Edging away from the full-on pokefest, you manage to get some eggs, french toast and even a few sad looking strips of limp bacon, heaping a second plate a bit fuller than your own. Willie stays close to you till you ask her to get the drinks, and when you reach a nice, quiet table in the corner, you give her the bigger plate. She gives it a ravenous look, but eats carefully. Nothing about this girl seems to be rash or impulsive, even if she's got the voracious appetite of any destroyer. Shoukaku settles down near you, a simple bowl of oatmeal and glass of orange juice on her tray.
“They certainly seem... lively,” she says with a smile as the squabbling siblings move their argument towards the tables. “She reminds me of-” Shoukaku suddenly freezes, her orange juice halfway to her lips. A kind of frission seems to race through her from top to bottom as her eyes widen.
“Oh?” Zuikaku says from behind her. “Who does she remind you of, sis?”
“Aaaah....”
Zuikaku leans over, draping her arms over Shoukaku's shoulders and pressing her cheek to her sister's. “Awww come oooon, who does the foreign devil yankee making a fool of herself in front of the whole world remind you of, Shoukaku?”
“Ah, you know, Ss-end-dai!”
>>46955101
Yay
>>46955101
>Zuikaku interrupt
Haw
“Ss-en-dai?” Zuikaku marvels, reproducing her sister's searching pronunciation exactly. “Gee, don't know WHO *that* is!”
You lift your cane and offer it to Zuikaku silently. She smiles at you brilliantly and plucks it from your grasp, smacking the end into her palm with relish as Shoukaku starts to blush bright red. “Zz-zui-”
“Can't be me, right? Because how can you fight with your sister, when she's NEVER AROUND!?”
“ZuiZui, honey-”
“Don't you ZUIZUI ME!” Zuikaku snaps, dropping your cane on the table and snapping upright to yell at her sister's back. “You've been in your own little world the whole last week. Longer!”
“ZUIKAKU!” Shoukaku objects, twirling in her chair and making desperate little wave-off motions with her hands. “No!”
“YES!” she refutes, crossing her arms and entering a proper Twintail Tsundere huff. “You've been all...” she flutters her hands in the air, tip-toeing across the floor like she's floating on pixie dust. “And all-” she flings the back of her wrist across her forehead dramatically, swooning as best she's able. Eyes at other tables are turning your way, now. “And even~” she holds out a finger, letting it dip slightly with the weight of an invisible songbird alighting.
“ZUIKAKU, STOP-”
>>46955101
TURKEY VS CRANE
You're eating quickly, your mind busily contemplating just how bad it'd be to look up and find Arizona's cornflower blue eyes flashing hurt and betrayal in your direction. You really, really didn't need a scene today, but they just seem to find you. Why couldn't they work in YOUR favor for once? Looking around desperately, you catch sight of the Kongou Sisters at the breakfast bar. Kongou's sticking her tongue out one side of her mouth, focusing intently on drawing something onto her french toast with the blueberry syrup, Hiei is watching her efforts with rapt attention and Kirishima is stealing glances at someone in the corner while trying to look more cool and aloof than normal... but Haruna, thankfully, is as sweet and sane as ever. You wave your cap once and catch her attention, and sigh in relief as she starts your way-
A loud, cacophonous crash announces the door being damn near knocked off its hinges as someone barrels through at top speed. You look up and find the glass still in the door instead of all over the floor and an absence of trucks, which returns your heartbeat to something normal - until you espy the New Girl dragging a familiar face behind her, who's looking more dour than usual.
“... Kaga?” Shoukaku asks.
“Kaga,” Zuikaku grumbles.
“Kaga...” Willie moans, sinking deeper into her seat.
“... Essex?”
>>46955132
Who will win?
damnit captcha one of those was Coffee not Tea, the Teitoku loveboat will be angered by your heresy
“ADMIRAL SPOOPY, HI!” Essex's boisterous voice booms across the big room cheerfully. She seems to have acquired a gigantic and really frilly Pirate Hat, and a big plastic cutlass to go with it. “JUST LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO - YOU!”
“Eh? Me?” Haruna says in fright, hands drawn up defensively against her chest as she turns to face her accoster.
“YOU! ARE YOU RICH?!”
“Haruna is daijobou~” she sign-songs sweetly.
Essex blinks. “JA, BOOTY?” This sinks through her muddled mind - and ignites a spark. “YEAH, FUCK THE GERMANS! AVAST, CUTE TITS! YEAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!” Essex charges across the room, her plastic pirate saber held high, a semi-conscious Kaga being dragged by one hand behind her, expression completely blank. Haruna emits a terrified shriek and cowers against the milk machine, unable to formulate a reply.
[ ] GO HOME ESSEX YOU'RE DRUNK
[ ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955129
ZUIKAKU YES!
>>46955179
>Kirishima is stealing glances at someone in the corner while trying to look more cool and aloof than normal
Interesting!
>“Kaga...”
>“... Essex?”
INTERESTING
>>46955129
o h b a b y
>>46955198
>[X] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
>>46955198
>[X] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[X] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[X] GO HOME ESSEX YOU'RE DRUNK
>>46955198
>[x] GO HOME ESSEX YOU'RE DRUNK
>>46955198
>[ ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE! (Draw actual sword)
Fuck it, we're going full out this time
>>46955198
[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955212
>to a planefag
NO CRIX, NO!
>>46955198
>[X] GO HOME DRUNK YOU'RE ESSEX
FTFY
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>>[x] NO, I AM YOUR FOE! (Draw actual sword)
That's not a sword, THIS is a sword.
>>46955257
You should honestly be used to it at this point.
>>46955198
[X] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
Save the Daijobou!
>>4695527
EJECT PF EJECT
>>46955198
>[ ] GO HOME ESSEX YOU'RE DRUNK
>>46955198
>>46955273
>>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
Seconding this post.
>>46955198
>>46955273
You know what? Let's do this:
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>[x] GO HOME ESSEX YOU'RE DRUNK
Remember kids, if you drink rum before lunch you aren't an alcoholic, you're a pirate!
>>46955198
[x] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955273
aahaha I know EXACTLY how I'd write this too
>>46955198
>>“Haruna is daijobou~” she sign-songs sweetly.
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955273
They told me they were light cruisers I swear!
>>46955364
The proper spelling is "dank" so technically she's correct
>>46955198
You know what? Shoukaku and Zuikaku clearly have some catching up to do. Let's take Willie and go off base after all.
>>46955198
>>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955361
Well in that case
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>[ ]Yell, "HEY KONGOU BE BEST ONEE-SAMA AND SAVE YOUR SISTER FROM THE EVIL YANKEE CARRIER"
I just thought of this and am changing my I am your foe vote to this
I bring gifts from /v/ and /pol/. War Poster generator.
http://www.nnwwiim.org/kids-corner/Poster/makePoster.html
>>46955380
>>46955052
>>46955310
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight about now.Read between the lines and you'll catch all the subtext~Also now I have like two Essex write-ups done for tonight so there is that.
>>46955198
[ ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955273
voting for this
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
Let's fuckin' DO this. Let's have a write-in WIN for once.
>>46955273
Oh, this is for you.
>[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
Haruna must remain daijobu
>>46955380
That line is also going on the slide with this picture, thank you.
>>46955273
>>46955380
And this
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
I like this!
>>46955449
What the hell is with Hamakaze's port tit? That just doesn't look natural.
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
I really thought the Breakfast! choice would be for at home. Should have taken that hot pocket choice as a hint.
>>46955444
I really wish I could claim it as my own, but it's not. Great one to use though.
>>46955198
>[x] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
>>46955380
noice
>>46955436
>posting the same image in both threads
>>46955198
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
Essex please go and stay go.
>>46955198
>[ ] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955403
You are a godsend sir
All the anons keep forgetting that Kirishima and Kongou are in the same room as Us, Essex, and Haruna.
>>46955198
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955380
Yeah, fuckin, I've heard that excuse before.
Lookin at you, fuckin whats your fucking name. Why the fuck can't nip battlewagons have normal fucking names.
>>46955257
It's time.
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>[ ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
Ask, and ye shall receive Settle. You wanted something to distract away from you after all.
Bayern VS Queen Elizabeth
who wins
>>46955554
>Yeah, fuckin, I've heard that excuse before.
>Lookin at you, fuckin whats your fucking name. Why the fuck can't nip battlewagons have normal fucking names.
Kyoshimo?
>>46955198 #
>[X] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955198
>[X] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
>>46955472
I ain't suicidal, I ain't going to say shit out of turn like that.
Especially to an CO that shanks Yakuza hitmen and goes full Asura in every single fucking battle, rage-summoning entire fucking warships and literally burning himself up from the inside out because of said anger.
I will correct him once he gives the order to 'stand down' or 'carry on', though.
>>46955529
>implying planefag can even remember that, Hiei too.
>>46955554
Hamakaze isn't all that hard to remember.Though supposedly she's dead I guess. ;_;
>>46955403
wow.
>>46955554
If you had the chance, would you use this to smite the traitor shipsluts. It performs almost exactly like pre-magnet coating gundam
>>46955570
The shipyards that get the contracts to fix/replace them afterwards, like any battleship engagement.
>>46955198
>[ ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
>>46955586
Then you say it after the "That's what you're doing" line.
>>46955273
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
MESS TIME IS SACRED YOU FUCKING BITCH HOLY FUCK AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL WE GET OUR COFEE
>>46955368
>>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955403
It was a toss-up between this and "boat nectar"
>>46955198
>[ ] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
>>46955198
>[ X ] NO, I AM YOUR FOE!
Does she even know how to swordfight? Let's find out!
>>46955403
>Flash
>>46955101
>>46955122
>>46955619
>Not the other way around
Deme, pls
>>46955273
Support!
>>46955403
>>46955403
This is amazing.
GENTLEMEN. IT'S TIME.
>>46955570
Depends if the british have un-fucked their AP.
If not, Bayern.
>>46955607
>posting non-canon designs
>>46955647
Well he is supposed to be a pretty big M, so maybe he's into pegging?
>Houston and Hamp are being siblings
>So are Shou and Zuizui
>Exssex is probably actually drunk and dragging around Kaga while challenging battleships
>The crazy admiral who screams at the abyss and kills with a sword is getting ready to stand up
You know, I've gotta hand it to all the actual officers who still eat here. Brave sons of bitches.
>>46955198
>[X] IT ONLY TAKES ONE VERY WELL-PLACED MUNITION TO MISSION-KILL A CARRIER!
LEAVE HARUNA ALONE GODDAMNIT
>>46955198
>[x] "Can you NOT? For like 5 minutes? I am trying to eat here. Let me at least have this one simply moment of peace. Let. Me. Have. This. If nothing else, at least this."
>>46955647
>pegging
There's only one Destroyer in this.
>>46955212
Goddamn.
I got to start looking around more often. Need to start collecting some of these. Especially the goddamn carriers.
>>46955659
Nobody ever said it wasn't canon, its just ambiguously canon, unlike the Gundam which shall not be named by order of god (tomino)
>>46955659
While we wait on PF, have a documentary on the Greatest Raid of All.
https://youtu.be/nXusKM5uX0s
>>46955403
>>46955659
>gundam canon
you will never have sex
just puttin that out there
VOTES CALLED
>>46955673
>You know, I've gotta hand it to all the actual officers who still eat here. Brave sons of bitches.
I laughed really fucking hard at this you have no fucking idea
>>46955625
>>46955741
Neither will you!
>>46955741
and one of the machines in the pic isn't even from gundam
>>46955273
Brilliant.
>>46955771
Catte Catte please we all know that his sister fixed that.
>>46955741
>>46955774
oh my god
dude
I was literally THIS close to writing that exact same thing on that image
you have no idea
>>46955741
Neither will you, King Gyrosizedass
>>46955705
Why are Atagos tits so huge.
>>46955771
But you yourself proved that statement false.
>>46955809
Because Pan Paka Pan
>>46955809
Hopes and dreams.
Guys don't run into the image limit so quickly again damnit
>>46955797
>>46955771
You gonna start holding out on him, Catte?
>>46955771
>>46955809
The Takao-class were really top-heavy because of their massive Battleship-style bridge.
They fixed these topweight problems with Maya, so that's why the younger two Takaos aren't as stacked.
>>46955759
Especially considering that they may be the captains of ships we'll command.
Mustin's skipper could very well have seen Hornet at meals, or be watching the current shitshow with a morbid fascination.
>That hipster saved my life. That man, right there, came to the rescue and shot the shit out of an abyssal, and now we're here, and he's having a slapfight with his sister.
>>46955844
ahahahahaa
>>46955823
>>46955825
but really, why
why are all of the Takao's like that
>>46955198
A drunk carrier you say?
>>46955741
>wanting 3DPD
g r o s s
>>46955827
IT'S TOO LATE. WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE LIMIT LIKE A SR-71 HITS THE SOUND BARRIER.
>>46955792
>we all know his sister fixed him
FTFY
YOU MADE ME USE THIS
No offense to /qt sekojgsrgfg
This just came to mind.
>>46955771
I think that ship has sailed
or in other words, you could say that bun is already in the oven
>The big tits destroyer is dead
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
RIP Hamakaze.
>>46955851
So.What would Atlanta look like, its widely considered to be one of, if not the most top heavy cruisers ever built
>>46955786
Yes~ more pictures for the slide show. I need to put these in a password protected folder so my wife doesn't stumble on to them.
>>46955767
What the fuck just happened there.
That was a pigeon, though, not a crane or eagle.
>>46955844
ahahaha okay you fucker, that was good.
>>46955918
>>46955918
Dammit col, you made me snort very loudly in the office.
>>46955894
>aged up DesDiv6
>>46955918
Just tell her you're making another SHARP vid.
>>46955911
Cowtits.
>>46955851
That's not saying much as they're still nicely sized and still pretty sex bombish (Tomboy and Nerdy babe flavors)... and wear less clothing.
>>46955908
Supposedly, don't recall any real comfirmation in the actual quest itself. That and it's IRC faggotry related so fuck that.
>>46955918
Just for you sir.
>>46955938
>>46955957
but shes a CL
>>46955954
HA!
DON'T GIVE DESTROYERS MONSTER.
>>46955863
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHglkEkuzJs
Threadly reminder that Jun'you is a friendly drinking buddy
More Hamp/Houston shenanigans when.
These ones ended too soon.
I wonder if Shimikaze's heard of the LCS yet.
If there's a single thing that misbegotten ship IS, it's fast.
>>46955953
Yeah and she'd give me a very flat and dead stare before asking "why are you doing it on your laptop instead of at work? Why are you using anime characters for it and why do they all look like little girls? And most importantly why are YOU doing it in the first place?
>>46955949
take it up with the guy who drew it then
>>46955918
Pictures for the picture show!
>>46955991
But what if destroyers are the ones giving out Monster?
>try to make poster
>flash keeps crashing
Could someone copy/paste the Navy Seal copypasta onto the one with the guy in the plane?
>>46955982
Doesn't matter.
>>46955991
Huh. I wonder... give DesDiv6 SCIENCE-coffee, what happens?
>>46956040
introduce her to cute girls doing cute things.
>>46955991
Nah, see, this is fucking wrong.
Give them Monster then shove them at Settle and fucking bail out. Good fucking times.
>>46955991
Oh, we could do much worse...
>>46956040
Introduce to Kancolle
>>46955930
>>46955767
>pacman swallows a ghost.gif
>>46956076
I will pay to see this happen.
Money, alcohol, easily misplaced equipment, anything.
>>46956077
Well, we already gave her Navy Coffee, and we've seen what that does. I argue we give that to shipgirls to drink in action as a last ditch, need to utterly dodge everything measure.
>Iowa's
>actually being able to go fast without flooding themselves
>>46956043
>>46956076
Nah see with a type like Akatsuki you give her Black Blood of the Earth with some Vodka....then shove her at Settle and bail.
>>46956040
I've been through that exact same conversation except it was with a bunch of people from the hood and a lot more ebonics were thrown around. Good times.
>>46956076
You should do that more, maybe use Akebono, Ushio, or Mutsuki.
>>46956076
Once the K-classes start getting shunted to japan, you will find out the true meaning off asshole hate, because these blimps came back as FLOATING ASSHOLE CATS THAT CRAP DEPTH CHARGES FROM THE SKY
>>46956040
>>46956091
What would she think of KCQ, I wonder...?
>>46956125
That is fucking RICH and I am dying of laughter right now.
>>46956118
>that fucking wake
jesus christ
Is this what happens when 50,000 tons of ship goes through the water at 33 knots?
>>46956127
All the while having some poor NCO videotaping/livestreaming the entire thing direct to fucking Liveleak.
Now lets talk about arming carriers with large caliber weaponry.:^ )
![1461229574906[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mnqPYLy.jpg "1461229574906[1].jpg")
As a side note, Haifuri is pretty fun
>>46956174
216,000 shaft horsepower takes no shit.
>>46956197
FAT STACKS
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>>46956076
Oh, Lieutenant. I have good news for you!
The Power Bag of Doorknobs is COMPLETE!
Sure, I had to shove in a few dozen archaeotech power fields miniature generators into it and it always run a constant, low probability chance of causing a Warp Rift if the alignement of the fields fail, but it works!
>>46956197
Battlecarriers?
What would the hull designation for those be? CVBB?
>>46956197
Oh, right
Threadly reminder that Lexington is stacked
>>46956155
She'd find it funny and entertaining but wouldn't be able to stand the shitposting inbetween the story posts.
>>46956213
I came expecting cute and silly and shit and I got... actual story... with drama and tension and it amazes me.
I forgot to post this in the last thread. USS Bennington (CV-20) passing the wreck of USS Arizona, date unknown.
>EVERY THREAD
>>46956235
Pegasus-Class
>>46956230
Lexington literally never, Guy ended up being a shitposter like navyfag.
>>46956235
Nah, early carriers had relatively large-caliber guns mounted (usually 8 inch guns) to fend off theoretical gunfire attacks. No one really realized that if a carrier could be shot at, it was pretty much already toast. IIRC Kaga had them too. Or Akagi. Maybe both.
>>46956109
Hell, I'd dig out some not so easily misplaced stuff to see that.
![1461238954001[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/CG3HeDA.jpg "1461238954001[1].png")
>>46956246
Yeah, I'm dying to see how the speculation plays out
>>46956236
She looks like an Jewish-Araphoe chick I know. Huge fucking knockers on her.
>>46956235
>double B's
>not double DD's
>>46956266
I'd give her my Trojan Horse if you know what I mean.
>>46956266
Ah, Mirai's eternal rival for Bright's heart.
>>46956246
Archive is your friend, to avoid shitposts
>>46956246
So that's why you introduce her to DbC's transcriptions on SB, instead. No shitposting to deal with.
>>46955897
you fuckin cunt you're the little bitch that forgot the second / in the sticky ain't you
>>46956266
You know, I would go a step farther and post up some *other* sci-fi ships that combine battleship and carrier roles, but I don't want to waste picture space on those, especially when we're having such a constructive thread.
>>46956294
DD is destroyer, though, not indicative of a battleship.
>>46956259
>You
>>46955911
skipped leg day
>>46956335
This. If they want to see the story, they can just see the transcriptions as they go up.
>>46956280
Both did, but in much more retarded locations.
Lexington's and Saratoga's at least made sense in that they were actually usable.
Not to mention that since early-mid 1930's carrier doctrine often had CV's operating alone, with destroyer escorts at best, the chance of them running into an enemy scouting force at night/in bad weather was a very real threat (and that exact thing happened several times during the Fleet Problems).
>>46956347
... like the Galactica?
>>46956335 yeah but you have to manually find each thread and its currently behind ATM
>>46956335
SB is certainly a stomping grounds of mine.
You look down at your half-finished meal, then up at the slow-speed, stumbling, but very kinetic charge of the staggering, stumbling Essex, and feel something deep within you finally give way. As the eyes of everyone present beat down on you, waiting for Admiral Settle, Hero of LA, Indian name “Stands-With-A-Sword” to stand up, assume the position, and start the lengthy screaming that charges your Final Attack...something curious happens.
You stop caring.
It's never, ever going to end, you realize. There will always be another crisis. There will always be another disaster. You have lost control of your life, there's no going back, and there's no reward for coming in first - just a strong incentive to never finish dead last.
So you snatch up Shoukaku's oatmeal bowl and HURL it.
>>46956139
I want belbat to leave
>>46956335
>No shitposting to deal with.
There's still shitposting there, though.
Unless you only search up DbC's stuff - and even then he incorporates some of the posts into the archive.
>>46956381
Among others.
>>46956347
Star Destroyers kanmusu when?
Now, ball games were never your sport - fencing was. But you got pretty good at the whole ballistic arc thing - there was this one little fucker on your first deployment that filled you with such deep and horrible hatred that you went out and bought a goddamned sack of golf balls at the first liberty port (the look on the Filipino cashier's face was absolutely priceless,) and for the next few months, every time you were on night bridge watch with Ensign Asshole, it was a simple matter of slipping a golf ball out of your pocket and lofting it clear over the bridge roof towards his station on the opposite wing. It took a few weeks of sending balls into the water opposite to get good at it, but soon you could drop them on his damned cover from halfway across the ship, if you wanted. They nearly section-8ed the dumb bastard.
It turns out that throwing things is another one of those skills ingrained deep in your muscle memory, because the bowl of oatmeal arcs gracefully through the air and whaps into Essex's litso perfectly. She squeals most satisfyingly, tripping over her own feet and going down in a heap, leaving Kaga to stagger upright, still blinking at this bright new World she finds herself in.
“BLIIIIIIIIIND!” Essex is shouting. “I'M BLIIIiiioh is that yes that's maple mmmIIIIIIIIIIIIIND-”
Haruna starts violently and turns to flee, smashing right into someone trying to fill his glass with milk. He turns and glares down at the poor girl, who retreats from him in turn, looking up apprehensively at the tall man with the commander's insignia on his shirt.
“Excuse me?” he asks pointedly.
>>46956347
>not indicative of a battleship
>insulting Lex's stacks
>>46956316
Thats the stern m8.
Hint: Look at the fucking direction the smoke is traveling in.
Also, Iowas bow has a very heavy up-slope, that would be quite visible from that angle.
>>46956394
goddamn it settle
>>46956383
Threadmarks are your friend. You can skip EVERY non-story post.
>>46956399
too bad, the corgis are a cross fanfic thing and thus the K-class hovercats will be too
Haruna turns to flee - and sees Essex staggering to her feet, the bowl gone and the oatmeal reducing her pretty face to a single massless blob with hints of motion beneath it. She seems to have inhaled some of the meal, because all she can do now is emit vague, awful-sounding snorts and hics and moans.
“SAAAAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-” Haruna screams, flinging herself into the arms of the hapless commander. After studying the enroaching beast for a second, he presses his empty glass against the water dispenser instead, then waits patiently for Essex to meander into range - which means he must be Fitzgerald's skipper. A quick splash of water later, and Essex is blinking, unblinded, hatless, and looking significantly more sober. With one finger on the top of her head, he gently guides Harnua away from him - then turns and shoots a Look towards your corner.
You glance around innocently for a few seconds before deciding he caught your eye. You smile and wave innocently.
He gives you a lidded-eyed look, regards his glass dubiously, and decides for coffee instead. Haruna watches him go with starry eyes, her clasped hands pressed to her chest. She turns to drift away dreamily, safe at last - and finds herself withering before the towering Umbrage of her sister Kirishima.
“I knew it,” you say flatly.
“Knew what?” Zuikaku asks.
“I really *didn't* make it off that bridge.”
>>46956423
>>46956394
>Indian name “Stands-With-A-Sword”
It's even more perfect than I could have hoped for
>So you snatch up Shoukaku's oatmeal bowl and HURL it.
ohfug
>>46956428
what an appropriate gif
>>46956430
Yeah, I realized that after another look and realizing that the "Christmas Tree" was too small to be the JTDS antenna. Was hoping that I deleted it fast enough that nobody saw, but...
>>46956460
Yep. we bought it in LA, and this is some fucked up hell, i fucking knew it.
>>46956492
Well yeah I mean you are a devil dog.
>>46956460
Oh, looks like Haruna's gotten bitten by the BURNING LOVE.
>>46956472
>>>Indian name “Stands-With-A-Sword”
>It's even more perfect than I could have hoped for
should just be Stands With Sword, the A just adds clutter
>>46956460
>which means he must be Fitzgerald's skipper
AHAHAHAHA YES
SETTLE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE TOUCHED BY THE SHIPGIRL WEIRD
>>46956423
>It took a few weeks of sending balls into the water opposite to get good at it, but soon you could drop them on his damned cover from halfway across the ship, if you wanted. They nearly section-8ed the dumb bastard.
I don't get it. Can anybody explain?
>>46956399
>I want belbat to leave
Hey, I only post about it if someone else mentions it first.
>>46956481
You can't beat the speed of autism.
>>46956523
according to my extensive military knowledge of having watched MASH a few times, section eight is where they kick you out for being crazy
>>46956523
When you hate a man so much, you get good at pelting him with golf balls from ANYWHERE on the ship to ANYWHERE ELSE on the ship.
>>46956492
Being in Hell explains why you're afraid to bone the hotel, at least.
>>46956522
That was just a joke at the expense of the Harpoon. (75nm range woo hoo)
>>46956523
>I don't get it. Can anybody explain?
Settle just threw golf balls clear over the bridge so they'd land near the guy standing watch on the other side. Maybe even hitting his hat sometime. The guy clearly complained and everyone told him he was imagining things.Oh, they fucking knew, but they hated him too. He was That Guy.
>>46956523
I assume it's because - since Settle was tossing them from so far away - Ensign Asshole thought he was going crazy since the golf balls seemed to come out of nowhere, and he couldn't see anyone nearby throwing them.
>>46956197
Essex is already pretty well armed. Her AA was the best at its prime, so leveling effect is going to make her amazing at shooting down enemy planes. Not to mention she has actual jets.
And as >>46956280 said, if they can get shot at, they're in trouble.
>>46956523
He made the guy almost go legit crazy by hitting him in the head at night repeatedly while on watch.
Hornet is flat.
>>46956492
Or maybe he survived as a spooky ghost, and he's here to haunt you and settle for the rest of eternity.
>>46956587
Why is there that rim around the elevator? Wouldn't that screw with a plane's landing gear?
>>46956460
Magnificent.
Hokay, I'm done for tonight. We do have some writeups to post, including the newest Shimakazetime!
I'll be running an omake thread on Friday - it's canon, but not directly related to the main story - and a normal thread on Saturday. I have an idea in mind for the omake thread - it's more battle action involving conventional ships (this time, a sub vs a surface force) but if there's something else you'd like to see, sing out!
>>46956605
So who was the guy one of the Kongo sisters was furtively looking at?
>>46956608
that thing is like, 3 inches tall
tops
plane wheels are several feet in diameter
>>46956587
Hornet is perflat
>>46956394
>>46956423
>>46956460
I caused all of this. I caused all of this and honestly I couldn't be happier. Fuck with my first meal of the day again eh Essex?! See how that goes for you. Settle may have chucked a bowl of oatmeal at you but I'm there glaring at you from the other side of the room, burning the paint off your hull in my hungover rage.
>>46956608
The tires on the planes could easily clear it. You just don't have any proper reference points for a plane-sized object.
So did Fitzgerald's captain just got himself a ship girl lusting after him?
>>46956608
It was to make sure planes and people didn't fall off while they were raising/lowering the elevator. It's flush to the deck when fully raised.
>>46956626
Based on her reaction to Haruna, maybe Fitzgerald's skipper.
>>46956625
Cheers boss.
Speaking of canon, what the fuck is true re: Shoukaku? Was she summoned, like in the trippy dream writeup? Or did she come back on her own like she told us on the date?
