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> - Everyone assumes Hurricane and Spitfire are sisters,
>because they strongly resemble each other and have very similar
>voices, but the only real connection between them is that they went to
>the same exclusive private junior high school. They seem very young
>and carefree (particularly Spitfire), but they've seen things you
>can't even imagine, and they know better than anybody else what it's
>like to have your back against a wall. Their only real shortcoming is
>that they're hungry all the time.

Of course, Hurricane feels a bit overshadowed (and perhaps even a little envious) of Spitfire, as her younger sister is the one everyone talks about from the big meet-up between the British and German teams, even though she did most of the work. Her sister gets hired for photo shoots, while she labors away in the background.

> - P-51 also has a lovely singing voice, and she's very
>athletic, an excellent all-rounder. This, and her very high
>popularity, make her one of the stars of the show, but some people
>(both in the viewership and on the show itself, as the writers started
>to get wind of the former and lampshade it on screen) think she's a
>bit overrated. Her critics aren't bashful about hauling out the
>photos of that awful hairstyle she had in middle school, or snarking
>off about what poor stamina she used to have.

They also like to remark how she suddenly developed a different accent when she got to high school, with some of the unkinder girls whispering none too discretely that she's faking it so people will think she's related to Spitfire.

> - P-51's older cousin P-40 is very cheerful, despite being
>considered outmoded by many of the others, because she's tough,
>reliable, and - perhaps most importantly - low-maintenance. Because
>of that, she knows she's never going to go completely out of style.
>There's always going to be someone somewhere who desperately needs a
>fighter that can operate out of an unimproved dirt strip out in the
>back of beyond somewhere with nothing but the tool kit from an old
>Indian motorcycle and a couple of barrels of avgas for a support
>facility, and for that, she's your girl. Besides, she may not be able
>to outmaneuver these bright young things they're sending after her
>nowadays, but she can usually outwit them, and let's see them
>bomb a bridge, strafe a train, shoot down a couple of bombers, and
>carry the mail back from Kunming all in the same mission.

Of course, with that ruggedness comes crude talk and manners, as well has her insistence on wearing a non-regulation leather jacket with a prominent Flying Tiger logo on the back. Every attempt to get her to clean up and act proper just leads to a lot of headaches for all involved, though towards the end of the series she does develop a lovely singing voice like her younger cousin.

> - One of the few details I can remember from the actual dream is that
>P-38 wears her hair like Haruna in Arpeggio, which makes
>sense, because, well, twin tails. Well played, my subconscious!
>She's one of the older, more mature fighter planes, but despite that,
>she hasn't seen as much action as some of her younger colleagues (for
>various reasons that are no fault of her own). Her very distinctive
>silhouette can make her a target, but she's wily and tough, and very
>heavily armed for an American fighter. Catching her is only half the
>challenge.

There's a bit of an unspoken rivalry between her and P-51, as while they both served together in Europe and Asia, 51 is better known in the former while she's the unrivaled ace in the latter. She's also frequently seen with her uniform partially unbuttoned and fanning herself as she complains about the heat.

> - P-47 is the biggest, strongest girl in the bunch - think of
>Kanna from Sakura Wars - and she has the loudest voice of
>anybody except her cousin Corsair (who's in the Marines, with
>all that that entails). She's not very subtle and she eats like a
>horse, but she's nearly indestructible and she has impressive
>firepower for a fighter. She's not the most creative tactician, but
>she's dogged and relentless, and like P-40, she has a fondness for
>ground attack side jobs. Nobody enjoys blowing up a train more than
>47.

Would be the subject of a running gag of her being seen in the background carrying loads that seem way above what a girl of even her size should be capable of carrying, as well as having a bit of a fear of heights.

> - Me 109 is a veteran, like Spitfire and Hurricane, and unlike
>them she looks the part - her battle scars are on the outside. She's
>been doing this longer than any of the others, all the way back to the
>Spanish Civil War, and though her heart is still in the game and she's
>still a capable athlete, she gets tired sometimes. She's starting to
>wonder what the point of it all is... but she still has a job
>to do, and her meticulous German heart won't let her slack off, no
>matter how weary she is.

It also goes without saying that she and the British twins hate each other with a passion, with every meeting starting with sniping and ending in bare-knuckled brawls if nobody stops them. The Brits make jokes about how she doesn't have the stamina for a good fight, but she retorts that they just can't handle the sort of twists and turns she uses.

> - Fw 190 is bitter. She's a better fighter plane than Me 109
>will ever be, upgrade her as Messerschmitt's engineers might. She's
>newer, faster, and tougher, and her radial engine is more reliable -
>and yet 109 is the only German fighter most people outside the insular
>little world of fighter girls has ever heard of. She's the one in all
>the posters. She's the one the little boys at air shows want to see.
>That battle-scarred old hag! How dare she! She'll get what's coming
>to her one of these days, you just wait.

She's frequently confused with P-47, to the point that she's developed a complex about it. Doesn't help that, when the two meet up for the first time, people initially confuse them for sisters before she starts barking at them that she's much prettier than that "gorilla."

> - The others all agree that Me 163 is insane. Tiny, fragile,
>not very nimble, and with almost preposterously limited endurance, she
>has one and only one party trick: she's the fastest sprinter in the
>world. For 100 yards or so, nobody can touch her; but then she's
>done, and what's more, she'll probably explode. She has pretty heavy
>armament, particularly for her size,but it's always an open question
>as to whether she'll manage to use it. Her battle cry is, "Hier
>gehe iiiiiiiich!" ("Here I gooooooo!")

The rest of the students like to give her a wide berth, as they never know what's going to happen, but they're sure that it's going to involve a lot of property damage and some bodily injuries. She got along well with fellow lunatic Ohka, but their relationship went out in a bang.

> - Wildcat and Hellcat should have a similar kind of
>rivalry to Me 109's and Fw 190's, given that the latter is an improved
>replacement for the former, but they don't. Hellcat, despite her
>name, is far too easy-going to feel any resentment about her big
>sister's continued popularity, and Wildcat practically worships
>her little sister, constantly pointing out to anyone who will listen (and
>anyone who won't, come to that) all the various improvements Hellcat
>sports that were directly inspired by her own experiences and
>shortcomings in the field. The other American and British fighter
>girls regard them both a bit warily, because naval fighters are just
>weird, you know? All that grabbing wires and getting yanked to
>a stop, it's got to do something bad to your brain. And sometimes
>they seem to be talking in this strange code that's all acronyms and
>bizarrely compressed phrases ("Did you hear about COMSUBPAC? He got
>into another fight with CINCPACFLT and it looks like he might get
>COMTRANned to SOWESPACFLT LOPU." "Ha ha, he's gonna spend the rest of
>his career counting CONRATs in Biloxi if he ain't careful"). It's not
>normal.

Hellcat's favorite meal? Turkey.

> - Zero is sneaky, but then, she has to be, because she's
>incredibly fragile. She makes up for that somewhat with her
>impressive firepower and remarkable agility, but she knows as well as
>anyone that all her opponent has to do is land one good hit and she's
>done for. Her notorious glass jaw is a source of deep shame, but
>every attempt she makes over the course of the series to overcome it
>in some way - e.g., by wearing armor, by a brief flirtation with "bulk
>up" workout regimens and protein shakes - has hindered her best
>qualities to the extent that she can't even really fight at all, so
>she always goes back to what she does best: sneak attacks, spending
>most of her earned XP on enhancing Dodge rolls, and occasionally
>winding up in Comedy Traction in the infirmary.

Definitely the girl who would have a serious samurai vibe going on. And would frequently launch into boasts about her superiority and the fighting prowess of the Japanese Navy...before Hellcat thumps her on the head and she falls over.

> - Yak-9 has heard all the jokes before, trust me. She's long
>since given up explaining to people that it's short for "Yakovlev"
>(Russian for "Jacobson", the name of her designer), and not a
>reference to a large and hairy animal, having concluded that nobody
>cares. Whether this constant low-level stream of annoyance has made
>her surly and taciturn, or if she's just naturally that way, is
>anyone's guess. Yak never says one word when none will do, except for
>her odd habit of shouting "ShVAK!" when employing the eponymous
>cannon (it's a contraction of the Russian for "Shpitalniy-Vladimirov
>large-caliber aircraft cannon") in combat. She knows she's obscure
>and underrated, and she likes it that way. Being underestimated makes
>her job easier, and that job isn't to make friends and influence
>people, anyway.

It doesn't help that the other students don't know what to make of her, though all agree that she's a bit of an oddball. The Brits always regard her wearily, while the Americans try to make friends and quickly find that she's always trying to borrow something from them. The German girls can never keep a civil tongue in their heads around her, though there's an undercurrent of grudging respect between them. And although she and Zero have never crossed swords, both hate each other on general principle.

Of course, there's also the younger sisters that get much talked about, but rarely seen on-screen: Me-262, Meteor, and P-80. Me-109 likes to talk about her sister's blazing fast speed, but the Americans snidely remark that they've shot her down dozens of times. Hurricane likes to talk about her sister's ruggedness and numerous kills, to which the Germans retort that she never leaves home. And P-38 talks up how her sister is an all-around winner, to which the Brits and Germans remark that they're not sure she even exists.