Nonna

`*-"You are an important person in this match! Your ambitions are higher than the Ural Mountains and your wisdom deeper than Lake Baikal. So please pull back! Even when I'm gone, you'll definitely win."- Nonna*`

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Nonna is a student from Pravda Girls High School. She's the vice commander of her school's Sensha-Dō team, as well as its sniper and she mainly operates a **Soviet T-34-85** tank, although she can operate an **IS-2** as well. In the anime, she only missed one shot when she served as the gunner of IS-2.

Nonna is a tall, beautiful and elegant girl with straight upper-back length dark-brown hair that has a small strand in the middle, light blue eyes and large breasts.

Her composure is absolute that she is never seen to raise her voice or lose her temper; everything she does is with the same measured grace and calculated resolve.

Nonna is well known for her calm and gentle personality and for her loyalty to Katyusha; Nonna does everything Katyusha asks of her, usually without hesitation or protest, most notoriously giving her a piggyback ride to compensate for Katyusha's small height. Despite this, she is not above making fun of her on occasions; it is fairly clear that only Nonna could get away with such behavior without inviting Katyusha's wrath, as their relationship is very close, very similar to that of a mother and daughter, despite the fact that Katyusha is ultimately in charge. Aside from Katyusha, Nonna's only known friendship is with Klara, a transfer student from a Russian school to whom she generally speaks in her mother-language —often annoying Katyusha, who cannot speak Russian.

In the official spin-off manga *Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!*, she's also shown to be very protective of Katyusha and literally acts like Katyusha's mother, confirming herself to be Katyusha's parent when others mistook her so, much to Katyusha's frustration (Darjeeling later imitated this behaviour towards Orange Pekoe). She's also the only one in the series who Katyusha actually fears when she thinks Nonna is angry, as Katyusha literally begged for forgiveness when she accidentally poked Nonna's eyes while having a piggyback ride, after finding out Nonna was keeping some sort of "Katyusha Diary" (though based on the series itself, it's most likely just a log of Katyusha's cute, baby-like moments).

The reason why Nonna carries Katyusha piggyback is shown in the Saga of Pravda manga: when Katyusha (not yet a commander) failed to get her strategy proposal brought to the teammates, because the staff thought of her as a little girl, Nonna lifted Katyusha onto her shoulders, saying, *"By this way, no one will think of you as little girl anymore."*

## Background

During the match against Oarai Girls Academy Nonna fought alongside Katyusha, helping her to trap Oarai's tanks in a dilapidated church; she then stood by Katyusha's side during the three hour truce. When the battle restarted, she was the one who stopped the Turtle Team's tank with a well-aimed shot, after it wreaked havoc on Pravda's vanguard. Nonna then switched, on Katyusha's instructions, into the school's IS-2 and began taking down the fleeing enemy, aiming for Oarai's flag tank. Proving her skills as a sniper, she managed to take out both Rabbit Team and Mallard Team, but, despite her efforts, Oarai's flag tank (Duck Team) miraculously survived her shot, while at the same time, Pravda's flag tank had been hit and defeated by Hippo Team.

She later reappeared in the finals, together with Katyusha, to observe the match.

In the manga Pravda Senki. Nonna and Katyusha met when she found Katyusha beaten down near the gym storage room. Their friendship began after Nonna helped Katyusha recover in the infirmary room.

During the planning of Operation: Apocalypse, it had been revealed that she had a strong relationship with Misha Blascovitch, a loyal friend of Seraphina and a comrade who helped her out a lot during past times.

## Etymology

* The name **Nonna** means "grandmother" in Italian, which sort of resembles the maternal relation she has with Katyusha.
	+ The name **Nonna** was taken from the Russian SPG called the 2S9 NONA, fitting her role as sharpshooter