A [[Kantai Collection]] character based on HNLMS De Ruyter, which was a unique light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She is one of many ships named after Dutch naval hero Admiral "Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Ruyter. She is the first ever Dutch shipgirl as well as the first ever shipgirl for her artist [[Sara (kadokawa)|]].

De Ruyter has [[long hair|long]] [[curly hair|curly]] brownish [[red hair]] with a [[side braid]] and [[blunt bangs]], and [[green eyes]]. She wears a [[serafuku]] consisting of a [[brown shirt|beige]] [[sailor shirt]] with a [[green sailor collar]], an [[orange neckerchief]] and [[chain]]s held by a golden [[bell]], and a [[green skirt|green]] [[pleated skirt]] as well as a [[black belt]] with more chains and [[anchor]]s, short [[black thighhighs|black]] [[over-kneehighs|over-knee socks]], and [[green footwear|green]] [[high_heels|high-heeled]] [[shoes]]. Her [[machinery]] includes six of her seven 150-mm guns ([[adapted turret|she holds the seventh in her hand]]), her tall forward superstructure, a [[smokestack]], and several smaller [[turret]]s. She also wears a [[black hairband]] with midships aircraft catapult attached to it.

Because her artist is an in-house illustrator, she got her first seasonal CG almost three weeks after she was introduced into the game through the 2019 Autumn event while said event was still ongoing. This seasonal CG, a Christmas-themed one, shows her wearing a [[red dress]] with a [[corset]], a [[white skirt|white]] pleated skirt, a [[white capelet]], [[black gloves|black]] [[fingerless gloves]], a [[holly hair ornament]], black thighhighs, and [[fur-trimmed_boots|fur-trimmed]] [[black footwear|black]] [[boots]]. She also has a [[Setsubun]] CG where she wears a [[red coat|red]] [[plaid coat]], a [[brown sweater]], a [[black skirt|black]] pleated skirt, an [[orange scarf]], black thighhighs, and black [[fur-trimmed boots]].

She comes off as a preppy girl who has a penchant for using the expression "Yabai" in both good and bad contexts.

The historical De Ruyter was laid down on 16 September 1933 at the Wilton-Fijenoord dockyard in Schiedam and commissioned on 3 October 1936. She was sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942.

h4. See Also
* [[list of Kantai Collection characters]]

h4. External Links
* "Wikipedia: HNLMS De Ruyter (1935)":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_De_Ruyter_(1935)]
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