Saratoga

USS Saratoga (CV-3) of the Lexington-class Aircraft Carriers, as personified in Kantai Collection. Her namesake is the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War, and the fifth of six US ships named "Saratoga." Her crew nicknames were "Sister Sara" and "Sara Maru." 'Sister' Sara is portrayed as having an "onee-san" personality, with a relatively elegant manner of speech, and speaking with a motherly tone regarding her aircraft, and is especially genial towards other ships, with in-game lines referencing friendly relations especially to Akagi, Kaga, and Iowa. Following in Warspite's mold, her in-game lines use significantly better English than Iowa, though she uses it less often. Saratoga wears an impossibly form-fitting white dress with breast pockets over her large breasts, a red neckerchief and anchor around her neck, red thighighs with garter straps, a belt, high heels, and a hair ornament fashioned like a ship's funnel. She has grey or blue eyes, and her brown hair is pulled into a ponytail in the back, with a side ponytail going through the funnel. In the front, she has sidelocks and hair between eyes. On her funnel hair ornament is an emblazoned "E", which was painted to reflect a Battle Effectiveness Award, received for 'Excellence in Engineering' during exercises in 1938. Her rigging involves a Thompson submachine gun-themed flight deck, with a waist-mounted 'deck' holding twin-cannon turrets. She carries drum magazines for a Thompson under her dress and additional box magazines on a garter holster, both emblazoned with the pre-1942 US military aircraft roundel. Saratoga later gains a remodel form, wherein her white dress becomes black with a white underskirt, the flight decks on her gun and rigging change color from orange to gray (and no longer bear the letters "SARA"), and the roundels on the magazines are modified to their 1942-43 form. Her 8-inch gun turrets are replaced with 5-inch dual-purpose guns, and she receives additional anti-aircraft armament. Saratoga is thus the first Allied girl with a remodeled form. This remodel reflects the upgrades the historical Saratoga received during her 1942 repairs.