History Characters / AzurLaneRoyalNavyAircraftCarriers

* FanservicePack: Her chinese new year's skin shows her already respectable bust upped to be comparable with Sirius, and instead of a qipao, she's wearing an ensemble that is kept decent by the robes she wears as the main thing covers very little as a [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1357128161306103808 concept piece reveals (NSFW warning)]]

* CovertPervert: She has a pretty interesting line if you give her a special touch. She also is a more restrained version of Ark Royal in her affection for Acasta and Ardent, even remark that she understands why Ark would be so attracted to destroyers. ''Swirling Cherry Blossoms'' Juustagram post also has Ark [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/elktxw/ark_royal_caught_in_the_wild/ confirmed]] that Glorious has the same hobby as her (discreetly taking DD pictures).

* NaughtyNuns: Despite having a nun/religious-adjacent theme, Implacable has a buxom body, wears [[{{Stripperiffic}} very revealing attire]], and her dialogue absolutely oozes with innuendo, if not outright sexually suggestive.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Her feet are covered by ankle wraps in her default appearance. Her "Goddess' Day Off" appearance, on the other hand, depicts her wearing a pair of black high-heel boots.

* CordonBleughChef: While an avid lover of tea herself, it is implied that she is very poor at brewing it. In her Juustagram post, a special black tea she made for the Commander somehow ended up turning ''green''. Bump it up to LethalChef when, in ''Slow Ahead!'', a manjuu was knocked unconcious and foaming at the mouth after having a cup.

* PeekABangs: In her Default CG and her "Guardian of the Ball" Special, her short, black hair is styled to cover basically the right side of her face. Averted with her "[[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Ark_Royal/Gallery#Coast_Watcher Coast Watcher]]" Summer CG, and her "[[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Ark_Royal/Gallery#New_Year.27s_Protectress New Year's Protectress]]" Special CG.

* CordonBleughChef: While an avid lover of tea, she herself is implied to be very poor at brewing it. In her Juustagram post, a special black tea she made for the Commander somehow ended up turning ''green''.

* ShoutOut: The combination of her clock/time-theme and her gothic dress makes her look to be a shout out to [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi]]. Also to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO Brando]] after the particular scene and her skill.

* GagBoobs: The game makes a lot of jokes on her chest: some of her lines have a few gags about their size as well as "soft landings". If put into battle with Victorious, she will remark that Illustrious is "way too well endowed". Even her skill icon has emphasis on her chest.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Her [[https://www.facebook.com/AzurLaneEN/photos/a.614995418864921/635895123441617/?type=3 facebook announcement post]] did say something about her ignorance of her own attractiveness. She doesn't seem to understand what Victorious meant by saying [[GagBoobs "knocker"]]. Her skins don't have anything to overly flaunt her charms unlike say Taihou. Her interaction invokes an image of a flirtatious lady, but she is... enough said, purely innocent at heart.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Does not mind being groped, offers the Commander a "rousing distraction" in one of her idle lines, and her Like/Crush, Love, and Pledge/Oath lines are her basically asking the Commander to stop trying to fight themselves and just indulge in her. Implacable is definitely not shy at all with providing fanservice.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted, since she's clearly supposed to be Anglican (or the AL world's equivalent) instead of Catholic. This is evident by the fact that she prays to a small idol of Queen Elizabeth in Revelations of Dust, and in real life the British monarch is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. During the event she and Richelieu discuss the different between her faith and the Catholic-inspired Iris Orthodoxy at several points.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted, since she's clearly supposed to be Anglican (or the AL world's equivalent) instead of Catholic. This is evident by the fact that she prays to a small idol of Queen Elizabeth in Revelations of Dust, and in real life the British monarch is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted, since she's clearly supposed to be Anglican (or the AL world's equivalent) instead of Catholic.

* HornedHumanoid: She sports a pair of horns which are likely head ornaments attached to her habit, as is implied by the lack of said horns in Kincora's character design sheet and her "Shepard of the 'Lost'" skin. Implacable having horns is ironic considering

* HornedHumanoid: She sports a pair of horns which are likely head ornaments attached to her habit, as is implied by the lack of said horns in Kincora's character design sheet and her "Shepard of the 'Lost'" skin. A funny case considering her nun theme, though this likely accentuates her less-than-holy attributes ''amongst other things''.
* NaughtyNuns: Buxom, [[{{Stripperific}} extremely revealing attire]], and dialogue absolutely oozing with sensuality are some of her hallmarks.

* HistoricalInJoke

* NaughtyNuns: Much of her dialogue is unabashedly sensual, contrary to the theme she potrays.

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* BuxomIsBetter: Is ''the'' bustiest of her sisters, which is saying something since all her sisters are also this trope. Her self-introduction implies it's because her design was modified for increased hangar capacity[[note]]48 standard and up to 57 as opposed to the 36 planes carried by her other three sisters, though Victorious and Formidable occasionally carried up to 54[[/note]].
-->As the fourth member of the Illustrious class, of course I'd be somewhat different from my sisters... Hey, I'm talking about hangar capacity here, not service history or repair length.

* UniformityException: The only Royal fleet carrier that isn't blonde[=/=]platinum blonde. She and Unicorn are also the only non-blonde Royal carriers.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Ark Royal's formal "Guardian of the Ball" [=Live2D=] outfit features generous amounts of jiggling.

* MsFanservice: Ark Royal has very generous proportions and ''looks'' calm, cool, and elegant, all of which her summer and formal skins (a very revealing swimsuit and a tiny black dress with [=Live2D=] gainaxing, respectively) play up heavily, and which is also sometimes played up for promotional materials. ''Queen's Orders'' even refers to her as a "Deplorable Beauty" in its first chapter.

* WeaponOfChoice: Downplayed but one of her skills give Fairy Albacore planes up to 15% efficiency and a up to 100% chance of having a special plane barrage (wide firing of torpedoes) that can inflict flooding with a 80% chance. Downplayed because the planes are still sub-optimal and the special barrage is far more useful for mob clearing than boss fighting.

* ShoutOut: The combination of her clock/time-theme and her gothic dress makes her look to be a shout out to [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi]]. Also to [[Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure DIO]] after the particular scene and her skill.

** Illustrious has [[ShesGotLegs long legs]], large chest, and dresses that highlight them for the most part.

* ShesGotLegs: Her alternate skins reveal that her legs are as notable as her chest. Even her normal skin somewhat uses this, as the lower half of her skirt is slightly translucent.

* ShesGotLegs: Her art shows them off pretty well and unlike her sister, not overshadowed by [[GagBoobs other things]].

[[folder: The ''Colossus''-class]]
!!Perseus (R51)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/NaomiOzora

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/perseus_1.png]]
-->'''ID:''' 462
-->'''Rarity:''' Super Rare

-->"I'm Perseus, from the Royal Navy. You can pronounce it "Per-see-us" if you want though... Well, whatever. Are we done here? Great. Nice meeting you."

* AlphaStrike: She can launch two airstrikes right off the bat, at the cost of a drastic increase in airstrike cooldowns.
* AnimalMotifs: Owls. She has one in her base art, and the owl is the symbol of Athena, the goddess who helped the mythological Perseus overcome the gorgon Medusa. Athena also gets a more direct shout out in Perseus' "Athena's Catapult" skill.
* CombatPragmatist: An inevitable result of being able to immediately launch two airstrikes, allowing double damage output before the enemy can respond, though it's secondary to the healing function.
* CombatMedic: Joins Unicorn and Shouhou as the third carrier capable of healing your ships, and among the few ships that has the ability to do so. More medic than combatant due to her low aviation and plane efficiencies. A nod to how the actual ''Perseus'' were essentially an improved ''Unicorn'' as a maintenance carrier.
* DeadpanSnarker: Perseus is very sarcastic and dry-witted.
-->(''when touched''):Maybe try finishing your work before you "chat me up" or "interview me" or however you wanna sugarcoat it?
-->(''when groped''):You must really want a seat at the naval jailhouse dinner table, huh?
-->(''reminding you of tasks''): What kind of lazy cat are you, just lounging around all day instead of doing missions?
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Her Crush/Like, Love and Oath/Pledge lines reveal that her sharp tongue is due to difficulty expressing her feelings.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her being able to launch two airstrikes at once in the game is a nod to how she was used as a platform for an experimental steam catapult system the Royal Navy developed after the war, where she carried the experiment successfully. Perseus's ability to heal better than Unicorn as well as her super rare classification stems from the fact that the former was essentially an improved design of the latter (though the design tweaks were done while Perseus were being built on drydock rather than while still in blueprints).
* HospitalHottie: Her nurse outfit is quite revealing, even compared to Hermione's, with the top open making a cleavage window.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When sortied as the flagship, she will declare that the battlefield is no place to be worried about fuel economy. As a Super Rare ship, she is indeed less fuel efficient than other, lower-rarity healers such as Unicorn and [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Shouhou]]. If you're sortieing her, you're either not worried about fuel efficiency, or you really need the additional healing she provides over the previously mentioned carriers.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Even among other healing-capable ships and carriers, she stands out:
** She, unlike other carriers, can attack right at the start, with two airstrikes to boot. As a trade-off, she recovers airstrikes much slower than other carriers.
** Unlike other ships that can heal friendly ships, she can heal both the mainline and vanguards, as well as the vanguard of the other deployed fleet.
* NotTheIntendedUse: The Carrier Detection mechanic introduced in late 2020 gave her a new role in [=PvP=] fleets completely unrelated to her healing role in [=PvE=]. Having two airstrikes preloaded at the start of the fight all but completely guarantees that any enemy carriers will be detected within seconds of the fight starting. This reduces their damage output tremendously and opens them up to Warspite's monstrous AP barrage (as she cannot target undetected carriers).
* SarcasmFailure: While she has plenty of zingers locked, loaded, and aimed at [[PlayerCharacter the Commander]], she doesn't seem to have given much thought to her [[BondOneLiner victory lines]] against her actual enemies.
---> '''Perseus''': Looks like the enemy will have to, uh, try harder next time.
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[[folder: The ''Hermes''-class]]
!!Hermes (95)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuunaInamura

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hermes_0.png]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Hermes (Retrofit)]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hermeskai.png [[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''ID:''' 140
-->'''Rarity:''' Normal
-->'''Artist''': Yumesaki Kaede

-->"The card of glory, the soul of the duel... no, this is the flight deck! I am Hermes. Commander, I await your orders!"

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In real life HMS ''Hermes'' was pretty awful even at her intended job. She was so small she could only equip a marginal air wing even by 1920s standards--never mind the much bigger 1940s aircraft. Shipgirl Hermes suffers no such weakness: retrofitted, her fully-levelled airpower stat is the same as Ranger, a larger carrier that carried three times as many aircraft. And she can equip giant torpedo planes like the Douglas Skypirate which in real life could have only been landed on her by a dockside crane.
* ComMon: One of the most common carriers in the game thanks to her low rarity and regular appearance as a level reward. You'll see her a lot.
* CovertPervert: Has no problems with the commander touching her in a particular fashion as long as he keeps winning.
* DeathDealer: She uses cards that turn into planes.
* GenderBlenderName: Named for the (very much male) Messenger God from Classical Mythology.
* ShoutOut: Her design and voice lines make her out to look like [[Franchise/YuGiOh a certain duelist]]. Her voice actress even voiced the main heroine (and her doppelganger) of the [[Anime/YuGiOhArcV fifth series]]. Her remodel trades out her "flight deck" for rigging that makes it look like she's [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds riding a motorcycle]].

[[folder: The ''Unicorn''-class]]
!!Unicorn (I72)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AiKakuma (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English), Jocelyn Robles (Latin American Spanish)

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unicorn_5.png]]
-->'''ID:''' 142
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite

-->"I... I am... The Royal Navy's... Unicorn. ...Commander, can... can I call you... big brother?"8

* AlphaStrike: Her retrofit gives her the skill to have one preloaded airstrike. Essentially making her a Perseus-lite.
* CombatMedic: Her Support Carrier skill lets her heal the vanguard by up to 8% of their maximum health whenever she uses an airstrike, so offense and defense go hand-in-hand, but downplayed due to her defensive nature (this is subverted later with her refit. She is still tanky, but her damage is improved).
* DCupDistress: In the anime, Unicorn is rather insecure about her boobs at first. Laffey later encourages her that her body is fine the way it is. No such distress exists in the game proper, however.
* DubNameChange: Zigzagged. Not Unicorn herself, but her stuffed unicorn toy. In both Chinese and Japanese version of the game, she's named simply [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics U-chan]]. In English text, Unicorn's toy is given the name Ugean, even as she calls her U-chan with the Japanese audio. In the [[Anime/AzurLane Funimation dub of the anime]] (the first instance of an officially English voiced Unicorn), they simply call it U-chan.
** A recent update to the game changed the name to Unii, which is closer to the asian name. Later spelled as Yuni.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She is always shown together with her stuffed unicorn.
* HiddenBuxom: Her default skin hides a rather sizable bust; it's easily seen on her alternate skins.
* HistoricalInJoke: The reason why she follows around Illustrious and call her big sister? While the historical ''Unicorn'' was designed to serve all the British carrier-based aircraft maintenance during the war, by the time she was commissioned, she mainly went along with the ''Illustrious'' carrriers as they lost a significant amount of aircraft in battle (and they formed the main carrier strike force of the Royal Navy), and, as noted, essentially followed ''Illustrious'' herself in both Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. Kincora has even drawn a picture [[https://twitter.com/KIncoraK/status/1529364835129249792?t=xpMv_5dhLKK4e50hn0w-fA&s=19 of Unicorn with the rest of the Illustrious sisters]] suggesting they see her as an honorary member.
** Her defensive nature is a nod to how, in addition to her status as the maintenance carrier (Pioneer came out very late and Perseus being a post-war remnant), her design included ''armored'' flight deck ala the ''Illustriouses''
* IdolSinger: She has an alternate skin which resembles [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} a certain idol]]. She later got a non-collaboration skin of this nature.
* ItCanThink: The trailer for the anime shows U-chan being able to move.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXokCIJqhM My Night]]
* LivingToys: The stuffed unicorn toy she carries around is alive, even in the game. It's shown to be blinking in her Live [=2D=] skin, and it has different sizes and shapes in all of her other skins. This is strongly emphasized in the anime and her retrofit, where it clearly moves around and can change its size so Unicorn can ride her in combat.
* MountedCombat: In the anime, U-Chan can transform big enough that she rides on it in combat while flying high in the air. Becomes a RecursiveAdaptation when Unicorn also does it in her retrofit form in the game.
* ShoutOut: The Commander would ask her if she has the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn NT-D System much like her other counterpart]], she would reply that she has never heard of such thing or doesn't have the Destroy Mode that comes with it.
* SixthRanger: Despite not being a destroyer, recent media seems to place her as this to the starter quartet, between her substituting for Z23 in the anime and a recent Juustagram post of said destroyer taking a selfie with "everyone", which includes Unicorn. This is rooted from Dec 2017, which marked a boom in players of the Japanese version in part due to a number of things being given away, including Unicorn, basically making her an honorary one in many player's eyes. Later updates pretty much enable players to do this by making her available for purchase at the guild shop from the get go.
* StoneWall: She's noticeably tankier than other [=CVLs=] (with the second-highest HP after the higher-rarity Centaur, even after other ships get retrofits) and with a relatively weak offensive loadout of a fighter, a dive bomber, and an anti-aircraft gun. Contrast with [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Shouhou]], who leans more towards offense despite also being a healer via Support Carrier.
* SupportPartyMember: She has two Support skills: Support Carrier, which heals the vanguard after deploying an airstrike, and Reload Command to passively increase the Reload stat of the vanguard at the start of battle. Her retrofit increases her utility and heal thanks to her ''U-Chan's Aid'' skill by virtue of having a preloaded airstrike and main fleet healing. This, at certain nodes, makes her ''slightly better'' than Perseus because Unicorn doesn't have a cool down penalty from said preload.
* WomanChild: Despite her childish actions, she is physically in her midteens (which is clear in her alternate skins), though there are a few hints that this might be an act.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The ''Bogue''-class]]

For US version of the class, see Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnion.

! ''Attacker''-subclass
!!Chaser (D32)[[labelnote:*]]Originally USS Breton (CVE-10)[[/labelnote]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RuiTanabe

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chaser.png]]
-->'''ID:''' 376
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': [=Jinyuan712=]

-->"Greetings Commander, Escort Carrier "Chaser" reporting in, I heard that there are high quality tea sets and tea leaves? I am eager to meet those friends who have fine tastes too, eheh~"

* BigLittleSister: She's USS Bogue's little sister, but comes off much more mature & refined.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Similar to her sister Bogue, she's specialized in anti-submarine warfare, especially with her unique skill that reveals submarines ''and'' launches planes that drop depth charges. She's below-average for her class and rarity otherwise, including less Aviation stat than [[StoneWall Unicorn]].
* ForeignCultureFetish: Her world-spanning service history[[labelnote:*]]She was originally a US ship, sold to the Royal Navy and used as an escort in the Arctic during the war, then sold to Taiwan as a merchant escort before being scrapped in 1973[[/labelnote]] gets played as this. She is obsessed with tea culture and buys her own dress to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Her accent is also interesting, with some of her lines sounding posh, others sounding lower or middle class, and at least one sounds ''Australian''. A bit odd, considering that she was part of the US Navy for ''less than a day'' before being transferred to the British and renamed Chaser.
* MegaTwintails: With a pair of tight OjouRinglets that could give Nelson a run for her money.
* NiceGirl: Is quite polite and kind. Even her upset line, rather than her being angry or dismissive, has her ask the commander if something's been bothering them, and making it clear that they can tell her about it.
* UselessUsefulSkill: One of her skills lets her sweep for submarines, then launches a Swordfish wing to attack them. Because the English version launches brand-new ships and events [[EarlyBirdCameo simultaneously with other servers]] rather than sticking strictly to old release schedules, she arrived to that server before submarines and submarine combat were even added to the game. Averted with the release of submarines now, as it provides an alternative to having to saddle a frontline ship with an otherwise useless sonar.
* {{Vaporwear}}: Her Dragon Empery skin, which has her breasts barely covered by two loose pieces of fabric. It's also quite clear she isn't wearing a bra in her normal skin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The ''Centaur''-class]]
!!Centaur (R06)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyaUchida

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/centaur_6.png]]
-->'''ID:''' 356

-->'''Artist''': Tony Taka

-->"Is this where my elders that participated in the war gather? Hello Commander, I am Centaur. Pleased to meet you."

* ArcherArchetype: Uses a bow to fire her planes.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her high performance is one as a the time she started construction, she was intended to be very state of the art. However, by the time she was finished, carrier technology had progressed to such a point where she was rendered obsolete.
* JackOfAllStats: She does a number of tasks pretty well (be it damage, slowing down the enemy, buffing the backline, providing air superiority, dealing with enemy planes), only losing out to the specialists.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Her character design is trying to evoke the image of an elf, combining bow usage with her long, pointy ears.
* LightningBruiser: She's absolutely ''the'' tankiest CVL in the game, with HP higher than even several [=CVs=] and completely outstrips Unicorn, the 2nd tankiest. She also has an Aviation stat akin to a number of [=CVs=] of the same rarity while having a reload stat expected of CVLs (high).
* ShesGotLegs: Has ''very'' long legs, prominently displayed in her "Beachside Undine" and "Sprightly Spring Wind" skins.
* {{Underboobs}}: To the point it's basically {{vaporwear}}, where a slight breeze would leave her assets bare. This also applies to her Summer and Lunar New Year skin as well.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She wasn't finished until World War II was over; this is shown by her treating other ships as her senior, even the (often child-like) destroyers.