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早霜 "Early Frost"
The seventeenth ship of the Yuugumo-class destroyers in Kantai Collection.
Hayashimo wears the standard Yuugumo-class school uniform which consists of a purple halterneck dress over a white shirt, a teal-blue bowtie and grey opaque pantyhose with lace-up boots. She wears her rigging on her back as a backpack with a single oblique yellow strap. Quadruple torpedo launchers are strapped to her thighs, and she wields a twin-cannon 12.7cm turret with both hands.
Hayshimo has very long black hair in a modified hime cut with her bangs covering her right eye, hair ribbons somewhat like Hiyou's, but wider and not tied into bows, and a generally flared but clean-cut appearance. She also has red eyes.
Hayashimo speaks in-game like a stereotypical Japanese regretful or vengeful ghost (particularly Sadako from The Ring), whom she also physically resembles) including lines that make her sound obsessive and creepy. Her in-game lines portray her as perpetually mournful of her real ship's fate, and her inability to change that fate. Unusually for a destroyer, she also pushes alcohol on the admiral, and was the first destroyer to serve alcohol (Nachi's whiskey) with the Anchorage Counter Bar all night long. Because of her lines, (particularly her secretary line "Just like this, I'm always watching. Watching... Always... Forever") she has gained a fanwork stereotype as an obsessive stalker.
Historically, Hayashimo was not commissioned until early 1944, when the IJN was rapidly losing the capacity to even resist the USN advance. Hayashimo's only battles were in the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf. In the Battle Off Samar, Hayashimo was damaged by aircraft to the point that she could not keep up with the fleet, and was aided by sister-ship Akishimo. However, during the full retreat and subsequent US air strikes decimating what remained of the IJN in the month following the disaster at Leyte, Akishimo was ordered to ditch Hayashimo and return to the fleet at full speed. Subsequently Hayashimo's bow was torpedoed off by American aircraft, and the ship was run aground to prevent sinking. Shiranui was then sunk in an attempt to rescue her crew. Repeated airstrikes as the crew attempted to recover the ship forced abandoning the wreckage. Her character's depressive personality may be a reference to the hopelessness and helplessness of the historical destroyer at this point in the war.