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Havings shitscribble.

>>40865351
>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

>>40865351

>Call Goto's staff, get his secretary on the horn. The poor bastard's probably grabbing the few hours of sleep he'll get out of the next thirty-six; and that's what secretaries are for.

First time ever catching this live. Fuck yeah here we go.

>>40865351
>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
>>Call Hate - he's your best friend, when you get right down to it, and here you are being very not-dead after an apparent scare.
Best time of the week!
>mfw the battle for LA thread is at 69 on suptg.

>>40865351
>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
Then
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

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>>40865387
Doughnut time.

>>40865351
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865351
>other

Check email, text messages, and call history. If Naka is learning how to phone, then she would have left us a message or update regarding the situation.

>>40865351
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

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I'm here! Just lurking while I shit out more writefaggotry.

BEST BBs WHEN?!

>>40865430
Nice!
>>40865351
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.
Then
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
Then
>Call Hate - he's your best friend, when you get right down to it, and here you are being very not-dead after an apparent scare.

When that shit is straitened out, deal with Goto.

>>40865351
God dammit, first MHQ and now this. I can't take it, I just can't.

>Call Goto's staff, get his secretary on the horn. The poor bastard's probably grabbing the few hours of sleep he'll get out of the next thirty-six; and that's what secretaries are for.

>>40865351
>press nurse call button
>text Hate that we're alive while waiting for nurse
>call our secretary for sitrep

In that order.

>>40865387
Well when you put it like that...
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

...hopefully her date with Harder didn't go TOO well. It probably didn't, considering the sensibilities of their time, but still.

>>40865351
>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
>>Call Hate - he's your best friend, when you get right down to it, and here you are being very not-dead after an apparent scare.
>>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865351
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

>>40865514
Pretty much this, in that order exactly.

>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.
>>Call Hate - he's your best friend, when you get right down to it, and here you are being very not-dead after an apparent scare.
>>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865464
>>40865351
Oh, that's much smarter. Seconding

>>40865496
>best BBs when

The Montanas? They were never built. They ain't showing up.

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>no one wants to call Goto's secretary
>mfw no one wants to talk to Yamato

>>40865351
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

>>40865496
Got any SFW pics of Hot Ensign you can share with us?

>>40865429
This but reverse the order.

>>40865351
>Call Goto's staff, get his secretary on the horn. The poor bastard's probably grabbing the few hours of sleep he'll get out of the next thirty-six; and that's what secretaries are for.

>>40865351
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.
Blankets for the Based Battleship

>>40865351
>>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

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>>40865351
So Planefag, how long before Hate/Iowa mpreg becomes cannon?

>>40865351
First
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

then

>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

Also

>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865560

Gimme a few, I'll go talk to her.

In your place, I mean. Totally on the up and fucking up.

>>40865590
That's just crass, anon

>>40865351>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865560
We already have a room for the night, why should we call a hotel?

>>40865351
>>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

Then

>>40865464

>>40865626
Sorry Hate, you ain't allowed to flirt with other shipgirls anymore.
You belong to Iowa now.

>>40865590

lolnope. I know how 4chan works; I respect her too much to throw a picture of her to the wolves.

>>40865560
Last thread proved that Hate is better than Yamato. Besides, Hate is Iowa's husbando

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>>40865626
Bark Bark (wags tail)

>Iowa, the girl, only seemed to have the medical knowhow that the museum caretakers had
>Iowa, the ship sickbay was able to keep Hate alive with all the skill of 50+ years of her crew
Man, shipgirls be weird

>>40865649

You do realize LA happened before we got here, right? Everything that happened between me and her, it was before I stepped foot onto this fucking weirdass island full of fucking weirdass people.

>>40865351
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

>>40865697
Yeah but now the people you break the 4th wall to talk to know about it.

>>40865351
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

>>40865351
>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

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>>40865623

>>40865697
Hate x Iowa is OTP now. It's been decided, you cant stop it.

>>40865651
Well, I can't argue with that.

Any actresses or whatnot that look like her? For the record, when I picture your stories I'm seeing you as Alec Baldwin circa Hunt for Red October, with increasing amounts of Goldblum in your mannerisms as you go without adequate sleep.

>>40865560
Speaking of calling Yamato: Goto's ringtone for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhvLvQ08RM

>>40865623
When was that even mentioned? Or is it just your fetish?

>>40865351
Call Goto's staff, get his secretary on the horn. The poor bastard's probably grabbing the few hours of sleep he'll get out of the next thirty-six; and that's what secretaries are for.

She's the cook

>>40865754
That's just creepy man, and I say that as the guy who's thinking about writing porn of his self-insert

>Call Goto's staff, get his secretary on the horn. The poor bastard's probably grabbing the few hours of sleep he'll get out of the next thirty-six; and that's what secretaries are for.

>>40865697
I don't think Iowa's gonna buy What Happens In Yokosuka Stays In Yokosuka.

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>Call your own secretary to get a sitrep, first - if you've got to wake someone up, it may as well be someone with enough rapport to not hate you too much for it.

>>40865651

Good call, otherwise everything would be revealed. No description other then Hot Ensign.

Granted, people will still research now.

>>40865754

Yeah, don't ask for that shit.

>>40865697
It's only time before she gets assigned here Corporal. And then what do you think will happen (aside from a few jokes from Settle and Sammy)?

>>40865754
If navyfag looks like anybody, it's planefag honestly. They got that headshape goin' on

>>40865697

So Hate, looking forward to seeing more of taffy 3 show up and hang around with Sammy?

>>40865781
I mean the scenes in the stories in-thread. You seriously don't picture them in your mind as you read them? You didn't see the Great Belt Sander Rodeo in your mind's eye while reading about Seaman Smith?

>>40865754

>I'm seeing you as Alec Baldwin circa Hunt for Red October, with increasing amounts of Goldblum in your mannerisms as you go without adequate sleep.

AhahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hot Ensign always reminded me a little of Angelina Jolie mixed with Natalie Portman, and slightly shorter than myself (6'0").

>>40865841
Fisticuffs with Yamato?
>>40865854
Willie should ask Sammy about her sister shops sometime

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Best Showboat better show up soon. Because a modern battleship is sorely needed.

Cruisers too, but mainly battleships

>>40865775
It didn't. Planefag likes to troll players by declaring certain speculation to be cannon or not. Such as Yound spawning.

>>40865885

Like Canadian ship sluts showing up at hockey games now?

So from the last thread, we know that shipgirls can control the the "real" ship they correspond to if they have access to it (i.e. it's not laying at the bottom of the ocean), and even do the same kind of reality-warping bullshit to restore it to combat-ready status in the blink of an eye.

Wonder if our shipgirls can learn to just manifest their full-on ship form the way the Abyssals apparently can? Not sure what combat advantage it would provide, since they're as effective as the real ship would be anyway, but it would be damn cool to watch.

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>>40865885
>Young spawning

All 12 of them?

Even the lone male?

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>>40865351
>Press the nurse call button, let the doctors know you are not a vegetable, all evidence to the contrary, and badger them for an extra blanket for Arizona. No sense in putting the cart before the horse, imminent combat be damned.

last thread was bananas, did we just have a fucking stroke?

>>40865858
If it wasn't for my physical and psychological deficiencies almost guaranteeing that I'd get turned away at the door, I'd have to seriously consider enlisting now.

"Join the Navy! See the world! Totally not a sausagefest anymore, except for the submarines!"

Votes called pretty solidly for >Nurse button and >Call your own secretary!

writing~

>>40865922
It would make upgrades and refits MUCH more straightforward to perform, for one

>>40865938
Joke's on you, boss, I'm already up.

Good evening, everybody!

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>>40865885
>implying Young totally didn't establish a secret cabal of witchies after bouncing half the world's airforce
kids these days

>>40865958
That reminds me, do shipgirls even sleep?

>>40865958
Good evening Naka. How are you feeling tonight?

>>40865958
So, how did that meeting between you and Harder go, Naka-chan?
Been up to no good?

>>40865985
Poorly!

>>40865986
Poorly!

>>40865922
It's also a limitation if they can't dismiss it at that point. If Iowa wants to join us, she'd probably have to steam across the whole Pacific instead of taking a plane.

Unless more weird shit happens, of course

>>40866007

Tell the skipper we need more booze. I may have cleaned the locker out.

>>40865938
Pretty much the 'professional officer of the navy' thing we've had going so far I'm guessing.

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>>40865885
Young spawned his own JFW. Totally canon.

>>40865922
Probably would take a lot of resources to do it. Magic only goes so far; at some point they'd need actual metal to use for their full ship-forms.

Also it's probably not good for them mentally to go back and forth between human and warship shape. It would both be confusing for the non-consciousness-related parts of their brains and existentially unsettling for the consciousness-related parts.

>>40866057
I hope we can keep it up, in the face of all that is planefag and SAN loss

>>40866007
How poorly is that? 'Had an unleasant chat' kind of poorly or 'Oh god everything is on fire' poorly?

>>40866005
It's coming up soon. I haven't seen Harder once since then, which means either he's preparing by meditating on the universe under a waterfall, or he's just going to shoot me in the back with a whole spread of torpedoes to get out of it.


>>40866042
That reminds me, I still need to get a few volunteers from the girls for a drunkenness test. For science.

>>40866095
Dunno, but it's early yet!

>>40866095
Harder couldn't get...harder

>>40866042
If you don't either have your own still or know someone on-base who does I would be fucking shocked.

>>40866157
Was the pink paint an Operation Petticoat reference, or just a shot in the proverbial dark against his masculinity?

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I recommend that we don't let Iowa watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2&3. She might get some... ideas...

>>40866157

>That reminds me, I still need to get a few volunteers from the girls for a drunkenness test. For science.

Just stay away from my private stash, missy. My shit is more expensive than that swill Goto drinks.

>>40866157

Send 'em my way. Later though. I'm busy now.

>>40866197
See, I'm not sure the girls would be able to access that sort of thing from their shipself. The fae, absolutely, but I don't think they'll be pulling casks from little hatches on their arms.

>>40866215
>Iowa and Higgins watching Battleship, enraprured

>>40866200
It was Fubuki depth-charging him during practice. That’s the color of paint in her training rounds.

>>40866200
it was naka doing the whole paint can over door trick IIRC

>>40865916
That's canon though.

>>40866157
I'll volunteer. Sadly to say, I think my dear sister is a bit of a light weight when it comes to drinking.

>>40866281
I'm pretty sure neither physics nor the conversation that happened support that conclusion

>>40866303
Yeah, I was asking as to the choice of color

>>40865878
Fucking IOWA is around. The rest of the museum girls will come back when they are ready,

>Call Hate - he's your best friend, when you get right down to it, and here you are being very not-dead after an apparent scare.

>>40866312
Have you tried drinking with her before she spends time with DesDiv6?

Just saying, she probably goes through at least one or two flasks of high-proof shit each day to not shoot either them or herself.

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>>40866095

>>40866404
's a bit late lad.

>>40865878
Remember when hate was on Iowa? He stated that all her WW2 gear returned, at some points replacing the modern systems.

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OHOHOHO! USS IOWA PLEASES OLD MEN FOR MONEY!

>>40866464

Well, yeah. that's cos she liked that configuration more.

>>40866404
Nice job TF34, you sure got to the San Bernardino Strait in time.

>>40866483
I wonder what Iowa would think about Willie?
Or vice versa.

>>40866483
Do not bully!

>>40866505
s'alright, Johnston, Hoel, Sammy and crew got that on lockdown.

>>40866483
Just like Rin then

>>40866512
>Iowa comes over
>Willie spewing spaghetti from all barrels
Hawawawa

>>40866504
>Well, yeah. that's cos she liked that configuration more.

That configuration was likely better for fighting the enemy of the day, Abyssals.

Especially with the leveling effect.

Not fighting the Russian navy.

Wonder if she can mix and match configurations though.

>>40866512
Not highly, I'd imagine.

>>40866549
An important question is, does shipgirl radar fare better against abyssal contacts than conventional gear? Willie's performance in the air raid certainly supports so

>>40866549

>Russian
>Navy

HAHAHAHAHA. You mean that shit that got blown to kingdom fucking come when the bitches showed up? That navy? Or the rustbucket deathtraps they call submarines?

maybe the handful of surly girls they've had come back that've done fuck all except guzzle vodka by the drum and bitch about how great the old days were.

That Russian navy?

Okay. So.

My earlier guess, that the Iowas couldn't come back, was wrong. Clearly a ship doesn't need to be 'finished' in order to come back. It is definitely significant that Iowa was controlling her physical body, as well as the Abyssals for that matter, but signifying what, I don't know. It could just be the early manifestations were like that, and later ones came back only as the girl form, but we know that Hornet came back within a week or two of LA, and presumably in her current form.

It's also telling that Iowa came back in her 1940s configuration, rather than her 1980s one, which seems to support the theory that there is a 'window' within which ships can be called back, which could also explain why most of the ships we've seen so far – at least on the Abyssal side – are from around the early 1900s. Although now I wonder, since a ship doesn't need to be 'finished' in order to come back, why don't we see multiple instances of particularly long-lived ships coming back from different points in her career. Which would provide a rather neat answer to the Ship of Theseus question. How is a ship the same ship if all its original parts have been replaced? Answer: it's not. (Of course, a steel battleship wouldn't have had anywhere near all of her matériel replaced, but still.) On a meta level that might explain why Naka is such a common drop.

Yet Iowa clearly remembered her time as a museum ship, which shouldn't be the case if future versions were 'overwriting' past ones. Hmm.

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>>40866608
Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Beautiful

>>40866200
>Was the pink paint an Operation Petticoat reference, or just a shot in the proverbial dark against his masculinity?

A little of both, though it wasn't so much a shot in the dark as it was shooting at a bomber coming in from the sun.

>>40866608
Considering that the Russo - Japanese War Russian Navy is what came back as shipgirls, it's probably for the best that they haven't tried to contribute to the war effort.

>>40866608
Wait, the Russian ships came back female?
How interesting.

>>40866608

They came back as girls? Shit, I had heard they came back as male ships, like Harder.

Fucking Rooskies should've signed the damn treaty...

brb contacting my secret squirrel contacts

>>40866681
>shooting a bomber comming out of the sun
You mean dive bombers right?

>>40866681
...fair enough, he's not exactly subtle

>>40866608
Russian shipgirl jokes when?

>Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, two subgirls, Soviet and American, come to the surface. The Soviet one is old and rusty; the American one is new and shiny. On the Soviet one, the faries lounges about without any order, and a drunken girl yells at them: "Who threw a valenok (traditional Russian winter footwear made of felt) on the control board? I'm asking you, who threw a valenok on the control board?!". From the American subgirl, a shaved, sober and well-dressed girl, notes sarcastically: "You know, folks, in America...". The Russian girl dismissively brushes her off: "America??! Ain't no fucking America no more!" (Turns back to the faries) "Who threw a valenok on the control board?!"

>>40866609
no the real question is can incomplete ships come back like the USS Illinois and USS Kentucky of the Iowa class

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>>40866608
>Russian ships take vodka by the drum instead of oil
As expected.

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>>40866608
You know if Kursk has come back?

>>40866608
Why would Russian ships come back as women?

>>40866608
>HAHAHAHAHA. You mean that shit that got blown to kingdom fucking come when the bitches showed up? That navy? Or the rustbucket deathtraps they call submarines?

Nah the Soviet Navy of the 80's. Where the threat was either subs, cruise missiles or planes.

Even though the only true ships they had to project force were the subs.

Ships were just recommissioned to give the soviets even a worse case of the economic shits.

>>40866716
Well, they might be ship boys.
It's a known fact that russian women can be very masculine.

>>40866483
Seems like a honest job to me.

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The first thing you do is reach out and press the nurse call button; a little blinking red LED informing you that Help Is On The Way. Your responsibilities loom large, but your deep desire to understand *what the fuck just happened* is slightly larger. You're downright afraid to go feeling around your body, but do so anyway - discovering a large fluffy gauze bandage on the upper-right side of your dome.

Probably means they shaved your hair, too. Oh well, you're used to wearing a cover everywhere anyways, you can get away with it indoors. Maybe you'll even stick your hands in your pockets. Yep, that star is going straight to your head. The transformation into Flag-Rank-Fucker is well underway, if not complete. Hell, you're even in bed with a beautiful underling.

You rub Arizona's hair affectionately, and find the energy to chuckle. Once upon a time, that would've been a serious concern. But after seeing how much baggage the “kanmasu” carry, how displaced out of time they are, even understanding how deep and powerful the undertow of awful memories can be - the thought of those gulfs being bridged by mere lust is laughable. You've got to cling to each other as tightly as possible just to keep semi-sane, really - maybe that's why Kongou is always driving Goto up the wall. And, come to think, maybe he likes being driven, just a little bit - it's so much easier than dealing with the darkness welling from within these girls.

You think back to the date with Shoukaku - how stunned you were when she showed up in casual dress, looking for all the world like an ordinary young woman (aside from that shimmering quicksilver hair, enchanting, haunting,) and how quickly the facade of normality had slipped; as she found entire sections of “her” city obliterated during the War; her sudden pathetic eagerness to know if humanity viewed her as a person or as a disposable machine.

Fraternization is small-fry compared to *that.*

>>40865922
I wonder if that's the differentiator between shipgirls and Abyssals: Abyssals are those whose vessels have been repaired/modified by whatever Cthonian menace is skulking about on the seabed, giving them their distinctive 'abomination' appearance. Shipgirls are those who have become separated from their vessels, so whoever is messing with the wrecks have no power over them and they turn up as just the shipgirl without the vessel.

Underwater surveys may make it possible to identify possible a handful of future Abyssals (if a known wreck has suddenly gone missing) or possible shipgirls to summon (if a wreck is discovered unmolested).

>>40866768
Because the only exception to the all women rule is Harder. Logic stands that they would return as women.

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>>40866764
I'd be more interested if pic related came back.

>>40866768
Because since when has anything ever gone right for any Russian not in charge?

>>40866722
>also has that book of Soviet jokes

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The door latch works with a quiet click-clack, and you hear the nurse arriving, her sensible shoes click-clacking across the tiled floor. The privacy curtain is tugged aside gently, and you find yourself staring at your nurse.

Who is Shoukaku.

In a nurse uniform.

A very, very flattering pale-pink nurse uniform that ends halfway down her thigh, where the tight white stockings take over. The clipboard she clutches against her chest does little to hide how the tight starched fabric accentuates her impressive bust, and as always that shimmering silver waist-length hair is impossible to ignore, especially with the little pink cap on her head setting it off so nicely. Her warm, affectionate smile seems to slide right off her face as she gets a good look at you.

You and Arizona, who is still fast asleep on your chest, her arms wrapped possessively around your middle; rich red locks tumbling across your tear-damped shirt.

Suddenly, fraternization seems like a big deal again.

>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
>... okay, you first.
>... what the actual fu-
>I CAN EXPLAIN
>write-in?

>>40866807
>Implying Harder isn't a reverse trap.

>>40866807
Except Russians consider their ships to be male.

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>>... what the actual fu-
"You know what, nevermind."
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
"How is everyone else?"

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

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>>40866260
>They ain't going to sink this battleship, no way!!!

>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
>... what the actual fu-

>>40866829
>>... okay, you first.

>40866829
>>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>write-in?
"The fuck?"

"I pass out and this shit happens, Annapolis didn't train me how to deal with this shit."

>>40866829
>>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
>>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

>>>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
>... okay, you first.

>>40866829

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

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>>40866829
>write-in?
>"You know, I don't think I'm actually awake anymore."

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.
Hahaha... wut

>>40866829
>>Can I get a blanket for her, please?
>>... okay, you first.

>>40866829
>Lie back down
"OK, still concussed. Thank you".

>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

We are unfazed, stalwart, unflappable.

>>40866904
Seconded

>>40866829
>other

Pull out our smarphone and take a picture to remember this moment alongside Arizona with the rabbit ear antennae

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>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.
>write-in?
"And no, I'm not sure what Arizona is thinking either. I know certain issues will have to be dealt with, but I've been short of time, and again: I'm unsure of what Arizona's intentions might be."

>>40866829
>write-in

Stare. Try to process what chain of events might have led to this. Fail to do so. Sigh at how our life has become very strange this past week. Then explain the situation calmly like a rational adult, as that is what we are.

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>>40866829
>>40866904
+1

>>40866975
cept we know full well what Arizona's intentions are.

To protect her Admiral. Even from himself. Shoukaku just wants the D.

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>>40866709
Russian shipgirls afraid of snakes when?

>>40866975
Settle is not that dense anon.

>>40866829
>>... okay, you first.
>>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

>>40866829
>>... okay, you first.
What is even going on anymore?

>>40866829
Hot damn she wants the Settle bad.

>... okay, you first.

Eca de Queiroz

>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

>>40866829
"Well, I am standing at attention now."

>What?

"You heard me."

>>40866829
>... okay, you first.

HELLO NURSE!

>>40866829

>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

There are a couple different ways to interpret "you first" under the circumstances. Shoukaku's most likely interpretation would most likely not match our actual meaning. (Unless it does huehue)

>>40866829
>Lie back down: "OK, still concussed. Thank you".

>>40866947
Top kek.

>>40867016
Well the "protect the Admiral" thing is obvious.

What's not so obvious is if Arizona might also want the D. That, I'm unsure of, and whether there may be other lurking things.

>>40866829
>>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

What a nice surprise, but yeah first things first: getting Ari a blanket.

>>40866947
This

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>>40867016
Shoukaku just wants our precious bodily fluids.
ftfy.

>>40866829
>...She's a little protective, it seems.
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

Aaaaaand we're off! Waifus warring over Settle!

>>40867030
Well after LA he has been kind of... horny.

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>>40866829
>>... okay, you first.
Well... This is welcomed.

>>40867067
Vampire shipsluts? Wait.. it's all starting to come together...

The clouds of darkness, the unwholesome, pale nubile beautiful bodies, strange and mysterious bodies, and a desire for black and white fluids.

>>40867054
>[Redacted] is Goto's bodyguard
>Kongou is Goto's protective barnacle and first shipgirl
>Arizona is Settle's shield
>Iowa plucked Hate from the sea and kept him safe
>Kirishima... exists, I guess
Yeah, I think it's a battleship thing

So, you need to design a new ship class to fight the Abyssals with.

What would you choose as the main Armament?

What would you choose as the secondary battery?

What Size class would you want?

>>40866829
>>40867093

This works.

>>40867097
3 out of 5 groans anon

>>40867121
Railguns

Also railguns.

Annnnd railguns.

Because there's absolutely no comparison to what kind of weapon they are, so they may 'break' the leveling effect because they operate entirely differently.

>>40867121
It'd have to be cost effective, since the Abyssals can pop up out of nowhere and it takes so much money to sink one. I'd say going back to having armor would be useful, considering what the Abyssals are. Perhaps something like a WWII heavy cruiser?

>>40867121
Cruiser. But with larger main batteries, say ten or eleven inches?

>>40866829
>... what the actual fu-
Then
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

>>40867121
Cruisers. Probably with guns on the fore end, missile tubes on the aft end. Secondaries? Prolly something that can function as anti aircraft and anti-missile systems.

Cruisers.

>>40866866
>Go to hospital room to provide 'comfort'
>"Yeah, since you're here out of concern for me, could you help out this other girl?"

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REFINING VOTES:

>>40866923
>"I didn't make it, did I."

and

>>40866904
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

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"I liked your other outfit better Shoukaku."

>>40867176

RE-VOTE FOR ONE OF THESE TWO

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.
>planefag-sempai likes my write-in
~

>>40866829
>Can I get a blanket for her, please?

Fuck everything, I don't even care

>>40867176
"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
Battleship thing.

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867120
Are you implying that 60,000+ ton death machines with enough firepower to level a major population centre are slightly Yandere?

>>40867176
>>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867121
>main arnament
Anti-shipping missiles
>secondary weapons
155mm advanced gun system (for direct engagement)

cruise missiles (preferably laser guided for long range support of ship-girls, likely using a handheld laser designation system)
>size
Roughly destroyer-cruiser size, but still able to fit a well deck for launching ship-girls at sea

>>40867176
>>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
>>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867231
No. Just rather dedicated to protecting their charges.

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

This amuses me to no end.

>>40867176
>>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867231
No? I'm saying that the most heavily-armored warmachines built by man have a protective streak

>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too."

>>40867176
Whatever happens, snap a picture to remember this night by. It goes alongside the Arizona and Kongou's rabbit ear antennae image.

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."
"I'm damn sure that this isn't real until Goto comes over here and says that it is."

>>40867176>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

Soooo tempted to go for the other option, but Settle is more mature than that.

>>40867231
No

Just Arizona

>>40867176
>>"I didn't make it, did I."
Boss, why you got to make us revote. Just get on with the update!

>>40867176
>I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

VOTES PRETTY SOLIDLY CALLED, WRITING

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

Without a doubt

>>40867176
>>"I didn't make it, did I."
the world has gone weird

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867292
>Settle is more mature than that.
He is.

Too bad he's being played by /tg/

>>40867176

>I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867121
Main armament: railguns. A 5" deck gun won't cut it against many Abyssals, and a 16" deck gun is going to mean building a new battleship to put it on.

Secondary battery: 5" deck gun(s) and a VLS. Missiles are proven technology, and an excellent "oh shit" button, even if hideously expensive.

Size: Initially, probably a destroyer. Maybe a noveau-battleship or cruiser if the railgun thing works out.

>>40867316
Welcome to life with Planefag's quests running.

ENJOY YOUR NEW LIFE.

>>40867316
Nah it's pretty logical when you think about. They're ships but they're also girls, and some girls want the D.

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>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.
sheeeit we're being used as a waifu pillow

>>... okay, you first.

>>40867240

So primary missile ship.

Can the AGS piece the heavy armor that the abyssals are mounting? Since most of the dangerous ships mount enough of it to be a serious problem.

Question on last thread.

Was the one screaming to let them die when Settle was dragged off the ship the Higgins itself?

>>40867378
I don't understand why you guys keep insisting that bundles of horrid, terrible trauma and severe cases of guilt want the dick. If anything, they want to figure out who and what the fuck they are, and what it means to be what the fuck they are, rather than get laid constantly. Seriously, dude. Not everything is constantly all about getting your fiction dick wet.

>>40867409
...Probably not, no.
Probably just unźfuckingźlucky bridge crewman

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>>40867176
Planefag I meant Settle was dreaming, not dead.

That's fine too though.

>>40867439
I think waifu sentiment needs tempering but shagging is a pretty good way to feel human

>>40867316
Welcome to my world.

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>tfw turned down the chance to call Goto's secretary

And so REDACTED-chan continues to not matter.

>"I didn't make it, did I."

So when HMS Sheffield (D80), Coventry (D118), Ardent (F184) and Antelope (F170) all arrive, how long until they get assigned to Yakosuka because they keep causing problems with Argentina.

And would SS Atlantic Conveyor come back and how would she react to seeing the one that got away?

>>40867176
>"I think it's a battleship thing, honestly. Less chatty than Kongou, too.

>>40867482
>using the term waifu seriously
I knew this would happen some day. What have we become.

>>40867439
I simply said "some girls want the D". And that's true. Some people are horny. Some are not. That's kind of the point of people being people. Particularly when they form emotional connections.

I don't think Arizona is after Settle's dick, but Shoukaku is making it pretty obvious that she does, or at the very least is very interested in him as a man.

This too can be a form of coping, you know. Assert their humanity by acting like humans.

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>>40867548
forgot my pic

>>40867176
>"I didn't make it, did I."

>>40867571
I don;t think the question is whether Shoukaku wants Settle's dick, but whether she wants anything else.

>>40867439
You are, suddenly, alive.
You remember clearly being a vehicle, crewed by men, and them dying as you fought and died.
You also remember a vague amalgam of your crew's knowledge- the languages they spoke, the skills they knew, the noodle shops they loved back home.

People are telling you you're still a ship. People are telling you you're a human, just like your crew was.
The first is obvious enough to prove- ships sail, carriers launch aircraft, etc.

How do you prove to yourself that you're human?
You live.
You read, you play games, you sing, you explore fashion, and perhaps you love.

>>40867409
Yeah, mainly a missile ship. I'm prety sure that the AGS would be able to pierce enemy Armour with the right shells (or putting the rounds in from above).

Though the ship's primary mission would be supporting ship-grills, hence the well deck and laser targeting missiles.

>>40867618
Sure but the original statement was "the world has gone weird" in what I assume was response to the fact Shoukaku just showed up in a sexy nurse outfit.

And the intentions there are pretty clear to me.

>>40867637
I should mention that missile ships are probably not the best idea against Abyssals.

>>40867637
Considering the number of abyssals I'd say a missile ship wouldn't be very effective because of cost and production constraints. Last thread made that pretty clear.

>>40867637
Missile ships run into the same problem as existing ships:

Missiles are freaking expensive.

Also, the AGS will sink unarmored modern warships, but are likely to bounce off the armor of old battleships and ironclads even without the Leveling Effect. You need something to cheaply and efficiently kill old, heavily-armored warships with bullshit magic.

>>40867666
Neither are big-ass battle ships. Besides, it's meant to support ship-girls. In an Ideal scenario the ship would carry a group of ship-girls and two AA ships (Burkes or type 45s)

>>40867661
Outside of porn, I don't think there's anywhere where one of your coworkers can show up in a sexy nurses outfit and not have it be considered weird.

>>40867720
>Also, the AGS will sink unarmored modern warships, but are likely to bounce off the armor of old battleships and ironclads even without the Leveling Effect. You need something to cheaply and efficiently kill old, heavily-armored warships with bullshit magic.

Can the R&D upscale the AGS to say a 255mm gun eventually? Or would that require a too fucking big a ship, near WW1 Battle ship size.

>>40867720
>You need something to cheaply and efficiently kill old, heavily-armored warships with bullshit magic.
What're the price figures on precision guided bombs, and modern torpedoes? Because I'm thinking the cheap option is going to involve hitting below the waterline or from above.

>>40867121
>Main armament
Drone carrier. You want as many birds as possible, dropping Paveways.
The Abyssals are all older ships, so have little to no AA (and no experience with aerial threats). RADAR isn't worth a damn against them, but optical designation and IR work just fine.
>What would you choose as the secondary battery?
A whole load of C-RAM variant Phalanx. The RAM is rather pointless against incoming dumb shellfire, but the Higgins demonstrated that the ol' lead-farter can do the job.

An armoured core might be a good idea. CODLAG, keep the motors and a small battery unit inside the armoured core, along with the fighting compartment. Fuel bunkers, turbines and generators sit outside the core. Armoury sits on the periphery well away from the core, and if any VLS cells are added they are also PVLS.
Building a vessel that can take a hit and keep fighting is not going to be cheap or easy. Better to build one that can stay as far as possible. The armoured core allows it to survive a hit in case it is snuck up upon, with the holdout battery allowing for a sprint to safety.

>>40867723
Battleships would be an infinitely better choice than a missile ship. More cost efficient and more effective as well.

Missiles CAN be useful, but to rely almost entirely on modern AShM against heavily armored warships of bygone eras is probably not the best of ideas. Remember, Higgins was fucked until Iowa came along.

>>40867730
Unless you work at a hospital and she's just that hot.

>>40867803
Real nurse outfits are not sexy dude, they're hella practical

>>40867792
>Remember, Higgins was fucked until Iowa came along.
Remember, Higgins wasn't allowed to engage in her element since she was fighting a defensive action. She was faster than the ships she was fighting, and if she'd been able to just run and shoot she'd have done a hell of a lot better.

>>40867548
>Atlantic Conveyor
>converted merchantman
>merchantMAN
Aircraft carrier trap.

>>40867730
Halloween party.

Your move.

>>40867838
Yeah. Guess what. You're not always going to be able to run and shoot, because defensive battles are not exactly uncommon.

>>40867792
The Idea would be that the ship would not engage the enemy directly. The Idea is that it would carry about some ship-girls on longer range patrols and provide long range support (sort of like an aircraft carrier, but for whole ship-girls).

The missiles would preferably be capable of hitting over the horizon or beyond the range of enemy weapon systems.

>>40867838
She was also horribly outnumbered and her targeting was fucked.

>>40867836
I know. Which is why it would take one hell of a hot woman to make it look sexy.

>>40867869
...I want to work where you do

>>40867730
Reality or fiction? As in the latter....

If Goto was laid up in Bed, Kongou would most certainly try to play the hot nurse, and heaven help anyone that tries to stop her.

>>40867838
She also started at point-blank range, rather suboptimal for a modern destroyer.

>>40867883
Why put shipgirls on a slow, sinkable ship, when you can keep them on land and drop them out the back of a C-5 when necessary?

>>40867903
Sexy nurse outfit as in what Shokaku is wearing in >>40866829 as opposed to just scrubs.

>>40867730
This is anime land, anon.

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Just gonna leave this here. Big E and the battle of Santa Cruz

>>40867910
Never said my workplace had Halloween parties. Just that it was a place outside of porn that a coworker could turn up in a sexy nurse outfit and not have it be considered weird.

>>40867838

Nah, even places where we were able to get Harpoons and Tomahawks in play at range, there were major issues with tracking and acquisition. LRASM performance is classified above me but judging by how fucked up Charleston and Virginia beach and Norfolk got, I'm willing to fucking bet it wasn't too hot either.

>>40867952
It happened once.

Once.

>>40867990
Any particular reason why besides the fact that's probably Shokaku's aircraft attacking her.

>>40868053
And then Goto stayed healthy through sheer willpower since that time?

>>40868053
Tell the story Naka.

If we're talking efficiency, we could get infinitely more out of more attack submarines than we would from battleships. A Virginia class sub, god forbid a Seawolf, would be an OCP to WW2 based abyssals, even more than jet aircraft. They can move much longer distances than WW2 subs at much higher speeds all the while being functionally invisible to any WW2 sonar. The torpedos on most submarines these days would also be a one shot against the majority if not most abyssals.

>>40868037
>Charleston

So how many people did the Hunley take with it this time?

>>40868053
And since then Goto's decided on death before bedrest?

>>40867518
yamato was such a squib it's unreal
fucking titanic was better at being unsinkable than yamato was at being a battleship

>>40868069
Shoukaku was sunk before she ever entered combat or launched combat aircraft.

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>>40868053
Hmm.
This smells like toplel.

>>40868089
I thought planefag already said Abyssals aren't limited by WW2 sonar capabilities? Not sure WW2 ASW would be enough to stop them anyway, but they could at least see them.

>>40868037

>Norfolk

Chances that Iowa's sister, Wisconsin woke up pissed too? REDACTED

>>40868100
What, no she wasn't. Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz, Philippine Sea. She was there, dude.

You might be thinking of Shinano

>>40868089
Abyssals have displayed sonar capacity well in excess of their base models, so their exact ASW capabilities are utter unknowns to us.

>>40868086
I think this is one of those stories that can only be summarized as " black romcom shenanigans" and that Kongou was somehow chastised enough to not try it again.

>>40868135
Oh yeah, my mistake.

>>40868091

I don't know. Fuck, I don't know if she was even there, officially the compositions of the forces that attacked the cities are classified too.

But I hear it was bigger than the group that hit LA and they're still pulling remains out of the wreckage on the south side and on Sullivan's island.

>>40868053
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>>40868131
I give it an eighty percent chance.

>>40868069
why I posted the picture? None, just browsing through http://imgur.com/r/warshipporn

>>40868098
The question is not which was the better battleship, but which was the better floating hotel?

>>40868131

Not a fucking clue. I don't have access to the roster of active 'hulls' and don't get told unless they're on the way here.

World of Warships is going open beta soon.

We get Willie singing Steam Torpedo when?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thGTxU7_TGs

>>40868275

So several US Naval bases got hit hard, how bad has the rest of the world been hit?

Any comment on the Chinese? Were they hit hard too, or are they so quite it makes you wonder if they will just claim all of the Chinese Sea since the rest of the naval powers are putting out fires?

>>40868345

Let's just say I'm doing double duty on the Abyssal problem as well as the Chinese.

>>40868323
OH, IT'S ROLL AND TOSS AND POUND AND PITCH
AND CREAK AND GROAN YOU SON OF A BITCH,
OH, BOY, IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE ON OUR DESTROYER.

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>>40868307
Can't wait

>>40868345
I imagine that the Abyssals tried to push up the Thames and got fucked over by HMS Belfast. and that they tried to attack major bases like Portsmouth and Vladivostok.

>>40868345
Ocean-going ships can get most of the way up the Yangtze. The Chinese should be extra fucked.

>>40868345
>Chinese shipgirls
A bunch of Junks, that will collectively shit themselves if the Brits decide to send Nemesis over.

Hey destroyers are usually younger girls in the game/this universe right?

>>40868439
Usually. Sometimes they aren't. It depends on how the devs were feeling.

>>40868131
Now I want to see Wisconsin and North Carolina go on a road trip of ass kicking until they get to Pearl.

>You pissed? I'm pissed too. Let's go fuck shit up

>>40868452
You think Higgins if she does come back might be DesDiv6 young?

>>40868439
Generally speaking, ship size directly correlates to apparent age.

>>40868345

Ok, fucking, look, a lotta that shit is fucking rumor. Not a lot of AARs got filed, if you catch my meaning, and there was a big fucking scramble to get some kinda defense in place for costal cities.

From what I understand, though, just about everyone that wasn't landlocked got hit. Never more than a dozen bitches of all classes, but they hit fast enough no one got anything to counter them in place. LA was lucky, and there were still a few thousand dead.

But rumors also say they missed a few places. Like, they hit Scapa flow, shit like that.

And I don't know about the Chinese past that there was a rumor going around they were issuing warnings for the girls to stay the fuck out of those fucking islands they've been bickering with the Japs over since forever.

>>40868083
That or he's only sick for the two hours a day he can get out of her sight.
>>40868086
>>40868093
>>40868113
>>40868145
>>40868199
Well, I can tell you that early on when he was running himself ragged keeping up with us, he neglected eating and sleeping enough--plus I think he always drank a lot, even back then--and it had the obvious effects on his health.

So then he wound up laid up. Of course, doting on the lot of us, a few of the more impressionable ones had formed some ... erm, attachments.

And Kongou was always Kongou. You don't know fury until you've seen her chasing three destroyers out of the Admiral's bedroom with a ladle and a pink "raburabu" apron. The apron, and ... well, I wasn't looking too closely, but not much else.

Oh! That's not true.

She had a hat on. One of her little ear-clip-things, circling around its edge as she ran around with the spoon. Rumor is she got Goto to let her feed him after she literally started spoonfeeding him whiskey

>>40868487
A true elephant lady trying to capture Settle's heart?

I suppose this is ignoring that she's about the size of a WW II cruiser.

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“Must be a battleship thing,” you say matter-of-factly. “Less chatty than Kongou, too.”

Shoukaku blinks. “*Thing,*” she says, her tone locked and loaded.

“Well, maybe just a flagship thing,” you clarify, stroking Arizona's hair and tucking her loose bangs back behind her ears, making her look presentable again. “Akagi doesn't seem to fit the pattern, but still. They want their admirals, for some reason.”

“She seems to have found hers,” Shoukaku says softly - maybe even sadly. “She seems quite fond of you... she wouldn't leave your side for anything, no matter how much we cajoled.” Shoukaku smiles at you, and it hurts you to see how hard it is for her to lift her expression to it. “She trust-”

“No,” you cut her off abruptly. “No, Shoukaku, it's not like that.”

She tilts her head, and deliberately scans you and Arizona from head to foot. “It doesn't look like that fr-”

“Issac C. Kidd,” you cut her off. “You ever hear about him?”

She blinks. “Who?”

“Rear Admiral. My own rank. They named a class of destroyers and an Arleigh-Burke after him. Won the Medal of Honor. Died on Arizona's bridge during the attack on Pearl.”

Shoukaku's face pales. “O-oh. I, uh-”

“They found his Annapolis class ring fused to the rear wall of her bridge, afterwards.”

“I'm s-sorry-”

“You remember what we talked about? On our date? About Arizona, and me?”

She nods. “You already left one ship in a dry-dock, and you don't intend to leave another.”

“Right. She just feels the same way.” You cover your eyes, rubbing your temples as an excuse to hide your tears. The roughness in your voice - well, you're thirsty and sick, aren't you? “That's all it is, Shoukaku. We've all got our regrets, and that one's hers.”

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>>40867548
“A-4C aircraft that belongs to Lieutenant Casco, refueling May the 9th, during the mission which he wouldn’t come back, ending up as a turd of sovereignty on our islands”.

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>>40868439
itty bitty baby, itty bitty boat.