You shake your head and beckon Hamp out of the conference room quietly. With your bodyguard in tow you slip through the building as fast as possible, not bothering to make an excuse to Shoukaku and the rest - not *daring* to look Shoukaku in the eye. They all heard when Arizona put her fist through the plaster and Shoukaku isn't stupid. She doesn't miss much, and she'd notice the guilt in your eyes right away.
It's time to cut your losses and run like with your tail between your legs - before you fuck things up worse.
Afore long you're slinking into your office. Hamp pushes a few unpacked boxes in one corner together and promply reclines on them, somehow managing to look comfortable as he sips his damned Starbucks sideways.
Naka's sitting at your desk, face turned down to her paperwork. She doesn't seem to notice your entry till you're pulling out the guest chair to sit down across from her. She looks up -
- and you twitch, arresting the urge to spring to your feet again. Naka's youthful face is pale and drawn, faint dark circles of exhaustion showing through the makeup - but it's her eyes that stop your heart for a beat; so distant that their usual depths seem a mere crevasse now, yawning and empty.
She blinks, focusing on you - and then she's back. Tired, weak - but back. “... Admiral?”
“.. eh?”
She forces a smile onto her face and holds it there, just for you. “You look like you've seen a ghost.”
You force a chuckle of your own out. “You must be tired if you're handing me lines like that.”
Her smile warms a little. “Just charitable.”
“What've you got there?”
Something about debts apid.
I arrive.
“The paperwork you requested.” She slides a manilla folder over to you - a bunch of filled-out forms, requisition requests on top, and the veritable ream of additional requests needed to get anything out of the chairfarce - they're remarkably tight-fisted bastards, even for the American military, and they frown on people making work for them as hard as anyone else. “The hell do you need cargo parachutes for?”
“Redundancy,” you say.
“Use your words, Admiral.”
“You know why me and my girls flew here in a C-5?”
“To bring Hate's ego in one trip?”
You chuff. “No other cargo, actually. It was insurance - if the shipgirls started sliding down the ship/girl spectrum in flight, the C-5 had a lot more wiggle room before the extra weight put us in the drink.”
“... so you're air-dropping shipgirls? I thought they shot that down months-”
You grin, shaking your head and holding up pinched thumb and forefinger. “Baby steps, hun. Baby steps.”
Hamp sits up in the corner suddenly, turning his head like a bird dog that just heard quacks.
“... Hamp?” Naka asks.
“Did you hear that?”
“What?”
“Skipper dodging the fucking elephant in the-”
“YOUSONFOABITCH-” you snap, but the damage is done - Naka's eyes are back to their usual glittering intelligence and they're boring into you.
“What. Did you do,” she says flatly.
I am now here, and testing something. Cause drunk me is curious
You lean on your desk with one arm, sitting sideways to avoid looking at her directly. “I had a talk with Arizona-”
“-and took her to task for giving me what I deserved-”
“-no.”
Silence.
“... do I have to buy a vowel, or are you going to tell me?”
“You haven't guessed it?”
“That *was* my guess.”
You heave a hearty sigh, turning over six variations of 'it's your goddamn fault for pointing it out' and discarding them as the exact wrong thing to say to this girl, especially THIS girl. “I... broached a delicate subject.”
Naka blinks - you imagine her bollio buns turning in time with her internal gears. Which she might actually have, even - strange thought. “Settle, did you broach the topic or capital-letters BROACH it?” she says seriously.
It takes you a second to process the reference. “Uhm.”
“Good,” she says firmly. “Because she's wound tighter than any bunker I ever saw. At this rate you'll get your license?”
“License to ladykill?”
“To own and operate your balls.”
You squint at her, irked despite the welcome chance to sidetrack into banter for a few seconds. “Kid, I was digging my balls out of the rough before you were reborn.”
“You sure you didn't drop them in the sand trap?” she grins.
“My first deployment was in South East Asia, so no. It was definitely in the rough.”
“Jungles? Me Tarzan, you Jane?”
You shake your head. “More Old Testament.”
“You ordered the earth to open up and swallow the Marines competing for the pussy in port?”
“Let's just say that in a south-east Asian liberty port, the experience is biblical, but the burning bushes look a mite different.”
Naka spent a war in Southeast Asia herself - her expression sours with a kind of impressed disgust. “*Admiral!*”
You grin brilliantly. “Scandalized?”
“Hardly. You can't outbantz the bollios.” She leans forward, face serious again. “How did she take it?”
>>44679008
THREAD THEME:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvqMXYhYhU
>>44679071
Oh God, what are you doing?
Hamp makes a long, low whistle in the corner that terminates in a “kerchewwwaaarrrr” sound. You bite your lower lip, eyes rolling upwards to seek God's patience as he drags out the sound effects, complete with a power slide over a cliff that overlooks an active volcanic caldera, from what you can tell.
Naka pays him no heed, her eyes fixed on you - she's holding eye contact too long and without blinking; the stare going past intimate and straight into uncomfortable. “You told her she shouldn't pursue you, didn't she?”
“She's putting me on a pedestal,” you say firmly. “I played hero once, and she's only been back three weeks now, and one thing leads to another, yadda yadda.”
“Did she clamp her hand over your mouth to cut off the stupid?”
“No-”
“Try to kiss you, then?”
You feel a strong urge to let your face fall into your palms, but you don't feel *that* embarrassed about it - not with Naka. But for her eyes... “She asked me if I'd given Shoukaku that speech before, or after I started walking around base with her on my arm.”
“She's stupid,” Naka says instantly.
“The hell she is,” you say, a little heat entering your voice - this is not the lambasting you expected - no, the criticism you *deserve.* “I've been a fucking hypocrite and-”
“You sure have been,” Naka spits. “Talking to her, of all fucking people, about putting YOU on a pedestal, you dumb FUCK.”
You blink.
>>44679079
Image name... ain't that the truth.
>>44679103
BUCKLE UP
“She's a walking talking Alamo, all she needs is Hood's Union Jack to drape over Leonidas's shield to be the Perfect Walking Martyr.”
You remember the conference room going quiet as Arizona entered - Admiral Thomas approaching her with hat in hand - and the blood drains from your face.
“-and you fucking talk to HER about pedestals? Your country LITERALLY put her under a memorial, you silly bastard.” Naka's expression doesn't quaver, the flint in her tone never reaching her face. “And she IS traumatized, Settle - not talking? There's no spiritual reason for that, I think. *She* was wanted. *She* was valuable even before she became a symbol. Even an old battleship is useful, and even moreso as an icon - look at Hood. She didn't come back incomplete. If I see one more internet discussion board theory about her fucking bell, I'm going to scream. It's got absofuckinglutely nothing to do with her bell.”
You open your mouth.
“Ever tried pen and paper, Settle?”
You try to speak with air you can't find.
“If you did, it didn't work. It's nothing physical, her vocal chords are there. She *cannot find the words,* Settle. She'd never ask, it's not her way, but you reached out to her and before she can reach back, before she can even *look* at you differently or too much you shut her down?”
>>44679101
Tripcoding, call me paranoid but I'd rather not have someone imitating me. Random namefag I may be, but I still have my god damned pride... I think.
>>44679040
Go away and stay go, Delta Green
“The abyssals got to Goto over the fucking PHONE, and now we know they can operate on land-”
“So what happens when you bite it?” Naka interrupts. “We've all got to love someone, Settle - did you ever consider that you're putting HER in danger?”
“How the fu-”
“Why do you humans watch us girls with weapons at the ready?” she snaps. “Why are ports with museum ships guarded by coastal ASM batteries with a clear LOS to the museum berth, well over minimum launching range? They put radar reflectors on the Missouri, did you know that? Right where everyone can fucking see them. Because you're afraid we'll turn, Settle. There's no way to be sure who's coming back and which team they'll be pitching for. Do you think denying her a good reason to play for Humanity is helping? Even if you DO bite it, she'll fight on just to avenge you!”
[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679151
I did that. They...
>>44679159
Did that.
>>44679161
>[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
Fuck, I'm torn between 1 and 3.
>>44679161
>] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
Girls are confusing and we need to stop running around the bush!
>>44679012
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
We don't want to take away reasons to fight for humanity, but she's our subordinate. We can't... WON'T take advantage of that. Arizona deserves better.
Rolled 2, 5, 10 = 17 (3d10)
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
I want to add (1) to the mix but anon really abuses the double vote thing.
>>44679161
>[x] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>[x] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
WHAT SHOULD WE DO NAKA-CHAN?!
I SEE NO HIGGINS ROUTE!
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679208
>>44679210
DON'T EVEN DARE. NO DOUBLE VOTES THIS TIME.
Of the varied ways this can go down, one route has a rather slim chance of happening. We'll see if anon's perceptive streak tonight continues. But that means no shotgunning vote options for this one!
>>44679220
Welp
Rev up those big guy folders guys we're gonna be here for a while
>>44679161
>[X] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
fucking bolio is the last person we need lecturing us about being afraid of turning.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
Just fucking no nonsense tell us what to fucking do cause I don't have a fucking clue.
>[x] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
There is no point in telling Naka she's a hypocrite. She already knows.
>>44679254
Changing to
[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[x] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
I'm really not sure what these options are going to do besides number 2, so I'm going with this one.
>>44679265
>>44679262
See >>44679254
Time to buckle up and Actually Choose.
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>>44679182
If you didn't have such a distinctly irritating posting style it wouldn't be an issue. There's a good reason why so many people dislike you.
I would rather you kept a trip so I could filter you.
>>44679161
>[x] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679254
Alright, fine.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
1 dodges the question.
2 dodges our responsibility
3 drives at how the fuck to resolve this mess
>>44679161
>[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
No good options, so fuck it.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[X] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>>44679138
>If I see one more internet discussion board theory about her fucking bell, I'm going to scream. It's got absofuckinglutely nothing to do with her bell.
thank you jesus
naka saying what needs to be said
>>44679284
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to delete it and post a proper single vote.
>>44679161
[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
and/or
>[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
>[x] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
SPEAK. MALE.
>>44679298
FUCK YOU
AND YOUR DOUBLE VOTES
I WILL DISREGARD EVERY VOTE POST WITH TWO VOTES IN IT
>>44679298
>double votes after being specifically told not to do so
Come on, bro.
>>44679283
And I'm not even sure I know what number 2 does.
>>44679161
>[x] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679293
I'm agree with this anon's perspective.
This isn't the time to try to turn things back on Naka with #1. That's distasteful and doesn't solve anything.
#2. Would be irresponsible, I think.
>>44679161
Sorry, I fucked up. Option 3 then. It seems the least fucked up out of all the choices
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
Here goes.
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
> Captcha: Cacti/Catuses
That... is eerily fitting for this situation.
>>44679254
>no shotgunning vote options
>on a popular quest
>on /tg/
Seems like Anon's not the only one saying Really Dumb Shit tonight.
>>44679293
THIS
THIS MAN GETS IT
[X] Drink.
[X] Drink Heavily.
>>44679161
>Ask Naka which boy her boilers go doki-doki for
>>44679354
There's always this option.
>>44679161
>[x] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
settle honestly believes that arizona would be worse off if they had a loving relationship. he might be right.
[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
No one wants call out Naka at all?
>>44679354
Treat external wounds with rubbing alcohol. Treat internal wounds with drinking alcohol.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679324
>Fuck you no double votes
>OH LOOK THIS VOTE IS ALMOST TIED GUESS I'LL COMBINE THEM
>Fuck you no double votes
You fucking WOMAN.
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
I'm going with my gut here. Naka's advice has always been good, and I suspect thatwe won't be getting much more of it.
Maybe this is a huge mistake, idk.
>>44679339
>Sorry, I fucked up. Option 3 then. It seems the least fucked up out of all the choices
Delete your old vote and post a new one, anon.
>>44679369
>settle honestly believes that arizona would be worse off if they had a loving relationship. he might be right.
Settle barely knows what the fuck he is talking about half the time. Ship girls are really fucking hard to psychoanalyze.
>>44679161
>[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
This isn't the time to deflect. This is the time to finally take responsibility for this trainwreck in progress. Maybe even salvage it.
>>44679336
2 is the emotional flipflop. You know how we JUST FUCKING TOLD Ari that we couldn't let our emotions and feelings compromise our ability to command. 2 is proceeding to say "Actually, feelings and emotions are far more important than anything else".
If it wins I hope Hamp smacks us
>>44679161
>>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
It's on now son
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679371
Low hanging fruit.
THERE BETTER BE A LITTLE PARTING SHOT ASKING HER WHEN HER NEXT DATE WITH HARDER IS THO.
>>44679383
That one was a different circumstance.
This is a VITAL PLOT POINT.
Learn the difference.
>>44679393
>Settle barely knows what the fuck he is talking about half the time. Ship girls are really fucking hard to psychoanalyze.
MAN HAS A POINT
>>44679371
That can be left for later, right now we're in "What the fuck do we do" mode.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679371
Oh I want to, but it's not going to help right now
>>44679371
>No one wants call out Naka at all?
It's not helping with the current problem.
Also it's a logical fallacy to claim Naka's own issues render her advice invalid.
>>44679418
We have someone really perceptive with us tonight.
>>44679396
Yeah, that's kinda what I thought it was. Argh, can't hardly type. Time to stop drinking sans pun/captcha shots.
>FUCK humanity
>Naka agrees
>Light Cruiser Demon
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
We don't bullshit the Naka. And this isn't a good time to be calling her out on it, either.
>>44679257
Crashing this thread.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679411
There's no conflict to Naka and Harder dating. They're in different commands, in different navies -- hell, they're not even the same kind of ship.
Arizona is our direct subordinate.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679411
jesus fuck you guys are on FIRE tonight
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
Okay anons let's just calm down and not bullshit the Naka...here have a Santa Kongou.
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
Skip the bullshit idol for I have too much shit to deal with.
>Arizona going to Kongou for relationship advice
>Kongou
>Relationship advice
>Kongou
KONGOU! WHAT IS DESS IN LIFE?
TO CRUSH YOUR TEITOKU!
TO FEEL HIM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU!
AND TO HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE FUTON!
>>44679161
[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
It's an easy trap to fall into, to assume that just because Naka has serious issues, that she's wrong in her analysis.Even when she's talking about her own situation. "You can do it, Naka!" "You're worth having around!" so, so, easy and inspiring to say but that doesn't mean it's correct.
wooo
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
Getting mad at Naka will accomplish nothing. Asking /more/ advice from the Naka will accomplish nothing.
>>44679502
The writefag cabal that sealed our all-too-powerful power has been broken
>>44679161
>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679161
>[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
>>44679161
>[ ] This isn't about the good of fucking humanity. FUCK humanity. This is about Arizona.
>>44679512
Time to get a Carrier to cover Settle's ass.
>>44679161
[ ] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
>>44679523
>being wrong
Anon pls
>>44679502
Well? We better ask that then, eh planefag?
>>44679502
we're jap ships
>>44679502
THE TRUE POTENTIAL HAS AWAKENED
Honestly I think it's partly because less shitposting keeps anon focused.
>>44679506
>tfw you will never bend Kongou over a DESS
>>44679161
>[X] Hypocritical little *shitbird.*
>>44679371
if kicking naka fixed problems we'd be a post-scarcity utopia by now
>The thread tonight
I so love you guys, no homo.
>>44679283
>>44679161
>>[ ] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
Changing my vote.
>>44679445
That might have some merit.
We don't want to be all "FUCK humanity" around Naka of all people lest she take our example and run with it.
And yes, it is blatantly hypocritical to tell Arizona what we did that turn around and say this.
>>44679482
>Arizona is our direct subordinate.
Ship girls are new territory and play by different rules. That's why things are so lenient around them. People are scared and don't really know what the fuck is up.
If you can convince God that not doing RELATIONSHIP with Arizona would be bad for her mental health, then rules could get bent, rewritten, or whatever.
>>44679580
What the fuck is happening tonight?Guys, we have we done and where we are going? English please, I'm drunk.
>>44679566
Ouch... but correct.
>>44679554
The lack of shit posting is eerie, but welcome.
>>44679580
We love you platonically too.
>>44679555
So close yet so far away.
>>44679526
[X] So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679523
When has talking with Naka ever accomplished nothing? She's bad at her job but she's incredibly good at giving advice. She literally called this shit.
>>44679566
>if kicking naka fixed problems we'd be a post-scarcity utopia by now
HAW
>>44679161
>So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
If you have a good idea on how to handle this shit, then, by all means, pray tell us.
By the way, has anyone ever done a write-in for Missouri yet? I only know about Iowa, Alabama and Yorktown.
>>44679555
And a shot.
>>44679526
Nice desu ne.
I was promised Arizona x Shoukaku in this thread.
>>44679627
Don't do it, man. You'll be dead by morn.
>>44679647
You were lied to
>>44679612
What is Essex doing right now?
>>44679555But Goto has bent her over a DESS
>>44679161
>>So the fuck does she want you to do about it? Start boinking your underling while Shoukaku does that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing or whatever? What part of this fucking plan makes sense?
>>44679679
CRASHING THIS INVASION
>>44679679
Surfin' Bird.
>>44679679
Who cares. Let Goto and Thomas handle that shit. We need to figure out how to patch things up with Arizona, or at least make it so that it takes longer for the theoretical ship to sink while we say our prayers and wrote our wills. Heh. Captcha has boats.
>>44679702
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlslHHhuDCU
>>44679694
>>44679698
>Insert F4U here
>>44679649
I'm only three bottles of hard in, I'll be fine, trust me. I've dealt with worse. Mind you I won't wake up until about... 0800 with a jackhammer headache, then I'll pop a ibuprofen the size of my thumb and go back to sleep until 1400. MY weekends in a nutshell.
Captch was boats... damn it.
>>44679679
Baking a giant ham
Sword fighting with Tenryuu
Eating dagashi
Basically being the American chuuniboat to rival Tenryuu's chuuniboat
>>44679679
being a useless meme boatlike Halley, oh wait
This image is far too related.
CALLING THESE VOTES
WITH NO SURVIVORS
oh fuck now I have to COUNT this tangled shit
fuck you ALLeaaerarghalsdkf
>Iowa and Higgins show up
>All the shipsluts freak out over a new battleship
>Meanwhile every all-flesh-all-the-time motherfucker on base is losing his shit over an Arleigh-Burke that can alpha strike to the cost of a large dinner
>All it takes is a word from Hate about his gun to make fucking everybody run around to see if she could maybe reload other ships with her munitions
Higgins will live like a Queen.
Taking a solid stance on the value of shipgirls as people regardless of what what other people want of them isn't a bad thing, and I think one of these options may let us use that to help Naka work out some of her shit
>>44679679
>>44679694
>>44679723
DESIGNATED
SHITTING
THREAD
>>44679723
Now now, anon. Halley isn'ta boat.
>>44679730
I'm fairly certain Option 3 won.
Fairly. You should probably still count it.
>>44679647
>Arizona x Shoukaku lewds where Shoukaku uses things Iku taught her on Arizona
WHEN?
>>44679735
Her missiles probably take a long amount of time to repop- maybe on par with a carrier's air wing.
29 votes for last option, I think.
Seems pretty good.
>>44679679
The Lindy Hop. While crashing the invasion.
>>44679767
Damned straight.
You think she'll still use these babies tho?
>>44679766
Only after we get a Settle x Shoukaku smut
>>44679624
It's a classic paradox. Shipgirls are neither ship nor girl but some combination of both. How much of each depends on each girls circumstances. The more traumatic their ship lives, the more issues they have as shipgirls. Further, you can't separate the two parts -- they're shipgirls, not ship/girls. We've been making the mistake of assuming that their minds work the same as their bodies -- that there's a line between ship and girl and its a matter of figuring out which side of the line they're on at any given time. There's no fucking line anon -- they're both ... at the SAME time!
Now, that would fuck with my head - and I'm a pretty intelligent and mentally sound guy. Now put that problem on a traumatized shipgirl ... and you'd have some serious issues.
>>44679752
He is planefag's minion and secretary.
>>44679767
TIME IS MONEY
HIGGINS WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON WHO'S DAYS ARE WORTH LITERALLY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
>>44679766
Iku only taught her how to be the bitch though.
>>44679793
literally what the hell is happening tonight it's like a switch flipped
>>44679804
Yes, and? Arizona's not a sub, she's a BB
>>44679793
You.
I like the cut of your jib.
>>44679816
I'd say it was that all the idiots were in line for Powerball tickets, but the drawing was over an hour ago, so...
>>44679816
shitposters got bored and decided to apply that energy to figure out whats actually going onits working
>>44679816
Shit got real and people actually reacted to it in a reasonable manner.
Shocking, isn't it?
>>44679835
They ARE idiots.
>>44679816
Never underestimate the power of anon.
>>44679816
/qtg/ shitposters were banned?
your pocket mod showed up and is keeping people in line?
The stars aligned for once?
>>44679801
And all she wants is her Captain to be back with her.INSIDE HER. MADE WHOLE ONCE AGAIN.
>>44679008
>Naka's sitting at your desk, face turned down
Anyone else mix up the order of face and desk?
>>44679816
AMERICA
>>44679816
I'm really surprised too.
>>44679852
I swear to God, if I hear anyone say Altman be praised, I'm getting my guns.
>>44679816
Extra effort from the people who care more about the quest itself than about shitposting bantz?
>>44679679
>>44679878
There's people like that here?
>>44679871Hartmannbe praised
>>44679878
It's been weeks on inane shitposting and bullshit.
And now, tonight, shit gets done, secrets are divined and decisions made.
We've done more progress today than in the last three weeks.
>>44679908
I'll take it.
>>44679816
Don't worry, it'll all be back to the status quo by next week.
>>44679793
As I said when we first got introduced to Naka's issues in the hospital, I really feel like she should be put in an upgrade program.
She felt obsolete back in the day and feels even more so now, but I don't think it's beyond our capabilities to do something about that.
It feels like everything we've done so far isn't really addressing that issue.
Yes you can do a lot to help the war effort as an idol without fighting directly, but that may not be what Naka actually needs as a person. Maybe she'd feel better about doing stuff like that if she also knew that it was something she wanted to do as opposed to the only thing she could do.
>>44679804
Arizona will be on top, then.
>>44679816
magic planefag magic
>>44679871THERE IS NO STOPPING HER. SHE WILL MAKE US WHOLE.
Please teach us how to girl Naka-sensei!
>>44679816
>literally what the hell is happening tonight it's like a switch flipped
We actually do enjoy you and this quest, you know.
This is massively late to say.... but I think we just probably destroyed 2 routes in that last thread.
>>44679908
When will ddyk return to THP?
>>44679952
>>44679816
>>44679937
We should give Naka VLS cells and a modern gun or two.
>>44679975
don't even fucking joke about that
>>44679966
>>44679793
Solution: treat them like both. We failed to respect Shiguire's ship part TWICE and it almost got us killed twice! We're treating Arizona too much like a ship, and yet not enough like a ship.
On one hand, we're treating her like a subordinate, and applying the anti-fraternization rules like she works for us. She's a fucking battleship - she doesn't work for us. At best, we're her partner in this war -- she's plays tactical while we play strategy. Neither works without the other.
On the other hand, we're acting as if she would be better off without her feelings. Naka's right. That's bullshit. She's not a robot, she can't/won't just turn her feelings off. And if she could, wouldn't she just be an abyssal?
I'm not saying go dive into the girls pants. I am saying that we've disrespected her as a ship, and as a woman. So let's man up, and admit that her feelings and opinions on our relationship (whatever that relationship may end up being) matter just as much as ours. She gets a choice in this too ... and we're trying to take that away from her. Do we really want to be taking choices away from the U.S.S. Arizona -- the ship that didn't get a fucking choice because she was caught in fucking harbor with her (metaphorical) pants down? We owe her some damn respect, and we've done nothing but show disrespect I a limits everything we've done - from ditching her as a bodyguard to this.
So, are we big enough to admit we've been treating her wrong, and fix this shit?
>>44679816
>>44679965
+1
>>44679992
Essex route? Essex route.
>>44679966
>two routes
Are you high? Please explain further.
>>44679966
If we did, so be it. I don't regret any of the decisions this session.
>>44680011
wait
what?
>>44679161
>that Japanese bite-the-ribbon-and-pull-it-yandere-thing
What?
>>44680000
YUUUUUUSSSS
I approve this plan
>>44680004
hng
>>44679937
I think the problem with Naka is that she can't see, to find her purpose. She can't sortie, since Fubuki alone packs twice the firepower at half the displacement, and even if she has the idol thing going, she's not doing as herself, but as a bubbly-as-fuck walking, talking traffic cone-dressed shipslut that never has a problem even if she has a lot of problems. I think the biggest problem is that she knows how much she wasn't wanted. She found out that they tried to send her back, hell, the people doing the summoning apologized for not sending her back in her face. I think she needs to know that she does have a place in the world. The upgrade program thing sounds like a good idea. She can't do anything, so give her something that'll allow her to do shit.
>>44680027
you can't completely remove the retardation from a 4chan thread
>>44680016
Eh... you know Arizona and MABYE shokaku. Just because of the commitment we kinda just made.
>>44680000
Empty quads full of truth.
>>44679902
>go home fairy you're drunk
>>44679937
Whatever the fuck happened to those radar headsets anyway? Since the only real way we can reliably target Abyssals is with good old fashioned shellfire, getting radar fire control seems like pressing concern for our outdated shipgirls.
>>44680027
The daily dose of retard.
Move along citizen
>>44680027
You heard the man. The people has spoken.
>>44680027
Anon will waifu literally anything that is a girl, or a girly boy.
>>44680059
What the FUCK was that?
>>44680000
>>44680054
Presumably the weapons techs are refining the concept based on Arizona and Kongou's feedback.
Hell that may have been what Ari was working on.
Also, radar spotting is not nearly the same thing as radar fire control. that's a whole other can of worms
>>44680000
These quads speak the truth.
I want to second what this anon is saying.
>>44680039
Upgrade program *seems* like the only real solution to her problems. It doesn't matter if she's valuable, or how much, if she doesn't want that kind of value, or recognise it, or find it fulfilling.
>>44680000
*Slow Clap*
This one here. He has balls.
>>44680027
Essex has boobs, what else did you expect?
>>44679566
>post-scarcity
You don't understand even the most basic of economics.
>>44680027
THE DESTRUCTOROF ROUTES
>>44680059
What...>>44680077
Yeah that.
>>44680077
An anti-ship missile test, I presume.
>>44680000
Same thing goes for Naka. We want to actually help Naka, we look at her and say "Naka. You think you're becoming (or already are) an abyssal, and that scares the shit out of you. But, ironically, it's the fact it scares you so much that proves you are not, and will never be an abyssal. An abyssal is a ship that came back without its soul. You are a soul that came back with a ship.
>>44680085
but it doesn't fix the split she's undergoing
>>44680071
I would still fuck the shit out of Higgins if she came back as a grizzled Ahab-style man
>>44680077
Looked like a torpedo of some description to me.
>>44680090
HOIST
UPON
MY
OWN
EXPY
>>44679984
Are you suggesting a Macross Missile Massacre?
>>44680000
I like you, anon.
>>44680077
The reason Phalanx exists
>>44680090
I woul expect them to have more taste than to go for some crappy OC Halaxis writes for.
>>44680032
bite and pull while making a gunununu noise.
it's visual shorthand for jealous frustration.
>>44680077
Clearly a supercavitating torpedo. A torpedo that moves at missile speeds. The best weapon on earth for attacking stationary target barges.
Fucking slavs.
>>44680107
torps don't leave trails like that on the surface. That looked more like what a missile or fighter would leave in its wake, but HOLY SHIT.
>>44680071
>Anon will waifu literally anything that is a girl, or a girly boy.
You better believe it.
>>44680000
The trick is anon. How the hell do we get what you just said into Settle.
Cause Settle is fucking dumb.
>>44680114
Hey Planefaggot, are we ever going to get pixelfag art of Essex?
>>44680118
Yes
Or a SUBROC massacre. Whichever works better.
>>44680145
Ah. Thank you.
>>44680071
> girly boy
Kat was best meido
>>44680171
>Hey Planefaggot, are we ever going to get pixelfag art of Essex?
IF I CAN SEDUCE HIM AWAY FROM MERC
>>44680077
Anti-ship missile. The granite I think. Nato call code is shipwreck, for obvious reasons.
>>44680114
Plus, you know, anon is drawn to stick their dick in crazy.
>>44680145
Actually it was some sort of missile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvigKyp_hcs
>>44680171
nah, pixelfag isn't drawing for this quest anymore
..or was that the other one
>>44680165
We are already inside Settle's head. The real question is "how do we get a large enough number of anons to vote for that course of action?"
Because anons want drama, not solving things like an adult.
Chinese Yorktown... Not bad
>>44680165
>The trick is anon. How the hell do we get what you just said into Settle.
>Cause Settle is fucking dumb.
Vote properly and write-in when necessary.
Planefag does pay attention to this stuff you know.
>>44680198
He's talking a break for the holidays, as is like everyone else.
>>44680114
>Implications of waifuing QM
>Implying this anon can read for shit
>>44680180
Arent you a capable drawfag?
>>44680145
We actually made those? Damn, I thought we still were figuring out how to do it! I know the soviets came up with the idea originally, but I didn't think they were made!
>>44680198
pixel's answer to why he isnt drawing is "I'm busy with life." has nothing to do with one quest or the other
>>44680220
Well, the current voting trend is heading towards actually fixing stuff.
Whether it persists after today, that's the problem.
>>44680233
Nope, he can't draw.
>>44680000
She's our Tanya Adams
>>44680228
hes actually drawing for some merc quest we cant see
we never had him anyways, he was just on loan from merc
>>44680221
The design is a bit plain.
>>44680233
>Arent you a capable drawfag?
No he is not.
There is an artist who uses his exact name on tumblr and draws planegirls, but they are not the same person.
>>44680233
>Arent you a capable drawfag?
I do not have a reaction image for this one
>>44680258
It loses the impact without the music.
>>44680258
It's a very robust game.
>>44680272
That reaction image seems perfectly adequate for the situation, though.
>>44680221
I like dem tatoos on her and others.
>>44680077
A pair of SS-N-22 "Sunburn" missiles fired from the Russian destroyer Bystryy.
More details at http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-these-russian-missiles-completely-tear-through-a-1636002082
>>44680263
hes also dead
