[[Kantai Collection]] character. The personification of the French seaplane tender [i]Commandant Teste[/i].

h4. Appearance

Commandant Teste wears a large, white floppy [[beret]] with a red [[pom pom_(clothes)|]] on top, a blue-white-and-red tartan [[scarf]], white [[double-breasted]] [[jacket]] and [[belt]] over a navy blue [[dress]], [[black socks|black]] [[kneehighs]], and white-and-red [[platform_footwear|platform]] [[loafers]].  When damaged, it can be seen she that wears [[white_panties|white]] [[lace panties]]. Her [[long_hair|long]] slightly [[wavy_hair|wavy]] [[blonde hair]] is [[streaked_hair|streaked]] with blue, white, and red, and is pulled into a [[ponytail]]. She has [[swept bangs]] held in place with a small [[anchor hair ornament]].

Her [[machinery|rigging]] is suspended off her back, consisting of a deck-like platform carrying a mast and several [[crane (machine)|]]s.  Two ship-hull like platforms come along either side of her bearing two [[aircraft_catapult|aircraft catapults]] apiece. Small [[turret]]s dangle from chains off of her jacket.

h4. CGs

As with [[mizuho (kancolle)|Mizuho]] (by the same artist), she also has many seasonal CGs.

* post #2564222 - Christmas 2016. Wears a santafied version of her outfit. Presents and a miniature [[christmas tree]] on her rigging along with a doll of [[Seaplane Tender Water Princess]] hanging from one of her cranes.
* post #2608297 - Setsubun 2017: Holds a [[masu]] filled with soy beans and partially wears a mask of [[Seaplane Tender Water Princess]]. She also wears a pair of slippers.
* Valentines 2017: Wears a modified, predominantly red and brown version of her outfit with a brown tartan replacing the normal blue-white-and-red and an apron ornamented with tartan hearts. She also wears pantyhose and red shoes, different in design from any of her other shoes. She holds a box of chocolates.
* post #2644398 - Hinamatsuri 2017: She holds a plate of [[Hishimochi]], one with a green bottom (for Mizuho) and one with a blue bottom (for herself). Upon being damaged, the partially burnt hishimochi seemingly spring into life...
* post #3239195 - Summer 2017. Wears a [[straw hat]] and holds an [[ice cream cone]].
* post #3125380 - Fifth Anniversary. A green-and-black palette swap of her base CG.
* post #3281795 - Sanma 2018. Wears a long coat and pants while eating [[saury]].

h4. Personality

Similar to [[Warspite (kancolle)|]], Commandant Teste can pronounce French fairly well, but Teste also speaks Japanese with an unusual accent, overly enunciating or pausing on certain words. With little history with other implemented ships or any implemented fellow French ships, her in-game lines focus upon her wanting to train with other seaplane carriers, especially [[mizuho (kancolle)|Mizuho]] and [[hyuuga (kancolle)|Hyuuga]].

h4. History

Historically, [i]Commandant Teste[/i] was built as a 10,000-ton seaplane tender as a way to specifically sneak the most powerful ship possible in under the Washington Naval Treaty without counting as a fleet carrier.

She participated in the "Spanish Civil War":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War by escorting neutral shipping, but did little during World War 2. After ferrying aircraft to Africa, and being damaged in a British raid on "Mers-El-Kebir,":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mers_El_K%C3%A9bir], the Vichy French scuttled [i]Commandant Teste[/i] in 1942 to prevent her from being captured by the Germans as they lost faith in the Vichy French to fight the Allies.

The Italians managed to bring her back up in 1943, and passed her to the Germans, but [i]Commandant Teste[/i] was sunk again by aerial bombing nearly a year after that. Although raised one last time after the war, there was no use seen for her, and she was sold for scrap in 1950.

h4. Trivia

She was first introduced in the Fall 2016 event. She is the first French ship to be included in the game.

She was designed and illustrated by [[akira_(kadokawa)|Akira]].

The historic [i]Commandant Teste[/i] was named after French aviator "Paul Teste":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Teste], the first pilot to perform a landing upon a French naval vessel. Unfortunately, her name has become a frequent target to poke fun at due to it being similar to "[[testicles|testes]]".

h4. External links

* "Kancolle Wiki: Commandant Teste":[https://kancolle.fandom.com/wiki/Commandant_Teste]
* "Wikipedia: French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_seaplane_carrier_Commandant_Teste]
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