggro: is the one drawing aggro (unwittingly) in chapter 142: when the helicopter transporting her and her squad of ship girls and Sanford gets shot down by an RPG and scatters its occupants, Hatsuyuki wakes up to find herself alone at the crash site of her helicopter and is approached by a squad of German NDP soldiers, and Sanford, who's nearby, uses her as bait to catch the NDP soldiers off guard and kill them all with a quick fanning of his revolver's hammer.
* HiddenDepths: according to her entry in the stat sheet, while almost all of her stats are extremely poor and make her possibly the worst destroyer in the fleet thus far as far as combat stats are concerned, she does have a whopping 9 in intelligence and has a cost of 0, which the stat sheets implies shouldn't normally be possible...[[FridgeLogic until you realize that Hatsuyuki is a Hikikomori who may simply not eat much in the first place.]] Combined with the one good attribute that her passive ability "Hikikomori" provides, a double experience gain rate for any non-combat stat or skill, the story seems to pitch her as an extremely low-maintenance utility destroyer whose skills can be used for a variety of support roles, assuming that she gets past her unfailing laziness, of course.
** InUniverse, Hatsuyuki mentions in her Fleet Log that she wants to try to shed her Hikikomori ways and personality and be just as badass as any of the other destroyers. Naturally, given her personality, she's still working on this.
* {{Hikikomori}}: the story even cements this major part of her persona as a passive debuff that cuts her combat performance in half if she's awoken before 11 in the morning and causes her to gain Fatigue 50% faster than the average destroyer does.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: in her fleet log, she admits that watching her sister Murakumo fight valiantly on the ground and perform just like a professional infantryman is pretty cool and wants to mimic her skill and performance.
* NotAMorningPerson: she performs at half of her combat stats if she sorties before 11 in the morning.
* NothingIsScarier: Hatsuyuki gets hit with the double-whammy of this: not only was she horribly spooked by the dark and drug-infested city of Orlando, but during her time there, she lived every day in fear of what might end up happening to her or what she may end up being ordered to do by their controller. She couldn't handle the fear and anxiety building up day after day she spent there, and her sister Shirayuki is the only reason why she was able to get rescued from the city without emerging a total emotional wreck.
* PartingWordsRegret: after learning of the reasons behind her design as a ship girl, she tells her head developer quite bluntly that those reasons are pathetic, and how he himself was pathetic for constructing her out of those reasons, likening it to making his own blow-up doll. This is the last time she ever sees him, and after her ordeal in Orlando, Hatsuyuki really wishes she could have left on more friendly terms at least.
* PlainJane: definitely thinks of herself as this, and she hates it. She basically hates every part of her own design, wondering to herself why she couldn't have been designed better and given a personality that isn't quite as crappy as that of a Hikikomori.
* TheQuietOne: just like her ingame rendition, Hatsuyuki is very quiet and doesn't ever talk to anybody unless she's talked to, to the extent that Damon initially thinks she's a mute the first time he meets her after rescuing the Orlando ship girls.
* ReplacementGoldfish: she finds out she is this before she got shipped out to the US by meeting with her head developer in her Fleet Log, who designed her after his [[LostLenore deceased girlfriend]] who died of leukemia and its complications.
* {{Shoutout}}: her Fleet Log in chapter 135 has quite a few, given the character:
** Fallout 3 ''and'' 4 get mentioned, due to a case of AllohistoricalAllusion.
** Website/{{Twitch}} and Twitch chat, including the Kappa emote.
** [[VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands Yes...innuendo.]]
** her head developer went by the name of [[VideoGame/MetalGear Otacon.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: is usually seen with her sister Shirayuki during the few times she's mentioned in the story.
!!Murakumo
* AntiGravityClothing: like her ingame rendition, refers to her floating mechanical ears, but the story refers to them as "head arrays" and specifies them as radar equipment for Murakumo. The story also distinguishes them by painting them as actual independent entities, as Murakumo actually yanks one off her head and throws it at someone as a makeshift projectile without apparent discomfort.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay during the Germany campaign but is repaired back to life.]]
* BarrierWarrior: more so than other ship girls who have received remodels and have thus acquired Kai shields because her Waterfall Shield is an innate ability that she comes with, and it's also a BeehiveBarrier just like remodeled ship girls' Kai shields.
* BerserkButton: she doesn't like it when her fellow ship girls discuss whether or not Damon really has a place in the fleet, as indicated by her Fleet Log in chapter 108. Subverted because this is more like a pet peeve than a real BerserkButton, and she's not going to attack her own friends and comrades over something like this.
* BigLittleSister: despite being technically younger than both Shirayuki and Hatsuyuki, she escorts and fights with them in battle due to her more prolific experience in the fleet. She's also like their big sister out of combat as well.
* BladeOnAStick: just like her ingame rendition, she possesses a blade-tipped polearm as a melee weapon, referred to in the story as her "main mast", but she keeps her spear inside of her arm and deploys it by ejecting it out of her palm. In the context of the story, she's seen regularly using it during naval battles.
* BlingBlingBang: her decorated and etched [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] given to her by Damon, who in turn received it from Mr. Harrison of Mobile.
* CloseRangeCombatant: surprisingly, in the story, is this along with Amatsukaze and Shimakaze, the resident front-liners of the fleet. Due to her valuable work as the single most experienced ship girl in the fleet (mainly because of the fact that she's been with Damon the longest), along with her powerful Waterfall Shield and main mast spear, and her own pride of being Damon's first ship girl, she can almost always be found in the front lines of any fight, even sortieing alongside both Amatsukaze and Shimakaze.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:during Operation Trenton, Murakumo is put in charge of protecting a boy the fleet has found caught in the crossfire of their fighting with the local Trenton rebels. Not only does she fear that she's the one who might have shot and killed the boy's parents, but as the fleet is flying away from Trenton after the operation is finished, Murakumo deactivates her Waterfall Shield that she's been using to protect the boy, thus inadvertently allowing him to get shot and killed by a stray bullet on the way out [[DiedInYourArmsTonight while he was sitting on her lap]].]] She takes it very badly, to say the least.
* DualWielding: in chapter 264, she demonstrates that she can dual-wield both her main mast spear [[spoiler:and her new Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi]] at the same time.
* ElementalWeapon: while Murakumo has been able to use a water-based ability in her Waterfall Shield, [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, she now possesses a summon-able sword capable of generating flames and water, though she's yet to demonstrate the sword's full elemental capabilities.]]
* FriendshipTrinket: [[spoiler:receives a turquoise diamond penchant made from the ashes of the young boy she tried to save from Operation Trenton. When Damon dies, this becomes a TragicKeepsake that she unfortunately loses when she gets sunk in Germany.]]
* GoombaStomp: delivers one to an enemy in chapter 45.
* GreenEyedMonster: lampshades this about herself in her Fleet Log when she thinks about why she feels angry about the rest of the fleet talking about Damon in the ways that they are [[spoiler:after his death]].
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:gives one to Damon via moonlight confession, but Damon isn't familiar with it and thus fails to grasp its true meaning. She's okay with it for now, however.]]
* NotWhatISignedUpFor: due to her and other ship girls' general unfamiliarity with flying in helicopters and planes, Murakumo says a line to this effect this when she is taken on her first such flight in chapter 18.
* {{Shoutout}}: gives one to the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Unlimited Blade Works chant]] while adding slightly onto it in the midst of [[spoiler:summoning her new elemental sword that she gets from Damon's YRC.]]
** has one to the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7gnOqkEvI8 Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit]], where she uses what seems to be a SuperMode named after the titular mech of the game that turns her eyes heterochromic with red and blue, just like her head arrays, and causes her silhouette to glow with a thick red aura.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Cayo Romano.]]
* StarterEquipment: Just like her ingame rendition, in which Murakumo is one of the five starter ships, she is THE starter ship for Damon in this story, being the first one he finds and acquires.
* StockKisses: [[spoiler:gives quite a long one to Damon in chapter 57 after Jeannie helps Damon fix Murakumo's deteriorating mental stability following the death of the young boy she tried to save from Trenton.]]
** Gives Damon plenty more over the course of the next few days [[spoiler:following his awakening after his fight with Blackwood.]]
* SuperMode: seems to now possess one thanks to the newfound powers she's gained [[spoiler:from Damon's YRC]], called Cloud Breaker, where she emits a red aura and her eyes turn red and blue like her head arrays.
* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: [[spoiler:when the fleet is extracting out of Trenton, Murakumo, with the young boy she's saved from Trenton on her lap, shuts off her Waterfall Shield that was protecting him just in time to allow a stray bullet to hit in him the chest and kill him instantly.]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: right off the rip, Damon puts down a baby that's been exposed to radiation in the Houston area, right in front of her, and Murakumo, on top of giving him the WhatTheHellHero rant, spends some time not being able to forgive Damon for this act.
* TookALevelInKindness: towards Damon, of course. She starts out not liking him at all, but with due time, she comes to appreciate his work as her and the fleet's Admiral and even has deep feelings for him.
* {{Tsundere}}: definitely was not this for much of the early parts of the story, but she eventually warms up to him as the fleet grows and they're pitched into more operations. Has become one (albeit a violent one) by the time of Operation Trenton's end, [[spoiler:after she suffers some psychological trauma from having a young boy she's rescued from the operation get shot and killed right in front of her as they're extracting from the scene]], and Damon is compelled to address her trauma. [[spoiler:By the time Damon returns to the fleet after the fleet's operations in Germany, she goes full Dere.]]
* UniformityException: seemingly by luck of the draw, Murakumo is implied to be this after you read Shirayuki's Fleet Log, as Murakumo alone stands out from her five other sisters who make up the "Generic Five" with her white hair and deviant uniform.
* WeaponOfChoice: two of them: the [[http://hk-usa.com/hk-models/hk416/ H&K-416 assault rifle]] and the customized [[https://www.magnumresearch.com/ Magnum Research Desert Eagle]] given to her and Damon by Mr. Harrison of Mobile.
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[[folder:Ayanami-Class]]
* CloseRangeCombatant: according to the stat sheet, the Ayanami-Class have access to [[SupportPartyMember abilities that assist with the offensive capabilities of their comrades, as well as their own, or help cover their allies with fire support.]] So they're not exactly dedicated front-liners like Murakumo, Shimakaze, and Amatsukaze are, but they typically should be found in the front lines or even the vanguard of the fleet. Though, it's a little odd for Ushio to have abilities of this nature...
* MassOhCrap: their and the Sendai-Class's reaction upon [[spoiler:regrouping with Damon at Baltimore for the first time.]]
!!Ayanami
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: whether it's mainly due to the author's personal portrayal of her or a trauma-induced personality change due to her [[spoiler:quadruple amputation at the hands of the Atlantan faction]], either way, Ayanami is much more reserved and serious than her ingame rendition.
* BerserkButton: possibly her hair. She gets annoyed, even while in protocol, if her hair gets shot at. The fact that her hair tends to make her a deceptively bigger target in battle than she actually is doesn't help.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:being the victim ship girl of Atlanta, Ayanami, with all four of her limbs smashed in to prevent her from moving and forced through a period of GoMadFromTheIsolation, remembers that she eventually broke during her imprisonment and become a BrokenBird.]]
* BrokenBird: subverted; even though Ayanami has every reason to become one, given her [[spoiler:quadruple amputation and her treatment as a victim ship girl in Atlanta]], once she's repaired at MAPS, she doesn't go down the extreme cynicism path and instead does her best to be the CoolBigSis for her sisters in her class.
* ColdSniper: what she becomes when she activates her protocol...minus the sniper.
* CoolBigSis: being the lead destroyer of her class, Ayanami even has a passive ability because of it that allows her to grant passive stat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them in combat. Later, [[spoiler:during the Ayanami-Class's deployment with the Sendai-Class to Baltimore to find and assist Damon, Ayanami counsels Akebono about the situation regarding Damon.]]
* DoingItWrong: tells Ashigara this in chapter 99 when the heavy cruiser starts clubbing an enemy Abyssal over the head with its own turret, citing its improper usage.
* DumbMuscle: implied and subverted for the same reasons listed in Yuudachi's entry below: both of them have a limit-breaker power, the Nightmare Protocol, that gives them insane combat bonuses, and both are perhaps the most level-headed in their respective classes.
* EmotionSuppression: exactly what her Nightmare Protocol does to turn Ayanami into a cold, efficient killer.
* ExceptionallyTolerant: zig-zagged: when she speaks with Akebono at [[spoiler:Baltimore]], Akebono, on top of her already caustic and frankly bitchy attitude, goes so far as to accidentally spray spit at Ayanami's face while the former is complaining about how much she hates Damon and [[spoiler:thinks that Damon is faking everything they've seen from him in the city.]] Ayanami just wipes her face off and just keeps patiently listening to her. However, Ayanami will put her foot down if she feels Akebono is taking things too far with the other ship girls, especially when it threatens the unit cohesion among their team, very similar to how Damon doesn't like his ship girls fighting each other.
* HiddenDepths: no one is apparently aware that Ayanami [[spoiler:is having difficulty coping with the possession of her Nightmare Protocol.]] She hasn't told anyone about this problem yet, either, because she's scared of talking about it.
* HiddenEvil: not Ayanami herself, but [[spoiler:her Nightmare Protocol. In her fleet log, she sees it as a sentient parasite that's actually growing on its own, following its own will. It hasn't done anything drastic on its own, but while she still feels nervous about it, she's never spoken about this to anyone so far in the story. In addition, her Fleet Log also reveals that according to Ayanami herself, what her Nightmare Protocol is now doing is replacing her usual persona with the one of the Ayanami who broke at Atlanta, and understandably, she's quietly freaked out by this.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: her fleet log in chapter 135 reveals that not only did she almost choke out one of her developers at her initial activation, forcing her developers to shut her down and run emergency repairs on her to correct this glitch in her behavioral codex, but the second time she gets activated after these problems are fixed, she feels like she's in another nightmare and that everything about her new life is totally foreign, and thus spends her first day as a ship girl cowering in the corner of her activation room. The developers even declare her clinically insane.
* NecessaryEvil: implied. [[spoiler:She uses her Nightmare Protocol willingly, whenever she sees that the situation calls for it, but only in her Fleet Log does she mention at all that she is quite frightened by her power. She believes that her protocol is screwing with her, and that it was the reason why she nearly forgot that she even had ship sisters in the first place, but this could be because of her trauma as a victim ship girl.]]
* NotSoDifferent: with [[spoiler:Shigure.]] Her Fleet Log mentions that Ayanami has spoken with [[spoiler:Shigure and Yuudachi]] to see if they feel the same way about their own protocols, and [[spoiler:Shigure turns out to feel the same set of sentiments regarding her own protocol as Ayanami does.]]
* PowerGlows: a subverted case - according to chapter 99, when Ayanami triggers her Nightmare Protocol, her hair gains a subtle red outline indicating that she's in-protocol.
* RapunzelHair: apparently, it's long enough to be used as a makeshift rope to hold an enemy Wo-Class in place and asphyxiate her before Ayanami snaps her neck as the coup de grace.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:gains the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Spear of Longinus and an AT Field]] to match Shikinami's equipment via Damon's YRC.]]
* SuperMode: shares the same protocol with Yuudachi, which is based off her RealLife performance at her final mission during the second World War. However, hers behaves differently from Yuudachi's: instead of increasing her aggression, Ayanami's emotions get suppressed, allowing her to focus on her combat performance as efficiently and machinelike as possible. However, just like Yuudachi, this protocol has the potential to become a DeadlyUpgrade if she stays in-protocol for too long by tiring out and gaining insanity at accelerated rates.
** [[spoiler:But if you pay attention to Ayanami's Fleet Log in chapter 135, you'll learn that Ayanami's Nightmare Protocol is actually not the same as Yuudachi's because they were developed independently from one another, and the dev teams responsible for them were different; the names are simply a coincidence.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Shikinami. While they're portrayed as such frequently in fanworks, the story takes this one step further, as they were held prisoner by the Coalition faction of Atlanta together. Even after they join the Combined Fleet, whenever they're mentioned, they're usually portrayed hanging out together, though they do spend almost as much time together with the rest of their sisters in the Ayanami-Class.
* {{Trigger}}: when the Ayanami-Class and the Sendai-Class land in [[spoiler:Baltimore to find and assist Damon,]] they land in the middle of a street in a portion of the city that's completely covered in flames, reminding her of her final mission at Guadalcanal.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As a result of her Nightmare Protocol. It's even explicitly written in the last line of her Fleet Log.
!!Shikinami
* IJustWantToBeBadass: really wants a strong power to call her own, almost to [[{{Chuunibyou}} chuunibyou levels.]] [[spoiler:It gets a hell of a lot worse directly because of her stay in Atlanta, where she felt completely powerless to do anything to save her sister Ayanami who was being held as Atlanta's victim ship girl, and it gets even worse during Operation Norfolk, when she personally witnesses other ship girls with protocols go to work. Her one saving grace now is the discovery of augmentations, and if Suzukaze's acquisition of her Colossus Reactor augmentation is any indication, there may be hope that Shikinami might just get what she wants.]]
** fulfilled more than she expected when she joins the fleet: Shikinami states in her Fleet Log that by being given a rifle by Damon and told to fight, she feels incredibly empowered just by serving as an infantrywoman because her enemies are not other warships like they were in the second World War, but other humans whom she can defeat swiftly and easily thanks to her innate strengths as a ship girl. It's still a far cry from having an outright power like her sister Ayanami or her other destroyer friends, but it's a good start.
*** [[spoiler:finally fulfilled in chapter 261, when Damon uses his power to help Shikinami develop her own. See {{Shoutout}} below.]]
* LampshadeHanging: does some of this at the end of her Fleet Log, when she thinks about what kind of power she might want if and when she does get one, like having a SuperMode or a power that exudes [[PowerGlows battle aura,]] etc.
* LifeIsntFair: bemoans this, for good reason - she's surrounded by fellow destroyers, many of whom have secret powers or battle-changing protocols, while she herself wishes she could even have half their powers.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: more like "Not So Special After All". In her Fleet Log in chapter 135, she has this opinion about herself, because for being called a "Special-Type Destroyer" during the war, she feels that she did nothing really spectacular or outstanding like her sister Ayanami did.
* OhCrap: Has this reaction in chapter 192, when [[spoiler:the Baltimore ship girl team meet Damon there for the first time, except at the time they don't know that it's him because he's got a gas mask on and is splattered from head to toe with both red and black blood.]] She barely keeps her cool...barely.
* RealityEnsues: Shikinami acknowledges that for all her pining for a special power, she's not just going to get one out of thin air, and that war doesn't care for her wish for a strong protocol and won't let shounen manga scenarios of characters spontaneously gaining powerful abilities to help them overcome their battles happen.
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: Does this in chapter 192 again - [[spoiler:when the Baltimore ship girl team face off against the Baltimore mutants for the first time,]] Shikinami starts freaking out for good and screams, "Kill them! [[KillEmAll Kill them all!"]]
* {{Shoutout}}: the end of her Fleet Log ends with, [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare "Power...it really does change everything, doesn't it."]]
** in addition, one of her developers once called her [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "Asuka"]], but she herself doesn't know why this is.
** [[spoiler: in chapter 261, Shikinami gains an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion AT field and a double-bladed breakable spear. In chapter 262, her left eye starts glowing blue as well.]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Now we know why the developers called her Asuka.]]]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: in her Fleet Log, Shikinami swears she's not actually a chuunibyou.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Ayanami. While they're portrayed as such frequently in fanworks, the story takes this one step further, as they were held prisoner by the Coalition faction of Atlanta together. Even after they join the Combined Fleet, whenever they're mentioned, they're usually portrayed hanging out together, though they do spend almost as much time together with the rest of their sisters in the Ayanami-Class.
!!Oboro
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: while she keeps her original personality intact, she has become quite jaded and hardened once she comes out of Nashville. She lampshades this in her Fleet Log, noting that she's even a bit scared of just how quickly and readily her personality's changed in just two months. If Ushio and Sazanami have pointed this out to her before, she recognizes, it's a pretty concerning issue.
* BerserkButton: averted in her Fleet Log, when Oboro specifically states that her very short war service prevented her from ever developing hard feelings towards Americans or America.
* CatapultNightmare: Oboro reveals in her Fleet Log in chapter 123 that there are nights when she wakes up with a wild heartbeat and a sharp pain in her stomach and chest, the physical manifestation of what she remembers from her sinking as a warship (she was sunk by an airstrike when a bomb scored a direct hit on her munitions room and detonated her shells, causing her to explode).
* {{Determinator}}: the passive ability that her crab friend gives her temporarily boosts her critical damage resist and her will ratings both by 50% when she drops below 20% HP, but she loses her EXP bonuses that she otherwise would receive.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: receives this accidentally from Akebono in the form of a small DespairEventHorizon; her Fleet Log states that towing her dead sister Akebono during Operation Dualsight has snapped her out of potentially becoming an EmotionlessGirl and has motivated her to not let apathy and insensitivity become coping mechanisms for the hardships she's had to deal with during her time spent in America as a ship girl thus far.
* IconicItem: her crab companion who hangs out in her equipment is even cemented as a passive ability that gives her more EXP in naval battles and more EXP to her and her sisters if they all deploy into combat together.
* MeaningfulName: Oboro (朧) can mean "Moonlight", and in her Fleet Log, Oboro really likes moongazing.
* MisanthropeSupreme: subverted; like Damon, she doesn't outright hate humans, but her opinion of them has certainly soured a lot as a result of her ordeal in Nashville.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: basically what she went through due to her time spent in Nashville.
* PointOfNoReturn: believes that she's passed a psychological one with her personality hardening; as much as she wants to and tries to return to how she was before her time spent in Nashville, she can't just forget what she's experienced in Nashville.
* TheQuietOne: has become this as a result of her AdaptationPersonalityChange - her Fleet Log states that she tends not to socialize very much and oftentimes be found spending time alone. She also apparently spends a few minutes every night at the fleet's base at MAPS moongazing by herself.
* RepressedMemories: she chooses not to dwell on her past memories as a warship due to her relatively short service history during the war. Once she and the Nashville ship girls get rescued and implemented into the Combined Fleet, her memories of Nashville and her time spent there also join these.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:can now summon the Moonlight Greatsword from [[VideoGame/DarkSouls]] via Damon's YRC.]]
!!Akebono
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: like Oboro, Akebono goes through this during her time spent in Nashville. However, unlike Oboro's personality change that turns her into a silent jaded type, Akebono becomes a bitchy, cynical, and brooding jaded type. [[SarcasmMode She's still got her shitty attitude towards Damon, however.]]
** the stat sheet takes the shit attitude of hers and turns it into a passive status buff that lets her fight with slightly improved stats if she's with Damon but at the cost of doubled fatigue gain rate and slowly accumulating insanity.
* AlphaBitch: the story probably takes the ingame Akebono and takes this UpToEleven - there are quite a number of readers who are very soured by the story's portrayal of Akebono, both towards the character and the author himself, sheerly due to how much of a consistently crappy attitude she has towards Damon. At the very least, she acts nothing like how she acts towards Damon towards her own sisters, though she will still get snappy with them, especially if Damon is brought up for whatever reason.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank once at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight.]]
* BerserkButton: Akebono also has a degree of wartime hatred of the Americans and of the concept of American ship girls, though, like Sazanami, she only shows it during the [[spoiler:Baltimore arc, when they actually do come into contact with the ship entities there]].
* BestFriend: considers Ushio this because only Ushio can legitimately make her otherwise troubled and disturbed persona feel at peace and thus will listen to her, even if Damon is involved.
* BoisterousBruiser: ties in with her SmugSuper. Her only gripe, as revealed in her Fleet Log in chapter 123, is that she doesn't have a special protocol like some of the other destroyers so that she can go ham in battle too.
* BornUnlucky: if she claims in her Fleet Log that she can literally count the number of good things she can say about her lives (both as a warship and a ship girl) with one hand's worth of fingers...
* CloseRangeCombatant: according to the stat sheet, the Ayanami-Class have access to [[SupportPartyMember abilities that assist with the offensive capabilities of their comrades, as well as their own, or help cover their allies with fire support.]] So they're not exactly dedicated front-liners like Murakumo, Shimakaze, and Amatsukaze are, but they typically should be found in the front lines or even the vanguard of the fleet.
* CrapsackWorld: has this opinion of the world, not surprisingly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Akebono is killed in action during Operation Dualsight by taking two sixteen-inch shells in a row by an Abyssal battleship, and it blows her body apart in half from the abdomen down.]]
* TheCynic: always sees everything glass-half-empty, to the point where she practically thrives in misfortune. Her Fleet Log says it all:
--> "Reuniting with her ship sisters? That's not a poignant reunion moment, that's just another responsibility she'll need to take unto herself to protect her ship sisters, especially Ushio-chan..."
* EpiphanicPrison: In chapter 260, Damon bluntly tells her that the reason she is such a bitch despite no longer having a good reason for it is because the mental bomb shelter she originally built against the past cruelties she experienced has become her own jail cell.
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:in her Fleet Log, Akebono is so horrified of the concept of being raped that for as much as she hates Damon, she secretly is thankful that he was able to prevent it from happening.]]
* FreudianExcuse: carries over harshly from the game. Akebono's reasons for hating Damon, her new Admiral after her time spent in Nashville, are almost purely arbitrary, not even counting her historical reasons. For the context of this story, Akebono can and will certainly use the excuse that her American "admirals" in Nashville treated her and her fellow ship girls in the faction like crap and therefore can justify her behavior towards Damon off this.
* GlassCannon: the strongest destroyer in the Ayanami-Class with an attack rating of 8, but has the second-lowest defense rating of 2. [[HarsherInHindsight Maybe this is why Akebono sank the way she did at Cayo Romano...]]
* HairTriggerTemper: oh boy, you don't say...towards Damon, of course.
* HiddenDepths: her Fleet Log implies that [[JerkassWoobie she's getting tired of constantly acting like a cynical bitch because the pessimistic front she always has is extremely draining on her, and that all she wanted after joining Damon's fleet was some mental peace and quiet without having a compulsive desire to complain about everything.]]
** And even if she has a trash attitude, she insists that [[{{Tsundere}} she really does love her sisters too much to bring herself to hate them for any reason.]]
** [[spoiler:When Akebono splits herself into her two personality halves, the friendly Akebono tells Damon that Akebono not only is a genuinely good person, and that she's just confused about what she ought to think of him, but also that she actually has deep feelings for him.]]
* IAmAMonster: Repeatedly does this in her Fleet Log. She's only missing a monstrous protocol to go with it.
** [[spoiler:[[HilariousInHindsight ...which she actually does gain with the help of Damon's YRC, but it's only half-monstrous, as she can produce a clone of herself who's caring and tender while she herself becomes more or less an embodiment of distrust and hatred.]]]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: when she complains to Damon that he shouldn't try to act like a hero, he obliges her - Akebono finds him in the Nashville State Capitol building, sitting amidst the bodies of the Harper Family which he's horribly mutilated.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:in chapter 265, Akebono reveals that she's actually technically the first ship girl to receive an energy transfusion from Damon's YRC that empowers her with new abilities, mainly a new protocol called Daybreak Protocol that allows her to send out a clone of herself who is kind and amicable towards Damon, while her original body becomes a sullen and perhaps malicious Akebono who avoids Damon and refuses to talk to him at all.]]
* MamaBear: shows signs of this in her Fleet Log - she wants to protect her sister Ushio from all the horrors of the world, for as much as she likes pointing them out, because [[SelfDeprecation she feels that Ushio doesn't deserve to suffer as much as she herself should.]]
--> "A delicate angel need not dwell among the sins and pollution of mere mortals...only demons who revel in such wrath and depredation."
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Akebono's protocol is the Daybreak Protocol, so essentially her own protocol is named after herself.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: by far the purest example in the story, since she utterly detests humanity.
* NotSoDifferent: she's compelled to begrudgingly recognize that Damon may be on the same wavelength as she is in her Fleet Log.
* PointOfNoReturn: her Fleet Log states that her perpetual pessimism was getting out of hand to the point where she was being cynical for the sake of being cynical, and that this was averted in her sinking during Operation Dualsight because [[{{Irony}} only by dying was her mind forced to calm down and take a break from all the pessimistic thoughts she was making.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:almost suffers this at Atlanta when she and her team get EMP'd and captured by O'Reilly's personal security team. Damon barely averts this in time.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Ushio's blue.
* RepressedMemories: after she gets repaired back to life after Operation Dualsight, Akebono recalls feeling the experiences she had towards the end of her life as a warship in the form of turbulent human feelings and briefly has flashbacks to all of the major incidents her warship counterpart had.
* {{Shoutout}}: her Fleet Log references the Pensieve from Franchise/HarryPotter.
* SiblingYinYang: with Ushio. Akebono is the black side of the yin-yang - caustic, rude, cynical, and fatalistic.
* SirSwearsALot: now that all ship girls in the story can speak fluent English, it's definitely harder to find lines of Akebono's dialogue that don't drop F-bombs or S-bombs or the like, because [[SarcasmMode swearing at her Admiral in Japanese clearly isn't enough.]]
* SmugSuper: she heavily looks down on normal humans because she's a ship girl and is by default stronger than they are.
* StockKisses: [[spoiler:The caring half of Akebono gives one to Damon right on the lips, but [[SubvertedTrope since the real Akebono is rendered unconscious while her personality clones are out and about, it doesn't really count.]]]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Akebono is one of two (three, if you count Furutaka's glitched persona) whose affection for Damon is officially listed in the stat sheet as "Hatred".
** [[spoiler:But this now becomes a gray area when the friendly Akebono clone informs Damon that the real Akebono actually loves him - it's just that her conflicting emotions and thoughts are preventing her from ever getting that point across to him.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Akebono does not mind becoming one with her dark personality and attitude if it means she can be at peace with herself and perhaps get stronger to protect her sisters in the process.
* ThisIsReality: In her Fleet Log, she realizes that she's just not the type of person who'll go through some radical personality and mindset changes and wants to strive to find as much of a neutral ground with her attitude and mindset as possible.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Ushio. They're each other's [[{{Foil}} foils]]. Akebono specifically has a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet that gives her slightly better combat stats when deployed and fighting with her and rewards her with bonus EXP if Ushio completes a mission with minimal damage taken.
* {{Tsundere}}: subverted, as revealed in her Fleet Log. She definitely does ''not'' have any feelings for him...but she at least quietly gives Damon his due after [[spoiler:his death at Little Rock]] that he's done a hell of a lot more for her and the ship girls compared to every other human she's had to deal with so far.
** [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when, in chapter 266, Akebono's kind personality half reveals to Damon that the real Akebono does in fact love him; she just can't ever bring herself to admit it or act as such.]]
!!Sazanami
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: she's nowhere near as silly as she is ingame and is instead much more sarcastic and drops dank memes like she's a walking version of [[Website/{{Twitch}} Twitch chat.]]
* AnimalMotifs: the rabbit. Explored in her Fleet Log in chapter 112, when she notes that if she's left all alone without her sisters for whatever reason, she feels she might [[GoMadFromTheIsolation go off the deep end]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight, killed in action by an enemy Ri-Class cruiser.]]
* BerserkButton: implied to be Ushio, as in if anyone bothers Ushio or tries to do anything funny to/with her, Sazanami will [[MemeticMutation rek ya, m8.]]
* CrapsackWorld: develops a view of this herself during her stay with the Feds, before Damon comes to pick them up.
* {{Foil}}: considers herself to be this to Oboro as a result of their wartime experiences, in which Sazanami not only survived longer into the war but was also able to develop historical friendships with other Japanese ship girls, while Oboro both sank earlier than she did and didn't have nearly as many chances to do the same, [[FridgeLogic which may explain why Oboro's Fleet Log discloses the fact that Oboro was slowly becoming an apathetic, unsociable and emotionless girl at the time of joining the Combined Fleet.]]
* HiddenDepths: she values her family (mainly her wartime squadron, Destroyer Division 7, which was comprised of herself, Ushio, and Akebono) more than anything else.
* IconicItem: her bunny button is retained (since it's part of her character design and not just part of her equipment, like Ushio's personalized 12.7cm turret is), and the rabbit is implied to be an actual sentient entity and actually helps her in combat with additional perception stats and bonus EXP if Sazanami completes a mission without ever dropping below 80% HP.
* {{Irony}}: Suzukaze's banishment from the fleet, while it may have temporarily shattered the family cohesion of the Shiratsuyu-Class, actually strengthened the Ayanami-Class's bonds, as Sazanami observes in her Fleet Log, since they learned the lesson of having strong family bonds the easy way.
* LampshadeHanging: mercilessly mocks the whole concept of personifying warships like herself in her Fleet Log.
* MamaBear: acts as Ushio's guardian during their time as Federal ship girls, since Akebono isn't there to fulfill this role.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sazanami's antagonism towards American warships of the second World War is strong enough to make her not drop any memes [[spoiler:during Operation Baltimore.]]
* {{Otaku}}: just like her ingame rendition, she's a [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall Breaker]] and makes references to all kinds of random internet trivia, except instead of making Japanese net references like in the game, in the story, she references lots of American internet memes (she does occasionally make quips involving Japanese 2ch memes and netspeak, mainly in her Fleet Log). She does also call Damon "Master" as she does to Admirals ingame, which doesn't go well with Damon, given his tendency for InsistentTerminology.
** Strangely, this Otaku nature of hers is cemented as a passive ability that lets her grant a +1 bonus to a random stat rating for every ship sister she deploys with, even if she deploys by herself.
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:The power she gains from Damon in chapter 257 isn't exactly cooperating with her.]]
* SarcasmFailure: in chapter 192, she can't be her usual meming self when she and the squad come across [[OhCrap a particularly disturbing sight.]]
* SeparatedAtBirth: due to their wartime circumstances, Sazanami considers her sisters to be this, since she only ever served with Akebono and Ushio as part of Destroyer Division 7. Because of her unfamiliarity with Ayanami and Shikinami (and to a certain extent Oboro as well), she initially does not want those three to disrupt the close-knit family nucleus she has with Akebono and Ushio, but she quickly warms up to them thanks to the efforts of Ushio to bring them all together before they were shipped out to the US.
* ShipperOnDeck: She spends much of chapter 200 trying to get Ushio to hook up with Damon.
* {{Shoutout}}: she's got a lot, obviously, given her [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall Breaking]] nature, but in her Fleet Log, she makes one to the infamous "devilishly attractive" Ushio doujins produced by Himura Kiseki.
** [[spoiler:gains the signature spiked ball and chain and knife of [[LightNovel/ReZero Rem and Ram]], can summon [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} as many of those knives as she wants]], and sometimes opts to [[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} drop them right out from underneath her skirt.]]]]
* TheSmartGuy: implied to be this among her sisters in the Ayanami-Class, as her entry in the stat sheet lists her intelligence rating at 8, which blows any of her sisters' such ratings out of the water. Only Ushio comes close, but only at 6.
* SmashSisters: considers her destroyer class to be this, as she is very close with every one of her sisters. Indeed, once the entire Ayanami-Class is assembled in the fleet after the conclusion of the Coalition campaign, it's quite rare to see any of them fighting without at least one other ship sister with them.
* StarterEquipment: averted from the game; Damon does not acquire Sazanami as a ship girl until chapter 38.
* TakeThat: in her Fleet Log, Sazanami is probably making a sharp jab at the premises of Kantai Collection, gijinka/personifications in general, and perhaps at otakus as a whole.
--> "No one thinks of a warship as a living entity, unless you're one of those crazy people who become infatuated with inanimate objects - then you're just a creep."
* ThatCameOutWrong: in Ushio's Fleet Log, Sazanami apparently made a joke and told Ushio that at least she wasn't sold as a reparation ship and used as a test target...not realizing in time what had ended up happening to [[NukeEm Nagato and Sakawa.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: averted; she's yet to speak like this in the story.
* ZergRush: Discussed in her Fleet Log - Sazanami believes that destroyers like herself are very weak by themselves and are only strong when working and fighting together in groups and squadrons to get anything done.
!!Ushio
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: goes through one [[spoiler:at Baltimore, though as it turns out, it's more because Losira inadvertently hacks her main processing unit to share her body than Ushio herself acting different.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Will actually be willing to fight if her sisters or Damon come under fire, though usually she resorts only to nonlethal measures, such as pushing an Abyssal cruiser with enough strength to send her flying down a street.
** Averted for the most part - despite fighting the American Navy during the war the longest and surviving the war, even, Ushio refuses to give into the sin of resenting the Americans for something that happened eighty years ago, though she admits that she was starting to fall into that trap until Damon came in and took control of her and the Federal ship girls.
* BestFriend: to Akebono. She's the only one Akebono will freely admit who can keep her in check and calm her down.
* BreakTheCutie: suffers this after Operation London, when her Fleet Log states that she cried into Sazanami's arms because she couldn't handle all of the combat stress that she took while fighting.
* BuxomIsBetter: [[spoiler:Losira]] takes some time to point them out, noting that she's probably bigger than the rest of her sisters combined.
* TheCutie: as much as this trope can exist in a story like this. In her Fleet Log in chapter 113, everyone treats Ushio like this without exception, after she took the time after her initial activation in Japan to pay visits to all of her comrades she'd fought with during the war.
* DespairEventHorizon: may have gone through one of this [[spoiler:following Damon's death]], because she feels heartbroken for the first time in her conscious memory. Not even all the horrors and memories of her wartime service broke her heart, but this incident did.
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:goes through one at Baltimore when, upon seeing Damon getting gravely wounded, allows her own main processing unit to become "hacked" by Losira to temporarily gain her power and save him.]]
** In chapter 272, [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, Ushio is able to recall this emergency transformation state that she underwent in Baltimore with the exact same appearance and seemingly with the same ability to channel Damon's mother through herself.]]
* EyeScream: takes a piece of artillery shrapnel to her eye in chapter 99 - had she been a normal human, it would have probably killed her instantly.
* FightingFromTheInside: an unusual case for this trope - in chapter 205, Ushio battles [[spoiler:Losira]] for control of her own body when the latter starts attacking [[BerserkButton Akebono for pointing a gun at Damon]] - not only does she win, but she [[MegaManning briefly gains control over her powers.]]
* IAmAMonster: subverted: while she doesn't think of herself as an outright monster, Ushio doesn't really like being called an angel, because then she'll just think of herself as some kind of [[LightIsNotGood angel of death]] [[CursedWithAwesome due to her circumstance as one of the few surviving destroyers at the end of the war.]]
* IconicItem: unfortunately averted from the game, as there is no mention of Ushio keeping her pink smiley-face 12.7cm gun due to the changes in general destroyer equipment that the story establishes.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: her sisters regard her as a complete angel in a grimdark world where ship girls like them have too many enemies and have been subjected to a plethora of horrors and abuses.
* InterfaceScrew: like Samidare and Suzukaze, suffers one of her own, [[spoiler:and she, too, has a small smattering of X's, Y's, and Z's start littering her heads-up display, indicating that Losira is in the process of hacking herself into her main processing unit at Baltimore.]]
* JokeCharacter: implied to be this if you go off Ushio's stats as written in the stat sheet - and they're downright atrocious. Indeed, she is the only ship girl in the entire fleet as listed in the stat sheet who has a 0 attack rating.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Discussed in her Fleet Log: when Ushio recalls fighting in her very first operation as a ship girl during the London campaign, she finds war a hell of a lot different than she remembers it.
* {{Pacifist}}: perhaps the purest example in the fleet. Like Harusame and Samidare, she possesses the "Battlefield Angel" and "Pacifist" passive skills in her entry in the stat sheet, but unlike the other two, [[ThouShaltNotKill Ushio has an attack rating of 0.]] While she recognizes that there may come times when she will have to attack people, she'll only do so strictly in self-defense or to protect other people who need protecting, and even then, as her attempt to save a downed helicopter pilot shows, she'd much rather try to get them out of harm's way rather than shoot back at her attackers. This is also reinforced in her stats in the stat sheet, as all of her combat-related stats are very, very low, with her Intelligence rating being anything decent. There is an exception, and that's her BerserkButton.
* ThePollyanna: is determined to stay optimistic and hopeful despite the fact that none of her sisters share this mentality and even though the world she lives in now as a ship girl very clearly does not give many perks to ship girls like them.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Akebono's red.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:gains the [[Manga/UshioAndTora Beast Spear]] that happens to change her hairstyle to match that of Losira's.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: her shy personality carries over from the game, and in the story, she can't bring herself to be more assertive towards Damon while there are so many other girls who vie for his affection.
* SiblingYinYang: with Akebono. Ushio is the white part of the yin-yang: kind, endearing, hopeful, and optimistic.
* SplitPersonality: what happens in [[spoiler:Baltimore after Losira hacks Ushio's main processing unit. It's a bit of a case of FightingFromTheInside, except both Ushio and Losira can yank away control of Ushio's body at any time whenever they want - which means, naturally, given Ushio's regular personality and her learning of who Losira is, Losira ends up in control more often than not. She does, however, seize control of her own body when Losira starts attacking Akebono for almost shooting Damon to prevent her own body from hurting her own sister.]]
* TeamMom: as revealed in Sazanami's Fleet Log, Ushio was the one who brought the Ayanami-Class together when, prior to their new lives as ship girls, they had very little historical connection to do so.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: this happens when [[spoiler:Damon mistakes her for his mother, Losira, in Baltimore.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Akebono. According to Akebono's entry in the stat sheet, Ushio is the only one who can keep her truly under control.
* ThousandYardStare: has one of these at the end of Operation Dualsight, when she and Oboro have to tow the dead bodies of Sazanami and Akebono. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She's only got one of her eyes intact, though.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: she's considered the "paragon of Japanese diligence and maturity" by practically all of the ship girls in the fleet, according to her Fleet Log.
!Akatsuki-Class
* StatusBuff: all Akatsuki-Class members have access to abilities that enable themselves and allies close to them varying buffs to different aspects of weapon handling.
* AnchorsAway: they also have access to anchors to use as melee weapons, but because they're considered purchasable class abilities according to the stat sheet, they don't come with them by default. And as far as the story itself is concerned, none of the Akatsuki-Class so far have possessed one or used one in combat.
!!Akatsuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks with Hibiki at Greifswald Bay during the final fight between the Abyssals and the fleet during the Germany campaign.]]
* CoolBigSis: she also 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, though the "Cool" and "Big" parts are more debatable.
* JokeCharacter: much like Ushio, while her stats aren't as bad, Akatsuki has some pretty terrible stats compared to her sisters, considering the fact that she's the lead destroyer of her class. Subverted somewhat, however, since she does have two passive abilities that do buff her own performance and those of her sisters.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:"Akatsuki" means "Dawn". Hence...Hammer of "Dawn".]]
* ProperLady: her CharacterTic of always trying to act like a high-class lady is present in this story as well, but it's actually cemented in her entry in the stat sheet as a passive ability that grants her +1 all stats every so often over time in combat and additional stat buffs if her sisters get injured in combat so that she can fight better to protect them. She also receives additional armor points and a +20% faster experience gain rate if she deploys and fights with other ship girls who also carry themselves like high-class ladies (i.e. ship girls who have formally polite or archaic speech mannerisms like Kumano or Amagi).
* {{Shoutout}}: a three-fer in chapter 277: [[spoiler:through Damon's YRC, Akatsuki gains possession of a small satellite. On one side, the word "JAXA" is written, a reference to the [[RealLife Akatsuki Venus space probe]] launched in 2010, and on the other side, the words [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar "HAMMER OF DAWN"]] are written. Finally, the narration at one point calls the probe a "mobile satellite", a possible reference to the Mobile Satellite power-up ally seen in [[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 3.]]]]
* SneezeCut: sometimes has one whenever anything related to being a lady is mentioned.
!!Hibiki
* AbnormalAmmo: like Kawakaze, Hibiki can also ignite her own ammo with phoenix fire for additional burn damage onto enemies while her protocol is active with her Phoenix Breath ability, but unlike Kawakaze, she can extend this buff to nearby allies as well.
* TheAce: is this within her class, with undoubtedly the best stats among her sisters - only Inazuma edges her out in total hit points and negotiation rating.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: not so much her personality as her character itself: while in the game her Russian identity as Verniy is saved until her second remodel, in the story Hibiki has full memory of her time as a Russian destroyer and can speak fluent Russian, to boot.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks with Akatsuki at Greifswald Bay during the final fight between the Abyssals and the fleet during the Germany campaign.]]
* CatchPhrase: averted from her anime rendition; she's a quiet girl in the story who doesn't speak unless she's got a reason to.
* EmotionlessGirl: heavily implied to be this due to her entry in the stat sheet, as one of the conditions she possesses with her Russian Cold ability is the inability to gain Insanity. [[spoiler:The only way for her to gain Insanity at all is for her to see any of her ship sisters fall in combat.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: if Hibiki's health reaches 0 or if she takes a critical hit that drops her below 25% health, she instantly activates her Firebird Protocol that just as instantly regenerates her health all the way back up to full.
* GratuitousRussian: averted; she speaks it fluently.
* HealItWithFire: when [[spoiler:Inazuma suffers the loss of one of her arms due to Xenolith's dragon in England]], Hibiki activates her protocol to cauterize Inazuma's wound to prevent her from losing too much blood.
* IceQueen: the story takes this trope literally by giving Hibiki +1 all stats and double effective health if she fights in extremely cold environments or temperatures.
* MeaningfulName: "Hinotori" literally means "Firebird" and refers to the mythological phoenix.
* OddFriendship: with Venyamin Korotayev, Controller of Chicago. Korotayev first met Hibiki at the unnamed Federal base where the original Federal ship girls were being held and introduced himself to her as the grandson of one of her sailors who served aboard her in the Red Fleet, wishing that had the world not gone through the nuclear war, assuming that they still somehow met, he would have liked to take her to his grandfather's grave. Because of this friendship, she goes drinking with him and Sanford in chapter 263...presumably vodka, of course.
* PlayingWithFire: as expected, due to her whole connection with the phoenix, Hibiki has control over phoenix flames while her protocol is active.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Hinotori, her alter ego, does this to Hibiki and takes over her body when her protocol is activated.
* SuperMode: her Firebird Protocol gives her varying stat bonuses depending on how it's activated and gives her access to flame-based powers. If she activates it a certain way, she even regenerates all of her lost hit points.
* SuperPoweredAlterEgo: Hinotori, her protocol identity who comes out and replaces Hibiki anytime her Firebird Protocol is triggered. She speaks in a much more archaic fashion, not unlike Amagi, to differentiate herself speech-wise from Hibiki.
* SurvivorGuilt: surprisingly averted, as many fanworks of Hibiki explore this aspect of her - considering that this story has gone quite in-depth with Shigure's own case of this. Though, this may just be that the story has yet to dive into Hibiki's case.
* TranslatorBuddy: Hibiki became this during her short time as a Federal ship girl translating for Russian political and military refugees working in the American government who still can't quite speak English very well.
!!Ikazuchi
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight.]]
* CombinationAttack: her and Inazuma's NA-45 Lightning Strike. Inazuma fires the primer round first, and then Ikazuchi must fire the detonator round second. If Ikazuchi's round hits near enough to Inazuma's, they'll detonate together to match the power of a battleship-caliber shell.
* JackOfAllStats: as far as her combat stats go - she has 5's in attack, defense, intelligence, and speed. Only her endurance rating stands out at 8.
* NiceGirl: while the game establishes her personality as a reference to the incident in which she and Inazuma rescued 900 Allied sailors from ships they'd helped sink a day before, the story takes this incident UpToEleven by listing in her Fleet Log that before she was scheduled to be shipped over to the US, Ikazuchi actually met Sir Samuel Falle, one of the survivors whom she'd saved nearly seventy years before in her warship form, and learned that if it weren't for Falle's work to publicize the humanitarian work of her captain, Shunsaku Kudo, in his decision to save those 900 sailors, the world would have never known about Kudo's and Ikazuchi's heroic deed.
* TheReliableOne: cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet.
--> [[MemeticMutation Because you have Ikazuchi, don't you!]]
* {{Shoutout}}: her NA-45 Lightning Strike is a two-fer to the Lightning Strike scorestreak in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 and the NA-45 grenade sniper in VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Greifswald Bay.]]
!!Inazuma
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: while she hasn't explicitly acted this way yet, Inazuma is hiding a lot of bitterness, according to her Fleet Log entry.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks twice, at Cayo Romano and at Greifswald Bay.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: contributes to her StepfordSmiler tendencies. Her Fleet Log discusses the day when Ikazuchi met Sir Falle before they were shipped to the US, and Inazuma felt extremely bitter that only Ikazuchi's captain gets any credit while her own seemed to have already faded into obscurity.
** the fandom's Plasma personality for Inazuma is also present in this story, cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: averted. Not in this story, she isn't, if her Fleet Log has anything to say about her.
* CombinationAttack: her and Ikazuchi's NA-45 Lightning Strike. Inazuma fires the primer round first, and then Ikazuchi must fire the detonator round second. If Ikazuchi's round hits near enough to Inazuma's, they'll detonate together to match the power of a battleship-caliber shell.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Plasma passive ability causes her to lose 100 hit points per minute spent as Plasma, causes her to deal +50% extra friendly fire damage, and adds a permanent 20% Insanity to her Insanity meter every time she becomes Plasma.
* JackOfAllStats: a bit better off than her twin sister Ikazuchi, with 6's in all combat stats, including endurance, so Ikazuchi does beat her out in this regard.
* ReluctantWarrior: seemingly averted in the story, perhap due to her StepfordSmiler tendencies.
* {{Shoutout}}: her NA-45 Lightning Strike is a two-fer to the Lightning Strike scorestreak in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 and the NA-45 grenade sniper in VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare.
* SneezeCut: has one in chapter 281 when Samidare uses her "Hawawawa!" cry.
* StarterEquipment: averted, she is the third starter ship girl Damon acquires along with Sazanami.
* StepfordSmiler: she's got an uncharacteristic amount of bitterness that she hides beneath a fair expression.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: her Plasma passive ability. She gains +2 all stats and becomes immune to all enemy status effects, but she also deals +50% extra friendly fire damage.
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[[folder:Hatsuharu-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Hatsuharu-Class members have access to specialized abilities that dramatically increase their own or other allies' combat proficiency for a short period of time.
!!Wakaba
* {{Determinator}}: has an Endurance rating of 9 and a Will rating of 75%. Her Masochist passive ability also contributes, as she takes reduced damage from all attacks by default and fights better the longer a fight drags on.
* FriendlyTarget: is a victim of this when Nagato fires an RPG-7 warhead a little too close to her and Hatsushimo, so the two destroyers get taken for a short flight.
* GunsAkimbo: like Satsuki, she prefers dual-wielded guns and even has a passive ability that reinforces this trait. The fact that Damon buys her a pair of AMT Hardballer Longslides only serves to reinforce this trope.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: tries shooting a few enemies with her pair of Mini-Uzi's that have run dry, so she's forced to PistolWhip them instead.
* {{Shoutout}}: the AMT Hardballer Longslides that she gets from Damon at the Full Metal Jacket gunshop, which are an obvious one to VideoGame/{{Hitman}}.
* TheStoic: in the form of her Emotionless passive ability, which allows her to reach 100% insanity and withstand the penalties that would normally affect any other ship girl who does the same.
!!Hatsushimo
* {{Determinator}}: while she doesn't have the endurance rating to match her sister's, she still has a Will rating of 75%.
* EscortMission: her passive ability Capital Escort Specialist, a reference to her RealLife roles during the Second World War, gives her several combat bonuses for fighting near the vicinity of any capital ship girl.
* FriendlyTarget: is a victim of this when Nagato fires an RPG-7 warhead a little too close to her and Wakaba, so the two destroyers get taken for a short flight.
* {{Shoutout}}: her unique active ability, Fallen Comrades' Revenge, is taken from Sengoku Rance, which allows Hatsushimo to track the exact amount of damage that's been dealt to her allies in her immediate vicinity and concentrate it all into one attack that, if it successfully hits an enemy, will deal that same amount of damage onto one target.
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[folder:Shiratsuyu-Class]]
* TheAce: more or less the entire class - even the general consensus among the ship girls recognizes the Shiratsuyu-Class as the single most powerful destroyer class in the fleet, mostly on the account of their strong protocols. Their stats also help reflect this, as most of the Shiratsuyu-Class start with great stats and abilities (mostly tied to their protocols), and with the introduction of [[spoiler:Damon's YRC powers]], those who haven't yet discovered their protocols receive them.
* AnimalMotifs: as indicated by the nature of their class abilities, the Shiratsuyu-Class are largely portrayed as hound-like in their combat styles.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: a SurvivorsGuilt-ridden ReluctantPsycho, an anchor-flinging semi-{{Yandere}}, a BadassAdorable canine-like AxCrazy BloodKnight [[SweetTooth who happens to like doughnuts]], an OntologicalMystery [[CastFromHitPoints whose hair happens to be edible]], a CuteClumsyGirl who's prone to both [[FacePlant faceplanting]] [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction and destroying entire cities]]]], a [[AnIcePerson cold-blooded]] ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend who's been DrivenToSuicide, a PyroManiac, and a mass-murdering OneWingedAngel who can [[LudicrousGibs vaporize human beings with as much ease as tearing a piece of paper in half]]. Shiratsuyu is currently the only one who can truly claim she's as [[BadassNormal normal as can be,]] and she's the one [[ThisIsGonnaSuck who needs to keep her sisters in line.]]
* CloseRangeCombatant: their class-exclusive abilities intend for them to get into the thick of the fight or at least assume very forward positions in the fleet or in battle, just like their protocols.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Both generations of Shiratsuyu-class were programmed to be more affectionate with their admiral than any of the other girls. [[FridgeLogic Given the universal canine motif that the Shiratsuyu-Class is given ingame, in fanworks, and in this story alike,]] this comes as little surprise.]]
* InSeriesNickname: in chapter 255, Damon decides to give the entire Shiratsuyu-Class English nicknames, as Shiratsuyu and Shigure have.
* {{Shoutout}}: Multiple girls from this class, when they trigger their protocols, emit revolving swirls of inky energy, much like the splash effect graphics frequently seen in VideoGame/StreetFighterV.
!!Shiratsuyu
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Perhaps heavily due to her ordeal as a captured ship girl of Charlotte, she's nowhere near the level of GenkiGirl or AttentionWhore that she is in the game. Her CharacterTic of always wanting to be first is heavily subdued, though a degree of it still stubbornly remains, as she demonstrates when she becomes the first ship girl who willingly accepts a nickname from Damon, Shirley.
* AffectionateNickname: Damon starts calling her Shirley since her original name is a bit confusing for him to pronounce regularly, and Shiratsuyu greatly appreciates this for the reason stated above.
* ArmchairMilitary: Has tendencies of this that start creeping up with chapter 189, which imply that Shiratsuyu is able to verbally control and direct the actions of the rest of her sisters at crucial moments. This is reinforced in later chapters and events, such as [[spoiler:the Shiratsuyu-Class's fight against !Samidare and their undepicted one against President Blackwood, and finally cemented with the development of her Alpha Protocol.]]
* BadassNormal: along with the recently acquired Harusame, she is one of the only ones in her class who doesn't have an obviously powerful protocol; whether or not she even has one is yet to be revealed, though with the recent revelation that she can in fact give commands to her own sisters and have them obey her, she may have a protocol after all. Even still, if this is the extent of her protocol's power, Shiratsuyu is certainly quite normal compared to the rest of her sisters.
** [[spoiler:While Shiratsuyu gains the power of homing electricity via her Alpha Protocol, it's certainly still about a few notches down from the wild powers that, say, Shigure and Yuudachi have received from Damon.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: she's the oldest of a class of destroyers who have [[{{Understatement}} a couple of screws loose, to say the least.]] If someone like Yuudachi is supposed to fulfill the OnlySaneMan trope among them, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck that doesn't bode well for the class as a whole.]] Though, this being said, in the latter third of the story so far, Shiratsuyu herself is trying her best to keep them on the right track.
* BigShutUp: gives one to the rest of her sisters in chapter 189 to rein them in, when the Shiratsuyu-Class are arguing about whether they should go after Damon or Suzukaze first.
* BreakTheCutie: nearly suffers this during her ordeal at Charlotte.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that all lead ship girls of their respective classes seem to have that grants their sisters small combat attribute buffs when they deploy with their sisters into combat.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:to !Samidare, complete with a ClusterFBomb.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: her time in Charlotte, as explained in her Fleet Log in chapter 132. She takes it pretty hard that she couldn't do anything to alleviate Murasame's situation or otherwise get her out of her situation, amplified by the fact that Shiratsuyu is the eldest sister and thus shoulders the responsibility for the safety of her sister.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Shiratsuyu admits in her Fleet Log that in comparison to her horrible time in Charlotte, she doesn't care what kind of Admiral she ends up with, so long as he/she is compassionate and at least has the well-being of the fleet in mind.
* InSeriesNickname: Shirley; Damon gives this to her just before the start of Operation Charlotte, and she's the first one to get such a nickname from him.
* MeaningfulName: her Alpha Protocol, because not only is she the eldest and the first of the Shiratsuyu-Class, but she can give orders to the rest of her sisters that they feel compelled to obey.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: the motivation for Shiratsuyu to want to return to Charlotte, because Murasame is still back in the faction as Charlotte's prisoner ship girl. As it turns out, there's a very good reason for this.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: ties in with the above. Even though she returned to normal for the most part once she was rescued from Charlotte, Shiratsuyu still shocks the whole fleet by scolding her own sisters (minus Samidare and Shigure) hard in front of everyone.
* RageBreakingPoint: see OOCIsSeriousBusiness above.
* PointOfNoReturn: Operation Norfolk was about to be this, as explicitly mentioned in her Fleet Log. She'd gotten to the point where she would readily trade her own freedom, out of the clutches of the Charlotte faction and its premier, in order to return and ensure that nothing worse can be done to Murasame.
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Damon's YRC now gives Shiratsuyu a lightning-based power that charges her body with visible currents of white electricity and grants her immense speed, though Damon and others speculate it's just incredibly increased acceleration from what little they've seen of it.]]
** in chapter 264, Shiratsuyu finally acquires her own protocol like the rest of her sisters, called Alpha Protocol, which is responsible for [[spoiler:her newfound power to manipulate static potential in her enemies so that the electricity she now produces will always track them and electrocute them so long as they are within physical range of her.]]
* {{Shoutout}}: with her electricity, Shiratsuyu [[spoiler:can make herself a [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Covenant Energy Sword made of white plasma.]]]]
* TakeMeInstead: Shiratsuyu reveals in her Fleet Log that at one point, she confronted Badeau and asked to take Murasame's place, but got laughed off.
* ThisCannotBe: her initial reaction to her reactivation at the hands of the Charlotte faction forces and upon learning what has happened to the world over the past twenty years.
* WeaponOfChoice: wields the Modern Sub Machine Carbine, or the [[http://world.guns.ru/smg/india/msmc-e.html MSMC]], for much of the story.
!!Shigure
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: gets one from Damon in chapter 56, to her chagrin.
* AffectionateNickname: Sugar. She only wants to be called this by Damon when they're alone. But as of chapter 255, it's not exactly secret anymore.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:killed in action by the Re-Class during Operation Dualsight.]]
* BerserkButton: Being called Guncannon, but a more serious one is if someone [[BigBrotherInstinct insults or hurts (or tries to hurt) her sisters.]] As chapter 30 demonstrates, this is in context of her words just moments earlier, when she proclaims herself a ReluctantWarrior who doesn't want to kill...[[LudicrousGibs and then proceeds to murder all the soldiers attacking her and her sisters with Yuudachi's help.]]
* BestFriend: with Yuudachi, naturally. Her Fleet Log goes in depth into how the two of them first become a duo, about how Yuudachi, despite not having a historical reason to befriend Shigure other than their sistership in the same destroyer class, still spent lots of time with her and became her friend and eventually warmed Shigure up to her new life as a ship girl.
* BloodKnight: one of the most literal ones in the fleet thanks to her protocol, albeit not always a willing one.
* BulletCatch: taken UpToEleven in chapter 99 when she catches a 16-inch shell fired at her by Armored Carrier Demon and crushes it.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: [[spoiler:it's heavily implied in chapter 255 that Shigure has been in Damon's room using one of Damon's shirts to get herself off while Damon and part of the fleet are off at Cosco doing some shopping. Damon catches her red-handed when he goes up to his room to switch shirts and finds her trying to hide in his closet, with clear evidence that she's been quite...active.]]
* CryIntoChest: does this to Damon, though it's more [[CryIntoChest Cry Into Arm]] when she does it.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:when she is defeated and killed by the Re-Class in chapter 101, the Re-Class's tail bites into her body's midsection so hard that it tears her body into thirds, munching on the middle third of her body as the others sink immediately.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Her Guilt Protocol, when activated, gives her telekinetic abilities, lethal aggression in combat, and strong support abilities to aid her sisters. However, she makes it clear from very early in the story that she would much prefer not having a terrifying power like this...[[spoiler:though she is in the process of slowly accepting it as necessary, particularly against the stronger Abyssals like the Re-Class.]]
* TheCynic: she tends to have very, very dark thoughts and opinions on the topic of the ship girls' transitions into their new lives from their former ones as warships. She's also particularly angry with the project as a whole for taking her bad memories and opinions of the war and weaponizing them into a power that turns her even more into a monster that she never wanted to become.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:her Fleet Log reveals that Shigure doesn't feel bad at all when she sank at Cayo Romano, to the point where she was almost relieved that she died, since this breaks her usual wartime curse of always managing to survive almost all of the conflicts she was pitched in. Damon's recent death also hangs heavy in her mind in regards to this.]]
* DeflectorShields: gains one in the form of her Kai shield after receiving her Kai upgrade.
* {{Determinator}}: while her endurance rating isn't so great, her Will is at a staggering 90%.
* {{Fingore}}: does this to Armored Carrier Demon's Abyssal hands with her Guilt Protocol.
* {{Foil}}: to her sister Yuudachi. Both in-protocol and out, Shigure is a quieter, more pensive, introverted, and brooding girl who has lots of trouble coping with her feelings about being a ReluctantWarrior SuperSoldier with a SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** also one to Shiranui because Shigure doesn't want to deal with her own extremely negative emotions while Shiranui is the exact opposite.
* TheGlomp: gives one to Yuudachi while they're eating ice cream in chapter 277. [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2503316 Here's a reference.]]
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: spends quite a bit of her Fleet Log in chapter 109 lamenting this part of her identity and talking about how much she hates knowing that she's seen many of her comrades die.
* HiddenEvil: not Shigure herself, but [[spoiler:her Guilt Protocol. In her fleet log, much like Ayanami and her own Nightmare Protocol, she sees it as a sentient parasite that's actually growing on its own, following its own will. It hasn't done anything drastic on its own, so Shigure doesn't know if her own protocol's perceived sentience is supposed to be an entirely bad thing. This is why Shigure does want to master her control over her protocol, despite her initial opinions against it, since she doesn't know if it'll evolve into something truly sinister in the future.]]
* {{Homage}}: As stated in the main page, her BondOneLiner of [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1883834?tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 "Too bad for you"]] and her feat of [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1883838?tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 backhanding an enemy shell]] are both this to [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 gouta_(nagishiro6624)]]'s Shigure.
* IAmAMonster: explicitly has this mindset about her own protocol, as detailed in chapter 56. She goes so far as to call herself demonic and even just plain evil whenever she uses her protocol.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:killed by the Re-Class when the latter's tail plunges its sharp nose right through the center of her chest.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: fires a 12.7cm shell down one of the barrels of the Armored Carrier Demon to ignite the primer of the shot she's about to fire and detonate the round inside the gun.
* 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.
* JustFollowingOrders: used to justify to herself that [[spoiler:her contribution to driving in the final nail in Suzukaze's banishment from the fleet]] was the correct course of action...but Samidare's condition hits her conscience hard in this aspect.
* MindOverMatter: gets this as an added ability once her protocol gets triggered and best demonstrated in her fight with Yuudachi against [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] when they meet again at Cologne, in which she tears out old railroad spikes out from around her and uses them as a MacrossMissileMassacre against her opponent.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: in chapter 92, she delivers one to one of the Nashville soldiers [[spoiler:who executed an innocent family]] by [[VideoGame/{{GearsOfWar}} tearing off his right arm and beating him to death with it]].
* ThePowerOfBlood: Type AB. One of the abilities she gets as part of her Kai remodel, Blood Surge, involves Shigure infusing a fellow ship sister with protocol energy, [[FridgeHorror which carries the implication that those blood-colored swirls that she produces upon protocol activation aren't just colored that way.]] Upon receiving this infusion, her ship sister will have strengthened shields (if they are remodeled) and will be protected by the infusion in the form of blood tendrils that block attacks for them. She can also feed a fellow ship sister her own blood, losing hit points so that she can heal the drinker of her blood, but it must be noted that the drinker will also gain Insanity for doing so.
* PsychoticSmirk: gives one to Armored Carrier Demon as she utterly [[{{Pun}} destroys]] her.
* RainOfBlood: gets drenched in one when she makes Armored Carrier Demon's body explode with her protocol.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Yuudachi's red.
* 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.
** ReluctantPsycho: naturally, becomes this when her Guilt Protocol becomes active.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: her eyes switch from blue to blood-red when activating Guilt Protocol.
* RepressedMemories: naturally, being a victim of SurvivorGuilt, she has it quite rough with her wartime memories.
** The Battle of Vella Gulf is also a sore spot with Shigure, now that Kawakaze's around.
* {{Shoutout}}: a few to VideoGame/GuiltyGear, mainly [[spoiler:the moves she uses that are renamed attacks of Sol Badguy to fit Shigure's blood-themed attacks.]] Even the name of her protocol itself might be a shoutout.
* SoleSurvivor: heavily implied to be the driving factor for her Guilt Protocol, as evidenced by Shigure's discussion of her own protocol with Damon. This can be seen as the author's interpretation of her real-life counterpart's circumstances in respect to the story in the form of SurvivorGuilt taken [[UpToEleven to its extreme.]]
* StockKisses: gives one to Damon on his cheek at the end of chapter 185.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Yuudachi, naturally. Just as how they are popularly portrayed in fanworks together, so too do they fight and live together in the story.
* WarIsHell: Shigure explicitly hates war and everything that happens in it. It's because of this view that she doesn't agree with the concept of "veterans", that there are no veterans, only survivors.
* WeaponOfChoice: wields the TAR-21 bullpup assault rifle, or the [[http://world.guns.ru/assault/isr/tavor-tar-21-e.html IWI Tavor]] for the first half of the story, then uses a Colt M-4 Carbine after losing her Tavor at Operation Dualsight for the latter half of the story. [[spoiler:Until they run into !Samidare.]]
!!Murasame
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: this time, definitely due to her ordeal as a prisoner ship girl of the Charlotte faction. She is now no longer a BoisterousBruiser and a MotorMouth and is a much more down-to-earth girl who takes her role as a ship girl in Damon's fleet very seriously. In addition, she confides to Damon that like her older sister Shigure, she doesn't want to have to kill people, because she feels she was built to protect them, not to hurt them. [[spoiler:But just like Shigure, this doesn't stop her from becoming absolutely ruthless against those she views as a threat.]]
* AnchorsAway: [[spoiler:gains one from [[HyperspaceArsenal somewhere]] in conjunction with her Desire Protocol activation. She's able to use it at will whenever she activates her protocol afterwards, as their fight against !Samidare demonstrates.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: implied. [[spoiler:The events of the Charlotte operation reveal that Kerrigan Badeau has been forcing Murasame to load a corrupted navitasium cube that contains Abyssal energy during Murasame's period of disabled captivity. In addition, when Damon carries her out of the room in which she's been held captive, Murasame's eyes begin to emit hazes just like an Abyssal's. Then comes the InterruptedSuicide, and then her protocol...]]
* {{BFS}}: gains one in the form of a giant anchor that's as tall as herself. [[HyperspaceArsenal No one knows where she quite pulls it out from.]]
* BuxomIsBetter: isn't afraid to tease this to Damon at several points in their interactions. She's also implied to be the most buxom of the Shiratsuyu-Class, going off Umikaze's comment about being the only one to compete with her in this regard in chapter 184.
* CastFromHitPoints: [[spoiler:The anchor she gains with the activation of her Desire Protocol is revealed to be made out of the remains of her arms.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:during the fight against the Abyssals at Cologne, when Murasame activates her protocol for the first time, she gets [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a huge anchor that's nearly taller than herself]] and (presumably) uses it to kill her enemies and halt the fight between the Re-Class and Shigure and Yuudachi...after having both of her arms get ripped off from the elbows down. Granted, she was revived by Samidare's Brightwater Protocol, but still.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: averted, compared to her ingame self, since all ship girls in this story are programmed to speak fluent English.
* 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.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: has one in [[spoiler:chapter 96 by turning off her ship mode and drowning herself after being DrivenToSuicide following Damon's death, but Sanford and her sisters save her just in time.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler:with her interaction with Damon's YRC, Murasame can now morph her anchor into a demonic katana.]]
* KissDiss: inverted; when Murasame asks for an apology kiss from Damon on her cheek in chapter 83, Damon flips it on her instead and gives her a quick one right on the lips.
* LongRangeFighter: invokes this when she gains possession of Damon's old MK-14, as she then becomes the only one in her destroyer class to use a dedicated long-range rifle as opposed to the submachine guns and assault rifles her sisters use.
* MightyGlacier: this with Umikaze, though Murasame has one less defense point. Even still, she truly becomes this [[spoiler:when her Desire Protocol is activated,]] which gives her an additional 5 points in defense for its duration.
* NeverMyFault: she considers herself faultless in the incident that ended up getting Suzukaze banished from the fleet, instead putting all the blame on Kisaragi for being the instigator of the incident. Kisaragi even tries apologizing to her after realizing her mistakes, but Murasame doesn't even accept them (or at least accepts them only begrudgingly). Subverted much later on in the story when Damon is revealed to be resurrected, and only then does Murasame start feeling remorse for this incident when she's compelled to tell Damon the details about the incident.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: turns very, very cold towards Kisaragi for the incident that happens among them and Suzukaze.
* PreMortemOneLiner: delivers the most straightforward kind to the Abyssal who [[spoiler:tore off her arms]]:
--> Murasame: [[spoiler:"I'm going to murder you."]]
* ReluctantWarrior: just like Shigure, she makes it clear to Damon that she doesn't like the idea of killing people as her job, but hurt any of her sisters, and you can expect a huge anchor flying at you in due time.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:When she morphs her anchor into a katana for her spar against Satsuki, she calls her sword [[VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade "Demon Blade Murasame"]], and her preceding words of "Let the rain fall" are themselves a reference to the fictional rain-summoning Murasame blade from the Japanese novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden.]]
** [[spoiler:Her Passing Shower attack is reminiscent of VideoGame/{{Touhou}} spellcard attacks.]]
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: is this significantly more than her sisters due to the extreme clash of personalities that occurs [[spoiler:when Murasame's Desire Protocol is triggered for the first time.]]
--> Murasame: [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho "I'm going to murder you...]][[KillEmAll just like how I murdered the others..."]]]]
* TakeUpMySword: after a bout with fellow destroyer Kisaragi, Murasame ends up with possession of Damon's [[WeaponOfChoice marksman rifle]].
* TakingYouWithMe: is subjected to this by an enemy Abyssal at the end of Operation Dualsight but is saved just in time by [[spoiler:Jeannie]].
* TheTease: in chapter 184, Murasame asks if Damon wants to join them in the showers after a long afternoon of training.
* TookALevelInBadass: compared to her ingame self, anyway. Once she joins Damon's fleet, she fights as his personal escort during the Orlando operation after she, Shoukaku, and Kaga, all of whom have been [[spoiler:Abyssalized]] to some degree, [[InASingleBound jump up to the container freighter]] on which Damon is fighting [[UpToEleven from sea level]]. Happens again when she [[spoiler:activates her Desire Protocol.]]
* UngratefulBastard: rebukes Suzukaze for attacking Kisaragi even though Suzukaze was the one who came to her aid during their quarrel and ultimately causes Suzukaze to ditch the fleet with a DisappointedInYou hammer.
* {{Yandere}}: definitely shows tendencies of this considering the nature of her conflict with Kisaragi. Her entry in the stat sheet also has shades of this, going off the descriptions of her [[spoiler:Desire Protocol.]] Hell, even the name of her protocol suggests this!
* YouAreNotAlone: in her Fleet Log, she recounts one memory from before the bombs fell, when her developers drove her to the monument that people had built for her and her crew, which made her cry upon seeing it, realizing that there were people who wanted to preserve her memory and the men who served aboard her in the war.
!!Yuudachi
* AccidentalTruth: while they're just casually talking, she inadvertently suggests that "Sugar" might be a good English nickname for Shigure...which turns out to be exactly the nickname that Damon uses when he and Shigure are alone.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: loves getting head pats and head rubs from Damon.
* AnimalMotifs: By far the most hound-like of the Shiratsuyu-Class in overall behavior and displays a great liking towards being petted, particularly by Damon. Even the narration of the story heavily describes her as such.
* AttackAttackAttack: Yuudachi really doesn't care if she's missing an eye or an arm or who her enemy is, [[{{Determinator}} she's still going to rip your throat out or die trying.]]
* BadassBoast: delivers one to [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] at Cologne:
--> Yuudachi: "Yeah? 'Cause when we're done with you, they won't find anythin' left to bury at all, poi..."
* BeachEpisode: she calls for one in chapter 184, though Damon points out that their base at MAPS is already on a beach.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Off-duty, when she's just hanging out with friends, she's usually quite cheerful and friendly. Add Damon into the mix, and she'll be all over him asking for doughnuts and head rubs. But once she's ordered to sortie, she can become anyone's worst [[{{Pun}} Nightmare]].
* CurbStompCushion: manages to keep her and Shigure's fight with the Re-Class from becoming a total curb-stomp by breaking the Abyssal's ribs with one of her attacks.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Nightmare Protocol, normally just a SuperMode, becomes this if she keeps it on for too long, as reinforced in her entry in the stat sheet.
* DeflectorShields: gains one in the form of her Kai shield after receiving her Kai upgrade.
* DumbMuscle: implied and subverted. If you look at her stats as listed on the stat sheet, Yuudachi by far has the lowest rating in Intelligence among her sisters in the Shiratsuyu-Class at 3, while technically being one of the strongest in her class with an attack rating of 9, matched only by Kawakaze. Subverted because the stat sheet specifically mentions that stats listed for ship girls are still tiers above those given for humans, so Yuudachi having a low intelligence rating compared to everyone else doesn't mean she's dumb by any means. In fact, when you consider her behavior and attitude in the story, [[FridgeLogic perhaps having a lower intelligence rating instead means that she is able to think in much more simpler terms and avoid the mental problems that her sisters have and are plagued by.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The Re-Class butchers Yuudachi's right eye at Cologne,]] but Yuudachi herself [[{{Irony}} isn't the one doing the screaming]].
* ImAHumanitarian: does this to [[spoiler:the Re-Class after she [[ManBitesMan rips out the radius and ulna]] of the Abyssal battleship with her teeth, then proceeds to begin chomping on them.]]
--> Yuudachi: [[spoiler:"They do say bone marrow is healthy for you, poi...plus, it tastes good..."]]
* InSeriesNickname: Yuuie.
* {{Foil}}: to her sister Shigure. Both in-protocol and out, Yuudachi is a more upbeat, cheerful, extroverted, and expressive girl and is very honest with her own feelings, easily able to accept and embrace her identity as an AxCrazy SuperSoldier BloodKnight.
* LaughingMad: does this whenever she pops her protocol and gets into the thick of the fight.
* LifeDrain: a twist on the trope: Yuudachi's Nightmare Protocol has a passive ability, Kill-Happy, that, while it instantly adds 25% insanity, allows Yuudachi to restore 1% fatigue per human kill and 10% per Abyssal kill.
%%* LightningBruiser: ''the'' LightningBruiser of the Shiratsuyu-Class, as befits the most houndlike destroyer of the Shiratsuyu-Class. Not only does she start with a 9 in attack and 8 in speed, but when her Nightmare Protocol is active, she gains an additional +2 for each stat. Her Warhound active ability that she gains with her Kai remodel takes this UpToEleven by giving her another whopping +10 to both attack and speed against one enemy.
* TheOnlyOne: as revealed in Mutsuki's Fleet Log, Yuudachi was the only one who continued to interact with the Mutsuki-Class following the fight between Murasame and Kisaragi.
* OnlySaneMan: surprisingly so, despite her obvious BloodKnight and AxCrazy behavior during combat (also surprising compared to most other fan depictions of her). But if you consider her circumstances, she's the only one who comfortably embraces the insane powers her protocol gives her, has not suffered the psychological trauma that some of her other sisters have, and oftentimes is the one who talks sense into her other sisters. In addition, she can even return to her senses whenever she feels is appropriate, even in the heat of her protocol, as opposed to her sisters, who show much more difficulty regaining composure if their own protocols are in use. Makes you wonder just how bad her sisters must have it if Yuudachi of all people in the Shiratsuyu-Class is supposed to be this.
* 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.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: her eyes switch from green to bright red when activating Nightmare Protocol.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Shigure's blue.
* RunningGag: a small one, but the narration sometimes refers to her or her actions as "the power of the Poi".
* ShoutOut: Yuudachi's SweetTooth tendencies and her love for doughnuts is one to [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=yume_no_owari yume no owari's]] Yuudachi, who loves to play and [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1399466 eat doughnuts.]]
** [[spoiler:her Deja Vu ability is one to that of Bedman from VideoGame/GuiltyGear.]]
* SuperMode: the straightest example among the Shiratsuyu-Class, as Yuudachi's Nightmare Protocol only [[SimpleYetAwesome increases her aggression in battle]], as opposed to the other crazy powers that her sisters get when their respective protocols are active. Which may make you wonder...if all her protocol is ever doing when Yuudachi uses it is change how aggressive she is in combat, then [[FridgeHorror what if she's just this strong normally?]]
* UpToEleven: in the game and among fanworks, she's already quite well known for her title as "The Nightmare of Solomon". In this story, this title gets weaponized as a protocol that turns her into a warhound set on [[KillEmAll killing everything]]. Even her entry in the stat sheet specifically has an ability called "Warhound" that is available for her to use once her protocol is activated.
* VerbalTic: while also prominent in the game, she takes it one step further in the story by even saying "poi" constantly in English, unlike most Western translations of her lines that simply translate the tic to its English equivalent, "like".
* WeaponOfChoice: uses several over the course of her service with the Combined Fleet, but two that come to mind are the [[http://www.gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/Remington-870-MCS-3.jpg Remington 870 MCS]] and the [[http://www.heckler-koch.com/en/products/military/assault-rifles/g36/g36c/overview.html G36-C]].
* WhatTheHellHero: has to give one to Shigure in chapter 92.
* TheWorfEffect: interestingly, she inflicts this back onto [[spoiler:the Re-Class, who first inflicted this trope onto her and Shigure back at Cayo Romano,]] when they fight her again at Cologne. It gets to the point where even [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] is reduced to screaming in terror.
--> [[spoiler:Re-Class]]: "GET OFF ME! GET OFF ME, GET THE FUCK OFF MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
!!Harusame
* HealingHands: her Spring Protocol is shown numbing Damon's senses to allow her sisters to heal the burns on his arms [[spoiler:that he gets when Kagerou accidentally triggers her Heat Wave right in front of him]].
* InSeriesNickname: Haley. Even Suzukaze likes it so much that she's been calling her this too.
* TheMedic: her "Battlefield Angel" passive ability reinforces this, as she grants better healing rates for those whose wounds she helps treat. In addition, bizarre as it is, her hair is a source of healing as well. See VisualPun.
** Now that her Spring Protocol is effectively a healing power, Harusame is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* OntologicalMystery: [[spoiler:Why Harusame was found in Germany of all places, cooped up inside the Metal Slug, is a total mystery.]]
* ReluctantWarrior: does not like fighting, a sentiment shared by many of her sisters. Apparently, Harusame has a worse case of this than others, because the stat sheet specifically lists one of her passive abilities as "{{Pacifist}}", which penalizes her for killing a human being or wounding one too grievously.
* TheSmartGuy: implied with her intelligence rating among her class, which is the highest at 9.
* VisualPun: for some odd reason, Harusame's entry in the stat sheet states that her hair is actually edible and can be fed to wounded ship girls to heal them. This is due to a {{Pun}} on her name, which is also a food, known as vermicelli noodles in English. Thankfully, no one's had to go and eat Harusame's hair yet in the story, but the stat sheet [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential warns you not to make her go bald unless it's an emergency.]]
!!Samidare
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: goes through a brief one [[spoiler:when she breaks out of Suzukaze's prison in Houston.]]
* {{Birdcaged}}: is subjected to this by [[spoiler:Suzukaze, when the latter traps her inside of Houston and entombs her inside a strange glass-like prison.]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: borrows Inazuma's signature "Hawawawa" in chapter 282, resulting in Inazuma having a brief SneezeCut.
* {{Dojikko}}: just like ingame, she has her moments in this story as well - she usually winds up eating the dirt as she trips over her own feet or something along this nature, such as in chapter 185 and 251.
* EmbodimentOfVirtue: given the SiblingYinYang between her and Suzukaze, Samidare truly does seem like this.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: not a permanent one, but [[spoiler:her hair grows hair flaps that look suspiciously like the ones that Shigure and Yuudachi get when they receive their second remodels in the game.]]
* FacePlant: what she ends up doing whenever her {{Dojikko}} tendencies kick in. It either hurts her nose or her pride.
* HealingHands: is shown healing Damon's burns with her Brightwater Protocol. [[spoiler:This is significant because she's tried healing his earlier wounds with her protocol, but with mixed results; now, with his YRC, she's able to heal human wounds flawlessly.]]
* HiddenDepths: her Brightwater Protocol. Normally, it should only be capable of defensive, mainly healing, properties, as demonstrated on both Murasame and Damon (though it doesn't really go well for Damon). [[spoiler:But when Suzukaze traps her in Houston and tries to convert her to follow her new ideologies, Samidare not only reveals that she's more than willing to stop Suzukaze by force, but her protocol also seems to adopt the same mindset and is used offensively.]]
* HolyHalo: [[spoiler:gains one during her fight against Suzukaze. She even uses it [[UtilityWeapon as a weapon.]]]]
* 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.
* InSeriesNickname: Damon shortens her name to Sam. Even Suzukaze winds up calling Samidare this in English, though Suzukaze won't admit it's because of Damon that she's doing so.
* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:when she uses her protocol to revive the horribly wounded Murasame, Samidare's heads-up display is invaded by a torrent of X's, Y's, and Z's.]]
* KickChick: When she and Suzukaze [[spoiler:fight at Houston,]] she notably only uses kicks to fight as melee attacks.
* MakingASplash: Samidare's innate ability, Water Will, allows her to manipulate water directly, but only for purely defensive maneuvers.
* TheMedic: can be considered this due to the nature of her Brightwater Protocol, which is the only protocol of the Shiratsuyu-Class that is apparently incapable of being used offensively. And just like Harusame, Samidare's "Battlefield Angel" passive ability also reinforces this, as she grants better healing rates for those whose wounds she helps treat.
** Now that her Brightwater Protocol can properly heal human wounds, Samidare is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:almost a literal example. Samidare briefly gains the profile of an angel in order to defeat Suzukaze and return her to normal.]]
* OrbitalBombardment: [[spoiler:what her Six Black Heavens' Guns attack comes down to.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: an orbital attack that flattens and vaporizes an entire city while leaving almost nothing behind? Samidare has definitely become this.]]
* PhlebotinumRebel: becomes one against Suzukaze in Houston.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Suzukaze's red.
* ReluctantWarrior: does not like fighting, a sentiment shared by many of her sisters. Apparently, Samidare, like Harusame, has a worse case of this than others, because the stat sheet specifically lists one of her passive abilities as "{{Pacifist}}", which penalizes her for killing a human being or wounding one too grievously.
* RepressedMemories: due to her historic relationship with Yuubari, the light cruiser. While in the game and in fanworks this is explored, in the story the stat sheet cements this by inflicting accumulating penalties to Samidare if she deploys without Yuubari.
* {{Shoutout}}: several aspects of her [[spoiler:angel form. The spiked halo that she acquires when she first emerges from her cell is reminiscent of Jack-O's spiked halo from VideoGame/GuiltyGear, as is her orbital attack, which is also named after one of the vocals from the Guilty Gear Xrd Sign soundtrack of the same name, Six Black Heavens' Guns, and the Blue Keys that she steals from Suzukaze are based off the Black Keys that Ciel uses from VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}.]]
** in chapter 218, Samidare's request to Damon to call him 'Daddy' is a subtle one to a Samidare doujin titled [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/11319 "Ame Nochi Musume"]] by watarai keiji.
* SiblingYinYang: to Suzukaze in a hodgepodge of respects, other than the apparent personality foils. Samidare begins with a neutral opinion of Damon that slowly improves over time, with a sharp boost after [[spoiler:Damon picks her and Suzukaze up from Houston]]; her protocol focuses on healing others rather than killing (even the names of their protocols are directly opposite); Samidare's travels while [[spoiler:Suzukaze is kicked out of the fleet]] have her mend the worsening relationships she's been having with her sisters up to that point; [[spoiler:she becomes a benevolent (or at least doesn't harbor malicious intent) angel at Houston]]; even the weapons they decide to use also applies, as Samidare is an assault rifle user fighting at mid- to longer ranges with her AR-15.
* StarterEquipment: averted from the game - Damon finds her in chapter 28, though she does have the distinction of being the second starter ship girl from the game whom Damon comes across.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:restrains her sister while her own OrbitalBombardment attack blows the two of them up.]]
* ThemeNaming: Every single Shiratsuyu-Class (except the unintroduced Yamakaze) starting with Samidare down has a protocol that ends in "water". Samidare's is called Brightwater Protocol.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Suzukaze. The story takes their relationship one step further, as in her fleet log, Samidare believes that the CustomUniform that she and Suzukaze share is part of the reason why she feels she and her sister were being distanced away from the rest of their sisters.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a red-dot AR-15 for much of the story, for even longer than Shiratsuyu has held onto her MSMC. Damon also gives her a Type 38 Arisaka [[spoiler:given to them by Mr. Harrison, but she doesn't get to keep it for long.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: gives one to Suzukaze in chapter 214 when they talk about Damon.
* TheWorfEffect: seems to inflict this onto Suzukaze [[spoiler:when for all the chaotic horror that Suzukaze pulls off with her rampant Darkwater Protocol, such as turning Houston into a case of RealityIsOutToLunch, Samidare, once broken free, proceeds to hack and utterly dismantle Suzukaze's reality marble over the city by annihilating the entire Houston metropolitan area.]]
!!Umikaze
* AnIcePerson: her protocol allows her to decrease the temperature of whatever she touches or the air in her immediate vicinity. According to her entry in the stat sheet, she can also generate actual ice as well, through her Stasis Cell and Icewalk abilities.
* CombatMedic: also according to her entry in the stat sheet, she's capable of healing other ship girls using her Icewater Protocol. Is this more so than Samidare because her protocol isn't restricted only to healing people; in fact, Umikaze is seen more times attacking with it than healing.
** Now that her Icewater Protocol has gotten even better at healing through Damon's YRC, Umikaze is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:was well on her way before Damon rescues her and Kawakaze. Damon manages to convince her out of it.]]
* ElementalHair: snowy white hair to match her Icewater Protocol.
* TheGlomp: delivers one to her twin sister Kawakaze after the latter [[spoiler:flutters down from the roof of Damon's house in New Chicago with her new wings.]] Kawakaze's forced to let her curl up in them.
* HealingHands: As a result of her Icewater Protocol, which she uses to treat Damon's burns on his arms in chapter 267.
* IndirectKiss: the narration doesn't explicitly mention or suggest it, but she asks to have a sip of Damon's energy drink in chapter 184. Damon almost overlooks Umikaze's intention, but he gives her a sip knowingly anyway.
* InSeriesNickname: Yumi.
* MightyGlacier: fittingly so compared to the rest of her sisters. According to the stat sheet, she might not be the hardest-hitting or even the slowest (Murasame technically has lower speed than her), but Umikaze has the highest defense rating among her sisters at 9.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:suffers this at the hands of the Inner Circle agents in their base in Mexico, and was nearly DrivenToSuicide as a result.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Kawakaze's red. Even ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* {{Shoutout}}: one of her attacks against [[spoiler:!Samidare]] is one to Nash's Tragedy Assault from VideoGame/StreetFighterV.
* SiblingYinYang: to Kawakaze. Umikaze is a calmer, more polite and courteous girl whose powers revolve around ice and cold.
* TheTease: like Murasame, though she's more straightforward with it. She even outright declares that she's the only one among her sisters who can compete with Murasame in terms of [[UnusualEuphemism upper hull armor]].
* ThemeNaming: Icewater Protocol.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Kawakaze. They even get their own mini-arc in the story with Damon. [[spoiler:It's not as [[{{Understatement}} innocent]] as it sounds.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: while not necessarily a true "girlfriend" of Damon, both she and Kawakaze will still fiercely protect him, as their brief conflict with the Re-Class following their emergency repairs demonstrates.
!!Kawakaze
* AbnormalAmmo: invokes this when her protocol is activated, and all of her own munitions, both cannon shells and bullets alike, turn incendiary for the duration that her protocol is active.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:compared to her sister Umikaze. When Damon finds her and Umikaze at the Inner Circle base in Mexico, he finds Kawakaze still barely hanging in there after at least weeks of torture and rape when Umikaze is already well on her way off the deep end. She also recovers more quickly than Umikaze does.]] In addition, one of her passive abilities listed in the stat sheet gives her strong combat bonuses if she is fighting while outnumbered or is dueling against another enemy that is a stronger ship type than herself.
* ElementalHair: bright red hair to match her Firewater Protocol.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: insists that Damon attend to her sister Umikaze more than herself [[spoiler:because she knows that Umikaze is in worse of a condition than she is after they get rescued]].
* {{Hellfire}}: funnily enough, it's the name of one of the abilities that she can use while in protocol, which allows her to fire a special cannon round into the air and [[DeathFromAbove rain hellfire down in nine separate flaming meteors]] onto the battlefield.
* HotWings: [[spoiler:gains a pair through Damon's YRC power - and to many of the other ship girls' amazement, she really can fly with them.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Kira, though Damon surprisingly doesn't have a problem pronouncing Kawakaze's full name to begin with, so he uses both names interchangeably.
%%* LightningBruiser: while not to the extent that Yuudachi is, she still qualifies with a 9 in attack and 7 in speed.
* PlayingWithFire: due to her Firewater Protocol, she's able to generate and manipulate fire freely and use it either as elemental upgrades for her melee attacks via ElementalPunch or as a ranged attack by themselves.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:suffers this at the hands of the Inner Circle agents in their base in Mexico, although she handles it slightly better than Umikaze.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Umikaze's blue. Even ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:in chapter 261, with Damon's YRC help, Kawakaze gains many of Shana's powers like [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana flaming ember hair, flaming eyes, and flaming wings.]]]]
* SiblingYinYang: to Umikaze. Kawakaze is a HotBlooded, fiery BoisterousBruiser whose powers revolve around fire, fire, and [[FieryRedhead more fire.]]
* ThemeNaming: Firewater Protocol. [[{{Irony}} Wait a minute...]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Umikaze. They even get their own mini-arc in the story with Damon. [[spoiler:It's not as [[{{Understatement}} innocent]] as it sounds.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: while not necessarily a true "girlfriend" of Damon, both she and Umikaze will still fiercely protect him, as their brief conflict with the Re-Class following their emergency repairs demonstrates.
!!Suzukaze
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: her attitude gets steadily worse and worse over the course of the story, mainly towards Damon but even towards her sister Samidare, with whom she's normally the closest out of all her sisters in the Shiratsuyu-Class.
* BackForTheDead: chapter 164 opens with a depiction of her [[spoiler:getting consumed by the flames of her own Darkwater Protocol.]]
* BackstabBackfire: inflicts this onto a couple of Quakers in chapter 130.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: she herself admits that she's not the most emotionally sensitive or aware, but if she sees that her sisters are in trouble and need her help, she'll come in with all guns blazing, and she is adamant that she be able to do this because it's what she knows how to do best.
* BerserkButton: like that of her other sisters, she will come to the aid of her sisters no matter what the circumstance. [[spoiler:Though, this does end up biting her in the ass when it comes to the incident between Murasame and Kisaragi.]]
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: [[spoiler:once everyone is dead in Philadelphia, at the end of it all, Suzukaze is depicted covered head to toe in blood from all of the victims her Darkwater Protocol has claimed.]]
* BullyingADragon: does this [[spoiler:to her own sister Samidare when she separates her from the rest of the Shiratsuyu-Class in Houston and cages her in a glass-like stasis cell. Once Samidare is broken free, Suzukaze learns that for as much of a dragon she herself has become, her own sister is an even bigger one.]]
* CameBackWrong: chapter 187 reveals [[spoiler:the extent of the change that Suzukaze has gone through after being consumed by her Darkwater Protocol.]]
* CatScare: has one in chapter 111, when a falling brick scares her as she's walking through the abandoned Atlantic City.
* CurbStompBattle: what ends up happening when [[spoiler:Damon tries to go up against her in Houston.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:gets a triple-whammy: first when the Federal soldiers in Atlantic City kill Tatsuya and burn down the house that Miyuki is staying in, second when the Shakers chase her out for "healing" Celsie, and third when the Shakers are massacred. See TraumaCongaLine on the main page.]]
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: an unusual twist: she unknowingly sets her own internal monologue on open broadcast, so while she doesn't actually say anything aloud, Shigure, who walks up behind her, hears everything over vicinity comms.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:while under the influence of her rampant protocol, she proclaims that she wants nothing more than to force the rest of the world to feel her pain that she suffered while going on her TraumaCongaLine, though Damon confronts her and tells her that [[MisplacedRetribution the person she ought to take revenge against, if anyone, is Sanford.]]]]
* DissonantSerenity: Gains this in chapter 121 [[spoiler:when her Darkwater Protocol activates for the first time.]]
* DumbMuscle: becomes this when she activates her Darkwater Protocol, which grants her a colossal +10 attack but reduces both her intelligence and speed by 5.
* EmbodimentOfVice: given her SiblingYinYang with Samidare, Suzukaze truly does seem like this.
* EtTuBrute: she realizes that if Murasame wasn't the one who dropped the DisappointedInYou hammer on her from the incident between Murasame and Kisaragi, she wouldn't have taken it anywhere near as badly.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: opts for a ponytail instead of her usual low twintails while spending time at [[spoiler:Philadelphia]] [[spoiler:In addition, just like Samidare, she gains hair flaps during her transformation at Houston while fighting against her.]]
* GraveMarkingScene: [[spoiler:in chapter 143, once she's done killing everybody, Suzukaze buries the bodies of Barry, Baxster, and Celsie out at the field next to the pub and marks it with her pair of emerald bobbles.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:implied with such attacks as her Gravity Spikes and now her more recently acquired Gravity Hammer, although Suzukaze's yet to manipulate gravity itself.]]
* GravityIsPurple: averted. [[spoiler:Suzukaze's protocol energy is black.]]
* HealingHands: appears to have this when she uses her Colossus Reactor to heal a wounded girl in Philadelphia, [[spoiler:but it turns out she gets incredibly sick with Darkwater radiation. Later events confirm that her "healing hands" are only meant for other ship girls and not necessarily for humans.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: She's compelled to eliminate all Quakers when rescuing Baxter from the hold of the New Jersey. This leads to the events of KillEmAll below.
* {{Hellfire}}: [[spoiler:what her protocol flames are implied to be, especially in light of the SiblingYinYang that Suzukaze and Samidare share.]]
* HolyHalo: [[spoiler:gains one during her fight against Samidare...[[LightIsNotGood but it's anything but holy.]]]]
* InASingleBound: She, too, jumps up from the Delaware River onto the deck of the New Jersey while in the process of rescuing Baxter.
* InSeriesNickname: Damon shortens her name to Suzy, and so far, Suzukaze doesn't seem to mind at all. Surprising, given that most other ship girls who don't really like Damon and who are called nicknames by him all hate the fact that he doesn't call them by their full Japanese names.
* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:at multiple intervals throughout her mini-arc, if she suffers a severe blow to her psyche, her heads-up display will start flooding with X's, Y's, and Z's. [[FridgeHorror Doesn't that sound familiar...]]]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:during her mini-arc, the survivors she stays with for a time in Philadelphia, the Shakers, are attacked and wiped out by their rival faction, the Quakers. Suzukaze is in the Quaker camp when this happens, trying to figure out if there is another ship girl, which there isn't, and when the Quakers return with Barry's head on a stake, [[LimpAndLivid this is the result.]]]]
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:what she's now able to do as a result of her Darkwater Protocol. Her entry in the stat sheet explicitly states that she can instantly kill any human being like this while in protocol because she's tearing the water molecules in her victims' bodies apart, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath causing them to implode.]] She demonstrates this quite...liberally at times.]]
* MakingASplash: Suzukaze's innate ability, Water Cascade, allows her to manipulate water directly to attack. Synergizes well with Samidare's innate ability, as demonstrated in chapter 64, when Samidare creates a large wall of ocean water that Suzukaze throws forward like a tidal wave.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: delivers one to an enemy in chapter 133 when he ambushes her in the darkness of the hold of the New Jersey with a metal baseball bat.
* NotTheIntendedUse: receives the Colossus Reactor from [[spoiler:U.S.S. New Jersey]], an augmentation that's meant for battleships.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:after Philadelphia, slowly turns into one until she reaches Houston.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: her mini-arc, called Suzukaze's Voyage in the story chapters, deviates from the story's usual grimdark action-adventure and begins teetering into horror territory.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:what the powers that her Darkwater Protocol grant eventually turn into. Even the energy swirls that Suzukaze produces as a result of triggering her protocol are described as viscous black flames.]]
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: gives one of these to Shigure.
* 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Samidare's blue.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:delivers one to the Federal soldiers who kill her friends Miyuki and Tatsuya at Atlantic City, the trigger necessary for her Darkwater Protocol activation.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: pulls this off after getting told off by Murasame, contributing greatly to her own banishment from the fleet.
* SiblingYinYang: to Samidare in a hodgepodge of respects, other than the apparent personality foils. Suzukaze begins with a slightly favorable opinion of Damon that quickly worsens over time (though, past [[spoiler:Houston]], it's not entirely clear if Suzukaze is becoming a {{Tsundere}} for him); her protocol is entirely about killing people in the goriest ways possible (even the names of their protocols are directly opposite); Suzukaze suffers a TraumaCongaLine during her own mini-arc called "Suzukaze's Voyage" while Samidare is in Germany with the rest of the fleet; [[spoiler:she becomes a thoroughly malevolent entity at Houston]]; even the weapons they decide to use also applies, as Suzukaze most often uses close-range weapons like the AA-12 automatic shotgun.
* {{Shoutout}}: with [[spoiler:Damon's YRC, Suzukaze can wield the Gravity Hammer from VideoGame/Halo3.]]
* SoftWater: averts this in chapter 121 [[spoiler:when she uses her Water Cascade ability to drop a waterfall down onto the Federal soldiers who killed Tatsuya and Miyuki and kills most of them with it.]]
* ThemeNaming: Darkwater Protocol. [[spoiler:Given how much and how drastically it's developed over the course of the story, Suzukaze's protocol could debatably be the most powerful protocol among the Shiratsuyu-Class.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Samidare. For a brief period of time, [[spoiler:Samidare and Suzukaze are the only two ship girls Damon has, much like how Umikaze and Kawakaze were before them.]]
* {{Unperson}}: is treated like one by Sanford following her banishment from the fleet.
* WeaponOfChoice: uses the AA-12 automatic shotgun for much of the early parts of the story with her introduction.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: it's clear that [[spoiler:by the time Damon revisits Houston and confronts Suzukaze, she's wholly changed due to the rampancy of her protocol.]]
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[[folder:Mutsuki-Class]]
* CantCatchUp: an issue of concern among the Mutsuki-Class destroyers is their historic inferiority to more modern destroyers like the Fubuki-Class and the Shiratsuyu-Class; this is a pet peeve of Mutsuki's and Kikuzuki's, and Kisaragi is very concerned about this as well (really only Satsuki doesn't seem to care). This is reflected in the stat sheet, where all Mutsuki-Class destroyers generally have noticeably lower-than-average stats, armor points, hit points, and maximum level caps.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[spoiler:as of chapter 262, with the help of Damon's YRC, the Mutsuki-Class all sport white crescent moon outlines in their eyes.]]
** [[spoiler:and with the revelation in chapter 263 that Kikuzuki's eyes may be more than just a cosmetic change, since the story doesn't make any clear distinctions between each of the Mutsuki-Class's eyes, there may be a chance that the rest of the Mutsuki-Class also possess the abilities granted by Kikuzuki's eyes.]]
*** [[spoiler:confirmed in chapter 274, when Satsuki herself uses her crescent moon eyes to slow time to be able to cut down all of Murasame's energy bullets with impossible speed.]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Mutsuki-Class members have access to defensive support abilities that focus on keeping other allies alive and prolong their fighting in battle.
** Several of the Mutsuki-Class' class abilities are taken straight from Sengoku Rance.
!!Mutsuki
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:during Operation Atlanta, Mutsuki gets heavily damaged when an enemy Javelin missile detonates practically on top of her and rips both of her legs off.]]
* BigLittleSister: reinforced from her anime rendition, but Mutsuki herself explicitly recognizes this in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, when she acknowledges that her sister Kisaragi can fill that big sister archetype much better than she can.
* CoolBigSis: being the lead destroyer of her class, Mutsuki has a passive ability because of it that allows her to grant passive stat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them in combat.
* DespairEventHorizon: as discussed in her Fleet Log, she goes through a small and brief one during Operation Atlanta, when she's compelled to shoot and kill an enemy who's about to shoot Satsuki and laments her decision to do this to herself, wondering if killing the man was absolutely necessary.
* DoesntLikeGuns: started out this way at first, according to her Fleet Log, in that she didn't like the idea of ship girls like herself being used as augmented infantry, and, like Ushio, didn't like the idea of using a gun to shoot and kill people. However, the first major operation that had her see heavy combat action, Operation Atlanta, quickly changed her mind on this matter, and now she believes that if she does not fight, no matter what the method of fighting she must partake, something may happen to her or her sisters as a direct result.
* HiddenDepths: part of the reason why Mutsuki fights as a ship girl is because of her historical awareness about herself and her ship class, about how she and the rest of the Mutsuki-Class were outdated warships by the time of the second World War, and in light of this, she wants to fight to prove to herself and to everyone else who cares to see that she and her sisters are just as effective at fighting and being dutiful, effective ship girls as any other. It's to the point where her Fleet Log even mentions that Mutsuki's pet peeve is more technologically advanced destroyers, namely the Fubuki-Class or the Shiratsuyu-Class, but she seems to be able to control this pet peeve quite well if that's truly the case.
* GenkiGirl: she's portrayed in this story closer to her ingame rendition than her anime rendition. However, while she's certainly energetic, cheerful, and playful for the most part, she's not exactly a MotorMouth like she is ingame.
* GreenEyedMonster: her Fleet Log states that Mutsuki pouts a little every time she sees Yuudachi get a pat or a head rub from Damon, but since apparently they're best buddies, she doesn't mind that much.
* MercyKill: in chapter 145, she ends the suffering of a fatally wounded NDP soldier. When Kikuzuki asks her why she did this, Mutsuki replies that the man's expression reminded her of the time when Damon did the same for one of the irradiated foxes that attacked them during Operation Nashville.
* MorphWeapon: [[spoiler:Mutsuki's scythe, which has three forms: its default scythe mode, a staff mode, and a sniper mode.]]
* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: underneath Mutsuki's Type 69 Yuri-dar ability in her entry in the stat sheet, the narration goes as follows:
--> -this passive ability does absolutely nothing useful, so stop reading this and move on.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: basically what Mutsuki considers her new life as a ship girl, in order to continue her warship's original desire to prove that the Mutsuki-Class is not obsolete and can still fight just as well as any other destroyer class.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: for the most part, Mutsuki is more or less portrayed just like she is in the game. However, at two points in the story [[spoiler:first when Damon puts down a wounded, irradiated fox on their way to Nashville and second when Mutsuki herself puts a fatally wounded NDP soldier out of his misery in Germany]], Mutsuki suddenly grows extremely pensive and can't bring herself to act like the GenkiGirl that she usually is.
* RepressedMemories: she remembers her desire as a warship to prove to her country that the Mutsuki-Class could fight just as well as any other more recent and modernized destroyer class, so the fact that she and Kisaragi were both sunk early on in the war doesn't sit too well with her.
* {{Shoutout}}: a two-fer:
** [[spoiler:Mutsuki's scythe in its scythe form is one to [[WebAnimation/{{Rwby}} Ruby Rose's]] HCSS, almost definitely because Mutsuki and Ruby appear to be [[{{Expy}} Expies]] to one another. According to Mutsuki herself, the scythe in its standard form is also called 'Rose mode', to further reinforce this shout-out. In addition, like Ruby's HCSS, Mutsuki's scythe also has a sniper rifle mode, but the scythe physically morphs into a sniper rifle that uses enormous 14.5x114mm anti-tank rounds.]]
** [[spoiler:The scythe also has a third mode that changes it into a staff topped with a three-pronged clover, one to the Leangle Rouzer wielded by Mutsuki Kamijo in Series/KamenRiderBlade.]]
** she's also got a more subtle one to [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1911873?pool_id=7261 ichimi's Secretary Fleet Girl Nagatsuki-chan]] webcomic with her passive ability that allows her to sense whenever someone awakes to yuri.
* SinisterScythe: [[spoiler:except, thankfully, it's not sinister.]]
* SmallGirlBigGun: except not with a gun. [[spoiler:She now has a scythe that's nearly twice her height. [[DoubleSubversion That can also change into a sniper rifle that's just as tall.]]]]
* StockKisses: receives one from Damon on the forehead, but gets knocked out from the embarrassment as soon as she gets it.
* ThoseTwoGirls: heavily subverted from the game/anime. Kisaragi is found first on her own without her sisters, as Mutsuki, Satsuki, and Kikuzuki are acquired afterwards, so she and Kisaragi aren't necessarily depicted as inseparable (though it appears that, once these four are in the fleet, they all hang out together for the most part).
** Also seemingly subverted with Yuudachi from the anime trio, but her Fleet Log does mention that she and Yuudachi are best friends, so it can be assumed that the story simply doesn't depict their interactions. Though, this being said, her Fleet Log does detail their relationship in regards to the falling-out between Murasame and Kisaragi, in which Yuudachi declares that she won't let this incident harm her friendship with Mutsuki.
* TookALevelInBadass: her Fleet Log mentions that she didn't want to use firearms or fight like a regular ground soldier at first, but within one major combat operation, Mutsuki sheds all doubt and hesitation to be able to fight to protect her friends and sisters, even if it means fighting in a way that she didn't initially like.
** [[spoiler:with Damon's help via YRC, Mutsuki gains a triple-mode scythe that can change into a staff and a sniper rifle meant to take out tanks.]]
* VerbalTic: seemingly averted, since she doesn't add "nanodesu" or "nyaa", and she hasn't been throwing around her ingame Kai-2 "nyashii". [[spoiler:But the story makes a point to include the "nyashii" as part of Mutsuki's new shapeshifting scythe, when, in its sniper mode, literally has "nyashii" written in hiragana along the end of the barrel.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: also averted, as Mutsuki in-story hasn't been vying for Damon's approval. However, in light of recent events, this may only be because the story hasn't portrayed her personal relationship with Damon adequately enough for the readers to know.
!!Kisaragi
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: initially was TheWoobie when she finds out what happened to her in Trenton while she was still deactivated, but with Damon's care, she quickly returns to normal. However, her ordeal still has a lingering effect on her usual psyche, as she's nowhere near as flirty and promiscuous as her ingame rendition.
* AintTooProudToBeg:
** In chapter 106, she bows in apology to Murasame for her role in Suzukaze's abandonment of the fleet.
** in chapter 186, Kisaragi offers Damon her body in exchange for Kai remodels for her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class, though Damon declines her offer while promising her he'll keep her concerns in mind.
* BerserkButton: averted. Like many of the ship girls whose warship counterparts sank early on in the war, she thankfully never had a chance to develop feelings of deep-seeded animosity towards America and thus could handle working the US Navy before the nuclear war happened.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:gets broken in one fell swoop when Damon informs her that she's been raped once she's brought to the underground facility in Trenton for repairs. The repairs are implied to repair her emotional and psychological states, though, as stated above, her personality is perhaps permanently damaged, if only a little, by the irreparable trauma she's inflicted herself with upon the revelation.]]
* CantCatchUp: has a very real fear of this after the Germany arc concludes, noting that due to the historical accuracy with which the ship girls have been built, she and her sisters, being outdated destroyers by the time of the second World War, will inevitably fall behind with little they can do about it.
* CultureClash: feared a form of this, as her Fleet Log reveals, before being shipped over to America, because she didn't feel comfortable being herself in a foreign country where she may not understand the culture as much as she should.
* CuteBruiser: while all ship girls are this to a considerable extent, Kisaragi, because of her very good looks and body, is a prominent example of this.
* DespairEventHorizon: like the other ship girls who had feelings for Damon, she goes through a one [[spoiler:following his death at Little Rock.]] But unlike other ship girls', Kisaragi's is much worse and causes her to be filled with despair and longing, to the point where she even raids Damon's old room at the office building at the MAPS base just so that she can sleep with his blanket. [[spoiler:Eventually, she even targets his old rifle that is given to Murasame, and that doesn't end well at all.]]
* {{Doublethink}}: while not discussed in her Fleet Log, Kisaragi does seem to demonstrate this. [[spoiler:On one hand, she fears the stigma of being seen as "used goods" because she'd been raped. But on the other hand, it's implied she didn't want her body to be restored back to being a virgin even though she had the option to because a surgery might be able to fix her body, but it can't heal the pain.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: is seized by jealousy when she finds out that Murasame has been given Damon's rifle, the MK-14, the result of her personal affection for him and her grief over his death at Little Rock.
** also in chapter 186, she admits to having small feelings of jealousy watching other destroyers outpace her and her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class in terms of combat performance, particularly the Shiratsuyu-Class, but this time it's subverted, as it's nothing malicious.
* EyeScream: loses an eye to a piece of shrapnel in chapter 86.
* LoveAtFirstSight: not necessarily the ''first'' sight...more like the second. Her Fleet Log explains that following her repairs [[spoiler:after her rape]], she replayed back the memory files she'd received from other ship girls and viewed clips of Damon's interactions with the fleet over time, and upon realizing Damon's devotion to his fleet, [[spoiler:especially in context with Operation Trenton]], Kisaragi got smitten.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Damon has always noted the extraordinary levels of beauty that the ship girls as a whole generally offers over baseline humans, but in Kisaragi's Fleet Log in chapter 118, she particularly stands out as having body proportions and looks that could fool anyone into thinking that she definitely wasn't built as a weapon of war.
* PluckyGirl: was this before the nukes fell, as her Fleet Log describes her optimism for her future as a US Navy auxiliary personnel and for the chance to work to become the best destroyer produced out of the F.L.E.E.T. Project. [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie Then Trenton happened.]]]]
* ThePowerOfLove: her Rouse passive ability benefits both herself and Damon so long as they deploy together into combat: she gains a much needed +1 to all stats, +50% experience gain, and nullification of her [[StandardStatusEffects Scarred]] passive debuff effects, and Damon, in turn, receives +50 all weapon damage and a +1 all stats of his own.
* PuppyLove: wanted to pursue this kind of romantic relationship with prospective guys, mainly by innocent flirting and the like. [[spoiler:[[{{Understatement}} The nukes and the people of Trenton had something else to say about that.]]]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:she suffers this while her body was still deactivated at Trenton, though the fact that she isn't able to remember it doesn't exactly comfort her when she finds out about it. Her Fleet Log goes into disturbing detail about how her rapists, due to the condition of Kisaragi's body while deactivated, [[{{Squick}} were basically having their way]] [[ILoveTheDead with a dead body.]]]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: at the time of the Trenton mini-arc, the Kantai Collection anime was airing, so as a possible reference to the fanbase's trend [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/9670 "Saving Destroyer Kisaragi-chan"]], the author slipped in Kisaragi as a new addition to the fleet in the story.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: delivers one to Murasame a week after their falling out, telling her that she's become a disappointment to her sisters for showing such angst over Damon's death instead of being a stronger person and managing it. She drops her own WhamLine by telling Murasame that Samidare, who has suffered the most from Suzukaze's banishment, deserves much better than her for a big sister.
* ReallyGetsAround: but not in a good way. One of the fears Kisaragi had [[spoiler:following her rape]] was that people would think of her as "used goods" following the incident. Her deep appreciation for Damon as her Admiral revolves greatly around his disregard for (or simply ignorance of) this possible stigma and continue to care for her as part of his fleet.
* RepressedMemories: subverted; in her Fleet Log, she makes it clear that she doesn't feel ashamed of her warship self for having been the second major warship to sink in the Pacific War, but she did fear that during her would-have-been service in the US Navy, other ship girls might have made fun of her about this particular historical incident, so she was resolved to overcome the difficulty of her feelings about her warship memories as quickly as possible.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler: the invisible sword she gets by way of Damon's YRC is named Yukianesa, the same name of [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi's sword.]]]]
* StockKisses: gives one to Damon in chapter 55, in thanks for his efforts in rescuing her and bringing her in as part of the fleet.
** gives another one in chapter 264, this time on the tip of his nose, as thanks for granting her and her sisters their newfound powers and weapons [[spoiler:due to their interactions with his YRC energy.]]
* TheTease: surprisingly subverted - simply for the reason that she doesn't tease as much as her ingame rendition does and instead is much more direct with Damon.
* WasOnceAMan: a twist on this trope: [[spoiler:Kisaragi considered her humanity stolen away by the people who raped her immediately following her revelation of the incident. She eventually does get over it, though.]]
* VanityIsFeminine: subverted, since Kisaragi in this story doesn't boast about her beauty anywhere near as much as she does in the game, though when it comes to Damon, she isn't afraid to tell him what her good points are.
!!Satsuki
* AnimeHair: in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, Satsuki opens it up by wondering right away why anyone thought it was a good idea to give a ship girl like her blonde hair. She also wonders what a Japanese girl like herself is doing with blonde hair, but she also indirectly questions the more exotic hair colors of her fellow ship girls too.
* ArtificialHuman: discussed in her Fleet Log, where Satsuki notes the genetically modified bodies that their "souls" and memories are now housed in. Also ties in with SuperSoldier, as she describes the powers that her genetically modified body gives her due to its cybernetic enhancements thanks to its Smartsteel construct.
* AxCrazy: discussed in her Fleet Log: Satsuki questions her enjoyment of battle, asking herself if it's alright for her to enjoy fighting as much as she does. She wonders if maybe she's enjoying fighting too much, beyond what is mentally healthy for her, but at least she can be sure that she's nowhere near as bad as the other [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] in the fleet.
* BloodKnight: she's the most battle-happy and combat-enthusiastic member of the Mutsuki-Class out of those currently part of the fleet - her Fleet Log goes into detail about how Satsuki only felt truly reestablished as a ship girl once she participated in her first major combat mission as part of the Combined Fleet during the Newfoundland operation, as the thrill of fighting helped get her back into the groove of things. But since there are so many other [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] in the fleet, she just happens to be overshadowed by them as the prominent Blood Knights of the fleet; she's also nowhere near as AxCrazy as the others are. Or, at least, she doesn't think she is.
* Determinator: in chapter 103, the post-Operation Dualsight report details that Satsuki suffered heavy damage covering some of the fleet's light cruisers from the Abyssals' advance. Her entry in the stat sheet justifies her combat action, listing her endurance at 8, which none of her sisters currently in the fleet cannot match anywhere as near.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: she mentions in her Fleet Log that she had a hard time getting used to the fact that she was now a ship girl, sixty-five years into the future, and now able to see her fellow destroyers and ship girls in the flesh, as fellow ship girls, following initial activation. It got worse following her reactivation, when she got told that now, she's been transported again another two decades into the future, waking up to the world that's devastated by nuclear war.
* GunsAkimbo: this is actually listed in her entry in the stat sheet as a default passive ability, which grants Satsuki more experience for dual-wielding guns, a faster learning rate to using unfamiliar dual-wielded weapons, and an AOE effect that helps other allies around her also learn how to dual-wield faster.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: implied to have a bit of this opinion in her Fleet Log, when she wonders why humans would ever think nuking the world in the name of war was ever a good idea.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler:gains one through her interaction with Damon's YRC.]]
* LampshadeHanging: in her Fleet Log in chapter 118, Satsuki can't help but wonder if their developers were technomancers or something, to be able to draw out memories and "souls" of warships when warships don't exactly have such things - at least, not according to common perception about objects.
* MoreDakka: she's one of the destroyers who opts for a dual-wielded infantry style, rocking double Magpul FMG-9's for a good portion of the story.
* OrnamentalWeapon: [[spoiler:perhaps averted, because she gains a katana through her interaction with Damon's YRC, and other ship girls who have gained weapons through their own YRC-induced powers know how to use their respective weapons, so Satsuki should know how to use her katana.]]
* RepressedMemories: A minor case, but in her Fleet Log, regarding [[spoiler:Damon's death]], Satsuki wishes that this won't mean that her Admiral will be changed every year, as what had happened with her warship self in the war.
* {{Shoutout}}: gives one to LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima when she likens her situation as a ship girl to a certain Japanese boy becoming a familiar.
** [[spoiler:The katana she gains from Damon's YRC is more or less identical to the one wielded by Johnny from VideoGame/GuiltyGear.]]
** [[spoiler:And the finishing move she uses on Murasame to end their spar is Hibiki's Heavenly Spirit of Victory super from VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium.]]
!!Kikuzuki
* AnArmAndALeg: like Mutsuki before her, during Operation Dualsight, Kikuzuki loses both of her legs to a 12.5in shell that she bodyblocks for Kasumi.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: averted from her ingame rendition, as she speaks modern-day, conversational English and Japanese, according to her in-story dialogue lines. However, she does sometimes try to talk this way (although she gets weird looks from other ship girls for doing so) and highly admires Amagi's mannerisms of speech.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank at Greifswald Bay during the final engagement between the fleet and the Abyssals.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Like Mutsuki, she doesn't like it when people point out to her that she and her sisters were technologically inferior to other destroyer classes from the war, but Kikuzuki takes it even further and is willing to fight people to prove that they aren't, at least not in this life as a ship girl.
** Still has a grudge against Americans even as a ship girl, since she can't forget [[spoiler:what the Americans did to her when they found her sunken warship body at Gatuvu Island.]]
* ColdSniper: minus the sniper. She is by far the coldest and most aloof among her sisters present in the fleet, which helps contribute to her IWorkAlone tendencies.
* TheCynic: subverted from her ingame rendition but otherwise played straight: in this story, Kikuzuki doesn't seem opposed to war and fighting, although she's explicitly not as AxCrazy or as much of a BloodKnight as others, instead seeing her duties as a ship girl as an opportunity to prove to the rest of the fleet that she and her sisters of the Mutsuki-Class are not weak or technologically inferior. However, when it comes to men, specifically Damon's relationships with her sisters, she heavily distrusts him and doesn't think that he'll stay faithful to any one of her sisters because the rest of the fleet will distract him and render him to be just like any other degenerate human male who can't control his lustful desires.
* DoesNotLikeMen: as part of her RepressedMemories, according to her sisters, it can be implied that Kikuzuki really doesn't like men [[spoiler:because of how her warship self was treated back in the second World War, when she was abandoned at Gatuvu Island by her crew and left to sink when the high tide rolled in, only to be discovered, raised out of the water, and salvaged heavily by the Americans who shortly captured the island afterwards.]] While this could be seen as a case of MisanthropeSupreme at first, Kikuzuki specifically mentions in chapter 264 that she has strong feelings about Damon possibly abandoning her sisters after he's through with them and has had his fun with them, using such phrases as "because you men are all the same" and other misandrous comments.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Damon gives her the nickname of Cookie, since he doesn't want to put in the effort to learn how to say her name properly (or just to take the time to say it slowly), and Kikuzuki, not surprisingly, hates it, given her personality. But it seems like, just like Amatsukaze before her, past [[spoiler:the stolen fleet arc]], she doesn't mind the nickname anywhere near as much as she did, though she'd probably rather be called by her proper name and only tolerates it.
* EpiphanicPrison: In chapter 277 Damons tells her that she herself is the one who is seeing herself as a HumanWeapon rather than a person and she alone is the only one who can break herself out of her negative perspective.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: while all of her sisters have crescent moon eyes now [[spoiler:thanks to Damon's YRC]], they all have big, fancy weapons that are all at least katana-grade, while Kikuzuki endsd up with only a humble pocket knife. Kikuzuki claims not to mind all that much, but she doesn't explain why. [[spoiler:The next chapter, she demonstrates that she has a terrifying power to rip people into nineteen pieces instantly with that very same knife.]]
* GlassCannon: has an 8 in attack but a 1 in defense.
* HeroicSacrifice: she takes a hit for Kasumi that blows both of her legs off during Operation Dualsight, according to the post-operation damage report in chapter 103.
* HiddenDepths: according to her Fleet Log, she wants nothing more to go on to become as powerful a ship girl as physically possible, and look cool and badass while at it - almost to chuunibyou levels, even.
* IllKillYou: delivers one to Damon in chapter 264, threatening him if he ever dares to commit to a relationship with any one of her sisters and later abandons them or proves to be unfaithful. She even goes beyond just threatening to kill him and tells him that [[UpToEleven she'll erase him from existence.]]
* InSeriesNickname: when she first joins the fleet, Damon, thanks to his unfamiliarity with Japanese names, tries to pronounce her name but gives up quickly and just calls her Cookie, which gets the rest of the Mutsuki-Class to call her that too in jest.
* IWorkAlone: because of her cold and aloof personality, she fights better if she's alone, as indicated by her Solo Operator passive ability that's listed in her entry in the stat sheet.
* MagicalEye: [[spoiler:seems to have this in light of her Jyuku Bunkatsu attack that she pulls off in chapter 263: when she activates her eyes, the world slows to a near-standstill except for herself, her movement becomes staticky and frame-like, and an incessant echoing is all that she can hear - but she dices five different people into nineteen pieces at the same time. While Kikuzuki's sisters all have crescent moon eye designs as well, Kikuzuki's stands out because the story narration seems to imply that it's Kikuzuki's eyes that allow her to enter this state and use her Jyuku Bunkatsu.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: a metaphorical case: [[spoiler:heavily implied by Kisaragi in chapter 264 when she's explaining to Damon the possible reasons for Kikuzuki's confrontational behavior - the anecdote about Kikuzuki's warship self being raised out of the water where she sank at Gatuvu Island and salvaged suggests that the Americans salvaging her was more or less a rape in itself.]]
* RepressedMemories: chapter 264 has Kikuzuki's sisters explain to Damon why she's so aloof and cold towards people as she is. According to them, [[spoiler:Kikuzuki harbors a sharp hatred of humans because of what her warship self went through during its process of sinking and following its sinking, so she has trouble accepting the fact that her sisters are showing affection towards their Admiral because she's afraid that Damon will abandon them just as how her crew had abandoned her and left her to be salvaged by the Americans.]] This sentiment is implied to be reinforced by her thoughts in her Fleet Log in chapter 118.
* {{Shoutout}}: has multiple to VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}, specifically [[spoiler:Tohno Shiki]].
** With [[spoiler:the help of Damon's YRC]], Kikuzuki gains a pocket knife that not only looks like [[spoiler:Shiki's knife]], but it also has the kanji 九夜 etched into the base of the blade, with her own name etched on the other side.
** in chapter 263, in order to get past some guards and escape the building that she and Hibiki are in, Kikuzuki uses a custom variation of [[spoiler:Shiki's Seventeen Piece Dissection attack]] as seen in VideoGame/MeltyBlood to eliminate the opposition. The narration even goes to length to describe Kikuzuki's attack in a similar way: slowed time, eerie echoing, Kikuzuki's frame-by-frame movement, and a distant shattering of glass when her attack lands.
** in chapter 264, Kikuzuki makes yet another reference to [[spoiler:Tohno Shiki's power, off of which her own is based]]:
--> Kikuzuki: [[spoiler:"...I'm going to kill you, and make it so that you never existed..."]]
* {{Tsundere}}: for as much animosity that she may harbor towards Damon and as much annoyance with which she regards him, she still secretly admires his willingness to protect his ship girls, such as refusing to abandon Amatsukaze despite her request to do so and ensuring her safety at the risk of his own. However, this is still heavily subverted because it's very clear that she still does not trust him, especially in light of her sisters' developing relationships with him, to the point where she threatens to kill him if he decides to get into a relationship with any of her sisters and proves to be unfaithful to them - Kikuzuki even goes so far as to say that she felt secretly relieved when Damon [[spoiler:died the first time around at Little Rock.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: she discusses this with her sisters on their flight to Berlin at the start of the Germany campaign. Kikuzuki believes that Damon, as an Admiral, didn't do anything spectacular or noteworthy during his brief tenure, while her sisters disagree. This being said, this was after [[spoiler:Damon's death at Little Rock]], so Kikuzuki's opinion of Damon may have changed after [[spoiler:his duel with Blackwood]]. And considering that she's at least tolerating him calling her Cookie still, this seems to be the case.
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[[folder:Fubuki-Class]]
* VideogameObjectives: in the stat sheet, the Fubuki-Class have access to abilities that allow them to complete objectives faster or more efficiently and also grant them combat bonuses for using such abilities to complete objectives.
!!Shirayuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:not once, but twice - she sinks during Operation Dualsight at Cayo Romano and during the final engagement between the fleet and the Abyssals at Greifswald Bay in Germany.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's described as one of the very few destroyers produced by the F.L.E.E.T. Project to have a positive and optimistic attitude coupled with a soft and gentle persona, but she will willingly fight and give her all in combat if it's asked of her. She also claims that if she had ended up being found by Damon during his initial travels in the South rounding up lost ship girls instead of being captured by the Coalition forces in Orlando, she would have gladly fought at his side to search for her missing sisters and fellow ship girls.
* CommonalityConnection: it's mentioned in Arashio's Fleet Log that Shirayuki has become good friends with Arashio during the brief interim period between the end of Operation Dualsight and before the beginning of the Germany campaign, as they both sank in the same battle during the second World War, the Battle of Bismarck Sea.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: her stay in Orlando counts as this. Shirayuki recalls her memories spent in the drug-infested city, such as watching people high on LSD jump off buildings to their deaths. This is perhaps HarsherInHindsight because Japanese culture tends to label illegal drug usage as highly taboo, so Shirayuki must have been horrified having to stay in a city like Orlando.
* EmbarrassingNickname: the "Generic Five" moniker that Shirayuki and her ship sisters (except for Murakumo) have received from their devs. Shirayuki explicitly states that she would very much so to not have such a nickname.
* HiddenDepths: if you look at Shirayuki's entry in the stat sheet, you'll see that her insanity rating is only 10%, and this is taking into account her ordeal as a ship girl living in Orlando...meaning that for as much of a ShrinkingViolet she might be, she has some strong mental fortitude to emerge from her imprisonment, especially one spent in a decrepit drug-infested city that Orlando has become due to the drug-trafficking trade in the area.
** Reinforced in her Fleet Log in chapter 135, in which she's explicitly mentioned to be the strongest in terms of mental fortitude compared to Hatsuyuki and Goya. Shirayuki is willing to bear hardship, no matter how tough it gets, as her ordeal in Orlando demonstrates.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: her main regret regarding her past warship life, because she sank relatively early in the war and now, as a ship girl looking back, feels that she wasn't able to serve her country as much as she otherwise could have. While she's not crying over it every day, per se, it's still something she keeps in mind to remind herself that she must do her absolute best in this life as a ship girl.
* ThePowerOfLove: During her stay in Orlando, taking care of her scared sister Hatsuyuki allowed her to be able to keep her mind off resorting to hatred and resentment towards the city and prevent her attitude and personality from degenerating and help maintain Hatsuyuki's mental sanity at the same time.
* TheReliableOne: her Fleet Log states that like Taihou in Charlotte, she stepped up to be the comforting big sister to Hatsuyuki and, to a certain extent, to Goya as well.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Lampshades this in her Fleet Log, where she recognizes that her developers must have worked very hard to code the programs for her and the ship girls that make it possible for them to use their ship girl strength and powers without having to worry about the possible repercussions of using them - such as feeling the same amount of pain as a normal human would trying to lift an object that's far too heavy while doing exactly that.
* {{Shoutout}}: one in her Fleet Log - Ayumu Aikawa from LightNovel/IsThisAZombie gets referenced, but not in name.
* ThoseTwoGirls: is usually seen with her sister Hatsuyuki during the few times the story does mention her. There's a possibility that [[FridgeLogic the reason for this is due to her ordeal as a ship girl of one of the Coalition factions spent in Orlando was spent with Hatsuyuki, her only ship sister at the time, and thus does not want to part with her sister,]] even if she did have the mental fortitude to come out of the city in good mental health, as discussed above.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Shirayuki's Fleet Log reveals that the developers of the project had an inside joke among them to call Shirayuki and her sisters Fubuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, and Isonami the "Generic Five" due to how similarly they all turned out physically to one another. Shirayuki lampshades this by wondering why Murakumo, the other immediate Fubuki-Class destroyer, was given white-ish hair and not, for example, herself or Fubuki, whose [[MeaningfulName names]] actually refer to snow-related natural phenomena.
!!Hatsuyuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:like her sister Shirayuki, has sunk twice so far in the story: once at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight and once at Greifswald Bay in northern Germany.]]
* BreakTheCutie: surprisingly, she's the one who suffers this the most among the ship girls of Orlando, not Chitose, who is Orlando's victim ship girl. See NothingIsScarier below.
* CommonalityConnection: since Yayoi, another lazy ship girl with whom Hatsuyuki is good friends in the 4koma, is not yet present in the story, she hangs out a lot with Yuubari, who came with a datacache full of anime shows already burned onto her storage files, and is stated to have been watching plenty of anime with her during the evenings back at base.
* DrawAggro: is the one drawing aggro (unwittingly) in chapter 142: when the helicopter transporting her and her squad of ship girls and Sanford gets shot down by an RPG and scatters its occupants, Hatsuyuki wakes up to find herself alone at the crash site of her helicopter and is approached by a squad of German NDP soldiers, and Sanford, who's nearby, uses her as bait to catch the NDP soldiers off guard and kill them all with a quick fanning of his revolver's hammer.
* HiddenDepths: according to her entry in the stat sheet, while almost all of her stats are extremely poor and make her possibly the worst destroyer in the fleet thus far as far as combat stats are concerned, she does have a whopping 9 in intelligence and has a cost of 0, which the stat sheets implies shouldn't normally be possible...[[FridgeLogic until you realize that Hatsuyuki is a Hikikomori who may simply not eat much in the first place.]] Combined with the one good attribute that her passive ability "Hikikomori" provides, a double experience gain rate for any non-combat stat or skill, the story seems to pitch her as an extremely low-maintenance utility destroyer whose skills can be used for a variety of support roles, assuming that she gets past her unfailing laziness, of course.
** InUniverse, Hatsuyuki mentions in her Fleet Log that she wants to try to shed her Hikikomori ways and personality and be just as badass as any of the other destroyers. Naturally, given her personality, she's still working on this.
* {{Hikikomori}}: the story even cements this major part of her persona as a passive debuff that cuts her combat performance in half if she's awoken before 11 in the morning and causes her to gain Fatigue 50% faster than the average destroyer does.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: in her fleet log, she admits that watching her sister Murakumo fight valiantly on the ground and perform just like a professional infantryman is pretty cool and wants to mimic her skill and performance.
* NotAMorningPerson: she performs at half of her combat stats if she sorties before 11 in the morning.
* NothingIsScarier: Hatsuyuki gets hit with the double-whammy of this: not only was she horribly spooked by the dark and drug-infested city of Orlando, but during her time there, she lived every day in fear of what might end up happening to her or what she may end up being ordered to do by their controller. She couldn't handle the fear and anxiety building up day after day she spent there, and her sister Shirayuki is the only reason why she was able to get rescued from the city without emerging a total emotional wreck.
* PartingWordsRegret: after learning of the reasons behind her design as a ship girl, she tells her head developer quite bluntly that those reasons are pathetic, and how he himself was pathetic for constructing her out of those reasons, likening it to making his own blow-up doll. This is the last time she ever sees him, and after her ordeal in Orlando, Hatsuyuki really wishes she could have left on more friendly terms at least.
* PlainJane: definitely thinks of herself as this, and she hates it. She basically hates every part of her own design, wondering to herself why she couldn't have been designed better and given a personality that isn't quite as crappy as that of a Hikikomori.
* TheQuietOne: just like her ingame rendition, Hatsuyuki is very quiet and doesn't ever talk to anybody unless she's talked to, to the extent that Damon initially thinks she's a mute the first time he meets her after rescuing the Orlando ship girls.
* ReplacementGoldfish: she finds out she is this before she got shipped out to the US by meeting with her head developer in her Fleet Log, who designed her after his [[LostLenore deceased girlfriend]] who died of leukemia and its complications.
* {{Shoutout}}: her Fleet Log in chapter 135 has quite a few, given the character:
** Fallout 3 ''and'' 4 get mentioned, due to a case of AllohistoricalAllusion.
** Website/{{Twitch}} and Twitch chat, including the Kappa emote.
** [[VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands Yes...innuendo.]]
** her head developer went by the name of [[VideoGame/MetalGear Otacon.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: is usually seen with her sister Shirayuki during the few times she's mentioned in the story.
!!Murakumo
* AntiGravityClothing: like her ingame rendition, refers to her floating mechanical ears, but the story refers to them as "head arrays" and specifies them as radar equipment for Murakumo. The story also distinguishes them by painting them as actual independent entities, as Murakumo actually yanks one off her head and throws it at someone as a makeshift projectile without apparent discomfort.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Greifswald Bay during the Germany campaign but is repaired back to life.]]
* BarrierWarrior: more so than other ship girls who have received remodels and have thus acquired Kai shields because her Waterfall Shield is an innate ability that she comes with, and it's also a BeehiveBarrier just like remodeled ship girls' Kai shields.
* BerserkButton: she doesn't like it when her fellow ship girls discuss whether or not Damon really has a place in the fleet, as indicated by her Fleet Log in chapter 108. Subverted because this is more like a pet peeve than a real BerserkButton, and she's not going to attack her own friends and comrades over something like this.
* BigLittleSister: despite being technically younger than both Shirayuki and Hatsuyuki, she escorts and fights with them in battle due to her more prolific experience in the fleet. She's also like their big sister out of combat as well.
* BladeOnAStick: just like her ingame rendition, she possesses a blade-tipped polearm as a melee weapon, referred to in the story as her "main mast", but she keeps her spear inside of her arm and deploys it by ejecting it out of her palm. In the context of the story, she's seen regularly using it during naval battles.
* BlingBlingBang: her decorated and etched [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] given to her by Damon, who in turn received it from Mr. Harrison of Mobile.
* CloseRangeCombatant: surprisingly, in the story, is this along with Amatsukaze and Shimakaze, the resident front-liners of the fleet. Due to her valuable work as the single most experienced ship girl in the fleet (mainly because of the fact that she's been with Damon the longest), along with her powerful Waterfall Shield and main mast spear, and her own pride of being Damon's first ship girl, she can almost always be found in the front lines of any fight, even sortieing alongside both Amatsukaze and Shimakaze.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:during Operation Trenton, Murakumo is put in charge of protecting a boy the fleet has found caught in the crossfire of their fighting with the local Trenton rebels. Not only does she fear that she's the one who might have shot and killed the boy's parents, but as the fleet is flying away from Trenton after the operation is finished, Murakumo deactivates her Waterfall Shield that she's been using to protect the boy, thus inadvertently allowing him to get shot and killed by a stray bullet on the way out [[DiedInYourArmsTonight while he was sitting on her lap]].]] She takes it very badly, to say the least.
* DualWielding: in chapter 264, she demonstrates that she can dual-wield both her main mast spear [[spoiler:and her new Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi]] at the same time.
* ElementalWeapon: while Murakumo has been able to use a water-based ability in her Waterfall Shield, [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, she now possesses a summon-able sword capable of generating flames and water, though she's yet to demonstrate the sword's full elemental capabilities.]]
* FriendshipTrinket: [[spoiler:receives a turquoise diamond penchant made from the ashes of the young boy she tried to save from Operation Trenton. When Damon dies, this becomes a TragicKeepsake that she unfortunately loses when she gets sunk in Germany.]]
* GoombaStomp: delivers one to an enemy in chapter 45.
* GreenEyedMonster: lampshades this about herself in her Fleet Log when she thinks about why she feels angry about the rest of the fleet talking about Damon in the ways that they are [[spoiler:after his death]].
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:gives one to Damon via moonlight confession, but Damon isn't familiar with it and thus fails to grasp its true meaning. She's okay with it for now, however.]]
* NotWhatISignedUpFor: due to her and other ship girls' general unfamiliarity with flying in helicopters and planes, Murakumo says a line to this effect this when she is taken on her first such flight in chapter 18.
* {{Shoutout}}: gives one to the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Unlimited Blade Works chant]] while adding slightly onto it in the midst of [[spoiler:summoning her new elemental sword that she gets from Damon's YRC.]]
** has one to the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7gnOqkEvI8 Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit]], where she uses what seems to be a SuperMode named after the titular mech of the game that turns her eyes heterochromic with red and blue, just like her head arrays, and causes her silhouette to glow with a thick red aura.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Cayo Romano.]]
* StarterEquipment: Just like her ingame rendition, in which Murakumo is one of the five starter ships, she is THE starter ship for Damon in this story, being the first one he finds and acquires.
* StockKisses: [[spoiler:gives quite a long one to Damon in chapter 57 after Jeannie helps Damon fix Murakumo's deteriorating mental stability following the death of the young boy she tried to save from Trenton.]]
** Gives Damon plenty more over the course of the next few days [[spoiler:following his awakening after his fight with Blackwood.]]
* SuperMode: seems to now possess one thanks to the newfound powers she's gained [[spoiler:from Damon's YRC]], called Cloud Breaker, where she emits a red aura and her eyes turn red and blue like her head arrays.
* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: [[spoiler:when the fleet is extracting out of Trenton, Murakumo, with the young boy she's saved from Trenton on her lap, shuts off her Waterfall Shield that was protecting him just in time to allow a stray bullet to hit in him the chest and kill him instantly.]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: right off the rip, Damon puts down a baby that's been exposed to radiation in the Houston area, right in front of her, and Murakumo, on top of giving him the WhatTheHellHero rant, spends some time not being able to forgive Damon for this act.
* TookALevelInKindness: towards Damon, of course. She starts out not liking him at all, but with due time, she comes to appreciate his work as her and the fleet's Admiral and even has deep feelings for him.
* {{Tsundere}}: definitely was not this for much of the early parts of the story, but she eventually warms up to him as the fleet grows and they're pitched into more operations. Has become one (albeit a violent one) by the time of Operation Trenton's end, [[spoiler:after she suffers some psychological trauma from having a young boy she's rescued from the operation get shot and killed right in front of her as they're extracting from the scene]], and Damon is compelled to address her trauma. [[spoiler:By the time Damon returns to the fleet after the fleet's operations in Germany, she goes full Dere.]]
* UniformityException: seemingly by luck of the draw, Murakumo is implied to be this after you read Shirayuki's Fleet Log, as Murakumo alone stands out from her five other sisters who make up the "Generic Five" with her white hair and deviant uniform.
* WeaponOfChoice: two of them: the [[http://hk-usa.com/hk-models/hk416/ H&K-416 assault rifle]] and the customized [[https://www.magnumresearch.com/ Magnum Research Desert Eagle]] given to her and Damon by Mr. Harrison of Mobile.
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[[folder:Ayanami-Class]]
* CloseRangeCombatant: according to the stat sheet, the Ayanami-Class have access to [[SupportPartyMember abilities that assist with the offensive capabilities of their comrades, as well as their own, or help cover their allies with fire support.]] So they're not exactly dedicated front-liners like Murakumo, Shimakaze, and Amatsukaze are, but they typically should be found in the front lines or even the vanguard of the fleet. Though, it's a little odd for Ushio to have abilities of this nature...
* MassOhCrap: their and the Sendai-Class's reaction upon [[spoiler:regrouping with Damon at Baltimore for the first time.]]
!!Ayanami
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: whether it's mainly due to the author's personal portrayal of her or a trauma-induced personality change due to her [[spoiler:quadruple amputation at the hands of the Atlantan faction]], either way, Ayanami is much more reserved and serious than her ingame rendition.
* BerserkButton: possibly her hair. She gets annoyed, even while in protocol, if her hair gets shot at. The fact that her hair tends to make her a deceptively bigger target in battle than she actually is doesn't help.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:being the victim ship girl of Atlanta, Ayanami, with all four of her limbs smashed in to prevent her from moving and forced through a period of GoMadFromTheIsolation, remembers that she eventually broke during her imprisonment and become a BrokenBird.]]
* BrokenBird: subverted; even though Ayanami has every reason to become one, given her [[spoiler:quadruple amputation and her treatment as a victim ship girl in Atlanta]], once she's repaired at MAPS, she doesn't go down the extreme cynicism path and instead does her best to be the CoolBigSis for her sisters in her class.
* ColdSniper: what she becomes when she activates her protocol...minus the sniper.
* CoolBigSis: being the lead destroyer of her class, Ayanami even has a passive ability because of it that allows her to grant passive stat bonuses to her sisters if she deploys with them in combat. Later, [[spoiler:during the Ayanami-Class's deployment with the Sendai-Class to Baltimore to find and assist Damon, Ayanami counsels Akebono about the situation regarding Damon.]]
* DoingItWrong: tells Ashigara this in chapter 99 when the heavy cruiser starts clubbing an enemy Abyssal over the head with its own turret, citing its improper usage.
* DumbMuscle: implied and subverted for the same reasons listed in Yuudachi's entry below: both of them have a limit-breaker power, the Nightmare Protocol, that gives them insane combat bonuses, and both are perhaps the most level-headed in their respective classes.
* EmotionSuppression: exactly what her Nightmare Protocol does to turn Ayanami into a cold, efficient killer.
* ExceptionallyTolerant: zig-zagged: when she speaks with Akebono at [[spoiler:Baltimore]], Akebono, on top of her already caustic and frankly bitchy attitude, goes so far as to accidentally spray spit at Ayanami's face while the former is complaining about how much she hates Damon and [[spoiler:thinks that Damon is faking everything they've seen from him in the city.]] Ayanami just wipes her face off and just keeps patiently listening to her. However, Ayanami will put her foot down if she feels Akebono is taking things too far with the other ship girls, especially when it threatens the unit cohesion among their team, very similar to how Damon doesn't like his ship girls fighting each other.
* HiddenDepths: no one is apparently aware that Ayanami [[spoiler:is having difficulty coping with the possession of her Nightmare Protocol.]] She hasn't told anyone about this problem yet, either, because she's scared of talking about it.
* HiddenEvil: not Ayanami herself, but [[spoiler:her Nightmare Protocol. In her fleet log, she sees it as a sentient parasite that's actually growing on its own, following its own will. It hasn't done anything drastic on its own, but while she still feels nervous about it, she's never spoken about this to anyone so far in the story. In addition, her Fleet Log also reveals that according to Ayanami herself, what her Nightmare Protocol is now doing is replacing her usual persona with the one of the Ayanami who broke at Atlanta, and understandably, she's quietly freaked out by this.]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: her fleet log in chapter 135 reveals that not only did she almost choke out one of her developers at her initial activation, forcing her developers to shut her down and run emergency repairs on her to correct this glitch in her behavioral codex, but the second time she gets activated after these problems are fixed, she feels like she's in another nightmare and that everything about her new life is totally foreign, and thus spends her first day as a ship girl cowering in the corner of her activation room. The developers even declare her clinically insane.
* NecessaryEvil: implied. [[spoiler:She uses her Nightmare Protocol willingly, whenever she sees that the situation calls for it, but only in her Fleet Log does she mention at all that she is quite frightened by her power. She believes that her protocol is screwing with her, and that it was the reason why she nearly forgot that she even had ship sisters in the first place, but this could be because of her trauma as a victim ship girl.]]
* NotSoDifferent: with [[spoiler:Shigure.]] Her Fleet Log mentions that Ayanami has spoken with [[spoiler:Shigure and Yuudachi]] to see if they feel the same way about their own protocols, and [[spoiler:Shigure turns out to feel the same set of sentiments regarding her own protocol as Ayanami does.]]
* PowerGlows: a subverted case - according to chapter 99, when Ayanami triggers her Nightmare Protocol, her hair gains a subtle red outline indicating that she's in-protocol.
* RapunzelHair: apparently, it's long enough to be used as a makeshift rope to hold an enemy Wo-Class in place and asphyxiate her before Ayanami snaps her neck as the coup de grace.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:gains the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Spear of Longinus and an AT Field]] to match Shikinami's equipment via Damon's YRC.]]
* SuperMode: shares the same protocol with Yuudachi, which is based off her RealLife performance at her final mission during the second World War. However, hers behaves differently from Yuudachi's: instead of increasing her aggression, Ayanami's emotions get suppressed, allowing her to focus on her combat performance as efficiently and machinelike as possible. However, just like Yuudachi, this protocol has the potential to become a DeadlyUpgrade if she stays in-protocol for too long by tiring out and gaining insanity at accelerated rates.
** [[spoiler:But if you pay attention to Ayanami's Fleet Log in chapter 135, you'll learn that Ayanami's Nightmare Protocol is actually not the same as Yuudachi's because they were developed independently from one another, and the dev teams responsible for them were different; the names are simply a coincidence.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Shikinami. While they're portrayed as such frequently in fanworks, the story takes this one step further, as they were held prisoner by the Coalition faction of Atlanta together. Even after they join the Combined Fleet, whenever they're mentioned, they're usually portrayed hanging out together, though they do spend almost as much time together with the rest of their sisters in the Ayanami-Class.
* {{Trigger}}: when the Ayanami-Class and the Sendai-Class land in [[spoiler:Baltimore to find and assist Damon,]] they land in the middle of a street in a portion of the city that's completely covered in flames, reminding her of her final mission at Guadalcanal.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As a result of her Nightmare Protocol. It's even explicitly written in the last line of her Fleet Log.
!!Shikinami
* IJustWantToBeBadass: really wants a strong power to call her own, almost to [[{{Chuunibyou}} chuunibyou levels.]] [[spoiler:It gets a hell of a lot worse directly because of her stay in Atlanta, where she felt completely powerless to do anything to save her sister Ayanami who was being held as Atlanta's victim ship girl, and it gets even worse during Operation Norfolk, when she personally witnesses other ship girls with protocols go to work. Her one saving grace now is the discovery of augmentations, and if Suzukaze's acquisition of her Colossus Reactor augmentation is any indication, there may be hope that Shikinami might just get what she wants.]]
** fulfilled more than she expected when she joins the fleet: Shikinami states in her Fleet Log that by being given a rifle by Damon and told to fight, she feels incredibly empowered just by serving as an infantrywoman because her enemies are not other warships like they were in the second World War, but other humans whom she can defeat swiftly and easily thanks to her innate strengths as a ship girl. It's still a far cry from having an outright power like her sister Ayanami or her other destroyer friends, but it's a good start.
*** [[spoiler:finally fulfilled in chapter 261, when Damon uses his power to help Shikinami develop her own. See {{Shoutout}} below.]]
* LampshadeHanging: does some of this at the end of her Fleet Log, when she thinks about what kind of power she might want if and when she does get one, like having a SuperMode or a power that exudes [[PowerGlows battle aura,]] etc.
* LifeIsntFair: bemoans this, for good reason - she's surrounded by fellow destroyers, many of whom have secret powers or battle-changing protocols, while she herself wishes she could even have half their powers.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: more like "Not So Special After All". In her Fleet Log in chapter 135, she has this opinion about herself, because for being called a "Special-Type Destroyer" during the war, she feels that she did nothing really spectacular or outstanding like her sister Ayanami did.
* OhCrap: Has this reaction in chapter 192, when [[spoiler:the Baltimore ship girl team meet Damon there for the first time, except at the time they don't know that it's him because he's got a gas mask on and is splattered from head to toe with both red and black blood.]] She barely keeps her cool...barely.
* RealityEnsues: Shikinami acknowledges that for all her pining for a special power, she's not just going to get one out of thin air, and that war doesn't care for her wish for a strong protocol and won't let shounen manga scenarios of characters spontaneously gaining powerful abilities to help them overcome their battles happen.
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: Does this in chapter 192 again - [[spoiler:when the Baltimore ship girl team face off against the Baltimore mutants for the first time,]] Shikinami starts freaking out for good and screams, "Kill them! [[KillEmAll Kill them all!"]]
* {{Shoutout}}: the end of her Fleet Log ends with, [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare "Power...it really does change everything, doesn't it."]]
** in addition, one of her developers once called her [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "Asuka"]], but she herself doesn't know why this is.
** [[spoiler: in chapter 261, Shikinami gains an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion AT field and a double-bladed breakable spear. In chapter 262, her left eye starts glowing blue as well.]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Now we know why the developers called her Asuka.]]]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: in her Fleet Log, Shikinami swears she's not actually a chuunibyou.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Ayanami. While they're portrayed as such frequently in fanworks, the story takes this one step further, as they were held prisoner by the Coalition faction of Atlanta together. Even after they join the Combined Fleet, whenever they're mentioned, they're usually portrayed hanging out together, though they do spend almost as much time together with the rest of their sisters in the Ayanami-Class.
!!Oboro
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: while she keeps her original personality intact, she has become quite jaded and hardened once she comes out of Nashville. She lampshades this in her Fleet Log, noting that she's even a bit scared of just how quickly and readily her personality's changed in just two months. If Ushio and Sazanami have pointed this out to her before, she recognizes, it's a pretty concerning issue.
* BerserkButton: averted in her Fleet Log, when Oboro specifically states that her very short war service prevented her from ever developing hard feelings towards Americans or America.
* CatapultNightmare: Oboro reveals in her Fleet Log in chapter 123 that there are nights when she wakes up with a wild heartbeat and a sharp pain in her stomach and chest, the physical manifestation of what she remembers from her sinking as a warship (she was sunk by an airstrike when a bomb scored a direct hit on her munitions room and detonated her shells, causing her to explode).
* {{Determinator}}: the passive ability that her crab friend gives her temporarily boosts her critical damage resist and her will ratings both by 50% when she drops below 20% HP, but she loses her EXP bonuses that she otherwise would receive.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: receives this accidentally from Akebono in the form of a small DespairEventHorizon; her Fleet Log states that towing her dead sister Akebono during Operation Dualsight has snapped her out of potentially becoming an EmotionlessGirl and has motivated her to not let apathy and insensitivity become coping mechanisms for the hardships she's had to deal with during her time spent in America as a ship girl thus far.
* IconicItem: her crab companion who hangs out in her equipment is even cemented as a passive ability that gives her more EXP in naval battles and more EXP to her and her sisters if they all deploy into combat together.
* MeaningfulName: Oboro (朧) can mean "Moonlight", and in her Fleet Log, Oboro really likes moongazing.
* MisanthropeSupreme: subverted; like Damon, she doesn't outright hate humans, but her opinion of them has certainly soured a lot as a result of her ordeal in Nashville.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: basically what she went through due to her time spent in Nashville.
* PointOfNoReturn: believes that she's passed a psychological one with her personality hardening; as much as she wants to and tries to return to how she was before her time spent in Nashville, she can't just forget what she's experienced in Nashville.
* TheQuietOne: has become this as a result of her AdaptationPersonalityChange - her Fleet Log states that she tends not to socialize very much and oftentimes be found spending time alone. She also apparently spends a few minutes every night at the fleet's base at MAPS moongazing by herself.
* RepressedMemories: she chooses not to dwell on her past memories as a warship due to her relatively short service history during the war. Once she and the Nashville ship girls get rescued and implemented into the Combined Fleet, her memories of Nashville and her time spent there also join these.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:can now summon the Moonlight Greatsword from [[VideoGame/DarkSouls]] via Damon's YRC.]]
!!Akebono
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: like Oboro, Akebono goes through this during her time spent in Nashville. However, unlike Oboro's personality change that turns her into a silent jaded type, Akebono becomes a bitchy, cynical, and brooding jaded type. [[SarcasmMode She's still got her shitty attitude towards Damon, however.]]
** the stat sheet takes the shit attitude of hers and turns it into a passive status buff that lets her fight with slightly improved stats if she's with Damon but at the cost of doubled fatigue gain rate and slowly accumulating insanity.
* AlphaBitch: the story probably takes the ingame Akebono and takes this UpToEleven - there are quite a number of readers who are very soured by the story's portrayal of Akebono, both towards the character and the author himself, sheerly due to how much of a consistently crappy attitude she has towards Damon. At the very least, she acts nothing like how she acts towards Damon towards her own sisters, though she will still get snappy with them, especially if Damon is brought up for whatever reason.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank once at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight.]]
* BerserkButton: Akebono also has a degree of wartime hatred of the Americans and of the concept of American ship girls, though, like Sazanami, she only shows it during the [[spoiler:Baltimore arc, when they actually do come into contact with the ship entities there]].
* BestFriend: considers Ushio this because only Ushio can legitimately make her otherwise troubled and disturbed persona feel at peace and thus will listen to her, even if Damon is involved.
* BoisterousBruiser: ties in with her SmugSuper. Her only gripe, as revealed in her Fleet Log in chapter 123, is that she doesn't have a special protocol like some of the other destroyers so that she can go ham in battle too.
* BornUnlucky: if she claims in her Fleet Log that she can literally count the number of good things she can say about her lives (both as a warship and a ship girl) with one hand's worth of fingers...
* CloseRangeCombatant: according to the stat sheet, the Ayanami-Class have access to [[SupportPartyMember abilities that assist with the offensive capabilities of their comrades, as well as their own, or help cover their allies with fire support.]] So they're not exactly dedicated front-liners like Murakumo, Shimakaze, and Amatsukaze are, but they typically should be found in the front lines or even the vanguard of the fleet.
* CrapsackWorld: has this opinion of the world, not surprisingly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Akebono is killed in action during Operation Dualsight by taking two sixteen-inch shells in a row by an Abyssal battleship, and it blows her body apart in half from the abdomen down.]]
* TheCynic: always sees everything glass-half-empty, to the point where she practically thrives in misfortune. Her Fleet Log says it all:
--> "Reuniting with her ship sisters? That's not a poignant reunion moment, that's just another responsibility she'll need to take unto herself to protect her ship sisters, especially Ushio-chan..."
* EpiphanicPrison: In chapter 260, Damon bluntly tells her that the reason she is such a bitch despite no longer having a good reason for it is because the mental bomb shelter she originally built against the past cruelties she experienced has become her own jail cell.
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:in her Fleet Log, Akebono is so horrified of the concept of being raped that for as much as she hates Damon, she secretly is thankful that he was able to prevent it from happening.]]
* FreudianExcuse: carries over harshly from the game. Akebono's reasons for hating Damon, her new Admiral after her time spent in Nashville, are almost purely arbitrary, not even counting her historical reasons. For the context of this story, Akebono can and will certainly use the excuse that her American "admirals" in Nashville treated her and her fellow ship girls in the faction like crap and therefore can justify her behavior towards Damon off this.
* GlassCannon: the strongest destroyer in the Ayanami-Class with an attack rating of 8, but has the second-lowest defense rating of 2. [[HarsherInHindsight Maybe this is why Akebono sank the way she did at Cayo Romano...]]
* HairTriggerTemper: oh boy, you don't say...towards Damon, of course.
* HiddenDepths: her Fleet Log implies that [[JerkassWoobie she's getting tired of constantly acting like a cynical bitch because the pessimistic front she always has is extremely draining on her, and that all she wanted after joining Damon's fleet was some mental peace and quiet without having a compulsive desire to complain about everything.]]
** And even if she has a trash attitude, she insists that [[{{Tsundere}} she really does love her sisters too much to bring herself to hate them for any reason.]]
** [[spoiler:When Akebono splits herself into her two personality halves, the friendly Akebono tells Damon that Akebono not only is a genuinely good person, and that she's just confused about what she ought to think of him, but also that she actually has deep feelings for him.]]
* IAmAMonster: Repeatedly does this in her Fleet Log. She's only missing a monstrous protocol to go with it.
** [[spoiler:[[HilariousInHindsight ...which she actually does gain with the help of Damon's YRC, but it's only half-monstrous, as she can produce a clone of herself who's caring and tender while she herself becomes more or less an embodiment of distrust and hatred.]]]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: when she complains to Damon that he shouldn't try to act like a hero, he obliges her - Akebono finds him in the Nashville State Capitol building, sitting amidst the bodies of the Harper Family which he's horribly mutilated.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:in chapter 265, Akebono reveals that she's actually technically the first ship girl to receive an energy transfusion from Damon's YRC that empowers her with new abilities, mainly a new protocol called Daybreak Protocol that allows her to send out a clone of herself who is kind and amicable towards Damon, while her original body becomes a sullen and perhaps malicious Akebono who avoids Damon and refuses to talk to him at all.]]
* MamaBear: shows signs of this in her Fleet Log - she wants to protect her sister Ushio from all the horrors of the world, for as much as she likes pointing them out, because [[SelfDeprecation she feels that Ushio doesn't deserve to suffer as much as she herself should.]]
--> "A delicate angel need not dwell among the sins and pollution of mere mortals...only demons who revel in such wrath and depredation."
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Akebono's protocol is the Daybreak Protocol, so essentially her own protocol is named after herself.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: by far the purest example in the story, since she utterly detests humanity.
* NotSoDifferent: she's compelled to begrudgingly recognize that Damon may be on the same wavelength as she is in her Fleet Log.
* PointOfNoReturn: her Fleet Log states that her perpetual pessimism was getting out of hand to the point where she was being cynical for the sake of being cynical, and that this was averted in her sinking during Operation Dualsight because [[{{Irony}} only by dying was her mind forced to calm down and take a break from all the pessimistic thoughts she was making.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:almost suffers this at Atlanta when she and her team get EMP'd and captured by O'Reilly's personal security team. Damon barely averts this in time.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Ushio's blue.
* RepressedMemories: after she gets repaired back to life after Operation Dualsight, Akebono recalls feeling the experiences she had towards the end of her life as a warship in the form of turbulent human feelings and briefly has flashbacks to all of the major incidents her warship counterpart had.
* {{Shoutout}}: her Fleet Log references the Pensieve from Franchise/HarryPotter.
* SiblingYinYang: with Ushio. Akebono is the black side of the yin-yang - caustic, rude, cynical, and fatalistic.
* SirSwearsALot: now that all ship girls in the story can speak fluent English, it's definitely harder to find lines of Akebono's dialogue that don't drop F-bombs or S-bombs or the like, because [[SarcasmMode swearing at her Admiral in Japanese clearly isn't enough.]]
* SmugSuper: she heavily looks down on normal humans because she's a ship girl and is by default stronger than they are.
* StockKisses: [[spoiler:The caring half of Akebono gives one to Damon right on the lips, but [[SubvertedTrope since the real Akebono is rendered unconscious while her personality clones are out and about, it doesn't really count.]]]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Akebono is one of two (three, if you count Furutaka's glitched persona) whose affection for Damon is officially listed in the stat sheet as "Hatred".
** [[spoiler:But this now becomes a gray area when the friendly Akebono clone informs Damon that the real Akebono actually loves him - it's just that her conflicting emotions and thoughts are preventing her from ever getting that point across to him.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Akebono does not mind becoming one with her dark personality and attitude if it means she can be at peace with herself and perhaps get stronger to protect her sisters in the process.
* ThisIsReality: In her Fleet Log, she realizes that she's just not the type of person who'll go through some radical personality and mindset changes and wants to strive to find as much of a neutral ground with her attitude and mindset as possible.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Ushio. They're each other's [[{{Foil}} foils]]. Akebono specifically has a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet that gives her slightly better combat stats when deployed and fighting with her and rewards her with bonus EXP if Ushio completes a mission with minimal damage taken.
* {{Tsundere}}: subverted, as revealed in her Fleet Log. She definitely does ''not'' have any feelings for him...but she at least quietly gives Damon his due after [[spoiler:his death at Little Rock]] that he's done a hell of a lot more for her and the ship girls compared to every other human she's had to deal with so far.
** [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when, in chapter 266, Akebono's kind personality half reveals to Damon that the real Akebono does in fact love him; she just can't ever bring herself to admit it or act as such.]]
!!Sazanami
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: she's nowhere near as silly as she is ingame and is instead much more sarcastic and drops dank memes like she's a walking version of [[Website/{{Twitch}} Twitch chat.]]
* AnimalMotifs: the rabbit. Explored in her Fleet Log in chapter 112, when she notes that if she's left all alone without her sisters for whatever reason, she feels she might [[GoMadFromTheIsolation go off the deep end]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sank at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight, killed in action by an enemy Ri-Class cruiser.]]
* BerserkButton: implied to be Ushio, as in if anyone bothers Ushio or tries to do anything funny to/with her, Sazanami will [[MemeticMutation rek ya, m8.]]
* CrapsackWorld: develops a view of this herself during her stay with the Feds, before Damon comes to pick them up.
* {{Foil}}: considers herself to be this to Oboro as a result of their wartime experiences, in which Sazanami not only survived longer into the war but was also able to develop historical friendships with other Japanese ship girls, while Oboro both sank earlier than she did and didn't have nearly as many chances to do the same, [[FridgeLogic which may explain why Oboro's Fleet Log discloses the fact that Oboro was slowly becoming an apathetic, unsociable and emotionless girl at the time of joining the Combined Fleet.]]
* HiddenDepths: she values her family (mainly her wartime squadron, Destroyer Division 7, which was comprised of herself, Ushio, and Akebono) more than anything else.
* IconicItem: her bunny button is retained (since it's part of her character design and not just part of her equipment, like Ushio's personalized 12.7cm turret is), and the rabbit is implied to be an actual sentient entity and actually helps her in combat with additional perception stats and bonus EXP if Sazanami completes a mission without ever dropping below 80% HP.
* {{Irony}}: Suzukaze's banishment from the fleet, while it may have temporarily shattered the family cohesion of the Shiratsuyu-Class, actually strengthened the Ayanami-Class's bonds, as Sazanami observes in her Fleet Log, since they learned the lesson of having strong family bonds the easy way.
* LampshadeHanging: mercilessly mocks the whole concept of personifying warships like herself in her Fleet Log.
* MamaBear: acts as Ushio's guardian during their time as Federal ship girls, since Akebono isn't there to fulfill this role.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sazanami's antagonism towards American warships of the second World War is strong enough to make her not drop any memes [[spoiler:during Operation Baltimore.]]
* {{Otaku}}: just like her ingame rendition, she's a [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall Breaker]] and makes references to all kinds of random internet trivia, except instead of making Japanese net references like in the game, in the story, she references lots of American internet memes (she does occasionally make quips involving Japanese 2ch memes and netspeak, mainly in her Fleet Log). She does also call Damon "Master" as she does to Admirals ingame, which doesn't go well with Damon, given his tendency for InsistentTerminology.
** Strangely, this Otaku nature of hers is cemented as a passive ability that lets her grant a +1 bonus to a random stat rating for every ship sister she deploys with, even if she deploys by herself.
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:The power she gains from Damon in chapter 257 isn't exactly cooperating with her.]]
* SarcasmFailure: in chapter 192, she can't be her usual meming self when she and the squad come across [[OhCrap a particularly disturbing sight.]]
* SeparatedAtBirth: due to their wartime circumstances, Sazanami considers her sisters to be this, since she only ever served with Akebono and Ushio as part of Destroyer Division 7. Because of her unfamiliarity with Ayanami and Shikinami (and to a certain extent Oboro as well), she initially does not want those three to disrupt the close-knit family nucleus she has with Akebono and Ushio, but she quickly warms up to them thanks to the efforts of Ushio to bring them all together before they were shipped out to the US.
* ShipperOnDeck: She spends much of chapter 200 trying to get Ushio to hook up with Damon.
* {{Shoutout}}: she's got a lot, obviously, given her [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall Breaking]] nature, but in her Fleet Log, she makes one to the infamous "devilishly attractive" Ushio doujins produced by Himura Kiseki.
** [[spoiler:gains the signature spiked ball and chain and knife of [[LightNovel/ReZero Rem and Ram]], can summon [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} as many of those knives as she wants]], and sometimes opts to [[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} drop them right out from underneath her skirt.]]]]
* TheSmartGuy: implied to be this among her sisters in the Ayanami-Class, as her entry in the stat sheet lists her intelligence rating at 8, which blows any of her sisters' such ratings out of the water. Only Ushio comes close, but only at 6.
* SmashSisters: considers her destroyer class to be this, as she is very close with every one of her sisters. Indeed, once the entire Ayanami-Class is assembled in the fleet after the conclusion of the Coalition campaign, it's quite rare to see any of them fighting without at least one other ship sister with them.
* StarterEquipment: averted from the game; Damon does not acquire Sazanami as a ship girl until chapter 38.
* TakeThat: in her Fleet Log, Sazanami is probably making a sharp jab at the premises of Kantai Collection, gijinka/personifications in general, and perhaps at otakus as a whole.
--> "No one thinks of a warship as a living entity, unless you're one of those crazy people who become infatuated with inanimate objects - then you're just a creep."
* ThatCameOutWrong: in Ushio's Fleet Log, Sazanami apparently made a joke and told Ushio that at least she wasn't sold as a reparation ship and used as a test target...not realizing in time what had ended up happening to [[NukeEm Nagato and Sakawa.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: averted; she's yet to speak like this in the story.
* ZergRush: Discussed in her Fleet Log - Sazanami believes that destroyers like herself are very weak by themselves and are only strong when working and fighting together in groups and squadrons to get anything done.
!!Ushio
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: goes through one [[spoiler:at Baltimore, though as it turns out, it's more because Losira inadvertently hacks her main processing unit to share her body than Ushio herself acting different.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Will actually be willing to fight if her sisters or Damon come under fire, though usually she resorts only to nonlethal measures, such as pushing an Abyssal cruiser with enough strength to send her flying down a street.
** Averted for the most part - despite fighting the American Navy during the war the longest and surviving the war, even, Ushio refuses to give into the sin of resenting the Americans for something that happened eighty years ago, though she admits that she was starting to fall into that trap until Damon came in and took control of her and the Federal ship girls.
* BestFriend: to Akebono. She's the only one Akebono will freely admit who can keep her in check and calm her down.
* BreakTheCutie: suffers this after Operation London, when her Fleet Log states that she cried into Sazanami's arms because she couldn't handle all of the combat stress that she took while fighting.
* BuxomIsBetter: [[spoiler:Losira]] takes some time to point them out, noting that she's probably bigger than the rest of her sisters combined.
* TheCutie: as much as this trope can exist in a story like this. In her Fleet Log in chapter 113, everyone treats Ushio like this without exception, after she took the time after her initial activation in Japan to pay visits to all of her comrades she'd fought with during the war.
* DespairEventHorizon: may have gone through one of this [[spoiler:following Damon's death]], because she feels heartbroken for the first time in her conscious memory. Not even all the horrors and memories of her wartime service broke her heart, but this incident did.
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:goes through one at Baltimore when, upon seeing Damon getting gravely wounded, allows her own main processing unit to become "hacked" by Losira to temporarily gain her power and save him.]]
** In chapter 272, [[spoiler:with Damon's YRC, Ushio is able to recall this emergency transformation state that she underwent in Baltimore with the exact same appearance and seemingly with the same ability to channel Damon's mother through herself.]]
* EyeScream: takes a piece of artillery shrapnel to her eye in chapter 99 - had she been a normal human, it would have probably killed her instantly.
* FightingFromTheInside: an unusual case for this trope - in chapter 205, Ushio battles [[spoiler:Losira]] for control of her own body when the latter starts attacking [[BerserkButton Akebono for pointing a gun at Damon]] - not only does she win, but she [[MegaManning briefly gains control over her powers.]]
* IAmAMonster: subverted: while she doesn't think of herself as an outright monster, Ushio doesn't really like being called an angel, because then she'll just think of herself as some kind of [[LightIsNotGood angel of death]] [[CursedWithAwesome due to her circumstance as one of the few surviving destroyers at the end of the war.]]
* IconicItem: unfortunately averted from the game, as there is no mention of Ushio keeping her pink smiley-face 12.7cm gun due to the changes in general destroyer equipment that the story establishes.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: her sisters regard her as a complete angel in a grimdark world where ship girls like them have too many enemies and have been subjected to a plethora of horrors and abuses.
* InterfaceScrew: like Samidare and Suzukaze, suffers one of her own, [[spoiler:and she, too, has a small smattering of X's, Y's, and Z's start littering her heads-up display, indicating that Losira is in the process of hacking herself into her main processing unit at Baltimore.]]
* JokeCharacter: implied to be this if you go off Ushio's stats as written in the stat sheet - and they're downright atrocious. Indeed, she is the only ship girl in the entire fleet as listed in the stat sheet who has a 0 attack rating.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Discussed in her Fleet Log: when Ushio recalls fighting in her very first operation as a ship girl during the London campaign, she finds war a hell of a lot different than she remembers it.
* {{Pacifist}}: perhaps the purest example in the fleet. Like Harusame and Samidare, she possesses the "Battlefield Angel" and "Pacifist" passive skills in her entry in the stat sheet, but unlike the other two, [[ThouShaltNotKill Ushio has an attack rating of 0.]] While she recognizes that there may come times when she will have to attack people, she'll only do so strictly in self-defense or to protect other people who need protecting, and even then, as her attempt to save a downed helicopter pilot shows, she'd much rather try to get them out of harm's way rather than shoot back at her attackers. This is also reinforced in her stats in the stat sheet, as all of her combat-related stats are very, very low, with her Intelligence rating being anything decent. There is an exception, and that's her BerserkButton.
* ThePollyanna: is determined to stay optimistic and hopeful despite the fact that none of her sisters share this mentality and even though the world she lives in now as a ship girl very clearly does not give many perks to ship girls like them.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Akebono's red.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:gains the [[Manga/UshioAndTora Beast Spear]] that happens to change her hairstyle to match that of Losira's.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: her shy personality carries over from the game, and in the story, she can't bring herself to be more assertive towards Damon while there are so many other girls who vie for his affection.
* SiblingYinYang: with Akebono. Ushio is the white part of the yin-yang: kind, endearing, hopeful, and optimistic.
* SplitPersonality: what happens in [[spoiler:Baltimore after Losira hacks Ushio's main processing unit. It's a bit of a case of FightingFromTheInside, except both Ushio and Losira can yank away control of Ushio's body at any time whenever they want - which means, naturally, given Ushio's regular personality and her learning of who Losira is, Losira ends up in control more often than not. She does, however, seize control of her own body when Losira starts attacking Akebono for almost shooting Damon to prevent her own body from hurting her own sister.]]
* TeamMom: as revealed in Sazanami's Fleet Log, Ushio was the one who brought the Ayanami-Class together when, prior to their new lives as ship girls, they had very little historical connection to do so.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: this happens when [[spoiler:Damon mistakes her for his mother, Losira, in Baltimore.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Akebono. According to Akebono's entry in the stat sheet, Ushio is the only one who can keep her truly under control.
* ThousandYardStare: has one of these at the end of Operation Dualsight, when she and Oboro have to tow the dead bodies of Sazanami and Akebono. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She's only got one of her eyes intact, though.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: she's considered the "paragon of Japanese diligence and maturity" by practically all of the ship girls in the fleet, according to her Fleet Log.
!Akatsuki-Class
* StatusBuff: all Akatsuki-Class members have access to abilities that enable themselves and allies close to them varying buffs to different aspects of weapon handling.
* AnchorsAway: they also have access to anchors to use as melee weapons, but because they're considered purchasable class abilities according to the stat sheet, they don't come with them by default. And as far as the story itself is concerned, none of the Akatsuki-Class so far have possessed one or used one in combat.
!!Akatsuki
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks with Hibiki at Greifswald Bay during the final fight between the Abyssals and the fleet during the Germany campaign.]]
* CoolBigSis: she also 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, though the "Cool" and "Big" parts are more debatable.
* JokeCharacter: much like Ushio, while her stats aren't as bad, Akatsuki has some pretty terrible stats compared to her sisters, considering the fact that she's the lead destroyer of her class. Subverted somewhat, however, since she does have two passive abilities that do buff her own performance and those of her sisters.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:"Akatsuki" means "Dawn". Hence...Hammer of "Dawn".]]
* ProperLady: her CharacterTic of always trying to act like a high-class lady is present in this story as well, but it's actually cemented in her entry in the stat sheet as a passive ability that grants her +1 all stats every so often over time in combat and additional stat buffs if her sisters get injured in combat so that she can fight better to protect them. She also receives additional armor points and a +20% faster experience gain rate if she deploys and fights with other ship girls who also carry themselves like high-class ladies (i.e. ship girls who have formally polite or archaic speech mannerisms like Kumano or Amagi).
* {{Shoutout}}: a three-fer in chapter 277: [[spoiler:through Damon's YRC, Akatsuki gains possession of a small satellite. On one side, the word "JAXA" is written, a reference to the [[RealLife Akatsuki Venus space probe]] launched in 2010, and on the other side, the words [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar "HAMMER OF DAWN"]] are written. Finally, the narration at one point calls the probe a "mobile satellite", a possible reference to the Mobile Satellite power-up ally seen in [[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 3.]]]]
* SneezeCut: sometimes has one whenever anything related to being a lady is mentioned.
!!Hibiki
* AbnormalAmmo: like Kawakaze, Hibiki can also ignite her own ammo with phoenix fire for additional burn damage onto enemies while her protocol is active with her Phoenix Breath ability, but unlike Kawakaze, she can extend this buff to nearby allies as well.
* TheAce: is this within her class, with undoubtedly the best stats among her sisters - only Inazuma edges her out in total hit points and negotiation rating.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: not so much her personality as her character itself: while in the game her Russian identity as Verniy is saved until her second remodel, in the story Hibiki has full memory of her time as a Russian destroyer and can speak fluent Russian, to boot.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks with Akatsuki at Greifswald Bay during the final fight between the Abyssals and the fleet during the Germany campaign.]]
* CatchPhrase: averted from her anime rendition; she's a quiet girl in the story who doesn't speak unless she's got a reason to.
* EmotionlessGirl: heavily implied to be this due to her entry in the stat sheet, as one of the conditions she possesses with her Russian Cold ability is the inability to gain Insanity. [[spoiler:The only way for her to gain Insanity at all is for her to see any of her ship sisters fall in combat.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: if Hibiki's health reaches 0 or if she takes a critical hit that drops her below 25% health, she instantly activates her Firebird Protocol that just as instantly regenerates her health all the way back up to full.
* GratuitousRussian: averted; she speaks it fluently.
* HealItWithFire: when [[spoiler:Inazuma suffers the loss of one of her arms due to Xenolith's dragon in England]], Hibiki activates her protocol to cauterize Inazuma's wound to prevent her from losing too much blood.
* IceQueen: the story takes this trope literally by giving Hibiki +1 all stats and double effective health if she fights in extremely cold environments or temperatures.
* MeaningfulName: "Hinotori" literally means "Firebird" and refers to the mythological phoenix.
* OddFriendship: with Venyamin Korotayev, Controller of Chicago. Korotayev first met Hibiki at the unnamed Federal base where the original Federal ship girls were being held and introduced himself to her as the grandson of one of her sailors who served aboard her in the Red Fleet, wishing that had the world not gone through the nuclear war, assuming that they still somehow met, he would have liked to take her to his grandfather's grave. Because of this friendship, she goes drinking with him and Sanford in chapter 263...presumably vodka, of course.
* PlayingWithFire: as expected, due to her whole connection with the phoenix, Hibiki has control over phoenix flames while her protocol is active.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Hinotori, her alter ego, does this to Hibiki and takes over her body when her protocol is activated.
* SuperMode: her Firebird Protocol gives her varying stat bonuses depending on how it's activated and gives her access to flame-based powers. If she activates it a certain way, she even regenerates all of her lost hit points.
* SuperPoweredAlterEgo: Hinotori, her protocol identity who comes out and replaces Hibiki anytime her Firebird Protocol is triggered. She speaks in a much more archaic fashion, not unlike Amagi, to differentiate herself speech-wise from Hibiki.
* SurvivorGuilt: surprisingly averted, as many fanworks of Hibiki explore this aspect of her - considering that this story has gone quite in-depth with Shigure's own case of this. Though, this may just be that the story has yet to dive into Hibiki's case.
* TranslatorBuddy: Hibiki became this during her short time as a Federal ship girl translating for Russian political and military refugees working in the American government who still can't quite speak English very well.
!!Ikazuchi
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks at Cayo Romano during Operation Dualsight.]]
* CombinationAttack: her and Inazuma's NA-45 Lightning Strike. Inazuma fires the primer round first, and then Ikazuchi must fire the detonator round second. If Ikazuchi's round hits near enough to Inazuma's, they'll detonate together to match the power of a battleship-caliber shell.
* JackOfAllStats: as far as her combat stats go - she has 5's in attack, defense, intelligence, and speed. Only her endurance rating stands out at 8.
* NiceGirl: while the game establishes her personality as a reference to the incident in which she and Inazuma rescued 900 Allied sailors from ships they'd helped sink a day before, the story takes this incident UpToEleven by listing in her Fleet Log that before she was scheduled to be shipped over to the US, Ikazuchi actually met Sir Samuel Falle, one of the survivors whom she'd saved nearly seventy years before in her warship form, and learned that if it weren't for Falle's work to publicize the humanitarian work of her captain, Shunsaku Kudo, in his decision to save those 900 sailors, the world would have never known about Kudo's and Ikazuchi's heroic deed.
* TheReliableOne: cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet.
--> [[MemeticMutation Because you have Ikazuchi, don't you!]]
* {{Shoutout}}: her NA-45 Lightning Strike is a two-fer to the Lightning Strike scorestreak in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 and the NA-45 grenade sniper in VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of her class at Greifswald Bay.]]
!!Inazuma
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: while she hasn't explicitly acted this way yet, Inazuma is hiding a lot of bitterness, according to her Fleet Log entry.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:sinks twice, at Cayo Romano and at Greifswald Bay.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: contributes to her StepfordSmiler tendencies. Her Fleet Log discusses the day when Ikazuchi met Sir Falle before they were shipped to the US, and Inazuma felt extremely bitter that only Ikazuchi's captain gets any credit while her own seemed to have already faded into obscurity.
** the fandom's Plasma personality for Inazuma is also present in this story, cemented as a passive ability in her entry in the stat sheet.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: averted. Not in this story, she isn't, if her Fleet Log has anything to say about her.
* CombinationAttack: her and Ikazuchi's NA-45 Lightning Strike. Inazuma fires the primer round first, and then Ikazuchi must fire the detonator round second. If Ikazuchi's round hits near enough to Inazuma's, they'll detonate together to match the power of a battleship-caliber shell.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Plasma passive ability causes her to lose 100 hit points per minute spent as Plasma, causes her to deal +50% extra friendly fire damage, and adds a permanent 20% Insanity to her Insanity meter every time she becomes Plasma.
* JackOfAllStats: a bit better off than her twin sister Ikazuchi, with 6's in all combat stats, including endurance, so Ikazuchi does beat her out in this regard.
* ReluctantWarrior: seemingly averted in the story, perhap due to her StepfordSmiler tendencies.
* {{Shoutout}}: her NA-45 Lightning Strike is a two-fer to the Lightning Strike scorestreak in VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 and the NA-45 grenade sniper in VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare.
* SneezeCut: has one in chapter 281 when Samidare uses her "Hawawawa!" cry.
* StarterEquipment: averted, she is the third starter ship girl Damon acquires along with Sazanami.
* StepfordSmiler: she's got an uncharacteristic amount of bitterness that she hides beneath a fair expression.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: her Plasma passive ability. She gains +2 all stats and becomes immune to all enemy status effects, but she also deals +50% extra friendly fire damage.
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[[folder:Hatsuharu-Class]]
* SupportPartyMember: the Hatsuharu-Class members have access to specialized abilities that dramatically increase their own or other allies' combat proficiency for a short period of time.
!!Wakaba
* {{Determinator}}: has an Endurance rating of 9 and a Will rating of 75%. Her Masochist passive ability also contributes, as she takes reduced damage from all attacks by default and fights better the longer a fight drags on.
* FriendlyTarget: is a victim of this when Nagato fires an RPG-7 warhead a little too close to her and Hatsushimo, so the two destroyers get taken for a short flight.
* GunsAkimbo: like Satsuki, she prefers dual-wielded guns and even has a passive ability that reinforces this trait. The fact that Damon buys her a pair of AMT Hardballer Longslides only serves to reinforce this trope.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: tries shooting a few enemies with her pair of Mini-Uzi's that have run dry, so she's forced to PistolWhip them instead.
* {{Shoutout}}: the AMT Hardballer Longslides that she gets from Damon at the Full Metal Jacket gunshop, which are an obvious one to VideoGame/{{Hitman}}.
* TheStoic: in the form of her Emotionless passive ability, which allows her to reach 100% insanity and withstand the penalties that would normally affect any other ship girl who does the same.
!!Hatsushimo
* {{Determinator}}: while she doesn't have the endurance rating to match her sister's, she still has a Will rating of 75%.
* EscortMission: her passive ability Capital Escort Specialist, a reference to her RealLife roles during the Second World War, gives her several combat bonuses for fighting near the vicinity of any capital ship girl.
* FriendlyTarget: is a victim of this when Nagato fires an RPG-7 warhead a little too close to her and Wakaba, so the two destroyers get taken for a short flight.
* {{Shoutout}}: her unique active ability, Fallen Comrades' Revenge, is taken from Sengoku Rance, which allows Hatsushimo to track the exact amount of damage that's been dealt to her allies in her immediate vicinity and concentrate it all into one attack that, if it successfully hits an enemy, will deal that same amount of damage onto one target.
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[folder:Shiratsuyu-Class]]
* TheAce: more or less the entire class - even the general consensus among the ship girls recognizes the Shiratsuyu-Class as the single most powerful destroyer class in the fleet, mostly on the account of their strong protocols. Their stats also help reflect this, as most of the Shiratsuyu-Class start with great stats and abilities (mostly tied to their protocols), and with the introduction of [[spoiler:Damon's YRC powers]], those who haven't yet discovered their protocols receive them.
* AnimalMotifs: as indicated by the nature of their class abilities, the Shiratsuyu-Class are largely portrayed as hound-like in their combat styles.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: a SurvivorsGuilt-ridden ReluctantPsycho, an anchor-flinging semi-{{Yandere}}, a BadassAdorable canine-like AxCrazy BloodKnight [[SweetTooth who happens to like doughnuts]], an OntologicalMystery [[CastFromHitPoints whose hair happens to be edible]], a CuteClumsyGirl who's prone to both [[FacePlant faceplanting]] [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction and destroying entire cities]]]], a [[AnIcePerson cold-blooded]] ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend who's been DrivenToSuicide, a PyroManiac, and a mass-murdering OneWingedAngel who can [[LudicrousGibs vaporize human beings with as much ease as tearing a piece of paper in half]]. Shiratsuyu is currently the only one who can truly claim she's as [[BadassNormal normal as can be,]] and she's the one [[ThisIsGonnaSuck who needs to keep her sisters in line.]]
* CloseRangeCombatant: their class-exclusive abilities intend for them to get into the thick of the fight or at least assume very forward positions in the fleet or in battle, just like their protocols.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Both generations of Shiratsuyu-class were programmed to be more affectionate with their admiral than any of the other girls. [[FridgeLogic Given the universal canine motif that the Shiratsuyu-Class is given ingame, in fanworks, and in this story alike,]] this comes as little surprise.]]
* InSeriesNickname: in chapter 255, Damon decides to give the entire Shiratsuyu-Class English nicknames, as Shiratsuyu and Shigure have.
* {{Shoutout}}: Multiple girls from this class, when they trigger their protocols, emit revolving swirls of inky energy, much like the splash effect graphics frequently seen in VideoGame/StreetFighterV.
!!Shiratsuyu
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Perhaps heavily due to her ordeal as a captured ship girl of Charlotte, she's nowhere near the level of GenkiGirl or AttentionWhore that she is in the game. Her CharacterTic of always wanting to be first is heavily subdued, though a degree of it still stubbornly remains, as she demonstrates when she becomes the first ship girl who willingly accepts a nickname from Damon, Shirley.
* AffectionateNickname: Damon starts calling her Shirley since her original name is a bit confusing for him to pronounce regularly, and Shiratsuyu greatly appreciates this for the reason stated above.
* ArmchairMilitary: Has tendencies of this that start creeping up with chapter 189, which imply that Shiratsuyu is able to verbally control and direct the actions of the rest of her sisters at crucial moments. This is reinforced in later chapters and events, such as [[spoiler:the Shiratsuyu-Class's fight against !Samidare and their undepicted one against President Blackwood, and finally cemented with the development of her Alpha Protocol.]]
* BadassNormal: along with the recently acquired Harusame, she is one of the only ones in her class who doesn't have an obviously powerful protocol; whether or not she even has one is yet to be revealed, though with the recent revelation that she can in fact give commands to her own sisters and have them obey her, she may have a protocol after all. Even still, if this is the extent of her protocol's power, Shiratsuyu is certainly quite normal compared to the rest of her sisters.
** [[spoiler:While Shiratsuyu gains the power of homing electricity via her Alpha Protocol, it's certainly still about a few notches down from the wild powers that, say, Shigure and Yuudachi have received from Damon.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: she's the oldest of a class of destroyers who have [[{{Understatement}} a couple of screws loose, to say the least.]] If someone like Yuudachi is supposed to fulfill the OnlySaneMan trope among them, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck that doesn't bode well for the class as a whole.]] Though, this being said, in the latter third of the story so far, Shiratsuyu herself is trying her best to keep them on the right track.
* BigShutUp: gives one to the rest of her sisters in chapter 189 to rein them in, when the Shiratsuyu-Class are arguing about whether they should go after Damon or Suzukaze first.
* BreakTheCutie: nearly suffers this during her ordeal at Charlotte.
* CoolBigSis: possesses the Eldest of Kin passive ability that all lead ship girls of their respective classes seem to have that grants their sisters small combat attribute buffs when they deploy with their sisters into combat.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:to !Samidare, complete with a ClusterFBomb.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: her time in Charlotte, as explained in her Fleet Log in chapter 132. She takes it pretty hard that she couldn't do anything to alleviate Murasame's situation or otherwise get her out of her situation, amplified by the fact that Shiratsuyu is the eldest sister and thus shoulders the responsibility for the safety of her sister.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Shiratsuyu admits in her Fleet Log that in comparison to her horrible time in Charlotte, she doesn't care what kind of Admiral she ends up with, so long as he/she is compassionate and at least has the well-being of the fleet in mind.
* InSeriesNickname: Shirley; Damon gives this to her just before the start of Operation Charlotte, and she's the first one to get such a nickname from him.
* MeaningfulName: her Alpha Protocol, because not only is she the eldest and the first of the Shiratsuyu-Class, but she can give orders to the rest of her sisters that they feel compelled to obey.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: the motivation for Shiratsuyu to want to return to Charlotte, because Murasame is still back in the faction as Charlotte's prisoner ship girl. As it turns out, there's a very good reason for this.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: ties in with the above. Even though she returned to normal for the most part once she was rescued from Charlotte, Shiratsuyu still shocks the whole fleet by scolding her own sisters (minus Samidare and Shigure) hard in front of everyone.
* RageBreakingPoint: see OOCIsSeriousBusiness above.
* PointOfNoReturn: Operation Norfolk was about to be this, as explicitly mentioned in her Fleet Log. She'd gotten to the point where she would readily trade her own freedom, out of the clutches of the Charlotte faction and its premier, in order to return and ensure that nothing worse can be done to Murasame.
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Damon's YRC now gives Shiratsuyu a lightning-based power that charges her body with visible currents of white electricity and grants her immense speed, though Damon and others speculate it's just incredibly increased acceleration from what little they've seen of it.]]
** in chapter 264, Shiratsuyu finally acquires her own protocol like the rest of her sisters, called Alpha Protocol, which is responsible for [[spoiler:her newfound power to manipulate static potential in her enemies so that the electricity she now produces will always track them and electrocute them so long as they are within physical range of her.]]
* {{Shoutout}}: with her electricity, Shiratsuyu [[spoiler:can make herself a [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Covenant Energy Sword made of white plasma.]]]]
* TakeMeInstead: Shiratsuyu reveals in her Fleet Log that at one point, she confronted Badeau and asked to take Murasame's place, but got laughed off.
* ThisCannotBe: her initial reaction to her reactivation at the hands of the Charlotte faction forces and upon learning what has happened to the world over the past twenty years.
* WeaponOfChoice: wields the Modern Sub Machine Carbine, or the [[http://world.guns.ru/smg/india/msmc-e.html MSMC]], for much of the story.
!!Shigure
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: gets one from Damon in chapter 56, to her chagrin.
* AffectionateNickname: Sugar. She only wants to be called this by Damon when they're alone. But as of chapter 255, it's not exactly secret anymore.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:killed in action by the Re-Class during Operation Dualsight.]]
* BerserkButton: Being called Guncannon, but a more serious one is if someone [[BigBrotherInstinct insults or hurts (or tries to hurt) her sisters.]] As chapter 30 demonstrates, this is in context of her words just moments earlier, when she proclaims herself a ReluctantWarrior who doesn't want to kill...[[LudicrousGibs and then proceeds to murder all the soldiers attacking her and her sisters with Yuudachi's help.]]
* BestFriend: with Yuudachi, naturally. Her Fleet Log goes in depth into how the two of them first become a duo, about how Yuudachi, despite not having a historical reason to befriend Shigure other than their sistership in the same destroyer class, still spent lots of time with her and became her friend and eventually warmed Shigure up to her new life as a ship girl.
* BloodKnight: one of the most literal ones in the fleet thanks to her protocol, albeit not always a willing one.
* BulletCatch: taken UpToEleven in chapter 99 when she catches a 16-inch shell fired at her by Armored Carrier Demon and crushes it.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: [[spoiler:it's heavily implied in chapter 255 that Shigure has been in Damon's room using one of Damon's shirts to get herself off while Damon and part of the fleet are off at Cosco doing some shopping. Damon catches her red-handed when he goes up to his room to switch shirts and finds her trying to hide in his closet, with clear evidence that she's been quite...active.]]
* CryIntoChest: does this to Damon, though it's more [[CryIntoChest Cry Into Arm]] when she does it.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:when she is defeated and killed by the Re-Class in chapter 101, the Re-Class's tail bites into her body's midsection so hard that it tears her body into thirds, munching on the middle third of her body as the others sink immediately.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Her Guilt Protocol, when activated, gives her telekinetic abilities, lethal aggression in combat, and strong support abilities to aid her sisters. However, she makes it clear from very early in the story that she would much prefer not having a terrifying power like this...[[spoiler:though she is in the process of slowly accepting it as necessary, particularly against the stronger Abyssals like the Re-Class.]]
* TheCynic: she tends to have very, very dark thoughts and opinions on the topic of the ship girls' transitions into their new lives from their former ones as warships. She's also particularly angry with the project as a whole for taking her bad memories and opinions of the war and weaponizing them into a power that turns her even more into a monster that she never wanted to become.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:her Fleet Log reveals that Shigure doesn't feel bad at all when she sank at Cayo Romano, to the point where she was almost relieved that she died, since this breaks her usual wartime curse of always managing to survive almost all of the conflicts she was pitched in. Damon's recent death also hangs heavy in her mind in regards to this.]]
* DeflectorShields: gains one in the form of her Kai shield after receiving her Kai upgrade.
* {{Determinator}}: while her endurance rating isn't so great, her Will is at a staggering 90%.
* {{Fingore}}: does this to Armored Carrier Demon's Abyssal hands with her Guilt Protocol.
* {{Foil}}: to her sister Yuudachi. Both in-protocol and out, Shigure is a quieter, more pensive, introverted, and brooding girl who has lots of trouble coping with her feelings about being a ReluctantWarrior SuperSoldier with a SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** also one to Shiranui because Shigure doesn't want to deal with her own extremely negative emotions while Shiranui is the exact opposite.
* TheGlomp: gives one to Yuudachi while they're eating ice cream in chapter 277. [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2503316 Here's a reference.]]
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: spends quite a bit of her Fleet Log in chapter 109 lamenting this part of her identity and talking about how much she hates knowing that she's seen many of her comrades die.
* HiddenEvil: not Shigure herself, but [[spoiler:her Guilt Protocol. In her fleet log, much like Ayanami and her own Nightmare Protocol, she sees it as a sentient parasite that's actually growing on its own, following its own will. It hasn't done anything drastic on its own, so Shigure doesn't know if her own protocol's perceived sentience is supposed to be an entirely bad thing. This is why Shigure does want to master her control over her protocol, despite her initial opinions against it, since she doesn't know if it'll evolve into something truly sinister in the future.]]
* {{Homage}}: As stated in the main page, her BondOneLiner of [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1883834?tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 "Too bad for you"]] and her feat of [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1883838?tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 backhanding an enemy shell]] are both this to [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=gouta_%28nagishiro6624%29 gouta_(nagishiro6624)]]'s Shigure.
* IAmAMonster: explicitly has this mindset about her own protocol, as detailed in chapter 56. She goes so far as to call herself demonic and even just plain evil whenever she uses her protocol.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:killed by the Re-Class when the latter's tail plunges its sharp nose right through the center of her chest.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: fires a 12.7cm shell down one of the barrels of the Armored Carrier Demon to ignite the primer of the shot she's about to fire and detonate the round inside the gun.
* 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.
* JustFollowingOrders: used to justify to herself that [[spoiler:her contribution to driving in the final nail in Suzukaze's banishment from the fleet]] was the correct course of action...but Samidare's condition hits her conscience hard in this aspect.
* MindOverMatter: gets this as an added ability once her protocol gets triggered and best demonstrated in her fight with Yuudachi against [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] when they meet again at Cologne, in which she tears out old railroad spikes out from around her and uses them as a MacrossMissileMassacre against her opponent.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: in chapter 92, she delivers one to one of the Nashville soldiers [[spoiler:who executed an innocent family]] by [[VideoGame/{{GearsOfWar}} tearing off his right arm and beating him to death with it]].
* ThePowerOfBlood: Type AB. One of the abilities she gets as part of her Kai remodel, Blood Surge, involves Shigure infusing a fellow ship sister with protocol energy, [[FridgeHorror which carries the implication that those blood-colored swirls that she produces upon protocol activation aren't just colored that way.]] Upon receiving this infusion, her ship sister will have strengthened shields (if they are remodeled) and will be protected by the infusion in the form of blood tendrils that block attacks for them. She can also feed a fellow ship sister her own blood, losing hit points so that she can heal the drinker of her blood, but it must be noted that the drinker will also gain Insanity for doing so.
* PsychoticSmirk: gives one to Armored Carrier Demon as she utterly [[{{Pun}} destroys]] her.
* RainOfBlood: gets drenched in one when she makes Armored Carrier Demon's body explode with her protocol.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Yuudachi's red.
* 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.
** ReluctantPsycho: naturally, becomes this when her Guilt Protocol becomes active.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: her eyes switch from blue to blood-red when activating Guilt Protocol.
* RepressedMemories: naturally, being a victim of SurvivorGuilt, she has it quite rough with her wartime memories.
** The Battle of Vella Gulf is also a sore spot with Shigure, now that Kawakaze's around.
* {{Shoutout}}: a few to VideoGame/GuiltyGear, mainly [[spoiler:the moves she uses that are renamed attacks of Sol Badguy to fit Shigure's blood-themed attacks.]] Even the name of her protocol itself might be a shoutout.
* SoleSurvivor: heavily implied to be the driving factor for her Guilt Protocol, as evidenced by Shigure's discussion of her own protocol with Damon. This can be seen as the author's interpretation of her real-life counterpart's circumstances in respect to the story in the form of SurvivorGuilt taken [[UpToEleven to its extreme.]]
* StockKisses: gives one to Damon on his cheek at the end of chapter 185.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Yuudachi, naturally. Just as how they are popularly portrayed in fanworks together, so too do they fight and live together in the story.
* WarIsHell: Shigure explicitly hates war and everything that happens in it. It's because of this view that she doesn't agree with the concept of "veterans", that there are no veterans, only survivors.
* WeaponOfChoice: wields the TAR-21 bullpup assault rifle, or the [[http://world.guns.ru/assault/isr/tavor-tar-21-e.html IWI Tavor]] for the first half of the story, then uses a Colt M-4 Carbine after losing her Tavor at Operation Dualsight for the latter half of the story. [[spoiler:Until they run into !Samidare.]]
!!Murasame
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: this time, definitely due to her ordeal as a prisoner ship girl of the Charlotte faction. She is now no longer a BoisterousBruiser and a MotorMouth and is a much more down-to-earth girl who takes her role as a ship girl in Damon's fleet very seriously. In addition, she confides to Damon that like her older sister Shigure, she doesn't want to have to kill people, because she feels she was built to protect them, not to hurt them. [[spoiler:But just like Shigure, this doesn't stop her from becoming absolutely ruthless against those she views as a threat.]]
* AnchorsAway: [[spoiler:gains one from [[HyperspaceArsenal somewhere]] in conjunction with her Desire Protocol activation. She's able to use it at will whenever she activates her protocol afterwards, as their fight against !Samidare demonstrates.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: implied. [[spoiler:The events of the Charlotte operation reveal that Kerrigan Badeau has been forcing Murasame to load a corrupted navitasium cube that contains Abyssal energy during Murasame's period of disabled captivity. In addition, when Damon carries her out of the room in which she's been held captive, Murasame's eyes begin to emit hazes just like an Abyssal's. Then comes the InterruptedSuicide, and then her protocol...]]
* {{BFS}}: gains one in the form of a giant anchor that's as tall as herself. [[HyperspaceArsenal No one knows where she quite pulls it out from.]]
* BuxomIsBetter: isn't afraid to tease this to Damon at several points in their interactions. She's also implied to be the most buxom of the Shiratsuyu-Class, going off Umikaze's comment about being the only one to compete with her in this regard in chapter 184.
* CastFromHitPoints: [[spoiler:The anchor she gains with the activation of her Desire Protocol is revealed to be made out of the remains of her arms.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:during the fight against the Abyssals at Cologne, when Murasame activates her protocol for the first time, she gets [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a huge anchor that's nearly taller than herself]] and (presumably) uses it to kill her enemies and halt the fight between the Re-Class and Shigure and Yuudachi...after having both of her arms get ripped off from the elbows down. Granted, she was revived by Samidare's Brightwater Protocol, but still.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: averted, compared to her ingame self, since all ship girls in this story are programmed to speak fluent English.
* 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.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: has one in [[spoiler:chapter 96 by turning off her ship mode and drowning herself after being DrivenToSuicide following Damon's death, but Sanford and her sisters save her just in time.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler:with her interaction with Damon's YRC, Murasame can now morph her anchor into a demonic katana.]]
* KissDiss: inverted; when Murasame asks for an apology kiss from Damon on her cheek in chapter 83, Damon flips it on her instead and gives her a quick one right on the lips.
* LongRangeFighter: invokes this when she gains possession of Damon's old MK-14, as she then becomes the only one in her destroyer class to use a dedicated long-range rifle as opposed to the submachine guns and assault rifles her sisters use.
* MightyGlacier: this with Umikaze, though Murasame has one less defense point. Even still, she truly becomes this [[spoiler:when her Desire Protocol is activated,]] which gives her an additional 5 points in defense for its duration.
* NeverMyFault: she considers herself faultless in the incident that ended up getting Suzukaze banished from the fleet, instead putting all the blame on Kisaragi for being the instigator of the incident. Kisaragi even tries apologizing to her after realizing her mistakes, but Murasame doesn't even accept them (or at least accepts them only begrudgingly). Subverted much later on in the story when Damon is revealed to be resurrected, and only then does Murasame start feeling remorse for this incident when she's compelled to tell Damon the details about the incident.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: turns very, very cold towards Kisaragi for the incident that happens among them and Suzukaze.
* PreMortemOneLiner: delivers the most straightforward kind to the Abyssal who [[spoiler:tore off her arms]]:
--> Murasame: [[spoiler:"I'm going to murder you."]]
* ReluctantWarrior: just like Shigure, she makes it clear to Damon that she doesn't like the idea of killing people as her job, but hurt any of her sisters, and you can expect a huge anchor flying at you in due time.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:When she morphs her anchor into a katana for her spar against Satsuki, she calls her sword [[VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade "Demon Blade Murasame"]], and her preceding words of "Let the rain fall" are themselves a reference to the fictional rain-summoning Murasame blade from the Japanese novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden.]]
** [[spoiler:Her Passing Shower attack is reminiscent of VideoGame/{{Touhou}} spellcard attacks.]]
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: is this significantly more than her sisters due to the extreme clash of personalities that occurs [[spoiler:when Murasame's Desire Protocol is triggered for the first time.]]
--> Murasame: [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho "I'm going to murder you...]][[KillEmAll just like how I murdered the others..."]]]]
* TakeUpMySword: after a bout with fellow destroyer Kisaragi, Murasame ends up with possession of Damon's [[WeaponOfChoice marksman rifle]].
* TakingYouWithMe: is subjected to this by an enemy Abyssal at the end of Operation Dualsight but is saved just in time by [[spoiler:Jeannie]].
* TheTease: in chapter 184, Murasame asks if Damon wants to join them in the showers after a long afternoon of training.
* TookALevelInBadass: compared to her ingame self, anyway. Once she joins Damon's fleet, she fights as his personal escort during the Orlando operation after she, Shoukaku, and Kaga, all of whom have been [[spoiler:Abyssalized]] to some degree, [[InASingleBound jump up to the container freighter]] on which Damon is fighting [[UpToEleven from sea level]]. Happens again when she [[spoiler:activates her Desire Protocol.]]
* UngratefulBastard: rebukes Suzukaze for attacking Kisaragi even though Suzukaze was the one who came to her aid during their quarrel and ultimately causes Suzukaze to ditch the fleet with a DisappointedInYou hammer.
* {{Yandere}}: definitely shows tendencies of this considering the nature of her conflict with Kisaragi. Her entry in the stat sheet also has shades of this, going off the descriptions of her [[spoiler:Desire Protocol.]] Hell, even the name of her protocol suggests this!
* YouAreNotAlone: in her Fleet Log, she recounts one memory from before the bombs fell, when her developers drove her to the monument that people had built for her and her crew, which made her cry upon seeing it, realizing that there were people who wanted to preserve her memory and the men who served aboard her in the war.
!!Yuudachi
* AccidentalTruth: while they're just casually talking, she inadvertently suggests that "Sugar" might be a good English nickname for Shigure...which turns out to be exactly the nickname that Damon uses when he and Shigure are alone.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: loves getting head pats and head rubs from Damon.
* AnimalMotifs: By far the most hound-like of the Shiratsuyu-Class in overall behavior and displays a great liking towards being petted, particularly by Damon. Even the narration of the story heavily describes her as such.
* AttackAttackAttack: Yuudachi really doesn't care if she's missing an eye or an arm or who her enemy is, [[{{Determinator}} she's still going to rip your throat out or die trying.]]
* BadassBoast: delivers one to [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] at Cologne:
--> Yuudachi: "Yeah? 'Cause when we're done with you, they won't find anythin' left to bury at all, poi..."
* BeachEpisode: she calls for one in chapter 184, though Damon points out that their base at MAPS is already on a beach.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Off-duty, when she's just hanging out with friends, she's usually quite cheerful and friendly. Add Damon into the mix, and she'll be all over him asking for doughnuts and head rubs. But once she's ordered to sortie, she can become anyone's worst [[{{Pun}} Nightmare]].
* CurbStompCushion: manages to keep her and Shigure's fight with the Re-Class from becoming a total curb-stomp by breaking the Abyssal's ribs with one of her attacks.
* DeadlyUpgrade: her Nightmare Protocol, normally just a SuperMode, becomes this if she keeps it on for too long, as reinforced in her entry in the stat sheet.
* DeflectorShields: gains one in the form of her Kai shield after receiving her Kai upgrade.
* DumbMuscle: implied and subverted. If you look at her stats as listed on the stat sheet, Yuudachi by far has the lowest rating in Intelligence among her sisters in the Shiratsuyu-Class at 3, while technically being one of the strongest in her class with an attack rating of 9, matched only by Kawakaze. Subverted because the stat sheet specifically mentions that stats listed for ship girls are still tiers above those given for humans, so Yuudachi having a low intelligence rating compared to everyone else doesn't mean she's dumb by any means. In fact, when you consider her behavior and attitude in the story, [[FridgeLogic perhaps having a lower intelligence rating instead means that she is able to think in much more simpler terms and avoid the mental problems that her sisters have and are plagued by.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The Re-Class butchers Yuudachi's right eye at Cologne,]] but Yuudachi herself [[{{Irony}} isn't the one doing the screaming]].
* ImAHumanitarian: does this to [[spoiler:the Re-Class after she [[ManBitesMan rips out the radius and ulna]] of the Abyssal battleship with her teeth, then proceeds to begin chomping on them.]]
--> Yuudachi: [[spoiler:"They do say bone marrow is healthy for you, poi...plus, it tastes good..."]]
* InSeriesNickname: Yuuie.
* {{Foil}}: to her sister Shigure. Both in-protocol and out, Yuudachi is a more upbeat, cheerful, extroverted, and expressive girl and is very honest with her own feelings, easily able to accept and embrace her identity as an AxCrazy SuperSoldier BloodKnight.
* LaughingMad: does this whenever she pops her protocol and gets into the thick of the fight.
* LifeDrain: a twist on the trope: Yuudachi's Nightmare Protocol has a passive ability, Kill-Happy, that, while it instantly adds 25% insanity, allows Yuudachi to restore 1% fatigue per human kill and 10% per Abyssal kill.
%%* LightningBruiser: ''the'' LightningBruiser of the Shiratsuyu-Class, as befits the most houndlike destroyer of the Shiratsuyu-Class. Not only does she start with a 9 in attack and 8 in speed, but when her Nightmare Protocol is active, she gains an additional +2 for each stat. Her Warhound active ability that she gains with her Kai remodel takes this UpToEleven by giving her another whopping +10 to both attack and speed against one enemy.
* TheOnlyOne: as revealed in Mutsuki's Fleet Log, Yuudachi was the only one who continued to interact with the Mutsuki-Class following the fight between Murasame and Kisaragi.
* OnlySaneMan: surprisingly so, despite her obvious BloodKnight and AxCrazy behavior during combat (also surprising compared to most other fan depictions of her). But if you consider her circumstances, she's the only one who comfortably embraces the insane powers her protocol gives her, has not suffered the psychological trauma that some of her other sisters have, and oftentimes is the one who talks sense into her other sisters. In addition, she can even return to her senses whenever she feels is appropriate, even in the heat of her protocol, as opposed to her sisters, who show much more difficulty regaining composure if their own protocols are in use. Makes you wonder just how bad her sisters must have it if Yuudachi of all people in the Shiratsuyu-Class is supposed to be this.
* 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.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: her eyes switch from green to bright red when activating Nightmare Protocol.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Shigure's blue.
* RunningGag: a small one, but the narration sometimes refers to her or her actions as "the power of the Poi".
* ShoutOut: Yuudachi's SweetTooth tendencies and her love for doughnuts is one to [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=yume_no_owari yume no owari's]] Yuudachi, who loves to play and [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1399466 eat doughnuts.]]
** [[spoiler:her Deja Vu ability is one to that of Bedman from VideoGame/GuiltyGear.]]
* SuperMode: the straightest example among the Shiratsuyu-Class, as Yuudachi's Nightmare Protocol only [[SimpleYetAwesome increases her aggression in battle]], as opposed to the other crazy powers that her sisters get when their respective protocols are active. Which may make you wonder...if all her protocol is ever doing when Yuudachi uses it is change how aggressive she is in combat, then [[FridgeHorror what if she's just this strong normally?]]
* UpToEleven: in the game and among fanworks, she's already quite well known for her title as "The Nightmare of Solomon". In this story, this title gets weaponized as a protocol that turns her into a warhound set on [[KillEmAll killing everything]]. Even her entry in the stat sheet specifically has an ability called "Warhound" that is available for her to use once her protocol is activated.
* VerbalTic: while also prominent in the game, she takes it one step further in the story by even saying "poi" constantly in English, unlike most Western translations of her lines that simply translate the tic to its English equivalent, "like".
* WeaponOfChoice: uses several over the course of her service with the Combined Fleet, but two that come to mind are the [[http://www.gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/Remington-870-MCS-3.jpg Remington 870 MCS]] and the [[http://www.heckler-koch.com/en/products/military/assault-rifles/g36/g36c/overview.html G36-C]].
* WhatTheHellHero: has to give one to Shigure in chapter 92.
* TheWorfEffect: interestingly, she inflicts this back onto [[spoiler:the Re-Class, who first inflicted this trope onto her and Shigure back at Cayo Romano,]] when they fight her again at Cologne. It gets to the point where even [[spoiler:the Re-Class]] is reduced to screaming in terror.
--> [[spoiler:Re-Class]]: "GET OFF ME! GET OFF ME, GET THE FUCK OFF MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
!!Harusame
* HealingHands: her Spring Protocol is shown numbing Damon's senses to allow her sisters to heal the burns on his arms [[spoiler:that he gets when Kagerou accidentally triggers her Heat Wave right in front of him]].
* InSeriesNickname: Haley. Even Suzukaze likes it so much that she's been calling her this too.
* TheMedic: her "Battlefield Angel" passive ability reinforces this, as she grants better healing rates for those whose wounds she helps treat. In addition, bizarre as it is, her hair is a source of healing as well. See VisualPun.
** Now that her Spring Protocol is effectively a healing power, Harusame is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* OntologicalMystery: [[spoiler:Why Harusame was found in Germany of all places, cooped up inside the Metal Slug, is a total mystery.]]
* ReluctantWarrior: does not like fighting, a sentiment shared by many of her sisters. Apparently, Harusame has a worse case of this than others, because the stat sheet specifically lists one of her passive abilities as "{{Pacifist}}", which penalizes her for killing a human being or wounding one too grievously.
* TheSmartGuy: implied with her intelligence rating among her class, which is the highest at 9.
* VisualPun: for some odd reason, Harusame's entry in the stat sheet states that her hair is actually edible and can be fed to wounded ship girls to heal them. This is due to a {{Pun}} on her name, which is also a food, known as vermicelli noodles in English. Thankfully, no one's had to go and eat Harusame's hair yet in the story, but the stat sheet [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential warns you not to make her go bald unless it's an emergency.]]
!!Samidare
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: goes through a brief one [[spoiler:when she breaks out of Suzukaze's prison in Houston.]]
* {{Birdcaged}}: is subjected to this by [[spoiler:Suzukaze, when the latter traps her inside of Houston and entombs her inside a strange glass-like prison.]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: borrows Inazuma's signature "Hawawawa" in chapter 282, resulting in Inazuma having a brief SneezeCut.
* {{Dojikko}}: just like ingame, she has her moments in this story as well - she usually winds up eating the dirt as she trips over her own feet or something along this nature, such as in chapter 185 and 251.
* EmbodimentOfVirtue: given the SiblingYinYang between her and Suzukaze, Samidare truly does seem like this.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: not a permanent one, but [[spoiler:her hair grows hair flaps that look suspiciously like the ones that Shigure and Yuudachi get when they receive their second remodels in the game.]]
* FacePlant: what she ends up doing whenever her {{Dojikko}} tendencies kick in. It either hurts her nose or her pride.
* HealingHands: is shown healing Damon's burns with her Brightwater Protocol. [[spoiler:This is significant because she's tried healing his earlier wounds with her protocol, but with mixed results; now, with his YRC, she's able to heal human wounds flawlessly.]]
* HiddenDepths: her Brightwater Protocol. Normally, it should only be capable of defensive, mainly healing, properties, as demonstrated on both Murasame and Damon (though it doesn't really go well for Damon). [[spoiler:But when Suzukaze traps her in Houston and tries to convert her to follow her new ideologies, Samidare not only reveals that she's more than willing to stop Suzukaze by force, but her protocol also seems to adopt the same mindset and is used offensively.]]
* HolyHalo: [[spoiler:gains one during her fight against Suzukaze. She even uses it [[UtilityWeapon as a weapon.]]]]
* 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.
* InSeriesNickname: Damon shortens her name to Sam. Even Suzukaze winds up calling Samidare this in English, though Suzukaze won't admit it's because of Damon that she's doing so.
* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:when she uses her protocol to revive the horribly wounded Murasame, Samidare's heads-up display is invaded by a torrent of X's, Y's, and Z's.]]
* KickChick: When she and Suzukaze [[spoiler:fight at Houston,]] she notably only uses kicks to fight as melee attacks.
* MakingASplash: Samidare's innate ability, Water Will, allows her to manipulate water directly, but only for purely defensive maneuvers.
* TheMedic: can be considered this due to the nature of her Brightwater Protocol, which is the only protocol of the Shiratsuyu-Class that is apparently incapable of being used offensively. And just like Harusame, Samidare's "Battlefield Angel" passive ability also reinforces this, as she grants better healing rates for those whose wounds she helps treat.
** Now that her Brightwater Protocol can properly heal human wounds, Samidare is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:almost a literal example. Samidare briefly gains the profile of an angel in order to defeat Suzukaze and return her to normal.]]
* OrbitalBombardment: [[spoiler:what her Six Black Heavens' Guns attack comes down to.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: an orbital attack that flattens and vaporizes an entire city while leaving almost nothing behind? Samidare has definitely become this.]]
* PhlebotinumRebel: becomes one against Suzukaze in Houston.
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Suzukaze's red.
* ReluctantWarrior: does not like fighting, a sentiment shared by many of her sisters. Apparently, Samidare, like Harusame, has a worse case of this than others, because the stat sheet specifically lists one of her passive abilities as "{{Pacifist}}", which penalizes her for killing a human being or wounding one too grievously.
* RepressedMemories: due to her historic relationship with Yuubari, the light cruiser. While in the game and in fanworks this is explored, in the story the stat sheet cements this by inflicting accumulating penalties to Samidare if she deploys without Yuubari.
* {{Shoutout}}: several aspects of her [[spoiler:angel form. The spiked halo that she acquires when she first emerges from her cell is reminiscent of Jack-O's spiked halo from VideoGame/GuiltyGear, as is her orbital attack, which is also named after one of the vocals from the Guilty Gear Xrd Sign soundtrack of the same name, Six Black Heavens' Guns, and the Blue Keys that she steals from Suzukaze are based off the Black Keys that Ciel uses from VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}.]]
** in chapter 218, Samidare's request to Damon to call him 'Daddy' is a subtle one to a Samidare doujin titled [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/11319 "Ame Nochi Musume"]] by watarai keiji.
* SiblingYinYang: to Suzukaze in a hodgepodge of respects, other than the apparent personality foils. Samidare begins with a neutral opinion of Damon that slowly improves over time, with a sharp boost after [[spoiler:Damon picks her and Suzukaze up from Houston]]; her protocol focuses on healing others rather than killing (even the names of their protocols are directly opposite); Samidare's travels while [[spoiler:Suzukaze is kicked out of the fleet]] have her mend the worsening relationships she's been having with her sisters up to that point; [[spoiler:she becomes a benevolent (or at least doesn't harbor malicious intent) angel at Houston]]; even the weapons they decide to use also applies, as Samidare is an assault rifle user fighting at mid- to longer ranges with her AR-15.
* StarterEquipment: averted from the game - Damon finds her in chapter 28, though she does have the distinction of being the second starter ship girl from the game whom Damon comes across.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:restrains her sister while her own OrbitalBombardment attack blows the two of them up.]]
* ThemeNaming: Every single Shiratsuyu-Class (except the unintroduced Yamakaze) starting with Samidare down has a protocol that ends in "water". Samidare's is called Brightwater Protocol.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Suzukaze. The story takes their relationship one step further, as in her fleet log, Samidare believes that the CustomUniform that she and Suzukaze share is part of the reason why she feels she and her sister were being distanced away from the rest of their sisters.
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a red-dot AR-15 for much of the story, for even longer than Shiratsuyu has held onto her MSMC. Damon also gives her a Type 38 Arisaka [[spoiler:given to them by Mr. Harrison, but she doesn't get to keep it for long.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: gives one to Suzukaze in chapter 214 when they talk about Damon.
* TheWorfEffect: seems to inflict this onto Suzukaze [[spoiler:when for all the chaotic horror that Suzukaze pulls off with her rampant Darkwater Protocol, such as turning Houston into a case of RealityIsOutToLunch, Samidare, once broken free, proceeds to hack and utterly dismantle Suzukaze's reality marble over the city by annihilating the entire Houston metropolitan area.]]
!!Umikaze
* AnIcePerson: her protocol allows her to decrease the temperature of whatever she touches or the air in her immediate vicinity. According to her entry in the stat sheet, she can also generate actual ice as well, through her Stasis Cell and Icewalk abilities.
* CombatMedic: also according to her entry in the stat sheet, she's capable of healing other ship girls using her Icewater Protocol. Is this more so than Samidare because her protocol isn't restricted only to healing people; in fact, Umikaze is seen more times attacking with it than healing.
** Now that her Icewater Protocol has gotten even better at healing through Damon's YRC, Umikaze is one of the main Shiratsuyu-Class medics.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:was well on her way before Damon rescues her and Kawakaze. Damon manages to convince her out of it.]]
* ElementalHair: snowy white hair to match her Icewater Protocol.
* TheGlomp: delivers one to her twin sister Kawakaze after the latter [[spoiler:flutters down from the roof of Damon's house in New Chicago with her new wings.]] Kawakaze's forced to let her curl up in them.
* HealingHands: As a result of her Icewater Protocol, which she uses to treat Damon's burns on his arms in chapter 267.
* IndirectKiss: the narration doesn't explicitly mention or suggest it, but she asks to have a sip of Damon's energy drink in chapter 184. Damon almost overlooks Umikaze's intention, but he gives her a sip knowingly anyway.
* InSeriesNickname: Yumi.
* MightyGlacier: fittingly so compared to the rest of her sisters. According to the stat sheet, she might not be the hardest-hitting or even the slowest (Murasame technically has lower speed than her), but Umikaze has the highest defense rating among her sisters at 9.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:suffers this at the hands of the Inner Circle agents in their base in Mexico, and was nearly DrivenToSuicide as a result.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: blue to Kawakaze's red. Even ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* {{Shoutout}}: one of her attacks against [[spoiler:!Samidare]] is one to Nash's Tragedy Assault from VideoGame/StreetFighterV.
* SiblingYinYang: to Kawakaze. Umikaze is a calmer, more polite and courteous girl whose powers revolve around ice and cold.
* TheTease: like Murasame, though she's more straightforward with it. She even outright declares that she's the only one among her sisters who can compete with Murasame in terms of [[UnusualEuphemism upper hull armor]].
* ThemeNaming: Icewater Protocol.
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Kawakaze. They even get their own mini-arc in the story with Damon. [[spoiler:It's not as [[{{Understatement}} innocent]] as it sounds.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: while not necessarily a true "girlfriend" of Damon, both she and Kawakaze will still fiercely protect him, as their brief conflict with the Re-Class following their emergency repairs demonstrates.
!!Kawakaze
* AbnormalAmmo: invokes this when her protocol is activated, and all of her own munitions, both cannon shells and bullets alike, turn incendiary for the duration that her protocol is active.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:compared to her sister Umikaze. When Damon finds her and Umikaze at the Inner Circle base in Mexico, he finds Kawakaze still barely hanging in there after at least weeks of torture and rape when Umikaze is already well on her way off the deep end. She also recovers more quickly than Umikaze does.]] In addition, one of her passive abilities listed in the stat sheet gives her strong combat bonuses if she is fighting while outnumbered or is dueling against another enemy that is a stronger ship type than herself.
* ElementalHair: bright red hair to match her Firewater Protocol.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: insists that Damon attend to her sister Umikaze more than herself [[spoiler:because she knows that Umikaze is in worse of a condition than she is after they get rescued]].
* {{Hellfire}}: funnily enough, it's the name of one of the abilities that she can use while in protocol, which allows her to fire a special cannon round into the air and [[DeathFromAbove rain hellfire down in nine separate flaming meteors]] onto the battlefield.
* HotWings: [[spoiler:gains a pair through Damon's YRC power - and to many of the other ship girls' amazement, she really can fly with them.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Kira, though Damon surprisingly doesn't have a problem pronouncing Kawakaze's full name to begin with, so he uses both names interchangeably.
%%* LightningBruiser: while not to the extent that Yuudachi is, she still qualifies with a 9 in attack and 7 in speed.
* PlayingWithFire: due to her Firewater Protocol, she's able to generate and manipulate fire freely and use it either as elemental upgrades for her melee attacks via ElementalPunch or as a ranged attack by themselves.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:suffers this at the hands of the Inner Circle agents in their base in Mexico, although she handles it slightly better than Umikaze.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Umikaze's blue. Even ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* {{Shoutout}}: [[spoiler:in chapter 261, with Damon's YRC help, Kawakaze gains many of Shana's powers like [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana flaming ember hair, flaming eyes, and flaming wings.]]]]
* SiblingYinYang: to Umikaze. Kawakaze is a HotBlooded, fiery BoisterousBruiser whose powers revolve around fire, fire, and [[FieryRedhead more fire.]]
* ThemeNaming: Firewater Protocol. [[{{Irony}} Wait a minute...]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Umikaze. They even get their own mini-arc in the story with Damon. [[spoiler:It's not as [[{{Understatement}} innocent]] as it sounds.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: while not necessarily a true "girlfriend" of Damon, both she and Umikaze will still fiercely protect him, as their brief conflict with the Re-Class following their emergency repairs demonstrates.
!!Suzukaze
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: her attitude gets steadily worse and worse over the course of the story, mainly towards Damon but even towards her sister Samidare, with whom she's normally the closest out of all her sisters in the Shiratsuyu-Class.
* BackForTheDead: chapter 164 opens with a depiction of her [[spoiler:getting consumed by the flames of her own Darkwater Protocol.]]
* BackstabBackfire: inflicts this onto a couple of Quakers in chapter 130.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: she herself admits that she's not the most emotionally sensitive or aware, but if she sees that her sisters are in trouble and need her help, she'll come in with all guns blazing, and she is adamant that she be able to do this because it's what she knows how to do best.
* BerserkButton: like that of her other sisters, she will come to the aid of her sisters no matter what the circumstance. [[spoiler:Though, this does end up biting her in the ass when it comes to the incident between Murasame and Kisaragi.]]
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: [[spoiler:once everyone is dead in Philadelphia, at the end of it all, Suzukaze is depicted covered head to toe in blood from all of the victims her Darkwater Protocol has claimed.]]
* BullyingADragon: does this [[spoiler:to her own sister Samidare when she separates her from the rest of the Shiratsuyu-Class in Houston and cages her in a glass-like stasis cell. Once Samidare is broken free, Suzukaze learns that for as much of a dragon she herself has become, her own sister is an even bigger one.]]
* CameBackWrong: chapter 187 reveals [[spoiler:the extent of the change that Suzukaze has gone through after being consumed by her Darkwater Protocol.]]
* CatScare: has one in chapter 111, when a falling brick scares her as she's walking through the abandoned Atlantic City.
* CurbStompBattle: what ends up happening when [[spoiler:Damon tries to go up against her in Houston.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:gets a triple-whammy: first when the Federal soldiers in Atlantic City kill Tatsuya and burn down the house that Miyuki is staying in, second when the Shakers chase her out for "healing" Celsie, and third when the Shakers are massacred. See TraumaCongaLine on the main page.]]
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: an unusual twist: she unknowingly sets her own internal monologue on open broadcast, so while she doesn't actually say anything aloud, Shigure, who walks up behind her, hears everything over vicinity comms.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:while under the influence of her rampant protocol, she proclaims that she wants nothing more than to force the rest of the world to feel her pain that she suffered while going on her TraumaCongaLine, though Damon confronts her and tells her that [[MisplacedRetribution the person she ought to take revenge against, if anyone, is Sanford.]]]]
* DissonantSerenity: Gains this in chapter 121 [[spoiler:when her Darkwater Protocol activates for the first time.]]
* DumbMuscle: becomes this when she activates her Darkwater Protocol, which grants her a colossal +10 attack but reduces both her intelligence and speed by 5.
* EmbodimentOfVice: given her SiblingYinYang with Samidare, Suzukaze truly does seem like this.
* EtTuBrute: she realizes that if Murasame wasn't the one who dropped the DisappointedInYou hammer on her from the incident between Murasame and Kisaragi, she wouldn't have taken it anywhere near as badly.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: opts for a ponytail instead of her usual low twintails while spending time at [[spoiler:Philadelphia]] [[spoiler:In addition, just like Samidare, she gains hair flaps during her transformation at Houston while fighting against her.]]
* GraveMarkingScene: [[spoiler:in chapter 143, once she's done killing everybody, Suzukaze buries the bodies of Barry, Baxster, and Celsie out at the field next to the pub and marks it with her pair of emerald bobbles.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:implied with such attacks as her Gravity Spikes and now her more recently acquired Gravity Hammer, although Suzukaze's yet to manipulate gravity itself.]]
* GravityIsPurple: averted. [[spoiler:Suzukaze's protocol energy is black.]]
* HealingHands: appears to have this when she uses her Colossus Reactor to heal a wounded girl in Philadelphia, [[spoiler:but it turns out she gets incredibly sick with Darkwater radiation. Later events confirm that her "healing hands" are only meant for other ship girls and not necessarily for humans.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: She's compelled to eliminate all Quakers when rescuing Baxter from the hold of the New Jersey. This leads to the events of KillEmAll below.
* {{Hellfire}}: [[spoiler:what her protocol flames are implied to be, especially in light of the SiblingYinYang that Suzukaze and Samidare share.]]
* HolyHalo: [[spoiler:gains one during her fight against Samidare...[[LightIsNotGood but it's anything but holy.]]]]
* InASingleBound: She, too, jumps up from the Delaware River onto the deck of the New Jersey while in the process of rescuing Baxter.
* InSeriesNickname: Damon shortens her name to Suzy, and so far, Suzukaze doesn't seem to mind at all. Surprising, given that most other ship girls who don't really like Damon and who are called nicknames by him all hate the fact that he doesn't call them by their full Japanese names.
* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:at multiple intervals throughout her mini-arc, if she suffers a severe blow to her psyche, her heads-up display will start flooding with X's, Y's, and Z's. [[FridgeHorror Doesn't that sound familiar...]]]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:during her mini-arc, the survivors she stays with for a time in Philadelphia, the Shakers, are attacked and wiped out by their rival faction, the Quakers. Suzukaze is in the Quaker camp when this happens, trying to figure out if there is another ship girl, which there isn't, and when the Quakers return with Barry's head on a stake, [[LimpAndLivid this is the result.]]]]
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:what she's now able to do as a result of her Darkwater Protocol. Her entry in the stat sheet explicitly states that she can instantly kill any human being like this while in protocol because she's tearing the water molecules in her victims' bodies apart, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath causing them to implode.]] She demonstrates this quite...liberally at times.]]
* MakingASplash: Suzukaze's innate ability, Water Cascade, allows her to manipulate water directly to attack. Synergizes well with Samidare's innate ability, as demonstrated in chapter 64, when Samidare creates a large wall of ocean water that Suzukaze throws forward like a tidal wave.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: delivers one to an enemy in chapter 133 when he ambushes her in the darkness of the hold of the New Jersey with a metal baseball bat.
* NotTheIntendedUse: receives the Colossus Reactor from [[spoiler:U.S.S. New Jersey]], an augmentation that's meant for battleships.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:after Philadelphia, slowly turns into one until she reaches Houston.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: her mini-arc, called Suzukaze's Voyage in the story chapters, deviates from the story's usual grimdark action-adventure and begins teetering into horror territory.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:what the powers that her Darkwater Protocol grant eventually turn into. Even the energy swirls that Suzukaze produces as a result of triggering her protocol are described as viscous black flames.]]
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: gives one of these to Shigure.
* 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: red to Samidare's blue.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:delivers one to the Federal soldiers who kill her friends Miyuki and Tatsuya at Atlantic City, the trigger necessary for her Darkwater Protocol activation.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: pulls this off after getting told off by Murasame, contributing greatly to her own banishment from the fleet.
* SiblingYinYang: to Samidare in a hodgepodge of respects, other than the apparent personality foils. Suzukaze begins with a slightly favorable opinion of Damon that quickly worsens over time (though, past [[spoiler:Houston]], it's not entirely clear if Suzukaze is becoming a {{Tsundere}} for him); her protocol is entirely about killing people in the goriest ways possible (even the names of their protocols are directly opposite); Suzukaze suffers a TraumaCongaLine during her own mini-arc called "Suzukaze's Voyage" while Samidare is in Germany with the rest of the fleet; [[spoiler:she becomes a thoroughly malevolent entity at Houston]]; even the weapons they decide to use also applies, as Suzukaze most often uses close-range weapons like the AA-12 automatic shotgun.
* {{Shoutout}}: with [[spoiler:Damon's YRC, Suzukaze can wield the Gravity Hammer from VideoGame/Halo3.]]
* SoftWater: averts this in chapter 121 [[spoiler:when she uses her Water Cascade ability to drop a waterfall down onto the Federal soldiers who killed Tatsuya and Miyuki and kills most of them with it.]]
* ThemeNaming: Darkwater Protocol. [[spoiler:Given how much and how drastically it's developed over the course of the story, Suzukaze's protocol could debatably be the most powerful protocol among the Shiratsuyu-Class.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: with Samidare. For a brief period of time, [[spoiler:Samidare and Suzukaze are the only two ship girls Damon has, much like how Umikaze and Kawakaze were before them.]]
* {{Unperson}}: is treated like one by Sanford following her banishment from the fleet.
* WeaponOfChoice: uses the AA-12 automatic shotgun for much of the early parts of the story with her introduction.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: it's clear that [[spoiler:by the time Damon revisits Houston and confronts Suzukaze, she's wholly changed due to the rampancy of her protocol.]]
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