Graf Zeppelin has a confident, militaristic, blunt, and stoic manner of speech. Her (official) art style has her looking quite cold and nearly monochrome, most likely to reflect on her historic counterpart's noncompletion. She is frequently seen in the company of the other German ships, especially Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, and occasionally as having a senpai-kouhai relationship with Akagi, from whom some of her flight deck design was copied. As her hourlies implies, she's an avid coffee drinker, making coffee up to four times between 10 pm to 7 am.
Her combat gear involves a split-hull design similar to KanColle battleships like Nagato. Unlike Japanese carriers, she carries no historical weapon representing aircraft launching, instead holding a small deck of two twin-cannon anti-air turrets like a pistol. Her hull also has twin-cannon turrets. Her carrier deck is carried on a robotic swing arm from the back of the hull that is attached to her back on a metal girdle.
History
The historic Graf Zeppelin was also notable for incorporating design flaws the other major powers had already learned to avoid. Graf Zeppelin's surface armament was 16 single-purpose 15 cm guns in 8 twin-mount casemates, at a time when other countries were arming their carriers with smaller dual-purpose guns to increase their anti-air coverage. These guns were of heavy cruiser size, numbered more than a heavy cruiser would carry for "commerce raiding operations" and would have required the carrier to come into direct surface engagement range to actually use. This was in fact the result of miscommunication with the ship's designer, who intended to save weight by using 4 twin-mount instead of 8 single-mount casemates; the builders thought that he was instead telling them to double the total number of guns. In game, though, this trait is the reason she's able to attack during night battles, the first night carrier in the game (though not night airstrike combat-capable).
