Character

Hanna U. Rudel

ハンナ・ウルリカ・ルーデル

Rudel is a Karlslander anti-ground witch. She is considered the best ground attack witch in the world. During the outbreak of the Second Neuroi War, Rudel was part of the Ostmark International Neuroi Watch Wing and fought alongside Elizabeth F. Beurling. After 1940, she was promoted to colonel and commander of the Second Dive Bombing Wing. Within the setting of the Strike Witches world, she is one of the best-seven witches in terms of shot down count (the other six being Wilcke, Barkhorn, Schnaufer, Rall, Marseille and Hartmann). Her Adjutant is Adelheid. Hanna Rudel is a highly driven, focused and confident witch, fearless and undaunted with her missions and mostly unconcerned for her well being in battle; making relentless assaults and attacks against the enemy and accomplishing very awe inspiring, yet highly risky, feats. Such methods (which some would argue are outright reckless) had resulted in her inflicting regular injury to herself to the point where she caries considerable scars on her body, with the scar along the bridge of her nose being the most noticeable and prominent. Noticeably she still insists on flying however, despite any injuries she sustains and even if ordered not to fly until she heals up her wounds and rest. It was due to her reckless achievements and driven focus that she earned the name "Beelzebub" and "demon" due to her actions, attitude and accomplishments under fire and having the uncanny ability to avoid death. Even despite being old enough that she cannot raise a shield anymore; she still flies and fights regardless and keeps this detail a secret between herself and Adelheid. There are times where she is insightful and stoic, and times where she is apathetic to her own personal upkeep and appearance and what others think of her, whether good or ill. But the striking thing about Rudel is Rudel has an attitude that can be argued to be in the realm of being "a fanatic" with an obsession for fighting. She is staunchly anti-Neuroi and believes that the only way to secure humanities survival is the complete eradication of all Neuroi, one alien at a time, and that her place as a witch is on the battlefield and that no one and nothing can or should stand between her and her duty and place as a witch and soldier of humanity. Her ace archetype is Hans-Ulrich Rudel.