Characters / Azur Lane Ironblood Main Fleet

Azur Lane (Main Character Index)
Major Nations
Eagle Union (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Large/Battlecruisers (CB/BC) | Battleships (BB) | Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL) | Aircraft Carriers (CV) | Submarines (SS) | Repair Ships (AR))
Royal Navy (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Battleships (BB) | Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL) | Aircraft Carriers (CV))
Sakura Empire (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Battlecruisers and Battleships (BB and BC) | Aircraft Carriers (CV/L))
Ironblood (Vanguard Ships (Destroyers, Light & Heavy Cruisers) | Main Fleet ships (Battlecruisers, Battleships, Light & Fleet Carriers) | Submarines)
Other Nations
Dragon Empery | North Union | Iris Libre | Vichya Dominion | Sardegna Empire
Other Characters
META | Ashes | Others | Sirens

Battlecruisers (CC/BC)

The Seydlitz-class

Seydlitz

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Artist: hou

Voiced by: Minami Tsuda

I am Seydlitz, Iron Blood battlecruiser! My tenacity is my pride, my conquests are my glory, and executing your orders is my mission! I await your orders, Commandant!

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• Commissar Cap: In her base skin.
• Determinator: She was almost sunk twice during World War One, the second time surviving only by luck and a very tenacious salvage operation. Her no-nonsense personality reflects this even if her backstory in Azur Lane is different.
• Gratuitous German: She always refers to the Commander as "Commandant."
• Humble Hero: She's extremely humble and self-effacing, wishing only to perform her upmost duty for the Commander and Iron Blood.
• Iron Lady: She's very stoic and soldier-like, giving her an overall masculine demeanor. In one of her post-oath lines, she mentions that she would prefer to be treated more as a soldier than a lady, and addresses other shipgirls as "milady."
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Invoked it with this line in her Floral Liberation Outfit.
  Victory can be seized even in a dress... I'm now confident this is what you desired, Commandant!
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Zigzagged. Her desire and enthusiasm to carry out the commander's orders combined with her pink hair would play this straight. Her self-criticism, particularly in her defeated and disappointed lines subvert it somewhat. But her genuine self-sacrifice to protect her allies, particularly Iron Blood co-combatants shows that despite her military bearing is a genuine heart of gold and sweetness.
• Self-Deprecation: She's very critical of her own performance. This may be due to her ultimate fate of scrapping herself at Scapa Flow.
  You're very kind, Commandant, being willing to give ear to my opinions. Meanwhile, I feel I don't even deserve to have opinions...
  This is all because I'm a worthless maggot... Commandant, I beg for your forgiveness!
  I failed by not following my orders... What a disgrace!

The Derfflinger-class

Lützow

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Number: 544

Artist: 掃除朋具

Voiced by: Yuki Tanaka

Hey, I'm Iron Blood battlecruiser Lützow. I was part of the High Seas Fleet, and ... I forgot what I was gonna say. Eh, whatever, I'll probably remember after I've had a nap.

• Historical In-Joke: If sortied with Deutschland she has a special line referencing how the two share a name.
  Who cares what your name is anyway?
• Lazy Bum: She tries to sleep in the commander's office and get out of as much work as possible.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: A capital ship with torpedoes.
• Really Fond of Sleeping: A lot of her lines involve around sleeping or wanting to go back to sleep.
• Shown Their Work: The real Lützow sank at Jutland in part because the compartment that contained her submerged torpedo tubes flooded. Shipgirl Lützow can fire torpedoes.

The Scharnhorst-class

Class-wide Tropes

• Art Evolution: Once they finally got new skins, enough time had passed so that both of them look quite different.
  • In Gneisenau's case, her eyes are a bit less sharp and the lashes are less prominent, her eyebrows are thinner & longer, and her hair is now a somewhat more pale plum color rather than the light pink of the original art, though this could be down to the art's inferred lighting.
  • Scharnhorst's New Year's skin has shown some of the same improvements in posing, hair endearing, and expressions. Though unlike her sister it's more of a case of She Cleans Up Nicely rather than a blatant Fanservice Pack.
• Giver of Lame Names: According to Slow Ahead, both are like this, with Scharnhorst naming her rig "Beer", and naming Gneisenau's "Potato". Both names which are then used for Ironblood Meowficers.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Along with Tirpitz, and later joined by battleship Kaga, Amagi, Super Gamer Kizuna AI, and Giulio Cesare, they are the only Main Fleet units in the game with a non-zero torpedo stat and have a skill that periodically launches a barrage of torpedoes.
• Moveset Clone: Actually zig-zagged compared to many of their Divergent Chessboard-debuting contemporaries, showing how just one skill can make a difference in this regard. While the two sisters are completely identical in their base statistics (with the sole exception of their luck) and they both have a torpedo spread skill, Scharnhorst has a "sniper" skill extremely similar to Warspite's, while Gneisenau simply has an always-on firepower steroid that, fully skilled, gives her significantly more FP overall than Scharnhorst. The result is that Gneisenau is somewhat better used with an HE-shell gun with a wide area of effect (like the Eagle 406es) for smashing down more lightly armored targets, while Scharnhorst is best used for drilling away at heavy-armor bosses.
• Ms. Fanservice: Both were drawn with various eye-catching traits and poses. Gneisenau's Halloween skin definitively leans on this as she is dressed as a succubus, including wearing a very translucent one-piece leotard that shows a womb tattoo.
• Rare Random Drop: Both sisters are mainly gotten through drops on event maps in a number of events, not just Divergent Chessboard, through during the event, Schrnhorst coul also be gotten through an event task, and Gneisenau through the event shop. But now that the event is archived in all major areas, only Schrnhorst has an alternate method (Core shop) of obtaining her.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: They have something of this dynamic with Scharnhorst being the rather fierce sister while Gneisenau is calmer analytical one of the two.
• Red Baron: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were known together as The Ugly Sisters, because they prowled together, wreaking havoc on British shipping lanes. An ironic nickname in this game as they certainly are not ugly.

Scharnhorst

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Artist: NS

Voiced by: Ayaka Fukuhara

"Retreat" does not exist in my dictionary! Are you the Commander? Show me what you can do!

• Blatant Lies: Historically speaking. She claims that she'd fight to the very end even though she fled the HMS Renown during the Norwegian campaign- though it might be because unlike at North Cape, Scharnhorst can choose to run away from Renown.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Downplayed, but she channels something that Gunnery Sergeant Hartman will say when she got shelled by Duke of York.
  Scharnhorst: "Who did that?! Who the hell did that?! Who's the slimy little crumpet-munching island ape bastard out there who just signed her own death warrant!?"
• Crazy-Prepared: In Slow Ahead, she's revealed to always have lollipops on her person in case her sister runs out or drops her last one.
• Defiant to the End: Her lines states she'll fight to the very end, regardless of the odds. ^note A reference to Battle of North Cape, where she was finally sunk by HMS Duke of York. She fought so valiantly, that the Captain of the Duke of York gave a speech to his crew that if they were ever to command their own ship he wishes they would command it as gallantly as Scharnhorst was that day.
• Eyepatch of Power: Has an eyepatch covering her left eye.
• Historical In-Joke: Her being blind on one eye and using an eyepatch is a nod to the Battle of North Cape, where her forward radar and range finders were destroyed, leaving her with limited radar capabilities, having to rely on her aft radar.
• Planet of Hats: Invoked in that Scharnhorst sees all Royal Navy girls as stereotypical tea-drinkers at best, slimy crumpet-munching island apes at worst.
• Rugged Scar: Her missing eye. She even mentions only those that have never suffered injury would laugh at the scars of others.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Her Chinese New Year skin has her wearing a Qipao with her hairstyle up in a ponytail. Scharnhorst looks positively stunning with the ensemble.
• Underboobs: The top of her uniform has a hole in the bottom, showing it.
• Worthy Opponent: She might Trash Talk the Royal Navy girls a lot, but she still has respect for their fighting ability.

Gneisenau

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Artist: NS

Voiced by: Minami Shinoda

Hello, Commander, I’m Gneisenau. Despite my big sister being on the reckless-side, we are invincible as long as we are together, so I hope we can work together as much as possible.

• Bespectacled Cutie: She wears red glasses, and even her introductory line contrasts her with her more reckless sister — she worries over the commander's work habits and is a demure secretary unlike her bellicose sister.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Wishes more people would acknowledge the fact that the Ugly Sisters were the only battleships that ever sunk a fleet aircraft carrier in direct surface combat. ^note In this case, the HMS Glorious, during Operation Juno. And while Yamato, along with Kongou and Chikuma, would later sink USS Gambier Bay, nearly 4 years later, during the Battle off Samar, USS Gambier Bay was a much smaller escort carrier. Though she is unaware of the fact that the Glorious didn't fight back at all.
• Fanservice Pack: Again, her Halloween Live 2D skin. While by no means was she unattractive before, Gneisenau's breasts have seemingly gone from 'large' to 'huge', spilling out of her translucent leotard and even challenging the likes of Graf Zeppelin and Illustrious' bustlines. She also sports very tight thigh-high leggings and some mild ribbon bondage that hugs her curves in all the right places.
• Hot as Hell: The basis for her Halloween skin, including the infamous cliche of womb tattoos usually associated with hentai fanart, which surprisingly got past the censors in China even though initially the censored version was advertised there.
• Oral Fixation: Zig-Zagged. She is always seen with a lollipop, but never in her mouth, but in her hand.

The Odin-class

Odin

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Artist: RAN

Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka

Don't blame others over things that are out of their control. Nobody can predict the future.

The personification of Odin, introduced as part of the third round of World of Warships collaboration.

• Artistic License – History: Odin is a fictional design for the second Dockyard event in World of Warships, based primarily on early proposals for what would eventually become the Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers. As such, she has a line of dialogue expressing her desire to meet the sisters in person. Her name is also fairly unlikely for the Kriegsmarine; there was a Kaiserliche Marine coastal battleship of the same name, but Kriegsmarine convention was to name capital ships after German military leaders. Although like Prinz Heinrich, her naming may have a precedent from the O-class battlecruiser plans.
• Badass Longcoat: A greatcoat, unsurprisingly, given her allegiance.
• Commissar Cap: No more surprising than her greatcoat.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: In the Upon the Shimmering Blue and Rondo at Rainbow's End events, Odin's Herteitr's Rolling Thunder is presented as a tremenously powerful weapon/ability. In gameplay, it's just a fancy barrage.
• Horny Vikings: While not dressed the part, she does take heavy cues from her namesake for her abilities.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Even for Ironblood standards:
  • She is one of only a handful of Torpedo-carrying backline ships.
    • Hers however is manually triggered, while most other backliners' are not.
  • Her Mímir's Keen Eye skill positions her in front of the Flagship, allowing her secondary battery to fire on most of the battlefield, as opposed to other backline ships that can only hit ships near the left^note Bismarck accomplishes something similar with her Warheit skill, but instead of taking her closer to oncoming enemies, Warheit accomplishes this by extending the range of Bismarck's secondaries.
  • Her timed special barrage from Herteitr's Rolling Thunder is a bolt of lightning going across the battlefield.
• More Dakka: She has two sets of built-in secondary guns, one that has extended range similar to Bismarck's skill and another to defend herself from enemies that gets too close.
  • Her Fate Simulation doubles the amount of projectiles in her barrage.
• Putting on the Reich: With her black-outside-red-inside greatcoat, Commissar Cap, several Iron Crosses, overall black, white, and red color motif, and prominently displayed not-Swastika deck paint, she looks more the part of a shipgirl of Nazi Germany than anyone else except maybe Deutschland (who perhaps uncoincidentally is drawn by the same artist).
• Shock and Awe: Her special barrage is a bolt of lightning.

The O-class

Brünhilde

Artist: unknown

Voiced by: Aimi Terakawa

Another on-paper-only design, the O-class of battlecruisers was supposed to replace the Scharnhorst-class. No ship ever got beyond the planning stage.

• The Ace: downplayed, but she utterly dominates Blücher and Z16 in a fleet excercise.
• Artistic License – History: and a quite convoluted case at that. Brünhilde is based on the proposed plans for a scaled up P-class with heavier armor and bigger guns, to replace the Scharnhorst-class. Historically, the project got reviewed and approved, but lack of resources and the Reich's shifting focus towards submarines prevented any vessels being built. She is not the first ship of her hypothetical class to appear in Azur Lane though: Ägir is supposed to be an O-class as well, but is considered a supercruiser and fights in the vanguard, while Brünhilde is a main fleet battlecruiser. No explanation is given for this.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: She shares her sister Ägir's fashion sense.
• Hidden Depths: some of her lines show that she takes quite an interest in history and collecting antiques.

The Prinz Rupprecht-class

Prinz Rupprecht

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Voiced by: Momo Asakura

Hey, I'm Prinz Rupprecht, Iron Blood blueprint ship. It's my way or the highway. Hmph, obviously I get to act high and mighty because I AM high and mighty. I don't HAVE to follow your orders, they are merely suggestions to me!

The personification of Prinz Pupprecht, introduced as part of the fifth round of World of Warships collaboration.

• Artistic License – History: Prinz Rupprecht represents a slight variation of the battlecruiser design GK 4541 with 406mm guns, six 150mm casemate guns and 300mm belt armor.
• Horned Humanoid: has a pair of huge metal horns on her head.
• Shear Menace: Carries a pair of huge scissors in her default skin.
• Super-Strength: In Slow Ahead she was able to kick a huge trunk of a tree away without breaking a sweat.
• Sweet Tooth: Really likes candy. In her debut chapter of Slow Ahead she bought the entire stock of sweets from the local shop leaving nothing for Laffey or Z23.

Battleships (BB)

The Helgoland-class

Thüringen

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Artist: kakage

Voiced by: Riho Sugiyama

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• Commissar Cap: A downplayed version as it is not as large as Seydlitz's.
• Extreme Doormat: Invoked and promptly defied with her special touch. She refuses to be your doormat.
• Scullery Maid: Her Tidying in the Moonlight skin plays this one surprisingly straight.

The Bismarck-class

Bismarck

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Artist: Hao

Voiced by: Ayaka Fukuhara (Japanese), Alex Moore (English), Diana Alonso (Latin American Spanish)

Guten Tag, I am Bismarck. I have fought many foes on many fronts. You may call upon me whenever there is a problem.

The personification of the ever-famed Bismarck, she, curiously, originally only made an appearance in the tutorial. Data for her existed in the client since the game's original Chinese launch, though - she was originally set to be the only "Legendary" rarity ship in the game (one level higher than Super Rare, with a seventh ascension star). However, for the first two years of Azur Lane's operation, the character in the data was never made available. While her rarity never changed in updates, by early 2019, both San Diego and Warspite could be retrofitted to "Ultra Rare" rarity in the CN and JP clients, using many of the same assets as the data-mined "Legendary" status she would have.

After this, in late April 2019, various leaks began surfacing including a silhouette of Bismarck and what appeared to be a complete, ready to launch skin for her. These combined with teases from the game's English twitter^note Mentioning the release of an unprecedented "mystery ship" and later quoting the lyrics of the song Bismarck by the power metal band Sabaton., Japanese twitter^note Making historical references to the Battle of the Denmark Strait where Bismarck's trademark feat of sinking Hood with one well-placed hit occurred ala some remarks from Bismarck herself, and Bilibili account^note Cryptically mentioning that players would soon be reunited with someone they met very early on in the game all but outright confirmed Bismarck's long-awaited release and an event revolving around her in the second half of May 2019, just in time for the anniversary of the Battle of the Denmark Strait. She was at last confirmed for a May 23rd worldwide release as part of China's second-anniversary stream. Later tweets would reveal her rarity to be Super Rare (SSR in Asian versions).

In the 2019 event starting on May 23, Scherzo of Iron and Blood, Bismarck was finally released. The event itself surrounds the battle of the Denmark Strait after the sinking of Hood^note as seen in the tutorial and the eventual fate of Bismarck.

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• Adaptational Curves: While she doesn't lack in the bust department, she's almost twice as busty in Slow Ahead.
• Badass Boast: Her extra voice line when entering the battle with a full Ironblood fleet.
  "No one can stop the march of the Ironblood. No one."
• Big Sister Instinct: When trying to convince Bismarck to bring the Ironblood to their side, the Siren Observer talks of all the ruin and disaster the Ironblood would fall under and makes a specific dig at the idea of Tirpitz being defeated to provoke her.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After telling Tester what amounts to "Screw you and go to hell" the siren responds by activating the Awakening protocol, forcing Bismarck to go into a mad frenzy and removes any qualms she had with using the siren superweapon again.
• Cultured Warrior: What little revealed thus far paints her as one with a fondness of poems and Norse myths. The dorm set Das Bismarckhaus◊^note Translating into what is essentially "The Bismarck House" is themed after her and only backs this even further. The set contains ornate Ironblood themed furniture, display cases showing various medals, assorted weapons, a suit of armor, an antique record player, and a grand piano. It paints a picture of a woman with many different tastes.
• Critical Hit Class: Bismarck provides a hefty 25% increased crit chance for the torpedoes, cannons, and airstrikes of Ironblood ships, as well as having the first wave of shells from her salvo be guaranteed to crit.
• Disney Death: Storywise, the "Azur Lane" faction believed Bismarck had been sunk and died during Scherzo of Iron and Blood, finally making her return in-story during the events of Rondo at Rainbow's End.
• The Dreaded: Especially after sinking Hood in one shot.
• Dying as Yourself: After a failed attempt to self-destruct in order to destroy the siren fleet and herself before she can use their superweapon again, her willpower overrides the Sirens' mind control. Even with half her rigging completely destroyed alongside her ability to even aim she tells the Royal Navy that she's not giving up. At this point the Royal Navy realizes what's happened, that Bismarck has resigned to the fact she's about to die and grant her request to go out fighting.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Bismarck has been playable for several years now, but story-wise, she had absent thru most of the story following her sinking during Scherzo of Iron and Blood as well as presumed dead by the "Azur Lane" faction; until she finally makes her public return once again during the events of Rondo at Rainbow's End. That said, the player already knew she had survived based on story snippets from Ironblood-related events.
• Gun Nut: In Crosswave Bismarck's eyes sparkle when talking about weaponry. Hood calls it the only child-like quality she has.
• Heroic Willpower: In Scherzo of Iron and Blood, after the power of the Sirens ran berserk within her, she regains control through sheer willpower, goes on to try and eliminate all the Siren mooks on the field with said power, and then finally suppresses the power within her. Sadly, this also seriously damages her, to the point she is barely able to aim. She still doesn't go down without a fight.
• Hidden Depths: In Slow Ahead Javelin and Ayanami learn that she is unexpectedly motherly despite her stoic personality, initially scolding them for being tardy to class and then handing Ayanami a pack of tissues. They also learn that she wants to have a normal conversation with her sister Tirpitz, though Bismarck's idea of a "normal conversation" is that Tirpitz would be the one to initiate it.
  Bismarck: "As the Ironblood leader, I normally have to maintain a stern expression you see..."
  Javelin: "...But don't you have your younger sister Tirpitz to speak normally to?"
  Bismarck: "Although I'm always ready to receive an invitation from her, and have even gotten a dress prepared for it...it's not easy..."
  Javelin: "I wonder if she has given thought as to what normal conversations even are..."
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Her serious, determined demeanor makes her seem distant and even cold to her fellow Ironbloods, but she cares deeply for them all and wants them to prosper. Best exemplified in her interactions with U-556.
• Honor Before Reason: In Scherzo of Iron and Blood, Bismarck is revealed to have rejected The Siren's power after the sinking of Hood, for she saw it as belittling the dignity and efforts of humankind. In the later scene when she successfully suppressed the berserking power of the Sirens within herself, she continued to fire at the Royal Navy even after losing the ability to aim, prompting the Royal Navy to give her a warrior send off.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: She the first opponent you face during the tutorial... and you face her with Hood. You do the math.
• Lady of War: Her Beacon of the Iron Blood skin has her sitting on a large throne with swords stacked up against it. One of the idle Live2D animations has her effortlessly pick up one of them with one hand, swing it, and casually put it back.
• Lonely Piano Piece: After getting severely damaged by the Royal Navy, she continues to fight with a sad piano rendition of Joseph Haydin's "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" playing in the background as she goes down. ^note Most commonly known in modern-day as the music score for "Deutschland Über Alles", also known as "Das Lied der Deutschen" or "Deutschlandlied"
• My God, What Have I Done?: She ultimately regrets both her mistake of siding with the sirens and having used the Siren superweapon to sink Hood. She mentions that doing so has left her with a sort of corruption eating at the Wisdom Cube that gives her the urge to use it again. The sirens use it to take control of her.
• Milestone Celebration: Her release is one, celebrating both the second anniversary of the game's initial launch in China and the 78th anniversary of Operation Rheinübung and the Bismarck's destruction (Azur Lane having been launched on the 76th anniversary). In China, there was a surprising amount of real-life ancillary merchandise to go with the release.
• One-Hit Kill: In the tutorial, Bismarck activates a unique "Rhine Drill" skill, doing over 22,000 damage to Hood, enough to sink her three times over. Justified, as the tutorial is a re-enactment of the Battle of Denmark Strait, in which Bismarck sunk Hood less than ten minutes the battle (on her fifth salvo, after previous salvoes had caused mostly superficial damage) into when she scored a lucky hit on Hood's 4-inch magazine, which set off a rapid series of events culminating in the explosion of the 15-inch magazine (though the exact steps leading from one to the other are not 100% certain), which detonated so violently that it snapped Hood's back and sunk the pride of the Royal Navy in mere minutes. Also, in this case the cutscene reveals she apparently has access to a secret weapon granted by the Sirens.
• Punny Name: The name of the skill when she uses the siren weapon is Rhine Drill, which is another way to translate Rheinübung ^* Exercise Rhine, the name of the real-life operation to send Bismarck and Prinz Eugen to raid the Atlantic convoys.
• Recurring Boss: In addition to being the boss of the tutorial, Bismarck is fought as the boss of three of the seven maps of the event "Scherzo of Iron and Blood".
• She's Back: Rondo at Rainbow's End marks her public return following a long convalescence period after the events that almost killed her during Scherzo of Iron and Blood.
• Shout-Out: Her skill which increases her auxiliary gun range is a nod to her World of Warships version which with both the commander skill and secondary gun modification allow her secondary guns to fire at just over 10km, which means any enemy that gets into that range will receive a hail of shells from her secondary battery.
• Social Darwinist: She believes that only power can save humanity, and wholeheartedly embraces the Sirens' cause and betrays Azur Lane. She does, however, show a hint of hesitation, uncertainty, and remorse when explaining herself to the sinking Hood though and knows that it's up to the future to decide if she's right.
  Hood: ...Why...why would you betray our alliance...
  Bismarck: Honor and loyalty... Only with great power can we truly save humanity. We've...we've just chosen a different path. I don't expect you to understand. Only those looking back on these moments will be able to decide who is right and who is wrong. My old friend...may we meet in Valhalla.
  • As it ultimately turns out Bismarck utterly rejected the Sirens when they approached her, but they preyed on her worries and by the end, Bismarck admits that she'd been trembling the entire exchange. Yes, Bismarck took power in a misguided attempt to save the Ironblood from ruin, but it is clear she was also greatly influenced by fear.
• Support Party Member: Essentially the Ironblood version of Nagato, capable of buffing the entire fleet's Crit chance and Reload, as well as buffing the damage dealt by Tirpitz and Graf Zeppelin/Zeppy.
• The Chains of Commanding: The Beacon of Iron Blood skin shows that really beyond being the Ironblood leader she's not really sure how to act and often unsure which persona she has to put on at any one given time is the real her. She's not sure how to start forming a bond the sister she never met, she discusses how as a leader she has to both say and do things she doesn't necessarily believe in, she has moments of shyness as she falls in love with her commander, and groping her chest in both of her skins has her shyly ask her commander to not tease her as she's bad at expressing herself. When Tirpitz is in her Iron Blood Snowstorm skin it's shown that the only people who see through Bismarck's act are Tirpitz herself, the Commander, and likely Eugen.
• Uncertain Doom: The context under which U-556 finds Bismarck at the end of Scherzo of Iron and Blood leaves it unclear if she'd already perished or not. The end of Skybound Oratorio, an event that had at that point already reversed the apparent deaths of Jean Bart and the others from the end of Iris of Light and Dark, has Algerie mention Bismarck in present-tense during a time that would have been chronologically almost two years after Bismarck sank. She's mentioned yet again in the present-tense during Daedalian Hymn by the Sardegnian girls which at the time of its release is the most chronologically recent event in the entire timeline as it mentions the Commander having retuned to Azur Lane after their stay in Russia. Needless to say that at this point the ultimate fate of Bismarck is ambiguous and it's likely that only the Ironblood girls themselves know the truth.
  • Nearly three years after Scherzo of Iron and Blood Bismarck makes her triumphant return in Rondo at Rainbow's End and immediately turns the entire event into a Wham Episode by declaring the Ironblood's severing of ties with the Sirens and rejoining of Azur Lane.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Upping her affection for the Commander has the normally stoic Bismarck become flustered and unable to express herself. If the Commander oaths her, Bismarck is still unable to express how she feels and asks him for help, wondering if smiling is enough.
• When She Smiles: She's usually very stoic, but thanks to her upgraded art, she can emote and it's really good.

Tirpitz

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Artist: Hao

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka

I was imprisoned in the north for so long, unable to return home, and now you want me to follow you? ...Very well. It is up to you to show me the world.

• Artistic License – History: While it is true that Operation Tungsten damaged her severely, and those bombers finished the job off, as mentioned in the game, this actually took several months and operations for this to happen. Operation Tungsten happened in early April 1944, and Operation Catechism, the final operation where 32 Lancaster bombers finally sunk Tirpitz, happened in mid-November of the same year. To be fair, she never really recovered from the damage caused during Operation Tungsten, and the further damage incurred from the following operations.
• Balance Buff: A small but notable one with the release of her personal augment module, the Lonely Queen's Banner. At max level, it modifies Lonely Queen of the North to still activate as long as the other battleships in the same fleet are Ironblood, allowing Tirpitz to sortie alongside other battleships besides her sister and not be gimped by it.
• Chess Motifs: She's earned during the chess-themed Opposite-Colored event, which is called Divergent Chessboard on the EN servers. Furthermore, her skill activation line is "Checkmate!" and she is colored white in contrast with her black-clothed sister, Bismarck.
• Cultured Warrior: She gives off a good deal of this vibe during Winter's Crown; she's more philosophical about her potential demise than anything, is dressed very elegantly (as opposed to a lot of the other heavy Ironblood ships) and is contrasted heavily against the loud, abrasive Scharnhorst.
• Defiant to the End: Attempted. When given the option to surrender by Victorious after being thoroughly beaten, she declines; Victorious decides to spare her anyways and retreat.
• Hidden Depths: She hides it very well, but she's clearly on the edge of a full-on Despair Event Horizon, in part because she's always lonely, and because she was kept out of conflict, only sortieing out for sure-kills, stationed far away from her homeland and ultimately suffering a rather Rasputinian and Undignified Death. She calls herself the Lonely Queen of the North in-game because she's resigned to this life. There's a reason why, in real life, journalist Ludovic Kennedy said she "lived an invalid's life and died a cripple's death."
• Homing Projectile: Unlike other battleships and battlecruisers with torpedo barrages, hers are homing torpedoes, which are slower and fire in a spread instead of at a target, but actively track a target once they get close.
• Honor Before Reason: Victorious clearly has the upper hand and gives her a chance to surrender. Tirpitz declines, to which Victorious replies by asking her if her name is actually "Drama Queen of the North".
• Irony: She wanted to die in battle against a Worthy Opponent because she wanted a memorable death, but Victorious spared her and let her retreat. However, the damage was quite severe and she was finished off by planes from a nearby base, Off Screen, and we only find this by an off-hand remark from Duke of York.
• I Work Alone: Her skill Lonely Queen of the North has her gain massive damage output bonuses (10% at base, 30% at max) if she's the only battleship, battlecruiser, or monitor in your main fleet. However, she can work just fine with Aviation Battleships. Her sister Bismarck is the exception and actually designed to defy this as she has a skill to give Tirpitz a 40% damage increase if they sortie together rendering Lonely Queen of the North completely obsolete.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: During Divergent Chessboard, Tirpitz wonders if the Sirens only put the Ironblood forces there so that the "White" team would grow stronger by facing them.
• Ma'am Shock: When U-556 first meets her after the death of Bismarck she refers to Tirpitz as "Lady Tirpitz". Given that Tirpitz was already shouting angrily at U-556 for roughhousing in the port mere seconds before all it does is piss her off even more. Played with in that it's not necessarily just that she doesn't like being called old, but just as likely (if not more likely) that she dislikes the reminder that her sister is dead.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Along with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and later joined by battleship Kaga and Amagi, she is the only Main Fleet unit in the game with a non-zero torpedo stat and she has a skill that periodically launches a barrage of torpedoes. Unlike Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Kaga, Tirpitz's torpedoes are homing torpedoes. Ironically, she never actually fired torpedoes in anger, while her sister ship may have been the only battleship ever torpedoed by another battleship (Rodney, who does not have any torpedo capability or skills in Azur Lane).
• Mighty Glacier: Tirpitz has the seventh-highest raw firepower of all battleships (only Izumo, Warspite (plus her retrofit), Georgia, Gascogne, and Friedrich der Große have more firepower (battleship Kaga and Monarch tie Tirpitz with 423 firepowers at level 120)), and despite lacking a barrage skill like Washington or Hood or a first shot buff like Jean Bart or Duke of York, Tirpitz manages some of the best damage output of all backline ships due to her huge 30% damage buff from Lonely Queen of the North (or 40% from Bismarck's Will of the Iron Blood) and her homing torpedoes. Defensively, she has the fourth-highest hitpoints of all ships, beat only by Hood, Izumo, and Friedrich der Große, and as a battleship, she has 'heavy' armor and packs light cruiser secondaries that are highly effective against bomb ships. And of course, like a battleship, she's not terribly fast or evasive.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: She sought to fight, but was usually kept out of most engagements being stationed so far north. When fighting Victorious, she's actually grateful she's getting beaten, because she'll go down fighting in a memorable fight, rather than forgotten.
• Red Baron: Lonely Queen of the North, which is referenced in her lines and in one of her skills.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: A bit zigzagged. Despite being spared by Victorious, planes from a nearby base finished the job and sunk her in real life. (In the AL-verse, Operation Siren reveals she survived that encounter, if barely.)
• Status Buff: Being the only battleship/battlecruiser/monitor in her fleet gives her a massive 30% bonus to her damage output. Interestingly, Aviation Battleships do not count against this. If she's in a fleet with Bismarck, she instead gets a 40% damage buff. Understandable, considering Bismarck was the sister she never met. A sister would have alleviated the loneliness of even the one called the "Lonely Queen of the North", no? Indeed, even Bismarck laments about never meeting her.
• Trauma Button: She's implied to have an aversion to aircraft based on her "Seasonal Pine and the Frost Flower" login quote. Taking historical and in-game events into context, it's understandable why.
• When She Smiles: With her formal skin's expressions, one or two are particularly warm smiles.

Bismarck Zwei

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Artist: kurumi

Voiced by: Ayaka Fukuhara

Guten Tag. I am Iron Blood battleship Bismarck. While this may not be our first meeting, perhaps you find my new attire surprising? As a fellow idealist, I'm happy to once more fight by your side.

Unbeknownst to Azur Lane for some time, Bismarck survived her 'warrior's death' at the hands of the Royal Navy, recovering to eventually re-emerge at the final showdown against the Siren Compiler. Known to even fewer still, the leader of the Ironblood has been upgraded with experimental Type Zwei rigging, granting the already formidable ship even more power.

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• Art Evolution: Since Bismarck's Zwei art is handled by a different artist from her base design, and the Ironblood faction in general has had significant changes to its overall design aesthetic, she has undergone several major changes. Of note, her uniform has removed almost all Nazi-adjacent design queues^note The Reichsadler eagles are gone save for a highly-stylized one on her cap, the German tri-colors are also gone, and her Iron Cross banner has been replaced with an officer's saber, her more realistic looking officer's coat/dress has become a sexier & more stylized dress and cape, and Bismarck herself has been given sharper features and longer hair & legs to help differentiate her from the likes of Tirpitz and Enterprise.
• Hero-Worshipper: While not the extent of shipgirls like Reno, Bismark's lines show that she treats the commander like a sort of role model when it comes to being a leader.
  Self-Introduction Line: "Having you, a fellow leader, show me the way forward is the best thing I could ask for."
  Details Line: "I don't need preferential treatment– simply being able to work with you is enough."
  Disappointed Affinity: "I thought you a brilliant leader and followed your example."
  Stranger Affinity: "That's right, Commander. I look forward to working with you in the days ahead."
• Humble Hero: This version of Bismarck explicitly asks to be treated like just everyone else and simply wants to be just another member of the Azur Lane port, in a similar vein to her original version.
• I Call Her "Vera": She refers to her kaiju-like zwei-spec rigging by the name "Geryon".
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Mentions in her 'Stranger' Affinity line that she's hoping to become good friends with the commander.
• Kaiju: Continuing the Ironblood arms race of "strap increasingly larger monsters to your back and call it 'rigging'", Bismarck Zwei trades her more traditional ship rigging out for an absolutely colossal three-headed dragon she names Geryon to better fit with more modern Ironblood designs.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Vestal META tells her that, even with the protection of her Zwei rigging, the corrosion from the Black Cube was too severe. While Geryon will slow the process, she will eventually turn META if she continues to fight, a fact Bismarck is well aware of.
• Man of Kryptonite: While Geryon is just extremely powerful in general, it was specifically designed with fighting META and Ashes ships in mind. It has a built-in META tracking beacon similar to those the player uses in Operation Siren, and has the ability to reduce or eliminate the corruption of META attacks & similar effects such as the lingering influence of the Black Cube. In-game Bismarck even has several skills that lend themselves to fighting META Showdown bosses. Calamitous Voidflame fires a special barrage that creates a vortex to draw in humanoid enemies, and she can use Geryon to either reduce incoming damage to herself (useful for enemies trying to snipe the flagship) or deploy it to act as another Heavy Cruiser's worth of firepower for burning down massive healthbars.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Her three-headed dragon rigging is named after Geryon, a monstrous three-headed warrior whom Heracles was tasked with stealing the red cattle from in his twelve labors. Interestingly, the only depictition of Geryon as a sort of dragon or serpent comes not from Greece, but from a creature of the same name in Dante's "Inferno".
• Shout-Out: In her victory animation, Bismark will command Geryon to unleash a torrent of fire that then condenses into a purple laser to sweep in front of it. Ironic considering that Geryon more resembles the King of Monsters' greatest rival.
• Super Mode: In contrast to the Eagle Union's Type II rigging which completely replaced the ship's original equipment, in-story Bismarck still retains her original rigging. She instead is able to summon her Zwei rigging when needed and dismiss it afterwards. Gameplay still treats her as a seperate ship like the Type II's, though.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: While she retains much of her 'stoic leader' personality, Bismarck's character development shows through. She has a much more optimistic outlook, is able to act more casually & affectionate with the commander, and interacts with other Ironbloods more as friends rather than just leader & subordinate (although she's still a bit skittish with her sister Tirpitz).

The H-39-class/"Ulrich von Hutten"-class

Ulrich von Hutten

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Artist: Ohisashiburi

Voiced by: Hibiku Yamamura

"I am Ulrich von Hutten, the symbol of the Iron Blood's hopes and regrets. Whether my arrival is cause for celebration or despair is up to you to decide. I shall respond in kind."

• Animal Motif: Her rig is shaped like a spider.
• BFS: A large part of her rigging is arranged on the massive scythe she carries with her.
• Critical Hit Class: Buffs her own critical hits, and buffs the critical hits of other Ironblood ships in other fleets.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: If you sortie her without her being the flagship, she will gain a whopping 50% reduction of her main gun cooldown at the expense of those main guns taking a 45% damage decrease. But taking into consideration that that penalty does not apply to her guaranteed-on-every-shot barrage, this overall increases her DPS considerably. Oh, and she has a flat Reload buff active at all times to further drive it home.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She essentially looks like a goth/punk girl, with piercings, tattoos and a taste for leather and spikes.
• Germanic Depressives: She has a rather gloomy and brooding personality similar to that of Graf Zeppelin's, further accentuated by her outfit and appearance as noted above.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: What little she wears under her coat is basically leather straps.
• Hidden Depths: Despite what her looks would insinuate, she's a very diligent and smart flagship of the Ironblood fleet, to the point the basically managed to recruit not one but two META shipgirls not by force, but simply by talking to them.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She actually thinks the Commander is this because they trust others too easily, including trusting in her. Eventually she decides to reciprocate said trust.
• More Dakka: From her aforementioned skill to her ability to perform six cross-fleet barrages per battle that she isn't even participating in, everything about her design is about firing lots of bullets. Ironic, considering her in-universe propensity to be a miser about using ammo on enemies she percives to be weak.
• Not Worth Killing: She routinely berates her enemies as being mere wastes of quality ammunition, and seems to see them more as obstacles to be pushed aside than enemy combatants to kill. She seems to dial this attitude back when you oath her.
• One Degree of Separation: With Friedrich der Grosse. One can see that they are related (most notably with their Supernatural Gold Eyes and horns), but they are not mentioned as so in-game yet as well as being placed in different classes in the fleet tech. That said, Ohisashiburi drew a sketch that portrays Ulrich as Friedrich's daughter.
• Stripperiffic: Ohisashiburi, the artist behind her design, has revealed what her wardrobe is like underneath her coat, and can be accurately summarized as "strategically placed straps and a maebari."
• Tattoo as Character Type: Not seen in her art, but seen in the "Tower of Trascendence" PV, but she sports one big tattoo on her back and a tattoo on her tongue.

The Friedrich der Grosse-class

Friedrich der Grosse^* Große

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Artist: Manjuu Art Group ^note In-house artists not credited individually

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame

Welcome to my symphony. Now, child, what is it you desire? Wealth? Honor? Or perhaps eternal youth?

The personification of World of Warships's interpretation of the proposed H-39 battleship, named by them as "Friedrich der Grosse" and introduced to Azur Lane as part of the second round of the collaboration between the two games. Quite notably, she is one of the two vessels of Research Season II (the other being Azuma) to debut at a rarity above Super Rare or its equivalent of Priority for the Research ships, launching at "Decisive" rarity, utilizing a number of the rarity assets initially intended for Bismarck's "Legendary" status.

• Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not she's the Kaiserliche Marine's Friedrich der Grosse, somehow resurrected in a new ship class and frame. Queen Elizabeth at first thinks she's the same person (while wondering how that's possible) and even in "Rondo at Rainbow's End" clearly has some suspicions about the whole thing; and according to the Kaiserliche girls who were revived as their original selves (albeit with some "updates" that make their riggings more in line with modern IB design), their first, immediate impression was that this Friedrich was indeed the Friedrich they knew, and they have to look closely to realize that isn't quite right and there are, apparently, some un-elaborated-on differences. Friedrich, for her part, asserts that she isn't "the Friedrich they know"... but her wording is still ambiguous enough to be open to a variety of interpretations (which is likely intentional, both on her part and the part of the writers). She does seem to know a damned lot about the "old" Ironblood for someone ostensibly so new, but whether it's simply the result of research or something more is, again, left ambiguous. Further complicated by the later instances of both Yorktown II & Hornet II outright stating that they are a Composite Character, so the same could hold true here.
• Artistic License – History:
  • While she actually did exist on paper (unlike Roon) and a few of the H-39 vessels even had very preliminary keels lain down (though only 880 tons and 40 tons were laid for orders "H" and "J", respectively, before work was suspended), her World of Warships counterpart is something of an amalgamation of both the H-39 and H-41 designs, with her being able to take 42cm guns that were never intended for the proposed H-39 (which were originally designed to use 406 mm guns in a similar vein to the British Nelson-class).
  • Moreover, "Friedrich der Grosse", while a name attached to a very famous previous German battleship - it was none other than Reinhard Scheer's flagship during Jutland - and in line with the Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine resurrecting old WW1 ship names for new vessels^note for example, the entirety of Maxmillian von Spee's squadron was "rebuilt" by the time WW2 broke out; Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, despite claims of being "traditional" names, had clearly been named for his heavy cruisers, while the two ships of the Leipzig class, the lead vessel and Nürnberg, was named for his light cruisers, doesn't seem to have been considered as a potential name for any proposed H-39 vessel in any official record (the H-class names that had been widely circulated, including the lead ship Hindenburg and Grosser Deutschland, were purely speculation made by German media at the time). Hitler had actually grown worried about naming ships after "Deutschland" (thus Deutschland's renaming) or prominent Nazi or Second and Third Reich officials, fearing morale issues if the ships were destroyed, and is on record as preferring the names Ulrich von Hutten and Götz von Berlichingen^note A pair of famous knights in the Holy Roman Empire who became national heroes of Germany. for the ships (bonus points for Ulrich to actually be released in the game as the actual H-39).
• Big Damn Heroes: At the very end of Daedalian Hymn, she appears suspiciously soon after the Sirens begin attacking the Sardegna Empire's capital to help fight them off.
• Cartoon Conductor: This is her schtick, except instead of music it's symphony of destruction. All of her skills are themed in this fashion, and she often references seeing combat as a musical performance.
• The Chessmaster: Both in the literal and figurative sense. She was playing no less than five different factions like a fiddle — including the Sirens — all just to set the stage for Bismarck’s triumphant return, and to strike a mighty blow against the Sirens in the process by seemingly permanently killing an Elite Siren and forcing the Sakura Empire to rejoin Azur Lane alongside Iron Blood, depriving the Sirens of their erstwhile allies.
• Double Unlock: You unlock her with faction research points, a new system introduced alongside Season 2 Research ships.
• The Dragon: Tower of Transcendence explicitly refers to her as the ‘executor of Bismarck’s will.’
• Dragon-in-Chief: By the time of Inverted Orthant, Friedrich appears to have succeeded Bismarck as Iron Blood's new Commander, given that Prinz Eugen seemingly answers to her. Daedalian Hymn has her outright state that she is the Ironblood's acting leader to Giulio Cesare and Pola. It should be noted that Scherzo leaves Bismarck's fate ambiguous, and Eugen remarks that both Friedrich and Bismarck share the main leadership role (doubles as a Historical In-Joke to Imperial Germany, where Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II shared leadership role until the latter took over the politics after the Iron Chancellor resigned from his post). Tower of Transcendence clears this up by referring to Friedrich as ‘the executor of Bismarck’s will,’ implying that Bismarck is still technically the leader of Ironblood, with Friedrich acting in her stead.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She was present in the background of the loading screen art in the first round of collaboration, a while before she was formally introduced.
• Equipment Upgrade: In the form of her Fate Simulation added in January 2023. At Phase 5, two of her three skills, Symphony of Destruction and Rhapsody of Darkness become upgraded to make her performance more consistent and in-line with other Ultra Rare or Decisive shipgirls. As a Decisive PR shipgirl, she also gains +25 Luck.
  • For Symphony of Destruction, a second barrage is added that is tied to her main guns firing. It also ignores positioning as it fires from the flagship position. To distinguish from the two barrages, the original on-damage and proximity barrage is known as Eins, while the new barrage is Zwei.
  • Rhapsody of Darkness removes the contextual nature of the skill, now having a permanent 20% bonus to both Firepower and reduced damage taken instead of trading one for the other depending on her remaining health. The new effect added is, on reaching 30% of her max HP from damage taken, a 15% increased shell velocity for secondary guns as well as a 30% increase to their efficiency.
• Evil Laugh: Belts one out, complete with Slasher Smile, at the end of Daedalian Hymn, suggesting that her story version is not as nice as the one in your dock.
• Face of a Thug: Friedrich looks Obviously Evil despite being very attractive otherwise, and that's without mentioning her absolutely monstrous rigging. However, she is actually very kind and motherly, especially to the other Ironblood shipgirls and the Commander.
  • The Stinger of Daedalian Hymn hints that her story version may avert this and be outright Obviously Evil.
• Genius Bruiser: In addition to her abilities in battle, she's also the one who devised the Iron Blood's plan in Aurora Noctis. She also had a hand in Inverted Orthant and the Sirens in Daedalian Hymn are implied to be part of her plan to manipulate the Sardegna Empire to side with them once more.
• Hot as Hell: Her "hair clips" look very clearly like traditional devil horns... assuming they aren't really just horns, flat out.
• Infinity -1 Sword: Friedrich der Grosse was unquestionably THE single most powerful ship in the game prior to the release of Ultra Rare battleships obtainable via construction. Nowadays, with New Jersey and Ulrich van Hutten able to best her in DPS against bosses, she is now merely "an extremely good S+ tier" instead of "the single undisputed best.". One of the main issues of this stemmed from Friedrich's zero Luck stat prior to Fate Simulation. Zero Luck affects her accuracy and in turn, overall DPS ^note this basically tells that even with high Accuracy stat, every salvo she shoots can be hit or miss even when the shells hit the target, which reduces her overall DPS. This is a unique quirk of the game in that backline ships with low Luck stats can still reliably hit (like Prince of Wales), but the ones with zero Luck may not.. She does have an edge over those two when it comes to fighting trash mobs, however ^note New Jersey's one very minor weakness is her ability to deal with high-level suicide and searchlight boats due to her lack of spread barrage damage, and being forced into DD gun secondaries. And Ulrich's signature Death of a Thousand Cuts skill absolutely floors her shelling damage when she is out of ammo, but without this skill she generally loses to Friedrich in overall DPS. She is overall more accessible to players than the previous two by virtue of not being a limited gacha character, but she is nonetheless difficult to acquire as it is overall more difficult to acquire Iron Blood faction tech points than the other major factions. This process is getting easier over time as previously-limited Iron Blood ships like Bismarck and Graf Zeppelin are now available permanently. And even after you get her, she needs 513 blueprints to reach maximum power, and blueprints for Decisive rarity ships are more expensive and come in smaller quantities. Fortunately, her blueprints can now be purchased with coins, though this can still be costly and remains a time investment. You can easily get Monarch, Georgia, Odin, or even Marco Polo to maximum power before you're even halfway done with FDG. And to add insult to injury, FDG has the highest oil cost of any ship in the game — though with the advent of clearing mode oil caps and Operation Siren, oil-cost-as-drawback is virtually completely obsolete.
• Irony: Her inspiration is considered the weakest of the Tier IX battleships in World of Warships (although a buff in 0.8.11 has somewhat saved her from this status)... and here she's one of the strongest ships in the game period, with massive firepower (absurd FP stats + multiple offensive skills) and an equally absurd HP pool.
• Kaiju: Upping the ante even from Roon, Friedrich's ship rigging really crosses the line from "kind of animalistic" to "just outright a sea monster"; she's basically got a pair of massive sea serpents strapped to her back, with visible eyes, jaws and segmented bodies.
• Mighty Glacier: The current and reigning queen of the trope in Azur Lane. She has an absolutely unprecedented HP total at over ten thousand with affection increases factored in (she blows the previous record holder, Hood, out of the water by more than two thousand HP, and beats even the other UR battleships by around 400 HP), her gunnery stat is similarly ridiculous, and she's got multiple offensive skills... but her Reload is merely okay, her evasion is low even for a BB, and she has a rather poor accuracy stat. She also has the highest oil cost of any ship in the game, but by the time you're using her regularly, you'll likely be doing content where oil caps are in place, or oil is not even consumed in the first place.
• Necessary Drawback: To balance her incredibly high stats and powerful skills, she has a staggeringly high oil cost of 19, while SR battleships are already considered fairly expensive to deploy at 15 oil.
  • This drawback is almost completely negated in the current state of the game. Maps starting with world 9 now have outright caps on oil consumption, meaning there is no difference in oil used whether you use Friedrich or Nevada. Furthermore, Operation Siren does not consume oil and does not adjust AP costs based on ship rarity. This would have made her an automatic inclusion in your fleets prior to the release of stronger ships like New Jersey and Ulrich von Hutten, but she is still incredibly strong and better than virtually all options of lower rarities if you have her fully developed.
• The Nicknamer: She insists on addressing the commander as "ボウヤ", or "child" (or "boy", technically) which in context is fairly dismissive and implies she thinks the Commander is still naïve (and, thus, possibly a fool for trusting her, if you do not believe her intentions). Though in light of her Team Mom tendencies, she might just see them as another child to take care of. This persists in her oath skin.
• Obviously Evil: Even more so than Graf Zeppelin or Roon, and far more so than many of the older vessels in the fleet (and a complete contrast to pre-fascist-era vessels like the Königsberg sisters or Leipzig), Friedrich hits all the visual sub-tropes of looking as evil as possible, with her all-black-and-red ensemble, her devil horns, her bangs, and her outright kaiju-like ship rigging. Her voice lines are also the sort of things you'd typically expect to hear out of a hilariously over-the-top supervillain. Even then, she is still ostensibly on your side, and her Team Mom status heavily contradicts her look.
• Smart People Play Chess: Seen in the trailer for Inverted Orthant, she and Peter used to play together regularly, so much so that she can recognize the latter's battlefield handiwork by comparing it to the way she plays.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: A lot like Z46, her eyes are totally golden and are clearly meant to seem otherworldly.
• Team Mom: Friedrich der Grosse is extremely imposing in appearance, her twitter description remarked that she is like a "dark matron" in front of you, the commander. However, in reality, rather than "dark matron", her actual reactions with you makes her feel more like just an actual, doting...very doting, mom.
  (when other ships on task returns)"You have to properly welcome the children who studiously finished the commissions, alright..."
  (when you make her affection drop)"Have you properly repented? "
  (After self-introduction)"...My child, if you have difficulty sleeping, let me sing you a lullaby then."
  " Rather than battles, I prefer things as it is now. Here, open your mouth, ahh~~"
  • Moreover, her mom-ness also extend to other Ironblood ships.
    (Sortie with Z46) "Do occasionally come and fawn over me."
  • She gets sad when she realizes her presence would mean Tirpitz cannot trigger her ability.
    (Sortie with Tirpitz) "Does my command not let you display your talent in all its glory...?"
• You Look Familiar: In-universe. She is, evidently, a complete dead ringer for the Kaiserliche Marine Friedrich at first glance; Elizabeth commented on it as soon as she saw Fred (and clearly still has some suspicions), and when "resurrected", all of the old Kaiserliche ships mistake this Fred for the Fred they knew before realizing she is (apparently) subtly different. Friedrich, for her part, asserts she is indeed a different person (though she sure knows a lot of what "old Fred" would've known).

Aircraft Carrier (CV)

The Graf Zeppelin-class

• Sibling Yin-Yang: The two sisters have many differences, hair color, outfit main color, make of the outfit, kits (Zeppelin has a rather basic kit with some support ability while Peter has a flashier one that's more selfish leaning), personality, so forth.

Graf Zeppelin

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Artist: kishiyo

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Current VA for all servers except CN, where her voiceovers were removed on June 2021), Yumi Uchiyama (CN, post July 2022)

Commander, my name is Zeppelin. Now then, all conditions have been met. It is time to raise the curtains on the Last Judgement.

• Balance Buff: The December 22, 2020 patch the accompanied the release of Operation Siren massively buffed Graf Zeppelin, who had previously been somewhat underwhelming. Her base Aviation and Reload were boosted, her third plane slot was changed from dive bomber to dive bomber OR torpedo bomber, allowing her to use a powerful new Ironblood torpedo bomber, Iron Blood Wings gained a self-buff of 5% Aviation per Ironblood ship in the same fleet (max of three stacks) while retaining its damage reduction for other Ironblood ships, and Iron Blood Hawk was reworked so that all of her planes gain 30% efficiency so long as even one of them is an Ironblood plane.
• Blasphemous Boast: The sheer casualness of her suggestion of starting her rampage by killing God makes it come off as something of a boast of her ability to do so.
• Blow That Horn: One of her lines talks about blowing the horn of a black goat, and just wait... probably for the destruction of your enemies.
• Cynicism Catalyst: If Zeppy's lines are to be believed, she really was looking forward to becoming a carrier and fighting. The real-life Graf Zeppelin was never completed, which explains some of her cynicism.
• Chuunibyou: There are a few signs that all the stuff she says is part of something along the lines of being one (such as how she has surprisingly adorable dorm animations, occasionally wears the same "Deal with it" sunglasses as Cleveland, Washington, and Prinz Eugen, and especially with her summer outfit, almost seems to be seeking out diversions from the whole "destroy the world" business), but at the heart of it is very real bitterness.
• Expy: Graf Zeppelin bears more than a passing resemblance to Jeanne Alter in both personality and appearance (especially when looking at Jeanne Alter's later ascensions) and even have a shared attribute of being people who shouldn't really exist, with Zeppelin being an aircraft carrier that was never finished, and Jeanne Alter is a fabrication created by Gilles de Rais and the Holy Grail.
• Extra Eyes: While Graf Zeppelin herself only has the normal two eyes, her rigging has three "heads" or "bows", each with four eyes, for a total of twelve eyes.
• Foil:
  • To Enterprise - both are the long, silver-haired carrier representatives of their national fleets with Enterprise arguably being the face of the game, and Graf Zeppelin the face of the Ironblood-centric Divergent Chessboard event, but where Enterprise is dutiful and wants an end to the fighting, Graf Zeppelin wants little more than to kill and wage a personal war against the world. What's more, while Enterprise's existence was defined by astoundingly good luck, Graf Zeppelin's was defined by astoundingly bad luck. Furthermore, both possess high durability and offense, but through very different means - Enterprise has an exceptional Aviation stat and a single powerful ability that can both double the power of her airstrike and give her 8 seconds of total immunity when it activates, while Graf Zeppelin has two constant skills, boosting the power of her planes if at least one is an Ironblood aircraft and boosting her defenses, as well as those of all other Ironblood ships in the fleet, and having an absolutely massive HP pool. She even shares Enterprise's skill activation line, but with a twist.
  Owari da... FUNEBRE!
  • She can alternatively be seen as a foil to Yorktown - both are powerful fleet carriers that also have similar physical descriptions and they both have a rather gloomy outlook and faced defeat in real life. However, Yorktown directs her despair inwards and becomes self-deprecating and depressive, while Graf Zeppelin directs hers outwards and has decided that the world must suffer.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: All three "heads" of her rigging have four glowing orange eyes, and her own eyes seem to have a slight glow to them.
• Mighty Glacier: If she's equipped with at least one Ironblood aircraft, all of her aircraft gain 30% efficiency and each Ironblood ship in the fleet buffs her Aviation stat. Especially if one of those ships is Bismarck, Graf Zeppelin can both do and take a lot of damage. However, alone and without Ironblood aircraft, she's more of a Stone Wall.
• Nay-Theist: She believes that there is a God, but He is not worthy of prayer and wouldn't respond if you offered it, and further elaborates that God has no mercy, which she believes is not merely an attribute of His, but the very reason He is God.
• Odd Friendship: to Akagi of all people, as both are shown enjoying the other's company during Akagi's character quest. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when one realizes that the historical Graf Zeppelin's design is based off Akagi after the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe inspected the latter's construction.
• Pet the Dog: Graf Zeppelin shows a surprisingly casual and kind side towards Z46 (another ship that was never completed) in the latter's secretary questline, even surprising herself when she admits she considers the destroyer her friend. ^note While she was used for Soviet bomb testing, Graf Zeppelin actually survived the detonations and had to be sunk by torpedoes from a destroyer.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Her "details" dialogue has her casually suggest starting her omnicidal rampage with God himself.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Zeppelin has red eyes and most people would be well advised to give the foul-tempered aircraft carrier a wide berth.
• Stone Wall: While she doesn't have heavy armor like the Illustrious-class, she has the highest HP stat of any regularly-available aircraft carrier^note Shinano and Hakuryuu, the only two with higher health, are Ultra Rare/Decicive carriers locked behind special event and research construction, respectively and reduces the damage taken by all Ironblood ships in the same fleet as her (including herself) by up to 15%, but her own offensive stats are relatively mediocre unless she equips Ironblood aircraft. The Balance Buff above enables her to mix up her plane loadout with other faction planes.
• Theme Naming: The Graf Zeppelin carriers were named after important German Zeppelin airship figures. In her case, the Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin himself.
• Throat Light: Like Roon, her rigging has some manner of the glowing device in its primary mouth.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Graf Zeppelin did not have a happy existence in real life, never being completed, denied an airwing due to petty Interservice Rivalry (Admiral Donitz wanted the Kriegsmarine to have control of her airwing, while Hermann Goering didn't want to share control of any of Germany's aircraft with other branches of the Wehrmacht if he could stop it, so as to maintain the Luftwaffe's monopoly on airpower), sunk without ever getting to sail under her own power, and dragged up from the bottom of the sea to be used as a target ship, and this gives her a bleak and murderous worldview and a desire for little more than the extermination of all life.

Peter Strasser

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Artist: Gujianshaov

Voiced by: Yumi Hara

It is I, the never-completed Graf Zeppelin-class "Aircraft Carrier B," otherwise known as Peter Strasser. There is much for us to do and little time to do it... No time to waste. Let's begin.

The personification of the second Graf Zeppelin-class carrier, Flugzeugträger B ''Peter Strasser'' She appears in the Inverted Orthant event.

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• Artistic License – History: She was never finished, only managed to be built up to her armoured flight deck before work suspended in 1939; then, after a year sat on drydock with rust starting to appear, Admiral Reader ordered her to be scrapped because the war broke out, production had been shifted to the favour of the [U-boats], and the Kriegsmarine could not find the usefulness of carriers at the time(which they would deeply regret after losing Bismarck). Her appearance as a shipgirl in-game portrays her as a fully completed vessel like her sister. Having never been launched, Flugzeugträger B was also never officially named, although the name Peter Strasser is widely speculated to have been the likely choice.
• Chef of Iron: According to her mini comic entry, she is a fantastic chef, albeit slightly terrifying with a knife.
• Chess Motif: Like the Bismarck sisters, she has black hair while her sister's is white, and she is featured in the trailer playing chess with Friedrich Der Große.
• Foil: to Formidable. Both are gold-rarity carrier shipgirls with a time motif, a Time Stands Still skill, skill kits that buff themselves, noticeable bustlines, huge twintails as part of their long hair, party dress skins that get confused for oath skins, as well as being designed as a Shout-Out to Tokisaki Kurumi. Formidable, however, was introduced in an event that was focused on someone else (namely, Littorio and the Sardegnian shipgirls that debuted there), is quite temperamental beneath her Proper Lady facade, and her default skin reveals cleavage while her party dress covers it. Peter Strasser was the star of her own event (which is entirely focused on Iron Blood ships), does not have a personality facade whatsoever, and her default skin covers cleavage while her party skin reveals it.
• Improbable Hairstyle: has her hair styled this way combined with long hair which extends all the way to her legs.
• Number Two: While definitely not in overall charge, she seems to be very high up in the Iron Blood command structure (to the point of giving similar vibes to Hermann Goering, which is ironic at the same time since Goering hated the concept of carriers and refused to share the Luftwaffe's air power to outfit the Graf Zeppelins just to maintain air superiority), enough that she plays chess with Friedrich and Prinz Eugen talks to her as a relative equal.
• Shout-Out: Even more of one to Tokisaki Kurumi than Formidable already is, given her long twintail black hair, clock motif, as well as Time Master abilities.
  • Her facial appearance bear in mind the image of Kazumi Mishima, another role voiced by her voice actor Yumi Hara (this becomes more apparent on her Chronos Calendae skin).
• Smart People Play Chess: Used to be Friedrich Der Grosse's regular playing partner, as seen in the trailer for Inverted Orthant.
• Support Party Member: Inverted for the most part as she gains buffs having other Ironblood ships though if the number is 5 or higher, she also plays it straight giving herself and same faction carriers a reload boost.
• Theme Naming: The Graf Zeppelins are named after German Zeppelin personnel. Hers is Peter Strasser, commander of the Kaiserliche Marine Zeppelin airship bombers and considered to be one of the pioneers of naval aviation, in particular the field of using bombers to strike vital points and supply lines.
• Time Master: She has a prominent clockwork motif, and is able to slow enemies with her first skill in a similar manner to Formidable.

Zeppy/Zeppelin-chan

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Artist: Yumesaki Kaede

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Current VA for all servers except CN, where her voiceovers were removed on June 2021), Yumi Uchiyama (CN, post July 2022)

State your name! And this location! I see now... you’re also one of those goons conspiring against me! I’ll let you know, I am Graf Zeppelin, the one destined to become the first carrier of the Iron Blood! To think that you’d carry me off when I was distracted... taste my wrath!

The personification of the mighty Graf Zeppelin, she who bears a searing hatred for the entire world... transformed into the equivalent of a human grade-schooler, a circumstance not unlike what happened to a certain Royal Navy light cruiser. And now Her Tiny Terribleness will unleash her wrath on Azur Lane... and will cry a lot if she doesn't get her way. God help us and our sanity.

A miniature version of Graf Zeppelin, Zeppy was added to the game on April 26, 2019, to help commemorate that year's Children's Day and Golden Week, across all regional servers.

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• Chuunibyou: Played with. She tries to give off the same threatening, blasphemous presence as her adult counterpart, but it usually results in her either making childish threats or just giving in when offered sweets.
• Dub Name Change: From "Zeppelin-chan" to Zeppy for the English version. Unlike Belchan/Little Bel (where "Belchan" just has a lot of fandom inertia behind it due to release lag time), the EN community approves of this renaming, by and large.
• Historical In-Joke: Surprisingly, her ability to carry a secondary gun and her even holding a turret in her art. The early design for the Graf Zeppelin called for mounting eight 15cm Schiffskanone C/28s as a secondary defense against torpedo boats, which was later bumped to sixteen of the things.^note To give this a bit more perspective - 15cm Schiffskanones served as the primary armament of the Königsberg and Leipzig-class vessels (and are indeed the default equipment for them in-game!); the light cruisers usually carried nine of the guns. So, by 1940, Graf Zeppelin, an aircraft carrier, was going to carry slightly fewer light cruiser guns as Leipzig and Nürnberg did combined. The doubling of the 15cm guns was actually a result of a miscommunication: the intention was to revise the design to save weight by putting the guns in double instead of single mounts, but the builders misinterpreted this as an order to replace the single mounts with doubles on a one-for-one basis. It was these guns that would help doom her - after the conquest of Norway, not only was installing and provisioning a large number of guns on her time-consuming, but the guns themselves were needed for coastal defenses in the new conquests. She was stripped of her guns, and potential replacements always getting diverted elsewhere helped contribute to her lack of commitment. Zeppy is basically a gameplay projection of what a fully-gunned GZ would've been like, and Zeppy, being the "young" GZ, reflects her early 1938-40 design, while "adult" Zepp reflects the brief 1942-3 plan to refit and finally commission her as a fleet carrier in the vein of the CVs cropping up in the Allied and IJN fleets.
• Jack of All Trades: Very much how she plays. You want her to be a monitor-like farming buddy with a fast, reliable barrage skill but way more armor and HP than an actual monitor at the cost of a bit more oil? She can do that. You want her to be a boss killer with multiple dive bombers? She can do that too. The only drawbacks she has are that her barrage isn't quite as big as the Erebus ones and is a bit slower (but it comes out way more reliably), and if you want to get the most out of her as a carrier, you really need to field her with an Ironblood team (as her Aviation stat is a bit low at baseline).
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
  • She's one of the few carriers who can mount a gun, in this case a CL gun... and, with Yongshi/Manjuu having taken notes from how poorly Langley and Houshou did with their guns, became the first carrier in the game with a meaningful Firepower stat (she caps out at 152, which is about on par with the top-end light cruisers and has since been joined by Eagle and Béarn). Moreover, her first skill dramatically ramps up her Firepower every eight seconds (80 per stack at max level, with her special screen barrage going off at 3 stacks). So most of the time, she's going to have heavy cruiser-like Firepower, making her gun option substantially more legitimate.
  • On top of that, as you'll note above: she's the only carrier in the entire game with a wave barrage skill akin to that of a monitor or Big Seven ship. And moreover, it isn't even tied to RNG - it will go off every 24 seconds, without question, even if you don't have a gun equipped (although the barrage is substantially improved by having a gun equipped). This actually makes her one of the best farming back-liners in the entire game, as she can help clear waves like a monitor (and her skill goes off much more reliably than BB barrages) and can defend herself against bomb ships and whatnot while having far more HP and armor than monitors.
• Obvious Rule Patch:
  • She was announced right after 2nd round of the World of Warships collaboration was implemented, likely due to the fact that grinding experience for Friedrich der Grosse requires Ironblood backline, while Gascogne needs Ironblood, Iris, or Vichya backline...and all of them were event-locked at the time of PR 2's release, which raised a serious possibility that she was added in to allow players that didn't have the other backlines to be able to grind for FdG or Gascogne. This became even more blatant when the patch that introduced her noted that she'd be added to the normal construction pool sometime after her event ended.
  • Her significant Firepower stat also feels like one, informed by experience with guns on a few early CVs... who couldn't make effective use of them due to having no Firepower stat. Zeppy has enough of the stat to make the weapon actually useful, and a skill that both boosts Firepower further and provides further benefit to trading a DB slot for a gun.
• Sleep-Mode Size: Just like Little Bel, and Zeppy's feelings are mixed about it (partially because her mentality is genuinely that of a "young" Zeppelin) - on the one hand, she wants to be the super-duper awesome first carrier of the Ironblood and wants to be grown up, but there's also a lot of moments where she's clearly enjoying being a kid.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Zeppelin is now about half or less her usual size. Her rig is the exact same size it's always been. She could previously sit on it, and now she practically rides on it. It's not even clear what it's attached to anymore.
• Super Prototype: As noted above, Zeppy is based on the earlier "idealized" designs of Graf Zeppelin. As such, she has several unique traits her adult form lacks, namely the ability to equip a cruiser gun and fire a barrage. Her skills also don't influence her equipment selection like the adult Graf (at the cost of not having Graf's sky-high efficiencies), and her Ironblood Hatchling skill can actually give her higher raw stats (even Aviation!) in a full Ironblood fleet than her adult counterpart.
• Trigger-Happy: She'll threaten to shoot you if she thinks you're teasing her or she doesn't get her way... which happens quite often.^note This is translated as "Taste my wrath!" for EN servers.
• Tsundere: Shows plenty of times how bemeaning and abusive she can be to the Commander, before flipping to a sweet and caring at the slightest hint of the Commander giving her cake.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: In contrast to her normal-sized self, her gloomy exterior is just an act, and plenty of her lines indicate just how much she rejects the gloominess she embraces in her normal form. In fact, pairing her up with her grown-up self will result in her saying "I love everything!".

  "Despair and hatred mean nothing to me! I believe that as long as you don't give up, you can make any dream come true!"

The Weser-class

Weser

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Artist: 羽織イオ

Voiced by: Rimi Nishimoto

Heavy cruiser, Seydlitz... Rather, escort carrier Weser, has arrived. You're wondering why I have two names? Don't be in such a rush... I'll be sure to teach you later, slowly.

The personification of the converted light aircraft carrier Weser, better known as the heavy cruiser ''Seydlitz''.

• Fiery Redhead: Subverted: Weser has red hair, yet her personality is anything but fiery.
• Ms. Fanservice: In a similar manner to Monarch, Weser is a curvaceous woman dressed in form-fitting formal attire that shows off her body without being overly revealing.
• Nice Girl: Very well-mannered and considerate. She asks you to set everything aside and rest should you feel tired (promising to wake you up if someone comes around), thanks you for giving the chance to fight alongside her sisters (Hipper and Eugen in this case), and tells you to enjoy a nice coffee before going back to work.
• Support Party Member: Can provide allies with a barrier (with extra buffs for fellow Iron Blood ships).
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: In her L2D party skin, an envelope is dropped to her which she tucks away between her breasts. She occasionally pulls it out when events like new mail, commissions or the like occur.

The Jade-class

Jade

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Artist: freng

Voice By: Arisa Aihara

Refitted aircraft carrier Gneisenau—Sorry, that's a little inside joke. I'm Jade, an aircraft carrier. While I may not be able to pull off any major feats myself, I promise I will obey you♪ Leave it all to me, Commander.

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• The Fake Cutie: She declares herself a "good girl" but is actually quite domineering and outright rude to the Commander.
• Historical In-Joke: Gneisenau was her name as an ocean liner, but she has no connection to the Iron Blood's Gneisenau apart from their namesake.
• Tsurime Eyes: In contrast to her sister.
• The Tease: Especially in her A Lick Of Summer skin, where she very suggestively licks a popsicle.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She herself points out that she's short, and she also bosses the Commander around and outright tells him to lick her shoes.

Elbe

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Artist:NecoMeta

Voiced by: Nene Hieda

I am the Jade-class carrier, Elbe. And you're the Commander of this fleet? Hmm, you must be quite sure of yourself to make the one who will bring you victory come to you♪

• Animal Motif: A ghostly shark.
• Artistic License – History: She and her sister ship were meant to be converted from passenger liners to aircraft carriers, but Elbe (then known as Potsdam) only got so far as having her passenger fittings removed before work was halted. She spent the rest of the war first as a barracks ship, then a British troopship, and then after the war she was sold as a passenger liner first to England and later Saudi Arabia.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her outfit certainly has that flavor with the black and white color scheme featuring a lot of frills and puffy sleeves.
• Historical In-Joke: She references a sister who served the Sakura Empire, referring to her sister ship Scharnhorst (not that one) a passenger liner who was turned into the escort carrier Shinyo in Japan.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: She styles herself a "bad girl" and likes to pull pranks on the Commander to prove it, despite the pranks themselves typically backfiring and causing her to unknowingly perform good deeds. The Commander even notes that she appears to be "well bred" in her Stranger affinity quote, while her 2nd skill is also named "Good Girl at Heart."
  • This is averted in her Pure-Hearted Bad Girl skin, where her new lines portray her tooth-achingly sweet and flustered about her date with the Commander.
• Leotard of Power: The basis of her outfit is a white leotard, upon which the rest of dress is anchored on.
• Nice Girl: Despite insisting that she is indeed a "bad girl," she's very polite and well-mannered. She's also very quick to apologize profusely if her pranks do cause harm or inconvenience to any extent.
• The Ojou: She has a somewhat formal and polite manner of speech, giving her the impression of an aristocratic young lady.
• Tareme Eyes: In contrast to Jade.

The August von Parseval-class

August von Parseval

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Artist: sorayuna

Voiced by: Rika Tachibana

You've finally come, my familiar... Pardon, my "commander." I am the Unhulde, August von Parseval. 'tis a pleasure to meet you.

• Artistic License – Ships: She is the hypothetical Flugzeugträger C, successor/sub-class of the Graf Zeppelin carriers.
• Aggressive Submissive.: Her "like" affection line reveals that her domineering was meant to encourage you to rebel and dominate her. The "submissive" part is shown in her maid skin.
• Balance Buff: Her Fate Simulation skill buff bumps up the activation rate of her skill 'Hex: Principle of Insight. Unlike most Fate Simulation buffs, this one is very significant because at skill level 10, this skill is now guaranteed to activate on every airstrike. The fact she was a carrier with a slow that had a chance of not activating made a significant chunk of the playerbase consider her not worth using for carrier nuking strategies. Now that she will lock enemies in place with her airstrikes, August has gained the consistency required to be effectively worked into carrier-heavy fleets.
• Composite Character: Her kit has a mix of both Graf Zeppelin ships' skills, fitting as her concept is their successor/sub-class.
• Chuunibyou: Averted, her witch motif is played completely seriously.
• Dragons Are Demonic: Her rigging is far more impressive than any other Ironblood shipgirl, given it's a gigantic dragon with flight decks for wings.
• Hot Witch: Her motif seems to be a sort of dark magican, as her skills have "Hex" in their English name – along with "Hexe" being the German word for "witch" – and her introduction tweet calls her a switch that treats you like a familiar. She also has the good looks to qualify for this trope.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Her lines never have her raise her voice even once, but they are dripping with condescension and authority even as she's calmly whispering to your ears.
• Support Party Member: Although she does possess a solid statline, her plane spread is a bit too unfocused to fuction as a full DPS. The most notable parts of her kit as a playable unit are her fleet-support skills, which include a Damage-Increasing Debuff to light/medium armor enemies hit by her barrage and a movement-impairing skill that slows and then holds enemies in place for a second (1.5 seconds if she has finished her Fate Simulation), leaving them wide open for the rest of your fleet to focus fire on if timed well.
• Theme Naming: As with her "half-sisters", she retains this motif, with the real August von Parseval being another famous German airship designer and one of the three main German airship designers (the other two being the Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin himself and Professor Johann Schütte).