Ark Royal (Azur Lane)

**Ark Royal** is a character from the *Azur Lane* anime and game.

Ark Royal is an Aircraft Carrier from the Royal Navy and is part of the Ark Royal-class.

In the XP4 fics, Ark Royal debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Azur Lane.

## **Appearance**

Ark Royal is a slender figure and a large breast. She has a short black hair with her sharp bangs covering her right blue eye and a yellow string on the left side of her head. She wears a blue cropped jacket with red & yellow accents, a white & yellow collar and black garter straps on her arms over a white collared buttoned shirt with a cleavage cutout, a red slim & fit corset wrapped around her mid-section with yellow accents alongside a blue belt with yellow accents and circular golden buckle, black pencil skirt with a blue waist cape and a white wide garter, black thigh-high heeled boots with garter straps and white gloves.

## **Personality**

Ark Royal really, really, really likes destroyers, though she knows not to act on it so she doesn't get in trouble. The Commander telling her that it's nothing to be ashamed of in her friendly dialogue is enough for her to swear eternal loyalty to him. It should be noted that she's more accurately a destroyer-con, as she doesn't show any attraction to petite members of other ship typesnote , while still showing attraction to the older-looking destroyers.

Finally confirmed in game, with Ark herself stating in a comment on a Juustagram picture that she's only interested in destroyers. Said picture is of Ark having a rather lewd expression while taking a photo of a scared looking Little Bel, with an angry Enterprise looming behind Ark, which turned out to actually be a misunderstanding: Ark accidentally brought up a photo of a destroyer on her camera, the Royal Maids had actually asked Ark to take some pictures, and Little Bel was simply nervous about having her picture taken.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Ark Royal is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Azur Lane Fleet. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition: Neo-City Diaries**

In Chapter 114, Ark Royal is seen observing Aulick, Charles Ausburne, Foote, Spence and Thatcher at the courtyard of the Training Camp and unbeknownst to her, Ayase Ayatsuji, Chouji Akimichi, Haru Glory and Elie are observing her with chastising expressions.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Azur Lane**

In Chapter 12, Ark Royal is seen observing Javelin, Laffey and Ayanami in the courtyard of the main base at Azur Lane behind a tree. Later, she is observing the girls in Akashi's ship when Chouji Akimichi confronte and denied any lecherous actions. Later that afternoon, she is seen observing everyone at the flee market and is later seen reading a magazine with Eldritch on the cover, Ino Yamanaka and others pointed out her lecherous behavior. Later that night, she is seen in the cafeteria, she tried to lick Glowworm's small wound only to get a headbutt in response.

In chapter 13, Ark Royal, alongside Hornet, Belfast, Akashi, Pennsylvania, Langley and Amazon, are seen inside a classroom somewhere in the academy of Azur Lane when Kazeyoshi Imai, Cleveland and Prince of Wales joined them and had a conversation about the Black Mental Cube, and is later surprised by Craig Stadler's appearance.

In Chapter 15, Ark Royal, alongside Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Hood, Nagato, Mutsu and Kawakaze, arrives and joined the battle against the sirens. Later, Ark Royal is seen in a ship alongside everyone where she witnessed Amagi reuniting with Akagi. She later witnessed Mace Wyndu confronting Kazeyoshi Imai and after Kazeyoshi handed the Space Gem to Mace and leaving, she is relieved to find out that Kazeyoshi gave Mace the wrong container.

In the Epilogue, Ark Royal is seen the beach lying down on a beach chair in the beach side of Azur Lane while observing Nagatsuki, Kisaragi, Minazuki, Uzuki, Mutsuki, Fumizuki, and Mikazuki eating buns with blood trickling down her nose while Chouji Akimichi observes with a look of disapproval.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048**

In Chapter 25, Ark Royal is present in confronting the DES Soldiers in Neo-City.

In Chapter 29, Ark Royal is amongst the thousands of AKB-fans gathered around the concert hall in a city somewhere Kasumigastar and later witnessed the return of Atsuko Katagiri and the rest of the missing idols, and had a great time watching the performances afterwards.

In Chapter 32, Ark Royal took part of paying respects for Mace Wyndu's death by attending his funeral via burial at sea in Atamistar before witnessing the arrival of a fleet of Dimensional Defense Union ships whom paid their respects for Mace by gifting him with a Heroes' Tribute.

## **Abilities**

Her ability is to launch some additional Swordfish alongside the normal airstrike, which will results in massive amount of torpedoes when combined with her air wing consisting of two three-plane squadrons of torpedo bombers and one two-plane squadron of dive bombers.

Her load-out is purely offense-focused, with two torpedo bomber slots and one dive bomber slot, both of her skills focused on damage, and no inherent strong defense against enemy planes like an anti-air gun slot or a fighter slot that others may have. Her Sword Launch skill helps her use focused-targeting torpedo bombers to deal staggeringly higher damage than most torpedo bombing carriers. She's superficially similar to Ranger, especially since they both have BFG flight decks to emphasize the trope's namesake.

Additionally, she provides the worst air control value of all fleet carriers with fixed air wing compositions despite her respectable aviation stat due to the awful air control modifier on her torpedo bombers and complete lack of fighters. As such, she contributes comparatively little to the fleet's air defense either actively or passively.

## **Trivia**

* Ark Royal's outfit and especially her rigging, which is covered in brass piping and detailing, are clearly inspired by steampunk.