50/50 chance that either the world war killed off too many people
It's not that bad, although a lot of overseas territory is occupied and the east coast got pretty beat up in a particularly...
creative abyssal offensive a few months into the war, a
lot of people in Southeast Asia made it to Australia, India or China when everything went south, and then took a return convoy to the better-supplied Americas. It's caused a lot of economic problems, but nothing catastrophic yet.
I understand you have limited experience as an illegal immigrant. Be prepared for people poking holes in what you write.
I would also like to extend an offer of help. If you want it, you will have it from me.
Thank you! I'll probably have to be asking a few questions further down the line, then.
I'm not worried about people picking holes in my story, though. Rewriting a Chapters can be inconvenient, but if it results in an overall stronger story it's a net gain, in my opinion.
Also with Tenryuu: Her learning Hockey might be dangerous! You want to see her checking an Supply depot before yanking that sweater over the poor facility's head and just punching the shit out of her.
There's a HMCS joke here that would probably be too easy to make.
Cue, a confused shipgirl as our cute Wo-chan keeps doing favors for her. Exchanging favors is something the Abyssal are more familiar with then simply trusting someone from another allied fleet.
Next thing you know, she's getting buzzed by hell divers dropping money, contact information, or interesting-looking trinkets.
Seattle, far more than San Francisco and San Diego, is a Navy town. That means a LOT of shipgirls are home ported here, as well as having lots of transients coming and going because of the convoys te the Far East
I'll be mentioning to it soon, but the problem should be a little better in Redmond, where she's now job hunting.
It is still a problem, though. The next interlude should explain why.
Now that I think about it. There is a virtually endless number of possibilitys. As long if interacting with people is in her job description hilarity will follow.
In some ways, that's a bit of an issue insomuch as there's a big chance of me running this premise into the ground. If I try and write every idea I had, this fic would drag on for way too long.
Oh well, that means more room for another author, if they want to write an Omake or put their own spin on it.
Carpentry is still an option because of her wooden flight deck
Doubly so because of how recently acquainted Trinitite has become in repairing it...
Well, maybe a knockoff. Remember, her Princess became a shipgirl, she may indeed BE an Essex deep down inside.
She's a bootleg Essex, but I think I should give a meta reason for that rather than just saying it:
Simply put, if
Every Abyssal was the spirit of an old ship, I'd have a world-building nightmare on my hands. I can barely keep track of which ships have come back as Princesses, let alone who's in every fleet (in a world war) and more importantly
why. I don't know my naval history
that well, and researching it all would burn me out for sure.
Here I can be a bit more relaxed with worldbuilding, assuming each ship came back on our side unless I took a glance at their history and discovered something terrible like, for a
totally hypothetical example, that they were used as a floating prison that political dissidents were dissapeared into and never seen again.
It's a good way to play around mistakes, too. I kinda suffered a critical research failure in the first few chapters, and assumed the Essex class only had two elevators, instead of the three they did use. I can chalk that up to the Eldritch Abomination that built Trinitite playing around with the design a bit without having do a serious recon, allowing me to say that her sisters
do have the usual three elevators, but might differ from the regular Essex hull-forms in some other odd manner. Look, you can only throw together so many Wo's before you start to mess around with the design, okay?
It also lets me be a bit more relaxed with paper designs. If I wanted to throw something silly like a Tillman Hybrid-Carrier conversion into a battle I could, without having to justify it as much.
