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1'''Warning:''' The mere existence of certain names on this page will constitute spoilers!
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3[[foldercontrol]]
4!Shipgirls
5[[folder:Battleships (BB)]]
6!!New Jersey
7Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
8
9The personification of USS ''New Jersey'' (BB-62), an original design.
10
11* AmazonianBeauty: She towers well over six feet, is built like a tank, and she's still noted as being quite pretty. At least when she's not scowling or napping.
12** She has ''literally'' grated cheese on her abs. To make nachos. No, I'm not joking.
13* BoisterousBruiser: A Subversion. She talks up a storm whenever she's not in battle, but drops the bluster for level-headed efficiency when it's time for her to fight.
14* CoolShades: A pair of mirrored aviators that--more often then not--get used to hide some horrible wound on her face.
15* ClusterFBomb: Jersey very rarely gets though a sentence without cursing at least once.
16* EagleLand: She's is brash, loud, unabashedly patriotic, and kind of a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerk]] but also courageous, fiercely loyal, and takes offense to the idea that she wouldn't fight to honor America's obligations to its allies.
17* FlagBikini: She wears one in the docks instead of going naked like the Japanese girls.
18** It's implied that Kongou bought her that swimsuit, meaning that Kongou may have been invoking GorgeousGaijin
19* HiddenDepths: She [[spoiler: knows Japanese]], drops a few hints about having at least workable fashion knowledge, and proves herself as an excellent commander.
20* IcyBlueEyes: A reference to the blue dye packs used to mark her shells.
21* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be a huge ass sometimes, but she'll always come though for her friends.
22* TheLadette: She treated a tube of lipstick like it was a hostile submarine shadowing her for a kill, though it's implied she wasn't always like this. All the girls who haven't seen her since the war call her "[[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Beauty Queen."]]
23* LivingMemory: [[spoiler:A part of Victory has apparently gotten stuck in her after the original shipgirl was sunk along with her original hull.]]
24* MamaBear: Mess with the girls she cares about, and if you get lucky, she'll sink you. Pennsylvania...wasn't that lucky.
25-->'''Jersey:''' "Go back in there, and apologize to Shinano. And then apologize to your sister, and to Jane, and explain why what you did was wrong. And when you're done, report to the Admiral. And pray you get there before my report does." [[spoiler: She didn't.]]
26* SirSwearsAlot: Fittingly enough, she swears like a sailor.
27* SherlockScan: Her advanced radar and CIC suite lets her do this in combat. And even out of combat- [[MundaneUtility she claims that it allows her to determine that Shinano's bust size is larger than that of her older sister Musashi.]]
28* StatuesqueStunner: The ''Iowa''-class were the longest battleships ever built, which translates into a truly towering woman.
29
30!!Washington
31Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
32
33The personification of USS ''Washington'' (BB-56), an original design.
34
35* BigEater: Her vast appetite, combined with her slender figure, caused Gale all manner of WeightWoe. At least until Gale saw the battleship shaking from hunger when her dinner was an hour late.
36** In Wash's defense, she'd also skipped lunch that day.
37* LadyOfWar: Kind, demure, and focused, instead of the more bombastic Jersey.
38* ObliviousToLove: She's constantly flirting/showing off her body to Yeoman Gale. Apparently without any knowledge on her part.
39* StealthHiBye: The first hint you get that Wash is there is when she starts talking, usually from ''right behind you''.
40
41!!Kongou
42Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
43
44The personification of IJN ''Kongou'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
45
46* VerbalTic: It wouldn't be Kongou without The Dess or BURNING LOVE.
47
48!!Kirishima
49Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
50
51The personification of IJN ''Kirishima'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
52
53* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite initial appearances of being the OnlySaneMan, she turns out to be as susceptible to shenanigans as the rest of her class.
54
55!!Hiei
56Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
57
58The personification of IJN ''Hiei'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
59
60* MadeOfIron: Averted - A well placed salvo from an Abyssal battleship nearly killed her. The damage she sustained has left her without an arm and out of combat for a VERY long time.
61
62!!Haruna
63Deployment: Australian Royal Navy
64
65The personification of IJN ''Haruna'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
66
67* VerbalTic: Haruna is daijoubu.
68
69!!Nagato
70Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
71
72The personification of IJN ''Nagato'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
73
74* CutenessProximity: She has a hamster in her room that she plays with to burn off the cuteness. That way she can focus into TheStoic when she's in battle.
75* TheStoic: Her ability to maintain a cool, professional demeanor in almost any situation is uncanny.
76
77!!Mutsu
78Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
79
80The personification of IJN ''Mutsu'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
81
82* HeroOfAnotherStory: Only shows up sporadically in ''Belated Battleships'' proper, but she has a much larger role in the ''A Certain Lady'' side-story.
83* TheTease: ''constantly'' teases her Admiral. She even pops up a few times in the comments to harass Jersey with her tiny skirt.
84
85!!Musashi
86Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
87
88The personification of IJN ''Musashi'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
89
90* AwesomeEgo: She's loud, bombastic, and incredibly proud of her own battle prowess. But she does carry the largest naval rifles ever built, and she's got the armor to laugh off torpedo strikes that would cripple even Jersey.
91* BadassBoast: Most of her vocabulary, especially when facing down Abyssals, consists of booming declarations that she ''CANNOT SINK'', and daring her enemies to try regardless.
92-->"My name is Musashi. Second ship of the Yamato class. The last battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. If you want a fight…here I am."
93* BoisterousBruiser: She's one of the most powerful battleships ever built, she ''loves'' to fight, and she likes to make sure everyone knows it.
94* Catch22Dilemma: The Japanese Navy can't send her out on missions because losing her would mean a massive blow to Japanese morale. And they can't risk sending her out because her anti-air defenses are terrible. But they can't upgrade her anti-air defenses unless she's had combat missions, which would risk sinking her.
95** Initially she wasn't allowed to deploy because of another of these. They couldn't deploy her because if she was revealed, the Japanese people would insist on her being part of more missions... but her appetite is ''so'' large that Japan can't afford to send her out on missions. For most of the war she was kept secret from everyone because of this, only being let out by virtue of the Northern Princess. They resolve this by having her be assigned pretty much permanently to American Convoy missions, where her eating bill can be picked up by America on the other side of the Pacific.
96* {{Foil}}: She's almost the mirror image of Jersey, even though neither battleship likes the other very much.
97* NoIndoorVoice: She speaks most of her lines at ''THUNDEROUSLY LOUD VOLUME.''
98
99!!Yamashiro
100Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
101
102The personification of IJN ''Yamashiro'', based on the ''VideoGame/KanColle'' design.
103
104!!Arizona
105Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
106
107The personification of USS ''Arizona'' (BB-39), an original design.
108
109* NewMeat: Her first battle as a shipgirl was the first time she had ''ever'' fired her guns in anger, despite her long career before her sinking.
110
111!!Pennsylvania
112Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
113
114The personification of USS ''Pennsylvania'' (BB-38), an original design.
115
116* {{Jerkass}}: She is not a nice person.
117* ShellShockedVeteran: As Ari gets to witness after the Battle of Woody Island, Pennsy never truly left Pearl Harbor.
118
119!!USS Texas (BB-35)
120Deployment: United States Navy - Gulf Fleet
121
122The personification of USS ''Texas'' (BB-35), an original design.
123
124[[/folder]]
125
126[[folder:Cruisers (CA/CL/CB)]]
127!!USS San Francisco (CA-38)
128Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
129* BoomerangBigot: She came back as Japanese but has no affection for them whatsoever.
130* NakedPeopleAreFunny: shortly after she shows up she goes streaking with Borie.
131!!USS St. Louis (CL-49)
132Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
133* CrazyPrepared: She always walks around with her five revolvers summoned and ready. The Pearl Harbor attack caught her unawares, and she doesn't want that to happen again.
134!!USS Alaska (CB-1)
135Deployment: United States Navy - Gulf Fleet
136* TheDitz: She is not all there at the best of times.
137
138!!USS Prinz Eugen(IX-300)
139Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
140
141!!Tenryuu
142Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
143* InSeriesNickname: Her own special variant of 'momboat', she is dubbed '''chunni''momboat' by Major Solette.
144* MamaBear: She's an older cruiser, but you do ''not'' mess with any of her beloved destroyers.
145!!Tatsuta
146Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
147
148!!Sendai
149Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
150* InSeriesNickname: Yasen-Baka is more likely to garner recognition than Sendai's actual name.
151!!Naka
152Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
153* GamerChick: Her gaming computer is astonishingly powerful, and she does regular livestreams.
154* IdolSinger: Downplayed. She's still got her singer gimmick, but it shows up more as general PR-savvyness than actual singing.
155!!Jintsuu
156Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
157* BewareTheNiceOnes: Enjoys sinking Abyssal ships a bit ''too'' much. In fact, one of the rules at Sasebo is specifically to not get on her bad side.
158* SpannerInTheWorks: Inadvertenly causes the failure of Albie's summoning by standing near the summoning pool, therefore scaring Albie when she was actually summoned into hiding in the pool for 7 hours.
159
160!!Atago
161Deployment: United States Navy - Gulf Fleet
162* ShipperOnDeck: She's determined to get Alaska a boy, even when the bumbling large cruiser continually fumbles in her attempts.
163* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Alaska's found quite a few things she'd lost recently after looking in Atago's cleavage. She also keeps bottled water there for when she's on the beach.
164!!Maya
165Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
166* SirSwearsAlot: Constant exposure to American military personnel has left Maya with a very ''colorful'' vocabulary.
167!!Takao
168Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
169[[/folder]]
170
171[[folder:Fleet Carriers/Light Carriers (CV/CVL)]]
172!!Akagi
173Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
174* BigEater: She's well known as a gluttonous fiend.
175** Deconstructed: Her appetite is vast because she ''needs'' to gorge herself just to replenish her planes. But she restricts herself to just plain rice, with maybe a few sweets as a reward for exceptional performance, because she doesn't want to take food out of her nation's mouth.
176
177!!Kaga
178Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
179* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Carrier]]: Kaga's ''very'' proud of her service with the ''Kido Butai.'' But she's not inflexible. She understands why the IJN lost the last war, and she's determined to hone her skills--and the skills of the other carriers--to make sure it never happens again.
180** That said, she takes her duties ''very'' seriously, and treats the art of aviation as something nearly sacrosanct. She's ''horrified'' to the point of dropping her arrows when she sees how casually White Plains treats it.
181* SoProudOfYou: To Shinano, after she'd launched a strike of fighters that saved Tokyo from an Abyssal bomber raid after taking a hit that blew off one arm at the elbow.
182-->"You took a blow that ''shattered'' me. And spotted a strike regardless. Never forget that."
183* TheStoic: She's icy cool under all circumsances. Often the only warning that she's mad is a sudden hot flash as her boilers rev up to full operational pressure.
184
185!!Ryuujou
186Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
187
188!!Shinano
189Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
190* AwesomeButImpractical: She's a carrier that was built on a Yamato-class hull, and is (in theory) the most heavily armored carrier around. Downside is that she only carries 47 planes (Support Carrier, not Fleet Carrier), yet she eats more food in one sitting than Akagi and Kaga ''combined''.
191* BadassBoast: "M-my name is Sh-Shinano. I…am the th-third of the Yamato sisters. I was trained by—by White Plains. And I'll take you all on."
192* BigEater: To a degree that stuns Akagi. In fact, she eats so much, that Goto is considering sending her off to the United States, simply so her appetite doesn't cause mass starvation in Japan.
193* LetsGetDangerous: She's just taken a stick of bombs to the front of her flight deck, she's missing half her left arm (and as a Japanese heavy carrier, she launches planes via Kyudo, just as Akagi and Kaga do), and she, Ryuujou and Jun'you have just been ordered to divert to Osaka because an Abyssal air strike is headed for Tokyo. What does she do? Turns ''into the wind'', spots a strike, then launches them by ''throwing'' the strike, just like her sensei [[BadassAdorable White Plains]] taught her. Also qualifies her as a BigDamnHero.
194* NewMeat: Her rebuild as a Support Carrier wasn't complete when she was sunk during WWII, and she didn't even have her assigned air complement when she was summoned.
195* ShrinkingViolet: She has some rather severe issues to deal with, such as eating more food than anyone else, nearly crippling shyness, issues with how she was going to be outfitted in the Japanese Navy... as such she's somewhat of a shy introvert.
196[[/folder]]
197
198[[folder:Escort Carriers (CVE)]]
199!!USS White Plains (CVE-66)
200Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
201* BadassAdorable: She's built like a bubbly grade school girl, but she's also the only carrier to win a gun duel against a heavy cruiser.
202* CoolShades: Has a pair of American-flag shutter shades for when she wants to be especially patriotic. Sometimes Jersey will borrow them for her own reasons.
203[[/folder]]
204
205[[folder:Destroyers/Destroyer Escorts (DD/DE)]]
206!![=KanDesRon 1=]
207!!USS Hoel (DD-533)
208Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
209* TheCaptain: Flagship of her [=DesRon=].
210* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Ship Girl]]: She considers herself the sane and reliable leader of her gaggle of friends, regardless of how crazy she might actually be.
211!!USS Heermann (DD-532)
212Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
213* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Ship Girl]]: Of the initial Taffy 3 trio summoned.
214!!USS Johnston (DD-557)
215Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
216* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: She wears a feathery war bonnet that's [[ExpressiveHair just as energetic as she is]] because her captain, Medal of Honor recipient [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_E._Evans Ernest E. Evans]], was of Native American descent (Cherokee and Creek).
217
218!![=KanDesRon 2=]
219!!USS Kidd ((DD-661)
220Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
221* TheCaptain: Flagship of her [=DesRon=].
222!!USS O'Bannon ((DD-450)
223Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
224* TheLancer: the most level-headed of the group.
225* [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsdestroyer]]: She's quite cunning with a blade, even one made of cardboard.
226!!USS William D. Porter (DD-579)
227Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
228* CatchPhrase: A hasty "Imokay!"
229* CuteClumsyGirl: She tries. She tries so hard. But will almost inevitably be involved in some kind of accident. But don't worry, she's okay.
230
231!!USS Borie (DD-704)
232Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
233* NakedPeopleAreFunny
234
235!!USS Samuel B Roberts (DE-413)
236Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
237* MamaBear: How her role as a Destroyer Escort works. She's nice and kind and won't seek out trouble, but if you mess with what she's escorting, she'll tear you apart. There's a reason that after she sunk, she was nicknamed "The Destroyer Escort that fought like a Battleship."
238
239!!USS England (DE-635)
240Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
241
242!!Akatsuki
243Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
244
245!!Ikazuchi
246Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
247
248!!Inazuma
249Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
250
251!!Hibiki
252Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
253* DrivesLikeCrazy: Russian-style!
254
255!!Yuudachi
256Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
257* InSeriesNickname: "Poi" used to just be her verbal tic. Now even admirals refer to her by this.
258* VerbalTic: "Poi." Her exsessive poi-ing drives Jersey mad.
259
260!!Fubuki
261Deployment: United States Navy - Everett Fleet
262
263!!Teruzuki
264Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
265
266!!Akizuki
267Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
268
269!!Hatsuzuki
270Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
271
272!!Shimakaze
273Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
274
275!!Shigure
276Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
277
278!!Kawakaze
279Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
280[[/folder]]
281
282[[folder: Submarines (SS)]]
283!!USS Albacore (SS-212)
284Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
285* InsistentTerminology: She's a subthief, not a lewdmarine!
286** Also, it's not "logistical magics," it's "blatant, unrepentant thievery."
287* {{Ninja}}: By nature of being a ''very'' competent US submarine.
288** She disappeared halfway through a 2-hour train ride. From a sealed train car on an express train. She was only seen again when the doors opened.
289* StickyFingers: Even nailing them down might not keep your supplies safe. She also has a tendency to steal her Admiral's pants out of the laundry.
290
291!!USS Archerfish (SS-311)
292Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
293* StealthHiBye: Accompanied Jersey, Musashi, and Shinano on their trip to Akihabara. ''Nobody'' saw her until Albie called her name.
294
295!!I-19
296Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
297
298!!I-8
299Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
300
301!!I-58
302Deployment: United States Navy - Sasebo Fleet
303
304!!I-168
305Deployment: Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Yokosuka Fleet
306[[/folder]]
307
308!Humans
309[[folder:Military Personnel]]
310!!Vice Admiral Samuel Williams
311
312Commander, Pacific Fleet, US Navy, based out of NAVSTA Everett.
313
314* BornInTheWrongCentury: He's got all the skills needed to fight an information-age war in the 21st century. He's just being forced to fight against an Enemy that plays by--and enforces--20th century rules.
315* OnlySaneMan: He's remarkably quick to adapt to changing circumstances, although he does have a standing order that "Sparkly Magical Shipgirl Bullshit" be taken care of by Gale before it lands on his desk.
316* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Not only has he been managing a horde of shipgirls, which are trying on their own, he's endured strange E-mails from Gale. One simply said "The Poi is real." Nevertheless, he gives both the girls and his sailors the slack they need to do their jobs, and never fails to back them up when he can.
317* YouAreInCommandNow: Implied to have happened. After meeting him for the first time, Jersey thinks aloud that one of the few reasons why a three-star like him is COMPACFLT instead of the four-star the billet normally demands is because there's no one more senior left. Not that she finds the other most likely reason - so much of the fleet having been lost that a three-star is all it needs - much more comforting.
318
319!!Yeoman Sarah Gale
320* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dealing with shipgirls has left the poor Yeoman a little bit unhinged, despite that she's an able shipgirl wrangler.
321* IdenticalStranger: When Mogami appears in "Suffering", Jersey notes that Mogami is basically her inexplicable Asian twin.
322* TheReliableOne: In a world full of inexplicably-attractive girls that are also ships, Gale's the one trusted to always come though in the end.
323* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Something that causes her much suffering.
324** She's also explicitly charged with "Keeping sparkly magical ship-girl bullshit" off of the Admiral's desk.
325* StraightGay: She's a lesbian, but it's only been mentioned to explain why she's into Wash and not into Crowning.
326* WeightWoe: She works hard to maintain her waistline, and suceeeds at it. But being surrounted by stunningly pretty shipgirls who can--and often have to--gorge themselves on vast amounts of the hearty foods she has to avoid frustrates the poor sailor.
327** She starts to get over it when she witnesses Wash actually shaking in pain from dinner being delayed an hour from hunger, driving home that it's not deliberate, these girls ''need'' to eat like a shonen protagonist. It still takes a little bit for that revelation to sink in, and she does complain how unfair it is that they can eat somewhere in the neighborhood of ten times their body weight and not gain an ounce.
328!!Yeoman Jennifer Bowers
329* GayBestFriend: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], she's Yeoman Gale's straight best friend.
330
331!!Admiral Goto
332
333!!Lieutenant Colonel (former Major) Robert "Mack" Solette
334* TheMedic: In charge of making sure the battleships are in tip-top shape mentally and physically. He also ends up [[spoiler: saving Heermann's life]].
335** Don't ever call him "[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder Doctor]]". He's a [[InsistentTerminology Nurse Practitioner]] and damn proud of it.
336** The shipgirls, however, always call him "Doc" or "Docboat."
337* ThatManIsDead: His birth surname was Bator, but he abandoned it after a falling-out with his family. He does not appreciate it being used.
338
339!! Rear Admiral John Richardson
340* HappilyMarried: Was this until his wife died, leaving him to raise his newborn daughter by himself.
341** And now he is once again, having married Mutsu. [[spoiler: She's pregnant. With twins.]]
342[[/folder]]
343
344[[folder:Non-combatants]]
345!!Doctor Arthur Crowning
346* EveryoneCanSeeIt: ''Everyone'' teases him about or assumes he has a relationship with Jersey.
347* [[spoiler: MasterSwordsman: Revealed that he's a skilled hand with an English Longsword. Explained as a result of the historical background of English Literature.]]
348* TheSmartGuy: An American Literature professor by trade, he ends up being the go-to guy for many intellectual and philosophical debates involving Sparkly Magical Shipgirl Bullshit.
349* ShipTease: Jersey and he have feelings for one another and have been dancing around one another for a while. [[spoiler: When she kissed him, it caused her to have a minor freakout, but when they talked it over, they both realize that they're attracted to one another and agree to take it slowly.]]
350* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: inverted, he inadvertently summons the first of America's warships back, and uses what he learned to help figure out how to achieve more successes.
351
352!!Jane Richardson
353* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's never been confirmed by the Authors but there's plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Jane is more than meets the eye. Case in point, her ability to have Fairies of various ships and an appetite that can't be explained simply by "growing child".
354* CheerfulChild: It's really hard to keep a bad mood going when she's around.
355* MilitaryBrat: Her father is Rear Admiral Richardson and has grown up almost exclusively on naval bases. She likes wearing an Ensign's cover and dreams of growing up to become an Admiral of the United States Navy. And a space battleship.
356* MissingMom: Her mother died when she was born.
357* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Jane is fully aware that every time a sortie is ordered, there is a chance someone won't come home ever again.
358[[/folder]]
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