Bismarck (Azur Lane)

**Bismarck** is a character from the *Azur Lane* anime and games.

Bismarck is a Battleship from the Iron Blood and is part of the Bismarck-class.

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

## **Appearance**

Bismarck is tall woman with a slender frame and large bust. She has a long blonde hair and has blue eyes. She wears a black & red cape with white-furred bottoms over a black high-collared militaty uniform with red linings, golden accents & buttons and white cuffs, black buttoned shirt, black pencil skirts with red & yellow linings, black knee-high boots with white-furred cuffs and red bottoms, white gloves and black peaked cap with white & red designs.

## **Personality**

Her serious, determined demeanor makes her seem distant and even cold to her fellow Ironbloods, but she cares deeply for them all and wants them to prosper. Best exemplified in her interactions with U-556.

She believes that only power can save humanity, and wholeheartedly embraces the Sirens' cause and betrays Azur Lane. She does, however, show a hint of hesitation, uncertainty, and remorse when explaining herself to the sinking Hood though and knows that it's up to the future to decide if she's right.

In Slow Ahead, Javelin and Ayanami learn that she is unexpectedly motherly despite her stoic personality, initially scolding them for being tardy to class and then handing Ayanami a pack of tissues. They also learn that she wants to have a normal conversation with her sister Tirpitz, though Bismarck's idea of a "normal conversation" is that *Tirpitz* would be the one to initiate it.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Bismarck 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 - Azur Lane**

In the Epilogue, Bismarck is seen having a conversation with Prinz Eugen in the main base of the Iron Blood.

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

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

In Chapter 29, Bismarck 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, Bismarck 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**

Bismarck provides a hefty 25% increased crit chance for the torpedoes, cannons, and airstrikes of Ironblood ships, as well as having the first wave of shells from her salvo be guaranteed to crit.

## **Trivia**

* The name of the skill when she uses the siren weapon is Rhine Drill, which is another way to translate Rheinübung, the name of the real-life operation to send Bismarck and Prinz Eugen to raid the Atlantic convoys.
* Her skill which increases her auxiliary gun range is a nod to her World of Warships version which with both the commander skill and secondary gun modification allow her secondary guns to fire at just over 10km, which means any enemy that gets into that range will receive a hail of shells from her secondary battery.