1 | [[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers Trope names will not be spoiler-marked.]] Read on at your own risk. |
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3 | [[folder:Americans]] |
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5 | !Admiral Tommy Briggs, Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy |
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7 | * BigGood: Seen as this by US Navy characters, since he's their ultimate superior and representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
8 | * LoopholeAbuse: Invoked this trope in Chapter 5 by giving Yvonne permission to break cover if she judged it was needed to survive. Come [[WhamEpisode Chapter 6]]... |
9 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A level headed flag officer who tries to strike a balance between idealism and pragmatism. |
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11 | !Commander Yvonne Swanson, Office of Naval Intelligence, US Navy |
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13 | * ACupAngst: Is a tad annoyed when Kongo describes her as having a "flight deck chest." [[spoiler: It's just another very subtle hint as to who she actually is.]] |
14 | * CommandingCoolness: Yvonne Swanson, though it's also deconstructed: Yvonne doesn't feel any special; she was just a junior officer [[YouAreInCommandNow who was bumped up to Commander because people senior to her got killed.]] |
15 | * {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: Her physical description is a composite of [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsnavyShipgirls Pacific's]] pre-refit Enterprise (slender build, flight deck chest) with Enterprise's unofficial post-refit design (really tall, long hair)]]. |
16 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Her tastes are rather...diverse. Muhallabia, Khao Neow Ma Muang, Peanut Butter cups, Durian, Ice Cream...and [[WeightWoe that's just what she eats NOW.]] |
17 | * KingIncognito: [[spoiler:The legendary USS ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) herself.]] |
18 | * MagneticHero: She's VERY good at getting people onto her side |
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20 | !Lieutenant Dakota Leigh Gatch, Advanced Naval Weapons Research and Development Division, US Navy |
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22 | * GadgeteerGenius / WrenchWench: Involved in R&D to get the US Navy better weapons for fighting the Abyssals. |
23 | * KingIncognito: [[spoiler: Actually USS ''South Dakota'' (BB-57) in disguise]] |
24 | * OccidentalOtaku: Unlike Yvonne, who learned Japanese as part of her duties, Dakota learned from watching Anime. |
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27 | !Mildred Marshall, Military Reporter, [=CNN=] |
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29 | * IntrepidReporter: She manages to get herself on Yvonne's team, with the role of handling public relations, after she blackmailed Yvonne's superiors. [[spoiler:How did she do that and with what info? She knows that Yvonne is the ''Enterprise'', and knows about the [=USN=] ship girl program. How does she know those things? She's also a ship girl herself, the USS ''Washington'']] |
30 | * KingIncognito: This one is more of a doozy compared to the other instances on this page. [[spoiler:USS ''Washington'' (BB-56) in disguise. In fact, she was the very first ship girl summoned by the [=USN=], and was immediately whisked away by the CIA (Her being a reporter is actually a cover for her being a CIA spook). Furthermore, none of the other ship girls, nor their superiors or anyone in the need-to-know even know of her existence. All they knew is that ''Washington'' was one of the ships they tried to summon and failed to get.]] |
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35 | [[folder:Japanese]] |
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37 | !Admiral Shimada, JMSDF |
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39 | * AFatherToHisMen: He clearly cares for his ship girls. Whether he cares too much is left as an exercise to the reader. |
40 | * DirtyCoward: Seen as this in-universe, as evidenced by Yvonne's enraged accusations when he revealed that he had ordered a withdrawal from Okinawa... leaving 1.5 million civilians, and the refugees, to die. |
41 | * GeneralFailure: Is viewed as this by many parties for abandoning the Okinawa District. [[spoiler: Okinawa would've ended in the massacre of his entire shipgirl force regardless of what he did, if the sight of Yvonne hadn't caused the Abyssal leader to go ScrewThisImOuttaHere]] |
42 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Decides that discretion is the better part of valor and retreats from a battle his fleet cannot win. Unfortunately, this makes him look like a dirty coward. |
43 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Stonewalls Yvonne's request for a submarine kanmusu by sending the one she requested (along with all the other subs on base) on an important mission just before she arrived. |
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45 | !Colonel Sakai, JGSDF |
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47 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's just trying to provide for the refugees on Okinawa, and Shimada's making his job harder than it needs to be. |
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49 | !Lieutenant Matsuda, JMSDF |
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51 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: As Tenryu found out the hard way, push Matsuda far too many times with blatant insubordination and he'll scrap you. |
52 | * OnlySaneMan: Given that he's in charge of [=DesDiv=] 6, Tenryu and Tatsuta, he pretty much became this. |
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