Matthew Dover
Rank: Captain USN (O-6)
Age: 37
Height: 6'1"
Theme:
American Soldier
Appearance: Tall with a lanky build. Brown hair cropped close. No facial hair, save for an in-reg mustache.
Ship:
Relationships: Johnston adopted daughter, Sarah Dover wife
Captain Dover has had first hand experience with the ship girls for many years now. He lost his first ship, the
Burke class destroyer USS
Halsey, in the opening months of the war. He was then tasked with creating the first ship girl unit after the their appearance, and helped to pioneer the original ship girl tactics. During the war, as the ship girl corps expanded his unit became known as an elite fighting force. They served on the very front lines of the conflict, pushing the Abyssals back at every step.
After the war, he was given command of a converted shipgirl tender(A former
Independence class LCS) and helped to perfect shipgirl/conventional Navy operational procedures. He served in this role for almost a year before being reassigned to command Fleet Schools Norfolk, where he trains the newest generation of ship girls for US Navy service. He has since legally adopted Johnston and helped to sponsor her appointment to the US Naval Academy.
Jackie Johnston
Rank: Lieutenant USN (O-3)
Age(Physical): 20
Height: 5' 5"
Theme:
Gunslinger
Appearance: Short with a lithe build. Wears her brown hair loose around her shoulders.
Ship:
Benson/
Gleaves/
Livermore/
Bristol class destroyer
Relationships: Matt Dover adoptive father
Johnston was one of the first ship girls to appear in this world, and she's had the most combat experience of anyone. While not keen to get into a fight(she tries hard to avoid fighting at all costs) when pushed, she is perhaps one of the best fighters of the ship girls. Towards the end of the war, she used her skills in order to perfect several unconventional tactics. She led several commando raids on Abyssal strongholds in coordination with conventional special forces.
After the war ended, she was adopted by her former superior and long time mentor, Matt Dover. The captain was able to secure an appointment for her at the US Naval Academy. Four years later, the destroyer graduated with a commision as an Ensign. She spent several years in the surface Navy before being tapped for her expertise. Now a special tactics trainer at the Fleet Schools, she trains the best candidates of the new ship girls in specialized and unconventional warfare.
Halsey "Haley" Dover
Rank: Petty Officer 2nd Class USN(E-5)
Age(Physical): 16
Height: 5' 9"
Appearance: Tall and lanky with blonde hair that she wears in a bun.
Ship: Farragut class destroyer.
Relationships: Matthew Dover father, Johnston sister.
Halsey was the first modern ship to come back as a ship girl. As an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, she was one of the first ships lost in the war. Sinking right after the Second Battle of Midway. Under the command of Captain Matthew Dover, she sacrificed herself during the Enterprise's dash to Pearl Harbor in order to give that ship enough time to reach port.
Her return as a shipgirl came as a surprise to everyone as up till then, only WWII and early Cold War era ships had returned. It was later theorized that her connection with the war and with Captain Dover, now commander of US ship girl forces, had something to do with her return. Whatever the reason, Halsey quickly proved herself in combat.
After the war she gravitated towards her former commander, Matthew Dover, and considers herself to be his daughter in everything but name. She serves with the 2nd Fleet's ship girl forces based out of Norfolk where she works closely with the conventional forces of that unit,