Charlotte E. Yeager

Charlotte E. Yeager, also known as Shirley, is one of the main characters from the World of Witches series.
== Charactah Account ==
Shirley is a mechanical enthusiast from the United States of Liberion. She is a thrill seeking speedster and her goal is to break the sound barrier. Before the war, she raced motorbikes and set a land speed record. When she joined the 501st she modified her Striker unit to help her with her goal of breaking the sound barrier. In addition to her obsession with speed she's also obsessed with cleanliness: even going so far as to have her personal bath shipped when she was transferred into the 501st.
Magnanimous in character, tall and buxom in appearance, Charlotte ("Shirley" to her friends) is a thrill-seeker who is fascinated by speed and her dream is break the sound barrier. Concerned with cleanliness, Charlotte had her personal bath transported all the way to the Strike Witches' Britannia base when she was transferred from the Liberion Army 363rd Fighter Wing. She is strong, confident and sociable. She's the kind of person who thinks about how to use her strong points in battle. She's an individualist, very freedom loving. Someone who cares about getting time over to do the things she wants to do. But she still gets along very well with everyone else, and she always plays her part well when it really matters.
She is good for making barbecue. She is carefree and capable to become friends with just about anyone. Charlotte is full of self-confidence and willingness to take risks, but has a rather carefree attitude to life - if you watch them, they did not come up with the idea that the unit is at war. She appreciates the finer things in life, such as the comfort of a bath. Also, she drives like crazy and while not as destructive as most in the one scene she's shown driving, she drifts on mountainside dirt roads and leaps across chasms in a military supply truck. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Strike Witches
* Strike Witches 2
* Strike Witches OVA
* Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!
* Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow
* Strike Witches: Road to Berlin
* Strike Witches: The Movie
* World Witches Take Off!
=== Light Novels ===
* Noble Witches: The 506th Joint Fighter Wing
* Strike Witches 2
* Strike Witches 2 Visual Short Story
* Strike Witches Short-Shorts: After the Sky
* Strike Witches the Movie: The Sky I Want To Return To
* Strike Witches: Memorial Episode Together
* Strike Witches: Otome no Maki
=== Manga ===
* Strike Witches Movie: The Sky You Want To Return
* Strike Witches Movie: 501 Unit Will Start!
* Strike Witches: 501st Integrated Combat Wing
* Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!
* Strike Witches: Chii Sanya
* Strike Witches: CHIi Size
* Strike Witches: Maidens of the Sky
* Strike Witches: Official Comic à la Carte
* Strike Witches: One-Winged Witches
* Strike Witches: The Shape of Our Bond
* Strike Witches: The Sky that Connects Us
* Strike Witches: The Witches of Africa
* World Witches: Contrail of Witches
=== Video Games ===
* Strike Witches 2: Heal, Cure and Squish
* Strike Witches: Blitz in the Blue Sky - New Commander Struggles!
* Strike Witches: Silver Wings
* Strike Witches: What I Can Do Along With You - A Little Peaceful Days
== Trivia ==
* She is based on Chuck Yeager, a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and record-setting test pilot. Shirley shares many characteristics with her archetype: Yeager was the first pilot to travel faster than sound in 1947, Shirley does in 1945, and would later break further speed and altitude records in his life, like Shirley does; he was a mechanic, similar to Shirley's tinkering, both of them has reckless conduct and flew a plane he named the Glamorous Glennis (similar to Shirley's alias Glamorous Shirley).
* Possibly in reference to model and photographer Bunny Yeager, Charlotte's familiar is the rabbit, although it's said it is a hare. However, although it is confirmed that it is a White Rabbit, in the anime she gained a hare tail, instead of a rabbit's. In the official art, her tail is a rabbit's.
* It is unknown her true middle name. It is supposed to be Elwyn, because her ace archetype's middle name was Elwood, the male form of Elwyn. Other sources said that her middle name is Eldwood.
* Her motorcycle in the S1 Ep 5 eyecatch is likely a 1924 Indian Big Chief with sidecar modification
* Charlotte holds a lot of similarities with Katharine O'Hare. Both of them are tall and buxom (and has the same height), are originating from Liberion, are related with Striker Units (Katharine has lost a lot of Strikers, and Shirley is a mechanic), are bright, sociable and optimist, they are considered beautiful, has a good relationship with the 'little girl' of the squadron (Ursula Hartmann and Francesca Lucchini, respectively) and are important characters in their respective media.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Charlotte E. Yeager at World Witches Series Wiki
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