Fletcher (Kancolle) Wiki

Kantai Collection's personification of USS Fletcher (hull number DD-445), nameship of the US Navy's 175 Fletcher-class destroyers. Designed by Zeco.

She has long blonde hair with triangular double buns, purple eyes, and large breasts. Her outfit is similar to Johnston's, but with the black features being given lighter colors: a stylized serafuku which consists of an off-shoulder blue shirt with a white sailor collar that exposes her cleavage, a yellow neckerchief, and a short white pleated skirt, along with white thighhighs that are shielded by what seem to be metallic thigh and shin guards and red rudder shoes. She also wears white gloves and a metallic hairband.

Her rigging consists of two smokestacks and two 5-inch cannon ship turrets with one set on each side of her rigging. Her hull number is emblazoned on each side of her lower rigs. She also carries a cargo net, a reference to her rescuing many survivors of the USS Northampton during the Battle of Tassafaronga by using cork-floated cargo nets.

In her Kai form, she gains a silver star hair ornament on each side of her hairband, and her rigging gains an additional radar set atop the director and loses its blue camouflage in favor of standard grey color.

In her Mk II form she has two reversible modes. In both of them, she loses the cargo net and gains a pair of headphones. One of the modes gives her a quintuple torpedo launcher to carry, while the other completely redoes her rigging, giving her experimental ASW equipment to carry, making her headband more angular (mimicking the changed shape of her bridge), and changing the color of her skirt and thighhighs from white to black.

Historically, the Fletcher class was the most numerous of the destroyers that participated in World War II, built completely free from any treaty restrictions with a larger size, larger fuel capacity and range, and better armaments. In Kantai Collection, this translates to Fletcher and Johnston being tall and having ample bustlines; among the other non-Japanese destroyers before them, only Tashkent is comparable in those areas while the others are implied to have flat chests.

Her namesake (and namesake of the class) is Navy Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, who served in the 19th and 20th centuries, most notably as commander of naval forces at the Battle of Veracruz in Mexico.