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== 1121st Platoon ==

=== Private Kanata Sorami ===

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* [[Badass Unintentional]]: Kanata just wanted to learn to play the trumpet.

* [[Country Mouse]]: Kanata comes from a particularly remote and backwards part of Helvetia, where old Japanese customs are stronger.

* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Starts off as one, but finally figures out how to blow in episode 5. She still can't hold a candle to Rio's jazz trumpet, though.

* [[Epic Hail]]: Someone has to tell both armies the peace has been signed!

* [[Hair Decorations]]: A single clip on her left temple.

* [[Exact Words]]

'''Kanata''': Understood, ma'am! From now on, I'll make as many problems for you as I can! }}

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Her haircut, with a single tress hanging.

* [[Hairstyle Inertia]]: As seen in the flashback to the time she met {{spoiler|Princess Iliya.}}

* [[Informed Flaw]]: Kanata claims to get lost a lot. She gets lost exactly twice, both cases shown in the first episode. She does, however, get easily distracted, and is prone to wandering off her path if something catches her eye.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her given name is written with kanji that mean 'the other side', 'distant' or 'over there'. In episode 13, {{spoiler|she declares that she'll go with Rio to find the promised land at the other end of the world}}.

=== Sergeant Major Rio Kazumiya {{spoiler|Arkadia}} ===

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Second-in-command of the 1121st Platoon, Rio appears as a cool and unflappable person with a no-nonsense attitude and can be very strict in demanding military discipline and issuing orders. However, she also cares a lot about her fellow members, which makes her greatly admired by the younger members, especially Kureha.

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: {{spoiler|The first arc of the series is Rio mulling over whether to keep ignoring the family that snubbed her for years and keep her freedom or give in, get into an arranged married and stop a war.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Arranged Marriage]]: To the enemy Emperor!}}

* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough|Sergeant Rough]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: She isn't the taller girl (that would be Filicia).

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: The singular example, at that - though the Priest refers to her as 'the black-haired girl' at one point.

* [[Yuu Kobayashi]]: [[Chewing the Scenery]] as if she were on a diet.

=== Private Kureha Suminoya ===

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The designated gunner of the 1121st Platoon, Kureha is also the youngest member in the platoon. However, she is perhaps the most serious member and is a stickler for military regulations. Greatly admires Rio and Major Klaus.

* [[Cry Cute]]: She drops her professional facade and let's out the waterworks when the rest of the crew decides {{spoiler|to go AWOL and stop Hopkins plan to reignite the war with Rome. She goes with it, of course.}}

* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Kureha loves to talk about her parents - although he barely remembers them.

=== Corporal Noël Kannagi ===

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The designated driver and mechanic of the 1121st Platoon, Noël is a taciturn and reserved person who spends much of her time tinkering at the platoon's tank ''Takemikazuchi''.

* {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]}}: {{spoiler|Encouraged by Yumina to make up for her role in the Invisible Reaper plague, she pilots the Takemikazuchi against her own army in episode 12.}}

* [[Bokukko]]: She uses this male pronoun to refer to herself.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: She has a tendency to pull all-nighters working on the tank, resulting in narcolepsy.

* [[Kuudere]]: The Stoic subtype. Noel says very little and uses as few words as possible to say it; however, she's {{spoiler|severely emotionally scarred by her part in the Invisible Reaper, warms to Kanata and Kureha inside of a few months of Kanata's arrival, and wants to become 'a lovely wife'.}}

* [[Rei Ayanami Expy]]: Her laconic speaking style and appearance bring to mind [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|a few other]] [[Suzumiya Haruhi|girls like her]].

* [[Terse Talker]]: Noël is pretty concise when she talks. While she is sober.

* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]: Hopkins used her to repair the facility that recreated the Invisible Reaper plague, giving her a serious case of [[My God, What Have I Done?]].}}

=== Second Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann ===

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Leader of the 1121st Platoon, Filicia adopts a very relaxed approach in commanding the platoon, beginning with her insistence of [[First-Name Basis]] amongst platoon members. She cares a lot about her subordinates and wanted them to be as happy as possible during their time in the Clocktower Fortress.

* [[A Father to His Men|A Mother To Her Women:]] Filicia lists among the rules of the fortress that no one is to be adressed by rank, and she does every kind of menial tasks not usually performed by officers, like cleaning up the bathroom in episode 2.

* {{spoiler|[[The Anti-Nihilist]]}}: {{spoiler|In episode seven she declares life to lack meaning but for the one people give it themselves, and the meaning of her life is to protect her squad mates/surrogate family.}}

 

== Supporting Characters ==

=== Sister Yumina ===

 

A <s>miko</s> <s>nun</s> well, she works at the church and takes care of the orphans, all right?

* [[Faux Fluency]]: Whereas [[Nami Miyahara]]'s Aisha is pretty fluent in German - err Roman, [[Misato Fukuen]] clearly isn't. Fortunately Sister Yumina isn't supposed to be, being Helvetian, which means Roman is likely her second language.

* [[Nuns Are Mikos]]: An inversion of the usual example; she looks more like a miko, but acts more like a nun.

* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: Not so much herself - her hakama-habit is actually quite fetching - but she doesn't spare the children or Kanata her poorly-coordinated choices of clothing.

* [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]: In 'The Fortress At War', when {{spoiler|Filicia spikes everyone's tea and gets them to drink several cups each}}. Less unsuspectingly later in the same episode, though.

 

=== Major Klaus ===

 

A courier {{spoiler|and part-time standard bearer}} responsible for supplying the 1121st with their mail and their new recruits. {{spoiler|Has the same name, and looks like}}, 'Miracle Klaus', the Desert Wolf.

* [[Call to Agriculture]]: After finishing his military service, his plan is to become a farmer.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: He's good at what he does, but Kanata likely won't be riding with him again anytime soon.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's ''fifty-one''.

 

=== {{spoiler|A'isha}} Aldola ===

 

A {{spoiler|Roman soldier}} introduced in Episode 11 after she {{spoiler|is found by Kanata and Kureha while on patrol.}}

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Given that she only speaks <s>German</s> Roman, much of her dialogue, including a major CMoH, requires a translation team fluent in German as well as Japanese.

* [[Breast Attack]]: Noel gropes her breast to forestall being stabbed in the neck with a syringe. It works very well.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Her grandmother was Helvetian.

* [[Forgiveness|Versöhnlich]]: {{spoiler|Aisha forgives Noël for her role in the Invisible Reaper plague in episode 12.}}

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: See [[Bilingual Bonus]]. The Roman dialogue wasn't translated for the viewers in the original airing.

 

=== Iliya Arkadia, a.k.a. [[Fan Nickname|"Grace"]] ===

 

War heroine and daughter of the Archduke of Helvetia, she crossed the paths of several of the girls of the 1121st Tank Platoon before they were assigned to the Time Keeping Fortress.

* [[Hime Cut]]: Fitting her [[Badass Princess]] status, this traditional Japanese hairstyle looks strange on a blonde. Her half-sister sports the same haircut.

* [[Onee-Sama]]: Her half-sister pretty much worshipped her.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: She only appears in flashbacks.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: She was a revered Helvetian war heroine.

 

=== Naomi ===

 

Owner of the glasswork shop and ally of the Clocktower Fortress girls.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Do not like people addressing her in terms that would reveal her age and insists them on using the age-neutral "Naomi-san" instead.

* [[Ms. Exposition]]