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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' ([[Characters/AzurLane Main Character Index]]) \\
'''''Major Nations'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnion Eagle Union]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionDestroyersDD Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionLightCruisersCL Light Cruisers (CL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionHeavyCruisersCA Heavy Cruisers (CA)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionBattlecruisersBC Large/Battlecruisers (CB/BC)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionBattleshipsBB Battleships (BB)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionLightAircraftCarriersCVL Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionAircraftCarriersCV Aircraft Carriers (CV)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionSubmarinesSS Submarines (SS)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionRepairShipsAR Repair Ships (AR)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavy Royal Navy]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyDestroyers Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyLightCruisers Light Cruisers (CL)]] | '''Heavy Cruisers (CA)''' | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyBattleships Battleships (BB)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyLightAircraftCarriers Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyAircraftCarriers Aircraft Carriers (CV)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Sakura Empire]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireDestroyersDD Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireLightCruisersCL Light Cruisers (CL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireHeavyCruisersCA Heavy Cruisers (CA)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireBattlecruisersAndBattleships Battlecruisers and Battleships (BB and BC)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireAircraftCarriers Aircraft Carriers (CV/L)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneIronblood Ironblood]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodVanguard Vanguard Ships (Destroyers, Light & Heavy Cruisers)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodMainFleet Main Fleet ships (Battlecruisers, Battleships, Light & Fleet Carriers)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodSubmarines Submarines]])\\
'''''Other Nations'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneEasternRadiance Dragon Empery]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneNorthUnion North Union]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIrisLibre Iris Libre]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneVichyaDominion Vichya Dominion]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSardegnaEmpire Sardegna Empire]] \\
'''''Other Characters'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneMETA META]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneAshes Ashes]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneOthers Others]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSirens Sirens]]]]-]]]
'''''Major Nations'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnion Eagle Union]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionDestroyersDD Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionLightCruisersCL Light Cruisers (CL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionHeavyCruisersCA Heavy Cruisers (CA)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionBattlecruisersBC Large/Battlecruisers (CB/BC)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionBattleshipsBB Battleships (BB)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionLightAircraftCarriersCVL Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionAircraftCarriersCV Aircraft Carriers (CV)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionSubmarinesSS Submarines (SS)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneEagleUnionRepairShipsAR Repair Ships (AR)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavy Royal Navy]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyDestroyers Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyLightCruisers Light Cruisers (CL)]] | '''Heavy Cruisers (CA)''' | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyBattleships Battleships (BB)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyLightAircraftCarriers Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneRoyalNavyAircraftCarriers Aircraft Carriers (CV)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Sakura Empire]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireDestroyersDD Destroyers (DD)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireLightCruisersCL Light Cruisers (CL)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireHeavyCruisersCA Heavy Cruisers (CA)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireBattlecruisersAndBattleships Battlecruisers and Battleships (BB and BC)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpireAircraftCarriers Aircraft Carriers (CV/L)]])\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneIronblood Ironblood]] ([[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodVanguard Vanguard Ships (Destroyers, Light & Heavy Cruisers)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodMainFleet Main Fleet ships (Battlecruisers, Battleships, Light & Fleet Carriers)]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIronbloodSubmarines Submarines]])\\
'''''Other Nations'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneEasternRadiance Dragon Empery]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneNorthUnion North Union]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneIrisLibre Iris Libre]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneVichyaDominion Vichya Dominion]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSardegnaEmpire Sardegna Empire]] \\
'''''Other Characters'''''\\
[[Characters/AzurLaneMETA META]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneAshes Ashes]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneOthers Others]] | [[Characters/AzurLaneSirens Sirens]]]]-]]]
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* BoobsOfSteel: Well-equipped in both bustline as well as firepower.
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* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Her "The Golden Hind's Respite" skin puts significant emphasis on her...well, [[IncrediblyLamePun Golden Hind]]. So much so that it is one of the very few skins in the game whose Special Touch location is not on the shipgirl's breasts, but her butt.
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* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Her "The Golden Hind's Respite" skin puts significant emphasis on her...well, [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Golden Hind]]. So much so that it is one of the very few skins in the game whose Special Touch location is not on the shipgirl's breasts, but her butt.
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* Tsundere: Has a few undertones of this in her secretary and introduction lines, and with her blonde hair, she fits the classic look too, especially in her two skins, though this is subverted in her love lines, where she mostly focuses on London.
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* Tsundere: {{Tsundere}}: Has a few undertones of this in her secretary and introduction lines, and with her blonde hair, she fits the classic look too, especially in her two skins, though this is subverted in her love lines, where she mostly focuses on London.
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* FanservicePack: Her refit has her being more fashionable with her curves more clearly emphasized.
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* FanservicePack: Her refit has her being more fashionable with her curves more clearly emphasized.emphasized and her wedding dress takes it even further, emphasizing her bust, showing her generous cleavage and has her posed to draw attention to her [[LegFocus long, shapely legs]].
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** In her school skin, she now sports an eyepatch (in the shape of a blue rose, no less), makes dramatic hand gestures, is in a SailorFuku ''of darkness'' (which also strategically [[BareYourMidriff shows some tummy]]), and in her dialogue, she has a Tendency to turn Words into Proper Nouns with Capitalization so as to make them Important Terms in her Self-Narrative[[note]]and in Japanese, her Important Terms are 外来語イン・カタカナ ([[GratuitousEnglish garaigo in katakana]]) to emphasize them, even when there are perfectly usable native-language equivalents for the words[[/note]]. And she also, uh, is shown telekinetically manipulating her rigging in individual pieces (and this isn't just the splash art, she does this ''in her dorm and deployment animations''), which ''nobody'' else has been shown as able to do yet.
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** In her school skin, she now sports an eyepatch (in the shape of a blue rose, no less), makes dramatic hand gestures, is in a SailorFuku ''of darkness'' (which also strategically [[BareYourMidriff shows some tummy]]), tummy), and in her dialogue, she has a Tendency to turn Words into Proper Nouns with Capitalization so as to make them Important Terms in her Self-Narrative[[note]]and in Japanese, her Important Terms are 外来語イン・カタカナ ([[GratuitousEnglish garaigo in katakana]]) to emphasize them, even when there are perfectly usable native-language equivalents for the words[[/note]]. And she also, uh, is shown telekinetically manipulating her rigging in individual pieces (and this isn't just the splash art, she does this ''in her dorm and deployment animations''), which ''nobody'' else has been shown as able to do yet.
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!!!Voiced by: Naomi Mukaiyama (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English), Desireé González (Latin American Spanish)
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* ShrinkingViolet: Above quote sums it up well. Why exactly she's depicted as this is unknown, considering the ship actually did a fair number of important things, including directly engaging and scoring hits on the battleship Scharnhorst (and receiving hits in return), acting as a flagship on two different occasions, providing escort for the difficult Arctic convoys, and transporting the Norwegian Royal Family back to Norway after their five-years in exile.
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* ShrinkingViolet: Above quote sums it up well. Why exactly she's depicted as this is unknown, considering the ship actually did a fair number of important things, including directly engaging and scoring hits on the battleship Scharnhorst (and receiving hits in return), acting as a flagship on two different occasions, providing escort for the difficult Arctic convoys, and transporting the Norwegian Royal Family back to Norway after their five-years in exile. And, let us not forget her most notable exploit: her contribution to the pursuit and sinking of Bismarck.
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* ShesGotLegs: Particularly post-retrofit.
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[[folder: The ''County''-class]]
* ComMons: The blue rarity ships of this class are very common in both Heavy and to a lesser degree, special construction pools, and with how most event pools are based on one of the two, expect to see them often.
* GlassCannon: Generally tends to be how the ''Kent'' and ''London'' subclasses play - they're Heavy Cruisers with light armor, so they not only take a crapload of damage from most shots, their evasion is bottom-barrel for the most part (barring lv110-120). Most of them make up for it by having skills that allow them to do ''stupid'' amounts of damage for their rarity (with post-retrofit Suffolk really taking the crown), but London suffers from this harder than others due to her skillset (until her refit where she becomes tankier and much more damaging). The light armor is part of a HistoricalInJoke on the ships' age/treaty obeying, particularly compared to other nations.
* MovesetClone: Ultimately subverted. The Rare ''County''-class trio of Kent, Suffolk, and Shropshire have almost identical stats[[labelnote:*]]the only differences are their Luck (which range from 71-71), their HP stats (3049-3094), and Shropshire has a singular extra point in Evasion, at 22, to compensate for only 3049 HP[[/labelnote]] and skills (Suffolk pre-retrofit has only Double Gun like Shropshire does, while Kent distinguishes herself with Assault Order instead). But since Suffolk has a retrofit that gives her a third skill, it basically means that Shropshire's left in the dust as a pre-retrofit Suffolk moveset clone, and Kent's still relatively unique.
! ''Kent''-subclass
* {{Meido}}: Their motif appears to be waitress or hostess club-themed maids, though on retrofit, Suffolk's outfit becomes more that of a real maid's. They are, however, still part of the Royal Maids, being present during Sirius' quest line while the rest of the maids are teaching Sirius, cleaning under Sheffield's supervision in Sheffield's quest line, and being shown as part of them in ''Queen's Orders''. Strangely enough, Minato Aqua's special line, which triggers with all other RN maids, doesn't include Kent in the requirement.
!!Kent (68)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese), Jessica Cavanagh (English)
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-->'''ID:''' No. 121
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Kaede Yumesaki
-->"Hey! Commander, I'm Kent! How have you been lately? Whether good or bad, since Kent is here it's going to be all right!"
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* ComMons: "HEY SHIKIKAN" ''will'' haunt your limited build gacha rolls. This is a result of most limited gachas being based on either the heavy or special pools, both of which contain heavy cruisers and have relatively few rare (blue-rarity) ships, so when you roll a blue, there are pretty good odds that it's Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, or Shropshire.
* HiddenDepths: She's actually a competent if spirited secretary, able to fix buttons (due to Suffolk having issues with hers), and does her "Contestant Kent" thing in part to raise everyone's spirits.
* HistoricalInJoke: The fact the actual HMS Kent transported a Tiger to a zoo is referenced in both a line and in her character quest (where she has a rather realistic stuffed one).
* PassionateSportsGirl: She often refers to herself as "Contestant Kent" and most of her lines have something to do with athletics.
* VaporWear: Does not seem to wear anything under her shirt. It's a nod to her thin armoring scheme.
!!Suffolk (55)
!!!Voiced by: Akari Uehara (Japanese), Creator/SarahRoach (English)
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-->'''ID:''' No. 122
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Kaede Yumesaki
-->"Where am I...? Ahh, excuse me! Do you kno... Oh! You're the commander? This is great! I'm Suffolk, I finally found you!"
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* AnimalMotifs: The sheep.
* AnimationBump: One of the few ships that has multiple expressions when not in chibi form, and she has a fair number as well. She's notable as she has this before it became commonplace in newer ships, and even gets shown off in the intro.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She often gets distracted watching the sky.
* FanservicePack: Her retrofit at least emphasizes her curves a great deal more if not increase them.
* GlassCannon: The queen of it among her sisters. All three of her skills are focused on offense and her retrofit further skyrockets her offense for her rarity, but her decent HP is offset by only light armor and classically low heavy cruiser evasion.
* MoreDakka: Her "Double Gun" skill adds another salvo when triggered. It's a skill commonly found on Eagle Union heavy cruisers.
* TheSlacker: Sirius' sub story has her revealing some tendency of slacking, offering lessons on slacking and avoiding work to Sirius.Further shown in her brief apperance in the Operation Siren storyline, where the only reason she's fighting hard is so she can go back to slacking in the port.
! ''London''-subclass
!!London (69)
!!!Voiced by: Naomi Mukaiyama (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English), Desireé González (Latin American Spanish)
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-->'''ID:''' No. 119
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': Shi-Chen
-->"First ship of the London class, London. Member of the First Cruising Fleet, while also having took part in battles of North Atlantic and Pacific missions. If there's a mission, rest assured and let me handle it!"
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* AchillesHeel:
** Her armor. Her skill design means she wants to be a supportive unit and is mostly there to buff the firepower of her fellows. However, unlike many other ships with similar aura effects... she remains a Heavy Cruiser with light armor. This means that not only does she take a ton of damage when hit with anything that isn't an AP shell, but her evasion is largely crap. And unlike her sisters, pre-refit she doesn't have GlassCannon gameplay to make up for it. As a result, she's inferior to someone like, say, [[Characters/AzurLaneIronblood Leipzig]] (who has a similar aura skill that needs a bit more investment to be really worthwhile, but also possesses ''three times'' London's evasion while having equivalent HP). Once you refit her, she does gain enough HP to not suffer from this quite so badly (and gains enough offense to justify GlassCannon status).
* ArtEvolution: Her refit shows how the artist has come.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: As of launch, the English version of the game officially translates her as a member of the "First Cruising Fleet", rather than the actual historical name of the unit, "1st Cruiser Squadron".
* BreakoutCharacter: Her somewhat unexpected retrofit made her much more popular among fan community.[[note]]Pre-retrofit, London was an okay ship with a decent support role. Her unexpected retrofit suddenly turned her into one of the best vanguard ships in the game, with DPS rivaling that of San Diego Kai if she chooses to use an auxiliary gun instead of torpedo (with staggering 160% efficiency, close to Laffey's 165%, thus leading to a joke that London Retrofit is basically London holding Laffey in what's supposed to be London's torpedo armament while the duo fire their guns simultaneously). Her other stats, post-retro, are also among the best compared to other Heavy Cruisers. Appearance-wise, London [[HotterAndSexier became rather curvier]] while still keeping her nice and doting personality.[[/note]] As a result, when the Crosswave support unit DLC was announced... [[https://i.imgur.com/HEvQych.png guess who was right there in retrofit form]], alongside basically a who's-who of some of the most popular ships in the entire game?
* FanservicePack: Her refit has her being more fashionable with her curves more clearly emphasized.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Shropshire, but not so much according to Sussex, whom she's the foolish sibling to.
* HistoricalInJoke: One of her secretary lines has her ask the Commander if they know where Amethyst is, stating that she can't find her anywhere. This is a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amethyst_Incident Yangtze Incident]], during which HMS ''Amethyst'' was attacked by PLA forces and ran aground. HMS ''London'' was involved in a failed attempt to rescue the ''Amethyst''[[note]]The ship would later manage to escape on its own[[/note]]
* HotterAndSexier: Her refit art has more emphasis on her curves and is generally more stylish.
* NiceGirl: Noted for being kind, sometimes too much (in Sussex's opinion).
* SquareRaceRoundClass: Post refit she's able to trade out her torpedoes for a secondary destroyer gun (as seen with most Eagle Union cruisers among a few others), but the big thing is it retains the torpedoes equip slot's 160% efficiency rating. This is notable as most other frontline ships with such secondaries only have efficiencies of 50-60%. This results in a very noticeable boost in her DPS. The main tradeoff is that she doesn't get Main Gun Battery+1 like other gunboats... which simply has the effect of avoiding making her completely overpowered. Her 160% secondaries ensure she can keep pace with even the best Eagle gunboats.
* SupportPartyMember: She buffs the firepower of the front line. Notable is that she can buff all the vanguard ships regardless of their class, which makes her rather easy to slot in to a lot of setups.
!!Sussex (96)
!!!Voiced by: Hikaru Aono
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-->'''ID:''' No. 337
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': ALLENES
-->"Are you the Commander? Hmph, I'll be up front with the ugly words first, I'm not easily swayed like my big sister. I, Sussex, am very strict!"
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* BigSisterWorship: While she may criticize London's kindness, she does look up to her and seeks to make things easier for her.
* CoolBoard: In her swimsuit skin, her rigging is a surfboard.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Shropshire, and, to a lesser degree, towards London.
* NiceGirl: Downplayed. While she is strict at times, she only does it because she wants to help others improve or to reduce the stress on her big sister. She's never overly critical or unfair, she's completely willing to compliment the commander on a job well done without any hesitation, she takes the blame if the fleet she's in is defeated, and she cares about the well being of the fleet.
* Tsundere: Has a few undertones of this in her secretary and introduction lines, and with her blonde hair, she fits the classic look too, especially in her two skins, though this is subverted in her love lines, where she mostly focuses on London.
!!Shropshire (73)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/IbukiKido
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-->'''ID:''' No. 120
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Shi-Chen
-->"London class' youngest, Shropshire, reporting for duty~ I've been told that I am air-headed and gullible, so I'll be giving you some problems~ Well then, my time awaits~"
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* AttentionWhore: Her biography somewhat implies this, mentioning how giving her a little bit of attention will earn big points with her, but several of her quotes avert this, telling the commander that they should pay attention to a returning commission team, or that they should praise the others as well.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Invokes this to make herself look cuter, and even comments on the idea.
* TheFakeCutie: All but admits that much "cute" behaviour is something she purposefully puts on.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to both of her sisters, being more focused on flirting and pretending to be an airhead than working hard or helping the commander.
* ShoutOut: Her quote for when she uses a skill is "Ganbara Knight", which is a Yugioh card
* TheTease: She flirts quite openly with the Commander, and in almost every single line she has, but is quite upset in her "Special Touch" quote.
!''Norfolk''-subclass
!!Norfolk (78)
!!!Voiced by: Hiromi Sakuma (Japanese), Creator/RachelThompson (English), Marysol Lobo (Latin American Spanish)
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-->'''ID:''' No. 123
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Yumesaki Kaede
-->"H-hello, Commander... I'm... Norfolk... Um... Uh... It's a pleasure to meet you..."
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* HistoricalInJoke: Her clothing seems to be more suited for cold weather, with a hood and a caplet, referencing the fact that she primarily saw service in the North Atlantic, in the North Sea, and near the Arctic.
* InTheHood: Her red hood is one of the most obvious things about her.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her ''Forward Armor'' skill releases a shield that blocks a certain number of hits before it wears off.
* ShrinkingViolet: Above quote sums it up well. Why exactly she's depicted as this is unknown, considering the ship actually did a fair number of important things, including directly engaging and scoring hits on the battleship Scharnhorst (and receiving hits in return), acting as a flagship on two different occasions, providing escort for the difficult Arctic convoys, and transporting the Norwegian Royal Family back to Norway after their five-years in exile.
* StoneWall: Unlike her GlassCannon siblings, she's this trope with medium armor and a single unique defensive skill besides the generic All Out Assault. Notably, she has the absolute lowest Firepower and relevant Torpedo stat of all heavy cruisers, regardless of rarity (even Prinz Eugen), but the 7th-highest HP stat (3rd-highest in her rarity) of all heavy cruisers.
!!Dorsetshire (40)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ManamiNumakura
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-->'''ID:''' No. 124
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': Yumesaki Kaede
-->"Hello, I'm Norfolk's little sister, Dorsetshire~! I look more mature than my sister? Surely you jest! She's my role model!"
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* BigLittleSister: She is the youngest of the County-class siblings, but looking at her, it does not seem to be the case, ''especially'' compared to Norfolk. Lampshaded by her introduction quote.
* BigSisterWorship: She adores Norfolk and always speaks highly of her, calling her a role model. While it does seem odd due to how the game [[ShrinkingViolet depicts Norfolk]], those who know the history of HMS Norfolk know that she has a fair number of achievements to her name (detailed above).
* CollectionSidequest: She's unlocked as a playable ship only after 20 total stars have been obtained from the other 5 County-class cruisers (London, Shropshire, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk) [[note]]out of the 25 maximum from limit-breaking all of them, and starting at a mere 10 stars if the player owns basic versions of each cruiser[[/note]] -- a free copy is then given as a reward, and future copies can be obtained from the build menu to help with limit-breaking.
* CriticalHitClass: Her Journey's End skill increases the critical hit rate and critical damage of her torpedoes.
* MightyGlacier: While she has the second-lowest Firepower of all heavy cruisers (barely above her sister Norfolk), she has a critical hit and damage buff for Torpedoes and the tie-highest Torpedo stat and fifth-highest HP stat among heavy cruisers, with medium armor to boot. Besides the practical difference in her GlassCannon siblings' specialization in Firepower instead of Torpedoes, Dorsetshire is a worthy reward and thematic combination of Norfolk's tankiness and her sisters' damage.
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[[folder: The ''York''-class]]
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* ChainedByFashion: They get anchor chains on retrofit.
* FashionableAsymmetry: They wear one white and one black stocking and legging except in York's pre-retrofit form (where she wears two black stockings). Post-retrofit, they notably mirror each other -- Exeter wears white on her right leg, black on her left, while York does the opposite.
* MsFanservice: Downplayed compare to other examples, but both sisters (particularly their refits) are designed to be rather eye-catching with their outfits which are both exotic and call attention to their curves.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Exeter is the one who references it more often, but both are members of the Royal Family.
!!York (90)
!!!Voiced by: Nozomi Yamane
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-->'''ID:''' No. 125
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': [=Mkiiiiii=]
-->"If you were able to find me then you are also a user of the Force, no? I'm York, the magic-wielding York-class heavy cruiser. Let us fight against Fortune together."
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* {{Chuunibyou}}:
** This is the main reason behind her various mannerisms and naming of otherwise normal skills (her skill being a very slight modification of her sister's skill... which is just a stardard Full Firepower offensive skill). Subverted by the fact that she ''does'' seemingly have the ability to use "magic", as does her sister.
** In her school skin, she now sports an eyepatch (in the shape of a blue rose, no less), makes dramatic hand gestures, is in a SailorFuku ''of darkness'' (which also strategically [[BareYourMidriff shows some tummy]]), and in her dialogue, she has a Tendency to turn Words into Proper Nouns with Capitalization so as to make them Important Terms in her Self-Narrative[[note]]and in Japanese, her Important Terms are 外来語イン・カタカナ ([[GratuitousEnglish garaigo in katakana]]) to emphasize them, even when there are perfectly usable native-language equivalents for the words[[/note]]. And she also, uh, is shown telekinetically manipulating her rigging in individual pieces (and this isn't just the splash art, she does this ''in her dorm and deployment animations''), which ''nobody'' else has been shown as able to do yet.
** Her swimsuit is also very showy in a way that a teenager who ''knows'' they're attractive would want to show off, it uses gratuitous roses and rose petals, also has gratuitous ribbon that functionally does nothing but looks cool, and she's wearing finger-nail polish ''of darkness!''
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one in her school skin, as part of her chuuni persona.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish one to Exeter's responsible one. She's a chuuni to such a degree that she puts Jamaica to shame, never seems to break character (or, more accurately, that's probably ''not a "character"''), and it can actually be hard to tell what each of her secretary alerts refer to at first.
* GlassCannon: While she doesn't have it as bad as Wichita and post-retrofit Suffolk, she has an offensive ability rather than a defensive one despite having medium armor. And her rather low luck stat will hinder attempts to tank.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her biography mentions that one day she hopes to conquer the Nightmare of Suda Bay. HMS ''York'' was wrecked by Italian explosive motorboats[[note]]yes, those are a thing[[/note]] in Suda Bay, Crete.
* LargeHam: She tends to be overly dramatic.
* ShoutOut: Her design and voice lines make her out to be like a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi Knight]] (down to referencing the Force) and maybe [[Franchise/FireEmblem Owain]]. She even does the Owain pose on retrofit.
* YouDontLookLikeYou:
** As is standard, York and Exeter both recieved new spash art for their retrofits, but while Mkiiiiii & Windforcelan still do the art (primarily Mk in York's case), these were done in a different style in order to bring the two girls' appearances more in-line with each other. In York's case the difference is so drastic that many players didn't recognize her at first, looking noticeably taller and more mature from her pre-retrofit art. (Now, the redesign ''is'' in line with a proposed, and somewhat NSFW, loading screen that Mk drew just prior to the game's original Chinese launch but was never taken up, showing that Mk was revising the girls' design not long after first submitting them; a couple of later art pieces (available on Mk's twitter) show that Mk greatly preferred the redesign, and so went with it even if the sudden transition was a bit jarring.)
** York's [[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/w/images/f/f9/YorkSchool.png Truth Seeker]] skin from a little later in 2019 does try, a bit, to square the two perspectives: she's got hair that's straighter and a bit more in line with her original design (though is now an even ''darker'' chestnut), and her proportions are a bit more in line with her original depiction without being ''quite'' so "noodly", while her face (her eyes in particular) and skin tone are straight from her retrofit depiction.
** Her [[https://twitter.com/azurlane_staff/status/1295208949658996739?s=20 swimsuit skin]] can also be rather shocking in this regard to people who only know her through her initial art; however, it is much more in keeping with all of Mkiiiiii's post-launch York art (though unlike Truth Seeker, it leans much more toward her retrofit appearance) and while her bust might seem "ample", it is in fact in keeping with her measurements in both her retrofit and Truth Seeker!
** The biggest example, though, would be when artists ''other'' than Mk draw her: [[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/w/images/1/16/Bg_in_town.png this loading screen]] from around the time of "Scherzo" caused a lot of confusion since the taller girl is meant to be York, but she's got almost ''black'' hair, her bust is wrong, she's got hair ribbons she never uses elsewhere, and she's seemingly taller than '''[[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Haruna]]''' (which, in her original art especially and in Mk's other art, wouldn't quite be right). The only indications that it's York are the green eyes, the messy twintails and the asymmetry on her gloves, since everyone is in non-standard outfits, to boot. This actually led to some confusion on release of the screen since some thought it was an entirely new shipgirl being teased, since everyone else was recognizable at a glance!
!!Exeter (68)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AiKakuma
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/exeter_al.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Exeter (Retrofit)]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/exeter_retrofit_al.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 126
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': [=Mkiiiiii=]
-->"I'm Exeter, the second ship of the York-class heavy cruisers. I swear on the name of the Royal Navy, that I'll be an asset to your cause!"
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* BalanceBuff: As mentioned below, the "Giant Hunter" skill was reworked to be more usable.
* BigLittleSister: Is ''very'' mature looking, especially compared to her sister, who could be mistaken for being as young as or younger than some destroyers. She also acts far more mature than her older sister. Downplayed with their retrofit designs bringing their looks more in line with each other, though Exeter is still more mentally mature.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible one to York's foolish. She's focussed, hard-working, has a strong sense of duty, down-to-earth, and quite sensible (to the point that she asks the commander if she should change her outfit, as her skirt's too long and keeps getting wet while at sea).
* HistoricalInJoke: Several of her lines mention that she's a member of the Royal Family. The city of Exeter was firmly in Royalist hands for most of the English Civil War, and was one of the last Royalist cities to fall into Parliamentarian hands.
* ShesGotLegs: Particularly post-retrofit.
* StatusBuff: Her ''Defensive Order'' skill temporarily increases the entire fleet's defense. And after The Dec 22nd update, her post refit "Giant Hunter" skill increases her Evasion and Torpedo stats.
* TakingYouWithMe: Defied. During the second stage of the "Pursuit of Graf Spee" event, she gets critically injured and intends to ram the Graf Spee to finish them both off, but Ajax (who is commanding the operation) orders her to return to base to get repaired instead.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Ajax during the "Pursuit of Graf Spee" event as they hunt the titular ship.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The ''Cheshire''-class]]
!! Cheshire
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ShizukaIshigami
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' Plan 013
-->'''Rarity:''' Priority
-->'''Artist''':
-->"Meeeoooow! I haven't slept like that in forever! Hrm? Are you the one who woke me from my sleep? Woohoo, that makes you my owner! "Why?" Because I've totally fallen for you, duh!"
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* AntiAir: She's an Anti-air Heavy Cruiser, but she averts the usual downsides to ships focused in such as she's as much a threat to surface ships as she is to planes.
* BoobsOfSteel: Well-equipped in both bustline as well as firepower.
* CatGirl: Akashi's rival in this regard (only missing the "nya" VerbalTic), Cheshire looks and acts very catlike in general. It is a reference to the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Cat Cheshire Cat]]. Her barrage even has paws in it and her English script was originally filled with catish puns not present anywhere else.
* TheDitz: It's clear from her lines that she's not the brightest sort. It may be a nod to her reputation in VideoGame/WorldOfWarships as a "stupid ship".
* LoveAtFirstSight: From her intro line, she takes a shine very fast to the commander. She has no problems with special touches beyond being surprised in her base skin.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cat Maid Heavy Cruiser with both traits in ample showing- basically what you might get if Yamashiro and Suffolk did a fusion dance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The ''Drake''-class]]
!!Drake
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AsamiImai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' Plan 014
-->'''Rarity:''' Decisive
-->'''Artist''':
-->"So you're the Commander? Seems you've got some backbone. I'm the Royal Navy heavy cruiser, Drake, and I'll be joining your fleet. Just making sure, you will deploy me, right?"
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Brandishes a flintlock pistol, which was long obsolete even at the time of World War II, let alone in Azur Lane's SchizoTech setting.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her Flintlock Burst skill bypasses the rotating shields many enemy elites and bosses deploy.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Her "The Golden Hind's Respite" skin puts significant emphasis on her...well, [[IncrediblyLamePun Golden Hind]]. So much so that it is one of the very few skins in the game whose Special Touch location is not on the shipgirl's breasts, but her butt.
* LifeDrain: Heals herself for a portion of the damage dealt by her Flintlock Burst.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She is named after [[UsefulNotes/SirFrancisDrake Francis Drake]]. Meanwhile, her swimsuit The Golden Hind's Respite is named after Francis Drake's ship, The Golden Hind.
* StanceSystem: When she is the lead vanguard ship, she immediately gains a large bonus to her Firepower, Evasion, and Reload. When she isn't the lead, she can still gain the same buffs, but she has to [[GatheringSteam build it up over time via sinking enemy ships]].
[[/folder]]
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[[folder: The ''County''-class]]
* ComMons: The blue rarity ships of this class are very common in both Heavy and to a lesser degree, special construction pools, and with how most event pools are based on one of the two, expect to see them often.
* GlassCannon: Generally tends to be how the ''Kent'' and ''London'' subclasses play - they're Heavy Cruisers with light armor, so they not only take a crapload of damage from most shots, their evasion is bottom-barrel for the most part (barring lv110-120). Most of them make up for it by having skills that allow them to do ''stupid'' amounts of damage for their rarity (with post-retrofit Suffolk really taking the crown), but London suffers from this harder than others due to her skillset (until her refit where she becomes tankier and much more damaging). The light armor is part of a HistoricalInJoke on the ships' age/treaty obeying, particularly compared to other nations.
* MovesetClone: Ultimately subverted. The Rare ''County''-class trio of Kent, Suffolk, and Shropshire have almost identical stats[[labelnote:*]]the only differences are their Luck (which range from 71-71), their HP stats (3049-3094), and Shropshire has a singular extra point in Evasion, at 22, to compensate for only 3049 HP[[/labelnote]] and skills (Suffolk pre-retrofit has only Double Gun like Shropshire does, while Kent distinguishes herself with Assault Order instead). But since Suffolk has a retrofit that gives her a third skill, it basically means that Shropshire's left in the dust as a pre-retrofit Suffolk moveset clone, and Kent's still relatively unique.
! ''Kent''-subclass
* {{Meido}}: Their motif appears to be waitress or hostess club-themed maids, though on retrofit, Suffolk's outfit becomes more that of a real maid's. They are, however, still part of the Royal Maids, being present during Sirius' quest line while the rest of the maids are teaching Sirius, cleaning under Sheffield's supervision in Sheffield's quest line, and being shown as part of them in ''Queen's Orders''. Strangely enough, Minato Aqua's special line, which triggers with all other RN maids, doesn't include Kent in the requirement.
!!Kent (68)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese), Jessica Cavanagh (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kent_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 121
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Kaede Yumesaki
-->"Hey! Commander, I'm Kent! How have you been lately? Whether good or bad, since Kent is here it's going to be all right!"
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* ComMons: "HEY SHIKIKAN" ''will'' haunt your limited build gacha rolls. This is a result of most limited gachas being based on either the heavy or special pools, both of which contain heavy cruisers and have relatively few rare (blue-rarity) ships, so when you roll a blue, there are pretty good odds that it's Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, or Shropshire.
* HiddenDepths: She's actually a competent if spirited secretary, able to fix buttons (due to Suffolk having issues with hers), and does her "Contestant Kent" thing in part to raise everyone's spirits.
* HistoricalInJoke: The fact the actual HMS Kent transported a Tiger to a zoo is referenced in both a line and in her character quest (where she has a rather realistic stuffed one).
* PassionateSportsGirl: She often refers to herself as "Contestant Kent" and most of her lines have something to do with athletics.
* VaporWear: Does not seem to wear anything under her shirt. It's a nod to her thin armoring scheme.
!!Suffolk (55)
!!!Voiced by: Akari Uehara (Japanese), Creator/SarahRoach (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suffolk_al.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Suffolk (Retrofit)]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suffolk_retrofit_al.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 122
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Kaede Yumesaki
-->"Where am I...? Ahh, excuse me! Do you kno... Oh! You're the commander? This is great! I'm Suffolk, I finally found you!"
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* AnimalMotifs: The sheep.
* AnimationBump: One of the few ships that has multiple expressions when not in chibi form, and she has a fair number as well. She's notable as she has this before it became commonplace in newer ships, and even gets shown off in the intro.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She often gets distracted watching the sky.
* FanservicePack: Her retrofit at least emphasizes her curves a great deal more if not increase them.
* GlassCannon: The queen of it among her sisters. All three of her skills are focused on offense and her retrofit further skyrockets her offense for her rarity, but her decent HP is offset by only light armor and classically low heavy cruiser evasion.
* MoreDakka: Her "Double Gun" skill adds another salvo when triggered. It's a skill commonly found on Eagle Union heavy cruisers.
* TheSlacker: Sirius' sub story has her revealing some tendency of slacking, offering lessons on slacking and avoiding work to Sirius.Further shown in her brief apperance in the Operation Siren storyline, where the only reason she's fighting hard is so she can go back to slacking in the port.
! ''London''-subclass
!!London (69)
!!!Voiced by: Naomi Mukaiyama (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English), Desireé González (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/london_al.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:London (Retrofit)]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/london_retrofit_al.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 119
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': Shi-Chen
-->"First ship of the London class, London. Member of the First Cruising Fleet, while also having took part in battles of North Atlantic and Pacific missions. If there's a mission, rest assured and let me handle it!"
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* AchillesHeel:
** Her armor. Her skill design means she wants to be a supportive unit and is mostly there to buff the firepower of her fellows. However, unlike many other ships with similar aura effects... she remains a Heavy Cruiser with light armor. This means that not only does she take a ton of damage when hit with anything that isn't an AP shell, but her evasion is largely crap. And unlike her sisters, pre-refit she doesn't have GlassCannon gameplay to make up for it. As a result, she's inferior to someone like, say, [[Characters/AzurLaneIronblood Leipzig]] (who has a similar aura skill that needs a bit more investment to be really worthwhile, but also possesses ''three times'' London's evasion while having equivalent HP). Once you refit her, she does gain enough HP to not suffer from this quite so badly (and gains enough offense to justify GlassCannon status).
* ArtEvolution: Her refit shows how the artist has come.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: As of launch, the English version of the game officially translates her as a member of the "First Cruising Fleet", rather than the actual historical name of the unit, "1st Cruiser Squadron".
* BreakoutCharacter: Her somewhat unexpected retrofit made her much more popular among fan community.[[note]]Pre-retrofit, London was an okay ship with a decent support role. Her unexpected retrofit suddenly turned her into one of the best vanguard ships in the game, with DPS rivaling that of San Diego Kai if she chooses to use an auxiliary gun instead of torpedo (with staggering 160% efficiency, close to Laffey's 165%, thus leading to a joke that London Retrofit is basically London holding Laffey in what's supposed to be London's torpedo armament while the duo fire their guns simultaneously). Her other stats, post-retro, are also among the best compared to other Heavy Cruisers. Appearance-wise, London [[HotterAndSexier became rather curvier]] while still keeping her nice and doting personality.[[/note]] As a result, when the Crosswave support unit DLC was announced... [[https://i.imgur.com/HEvQych.png guess who was right there in retrofit form]], alongside basically a who's-who of some of the most popular ships in the entire game?
* FanservicePack: Her refit has her being more fashionable with her curves more clearly emphasized.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Shropshire, but not so much according to Sussex, whom she's the foolish sibling to.
* HistoricalInJoke: One of her secretary lines has her ask the Commander if they know where Amethyst is, stating that she can't find her anywhere. This is a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amethyst_Incident Yangtze Incident]], during which HMS ''Amethyst'' was attacked by PLA forces and ran aground. HMS ''London'' was involved in a failed attempt to rescue the ''Amethyst''[[note]]The ship would later manage to escape on its own[[/note]]
* HotterAndSexier: Her refit art has more emphasis on her curves and is generally more stylish.
* NiceGirl: Noted for being kind, sometimes too much (in Sussex's opinion).
* SquareRaceRoundClass: Post refit she's able to trade out her torpedoes for a secondary destroyer gun (as seen with most Eagle Union cruisers among a few others), but the big thing is it retains the torpedoes equip slot's 160% efficiency rating. This is notable as most other frontline ships with such secondaries only have efficiencies of 50-60%. This results in a very noticeable boost in her DPS. The main tradeoff is that she doesn't get Main Gun Battery+1 like other gunboats... which simply has the effect of avoiding making her completely overpowered. Her 160% secondaries ensure she can keep pace with even the best Eagle gunboats.
* SupportPartyMember: She buffs the firepower of the front line. Notable is that she can buff all the vanguard ships regardless of their class, which makes her rather easy to slot in to a lot of setups.
!!Sussex (96)
!!!Voiced by: Hikaru Aono
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sussex_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 337
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': ALLENES
-->"Are you the Commander? Hmph, I'll be up front with the ugly words first, I'm not easily swayed like my big sister. I, Sussex, am very strict!"
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* BigSisterWorship: While she may criticize London's kindness, she does look up to her and seeks to make things easier for her.
* CoolBoard: In her swimsuit skin, her rigging is a surfboard.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Shropshire, and, to a lesser degree, towards London.
* NiceGirl: Downplayed. While she is strict at times, she only does it because she wants to help others improve or to reduce the stress on her big sister. She's never overly critical or unfair, she's completely willing to compliment the commander on a job well done without any hesitation, she takes the blame if the fleet she's in is defeated, and she cares about the well being of the fleet.
* Tsundere: Has a few undertones of this in her secretary and introduction lines, and with her blonde hair, she fits the classic look too, especially in her two skins, though this is subverted in her love lines, where she mostly focuses on London.
!!Shropshire (73)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/IbukiKido
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shropshire_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 120
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Shi-Chen
-->"London class' youngest, Shropshire, reporting for duty~ I've been told that I am air-headed and gullible, so I'll be giving you some problems~ Well then, my time awaits~"
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* AttentionWhore: Her biography somewhat implies this, mentioning how giving her a little bit of attention will earn big points with her, but several of her quotes avert this, telling the commander that they should pay attention to a returning commission team, or that they should praise the others as well.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Invokes this to make herself look cuter, and even comments on the idea.
* TheFakeCutie: All but admits that much "cute" behaviour is something she purposefully puts on.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to both of her sisters, being more focused on flirting and pretending to be an airhead than working hard or helping the commander.
* ShoutOut: Her quote for when she uses a skill is "Ganbara Knight", which is a Yugioh card
* TheTease: She flirts quite openly with the Commander, and in almost every single line she has, but is quite upset in her "Special Touch" quote.
!''Norfolk''-subclass
!!Norfolk (78)
!!!Voiced by: Hiromi Sakuma (Japanese), Creator/RachelThompson (English), Marysol Lobo (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norfolk_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 123
-->'''Rarity:''' Rare
-->'''Artist''': Yumesaki Kaede
-->"H-hello, Commander... I'm... Norfolk... Um... Uh... It's a pleasure to meet you..."
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* HistoricalInJoke: Her clothing seems to be more suited for cold weather, with a hood and a caplet, referencing the fact that she primarily saw service in the North Atlantic, in the North Sea, and near the Arctic.
* InTheHood: Her red hood is one of the most obvious things about her.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her ''Forward Armor'' skill releases a shield that blocks a certain number of hits before it wears off.
* ShrinkingViolet: Above quote sums it up well. Why exactly she's depicted as this is unknown, considering the ship actually did a fair number of important things, including directly engaging and scoring hits on the battleship Scharnhorst (and receiving hits in return), acting as a flagship on two different occasions, providing escort for the difficult Arctic convoys, and transporting the Norwegian Royal Family back to Norway after their five-years in exile.
* StoneWall: Unlike her GlassCannon siblings, she's this trope with medium armor and a single unique defensive skill besides the generic All Out Assault. Notably, she has the absolute lowest Firepower and relevant Torpedo stat of all heavy cruisers, regardless of rarity (even Prinz Eugen), but the 7th-highest HP stat (3rd-highest in her rarity) of all heavy cruisers.
!!Dorsetshire (40)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ManamiNumakura
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dorsetshire_al.png]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 124
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': Yumesaki Kaede
-->"Hello, I'm Norfolk's little sister, Dorsetshire~! I look more mature than my sister? Surely you jest! She's my role model!"
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* BigLittleSister: She is the youngest of the County-class siblings, but looking at her, it does not seem to be the case, ''especially'' compared to Norfolk. Lampshaded by her introduction quote.
* BigSisterWorship: She adores Norfolk and always speaks highly of her, calling her a role model. While it does seem odd due to how the game [[ShrinkingViolet depicts Norfolk]], those who know the history of HMS Norfolk know that she has a fair number of achievements to her name (detailed above).
* CollectionSidequest: She's unlocked as a playable ship only after 20 total stars have been obtained from the other 5 County-class cruisers (London, Shropshire, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk) [[note]]out of the 25 maximum from limit-breaking all of them, and starting at a mere 10 stars if the player owns basic versions of each cruiser[[/note]] -- a free copy is then given as a reward, and future copies can be obtained from the build menu to help with limit-breaking.
* CriticalHitClass: Her Journey's End skill increases the critical hit rate and critical damage of her torpedoes.
* MightyGlacier: While she has the second-lowest Firepower of all heavy cruisers (barely above her sister Norfolk), she has a critical hit and damage buff for Torpedoes and the tie-highest Torpedo stat and fifth-highest HP stat among heavy cruisers, with medium armor to boot. Besides the practical difference in her GlassCannon siblings' specialization in Firepower instead of Torpedoes, Dorsetshire is a worthy reward and thematic combination of Norfolk's tankiness and her sisters' damage.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The ''York''-class]]
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* ChainedByFashion: They get anchor chains on retrofit.
* FashionableAsymmetry: They wear one white and one black stocking and legging except in York's pre-retrofit form (where she wears two black stockings). Post-retrofit, they notably mirror each other -- Exeter wears white on her right leg, black on her left, while York does the opposite.
* MsFanservice: Downplayed compare to other examples, but both sisters (particularly their refits) are designed to be rather eye-catching with their outfits which are both exotic and call attention to their curves.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Exeter is the one who references it more often, but both are members of the Royal Family.
!!York (90)
!!!Voiced by: Nozomi Yamane
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/york_al.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:York (Retrofit)]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/york_retrofit_al.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''ID:''' No. 125
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': [=Mkiiiiii=]
-->"If you were able to find me then you are also a user of the Force, no? I'm York, the magic-wielding York-class heavy cruiser. Let us fight against Fortune together."
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* {{Chuunibyou}}:
** This is the main reason behind her various mannerisms and naming of otherwise normal skills (her skill being a very slight modification of her sister's skill... which is just a stardard Full Firepower offensive skill). Subverted by the fact that she ''does'' seemingly have the ability to use "magic", as does her sister.
** In her school skin, she now sports an eyepatch (in the shape of a blue rose, no less), makes dramatic hand gestures, is in a SailorFuku ''of darkness'' (which also strategically [[BareYourMidriff shows some tummy]]), and in her dialogue, she has a Tendency to turn Words into Proper Nouns with Capitalization so as to make them Important Terms in her Self-Narrative[[note]]and in Japanese, her Important Terms are 外来語イン・カタカナ ([[GratuitousEnglish garaigo in katakana]]) to emphasize them, even when there are perfectly usable native-language equivalents for the words[[/note]]. And she also, uh, is shown telekinetically manipulating her rigging in individual pieces (and this isn't just the splash art, she does this ''in her dorm and deployment animations''), which ''nobody'' else has been shown as able to do yet.
** Her swimsuit is also very showy in a way that a teenager who ''knows'' they're attractive would want to show off, it uses gratuitous roses and rose petals, also has gratuitous ribbon that functionally does nothing but looks cool, and she's wearing finger-nail polish ''of darkness!''
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one in her school skin, as part of her chuuni persona.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish one to Exeter's responsible one. She's a chuuni to such a degree that she puts Jamaica to shame, never seems to break character (or, more accurately, that's probably ''not a "character"''), and it can actually be hard to tell what each of her secretary alerts refer to at first.
* GlassCannon: While she doesn't have it as bad as Wichita and post-retrofit Suffolk, she has an offensive ability rather than a defensive one despite having medium armor. And her rather low luck stat will hinder attempts to tank.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her biography mentions that one day she hopes to conquer the Nightmare of Suda Bay. HMS ''York'' was wrecked by Italian explosive motorboats[[note]]yes, those are a thing[[/note]] in Suda Bay, Crete.
* LargeHam: She tends to be overly dramatic.
* ShoutOut: Her design and voice lines make her out to be like a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi Knight]] (down to referencing the Force) and maybe [[Franchise/FireEmblem Owain]]. She even does the Owain pose on retrofit.
* YouDontLookLikeYou:
** As is standard, York and Exeter both recieved new spash art for their retrofits, but while Mkiiiiii & Windforcelan still do the art (primarily Mk in York's case), these were done in a different style in order to bring the two girls' appearances more in-line with each other. In York's case the difference is so drastic that many players didn't recognize her at first, looking noticeably taller and more mature from her pre-retrofit art. (Now, the redesign ''is'' in line with a proposed, and somewhat NSFW, loading screen that Mk drew just prior to the game's original Chinese launch but was never taken up, showing that Mk was revising the girls' design not long after first submitting them; a couple of later art pieces (available on Mk's twitter) show that Mk greatly preferred the redesign, and so went with it even if the sudden transition was a bit jarring.)
** York's [[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/w/images/f/f9/YorkSchool.png Truth Seeker]] skin from a little later in 2019 does try, a bit, to square the two perspectives: she's got hair that's straighter and a bit more in line with her original design (though is now an even ''darker'' chestnut), and her proportions are a bit more in line with her original depiction without being ''quite'' so "noodly", while her face (her eyes in particular) and skin tone are straight from her retrofit depiction.
** Her [[https://twitter.com/azurlane_staff/status/1295208949658996739?s=20 swimsuit skin]] can also be rather shocking in this regard to people who only know her through her initial art; however, it is much more in keeping with all of Mkiiiiii's post-launch York art (though unlike Truth Seeker, it leans much more toward her retrofit appearance) and while her bust might seem "ample", it is in fact in keeping with her measurements in both her retrofit and Truth Seeker!
** The biggest example, though, would be when artists ''other'' than Mk draw her: [[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/w/images/1/16/Bg_in_town.png this loading screen]] from around the time of "Scherzo" caused a lot of confusion since the taller girl is meant to be York, but she's got almost ''black'' hair, her bust is wrong, she's got hair ribbons she never uses elsewhere, and she's seemingly taller than '''[[Characters/AzurLaneSakuraEmpire Haruna]]''' (which, in her original art especially and in Mk's other art, wouldn't quite be right). The only indications that it's York are the green eyes, the messy twintails and the asymmetry on her gloves, since everyone is in non-standard outfits, to boot. This actually led to some confusion on release of the screen since some thought it was an entirely new shipgirl being teased, since everyone else was recognizable at a glance!
!!Exeter (68)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AiKakuma
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-->'''ID:''' No. 126
-->'''Rarity:''' Elite
-->'''Artist''': [=Mkiiiiii=]
-->"I'm Exeter, the second ship of the York-class heavy cruisers. I swear on the name of the Royal Navy, that I'll be an asset to your cause!"
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* BalanceBuff: As mentioned below, the "Giant Hunter" skill was reworked to be more usable.
* BigLittleSister: Is ''very'' mature looking, especially compared to her sister, who could be mistaken for being as young as or younger than some destroyers. She also acts far more mature than her older sister. Downplayed with their retrofit designs bringing their looks more in line with each other, though Exeter is still more mentally mature.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible one to York's foolish. She's focussed, hard-working, has a strong sense of duty, down-to-earth, and quite sensible (to the point that she asks the commander if she should change her outfit, as her skirt's too long and keeps getting wet while at sea).
* HistoricalInJoke: Several of her lines mention that she's a member of the Royal Family. The city of Exeter was firmly in Royalist hands for most of the English Civil War, and was one of the last Royalist cities to fall into Parliamentarian hands.
* ShesGotLegs: Particularly post-retrofit.
* StatusBuff: Her ''Defensive Order'' skill temporarily increases the entire fleet's defense. And after The Dec 22nd update, her post refit "Giant Hunter" skill increases her Evasion and Torpedo stats.
* TakingYouWithMe: Defied. During the second stage of the "Pursuit of Graf Spee" event, she gets critically injured and intends to ram the Graf Spee to finish them both off, but Ajax (who is commanding the operation) orders her to return to base to get repaired instead.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Ajax during the "Pursuit of Graf Spee" event as they hunt the titular ship.
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[[folder: The ''Cheshire''-class]]
!! Cheshire
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ShizukaIshigami
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-->'''ID:''' Plan 013
-->'''Rarity:''' Priority
-->'''Artist''':
-->"Meeeoooow! I haven't slept like that in forever! Hrm? Are you the one who woke me from my sleep? Woohoo, that makes you my owner! "Why?" Because I've totally fallen for you, duh!"
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* AntiAir: She's an Anti-air Heavy Cruiser, but she averts the usual downsides to ships focused in such as she's as much a threat to surface ships as she is to planes.
* BoobsOfSteel: Well-equipped in both bustline as well as firepower.
* CatGirl: Akashi's rival in this regard (only missing the "nya" VerbalTic), Cheshire looks and acts very catlike in general. It is a reference to the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Cat Cheshire Cat]]. Her barrage even has paws in it and her English script was originally filled with catish puns not present anywhere else.
* TheDitz: It's clear from her lines that she's not the brightest sort. It may be a nod to her reputation in VideoGame/WorldOfWarships as a "stupid ship".
* LoveAtFirstSight: From her intro line, she takes a shine very fast to the commander. She has no problems with special touches beyond being surprised in her base skin.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cat Maid Heavy Cruiser with both traits in ample showing- basically what you might get if Yamashiro and Suffolk did a fusion dance.
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[[folder: The ''Drake''-class]]
!!Drake
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AsamiImai
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-->'''ID:''' Plan 014
-->'''Rarity:''' Decisive
-->'''Artist''':
-->"So you're the Commander? Seems you've got some backbone. I'm the Royal Navy heavy cruiser, Drake, and I'll be joining your fleet. Just making sure, you will deploy me, right?"
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Brandishes a flintlock pistol, which was long obsolete even at the time of World War II, let alone in Azur Lane's SchizoTech setting.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her Flintlock Burst skill bypasses the rotating shields many enemy elites and bosses deploy.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Her "The Golden Hind's Respite" skin puts significant emphasis on her...well, [[IncrediblyLamePun Golden Hind]]. So much so that it is one of the very few skins in the game whose Special Touch location is not on the shipgirl's breasts, but her butt.
* LifeDrain: Heals herself for a portion of the damage dealt by her Flintlock Burst.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She is named after [[UsefulNotes/SirFrancisDrake Francis Drake]]. Meanwhile, her swimsuit The Golden Hind's Respite is named after Francis Drake's ship, The Golden Hind.
* StanceSystem: When she is the lead vanguard ship, she immediately gains a large bonus to her Firepower, Evasion, and Reload. When she isn't the lead, she can still gain the same buffs, but she has to [[GatheringSteam build it up over time via sinking enemy ships]].
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