She has an energetic and informal personality, behaving like a typical high-school girl, with little sense of personal space and a frisky attitude. She's also frequently shown as being rather close to her sister-ship, Kumano.
She has longaqua hair with a hairclip and aqua eyes. She wears a brown school uniform involving an orange ascot, brown jacket and pleated skirt, brownthighhighs, and black loafers that have high heels. Her rigging includes multiple turrets with twin-cannon arrangements strapped two to her forearms, one on each thigh, and a larger one carried by a strap like a purse. She carries a mast like a backpack. In her Kai form, she exchanges the two turrets on her left arm for a flight deck that covers her left hand and forearm like a gauntlet.
She is named after the Suzuya river, now known as Novik river in Sakhalin, Russia. IJN light cruisers were named after rivers.
