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Ono Clan
A clan of kitsune now linked directly with Yokosuka Naval Base and Harry Potter-Nagato. Natsumi
Natsumi aged 15-16
A young Kitsune and Harry's classmate from before he began to attend Hogwarts. She is training to be a miko with her aunt.- Asian Fox Spirit: She's a Kitsune and everyone knows, but Harry is afraid to tell her he does, due to the old stories of such things. It all gets sorted out during the summer after his second year at Hogwarts, when she reveals just what she is to him during the battle with Kuroshi.
- Beyond the Impossible: She gains a second tail at the age of thirteen, or around eighty to ninety years earlier than she should have when she absorbs the power of the Sesshou-seki, the very stone that, according to Japanese legend, is the Tamamo-no-mae's corpse, during the battle with Kuroshi.
- Cannot Spit It Out: While it's obvious to everyone who knows her that she is crushing hard on Harry, this is also complicated by her being a Kitsune and needing to keep that a secret. It drives her up the proverbial wall on many an occasion. As of now, the secret is out.
- Childhood Friend: To Harry.
- Expy: In spite of being a fox, Natsumi is a dead ringer for Holo the Wisewolf. Lampshaded by the kitsune herself, who put on the appropriate clothes one Halloween, left her ears and tail out, and called herself Natsumi the Wise Fox.
- Groin Attack: When some of the Tokyo Remnants attempt to kidnap Fubuki's kids and take them to a Reserve, Fubuki uses a qi-enhanced kick to literally pop the balls on one of them.
- Hero of Another Story: Some snippets feature her and Shiromizu investigating yokai misadventures.
- Panty Shot: Natsumi & Shiromizu are investigating reports of a ghost girl (not too dissimilar to Myrtle) in the toilets of a kids school. Natsumi doesn't find one, but thinks that she can still hear something coming from the ceiling (she's right; it's a radio) and she needs Shiromizu to give her a boost to check, so Shiro gets a look up her skirt in doing so, and not surprisingly teases her over what would happen if Harry were in her position.
- Pink and white stripes according to Shiromizu; she thought they'd be Shimapan. Natsumi insists Aunt Haru bought them for her as a joke and had forgot to do the laundry so they were the only set she had going spare.
- Reincarnation Romance: As Su Daji, Natsumi had two loves, her husband Jiahao and Jiahao's female friend Lianhua. Their deaths were what pushed Daji into becoming the toppler of dynasties that she is known for.
- As the kitsune Mikuzune, she loved Natsue, who would be her first retainer Momoiro, and a young man named Mikawa no Chūjitsu. Again, their deaths would lead to her becoming Tamamo no Mae, one of the Three Great Monsters of Japan.
- In the current timeline, her two loves have been reincarnated as Harry Potter and Ren the Huli-Jing/Kitsune hybrid.
- Secret Legacy: A friend of her family's is Hoshi, a full nine-tailed Kitsune, who may or may not be her grandmother or great-grandmother. To add to the reason why it needs to be kept completely secret? Hoshi is confirmed to be the daughter of Tamamo-no-mae.
Haru
The miko of a local shrine sometimes attended by Harry and the Shipgirls at Yokosuka. She is actually a Kitsune with great experience and skill with magic.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: She's a pretty stunning drunk. Natsumi is the one who usually has to pick up the pieces.
- Death Seeker: Became this during Blood Week when her husband was killed. Was snapped out of it by her sister Sayaka, Natsumi's mother, catching up to her and shoving pictures of her nephew and nieces in her face asking if she wanted them to grieve for her and seek revenge if she dies.
- The Gadfly: Enjoys teasing her nieces and nephew.
- Genre Savvy: After Ginny Weasley's possession by the Diary Horcrux, Haru decided to have Ginny visit the shrine so any Brainwash Residue that was lingering could be removed via a ritual.
- The Mentor: Is training Natsumi as a Miko, and has helped Harry perfect his skills with Ofuda. Is also training Shiromizu in many things as well.
- Really 700 Years Old: A Kitsune's tails indicate how many centuries one has been alive. Haru starts the story out with four.
The Kingdom of Foxes
An island reserve of Kitsune, Huli Jing, and Kumiho situated off the coast of Korea.Tropes pertaining to the Kingdom of Foxes in general:- Contrived Coincidence: It was certainly quite convenient that one of the denizens was a natural-born hospital ship who had a large stockpile of the Draught of Living Death, who awoke just in time to put many critically injured people in a state of suspended animation until a way to heal them could be found.
- Little Bit Beastly: All of its denizens are either Kitsune, Huli Jing, or Kumiho, with all of the corresponding ears and tails.
Chun-Hei
As seen just before she finished off the Heavy Cruiser Princess that led the attack on the Kingdom of Foxes
The young Kumiho Empress of the Kingdom of Foxes. Also the natural-born of a 16th-century turtle ship.- A Child Shall Lead Them: With the rest of the royal family killed by a decapitation strike, Chun-Hei was forced to take over after repelling the Abyssals that had killed her family.
- Expy: Is a dead ringer for Star Guardian Ahri.
- The Promise: Promised her friend Bitna to take care of her brother Bo-Seon.
- The Strategist: Chun-Hei has Admiral Yi Sun-Sin as a fairy, with all of the tactical and strategic knowledge that he had in life.
- Subordinate Excuse: Seems to be aiming for a relationship with her aide Bo-Seon. As of now, they are secretly boyfriend and girlfriend.
- The Unchosen One: Chun-Hei's father never even considered letting her inherit the throne. However, when the rest of her family was killed, she was forced to take over.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Fully awoke after seeing the Kingdom of Foxes devastated by Abyssal forces, plus her friend almost dying to save her.
- Weak, but Skilled: On paper, Chun-Hei and her forces shouldn't have been able to do anything against Abyssals who are centuries more up-to-date technologically than they are. But because Chun-Hei has Yi Sun-Sin as a fairy, she has an almost instinctive knowledge of structural weaknesses in their enemies, enabling their otherwise-weak firepower to achieve devastating effects.
Myung Bo-Seon
A young Kumiho who is Chun-Hei's personal aide and recently boyfriend.
- Childhood Friend: Has been friends with Chun-Hei since they were little.
Myung Bitna
Chun-Hei's Childhood Friend who was grievously injured in the initial attack on the Kingdom of Foxes.
- Only Mostly Dead: Was fatally injured, but is being kept in suspended animation via the Draught of Living Death being used on her and others who were injured.
- Taking the Bullet: Threw Chun-Hei out of the path of an artillery strike that would have killed them both otherwise.
Bao-Si
An old fox who has been alive for hundreds of years.
- Alternate Self: Is this for Tamamo, having been revived by a tail being given to her as Tamamo (then known as Daji) was fleeing China.
- I Was Quite a Looker: In her youth, had beauty comparable to Helen of Troy's.
- Seers: Can see events from far away.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Has irremovable marks around her neck from when she first died by hanging.
Yokosuka Naval Base
Admiral Goto
Admiral Isoroku Goto is the commander of the shipgirls at Yokosuka Naval Base, and de facto commander of Japan's shipgirl force.
- Not So Above It All: He appears to have accepted and running with the shenanigans and quirks of shipgirls.
Kongou
The British-born Fast Battleship Kongou
- Berserk Button: Threats to tea or instant iced tea will bring out the "Black Tea Demon"
- Catchphrase: "Burning Love!"
- Cool Car: A Range Rover.
- Engrish: While Drunk. However, being drunk combined with her Berserk Button make her sound like a Chav.
- Genki Girl: Often seen as energetic as in the original browser game and anime. Such as holding tea time, or presenting The Talk to Harry when it is the "Springtime of his Youth".
- Hidden Depths: Beneath her normal genki persona is a very thoughtful, wise mind, resulting from her long-time service with the Imperial Japanese Navy and being among the first shipgirls to appear following Blood Week.
- Large Ham: True to canon, she has a loud and bombastic personality.
- Me's a Crowd: Thanks to some liberal use of Polyjuice Potion, "The Night Of The Living Dess" in a nutshell.
- Trademark Favorite Drink: Kongou enjoys English-style tea, and can quickly set up afternoon tea in a few seconds with the help of her sisters.
- Verbal Tic: "Dess!"
Ooyodo
Admiral Goto's main secretary, alongside Nagato.
- Badass Bureaucrat: Comes with being a shipgirl, but her administrative skills are unmatched, with Ooyodo doing her best to keep resources from running out, important given Japan's status as an island nation in the war with the Abyssals. Despite this she is also a:
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: She has become rather stressed from the war efforts, the appearance of multiple capital ships (whom usually means more resource consumption), and Goto keeps avoiding paperwork.
- Big Sister Instinct: Gains a sister ship in Niyodo, one of the Paper Ships.
- Deadpan Snarker: If anyone is giving Goto sass it's usually her. His fishing exploits for example.
- Evil Laugh: Gives one upon finding out that she had several tons of platinum to be added to the budget.
- Must Have Caffeine: Ooyodo gets very cranky if she hasn't had her coffee.
Akashi
The main repair ship of Yokosuka Base
- Gadgeteer Genius: Part of her work has been adapting technology used by western shipgirls for the Japanese, including radar, fitting Japanese copies of the legendary Bofors 40 mm Anti-aircraft gun, along with other equipment and systems.
- The Mad Scientist: The first thing that came to several shipgirls minds when Akashi was going to show how Harry would look when older was "You didn't invent something to age him did you?" Voiced by Yamoto.
Mikasa
The Legendary Pre-Dreadnought Battleship who served as Admiral Togo's flagship during the Battle of Tsushima. Now awoken as a shipgirl. Enjoys sneaking around Yokosuka via the vents, and is part of Goto's office staff, given her relative obsolescence.
- Four-Star Badass: The flagship of Legendary Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō during the battle of Tsushima, she is highly respected.
- The Gadfly: She especially enjoys annoying Kongou, or "Chibi-Kon" according to her.
Haruna
- Badass Driver: As her namesake mountain is featured in Initial D, this trope is played for all its worth. Haruna drives a Toyota Corolla AE86 painted exactly like the iconic car in the manga, with plenty of Eurobeat music. She also regularly races, with plenty of hair-raising stunts and drifting.
- Happily Married: To Rose Potter. They officially tied the knot aboard Haruna's spiritual hull.
- Lightning Bruiser: Despite her gentleness, she is still a fast battleship that could go 30 knots.
- Statuesque Stunner: 5' 11'' according to
Word of God.- One Head Taller: Contrast her wife Rose at 5' 3''.
Shinano
- Alternate Self: Had a dream where she met an alternate version of herself, from a What If? scenario where the Axis won World War II instead of the Allies. She...hadn't enjoyed her life. This was not just a dream, as when Shinano woke up, she had a folder provided by her alternate self.
- D-Cup Distress: Shinano does not like the size of her fuel tanks, viewing them as a reminder of her conversion from a battleship into a carrier.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Views herself as not even a true carrier. Even Enterprise saying otherwise wasn't enough to break this mindset.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When a planning meeting for the Yule Ball was interrupted by Iku revealing that Harry had entered her hull and gone deep inside her, Shinano said they should be careful, because of forum rules and mods watching. Lampshaded by Urakaze.Urakaze: "Er, Shinano-Sama? Why are ya'll leanin' against tha' there wall?"
- Let's Get Dangerous!: During Operation UNDERTOW, a volcanic eruption caused most of the carriers to be forced to withdraw, as the massive cloud of ash made it impossible to launch their planes and they didn't have armor belts. Shinano bolted the guns from her damaged planes onto her flight deck and went right back into the thick of it, knowing that as a Yamato conversion, she was more than capable of taking some hits.
- Shrinking Violet: Is extremely shy.
Kaga
One of Japan's oldest fleet carriers, who converted from a battleship.
- The Gadfly: Enjoys ribbing Zuikaku, to the point of having a pet turkey named "ZuiZui" and getting Harry to call Zuikaku a turkey as well.
Akagi
- Badass Driver: While nowhere as insane as Haruna, she has taught herself how to drift race on her namesake mountain.
- Big Eater: She, along with Iowa, managed to complete the Nine Clan Heads Challenge, a nine-course feast in a Yokai sports bar that has defeated Oni, Taka Nyudo, Uwabami, and even a Mizuchi.
Ryuujou
One of the shikigami-using onmyouji carriers, she helped train Harry in using that form of magic.
- Accent Adaptation: Her distinctive accent is translated as a very southern US drawl.
- A-Cup Angst: Averted. She is proud of her "distinctive figure" and enjoys trolling others, including Admiral Goto, about it.
- Berserk Button: People who mock her accent (see below) gets her irritated.
White Plains
One of the Casablanca class escort carrier of Taffy 3. Has somehow become "momboat" to the entire Yamato Class. Including Warship Number 111 and Warship Number 797, two members that were never completed.
- Badass Adorable: She acts like a kid most of the time and loves sugary cereals, but she is also a Carrier of Taffy 3.
- Team Mom: Acts as a mom for the Yamato Class and derivatives.
Naka
A natural-born, Naka was an aspiring Idol Singer hampered by the industry before discovering her shipgirl nature. A frequent livestreamer that often co-hosts with Harry Potter-Nagato, whom she affectionately calls "Chibi".
- Gamer Chick: Is frequently seen playing on a high-end gaming computer setup.
- Will They or Won't They?: With Harder.
Naka-Alpha
This special duplicate of Naka has somehow summoned thanks to the Original Naka and Harder. She is in fact based on the original hull for Naka that was destroyed while under construction by fire during the 1922 Kanto Earthquake. This version was scrapped after the fire and construction on Naka was restarted after laying down a new keel.
Ooi (Birth name: Yuuko)
- Best Served Cold: Years after being disowned by her parents, Yuuko, along with Rika and Harry, got to publicly humiliate them at a high-class restaurant using nothing but Social Fu.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Deconstructed. While she is still clingy towards Kitakami, there is a tragic reason for it.
- Family of Choice: Happily views Harry Potter as her younger brother. And woe betide anyone who tries to harm him while she's around.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents disowned her for being a natural-born. Kitakami is all she has left that counts as family.
- Those Two Girls: With Kitakami
Kitakami (Birth name: Rika)
- Living Emotional Crutch: After Yuuko was disowned by her parents, Rika was the one who supported her for a while.
- Those Two Girls: With Ooi.
Fubuki
As seen in her dress whites
- A-Cup Angst: While not something that is constantly brought up, Fubuki did question how her own Abyssal counterpart had larger fuel tanks than she did.Fubuki looked at her Abyssal version and then back. Placing her hands on her own chest, and then on the Abyssal's who yelped and jumped back, the lead ship of her class frowned. "How are you a cup size larger then I am? Is that some sort of Abyssal thing?"
- Adaptational Badass: Fubuki in the anime had a lot of trouble learning how to fight as a shipgirl. Fubuki in this story? Self-summoned during Blood Week, helped protect several noncombatants...then beat a Battleship Princess one on one.
- Badass Adorable: Cute as a button, and has fought above her weight class several times and won.
- Badass Bookworm: After her return, Fubuki made it a point to study and adapt the tactics that both sides used to win the war. When she had studied everything she could, she presented the tactics she had come up with to Admiral Goto, and he ordered them put into practice immediately. It is not an exaggeration to say that Fubuki's studying is a major reason why many shipgirls made it through the early days of the war.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Fubuki might be one of the sweetest shipgirls in Yokosuka, but hurt a child in her presence, and she has no mercy for you.Fubuki: Ara ara~ Does this look like the face of mercy?
- Big Sister Instinct: When Fubuki caught a Teke Teke that was planning to turn Harry into one of its victims, let's just say she and the other shipgirls who were on base made absolutely sure it wouldn't threaten Harry or anyone else ever again.Fubuki just glanced at her with one eye while making sure not to take the other off the girl. "Yeah, I'll see you later, Mutsuki-chan. I'll see you tomorrow, Harry-chan." She waited as Mutsuki took off with Harry letting out a happy squeal as he said goodbye, before she turned her full attention back to the girl who shuddered at the smile on Fubuki's face. Said smile didn't reach her eyes and was somewhat predatory and frigid. It certainly didn't help that Fubuki's eyes were as cold as her name might suggest, lacking the usual warmth in them. "You know, Harry-chan is pretty much my Otouto in everyway, right? And it's my job as his big sister to protect him from those who might want to harm him..." Her eyes, if it was possible, got even more cold. "Which means that right now? Right now I'm pretty angry."
When the girl though shifted as if she was about to move, Fubuki held up one finger. "Ah-ah, I'm afraid that there's no getting out of this... Though I will say this..." Seeing that the girl was now focused on her, Fubuki grinned in a way that was in no way friendly. "As that American film we watched last week put it, we're clever girls." - Chest of Medals: It has been joked that Fubuki has so many medals, trying to set sail with all of them on would cause her to sink.
- Clark Kenting: Simply wearing a hat makes Fubuki very difficult to recognize.
- Gunboat Diplomacy: When some Aurors in Sapporo were about to take some Yōkai children to be processed for one of the Reserves, Fubuki pointed out that there were three Destroyers and a Battleship who did not want to let that happen, and the Aurors would have had trouble with just one Destroyer. The Aurors immediately left the Yokai in her care.
- Hartman Hips: Fubuki has been noted to have quite the ass, to the point where Yuudachi calls her "Fubooty".
- Hero of Another Story: She is the flagship of her own squadron, which includes Yuudachi, Mutsuki, and Kana.
- An Ice Person: Due to having a crossdressing Yuki-Onna from the Arashis in her crew roster, Fubuki has the same powers over ice. Without the weakness to fire that Yuki-Onna normally have, to boot.
- Mama Bear: Reacted extremely poorly when some Tokyo Remnants attempted to kidnap her kids, to the point that Kurobi and Bansaburo had to remind her that corpses couldn't give information about their organization.
- Red Baron: The Mother of the Modern Destroyer.
- Troll: Enjoys pranking Filipino Officer Sheo Darren, and occasionally Kaga.
- Wrote the Book: Managed to codify the standard for shipgirl combat tactics.
Yuudachi
- Beware the Silly Ones/Big Sister Instinct: Like Fubuki, Yuudachi took it rather...poorly when a Teke Teke was caught attempting to hurt HarryUtterly confused, the girl furrowed her eyes until a sound caused her to turn and her eyes widened at the red ones looking right at her. Before she could do anything though, Yuudachi's hand shot out and gripped her throat before lifting her up and above the wall to reveal that the girl's lower half was gone, nothing there but smoke. "Hi, I'm Yuudachi! One of Harry-chan's other nee-sans. And welcome to our Nightmare Party, Poi~..."
- Exiled to the Couch: Yuudachi's role in a rather comical series of Disaster Dominoes caused her to be exiled to a literal doghouse by Fubuki.
- Harem Seeker: Has been extremely pleased at being in a polygamous relationship with Fubuki, Mutsuki, Kisaragi, and Kana. Wants to add the Battlecruiser Akagi if she gets summoned. Lampshaded by the destroyer herself.She then pressed herself closer to Fubuki before kissing the other Destroyer along the neck, smirking at the sighs her action got, "Besides… I look like I'm supposed to be in college, why not act like it?"
- Red Baron: The Nightmare of Solomon.
- Tranquil Fury: Was rather quiet in expressing her displeasure at what Quirrelmort pulled at the end of Harry's First Year.Placing her hand down, Fubuki's sleeve moved until some of her Fairies came out and jogged across the table to where Mutsuki and Yuudachi were. Both Destroyers glanced at her before putting their own hands down and accepting the fairies into themselves. Almost a minute passed as the expressions on both Destroyers shifted through various emotions. While Mutsuki just placed her hand over her mouth, Yuudachi's eyes began to glow in anger. "Well, seems that I have someone who I will be inviting to a Nightmare Party, Poi~"
- Unusual Euphemism: Tends to say that people who make her angry are going to get a Nightmare Party.
- Verbal Tic: Poi?
Kana Originally: Kaga
Kanazawa (usually called Kana) is the shipgirl form of the Tosa-class Battleship Kaga, prior to her extensive rebuild as an aircraft carrier. She is normally assigned to Fubuki's group.
- Double Entendre: Shortly after she's summoned she's the stool pigeon for a bit of mutual trolling between Fubuki and Kaga laden with this. It gets worse when Kaga's and Akagi's sisters get involved, turning into one huge dose of Incest Subtext.
- Student/Teacher Romance: Has a crush on her "sempai" Fubuki. Is now officially in a romantic relationship with not just Fubuki, but the other girls who are in their fleet.
Tenryuu (Birth Name: Ryoko Matsuda)
A single mother who found out her twin daughters were natural-born ships, then found she was one herself.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Waterline is so sharp that when the Fleet of Fog invaded, its edge was able to easily cut through their armor.
- Chuunibyou: Puts on such a persona
- Cool Sword: Waterline, which is part of her rigging and can carve apart high-tier Abyssals.
- Mama Bear: A great way to dramatically shorten one's life is to threaten her daughters.
- Master Swordsman: Is so skilled with a sword that she is allowed to certify if other shipgirls can carry live steel with them.
- Older Than They Look: Is the mother of two teenage daughters and looks to be barely out of her teens, herself.
Tatsuta
- Eyes Always Shut: And if she opens them at all, you might be in danger.
- Verbal Tic: "Ara ara."
Ikazuchi (Birth Name: Aki Matsuda)
- Catchphrase: "You can rely on me!"
- Older Than They Look: Is in her late teens, but is barely a teenager in appearance.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Normally the hotheaded twin, except when a fire is involved, see below.
Inazuma (Birth Name: Ami Matsuda)
- Pyromaniac: Has a rather unhealthy obsession with fire.
- Older Than They Look: Is in her late teens, but is barely a teenager in appearance.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inazuma is normally the calmer twin unless she sees flames.
- Verbal Tic: As ever, "Nanodesu".
Akatsuki
- Troll: Is heavily implied to be one to Ikazuchi, who nigh-instinctually corrects Akatsuki's malapropisms: Almost constantly replaces "elegant" with "elephant." Almost.
Hibiki (Soviet Name: Verniy)
The second destroyer of the Akatsuki-Class.
- Blood Magic: When Harry was prepping some steel infused with his magic in preparation for Hibiki's refit to Verniy, he accidentally cut his finger on one of the empty drinks cans he was using to transfigure into ingots. He thought nothing more of it, but it turns out that little bit of blood went a long way in ensuring the success of the procedure.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Is a featherweight drunk, which tends to lead to...
- Kissing Under the Influence: ...the emergence of the Kissing Fiend. Especially if she's drunk and Harry is around, but she'll settle for just about anyone. Including her sisters.
- Sole Survivor: Was the only Akatsuki-Class destroyer to survive World War II.
Ume and Sakura Konohana
Ume and Sakura, as seen during Hanami
Formerly a pair of hitobashira for an island caldera run by the Kamo Government. Later summoned as twin installation shipgirls of the caldera.- Abusive Parents: It was their own parents who nominated them as the caldera hitobashira, because in their eyes, it was the only way Ume and Sakura could serve the Konohana family.
- Back from the Dead: Thanks to some creative spellwork and planning by Harry, the summoning ritual to summon the Caldera Shipgirls was able to revive Ume and Sakura as the twin Installations of the Caldera.
- Buried Alive: Part of the process of becoming hitobashira.
- Came Back Strong: Originally, Ume and Sakura barely had any magical power. Being revived not only gave them the powers of an installation, but also gave them access to the abilities that their crews had, as well as the abilities they had as earthbound spirits.
- Coordinated Clothes: Currently wear near-identical clothes.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Part of the reason Harry is so appealing to Ume and Sakura is because their parents would never approve of him. They also find it hilarious.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Caused a group of Funayuurei to be Dragged Off to Hell when they would have hurt Harry.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Went through a great deal of hardship to get a second chance at life.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Demonstrated the ability to compete with Fred and George Weasley in that regard.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Unknowingly stopped a plan that would have allowed the Kamo Government to kick off a third World War right as the second was ending. Said information was quickly sealed away by necessity.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Harry Leferts has gone so far to state that at full power, Ume and Sakura would be the Fourth Great Ghost of Japan.
- Silk Hiding Steel: They might be proper Japanese maidens, but if they ever are pushed into using a portion of their full power, things tend to go...badly...for their enemies.
- Single-Minded Twins: To Ume and Sakura, virtually the only difference between them is which name they have.
- Spanner in the Works: A simple desire to prevent things from continuing the way they were going was the reason they lifted the Perception Filter around the caldera. They had no way of knowing that the caldera was a massive lynchpin in Operation Tatarigami, a plan to start World War III between the magical and non-magical worlds.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: This was the form they took when using their powers as hitobashira.
- Theme Twin Naming: Both are named after flowers with connotations of fleeting beauty.
- Wonder Twin Powers: Ume and Sakura can only deploy their rigging if they're together.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Were raised to be able to act like one.
Louisiana
The spirit of the paper ship USS Louisiana.
- And I Must Scream: Being a paper ship, when Louisiana was summoned, the nature of the ritual effectively had her trapped in a coffin. And the wizard who summoned her had done so using the last of his life energy. It was only some Dream Spying from Harry, the kitsune on Yokosuka, and other paper shipgirls that allowed Louisiana to be saved.
- Chef of Iron: Louisiana is EXTREMELY skilled at cajun cooking. She is also a battleship.
- Gratuitous French: Likes to call Harry "mon cherie" and Natsumi "ma cherie".
- Rescue Romance: Was rescued from where she was trapped after being created by Harry and Natsumi. Has made it quite clear that she wants to marry both of them.
Yahagi (Birth Name: Kawa)
A natural-born who greatly looks up to Yamato.
- Ascended Fangirl: Before she was awoken, Kawa idolized Yamato, and dreamed of joining the JMSDF to work alongside her. Now, she gets to fight by Yamato's side as a shipgirl.
- Chekhov's Skill: Upon finding that Enerprise had been up all night, not getting any food or sleep, Kawa's skill at dealing with petulant children at the orphanage allowed her to frog march the Grey Ghost to the Mess Hall, shove burgers and milkshakes down her throat, take her to the shower, wash her off, then bring her to bed, with Kawa cuddling her to make sure she stayed put.
- In Vino Veritas: Got absolutely sloshed on New Year's Eve 2014, and when Enterprise said it was a new year to live with no regrets, gave the carrier and Yamato a kiss before telling them she wanted to marry them. Leading to...
- My God, What Have I Done?: ...being absolutely horrified the next morning, after recalling what she did while drunk. Luckily, Enterprise and Yamato pulled her out of it by telling her they felt the same way, leading to...
- Relationship Upgrade: ...Yahagi, Yamato, and Enterprise officially becoming girlfriends.
Yukikaze
Spirit of the Japanese destroyer of the same name. One of Shinano's escorts.
- Born Lucky: Yukikaze tends to have incredible luck. There's a reason other people ask for her to help them invest money.
- Trauma Button: Panicked when Harry accidentally flooed to Knockturn Alley instead of Diagon Alley. note
Isokaze
One of Yukikaze's sisters, as well as one of Shinano's escorts.
- Actor Allusion: Isokaze is a big fan of Saber. Ayako Kawasumi has voiced both characters.
- Big Damn Heroes: Isokaze and Hamakaze self summoned in response to Harry pleading for someone to help Shinano.
- Secret Test of Character: Allowed Harry to use one of her hairs to test whether humans could use Polyjuice Potion to transform into shipgirls. The whole time, Isokaze watched to see if Harry would check out his new body. He didn't pay any attention to his new body, severely raising Isokaze's opinion of him.
Hamakaze
Another of Yukikaze's sisters, as well as one of Shinano's escorts.
- Big Damn Heroes: Self summoned along with Isokaze in response to Harry pleading for someone to save Shinano.
- Ground-Shattering Landing: Leaped onto the Quidditch Pitch while her weight was closer to her ship side than her girl side. Shattered the area where she landed and caused the whole stadium to shake.
- Memetic Badass: In-Universe, became this at the Quidditch World Cup after batting away some Veela fire that came close to where their group was sitting.Unknown to her, it would later become a very popular wizarding poster with both girls and boys loving the sight of her smacking aside the magical attack with a protective look on her face as her hair whipped in the breeze.
Sasebo Naval Base
Admiral Richardson
Admiral John Richardson, USN.
- Happily Married: With Mutsu, his 2nd wife. By all accounts his marriage with his late 1st wife Langley was perfectly content too.
Jane Richardson
Jane Richardson is the daughter of Admiral Richardson. For all intent and purposes, a close cousin of Harry Potter.
- Genki Girl: Is amost constantly up-beat.
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Angst? What Angst?: Has moved on very well from her mother Langley's death.
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- Hidden Depths: Has her moments of Wise Beyond Their Years.
Mutsu
The sister of Nagato, Mutsu has become an aunt to Harry, as well as wife of Admiral Richardson, currently pregnant with twins, now officially born as Mirai and Mary.
- Happily Married: Among the first shipgirls officially married.
- Unusual Euphemism: "Laying some keels in her slipway" for her attempts at starting a family.
Hiei
The second of the Kongou sisters. A close friend of Admiral Richardson, served as Best Woman/Battleship during Admiral Richardson's wedding to Mutsu.
- Genki Girl: On par for her portrayal, she is very enthusiastic in whatever she does, such as going along with Kongou's ideas.
- Lethal Chef: Ironically, she is good at cooking American Southern cuisine, particularly comfort foods like fried chicken.
Jintsuu
- Ascended Fangirl: She is a fan of Star Wars, particularly the Original Trilogy.
Arizona
- Covert Pervert: She once hosted a prostitute among her crew, and can call upon her knowledge.
- In Vino Veritas: Normally, Arizona is a prim and proper lady, thank you very much! But if she gets drunk, she tends to reveal just how massive a pervert she actually is. One Christmas Party had her get extremely drunk on the Canadian beverage known as Moose Milk. Cue Arizona confronting Mutsu and Admiral Richardson to explain in detail how they were having sex the wrong way...where Jane could hear.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Asked verbatim when she sobers up after spending the previous night drunkenly giving Harry, Jane & The Lewdmarines The Talk and everyone is acting weird around her.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Donuts
Shimakaze
- Fragile Speedster: She is one of the fastest shipgirls, but as a destroyer, she relies on her agility to survive in battle.
Kushiro Naval Base
Captain Kaito Tanaka
The commander of Kushiro Naval Base, currently being groomed for flag rank by Admiral Goto and The Chief of Maritime Staff.
- Brass Balls: Find out a large Abyssal Fleet is heading his way and that he will not get support in time, he goes out and meets with them to find out why they're there in the first place.
- That being said, afterwards, when he realized just how badly things could have gone, well...
- A Day in the Limelight: Was THE focus character for the arc that reunited Hoppou with her fleet.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: He is in charge of Kushiro because he pissed off one of his superiors, who tried to get him cashiered and had to settle for that while doing his best to ensure that Tanaka never received the supplies or support in the amounts he requested.
- Reassignment Backfire: Said reassignment and the problems he gained from it causes him to forge positive relations with the locals to ensure that his base is largely self-sufficient, puts him in position to make peaceful contact with the Fleet of Laughter, and gets him put on the short list to to promotion to Rear Admiral anyway.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Violates orders to retrieve Akebono and Kasumi, resulting in his reassignment to Kushiro.
Akebono
- Insult of Endearment: Calls Tanaka "Shitty Admiral" as per her Tsundere personality. Everyone knows that she holds a torch for him due to his rescuing her.
- Lady Swears A Lot: As per canon, has a very foul mouth.
- Tsundere: Extremely Tsun towards Tanaka, to the point of calling him Shitty Admiral.
Kasumi
- Lady Swears A Lot: As per canon, has a very foul mouth.
- Tsundere: Just like Akebono, is extremely Tsun towards Tanaka.
Settsu
Kawachi-class semi-dreadnought. Acts as Tanaka's Secretary ship due to her issues.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Due to her history (Settsu was used as a target ship and later as a decoy ship in WWII) she has the sometimes disturbing, but mostly hilarious habit of cosplaying as other shipgirls, and perfectly mimicking their voices.
Kamoi
- Foreign Queasine: She tends to offer delicacies from Hokkaido to Tanaka, mostly for her own amusement.
Aiku Akahoshi
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Grew extremely attached to Tanaka for tutoring her. Him beating the stuffing out of her perverted apartment manager doubtless didn't help.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Hoo boy.
- Her magical parents kicked her out for being a squib.
- Her caretaker barely bothered to care for her, being far more interested in spending her money at a host club.
- She had trouble in school before Tanaka tutored her.
- Just before her fortune turned around, her perverted apartment manager revealed that he was raising a rent she could barely cover, with him trying to extort sexual services out of the 16-year old girl. And then it was revealed that he'd bugged her apartment, with cameras watching the bed and bathroom.
- D-Cup Distress: Is not fond of how her breasts draw attention and strain her shirts.
- Expy: Is a dead ringer for Taihou, with her debut having her wear what is essentially the Sweet Time After School skin.
The Masamune Blades
The sword spirit tsukumogami of weapons crafted by the swordsmith MasamuneTropes for the family as a whole:
- Animate Inanimate Object: As tsukumogami, they generate an avatar after a century of age. Their real bodies are their highly enchanted weapons.
- Badass Family: All of the members are minor kami.
- Break Out the Museum Piece: All of them are National Treasures of Japan.
- Feuding Families: With the Muramasas.
- Master Swordsman: What you get when you have spirits who have practiced with their true forms for centuries.
- Really 700 Years Old: Tokunotakai is the youngest manifested member and was crafted in 1511. She looks to be in her early twenties, while her eldest sister Kotegiri is a well-preserved late thirties.
Masamune-no-Kotegiri
Pray you are not on her List
The eldest member of the family, a katana owned by the Emperor of Japan.- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her name of Armor Cutter dates to a battle in 1355 when she cut a fully armored opponent's arm off with a one-handed blow during a civil war.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Took on a young woman named Mōri Kiku as her secretary. It was only after Nobu met Kiku that they realized she was the reincarnation of Kitsuno, Nobunaga's other true love.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Kotegiri serves as the Emperor's voice. She is also easily on par with Honjo and Juuchi.
- Bond One-Liner: Gave one after delivering an 'object lesson' to the leaders of a band of Tokyo Aurors and politicians who would have started a civil war with the Kyoto Diet (while surrounded with the freshly decapitaed bodies of the people on her List)."I trust that I shall not have to ever return to reinforce the lesson?"
- Badass Bureaucrat: 'Ms. Oda' serves in the Imperial Household Agency as a Senior Imperial Advisor to the Chrysanthemum Throne...
- The Dreaded: ...and when called upon by the emperor to use her other talents, as Lord High Executioner of Japan. Has called three men "Master" in her time; Emperor Showa (Hirohito), Emperor Meiji, and Oda Nobunaga.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has a truly wicked dry wit, generally involving some form of Black Comedy before or after performing an execution. note This is primarily thanks to Oda Nobunaga also having a witty sense of humor.
- Good Is Not Soft: Totally committed to the cause of a strong, prosperous, unified Japan. Willing to take all necessary steps for that dream as the direct advisor and executioner of the Emperor of Japan.
- Kimono Is Traditional: Wears a traditional kimono, and has an impressive closet full of them in her room in the Imperial Palace. One in the back is blood red silk with the Oda clan heraldry that Oda Kotegiri wears to perform summary executions. Her appearing wearing it shows that she means business and is speaking in the Emperor's Voice.
- Lampshade Hanging: In-universe. Kotegiri's favorite tune, which she hums or sings when she's in a very good mood is "I've Got A Little List" from The Mikado which is sung by the Lord High Executioner of Japan about the miscreants he plans to put to death. The joke is that Kotegiri (AKA 'The Lady High Executioner of Magical Japan') was part of the Imperial Japanese diplomatic delegation sent by Meiji to London in 1886 during The Mikado's first run at the Savoy Theater where she died laughing during that aria and then again in 1907 (where the prince in charge as a special envoy specifically requested to see The Mikado thanks to her urging). She loves the play to the point of spending a chunk of her salary to insure that it is on regular rotation in Japanese theater troupes that she supports just so she can periodically go to enjoy it on her days off.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Kotegiri usually handles her work with a veneer of professionalism. When a Mad Scientist forces Ranmaru to reincarnate for the sake of his experiments, Kotegiri kills him with her bare hands and is frantic in the aftermath to ensure Ranmaru's health.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Polite, calm, a perfect lady. Also one of the three most powerful and deadly Masamune blades and the strong right hand of Oda Nobunaga during his battles to unify Japan.
- Single-Stroke Battle: How she fights, with single, precise perfect, killing blows.
- Team Mom: For the Masamunes she acts as a firm hand on them using Politeness Judo.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Hearing about the Kamo Government's plan to take the rest of the world with them left Kotegiri extremely displeased. Emperor Heisei shared the sentiment, bidding her to don the Oda Kimono again.
- The Unfettered: Oda Kotegiri is the embodiment of this trope. Whenever Kotegiri dons the Oda Kimono, it is because she has been given carte blanche to protect Japan by any means necessary (which can include summary executions of people being a problem) to resolve a problem....
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Extremely so from her centuries at court.
Masamune-no-Honjo
Masamune-no-Honjo
Katana who is the most powerful of the Masamunes. Returned to the Tokugawa Clan by Harry Potter.- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her enchantments allow her to cut anything, but only things that she wants to.
- Badass Crew: A former member of the Potter Armory 1945-2013 when she was returned to her true family.
- Deadpan Snarker: She and Juuchi trade verbal barbs nearly constantly.
- Historical Domain Character: The actual Honjo Masamune disappeared in 1945 during the Occupation of Japan. She was the sword of Tokugawa Ieyasu before then.
- One-Man Army: One of the three most powerful Masamune blades, and arguably the most dangerous.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm, controlled, and precise Blue to Juuchi's Red.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Polite, demure, and able to totally wreck Norimune, who is a badass in her own right, in seconds.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Fuji Apples.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Juuchi Yosamu.
Masamune-no-Musashi
Let me whittle a bokken to test your understanding of the Way!
The daisho katana and wakazashi set of Miyamoto Musashi- Boisterous Bruiser: Always looking for a good challenge of her skills or a good party.
- Catchphrase: Her standard greeting of "<Name>, let me whittle a bokken and kick your ass!" Alternately "<Name>! Do you want me to give you a beating?" to her sisters.
- Challenge Seeker: Strives to perfect the Way of Swordsmanship by going on adventures and getting into trouble.
- Expy: A Master Swordswoman whose Iconic Outfit is a red-and-blue kimono, with light pink hair, Dual Wielding a katana and wakizashi...hello, Saber Musashi Miyamoto.
- In Harm's Way: Is striving to continually improve the Way of the Sword by her life experiences.
- Master Swordsman: While all the Masamunes are incredibly skilled, Musashi is notable by being the most skilled of them all to the point that she is one of the most powerful in a fight because of her skill versus her enchantments unlike Kotegiri and Honjo.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: How her outward persona is crafted. She appears on the surface to be a Blood Knight or carefree wandering vagrant, when in fact she trains her mind just as much as she trains her body note . An example of this is before the battle for the Orochibunker when Musashi literally manifested chewing on a grass stalk like a peasant simpleton, gave Sugihara Kaya some extremely insightful advice and then procceded to unstoppably carve a bloody swathe through all the creatures opposing her. It's been noted that the more stereotypically 'hick' that Musashi acts, the more intent and focused she actually is, which is something that she learned from Miyamoto Musashi, who got a 'lot' of mileage out of being underestimated in duels.
- Spirited Competitor: Is shown to have no animosity to Truman refusing to fight her because of her oath despite Truman being almost as skilled as she is. Also refuses to fight a distressed Tokunotakai and instead tries to help Toku cope with her first battle.
- Strong and Skilled: What makes Musashi a powerhouse is that while her baseline level of power is good but not great within her family (on a par with Fudo and Toku), she excels at getting the most out of it thanks to continual training and centuries of combat experience. She is only 'weak' in comparison to another legendary blade, though.
- The Idiot from Osaka: Speaks in Kansai-ben, also laid back, interested in fun and fighting and living day to day. Very much not an idiot, though.
- Walking the Earth: No set location or master, she obeys the final command of Miyamoto Musashi to "perfect her understanding of the Way of the Sword".
Masamune-no-Fudo
NOT!Yakuza-chan
A tanto dagger consecrated to the Buddhist deity Fudo My'oo. Serves the Owari branch of the Tokugawas.- Be Careful What You Wish For: Fudo has had an inferiority complex and viewed herself as "not a true Masamune" since she never did any great heroic deeds unlike her sisters. Her wish to prove her worth was granted — by having to face down a partially resurrected Orochi in a solo fight until help could arrive. A monster that the first time took a major Shinto deity to kill.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lost the love of her life Gorota Tokugawa during World War Two, a war that Fudo supported.
- The Don: Often mistaken for a high level Yakuza because her blade etching gives her a back tattoo, she wears expensive suits, works as a Vice-President of her family's construction company, and drives a loud American limousine. All of which are stereotypical signs of a yakuza member. Despite this and her divine patron nudging her periodically to destroy criminal syndicates that transgress the unwritten code of the underworld, she is no gangster. Everyone just thinks that she is.
- The Dreaded: To the Yakuza. They all see her as the Angel of Fudo My'oo's Wrath upon those syndicates who transgress, and speculate which oyabun she really works for.
- Glory Seeker: Wishes to prove her worth and that she belongs. Ironically, she does not understand that she is really a Small Steps Hero and contrary to what her sisters think, she did have Kyoshu on the ropes in their last fight in 1923.
- Hot-Blooded: As her sisters joke, she is the Muramasa of the Masamunes. She is short tempered, and always spoiling for a fight.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: With the best of intentions, shared the spells she had developed to fight Kyoshu with Sub-Unit 942 and supported the militaristic Kamo magical government during most of World War Two. Said spells would be used to allow them to kidnap Kyoshu, allowing them to study the spells used on her in an attempt to resurrect and control some of Japan's most powerful and dangerous Yokai in a sealed bunker. Use of the spells obtained from Kyoshu would lead to Yawarakai-te, Masamune's masterwork, being mind raped to almost complete loss of her faculties.
- Reincarnation Romance: With her Master, no less than three times. The first time was during the Sengoku Jidai when she fell for the Tokugawa Clan's great general Torii Mototada. The second loop was on the eve of World War Two as the second son of her owner Tokugawa Gorota. Now he's back a third time as the tengu schoolboy Uesaka Yoichi who has the memories of the other two.
- Tattooed Crook: Has a full-back tattoo of Fudo My'oo thanks to her blade being etched. Is frequently mistaken for a yakuza, which does Fudo's temper no favors.
Masamune-no-Tokunotakai
Toku-chan to her sisters and Colombe
1511 Katana commissioned by the Takeda Clan to be an offering to the primary shrine of Hachiman to gain favor in war.- Affectionate Nickname: Toku to her sisters (and the readers); To-chan to her lover Co-chan.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A nice and sweet girl who is a trained exorcist and one of the best instructors in kendo and kyudo in Japan.
- Covert Pervert: Toku has a very complete Lady Chastity collection (and she started long before she found out that Lady Chastity was the story of Colombe with the serial numbers filed off, too). What's more, she and Colombe seem to enjoy role playing the Masamune Miko exorcising the Demon Blade quite a bit.
- Heel–Face Turn: A mild example in her backstory. Toku was not seriously challenged in her skills after meeting her sister Musashi in 1623 and got a bad case of arrogance and an unwarranted superiority complex develop as a result. This lasted until Colombe showed up in 1864 and defeated her. Combined with a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Hachiman who compared her understanding of Bushido unfavorably to Colombe's, she realized how badly she was backsliding and rededicated herself to heroism.
- Miko: A shrine maiden of Hachiman assigned to the Hachimangu in Kamakura.
- Only Sane Man: Has to keep her sister Fudo, her lover Colombe, and the rest of the du Chasteler family's hijinks under control.
- Opposites Attract: With her lover Colombe du Chasteler. She is a spiritual, quiet, humble shrine maiden with Hidden Depths.
- The Paladin: Consecrated to the service of the Shinto deity Hachiman, the Protector of Warriors. Also forged and enchanted to embody the Seven Virtues of Bushido, which can superpower her spells and abilities.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Polite, modest, humble, dutiful. A skilled warrior and exorcist who can fight Colombe toe-to-toe.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: The first time she met Colombe in 1864, they fought after Colombe called her out on her arrogance as 'Miko Punchable Face'. The second time they met in 2013, Toku was much wiser and humbler and won the rematch because she had mastered herself. Shortly afterward, they started regular sparring with each other, and their budding mutual respect and Unresolved Sexual Tension finally resulted in a Love Epiphany during A Union of Bread And Butter.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Carries herself with dignity and grace in conscious imitation of her older sisters Kotegiri and Honjo.
Masamune-no-Truman formerly Kamo
The American Masamune
Click here to see Masamune-no-Kamo
The spirit of the Truman Masamune, kept in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Missouri
- The Atoner: Volunteered herself for hostage duties in part because of her actions decapitating Chinese prsioners during the Rape of Nanking.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She participated in the magical equivalent of the "Kill 100 People with a Sword" contest, but even she objected to a systematic slaughter of civilians to draw out enemy combatants.
- Going Native: When she left Japan in 1945, she was a classically Japanese lady. In 2014, her avatar has shifted to a blond-haired blue eyed American girl who looks like President Truman's daughter.
- Grave-Marking Scene: Has placed Cherry Blossoms on President Truman's grave on the date of Japan's surrender and his death every year since 1972 to honor him.
- I Gave My Word: Truman swore an oath to keep the terms of her captivity secret (to avoid further humiliation and bad feelings) and to refrain from using her abilities or fighting as a willing hostage. This provoked an argument when Musashi in 1954 unknowingly challenged her for a spar before offering to take her home. Truman refused.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Because Independence, Missouri being somewhat out of the way, Truman has been rather out of touch with the magical world, to the point of not even being aware that the Statute is on the brink of collapsing.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: The reason she still participated in the above slaughter.
- Retired Badass: One of the more powerful Masamunes, now working as a gardener with her true body locked in a warded display case.
- Shock and Awe: One of her primary powers is the generation and manipulation of lightning, from direct attacks to injure enemies to chains to bind them in place for a coup de grace.
- Super-Speed: While many of the Muramasas and Masamunes can move at speeds faster than the eye can see, Kamo/Truman is able to keep pace with lightning.
- Take Me Instead: As part of the surrender terms, MACUSA demanded one of the four most powerful Masamune blades as a hostage. Kotegiri was symbolically the Emperor's blade and would have humiliated Japan, Honjo vanished and was unavailable. Truman sacrificed her freedom so Musashi would be free to follow their shared Master's teachings.
- You Are Already Dead: Nails the sadistic TOTEM researcher Ness before she has a chance to fight back.Her very last threads of patience and decorum finally snapped and Ness went for her wand. Her augments activated and accelerated her thought processes, making it seem as if the world around her had slowed down while she moved at regular speed. This way, she could be made aware of everything that the curator did-
Which was simply standing up, a small click echoing as the blade slide neatly into the scabbard. "You're fast...but not as fast as lightning."
"Huh?" Ness blinked when the world suddenly spun around her and her eyes widened at the sight of her own body…missing a head. The curator grabbed the hair to hold it up while the body slumped and fell, the cut thoroughly cauterized so as to not dribble blood everywhere. That would make cleanup in the shadows much easier. "I...my…"
Nameless Yawarakai-te
The spirit of a Masamune blade who was captured and magically subjected to memory alteration spells. Very little is currently known about her. Has been hinted that she is actually Masamune-no-Yawarakai-te, Juuchi Yosamu's counterpart.
- Badass in Distress: Was captured by a war criminal magician from Sub-Unit 942 and had her knowledge of how to use herself, ability to speak and walk, and even her name taken from her. Not even her sisters know who she really was. Masamune himself doesn't remember who she really was.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Is always seen with the amnesiac Kyoshu.
- She's Back: Has recently been freed from the memory alteration spells that had taken away all of her vital skills.
Masamune-no-Shimazu
Masamune of Peerless Knowledge
The Masamune of Peerless Knowledge. Forged by a student of the Masamune school in the late Kamakura Period, she originally belonged to the Shimazu clan of Kyushu until the death of her master, Shimazu Toyohisa at Sekigahara during the Sengoku Jidai. Gifted to the Sugihara family during the Meiji Restoration, she became Kamo’s Head Researcher during the Pacific War. She was at Nagasaki experimenting on a time rift before the atomic bomb detonated while she was doing a ritual on it, which sent her 50 years into the future, to 1995. Her true self is now on display in the Kyoto National Museum and she did research for the Chrysanthemum Throne, trying to find out as much as possible about the Abyssals before Blood Week and was instrumental in figuring out the Kanmusu Summoning Ritual and the Awakening of Natural-borns. She is also the main story writer for Masked Cover, writing the story for the MuraMasamune Chronicles.- Accidental Time Travel: Was flung 50 years into the future from 1945 to 1995.
- Admiring the Abomination: Downplayed. Shimazu loathes necromancy in general, but even she found Franchouchou to be extremely impressive due to how self-sufficient Kotaro made them.
- The Ageless: As the tsukumogami of her katana, she is functionally immortal.
- The Atoner: Is working to make up for her crimes during the Pacific War.
- Badass Bookworm: Although she downplays it, she is one of the top magical theorists in the world and surprisingly good in a fight, especially if allowed to cast spells unhindered.
- Cool Aunt: To Kaya and the Sugihara clan, who have often looked up to Shimazu as their "aunt" of sorts.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her research was what allowed Magical Japan to field horrors like mass-produced Gashadokuro and forced reincarnation.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She went from being in war-torn Japan in 1945 to the modern country that it is in 1995. Reset Game illustrates just how much of a learning curve she had to deal with about the times she ended up in.
- Flashback Echo: Shimazu suffers this a lot, where events in the present make her think of the past.
- Gamer Chick: Became a massive fan of video games, specifically Final Fantasy XI during 2006 and was caught by Kaya playing it. She would eventually go on to become the main writer for MuraMasamune Chronicles.
- Gone to the Future: Was experimenting with a time rift in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. The next thing she knew, she was in 1995, fifty years in the future.
- Historical Domain Character: She’s based of the actual Shimazu Masamune sword.
- Hot Teacher: Her avatar is quite the looker, as Ian Potter can attest to. She's also teaching Sugihara Kaya.
- My Greatest Failure: Twice in fact. First, she was unable to save her beloved master Shimazu Toyohisa at the Battle of Sekigahara. Then in 1942 she lost the bulk of her new family in the Dolittle Raid and as a result threw her support as a mage and researcher to the Kamo Government of Magical Japan.
- The Red Mage: Knows magic from several different cultures. Known ones are onmyoji, Western magic and Hindu magic.
- The Smart Guy: As a top tier magical theorist trained by a disciple of Abe no Seimei and the Masamune who knows the most non-Japanese magic, along with her unique enchantments and obsession witht he Art, Shimazu is the Masamune that gets tapped for problem-solving, such as deciphering the mysteries of the Abyssals and Shipgirls on Kotegiri's orders.
Masamune-no-Mushin
A Masamune living a double life. During the day, she is a would-be Cool Big Sis to the few Masamunes who would be considered younger than her. During the night, she is Kyomu—a ruthless criminal and agitator who stands in opposition to all that is good, pure, and fluffy.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Not openly, but internally she holds no illusions as to her role in the story. She also recognizes that holding no illusions does not make her morally superior to other villains.
- Crazy-Prepared: Mushin has crafted a whole new face for her identity as Kyomu. She also obliviates everyone who leaves her services to ensure that they can't lead anyone back to her.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Kotegiri has been trying to hunt Kyomu down for years. She has never suspected Mushin.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being the 'villain' of the family, cares deeply for her sisters, and also views Claire du Chasteler as a very good friend.
- Good Needs Evil: Subscribes to an extreme form of this ideology that serves as one of her root motivations. Evil is necessary for good to fight against and to define itself against. Therefore, she acts as the villain to give heroes something to battle against.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Privately laments that her double life prevents her from spending time with her family.
- Meaningful Name: The name of Mushin's alter ego, Kyomu, literally means void. Her near-paranoid covering anything that could reveal her identity means that a void is literally all people like Kotegiri have when it comes to her identity.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Mushin avoids acting when events become too chaotic, since it runs the risk of derailing her existing schemes.
The Muramasa Blades
The weapon spirit tsukumogami of weapons crafted by the swordsmith Muramasa.Tropes for the family as a whole:
- Animate Inanimate Object: As tsukumogami, they generate an avatar after a century of age. Their real bodies are their highly enchanted weapons.
- Badass Family: All of them are incredibly competent and lethal combatants.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Often described as a herd of cats.
- Break Out the Museum Piece: All of them are masterpiece weapons.
- Feuding Families: With the Masamunes.
- Master Swordsman: Being the spirits of their weapons, it comes with the territory.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Unlike the Masamunes, the Muramasas are all high-ceiling/low-floor insofar that in order to master the weapon (and not have the weapon master you), the user must be able to handle the Muramasa's Superpowered Evil Side (Juuchi and Chisuheri's bloodlust, Akutoku's undermining self-contol, Kagotsuruhe's aura of fear, etc.) since their powers also hit the wielder too. This has impacted their avatars significantly depending on whether or not they had owners who could demonstrate the mastery of self for the avatar to build a personality from before their full manifestation at 100 years of age.
- Really 700 Years Old: Crafted in the 1500s. Look like adults in their 20s and 30s.
- Sibling Rivalry: Hoo boy do they have serious squabbling.
- Superpowered Evil Side: All of them have a powerful dark side, generally associated with bloodlust and/or madness in some form — although the specifics vary between each Muramasa. This also applies to their 'child blades' through Norimune and Kyoshu such as Colombe, Ehren, Claire, Mika, Delilah, and Kenshou.
- Troll: All of them, along with massive amounts of smugness.
- Weirdness Magnet: While some are more frequent offenders than others, all Muramasas have a tendency to find themsleves tangled up in ridiculous and chaotic situations. References to Dumpsterfires have been made by both readers and in-story characters.
Akutoku
Fufufu. Another day of corrupting the Japanese youth.
The Sword of Corruption, Katana. Her power is to give insane courage to her wielder.- Butt-Monkey: During The Hunt For Norimune gets sucked into the attempts by her nieces to find their father. This results in Akutoku's phone getting destroyed by Delilah's shot at her, a fashion makeover thanks to Colombe's fire spell, her car stolen and destroyed by Jacklyn, and finally being forced to give chase on a Hello Kitty child's bicycle.
- The Gadfly: No brain-mouth filter at all since she does not fear the consequences of her actions.
- Hidden Depths: She takes pity on the crippled Nameless and gives her a possible means of communication by teaching her how to draw manga.
- It Amused Me: How she operates in her day to day life.
- Troll: Her Modus Operandi.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Norimune.
Chisuheri
Current
Click here to see her old self
The Bloodlust Blade, daisho katana and wakazashi set. Her power is to use blood shed by her to heal the wielder.
- Blood Knight: Before her conversion to Buddhism she turned her owners into a bloodshed-craving berserker.
- The Fettered: Welded her blades into their sheaths during the run-up to World war Two to preven them being used. Has since broken the seal on her wakazashi to fight the Abyssals.
- Healing Factor: Her primary power is to self-heal herself and her weilder by consuming blood. The more blood that she sheds, the more powerful that she gets.
- Heel–Face Turn: Chisuheri was abandoned and forgotten in the attic of a Buddhist monastery for several decades before she could manifest. She realized that the greatest battle that she could fight was against her own evil nature and cravings for blood.
- Hulk Speak: Before her heel-face turn spoke about herself in the third person.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Fights with her fists and magic rather than draw her blade if at all possible.
- Martial Pacifist: Reasonable, calm, and level-headed as befits the Buddhist monk that she is.
- Only Sane Man: Along with Umitsubame, is the primary cat-herder of the Muramasa family.
- This Is Your Brain on Evil: Her bloodlust is horribly addictive and terrifies her. She has been explicitly described as a recovering drug addict who found religion.
Juuchi Yosamu
The greatest and third youngest of the Muramasas.
See the Potter Armory.
Kagotsuruhe
Are you afraid? You should be.
The Sword of Hopelessness, katana. The most terrifying and darkly aspected of all the Muramasas.- Bad Powers, Good People: Crafted from every dark, unholy, and blasphemous reageant that Muramasa could get his hands on to create soul-shattering fear and terror. Well adjusted, stable, self-controlled, and a rather nice person...for certain values of a person.
- Creepy Good: Thanks to a long line of mentally stable and morally just wielders and role models in the Urabe Clan is a reasonably nice person within her limits. Does not change the fact that she can be terrifying without trying.
- The Dreaded: Able to literally kill with fear or drive people insane with the terror that she generates with her powers. For obvious reasons also has a undeserved bad reputation in the magical community.
- Emotionless Girl: Is literally incapable of feeling emotions. Any cases that seem to indicate otherwise are just her mimicking how she has seen others act.
- The Fettered: Her sheath is in fact a seal on her powers. Even drawing her blade an inch causes frost to form, the temperature to plummet, and the focus of her attention to suffer his worst fears and nightmares brought to life. Drawing her further exponentially ramps the power up and makes her fear powers hit everyone around her.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Judging from the mad screams of terror emitted by the man who ordered Nameless to be tortured and then watching hungry Dementors flee madly from the sight of her, very much yes.
- Horrifying the Horror: Was able to literally scare the Dementors guarding Hogwarts so badly they defecated when she visited during Third Year.
- Humanoid Abomination: To date, no one has seen her avatar's true form and had their sanity intact afterward. It even terrifies Dementors. The Kago everyone interacts with is a mask over something far more alien.
- The Sociopath: She has vestigal emotions at best and can only comprehend emotions by feeding on them. In the modern era, she works as an actress who is eternally typecast into terrifying villains.
- Sociopathic Hero: Literally a sociopath and also one of the good guys who acts as the ultimate person to break up family fights.
- Tear Jerker: The death of the last member of the Urabe Clan in her arms. She was unable to weep for him, and is trying to obey his last dying order to "find a way to smile for yourself, Aunt Kago". Later on is seen to be afraid of disappointing all the positive role models in her life with the Urabe.
Kansha
A cooking knife set crafted by the elderly Muramasa shortly before his death as an act of gratitude. The youngest Muramasa.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: His avatar looks about ten years old. Acts his age to all his big sisters (except Suisei who he gets along well with).
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Has many of the same sharpness enchantments as Juuchi Yosamu and Umitsubame, which make him surprisingly deadly.
- Badass Family: Two in fact. His 'birth family' of the Muramasas and Harry Potter's family, after Juuchi gave him as a Christmas gift to Harry.
- Berserk Button: Masamunes and Buddhists who imprisoned him to try to purge his evil in the 1800s.
- Chef of Iron: While not a weapon of combat, he is quite capable in a fight. Filleting fish is little different than filleting attackers of his kitchen.
- Combat Pragmatist: He doesn't have toe combat skill of his siblings, so he has to improvise in the most direct manner.
- Deadpan Snarker: Sarcastic and acerbic to his sisters and others who do not have his respect.
- Expy: Of Yusuke Urameshi.
- Friend to All Children: However, to those in need such as the Akizuki sisters and hungry children, he is a total softie.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Snarky, sarcastic, and put-upon, but a good person deep down with serious respect for fellow cooks and people who enjoy his cooking.
- Supreme Chef: As one might expect from a chef who has been practicing his trade for four centuries. One of the happiest days in his long life was discovering that the Potters collected many cookbooks for non-Japanese cuisine.
- Weaponized Teleportation: As a set of a dozen cooking knives, can shift his avatar around from blade to blade in a fight or generate multiple avatars.
Kyoshu
Current
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The Sword of Faded Memories, katana. Her power is memory manipulation. "Mou, it is?"
- Amnesiac Resonance: Has forgotten how to fight and use her memory manipulation powers normally, but her combat reflexes can reeemerge under stress.
- Amnesiacs are Innocent: Her post World War Two personality is that of an amnesiac young child in an adult body.
- Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes: Before World War Two, she was the tormentor of her sisters. Afterward, she is effectively their ward.
- Beyond the Impossible: How her memory manipulation powers worked. While the dead and full kami were immune, she could cause anyone to forget anything in their memory, implant false memories, or cause anyone to forget that her victim even existed. She could also shift her blade to insubstantial or a form that resisted getting cut by Juuchi.
- Catchphrase: "Mou" when her short term memory buffer overflows and resets, "If I find the Mizuchi I get a prize!" is a Running Gag formed whens he met her sister Juuchi. Also known as 'The Sword of Goldfish Memory' to her sisters.
- Someone swearing while Kensho is visiting will cause Kyoshu to say "Umitsubame! Umitsubame! [Name] said the bad word!" Usually Akutoku's fault.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Will instantly cover Kensho's ears if Akutoku swears while the kogatana is visiting.
- Death of Personality: Word of God has stated that the Kyoshu from before World War II is gone forever. Considering what she was like, this is probably a good thing.
- Dirty Coward: Not afraid to run away from a fight that she looked to be losing in her original state.
- Expy: Of Okita Alter.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the one scene we have hinting at what happened to her during World War Two, she is restrained, unable to talk, and reduced to silently begging for the viewpoint character to shoot her to put her out of her misery as she is wheeled in for another 'test' of her memory powers.
- Forgetful Jones: As long as she is performing an action, she can stay more or less on track. The moment she is distracted, her memory 'resets' and she starts over from scratch (for example an attempt to style the hair of her grandniece Ying staretd with a French braid, then cornrows, then floofing it, and finally odango hair buns). Likewise, it is a total crap shoot if any memory will be uploaded into long-term storage, and how it will come out if it does.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Her family has accepted that the person in her body now is not the same as the Alpha Bitch who tormented them for centuries. They also keep a constant eye on her just in case her evil past personality looks to be reemerging.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nameless who also suffered from the abuse of her powers.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: What you get when someone with severe memory issues dresses herself. Nothing matches. Nothing.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Her constant tormenting of Fudo forced the Masamune blade to develop a spell that would allow her to be imprisoned by nullifying her phasing power. Then Fudo shared it with the Japanese mages of Sub-Unit 942 who claimed to be looking into ways to reverse Kyoshu's effects. Which they were in part to weaponize her abilities to control memory after she volunteered to work with them. Because she had also tormented her sisters for centuries, no one came to rescue her for almost a decade.
- Manipulative Bastard: The former incarnation of Kyoshu delighted in tormenting her sisters and the Masamunes by targeting those around them such as owners, loved ones, and allies.
- Playing with Puppets: Her former evil persona's M.O. In her final fight with Fudo in 1923, she caused the bodyguard mages to forget how to breathe, and was planning to turn the wife of Fudo's owner into a gloating message for Fudo who would then cut her own throat with a post-hypnotic command. Fudo interrupted Kyoshu, so that the victim only forgot her husband and sons.
- Scatterbrained Senior: While her avatar is in her 20s, the rest of this trope applies. She is very old and her amnesia makes it near-impossible to transfer memories into long-term storage. Any distraction or pause in a string of actions causes her to 'reset' and start over again. She also has severe comprehension issues which resulted in her badly misreading that Juuchi wanted to kill her as opposed to a 'friendly duel'.
- Sibling Rivalry: Her motivation for tormenting her sisters. Being surpassed by other later swords such as Juuchi Yosamu caused her to want to tear all the competition down to build herself back up into the greatest of the magical swords of Japan.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Whatever happened to her while in the clutches of Sub-Unit 942 during the Second World War totally destroyed her memory. It is to date unknown whether they inflicted it upon her, or she inflicted amnesia upon herself in an attempt to escape the horrors that she was subjected to. What is known that even Kyoshu in all her past cruelty did not deserve what was done to her.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: An informational snippet depicted a series of quotes from her life, revealing her descent from a person who, other than a lack of forgetfulness, was almost identical to her modern self into the monster she was by the start of World War II.
Norimune
Current
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The Unrepentant Blade, 1511s nodachi greatsword commissioned for the Uesugi Clan to curry favor with Hachiman. Her power is the ability to control luck.
Father of Colombe d'Aubigny du Chasteler, Jacklyn Fox, and Delilah de Breuil.
- Blessed with Suck: Her unique magical power lets her force the best positive luck for a time, but she must suffer an equal amount of negative luck to build her positive balance back up. Also if she goes too long without conflict in her life, her bad luck turns on herself.
- Combat Pragmatist: As one might expect with her experiences, Norimune believes that fair fights are for suckers. Seen when she bear maced Tsukiakari.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Hoo boy. Norimune has had a very rough time of her life indeed.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: The good news for Norimune is that The Masquerade is failing and her actual heroism will soon come to light, her daughters have tracked her down to establish tentative reconciliation with her, she has met her grandchildren, and there are hints that the spirits of her beloved pirate ships may soon be summoned. Plus the spirit of her great first love Julie d'Aubigny is waiting for her as a fellow Servant of Hachiman in Takamagahara which she can visit as a kami. As well, her role in stopping Verdun will be recognized.
- From Bad to Worse: Rejected by the priests of Hachiman, passed through a variety of users with no firm attachments like a bad penny, get picked on by Kyoshu, decide to leave Japan to see the world as a mercenary, meet the great love of your life only to have her die unexpectedly while you are on campaign, have your prized and beloved enchanted pirate ship get stolen and then get sunk in your attemt to reclaim her, have the International Confederation of Wizards write your heroic deeds out of history to preserve The Masquerade, incorrectly think that the mother of your youngest child had betrayed you so you flee her before finding out that she is pregnant, get blackmailed into fighting for Imperial Japan in World War Two, get imprisoned for being a war criminal, and finally when your daughters show up, one of them wants to beat you up for dishonoring her mother.
- Iron Woobie: Despite the multiple kicks to her over the centuries, will still do the right thing under protest.
- The Lost Lenore: No less than three. Julie d'Aubigny was one of the great loves of her life, and Julie's death emotionally shattered her. She also had a deep love for her enchanted pirate ship Impenitent which was sunk at Trafalgar grappled to her replacement ship Lex Talonis. Finally, she had a messy break-up with Delilah's mother Jezabel de Breuil when she thought that she had been betrayed by misunderstanding a conversation Jez was having with her father.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: All her shattered hopes, betrayals, and failures real and perceived have welded these to her face.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bitter, cynical, acerbic, and vulgar, but under all the scars and pain she is still a hero.
- Little Bit Beastly: Thanks to one of her first owners being a Kitsune, her avatar manifests with fox ears and tail.
- The Paladin: Like her old rival Tokunotakai and her eldest daughter Colombe, Norimune is consecrated to Hachiman as one of his Blades who serve as an independant troubleshooter.
- Noodle Incident: Her entire life has been a string of these.
- Parental Abandonment: Has the bad habit of not realizing that sleeping with other women when her oversized blade is unsheathed results in pregnancies for them. No less than three times, although in Norimune's defense Julie died in childbirth, and Sally Gray was in prison as a pirate when Jacklyn was born. Thus still does not excuse her burning Jezabel's letters unopened that would have told her about Delilah.
- Retired Badass: After narrowly escaping execution for war crimes after World War Two, Norimune has laid low after getting out of prison. The arrival of her daughters has started to pull her out of her shell, though.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Has fought in battles from the Sengoku Period to World War II and the scars run very deep.
- Tsundere: A particularly grumpy and jaded version of one. This attitude was established as a defense mechanism after one too many traumas in her life.
- The Unfavorite: Rejected for her size and ostentatious decorations by the priests of Hachiman although not by the deity. Thinks of herself as a failure of Muramasa's swordsmithing, although her creator is actually very proud of what she has done.
- Walking the Earth: Spent almost four centuries doing this. The only continents that she has not spent time in are Australia and Antartica. This caused Colombe no end of problems trying to trace her trail.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Akutoku who punches her buttons and in turn allows Norimune to blow off steam by fighting someone who can take it.
Suisei
The normal one
The spirit of a tanto named 'Fading Comet'. Currently helping her ancestral family run a bakery in Tokyo.- Chefof Iron: She is a baker and acts as a hidden bodyguard and aunt to her family.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Suisei is quiet, sweet, nice, and the winner of the 'most times anyone has stabbed Kyoshu to protect their loved ones' competition when she stabbed the now-amnesiac Kyoshu 37 times before being physically dragged off her by Umitsubame and Chisuheri.
- Supreme Chef: Makes pastries to die for.
Umitsubame
The Mom Blade
The Waterwitch Blade, the spirit of a Su Yari spear and the second youngest of the Muramasas.- Absurdly Sharp Blade: In her own words has the 'diet-lite version' of Juuchi's enchantments. She can cut anything that she believes that she can cut.
- Only Sane Man: Primary cat herser of the Muramasas. A master potion crafter who makes sure to have a large supply of Calming Potions on hand at all times for her use.
- Team Mom: Nicknamed the "Muramasa Momblade" by her sisters.
Izu Refugees
A crew who were stranded on one of the islands in the Izu Archipelago at the start of Blood Week, recently reunited with civilization after ten long years.- Badass Crew: They managed to survive for ten years on a deserted island.
- No Nudity Taboo: Spending a decade on a deserted island, with nothing but the occasional rain shower to serve as a poor man's substitute, meant that modesty took a backseat to being able to get some semblance of cleanliness.
Eric Baker
The son of Ellen Baker
- Action Survivor: Considering that Eric is not a magical or a reincarnate, this is a given.
- An Arm and a Leg: Eric had his right arm injured during the initial Abyssal attack on the ship that he, Samantha, Sora, and Yumiko were on. While Samantha and Yumiko had fairies that could have healed him, none of the adults trusted the shipgirls or their fairies enough to let them do so. Eventually, because the bandages for Eric's arm had kept being washed in salt water, the arm became so badly infected that it had to be amputated.
Samantha Baker
Eric's fraternal twin sister. Also the natural-born I-351 class tanker submaring !-354.
- This Cannot Be!: Let's just say Samantha did not like hearing that the other subs in her class are extremely lewd in their nature.
Sora Tsukada
Thankfully, she's no longer sickly
A kitsune and Eric and Samantha's Childhood Friend. Also the natural-born Super Yamato Izu formerly Onogoroshima.- Emergency Transformation: Sora awakening as a ship that was only about 60% complete certainly qualifies. Her cannons hadn't even been secured properly, meaning every time she fired a shot, she damaged the mountings and caused severe internal damage. What's more, until she was able to consume enough metal to create some boilers, she had to use her own heart to power a shipgirl's rigging. After being fully built by Ume and Sakura, all of these drawbacks have been ironed out.
- Expy: A kitsune with brown fur, who had health problems for a while...hello there, Amagi.
- Meaningful Rename: Changed her ship designation from Onogoroshima, the Kamo Government's Blasphemous Boast that they were equal to the gods, to Izu, a name to remind her of the islands she and the others survived on for ten years.
Yumiko Yamada
A tanuki and the friend of Eric, Sora, and Samantha. Also the natural-born Kazehaya-Class oiler Karasaki.
- Ship Tease: Has been teased with a tanuki who was adopted by Fubuki.
Hinata Hanai
A jorogumo hanyou who survived for several years on the wreckage of a cargo ship. Met the rest of the Izu refugees when they took shelter while setting out to see if any other people in the world had survived. Also the natural-born Mamiya-Class food ship Hōyo.
- Freak Out: After returning to civilization, Hinata was quite shocked to learn that the volcano her cargo ship had been near had finally buried the ship under the lava from its eruption. Fortunately, Eric and Sora were able to help her calm down.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In spite of being quite attracted to Eric, Hinata chose to stay back and let him be together with Sora. Ultimately subverted, as just before being fully built, Sora made sure to let Hinata know that she wouldn't mind one more member in the relationship.
- Power Perversion Potential: Being a Jorogumo, Hinata can use two different types of venom: Poison, and a very potent aphrodisiac. One Halloween had her 'kidnap' Sora and Eric, take them to a secluded location, and use the latter type of venom for some adult fun.
- Supreme Chef: Her parents owning a restaurant meant that Hinata was already a decent cook. Awakening as a food ship did nothing but help those skills.
Baker's Dozen
A group of minisubs (22 Ho-Classes and 11 He-Classes who self-summoned at Izu to help the refugees.
- Badass Adorable: The Ho-Classes only appear to be about 12 years old, while the He-Classes appear to be 6. This doesn't prevent them from descending on their enemies like a pack of piranha.
- Gondor Calls for Aid: The Baker's Dozen self-summoned to assist the group trapped on Izu.
- Happily Adopted: Were all adopted by Ellen Baker, hence the nickname "Baker's Dozen".
- Little Bit Beastly: Several of the minisubs are either Kawauso, Nekomata, Tanuki, Usagi, Kitsune, or Inugami Yokai.
The Select
The Chosen Many, numerous lineages that the Morrigan has selected to battle the forces of darkness and protect humanity. It... doesn't work quite as well she thinks it does.- Broken Ace: Tend to end up as highly skilled emotional wrecks.
- The Chooser of the One: The Morrigan is... technically well-meaning, but her Blue-and-Orange Morality prevents her from seeing the problems with the system she's developed.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Specifically, YA protagonists who are thrust into supernatural wars and come out smelling like roses.
- Weirdness Magnet: They were designed to be this.
Jeffrey Du Bois
A Select who operates out of New Orleans.
- I Did What I Had to Do
- Morality Pet: His younger sister.
- Sins of the Father: Believes that this is in effect for the Select, due to it being inherited down family lines.
Gillian "Gil" McKay
A Select who lives in Scotland.
- Blood Knight: Because she hallucinates her mother when she's in a life threatening situation.
- Broken Ace: A little more so than most. See Blood Knight above for details.
- Dark and Troubled Past: After her mother was killed fighting, her grandmother framed her father for murdering her and turned her into a...
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Her mother was one of the less broken Select.
- Tyke Bomb: Invoked and Deconstructed. Because of her torturous upbringing, Gillian is too unstable to function as a proper defender of humanity.
Francine "Frankie" Linnet
A young girl chosen as a Select by Morrigan recently.
- Actual Pacifist: Is more concerned with negotiating and talking threats down instead of fighting.
- Parental Neglect: Her father has pretty much closed himself off following the death of her mother. It weighs heavily on her.
Olivia Mc Kay
Gil's grandmother and a former Select herself, which has given her... skewed views to say the least.
- Abusive Parent: and abusive grandparent, literally beating The Duty into her descendants.
- Hate Sink: Absolutely no redeeming features.
- Tautological Templar: Utterly devoted to The Duty at the cost of anything else.
Team Tatsuya
Tatsuya Haneda
One of the Select, who operates somewhere roughly in the Yokosuka area.
- Guile Hero: They need to use their wits as much as their power to win.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Shares a joking version of this dynamic with Benio.
- Seen It All: Due to years of monster encounters, there is little that can faze them.
- Shellshocked Veteran: Demonstrates shades of this from time to time
- Shout-Out: Descended from the Himura family on his mother's side.
Benio Kagamine
Tatsuya's Childhood Friend and partner in all things Select.
- Blessed with Suck: Has Yuki-Onna blood...that gives her none of the power over ice, with all of the weakness to heat.
- Connected All Along: Her mother is an Arashi, making her a distant cousin to Harry.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Is a Yuki-Onna Hanyou.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Tends to collect things from the enemies they defeat. As befitting a Potter.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Jokingly with Tatsuya.
- Noodle Incident: Tatsuya mentioned one to Nobu that involved the use of Noodle Implements.Said former warlord had a frown on her face as she furrowed her eyebrows, “Wait, wait… how… you said a rubber duck, a package of ramen, and a spoon did what now?”
Reiko Kumogai
A young jorogumo
- Defeat Means Friendship: First appeared attacking Tatsuya and Benio, but developed a crush on Tatsuya after she was fought off.
- Miko: Tends to a local shrine when not helping Tatsua with monsters.
- Naïve Newcomer: Serves as this to Team Tatsuya, being the newest member.
- Shout-Out: Her hometown, Sakura-Shinmachi, is a reference to Yozakura Quartet.
Tonbo
A Muramasa who serves the Haneda family.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Her ability is to amplify senses and reflexes to a virtually prescient level, at the cost of being able to see anything that isn't a threat. Sounds amazing, until people get cut down by complete accident merely because they were standing too close.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Went crazy following the loss of her family and her own perceived betrayal of the Muramasas.
- Despair Event Horizon: Admits to Tatsuya that her turn to Serial-Killer Killer was this.
- Serial-Killer Killer: Formerly.
- Super-Reflexes / Super-Senses: Grants these to her wielder.
- Trauma Conga Line: Let's see...
- Her final master was murdered by debtors who sold her despite his sister's efforts to save her.
- She tried to make a life for herself in Whitechapel and made friends with one Mary Jane Kelly.
- After the later's death, made a grueling transcontinental journey in the hopes of reuniting with the last remaining member of her family, only to discover that her husband had murdered her due to her infertility.
- Seeking revenge on him led to a fight with her sisters that ended with Tonbo laying Chisuheri out with a blow that would have been fatal to a non-sword spirit, leaving her convinced that she had betrayed the other Muramasas and causing her to alienate herself from them for decades.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Was kind and maternal up until her Trauma Conga Line. Despite having more or less recovered, she tends to be darker and more acerbic these days.
The Japanese Magical Diet(s)
Like in all nations in the world, Japan has a magical shadow government to manage the affairs of wizards and witches of the islands. As the title may suggest, things have been... Turbulent with the onset of the Abyssal War. Shigeru Miyata
A wizard of the Tokyo Magical Diet, working to ensure a smooth continuity of government through the inevitable transition to Kyoto and the fall of the Statute of Secrecy. Grandfather to Hachiko Miyata.
- Badass Bureaucrat: The man is ancient by muggle standards, but as the Deputy Undersecretary to the Legislative Assembly he holds a lot of power and influence.
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Considering that the Civil Servants with principals were the first to jump ship for Kyoto, and the intelligent ones did the same as Tokyo suffered one scandal after the next, Shigeru and his daughter Naomi are definitely this when the ones both to corrupt and to stupid to see the signs keep making it easy to make the Tokyo Diet collapse in fire.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Shigeru was a young junior paper pusher in 1945, the last time Kotegiri visited the Magical Civil Service. In the modern day, she visits again after reading about the current state of the Yokai Reserves... And has an absolutely pleasant chat with him about how well he and his daughter have been doing.
- Expy: In essence, he is a more scrupulous Sir Humphrey Applebee.
- Red Baron: Called "The Spider" by his fellow civil servants, thanks to his age and his many fingers in many pies, and the webs on intrigue he spins.
The Reincarnates
Thanks to a Magical Japanese project during World War II pioneered by Masamune-no-Shimazu, several of the legendary heroes and villains of Japan, especially from the Sengoku Jidai were reincarnated with their memories returning during adolescence.- Historical Domain Character: Of some of Japan's greatest generals, swordsmen, and heroes.
- Past-Life Memories: Thanks to the meddling they awaken with their full memories, personalities, and mental skills, and can easily regain their physical skills with suitable training.
- Reincarnation Romance: In many cases, they also return with unfinished business in this 'second chance' that they have now gotten.
Nobu
Demon King of the Sixth Heaven
Adult
One of Harry's classmates. Also the reincarnation of Oda Nobunaga.
- Catchphrase: "Can't be helped!"note
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Typically acts like a class clown. But if her temper is aroused, she is perfectly capable of showing how she once was known as The Demon King of the Sixth Heaven.
- Expy: Of Demon Archer.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: Was a divine champion of Amaterasu herself in her previous life.
- Large Ham: Nobu's normal personality, one she cultivated back when she was known as the Fool of Owari.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Nobu had one thing to say to Harry when they found out that the Sub-Unit 942 bunker they were trapped in had been messing with the pelt of Tamamo-no-Mae, the bones of Momiji, the horn of Otakemaru, and even a fragment of bone from the Yamata no Orochi.Reaching up, the former Warlord lowered the brim of her everpresent hat and snarled, her eyes alight with pure rage and loathing, "Send out your patronus and let them know what is happening. If someone is active here, we are going to send them to Mugen Jigoku before this gets out of hand. This ends now.
- The Lost Lenore: Kitsuno, Oda Nobunaga's wife in all but marriage during the Sengoku Jidai. Recently regained, as Kitsuno's reincarnation, Mōri Kiku, has been reunited with Kotegiri and Nobu.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: At the end of her fight with the undead Mitsuhide after using her brain to outmaneuver and cripple him.Nobu-chan staggered to her feet while Mitsuhide screamed in agony as he burned alive."Invulnerable armor means nothing when you are covered in kasha blood, 'old friend'. It burns with the fires of Jigoku when ignited, after all, as a foretaste of the punishment awaiting the souls that they claim." Her voice was merciless and ruthless, filled with the legendary spirit that had smashed all opposition to her ambitions and put thousands to the sword.She grinned savagely as Mitsuhide's armor cracked and split from the heat as the paste shielding him burned to ashes. "Now, Kote-chan, give him his traitor's reward! I command it!"
- Prepare to Die: After being reunited with Masamune-No-Kotegiri, Nobu made sure that Mitsuhide Akechi knew his time was up during the Battle of the Bunker.Nobu: "Old Friend, you betrayed me in my first life, not least by persuading me to send her away from my side to make me vulnerable to your treachery. Now we settle this between us three once and for all. For The Enemy is at Honnō-ji."
- Reincarnation Romance: Had a strong romantic bond with the avatar of Nobunaga's sword Masamune-no-Kotegiri and with his concubine Kitsuno. Kitsuno and Nobunaga are both reincarnated now.
Okita
Former First Division Captain of the Shinsengumi
One of Nobu's and Harry's classmates. Also the reincarnation of Okita Souji- Aggressive Submissive: Of the Abrasive type. Okita has a Vitriolic Best Buddies relationship with Nobu, but whenever they take it to the bedroom, the reincarnated Shinsengumi ends up on the bottom.
- Expy: Of Sakura Saber.
- Irony: Okita Souji and Sakamoto Ryōma were enemies in the Sengoku Era. Now that they've been reincarnated, Ryoma is Okita's older brother.
- Master Swordsman: Was a master in her previous life, and her skills have not waned at all in this one.
- Straight Man: To Nobu and her chunni tendencies.
- Sweet Tooth: Okita will gladly take sweets as payment for Kendo lessons.
- Tsundere: Admits to her friends that Ryoma is a good brother. But she refuses to say as much to him.
Uesugi
The Dragon of Echigo
Classmate to the previous two. Also the reincarnation of Uesugi Kenshin.- Expy: Of Lancer of Eight Flowers.
- The Fettered: Constantly holds back her true strength, as whenever she went all out in her previous life, people who saw her fight called her a monster.
- Master Swordsman One of the best sword-wielders, ever, easily on par with Nobu and Okita.
- The Strategist: As per her previous life, is easily the most tactical-minded member of the group.
- Worthy Opponent: Both ways with Takeda Shigen. Very much a case of Truth in Television since the two enormously respected each other. Here, they wish to settle who was best once and for all in a honorable duel. When Uesugi is forced to kill the undead Shigen before the control spells can reassert dominance, she visibly mourns for him.Norimune watched the girl, clearly the reborn spirit of Kenshin, begin to weep only to be comforted by her friend and by Toku. She walked close and reached through the group hug of her to place a reassuring squeeze on Kenshin's shoulder.She paused and then spoke in a low voice as Chisuheri and Honjo joined them. "He died as he lived, in honor. Surely the Judges of the Underworld shall see that and weigh that against his sins."A tear-filled nod answered her as the Dragon of Echigo cried for the Tiger of Kai.
Magical Girls
One summer, a bored Harry Potter decided to prank Yokosuka Naval Base by magically animating a number of Kyubey plushies to ask random people to make contracts with them. Most were quickly rounded up and destroyed. Most, but not all. A few escaped and began making actual Magical Girl contracts, empowering a number of girls with massive power.- Deadly Upgrade: A Downplayed Trope. Becoming a magical girl supercharges their magical ability at the cost of eventually burning it out, rendering them unable to use magic at all, if they don't receive professional training to control their powers.
- Expy: Several of the girls are based on characters from the expanded universe of PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.
- Revenge: A distressingly common motivation for the girls to accept the contract. Most of them feel, based on the limited knowledge that they have, that the Wizarding World wronged them, and they see becoming a magical girl as a path for getting payback.
San Kagura
The most powerful of the Northern Magical Girls and the most dangerous.
- A God Am I: Very thoroughly believes that she is on her way to Godhood. Almost becomes one when she awakens her shipgirl heritage.
- Bullying a Dragon: Picks a fight with Masamune-no-Kotegiri. It doesn't end well for her.
- Gatling Good: Her main power is to transform her arms into miniguns.
- Moral Event Horizon: Crosses it when she proposes indiscriminately bombarding Yokohama to make a statement.
- Off with His Head!: Her fate by way of Kotegiri's blade.
- Worthy Opponent: Rika earns this status in San's eyes after managing to hurt her.
