Lynette Bishop (Strike Witches)

"They're people too. Even though we're from different universes, we're still countrymen."

- LynetteBishop

Lynette Bishop is a human from  and is a  specialised in long ranged combat. Even though she is part of 's military she has been at odds with the Kingdom's policies as one of.

Appearance
Lynette is a young girl with light brown plaited and tied hair, blue eyes and is noticeably well-endowed for her age of seventeen.

As her uniform she wears a white shirt with a green tie, light brown cardigan and a dark green blazer. For her lower clothes, she wears high brown and green striped stockings and low black boots.

Personality
The middle child of eight siblings, Lynette developed very domestic and practical habits from helping to take care of them. Similarly domestic is her familiar, on which her -equipped animal features are based upon. Plagued by occasional clumsiness and sometimes overlooked, she nevertheless strives to do her best.

Policies

 * Lynette is a proud upholder of . She did not approve of any of 's methods of punishment, including throwing people out of high windows by androids, as they caused serious damage to the people involved. Even though no one died from these injuries due to the android calculative abilities and none of these caused permanent damage, Lynette was disgusted at the pain caused by this so much she joined in deserting Yamaha to protect.
 * Lynette is a proud upholder of . She did not approve of any of 's methods of punishment, including throwing people out of high windows by androids, as they caused serious damage to the people involved. Even though no one died from these injuries due to the android calculative abilities and none of these caused permanent damage, Lynette was disgusted at the pain caused by this so much she joined in deserting Yamaha to protect.

Powers
 Magic
 * As a, Lynette is capable of using magic to an extent when wearing a pair of s, her normal pair being the model. This grants her flight and high speed though her agility is not substantial.


 * Dandou Antei [Ballistic Stabilization]
 * Lynette possesses the ability to control the flight of projectiles to a limited extent. She can also charge magical energy into the shots to increase their effectiveness.


 * Shield Generation
 * Lynette is capable of casting physical magical shields.

Talents
Arms
 * Lynette is not experienced in small arms, her traditional weapons being the heavy and heavy, though she uses the former a lot more, being a sharpshooter sniper. This does make her vulnerable in close quarters combat.

Armament

 *  s
 * A pair of rotor fitted engines for a leg each enable Lynette to fly but are unwieldy when being carried around. They were upgraded to be silent during.


 * A heavy rifle designed for anti-armour but is unwieldy to carry around. This is Lynette's weapon of choice.
 * A heavy rifle designed for anti-armour but is unwieldy to carry around. This is Lynette's weapon of choice.


 * A heavy machine gun designed for anti-infantry but is unwieldy to carry around.
 * A heavy machine gun designed for anti-infantry but is unwieldy to carry around.

, including Lynette, allied with and fought against  and later.

, Post-
Lynette was officially transferred with the rest of to  but was asked to escort  throughout.

While in, , Lynette accompanied to check up on the local  branch for their progress. She and Sora disobeyed 's direct orders to severely injure, a senior programmer, and the two became outlaws.

While on the run, Lynette and Sora stumbled across a metal capsule that had split from the falling that had just passed through. The capsule contained, an infiltrator from with the personal objective to find a way pass through  to get to  in  to reunite with her friends. The three of them decided to work together to escape the Yamaha Kingdom.

They eventually arrived in, on the east coast of the United Kingdom, by the mouth of the. Here they found a warship, the. They commandeered the warship but the vessel's navigation was remotely controlled, sailing to the border crossing.

Controlling all other systems, including weapons, Sora had the Thunder Child fire upon and destroy five s generating a section of. Passing through the cooldown of the Sonic Barrier with the aid of its generator, the Thunder Child smashed through  into  with the aid of white noise and.

Upon passing through the Hakurei Barrier, the Thunder Child was met by a Gensokyo scout force consisting of, , , , , , , , , and , though Reimu was unable to fight due to the breaking of the Hakurei Barrier. A battle ensued between the group and the Thunder Child along with Atlas. Sora, who had control of all the vessel's other systems, demonstrated the Thunder Child ' s abilities, using portals to redirect Marisa's at Yukari who blocked with her. The warship followed with shells, breaking the barrier and knocking out Yukari out to prevent her from using her abilities to bypass the Thunder Child ' s portal limitations. The portals made Tenshi unable to get close enough to strike.

Part way through the battle,, who was carrying , came across the fight. As Solace prevented Sora from hurting Alice, and hence firing upon Cirno, Cirno was able to freeze the water around the Thunder Child, freezing it in place. This prevented proper use of portals, allowing , piloted by, to get close and rip a hole in the side of the ship. RAY's efforts to destroy the Thunder Child was hindered by Solace with the aid of the and Lynette. Sora shattered the ice using sound waves, causing the vessel to sink. The mimetic polyalloy hull reformed, allowing the ship to recover underwater.

However, the Thunder Child was later intercepted by ' and s, led by, and ', commanded by. Arsenal and Akagi rammed into the Thunder Child, causing huge damage to the smaller ship, forcing Sora, Lynette and Solace to abandon ship. In a fight between and  on the vessel, the shirt Solace was wearing over her Super Driver was burnt, allowing Haruhi to recreate the Thunder Child in the form of a fleet of. Using these flying versions of the original ship, Haruhi smashed through The Hakurei Barrier, allowing her to control Lynette and everyone else in Gensokyo.

Original Events, Pre-
After the death of and the merging of  and  into, the Yamaha administration realised there were many s in America who were very powerful and had an advantage against androids including Vocaloids and UTAU. It was decided that an alliance with High Gensokyo would be necessary. As High Gensokyo was also looking for assistance in their own territory, an exchange of prisoners was arranged as a sign of goodwill. Sora, Lynette and Solace, under High Gensokyo's control, were to be traded for Alice, and Cirno, under Yamaha's control, in. However, during the exchange, all six prisoners abandoned both kingdoms and boarded the Thunder Child, piloted by with, ,  on board. It was decided that they would head north to were  was being held. However, Lynette, Alice, Ilse and KITT decided not to get involved in time travel and so left the ship.

's Changes
Naluri and Sasaki successfully used  to time travel back to just before Haruhi was killed by but Sasaki abandoned Naluri after  was used on Haruhi. Naluri made her way northwards from, , to Barbardos, where Alice, Lynette, Ilse and KITT had disembarked the Thunder Child a moment earlier. Alice, with angelic powers, flew with Naluri at high speed to the Iliad and to Black, White and Sora, where Naluri activated a, preventing their deaths from Superboy-Prime. They were extracted out the wreckage by and KC, also members of The Humour Society. It was decided that they would attempt to revive Reimu, recover Miku and prevent the death of Marisa.

Lynette, White, KC and Haruki with some flew to, , , , , to release  and. Lynette opted to stand guard outside the penitentiary with Haruki when she was confronted by, a. The two began to fight, Haruki aiding Lynette but she was at a disadvantage, the battle ending once intervened, holding Nathan off.

Lynette took part in the battle over the activation of The DeLorean, aiding against  and witnessed the death of the future Naluri and the disappearance of the future Sasaki.

Lynette accepted White's invitation to join.

At some point during The Second Year, Lynette upgraded her Strike Units to be silent.

, a sentient crystal ball, was briefly released from statis in to allow Haruhi to examine him for danger. As an, he was deemed a harmless object but was placed back in statis just in case. However, in the time he was free, he digitalised the surrounding area, making the statis ineffective. The digitisation spread throughout the universe, including Lynette.

Yggdrasil's digitalisation reached the edge of the universe, inadvertently granting digital access, who infected the world with. This affected all non-immune humans including Lynette, placing them under the control of The Director, recognisable by yellow eyes.

, including who had also been freed by the digitalisation, agreed to stage a fake war to coax  to feel true fear, the last missing emotion of The Hand Canon, to allow them to return to their original worlds. Under the guise of a difference in ideals between Haruhi, Miku and Reimu, were refounded. Lynette was forced to join Gensokyo, said to want a unified world with a single country, though the faction was later renamed. As part of the plan, Gensokyo declared war on Yamaha and North High.

Lynette accompanied Black in, , to intercept White's and Sora's escort of , which consisted of Rokiahi, , and.

Lynette later appeared with Naluri at the  hangar in, , along with and. The three accompanied Naluri to confront Rokiahi at, , , only to abandon Naluri when Naluri betrayed The Digital Three.