Kei Sendai

Kei in her standard uniform

### Intro

Princess Kei von Sendai is a Hydrodynamic Scientist & Shipbuilder. She is currently the Chief Designer of Naval Warships of the Japanese Navy. She is primarily responsible for the current fleet of the Japanese Navy under the Modernization Accord. Kei is the designer and builder of the IJN Momo Kawashima, the Noble Class Battleships, the Ambassador Class Fast Battleships, and various Cruiser models. She is also responsible for most of the current Japanese designed ships, which are some of the best designed ships in the world.

### Appearance

Kei is an average height girl with a rather curvaceous figure and large bust. Kei has long blonde hair & a pair of glassy light-blue eyes. Kei has an incredibly wide variety of outfits. Primarily, she wears a white shirt with a red skirt and grey jacket. Her official outfit is a simple button-up grey shirt with red skirt. With both outfits, she chooses to wear a pair of black heeled flip flops, or a pair of simple black flip flops, depending on her mood that day. On her barefeet she wears 3 toerings on her 1st, 3rd, and 5th toes on her left foot and 2 rings on her 2nd & 4th toes on her right foot.

### Personality

Kei is an extremely bright and cheerful girl. She is known for her playful and slightly abrasive attitude, sometimes seeming boastful and rude. However she is well intentioned and incredibly friendly, often causing some to fall for her romantically, though Kei has remained single. Kei is brilliantly smart and talented. Kei tends to bore incredibly easily, when she does she tends to dangle her shoes, as she generally dislikes downtime unless its spent with her fellow royal family. Kei is seen as somewhat taboo because of her preference to be barefoot.

### Life

Kei was born to loving and caring parents in Nagasaki in The Nippon Teikoku. As a child, Kei spent ample time outdoors and/or reading. She developed a love for both knowledge and sports. Kei even played on her elementary and middle school football (soccer) teams. When Kei was in middle school she participated in a one year foreign exchange program. Kei went to the US to study for a year, and it was here that she discovered her love of naval vessels, and knew that when she would grow up, she would design or even crew a naval vessel. When she reached High School, Kei put athletics to the side to focus on pursuing her academics. She wore a school uniform with some slight deviations, that included her now readily recognizable 2'' black high heeled flip flops. Kei got the attention of both boys and girls alike in school, some even mustering the courage to ask her on a date, each time Kei politely refused.

During High School Kei took part in her school's Sensha-Do program, and became the overall commander of Saunders, the American themed school in the Sensha-Do School program. She proved to be an incredible and capable commander. She showed the same brilliance in her academics, earning stellar grades in all subjects. During the 75th Sensha-Do tournament, Saunders was to Face Oarai in the first round. While going over the briefing, she cleverly spotted Yukari Akiyama while the latter was on an infiltration mission for Oarai to scout Kei's tanks and gain a sense of their strategy. When Yukari replied with a fake alias she had lifted from Kelly's Heroes, this caused Kei to start laughing uncontrollably as Yukari made her escape.

Kei's Sensha-Do officer, Arisa, decided to try and get back at Oarai for this by using balloons in the match that could intercept Oarai's communications, a blatant violation of Sensha-Do rules. When Kei was made aware of this, she decided to face Oarai only with the same amount of tanks that Oarai had left. This decision, some argue, resulted in her losing to Oarai in the first round. When asked by Oarai commander Miho Nishizumi why she did this, she replied "that's Sensha-Do". This decision showed one of the many times Kei's deep sense of honour and fairness, as well as her cheery personality and ability to find fun in everything despite the circumstances.

Kei graduated High School with honors & at 17 was the youngest graduate of her school. Kei received several recruitment requests from several of Japan's esteemed institutions, including athletic scholarships. Kei refused a good few of them, due to the dress codes that would effectively have forbidden her from wearing her own preference of shoes. This got the attention of Princess Haruna Kawashima offered Kei a full pay scholarship to the University of Tokyo stating "In my lifetime, I have never seen or heard of anyone so dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge that could rival Empress Kawashima herself. Please continue to chase and attain that which you desire the most."

Kei accepted this scholarship and immediately enrolled at Yokosuka Naval Academy and began to rapidly make progress on her work and studies. In fact, she excelled in her subjects and showed a remarkable amount of capability & proficiency in older and newer ship designs. She began to make ship designs of her own for her college exams. This caught the attention of another Royal, this time Erwin Zenzefer III, who asked her to design a battleship for the navy and would be named after his wife Momo, as a present for her birthday.

Kei worked hard on the new design. She was incredibly meticulous, planning everything from the shape of the hull and superstructure, to the guns, all the way down to the materials that would be used to build the ship and the method in which it would be built, as well as other somewhat minute details that most shipbuilders would otherwise delegate to others. After a mere 3 months, Kei presented the finished design to Momo on the day of her birthday who is rumored to have smiled at the design and approved it. As a reward, Momo bestowed her with her official doctorate, the Order of the Golden Kite, a spot in the Royal Family, and a room to herself in The Imperial Palace. Kei eagerly accepted.

Kei now spends her time designing ships from the comfort of the Palace. She tends to spend some time down at the shipyards in Port Haruna and Port Takao once a month inspecting and supervising construction, even sometimes helping with the efforts.

### Trivia

* Kei is one of only 5 members of the Royal Family who has blonde hair. The others being Haruna, Darjeeling, Maki, and Xelha
* Kei doesnt like wearing any other shoes except for flip flops and high heels. If given the option however, she'd rather shed her shoes permanently.
* Kei is sworn sisters to Darjeeling Sakimoto, a very close friend and former soccer rival.
* While Kei has never been in a relationship, she has not been without feelings of love. It is rumored that Kei has a secret crush on Darjeeling Sakimoto
* Kei loves to throw parties, and whenever Momo is trying to plan one, she often comes to Kei for advice, and sometimes even to plan the party herself
* Kei also planned and organized Momo's vow renewal celebration, much to Momo's satisfaction
* It has recently been revealed that Kei wears an anal plug with a fabric string attached to it