Open Blue/Characters

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A list of characters appearing in v5 (present version) of Open Blue. Due to the policies of the site, they use face claims.

Seamen

 * Annika Sirenia

""Always bring a gun to a knife fight. Add a fist for good measure, and a chair, if you really want to be sure.""

Second Princess of Sirene and youngest of Kaiser Alfons' three children. A Captain in the Imperial Navy, she gets stranded on a Desert Island for a few months after being forced to Abandon Ship in the Disaster of Nations. After escaping, she eventually finds a Sirenian Colony with a somewhat sympathetic governor, where she acquires command of another ship. She has once again been sent to Port Allison, this time to broker a deal with its corrupt government that would further Sirenian Interests. Notably an expy of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Annika embodies the following tropes:


 * Badass Princess - Something of a requirement. All Sirenian Princesses must be badass.
 * Bling of War
 * The Captain
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Charles Atlas Superpower - Somewhere between this and her family's Superpowerful Genetics. All three siblings have a degree Super Strength, but Annika works out, allowing her to pick up a ship cannon, fire it from the hip, and then use it as a bludgeoning weapon afterwards.
 * Cute Bruiser
 * The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry - She tends to be compared to her Lady of War older sister, and tends to come out as Always Second Best. She doesn't like that.
 * Going Down with the Ship - She tries to invoke this during the Disaster of Nations, but her First Mate forces her out of it.
 * Gratuitous German
 * Improbable Age - Captain at age 18, thanks to her connections.
 * Leeroy Jenkins
 * More Dakka - When using a firearm, she straps a pair of bandoliers across her chest. Also, her main weapon is a breech-loading rifle with a higher rate of fire than most weapons of the day.
 * Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight - Invokes this a lot.
 * The Neidermeyer - Owing to her personal tactics (or lack thereof).
 * Rebellious Princess
 * Robinsonade
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections - Let's just say that Annika abused her connections for a lot of things, from graduating at a high rank from the academy despite problematic grades, to getting new ships under her command even after losing a grand total of three already.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang - Her older sister is graceful, knows how to play the Standard Royal Court, and is an excellent tactician. She's rough, doesn't care about her royal station, and prefers to rush in with no plan.
 * Sobriquet - Annika is widely known as "Princess Bruiser".
 * Wrong Genre Savvy - Painting a ship bright red does not automatically make it better than other ships. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to understand that.

Others

 * Elsa van Dorst

""If the only possession the world truly gives you is your name, then the only thing you can truly give, as something that you truly own, is your name.""

A product of Remillia's top secret Engelmacht Project, Elsa was sent to Port Allison as part of a large task force to disrupt the Avelian operation there. Unfortunately for her, the operation went awry when both Avelia and Sirene also had their own armies of spies and assassins present. Left alone with a single junior comrade, Monique, Elsa hatches a plan to escape the island and return to Remillia. Although after four months (and Monique's lonely death), it has yet to come to fruition.

Elsa embodies the following tropes:


 * Blade Below the Shoulder - Uses Katars for melee combat.
 * Cloak and Dagger
 * Cold Sniper - She's a crack shot with a rifle.
 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Due to the Dead - Elsa buries her Only Friend Monique at the foot of a special tree and inscribes her Nom De Guerre on it.
 * Earn Your Title - "Baraquiel". See Meaningful Name below.
 * IKEA Weaponry - The carbine she keeps in her violin case.
 * The Ingenue - Invoked as her specific variation of the Deliberately Cute Child
 * Meaningful Name - The closest thing she has to a real name is her Nom De Guerre "Baraquiel" ("Lightning of God"), which she got for being the fastest member of her training batch.
 * Naturalized Name - Her alias in Avelia is "Isabel de Sica".
 * Nice Hat - Never seen without her beret.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe - Believes in a 'Morality of the World', wherein "if the world lets it happen, then it must be moral". This includes death, suffering, and all those bad, bad things.
 * The Only One I Can Trust - As with all Angels, Elsa will only give her Nom De Guerre to somebody she absolutely trusts.
 * Princess Curls
 * Robinsonade - A variant thereof. Port Allison is relatively "civilised", as far as extremely corrupt and violent colonies go, but she's still stranded as there hasn't been a ship to or from Remillia in over three months, directly or otherwise. And it's still not safe here.
 * Senseless Violins
 * The Spartan Way - Her training included fighting naked in the Arctic against a polar bear one-on-one with nothing but a single katar.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * You Are Number Six - She is officially known as EMB-54A-87. "Elsa van Dorst" is just a Code Name.