Destroyer Forest Princess
Destroyer Forest Princess is an Abyssal ship appearing in the browser game Kantai Collection. Introduced during the Rainy Season/Summer 2020 event operation, she serves as the boss of the E-4 map. Although she is categorized as a D-type destroyer within the game's mechanics, her overall statistics far surpass conventional destroyer standards, putting her on par with heavily armored capital ships.
Overview
Destroyer Forest Princess is an Abyssal ship appearing in the browser game Kantai Collection. Introduced during the Rainy Season/Summer 2020 event operation, she serves as the boss of the E-4 map. Although she is categorized as a D-type destroyer within the game's mechanics, her overall statistics far surpass conventional destroyer standards, putting her on par with heavily armored capital ships.
Appearance
She features long white hair reaching down her back tied into a single ponytail, alongside a pair of head protrusions that evoke cat ears. She wears a sailor-style one-piece dress with a teeth pattern along the hemline and is completely barefoot. Her streamlined rigging resembles just the mouth portion of a Ro-Class Destroyer, marked by prominent boar-like lower tusks pointing upward. The unit is fitted with a twin high-angle gun mount, a single high-angle gun mount, and a quadruple torpedo mount. A dark liquid resembling heavy oil or tar constantly leaks from the equipment. In her final Broken form, her pale blue aura turns reddish and her expression shifts into a defiant smirk. Once her armor debuff mechanic is completed, her left horn breaks off, her eyes become watery, and the dark fluid drools from her rigging's half-open mouth.
Personality
During combat, she displays a deeply pessimistic demeanor, repeatedly scorning the fleet's efforts and questioning the purpose of their fighting. She dismisses both individual efforts and teamwork, attempting to crush her opponents with overwhelming force while insisting that their struggles are entirely meaningless. Despite her harsh and despairing tone, she harbors a tragic inner desire to escape the conflict, ultimately reacting with quiet relief when her defeat proves that her enemy's battle was not in vain.
Abilities
She possesses no specialized gimmicks, yet boasts extraordinarily high baseline attributes for an early-operation boss. At the highest difficulty setting in her final form, her durability reaches 700 and her armor reaches 350, matching the defensive parameters of final event bosses. In subsequent operations, she appeared in normal fleet configurations using the Vanguard Formation, combining high defense and evasiveness with escort units capable of pre-emptive torpedo attacks.
Background
She made her debut as the E-4 boss in the Summer 2020 Event. She later reappeared as the flagship of the Ormoc Assault Force in the final map of the Fall 2020 Event. The geographical node of her original appearance correlates closely to the waters near Muko-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, a location tied to the historical final stand of a Matsu-class destroyer that engaged overwhelming enemy forces alone to protect her transport convoy.
Relationships
She is closely linked to Abyssal Bamboo Princess and Abyssal Plum Princess due to visual similarities and shared historical background. Furthermore, her character design and sad dialog directly reflect the history of the Matsu-class destroyer Matsu, who fought a heroic sacrificed battle against impossible odds.
Trivia
The character 'Forest' (林) in her name is believed to derive from 'Zoukibayashi' (mixed forest), a historical nickname given to the mass-produced Matsu-class destroyers because each vessel was named after a different tree species. Her battle map location mirrors the site where a Matsu-class destroyer fought her final battle against an enemy task force.