BASICALLY: Alphonse, Erika, Heather, Astrid, Elizabeth, and Janice
(I-I have a thing for sweeping orchestral pieces, okay!? Don't judge me!)
Alphonse "Winter" Gunther Schmitt
Age : 27, As of 2022 (b.1995.07.21)
Height : 181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Theme Song :
The Greatest Generation
Appearance :
Hapless romantic. He's also a trap.
BASICALLY : The brilliant technomage that waifued two battleships and nearly broke himself in the process. He still loves every minute of it. IS 121% LEWD, and everything that he touches turns into lewd.
He also was the guy who was instrumental in ending the Abyssal War. He created a lot of the cool gadgets that the ship girls used in the war, and is probably best described as an amalgam of Doctor Strange and Tony Stark. He regularly does cool things in the really cool
Advanced Research and Development Initiative building located outside of Toronto. Has a
very cool car in the form of a cobalt blue Mercedes-Maybach S65 AMG that he took apart and rebuilt from the ground up with the world's most advanced composite materials and high-grade titanium/aluminum alloys. It can fly too, and produces barely any noise courtesy of the
Project Whisper upgrades he added to the hoverdrive.
He also built MONO, the rectangular robotic companion who would later become part of his daughter, Astrid.
An accomplished marksman, he owns a FR F2 sniper rifle, and two Colt Officer pistols. He also can fight very effectively using gun kata.
Erika "Icedbismarck" Schmitt von Bismarck
Age : 24 (Physically)
Height : 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Theme Song :
Ode to Joy
Appearance :
(She's actually Hanna-Justina Marseille, I swear)
BASICALLY : The beautiful, kind wife of Alphonse Schmitt. Loves hugging people and cuddles. Really likes making friends with everyone. Is actually more calm than Alphonse, and she teases Al a lot. Is the hard counter to Alphonse, but gets countered by Heather. Is in love with both Alphonse and Heather, and loves Astrid like she was her own daughter. Has a thing for iced coffee and Ketchup potato crisps. She recently added another terabyte of Alphonse x Heather x Erika lewds to the collection on Alphonse's computer's hard drive. Erika's an avid gamer, and has a Steam game library that rivals Alphonse's.
Heather "Pendragon" Schmitt (nee Hood)
Age : 25 (Physically)
Height : 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Theme Song :
I Vow to Thee, My Country
Appearance :
Glasses + Blonde Hair + Blue Eyes = HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
BASICALLY : The beautiful, brilliant, absolutely
fantastic, and pranking wife of Alphonse Schmitt. She tries to act all cool and mature, like an older sister, to both Erika and Astrid, but fails dramatically when she
actually is mature. She also says very lewd things, but gets flustered at the first sight of lewd acts. Likes hand-holding and cuddling, and like Erika, loves Alphonse to bits. She likes to latch onto his back and cuddle him especially. She's actually quite smart, helping to pioneer many of the cool things that comes out of the ARADIA labs. Like Alphonse, she, Dakota, Yuubari and Tabitha often team up on the weekends to build some of the most crazy things in the backyard of the ARADIA headquarters, mostly advanced rigging technology and airplanes. Is an accomplished pilot, both in real life and in video games. Has a bit of a thing for vanilla ice cream. Loves headpats.
Astrid "Spirit" Schmitt
Age : 20 (Physically)
Height : 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Theme Song :
O, Canada
Appearance :
our daughteru is a cutie
BASICALLY : The daughteru of the family of four. Was once the AI companion MONO, but she merged with the nascent AI being formed inside of Alphonse's computer. After sacrificing her neural matrix, she became a literal amalgam of the two -- possessing the same snarky, sarcastic personality of MONO tempered with the naiveness and unabashed kindness of the newly-evolved AI. Secretly likes it when anyone headpats her. Loves classical music, and plays it whenever she makes an entrance. She also likes explosions and guns. Astrid's the one responsible for the 1:1 scale replica of an E-100 that currently resides at the ARADIA building's garage. Amazingly good at tanks and first-person shooter games, and a bit of a tabletop game fanatic. SHE IS THE MACHINE GOD INCARNATE! (She likes playing Adeptus Mechanicus, which amuses Alphonse to no end.) Writes things in her spare time, and is actually more innocent than she looks.
Instead of wielding guns like her parents, she uses her E-100 instead. She also owns a cavalry sabre which she uses when she's poking out of the commander's cupola of the German monstrosity.
Elizabeth "Northernqueen" von Tirpitz
Age : 22 (Physically)
Height : 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Theme Song (Ambient) :
The Lonely Queen of the North
Theme Song (Battle) :
Furor Teutonicus
Appearance :
A rare moment where she's a stoic, German beauty instead of being engrossed in a video game or a manga she imported from Japan.
BASICALLY : A massive gamer-girl and a bit of a shut-in. Despite appearing to be quite stoic and having a reputation of being an anti-socialite, she's actually quite personable and easy to make friends with. It's more that she keeps to herself than being anti-social, really. Online, she's a massively popular World of Warships and World of Tanks streamer, who also plays War Thunder Naval Forces as well. (Her personal opinion on the matter of which game is better is 'See for yourself, but both games have merits and shortcomings.') She's also quite the tabletop gamer, possessing a massive Tau army.
Other than playing playing the aforementioned games, she also plays Company of Heroes 2 and other RTS games with Alphonse. She mainly plays Oberkommando West, emphasizing speed and offensive ability compared to Alphonse's preference of the adaptable British forces.
She's quite clumsy and stutters when she's talking to others, which just makes her cuter in the eyes of many. She also wears glasses, which may or may not be influenced by Alphonse stating that 'glasses would make you look cooler.'
Currently unmarried, and doesn't quite seem to be looking for someone special just yet, though there are many rumours that she is interested in her housemate Janice, the personification of the battleship
Montana...
Janice "Monty" Charlotte Jones
Age : 19 (physically)
Height : 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Theme Song (Ambient) :
An Epitaph for the Fallen
Theme Song (Battle) :
Forward, to Victory! (Alphonse's Theme, Reprised)
Appearance :
Packs way more firepower than you can ever imagine.
BASICALLY : A quiet, soft-spoken shipgirl, Janice is nevertheless one of the most fearsome shipgirls in the United Nations Combined Fleet. A fierce fighter and a brilliant tactician, her efforts have lead to countless victories in the frigid waters of the northern seas. Janice was one of the most earliest subjects of modernization by the Advanced Research and Development Initiative, adding fourteen Tomahawk missile launchers and multiple Phalanx CIWS emplacements onto her rigging. The result was an even more effective fighting machine. With the addition of modern weapon systems, the newly modernized
Montana lead the Aegir Fleet to victory over the Polar Abyssal Fleet.
Outside of battle, she is a philosophical girl, often asking questions about life itself and dreaming of the future. She also likes reading and gaming, and are good friends with Elizabeth -- the personification of the battleship
Tirpitz. The two are often seen livestreaming together in their house in northern Germany, and there are some rumors that suggest that the two are in a romantic relationship. However, both have denied this.