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Yamato lets out a fearsome cry as she crosses the room in a single bound, her bosom bouncing enticingly as she brings the end of the big squirt gun down on Goto's head. Eyes squinched shut, she keeps flailing away, the empty plastic water tank going boop~boop~boop~ as Goto keels over in helpless laughter. Thwarted, Yamato raises the weapon and begins pumping it up to pressure feverishly. You just recline in your chair and watch the motion intently. When Yamato notices your studious expression she freezes mid-stroke.

"NAAASTY!" she squeals, hurling the super soaker at you as she storms past, fists balled. She rips the door open and SLAMS it behind her.

From without the room you hear a muffled query.

"LEEEEEEEWD!" Yamato replies unambiguously. "LEWD!"

You and Goto are incapacitated with laughter for what feels like forever, slumping over his well-used desk till your head is swimming and your lungs are burning. Wiping tears from your eyes, you both slump back in your chairs and get a grip again.

Goto's still wiping at his eyes with the back of his hand, shaking his head slowly. “What did we do to deserve them?” he marvels.

“With Kongou, I'm guessing you were TurboHitler in a prior life,” you opine. “Maybe QuadHitler.”

“Seriously,” he says softly, his voice growing soft and thoughtful. “Even Kongou. They drive us absolutely mad at times - most times - all the damn time,” he rumbles, pitch plunging as his mind descends that caldera - “but... still. They're... they're all so...” he trails off, but you follow his thought, your mind lingering on your own girls. Sammy, a tiny little ball of heinous aggression - and yet capable of making you pause in your tracks just to smile at her when she's got a quart of ice cream all to herself, even though you ought to know better. Hornet, so quiet and serious and competent, but with that unstated yearning for appreciation and love that runs under the surface. You've wondered about her and her Black Arrow, at times - wondered if she'd have come back at all if VT-8 had been hailed as heroes, rather than luckless men who'd followed the footsteps of Picket's charge and the Light Brigade. They're all so... so alive. Even at their worst; even with Kaga glaring you down, with her old loyalties and demons running close to the surface, you can't say you really fear them - any more than any other man or woman with a weapon in their hand, that is, and often far less. You can antagonize the returned spirit of (arguably) the most powerful warship ever put afloat without a second thought because...

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“You may as well ask what brings Abyssals back,” you reply at length. “They're as intrinsically evil as our girls are good.”

Goto turns that over for a few seconds. He swivels his chair around to look at the wall, where the old black-and-white photos sit. “But we don't... do we?”

“Eh?”

He turns back to you, eyes thoughtful. “People, I mean. We never view ourselves or anything we do in a positive light, do we? Or damn rarely.” He reaches to the corner of his desk and picks up a small plastic toy decorating it - it looks like a tabletop miniature. You squint at it.

“... Warhammer?”

Goto chuckles in surprise. “Destroid Tomahawk to you, gaijin.” He sets it down. “Speaking of - ever counted the robots-turn-good stories versus the robots-turn-evil-and-eat-us-all stories?”

“Hmm,” you concur.

“Even with tsukumogami the concern was mostly, you know, don't piss them off too much when you throw them away,” Goto muses, turning the pewter miniature around between thumb and forefinger. “We've been writing stories about abyssals for a long, long time. Why not shipgirls?”

“... haven't we, though?”

Goto raises his eyebrow quizzically.

“Ever seen the Brave Little Toaster?”

“Sorry, I'm not really into Pokemon,” Goto returns with a sardonic squint.

“Uh, right. Old Western animated movie about living, talking appliances. Tsukumogami, basically, in a vacation cottage. They get tired of waiting and go looking for their master, who they love. End of the movie's got this song-”

“Oh, that one?” Goto wonders. “Think I saw that as a kid, in English class. With the creepy-ass magnet thing that chases them?”

“Yeah. Remember the song?”

“Who could forget?”

“Yeah. Not five minutes after a depressing song capping off a whole movie about items being abandoned, their owner shows up, risks his life to save his old appliances, and the ol' toaster hurls himself into the gears to save him.”

“Isn't that just tsukumogami all over again, though?” Goto wonders. “Pissed that we're throwing them away, with a happy end for a kids movie?”

You shake your head. “That's not it. Tsukumogami haven't been taken seriously by the populace for how long, now? As a religious thing, I mean.”

Goto shrugs. “Forever? Most people are technically Shinto followers but they've lapsed harder than a Tokyo tech worker, on average.”

“Right,” you reply. “And there was never an equivalent myth in the West. And yet with no reason to take the idea seriously, we go and make movies like Brave Little Toaster.”

“For kids,” Goto says.

“Did those themes seem weighed appropriately for kids?” you ask.

He shakes his head with a solemn, thoughtful frown. “And then there's Toy Story,” he returns. “The sequels dived into that pretty hard.”

“The third one, at least. The second-”

“It was okay, yeah.”

You glare at Goto. “How do you know all these!?”

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“Kongou loves memes,” Goto sighs. “So much. She makes sure to keep me current. If I could find out who's feeding her, I'd break my foot off in their ass.” He closes his eyes and rubs his face wearily. “Anyway... I think I see where you're going with this.” Leaning forward on his elbows, supporting his chin on folded hands, he gazes through the floor, dark eyes brooding. “Did we know, you think?”

You shrug. “It'd make sense.”

“Yeah,” Goto says quietly. “It'd explain why the sentiment was always there, even when the popular religion's philosophy had no room in Heaven or Earth for such things to fit. But then why did it take so damn long for... for this to happen? Abyssals and Shipgirls and the whole damned mess?”

“Chicken and the egg,” you reply. “What makes them alive in the first place? Do they come to life even if we don't give a damn, or is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?”

“It doesn't matter, in the end,” Goto decides. “One way or another... we knew. This whole time, we knew, or at least we hoped. And... we've always felt guilty. Tools, robots, whatever.” He unfolds his hands, still gripping the pewter model. “Most of these are humanoid shaped. These robots, in the mecha shows. For no good damn reason, but that we wanted them to be human-looking.” He turns it around and around in his hands, studying his own amateur paint job - likely done in his own childhood, before embarking on a grueling career that'd put him command of the real thing. “And we never thought we'd do right by them... did we?”

You sit in silence with him for what feels like forever, watching the little model being turned over and around in his fingers.

“I've been thinking about Naka,” he says, “ever since... ever since I found out.”

“... and?”

“You remember that speech I gave you the first or second day you showed up?” he asks. “You were sitting right there, and I boozed you up good, and consoled you to look at them as girls?” He finally sets his model down and produces said booze again. Ignoring the glasses, he just takes a strong swig right from the bottle, and hands it to you. It burns nice and horrible going down, and you decide it tastes like another.

“I remember,” you croak as you hand the bottle back.

Goto takes another swig himself, holds it in his mouth for a second, then swallows it with a slight cough. “Ugh. Yeah. Christ, I was stupid.”

“Not really.”

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“Really,” he retorts. “But Naka... it's Naka, you know? A real sharp wit, and-” he chuckles. “Such a wicked flirt, too. And I was watching her and every other one of 'em get shoved into the front lines as fast as we could - we were so desperate in those first few months, Settle...” he takes another swig, and passes the bottle back. He waits for you to finish coughing, and continues. “I wanted to anchor them, you know? To people. To humanity. To feeling, to care. And it worked, and then Naka got popular with that whole idol schtick and the fucking Brass Hats ran with it and I... got... busy.” He's staring at his desk forlornly, looking lost and guilty.

“That wasn't your fault,” you say sternly. “It was too much load for one man to handle. That's why they sent me here.”

“That's not the point,” Goto replies. “I was there when she was summoned. I caught her when she returned - first thing she did was stumble and almost fall flat on her little ass. And then I wasn't there for her when she needed it.” He reaches for the bottle and when you're a little slow handing it back he pricks you with his eyes till you surrender it. A swig, a cough, a gesture; pointing at you with the bottleneck. “You see them how I do, I know. I've seen how you act, heard how you talk. Yes, I hear a lot of what you say, Mr. Martyr.”

“Hey, now-”

“They talk, Settle. They gossip like gi-” he sniggers darkly. “It was a simple enough conclusion. War graves. War dead.”

“War souls,” you reply, a slight buzz already building in your head and fizzling through your blood. You take the bottle back and egg it along a bit.

“Yeah. Clear-cut enough,” Goto continues. “Soldiers, like us. Duty, drive, scars, regrets, more than their fair share, but nothing strange to humans.”

“Isn't all of it,” you sigh. The vague, awesome possibility that's been circling in your head since Parker played you the recordings is finally coalescing into something solid.

“Clearly not,” Goto agrees. “What gives 'em a soul, Settle? The intent of the builders? Three hundred young men bitching and moaning and hating and sleeping and joking and jerking off in one tin can? The adoration of a nation?” He drinks again, and takes two swallows this time. “The hell does this make us? Gods?”

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“Murderers,” you whisper. “Every time we scrap one.”

“Just like a God,” Goto opines. “Capricious and cruel. Upgrade your fleet to NTU and shitcan'em only a few years later. Why not.” He surrenders the bottle to you. “What about the sailors we lost? Where does all this shit start and end? What the fuck is going on!?”

You take three swallows yourself, and don't cough when you come up for air. Shaking your head as the room starts to spin just a little, you refute the question.

You're not qualified to answer.

Nobody who draws breath really is.

[ ] Tools are the expression of mankind's Godlike power; the ability to create and impose our will upon the world. From start to finish, keel to gunwale, the intensity and singular purpose of being required to build them draws on every element of a nation's industry and technical genius, and everyone's tax dollars are needed to make them manifest. What you told Shoukaku in that silly Gundam Diner ran deeper than you knew - shipgirls embody their nation's very spirit in a way few, if any, other thing or place can. No wonder then, that some turn bitter - when turned against their very purpose, or when thwarted from achieving it.

[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

> Second option

I'm on a phone, I can't quote it.

>>200547
>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

This might have been better off waiting until wed

>>200547
>[Z] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

Whatever they were before, they're more people than machine now, and they deserve better.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200547
>[ X ] Tools are the expression of mankind's Godlike power; the ability to create and impose our will upon the world. From start to finish, keel to gunwale, the intensity and singular purpose of being required to build them draws on every element of a nation's industry and technical genius, and everyone's tax dollars are needed to make them manifest. What you told Shoukaku in that silly Gundam Diner ran deeper than you knew - shipgirls embody their nation's very spirit in a way few, if any, other thing or place can. No wonder then, that some turn bitter - when turned against their very purpose, or when thwarted from achieving it.

>>200547
[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

They are more than ships now, more than humans too, and we need to realizes this.

>>200547

Seeing how we just went through the fact that ALL SHIPS have souls not just warships, both answers sound like they're missing the point.

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>>200547
>Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet
>the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet
>CV-8 Hornet

You dun fucked up now, fap angel.

Also, I choose:

>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200607
>You dun fucked up now, fap angel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_%28CV-8%29

>>200547

>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

Heavy shit, yo.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

Id argue this. It isn't until a crew gives them an identity that a ship gets its soul. Until that, it's a hunk of steel and wood. The actions of the crew give purpose and life to the ship.

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>>200616
You can't have videos of ghosts on a ship THAT IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FREAKIN OCEAN.

CV-12 Hornet is the one with the ghosts.

>>200534
Don't forget the air conditioner at the start of the movie that an-hero'd and claimed they'd been abandoned.

And then at then end of the movie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJHbJ5LCl5A

>>200547
ISorry boss, but I think it's both to get a shipgirl, although either one is enough to make them alive. The drive of a nation combined with the blood, sweat, tears, love and dreams of the men and women who serve aboard them equals potential shipgirl. That's why only warships have come back. The intensity isn't enough for a freighter or noncombatant to come back in physical form.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

I mean, you keeps saying 'Blood of Heroes' PF.

>>200606
second one has a point to that as even say non-warships have similar bonding. Even Fishing boats. But the current context is their shipgirls

>>200547
>[ x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

Honestly this is something we already know, but this whole war hammered it into our heads HARD.

It's #2, because #1 would demand all involved public works that have a place in the zeitgeist have a spirit, and Berlin Wall-tan has yet to appear. Ships have a crew who basically live there and experience the entirety of the human condition in micro, which is pretty unique.

>>200631
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjQd-6lB7-8 Old WWII footage was a thing.

Also the other Hornet didn't sink.

>>200547
>[X] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200643
What about Titanic?

>>200651

That's not what he's talking about. He means the current Hornet that's a museum ship, you know CV-12.

>>200663
Whoops, you're right. My bad.

>>200650
#2 implies that colleges and other such places of work and life would have spirits as well.

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If I take off that swimsuit, would she cry?

>>200672
I suppose that's why you have the base Princesses in the canon KC.

>>200547
>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200547
>[X] Tools are the expression of mankind's Godlike power; the ability to create and impose our will upon the world. From start to finish, keel to gunwale, the intensity and singular purpose of being required to build them draws on every element of a nation's industry and technical genius, and everyone's tax dollars are needed to make them manifest. What you told Shoukaku in that silly Gundam Diner ran deeper than you knew - shipgirls embody their nation's very spirit in a way few, if any, other thing or place can. No wonder then, that some turn bitter - when turned against their very purpose, or when thwarted from achieving it.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200547
>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200675
It would be incredibly lewd

>>200677
Fleet-Activities-Yokusaka-chan anyone?

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>>200712
She's a big girl

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200647
>second one has a point to that as even say non-warships have similar bonding. Even Fishing boats.

A lot of this applies heavily to fishing boats as well. Sailors, especially in the modern era, are a rather select and highly-trained profession and they spend months at a time aboard their vessels. And ships are every bit the symbol of industrial and commercial might today as they are of military might. With 73% of the Earth's surface covered in water, ships have always been vital in trade and commerce. It was a threat to our commercial shipping that prompted the US to build its first true warships in the first place.

Now, I dunno if a rowboat hums to itself when it's alone, but a freighter sure does!

>>200547
>[X] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200631

Shit, mybad, I thought CV-8 was the second Hornet. I forgot to double-check that.

>>200640

One of the best scenes. HE MAD

>>200677

DINGDINGDINGDINGDING

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>>200547
ITS TIME

SETTLE PROBABLY LIKES KOGASA

SHIT TASTE CONFIRMED YET AGAIN

>>200724
I was referring to larger ones, though a lone fisherman might have his pole sooner hum to itself than the boat I'd admit.

>>200547
>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200730
Thank you.

>>200724
> they spend months at a time aboard their vessels. And ships are every bit the symbol of industrial and commercial might today as they are of military might.

Soooooo… World Trade Center hime when?

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>>200731

IT MUST BE HORRIBLE BEING SO WRONG

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>Those existential conversations on ask.fm with Roomba-chan about mankind's relationship with tools and how ahrd we think of them as human like us, Brave Little Toaster invoked
>The brave little toaster tsukumogami in Alice's Life Sucks
>The hints of it on the date with Shoukaku when talking about Space Battleship Yamato, and now we're back to the Brave Little Toaster again.
>planefag's gearing up for an Exalted game, where interacting with the little gods of objects and concepts is part and parcel of the setting and even part of his job as a Solar
It's really neat seeing this common thread of a theme through your stuff.
(already voted on phone, awake now)

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>>200742

THE SQUEAKING YOU HEAR IS ME BACKPEDALING ON THAT CONCEPT REALLY FUCKING FAST

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>>200724
So if I jack off while on a boat, don't clean up, and the boat sinks the next day then comes back as a shipgirl, will she demand that I take responsibility for making her prego?

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>>200750
>It's really neat seeing this common thread of a theme through your stuff.

Aaha, thank you anon!

>>200751
eeki eeki?

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>>200752
>implying she has to sink

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>>200747
WHAT NEXT, IS HE GOING TO ADMIT HE LIKES REIMU

Maybe warships are special because how how directly they keep their crews alive. Every ship does, but only warships are built to take bullets for their crews, and their sailors know it.

That's gotta form some kind of a bond, maybe *that's* the reason why there aren't any non-warships around? (And why pf doesn't have to write WTC-chan.)

>>200647
>>200724
Oh crap, I wonder how many angry, crabby (lol) fishing boat kanmusu are tootiling around in the Bering Sea.

>>200547
>[X] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

Don't know if votes have been called yet. Can't bother to scroll down to the end of the page to check, as that would waste time.

>>200547
>[x] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.
souls growing like unclaimed laundry piles in a student dorm is a much comfier concept than WE ARE AS GODS desu

>>200768
Everyone is still ignoring Titanic I see.

>>200769
Imagine the accents on Canadian and US east coast fishing boats.

>>200760
Answer the damn question. Will I create a mothership or not?

I need to know for science.

>>200751

OH NO NO NO NO

YOU'RE NOT GETTING OFF THAT EASILY

[b]WTC HIME WHEN[/b]

>>200768
Well there is the titanic, but that could definitely be a factor. You could also argue it in terms of the light cruisers being nurturing and protective of the destroyers they were meant to lead, or the whole Battleship Thing, but I think it's still only a minor influence, at most. We've seen enough of the girls to know that they aren't actually DEFINED by their ships.

Also, option 1 might apply to the warship girls themselves in terms of motivation, even if 2 is the most likely culprit for soul.

>>200791
gg nerd.

>>200768
Or it's just boats ATM because of whatever the fuck the Voice Below is.

>>200677

Oh jesus, Rabaul, Truk, Malta, Pearl Fucking Harbor, hell Kure could count.

The list is pretty endless.

>>200760
Since when is Jintsuu that busty?

>>200797
We technically already got Iwo Jima

>>200797

> Gibraltar appears as loli that stands in the base's gate jumping up and down all day and yelling "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"

>>200804

So they don't have to be naval bases either, that's. . . kind of worrying actually. . .

>>200747
I AM REPLYING FOR THE UMBRELLA

>>200547

>[ ] Tools are the expression of mankind's Godlike power; the ability to create and impose our will upon the world. From start to finish, keel to gunwale, the intensity and singular purpose of being required to build them draws on every element of a nation's industry and technical genius, and everyone's tax dollars are needed to make them manifest. What you told Shoukaku in that silly Gundam Diner ran deeper than you knew - shipgirls embody their nation's very spirit in a way few, if any, other thing or place can. No wonder then, that some turn bitter - when turned against their very purpose, or when thwarted from achieving it.

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>>200791
WTC?!

>>200819
World Trade Center

>>200815
So, essentially any place of great bloodshed. Basically all of Europe and most of the American east coast but especially Virginia.

>>200809
>loli
>not buff shortstack acting like a club bouncer
>"you're not on the list"

>>200785
>botesluts with a heavy Newfie accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vWlIvfQTck
Lord help us all.

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I wonder.... what would Prelude FLNG's ship-person form be like?

http://www.shell.com/about-us/major-projects/prelude-flng.html

...is this ship even still in service in-quest, or have the Abyssals sunk it yet?

>>200829
>all of Europe
>Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier Hime

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>>200827
WTC!

>>200798
I dunno about outright busty, but a quick glance over the CGs gives me the impression that she's at least the biggest of her sisters.

>>200829

Some parts of France have seen tens of thousands of casualties in every war between 1800 and 1945. Sometimes twice or thrice per war.

Those are going to be fun to live in.

>>200840
thatsapenis.jpg

>>200840
>Sears Tower (Formerly Sears Tower)
Wat?

>>200840
What about that ship that can turn itself 90 degrees with it's bow sticking out of the water?

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Okay, votes called!

Also, I'm thinking of adopting a more long-term approach to running threads; instead of doing it ye olde teegee style (fast updates in real-time,) just starting threads fairly early in the day to give me more time to write and updating them periodically through the day.

What say?

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>>200865
No fuckin' idea. Best size comparison image I could find.

>>200868
You mean FLIP?

>>200865
Formerly sears Tower CHICAGO, ie there used to be more of them.

>>200876
>Okay, votes called!
>Also, I'm thinking of adopting a more long-term approach to running threads; instead of doing it ye olde teegee style (fast updates in real-time,) just starting threads fairly early in the day to give me more time to write and updating them periodically through the day.
>What say?
Sounds like a plan, bossman.

>>200868

That was a video game anon they don't exist I... think.

>>200876
Well if you are here forever, adapt to the board.

>>200876
That could be a thing to do, since the new thread won't likely be overwhelmed by replies while you're busy.

>>200877
Yeah, that one.

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>>200876
>instead of doing it ye olde teegee style (fast updates in real-time,)
Personally, I'd say keep with this. Less 'ERMERGERD RAILROADING' bitching from the peanut gallery.

>>200876
That's already what you do, fatty.

>>200876
would be worth a try.

>>200876

If it helps you write and plot better, I'm all for it man.

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>>200884
OH REALLY

>>200876
How long between updates are you thinking?

>>200888
But they'd do that anyway.

>>200876
pls no

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>>200901

An hour or so. So the delays we often get anyway, but starting earlier in the day so I can get more updates in.

>>200898

If you could see how my head just... tilted to the left to stare at that. WHAT. HAS. SCIENCE. DONE.

>voted for option 2

Anon chose... wisely

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>>200876
Eh, maybe, this isn't quite THP yet. You'll still have the 72 hour autosage, but this board is still slow as fuck.
What puts me off the most about the idea is that I might miss votes if I'm not watching the thread constantly like I do anyway or if I'm not there for the start of the thread. Speed is still unfortunately important for any discussion heavy votes or write-ins, and you'd still have to call votes to actually take advantage of the writing time.

>>200876
It at least worth trying out to see what happens.

>>200876
Wouldn't be a bad idea; gives anon time to think, but doesn't that run the risk of the thread being derailed by something in your life and/or people missing more chunks (due to them having jobs/school)

>>200918
So what would she be like as a shipgirl? Or that green peace boat, either or

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>>200918
>WHAT. HAS. SCIENCE. DONE.

>>200547
>[ ] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>200918
This is already more than early enough as it is, there are days where I'd just be waking up when the thread starts if this continues. I'd prefer you sticking to the usual timeslot.

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>>200918
>An hour or so

So faster than usual?

See, but at least with an hour+ between updates you won't be /expected/ to watch the thread like a hawk so you don't miss important votes, and with IDs, it's esy to catch a vote change or missed update and recount.

>>200918
try it mang

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>>200876
i'm not keen. midnight to 5AM GMT two nights a week is tough already, i can't cancel my life to follow a quest

>>200930
Also, if all floating objects are alive, what about USS Artisan, floating dry dock capable of working on Iowa class battleships? Or deep water horizon. I can only imagine Oil Rigs as being guys.

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>>200918
Hayashimo when?

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>every thread

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>>200939
>See, but at least with an hour+ between updates you won't be /expected/ to watch the thread like a hawk so you don't miss important votes
You totally will though? If you don't watch the thread and only check in every 20-30 minutes because it's gonna be a 12-hour marathon, the chances go higher and higher that you'll completely miss a new story post and wind up at the ass-end of the voting period, if not missing it entirely.
>>200962

>>200962
Reminder that Virginia and Monitor get drunk fight, then wake up in bed together surrounded by hoop skirts and drapes

>>200876

I can't say I like the idea of it. I like that I'm effectively tuning into the Fap Angel channel for an evening's entertainment. Drawing out out even longer sounds like it'd kill the mood. It'd de facto make me not bother with the threads, not if the gap between posts is even longer than it is now.

Of course, if it means we actually get more posts from you in terms of per week, then it might be a good idea, but it's definitely a tradeoff at best.

>>200974
So would they bicker like an old married couple and then when no one's looking French kiss?

>>200958
She's already in every update stalking Settle just out of view.
Planefag just doesn't mention it because it would be like mentioning the sky is blue every update.

>>200918
Once an hour is fine. I usually only catch half a thread because of work anyway.

>>200876
Dear god no, think of the shitposting.

>>200918
SCIENCE HAS DONE GLORIOUS THINGS.

>>200876

Starting earlier would make the quest more accessible to us Yuropoors, so I'm in favour. I need to make you flail in panic more often.

>>200861

Whole areas around the Somme and Verdun promise to be spectacularly nasty.

Oh fuck. Auschwitz Hime?

>>201009
>Oh fuck. Auschwitz Hime?

She'd wake up in the middle of modern Poland. She'd have a long, long journey to think about what to do when she finally reaches the German border.

>>201009
>Auschwitz Hime?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but are not some of the concentration camps now temporarily converted into refugee centers?

>>201022

No, she'd head to Israel to begin her awful work anew and fight Masada-hime to the death.

Yep, it's confirmed, I'm going to hell.

>>201033

Oy vey, oy vey.

>>201033
>head to Israel to begin her awful work anew and fight Masada-hime to the death.

As if the IDF wouldn't utterly flatten her en-route.

Lot of flammable materials in a concentration camp.

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>>201033
>Yep, it's confirmed, I'm going to hell.
Whatever gave you that impression?

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>>200747
Kogasa a cute.

>>201033
>Implying you didn't earn yourself a ticket before hand.

Also I'm surprised you're asking our input on the pace change seeing how you didn't do so for the jump here.

>>200742

You mean LPD-21 which is a cursed ass, haunted ass motherfucker that fucking blows to be aboard?

Update where fatass?

>>201053
>a cursed ass, haunted ass motherfucker

Have you tried feeding her kebab to placate her?

>>201009
>Auschwitz Hime?

I did nazi that coming

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I'm late, have a thing

Hey Planefag, Enola Gay-hime when?

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>>201053
>LPD-21
I completely forgot that this was a thing.

How much of her superstructure is made from WTC material?

>>201075
>-hime
Not that high on the Abyssal totem pole.

>>201075
>Hiromshima-hime
fixed that for you

>>201074
I'm glad they managed to pull it out of the river in one piece, even if the pilot wasn't so lucky.

>>201076
>How much of her superstructure is made from WTC material?

Just a bit under 7 tons, used in a part of the bow. So really, not much at all. Less than 0.1% of total ship mass.

Does KCQ even *use* princesses and himes and what have you? I thought pf just did his own thing.

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>>201095
The P-47 is an enduring testament to Republic's engineers. Even if it will never fly again, they can still put it in a museum

>>201104
What is the story anon?

>>201100
...Well, that's pathetic.
>>201102
Fucking something took over Iwo Jima.

>>201102

Not yet.

>>201102
None of the ones from the game itself. Iwo Jima came back as something, and I think some of us took to calling her forgotten airfield princess or something, but basically no.

>>201113
P-47 developed engine problems during a flight honoring the 75th anniversary of the "jug" and the pilot deliberately crashed it into the Hudson river to save lives on the ground.

>>201113
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/28/second-world-war-plane-crashes-into-new-yorks-hudson-river

>>201102

Well, we fought an Abyssal airfield, so...

>>201134
The retarded thing is MSN misidentified the P-47 as both a "small" plane (which technically it is by today's standards), and a Jet (that second one was some dumbshit headline writer).

>>201088
>implying she'd be an abyssal

>>201033
Yes. You are.

You monster.

>>200918
look at maverick hunter quest. the writing's excellent but the thread participation is only 25 or 30 posters. sometimes there are only two or three voters. i think a part of that is because people wander off during slow updates.
although it rather sabotages my strawman, that's not the whole problem; hunter command also goes to bed in the middle of threads, can't run a regularly scheduled thread, and sometimes his twitter goes silent for weeks. but at least he's not blorp

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>>201151
She's still around so there's that

>>201128
>>201134
Ahhh thanks anons.

>>201074
>>201104
>>201113
>>201128
Have a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbixjnhpt-U
>>201147
As to be expected from the braindead fucks that type up shit at the teleprompter.
>>201151
Then not that high on the spooky shipspirit crap totem pole. At best, Enola Gay would be some elite bomber unit.

>>201075
Maybe no Enola Gay or Hiroshima, but what about poor Indianapolis?

If Indy came back as an Abyssal, I don't think I could even blame her given what happened to her crew and captain.

The P-61 bounce coming back when?

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>>200876
Go for it. It gives us more time to post boats.

Pic related: Its an underwater frog

>>201175
This reminds me, what's Harder's rig look like? Is it just him as depicted or does he have a set up similar to that?

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>>201175
The predecessor to the Swimmer Delivery Vehicle everyone.

>>201172
>If Indy came back as an Abyssal, I don't think I could even blame her given what happened to her crew and captain.

>Indy comes back, mission of vengeance on those that tarnished her name
>oh shit the true culprits have passed on
>THE SINS OF THE FATHER PASS TO THE SON
>the entire US Navy is the target now

>>201192
>watch Goya sink her again.

>>201185
I think it's just him in his coat and swim trunks, similar to how the jap ones are just their swimsuits. Probably additionally with the sail on their backs since they've used their periscopes, and the accessories that phased in when he went full surface action.

>>201192
Those that tarnished the name of her Captain so an Admiral could get off scot free.

>>200531
>You've wondered about her and her Black Arrow, at times - wondered if she'd have come back at all if VT-8 had been hailed as heroes, rather than luckless men who'd followed the footsteps of Picket's charge and the Light Brigade.

Huh, so that's what the black arrow represents? I thought it might have been a certain flight of B-25s. VT-8 makes more sense in context though, considering Hornet nocked that black arrow when she was staring down Kaga much earlier in the quest.

Now I can't help but wonder if she has another 'unique' arrow for those B-25s.

>>201172
I don't think she would know of what happened.
after sinking would she

>>201175
Vive La France!

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Since the other guy has seemingly fucked off, I suppose I will take up his campaign. In which case...

>PLANEFAG
>LORD CLIVE WHEN

>>201219
Over the objections of Nimitz and Spruance I may add.
>>201224
Erry and Terry are the ships from the fucking Franklin expedition anon. Not the monitors

>>201220
>Huh, so that's what the black arrow represents? I thought it might have been a certain flight of B-25s. VT-8 makes more sense in context though, considering Hornet nocked that black arrow when she was staring down Kaga much earlier in the quest.
>Now I can't help but wonder if she has another 'unique' arrow for those B-25s.
Would she be as sensitive about the raiders though? They weren't as tied to her as her airgroup, they were never expected to make it back to her, and they died bringing hope back to the United States.

>>201192
>>201202
I would hope that the fact they admitted the fuck up later, even if the captain killed himself before it could happen, might make her amenable to defection or at least neutrality.

This is assuming someone from the USN apologizes to her at some point before she falls to deep into the Abyss.

>>201232
>Erry and Terry are the ships from the fucking Franklin expedition anon.
NO
FUCKING
SHIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

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>>201208
>>201185
Actually, looking closer at Iku's art she seems to have bits and pieces as hair ornaments. So his periscope probably shows up as an earpiece or attached to headphones or something along those lines, maybe, this shit's all weird.
Oh, he's even got a headset. It's probably on there.

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>>201186
I find your lack of knowledge on frog frigate-floozies disturbing.

>>201243
That's an Xbox 360 headset. The shitty one that comes with it.

>>201239
>Would she be as sensitive about the raiders though? They weren't as tied to her as her airgroup, they were never expected to make it back to her, and they died bringing hope back to the United States.

Not really sensitive about it, but holds it back considering she's only got one shot and once it's launched, it's not coming back?

>>201243
Has Harder ever given an Abyssal a biopsy with those torpedoes of his?
>>201253
Thought it was that broad.
Fucking underwater aviation cruiser.

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>>201253
>Not getting I was just posting something randomly

>>200547
>[X] There's nothing sacred or special about steel hammered and riveted into just-so shapes - until men make it their homes, their battle stations, their very lives for years on end. Tales of haunted ships abound, and you've seen the video of vessels like CV-8 Hornet, and the USS Salem - but all this time, we were wrong to view them as just another haunted house. Filled with so many different crew working and suffering towards a common goal, they become entities in their own right. Nobody can say when or how, but at some point, down in the bilges, hugging the keel, all those residual hauntings coalesce into the bitter mote of a soul. They're the sum of all our dreams and fears; they're simply Human, with all the beautiful wonder and vile horrors humanity's capable of. The tattoo Shoukaku showed you in that dark kitchen is just a symbol, and nothing more - she's nobody but herself, and the brave and loyal men who crewed her; not an agent or avatar of an Imperial Japan that is no more.

>>201224
>LORD CLIVE WHEN

Small, slow, awkward, hilariously overgunned for its size?

Considering the PT corgies... Lord Clive comes back as a tapir?

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>>201268

Navy-related:
https://news.usni.org/2016/05/24/19801

More development hell for the Ford-class CVNs.

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You sit with Goto, and think - for a good while.

“I don't think,” you say at length, “that we've got to worry.”

“And how the hell do you figure!?” Goto demands.

“If they were just walking graves... ghosts...” you muse, “we'd... be all weird about it. Hell, we have been all weird about it. But you said it yourself. We're just... comfortable around them, once we get to know them. You wanna ask when they get a soul, well, hell, the Catholic church and the pro-choicers still can't figure that one out, and until someone invents a soul detector, they never will.” You shrug. “When does a ship get a soul? They don't have it going into the yard. The steel beams and fittings aren't humming or singing or freakin tap-dancing. I say it comes from the crew - from us. You can't bottle up a few hundred young men on a boat like that, apply pressure and heat and expect nothing to brew up, you know?”

Goto nods - he was a Captain once, too. “You know how ships can... take a mood, I guess you'd say?”

“Where everyone in the boat seems to be happy or sad or pissed off at the same time?”

“Exactly.”

“Yeah. I know it.” You know it well, and more - how you get used to the roll of the vessel, the way the hull will creak just so in a heavy sea, the way the cooling fans on the nav computer will speed up just slightly when it's chugging its way through the weather radar's latest scan. Ships will talk to you, if you listen. Even if they can't...

Even if they

can't make

words.

“Ah~” Goto breathes. “There it is.

“... fuck you.”

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“All classic sailor stereotypes nonwithstanding, I'm afraid I must decline,” Goto says with a grin. “But now that we've got some hard evidence that shipgirls are their own unique entities and not just the Ghost of Martyrs Past clanking around the joint -” Goto leans over his desk with a predatory grin.

“Don't,” you warn him. “DON'T-”

Goto cups his hands around his mouth and shouts at your groin. “GO WEST, YOUNG PENIS!”

“This is revenge for bringing Kongou in here, isn't-”

“Oooh, no,” Goto growls, “This is just grins and giggles right now. You haven't SEEN punishment yet, you shitbird.”

“Speaking of punishment,” you sigh, “what are we going to do about these god-damned Yakuza?”

“Now there is a line you don't hear every day,” Goto replies as he unbuttons his collar. “Damn window - blinds won't hold in the A/C.”

“Base maintenance ought to have it replaced in a day or two. You could set up a laptop on my desk, if you want.”

“No need; we've got the glaziers on speeddial,” Goto grumps. “Kongou's pretty hard on windows.” He finds a pen on his desk and produces a notepad to start taking down ideas, spinning the pen atop of his hand. “Right. The bastards have us over a barrel and they know it.”

“I know the old saw about a man with a hammer,” you return, “but I'll be damned if these clowns don't look an awful lot like a nail.”

“Like I said, they're expecting that,” Goto replies. “That 'boss' you talked to took you seriously when you told him not to screw with you, I think - I sure would've. But you also telegraphed your next move; kicking in the Sumiyoshi's front door. So you can bet he's trying to exploit that. No matter what hammer you choose to go with, he's going to have some way to spin it against you.”

“Spin,” you snarl. “Spin, spin, fucking spin. Why can't we do some goddamned spinning every now and then?”

“It's a good trick!” Goto replies, and cringes as you take a pen from your breast pocket and fling it at him. “Sorry. Anyway. I think we already shat our own bed on that count.”

“How so?”

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“Stuff like what we did with Naka. An idol...” he sighs. “Absolute worst thing we could've done. Idols are obsessively stage-managed; they're controlled to an extreme degree at times. And of course the Yakuza have their fingers in that pie and everyone knows it...” he taps the desk with his pen irritably. “And we've made a big deal of the other shipgirls, too, the ones that are photogenic-”

“-aren't they all?”

“The ones that'll hold still long enough and won't try to molest the cameraman or wander off to chase a butterfly,” Goto amends. “But they're pretty much seen as our PR assets, now. Anything they say, anything they do will be seen as words we put in their mouth.”

“... so even if Yamato-”

“The defining symbol of Imperial Japan's might, praising the JMSDF,” Goto marvels. “Oh, yes, that'll go over just fucking swell.”

“It could undermine the nationalists,” you point out. “You keep pointing out that they're gaining so much ground because they did have a point here and there vis a vis military force, after all.”

“Yeah, that's the cherry on the poisoned sundae,” Goto snaps. “You throw in with that, you, and we might get that war with China we managed to dodge by the skin of our teeth!”

“Okay, right, right,” you say, patting the air to calm him down. “I'm just frustrated. It seems the bastards-”

“-have us over a barrel,” Goto agrees.

“What the hell did we do to piss them off so much?” you wonder. “Do they really want Naka on their payroll that damn bad?”

“I could think of a few reasons they might,” Goto replies, “but I think they're just pissed at you, personally.”

You blink. “Why?”

“American, here with American shipgirls, which shoots down some of the rhetoric they've been pissing around - something about Fighting Spirit actually being a tangible Thing, and Japan having more shipgirls being proof of it, or some crap. And then there's the fact that you've been winning fights, Settle. Big ones. They don't like that, either-”

“Why the hell wouldn't they?!”

“Because you used American shipgirls with ours, and you like to integrate conventional forces with them,” Goto says. “Just guessing, but none of that helps their argument that Japan Needs To Be Stronger, you know?”

“That's pretty vague basis to send assassins out,” you retort.

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>>201147
plane and jet are homonyms when you're a print media column-padder.
most of the time you could hook a laser printer straight to the wire service and get better results.

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“Nobody said the Sumiyoshi family was very clever these days, and the people you shanked seemed to be hired mercenaries or hitmen,” Goto reminds you, “based on their frequent travel. In other words, they didn't send anyone in-house.”

“Still. Not a lot of information to work with, you know?”

“Ain't that a bitch,” Goto says with a shrug. “But there you have it. We need to make the Sumiyoshi's back off before they try another hit, and we need to do it with incredible discretion, or failing that, find a way to put paid to those clowns putting on a puppet show in the Diet.”

You throw your hands in the air. “Don't look at me. I don't know a damn thing about Japanese politics or culture or whatnot.”

“Fine, fine,” Goto replies. “I'll take care of the awful, boring part, and you can utilize your unique talent for outside-of-the-box violence application.”

“It's not unique,” you sniff. “I just have Hate to rely on-”

“A fucking sword, Settle.”

You wince. “I had no idea there was a sw-”

“And yet you knew how to use one!?”

“Fencing is - you're required to take a sport at Annapo-”

“Settle, that old Marines ad with a guy stabbing a dragon with his NCO sword? You out-chuuni'd the Marine recruiting arm.”

You shrink into your chair. “Fine. FINE. I'll handle the damn wetwork!”

[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.

[ ] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.

[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201326

As a guy with a journalism degree the truth in this post makes me weep

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

Because, Kawaii and Death Rides a DE don't not mix well together.

>>201258
I thought that was a headset for his sonar? Or at least supposed to be something like that.

>>201339
and I fucked up my own point because I forgot to delete the "not" in my statement. goddamnit

>>201329
>[ ] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.
Mainly because I want to see where you're going with this.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201329
>[ ] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.

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>>201329
>PT Corgis and Sammy for PR
>SAMMY
>FOR PR
fap angle pls

>Infiltrating the yaks
Does this entail Naka-chan going deep? Because that feels like using a bomb to defuse another bomb, using it as a hammer. If it weren't for her situation it'd probably be the best plane. I might be misinterpreting.
>Discrediting the 'fuck cooperation' angle.
This'll be hard as sin, though. Like I've been saying and Goto reiterated, jap nationalism is built on insecurity.

I'm torn between 2 and 3, depending on what 2 actually entails.

>>201329
>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.

>>201344
Nope, the artist even confirmed that it is, in fact, an Xbox headset when another anon pointed it out. This was way, WAY the fuck back when we were just getting character art from Pixel.

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>>201329
>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

Can't we go up to the nationalist party's leader, slap him in the face with a glove, and challenge him to a duel?
With swords.
To the death.

Televised live.

>>201329
>[X] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.
Sammy needs more screentime.

>>201367
>>PT Corgis and Sammy for PR
>>SAMMY
>>FOR PR
>fap angle pls

TWO BOMBS WEREN'T ENOUGH

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

we have plenty of those.

>>201329
>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

As much as I would like to see Sammie B and her PT Corgi flotilla work their magic, it's likely not the best idea for something as sensitive as this. Oh well.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201367
Option two seems very loaded as it suggests a shipgirl and I've read enough doujins to know how that ends to end (hint: Not well)

>>201329
>[x] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

YASEN?

Honsestly I'm a little conflicted about this vote - but this seems unlikely to backfire horribly.

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>>201329
>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

I'd say we already ARE the team of lunatics with attitude. Time for something different.

>>201403
Essex and Sammy, the lunatic duo from hell.

Sammy is just plain bad at wetwork that requires discretion. She's a howling banshee that needs to be pointed at something we want torn to bloody shreds.

Harder is much better here. And bishie. And Naka already wants to use him on stage for reasons. And it is the Silent Service.

Kanmusu with attitude sounds like an even worse idea than Sammy and her corgihorde.

[X] We need subtlety.

On phone sorry for spelling.

>>201329
[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

1 involves Sammy and the Japanese public, which seems like a VERY BAD IDEA(TM)!

2 doesn't seem so bad, and comes in from another angle the Yaks don't really have covered, but it doesn't address the root of the problem.

3 gets to the root of the issue, even if it's probably harder to pull off and not as immediately satisfying.

>>201329
>[ ] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.
I'll throw in with this, just on the off chance that there's something secret and important abut their motivations beyond jap insecurity.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

As much as I want to see Sammy and The Corgi Flotilla cute-ing Japan into submission, this seems a better choice in the long run.

>>201329
>[ ] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.
Are we unleashing Hamp?

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.
I like the idea of out-chunning people. Besides, sending Sammy in sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

>>201389
Would you rather have Essex doing PR? Because I would have the Japanese ships bully her on camera until she cries.

>>201329

>[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course. (as a diversion)

>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done. (main op)

I'd actually push for a double-blow on this one. The 'PR trap' option being a diversion for the 'main' operation.
Fuzzy PTs, pigtailed DE or preferably, say, Willie Dee (because klutz is adorable) or Ari in an outreach/PR exercise will be something the yaks will expect, because "Yankee are loud, in-your-face and as unsubtle as Little Boy", while the actual work goes on in the background, sight unseen.

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>>200531
>Sammy, a tiny little ball of heinous aggression - and yet capable of making you pause in your tracks just to smile at her when she's got a quart of ice cream all to herself, even though you ought to know better.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

While we're on the topic of traffic cones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua4R5U9Xuzc
CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA

>>201100
there's a memorial of the WTC aboard, isn't there?

I had the chance to go aboard her back in Fleet Week 2012 in NYC, but they closed tours early that day because she was so popular

On that note,
>>201329
>[ X ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.
IT'S TIME TO CONQUER PUBLIC RELATIONS

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>>201329
>[x] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.
picking this because it seems like the most overtly murderous option. get fucked, yaks.

>People bashing the Sammy option because muh subtlety
You're missing the point.
Marines or mature shipgirls under Settle's/Goto's command? Real easy to spin that negatively.
Can you fucking imagine trying to explain how the bunch of fucking DOGS lead by a LITTLE GIRL kicking in your door is an evil plot lead by the white piggu?

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201471
My god, IT MAKES SENSE NOW

>>201329
>[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.

>>201471
but it goes against the kawaii part which implies she's expected to be cute, not herself.

>>201329
>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201471
When the little girl is wearing USMC dress and took part in one of Japan's most humiliating surface actions? Yeah.

>>201329

>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201329
>[X] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.
picking the most FUN option.

>>200865
I think they meant the Willis Tower, because they changed the name a couple years back, but the infographic fucked up

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Fuck it, whatever the anons pick, I have no goddamn idea anymore

>>201329
>[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.

>[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

Don't see any reason why these would be mutually exclusive. The PR would be the short-term, rapid-response stuff, while the PSYOPs stuff can be more long-term.

>>201443
The fuck does that have to do with anything?
>>201471
AMERICA CONSCRIPTS CHILD SOLDIERS AS KILL SQUADS

>>201490
>No no you don't undertandu, don't look at the uncontrorabu kawii rittle girr, rook at her uniform, rittle dog uniform, CREARY WHITE DEVIL PLOT

>>201512
I have no idea, my brain was in stupid mode when I posted that

Could Sammy be Kawaii if she wanted to be? Explain it to her as something along the lines of a social smoke screen?

We know she wasn't shy about lurking in the smoke during Samar, after all.

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>>201367
>Does this entail Naka-chan going deep?

Well, uh... someone would be going deep, in a sense.

>>201329
[ ] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

I nominate Sammy and Essex. Who else would be part of Team Lunatic?

>>201509
GODDAMMIT I TURNED THAT NAME OFF

>>201329
>[X] We need subtlety - we need a better idea of their plans, and infiltrating before we strike will keep a low profile. It's time to utilize that most dangerous of weapons - bishie. Yes. Their secret weakness. Strike from within. Never mess with somebody hot, fucker.

>>201540
Harder, Kongou, Hate, Sendai, Kiyoshimo, Shimakaze, Tenryuu (when she gets better), etc.

>>201533
You're saying we could send in YASEN? She is a ninja, right?

>>201329
>[ ] Turn their PR trap back on them. Japan loves kawaii. There's no way even the Diet could spin hard enough to refute that. Let slip... the fuzzy little dogs of war. Escorted by a little pigtailed DE, of course.

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>>201329
>[x] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201329
>[x] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.

>>201549
Maybe throw in Maya or Poi (if she's advanced to Poi-Ni.)

>>201556
She's about as good a ninja as Naruto, and about as subtle or stealthy.

Bad plan.

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>>201540
Tenryuu, Sendai, Kiyoshimo, Miyuki... and Kaga back at mission control.

>>201376
Why not suggest that to goto?

>>201577
My impression was that in KCQverse she was actually semi-competent at the ninja stuff? (If a bit overenthusiastic)

>>201434
Then dadmiral come in and bitchslap and canewhip the girls for going after his girl?

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>>201568
throw in this guy and we're set

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>>201568
Those two as well.

>>201577
...Hmm.
>>201329
PLANEFAG! What would the rules of engagement be for CHUNNI-CORPS's anti-Yak operations?
Pic slightly related.
>>201588
If I could, I would.

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>>201590
The impression I've gotten is great at night battles in that sense of ninja, great at beating the shit out of her sister/Harder, and completely out of her depth when it comes to being a girl- see Hamp's belt armor, all the shenanigans Naka and Jintsuu have pulled on her, Settle's surface action, the sister ship sleepover, etc. It's adorable, is what it is. Jintsuu's the scary one.

>>201329
>[X] All wars are won in the mind. We can stack them ten deep and it'll just feed their martyr warrior complex. We need to discredit the very basis of their philosophy. We need to out-chuuni them at their own game. Assemble a team of lunatics with attitude. It can be done.