Hibiki

Appearance

 * Artist: Yadokari (やどかり)
 * Wears a similar serafuku to the rest of her class with an anchor emblem on the chest.
 * She and Akatsuki wear navy hats that also bear an anchor emblem.
 * She has bleached hair that is slightly disheveled, in a similar manner to her sisters.
 * Another trait shared with her sisters is the matching colour of her eyes and hair.

Second Remodel

 * Interestingly, her attire and armaments don't change significantly between her first and second remodels, despite historical stripping and rearmament of the latter with Soviet-made weapons.
 * The most distinctive change in her second remodel is her change of hat; the red-coloured star and hammer-and-sickle (hard to discern) are direct references to the Naval Flag of the Soviet Union.
 * 2 pairs of depth charges replace her dual 61cm triple torpedoes, indicating her outstanding ASW capability for a destroyer.

Personality

 * Seiyuu: Suzaki Aya (洲崎綾)
 * Characterized in the anime by her vacant attitude and expression.
 * A calm and stoic Russophile who tends to include Russian words in her speech. As Верный, she speaks more Russian.

Trivia

 * Hibiki means "echo", Верный means "faithful" and her final name, Декабрист is a tribute to the Decembrist revolt.
 * Hibiki was first carried by the twenty-first ship of the first Kamikaze class in 1906. Her name is now used as a part of Ocean surveillance ship known as Hibiki class.
 * Верный was first carried by a submarine class in the old USSR.
 * Can speak in Russian. Ура!!! (night battle) (pronounced oo-ra [Ura]; the Russian equivalent to Oo-Rah/Hua).
 * Occasionally says "до свидания" (do svidaniya) [Good Bye] at the menu screen.
 * Received her Kai Ni (Верный) on 11/09/2013.
 * Shunsaku Kudō was transferred to Hibiki after his humanitarian rescue of enemy personnel while captain of Ikazuchi.
 * She was retired from service on February 20 1953 and sunk as a target by the Soviet Naval Aviation team sometime in the 1970's at Karamzina Island near Vladivostok.

Quests

 * Composition: A10.
 * Sortie (Any): B12.
 * Sortie (Clearance): B42.