Rosehip Crash

She is a girl of average height, with medium length wavy pinkish red hair and amber eyes. She is seen to wear St. Gloriana Sensha-do uniform, and high boots.

She is very energetic, spontaneous, extrovert, noisy and is a speedy runner, doing everything fast to complete tasks as soon as possible and, in some situations, like eating, to finish first. She never restrains herself when going after something, not caring about failure or what others may say if she doesn't behave in a way that is socially approved by them. According to Darjeeling this trait is something that St. Gloriana's Sensha-dō and its members naturally lack, and hence she is sometimes jealous of Rosehip. However, Rosehip naturally lacks the gracefulness, elegance and manners of a typical St. Gloriana Student; because of this, Darjeeling gave her a special table-manners class.

Rosehip is a first year student at St. Gloriana Girls College and the Commander of their Crusader Tank Platoon.

According to the Drama CD, Rosehip comes from a big family, with her great-grandfather, her grandfather, her grandmother, her parents, seven older brothers and sister, plus two sisters-in-law and their three children, making a total of eighteen family members including Rosehip. Hence the reason why she always removes the speed limiters for everything she does, to avoid being the last one.

Also in the Drama CD it is mentioned that she witnessed the practice match between Ooarai and St. Gloriana, the first actual match Ooarai had on the anime; for Rosehip, it was an honor to watch Darjeeling in action. After the match, at the end of the episode, when Darjeeling, Orange Pekoe, and Assam are seen enjoying some tea, in the background are seen the Churchill and Matildas such as had been deployed in the battle, as well as a Crusader Mk.II. Rosehip didn't participate in that battle because she was not yet up to the standards of a St. Gloriana student, as stated above.

Implied to come from a "lower-class" family in many of the derivative works. This could explain her much less tactful personality in comparison to the majority of the St. Gloriana members, and why she frequently spills her tea. She is said to have seven brothers. This could also attribute to her personality. Rosehip frequently displays aggression on an insanely reckless scale. She is not afraid to charge down any enemy, with or without support. Darjeeling's most common battlefield instruction to Rosehip is "Come back!". Rosehip's Crusader Mk.III has a speed governor on it, a mechanical feature that was installed on the Crusader (as well as many other tanks) to increase the life of the tank's drivetrain. However, in this case the governor may also serve to restrain Rosehip's excitement and lessen the chances of her losing control of her tank. Removing said governor during the match against the All-Stars University Team allowed her to take down the enemy Chaffee. Historically, tank crews did occasionally remove their tank's governor, and the increase in speed was often quite significant.

Rose hip would have a near fatal crash