Kantai:Tama

Background
Tama was the second of the Kuma Class Light Cruiser ships. She was painted with arctic camouflage, and her early assignments were for Japanese landings in Siberia. Tama spent most of her time as a torpedo squadron flagship patrolling northern Japanese waters and as a transport ship to the Solomon islands, participating in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. In October 1944, Tama was reassigned to defend the Philippines from the United States, and engaged in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 20th. After a large fight against a large force of the US Fleet, including the USS Enterprise, she was accosted by torpedo bombers from the USS Belleau Wood and San Jacinto and took a direct hit to one of her boilers. Crippled but still functioning after emergency repairs, Tama retired from the battle, escorted by Isuzu. However, Isuzu was reassigned to protect the damaged Carrier Chiyoda. Tama recieved further escort by Destroyer Shimotsuki, but she too was reassigned to protect the carrier Zuihō. Tama, now alone, continued her retreat to Okinawa, but luck was not with her on her journey. The US Submarine Jallao, on her first war patrol, caught the lone Tama on radar and attacked. Tama managed to dodge the first volley of three torpedoes, but the second volley of four torpedoes hit their mark, three of them landing hits on Tama. Broken in half, Tama sank within minutes.

Personality
Tama is rather soft-spoken and reserved, having a quiet voice and not much of a presence. Because of this, she tends to keep to herself. She doesn't outright avoid other people, and she's friendly enough if talked with, but she doesn't go out of her way to interact with other ships either. As such she's not very sociable and doesn't consider herself to be close friends with much of the rest of the fleet, having not spent significant time with any one ship, barring perhaps Kiso (who she spent a month with in 1941 and weathered damage alongside due to severe storms) As a Light Cruiser, Tama considers herself a rather below-average ship, having no outstanding qualities for her type or class. Due to this, she suffers from a lack of confidence and tends to doubt herself when doing things, especially if she fails at a task. Tama also has a tendency for cat mannerisms, and sometimes blurting out 'meow' in her sentences. She insists she is not a cat, however, if teased about it.

Powers
Tama is a Kuma class Light Cruiser, most useful for her higher speed. However, she has no real outstanding qualities except the defining traits of a Light Cruiser. Kuma class were designed with more main guns, but Tama's firepower isn't better then any other LC Class ships. LC Class are used for anti-sub and torpedo warfare as well, but she doesn't deal well with submarines (since one sank her) and her torpedoes are only average. She has a below-average anti-air capability, the Tenryuu class perhaps the only LCs worse then hers.