-_-
*sigh*
Anyway:
Generally speaking, I agree with you on KCQ... But I actually kind of like the whole "PT Boats are small dogs" thing. Granted, I wouldn't pick corgis, I'd pick hunting dogs, but that's irrelevant.
I'm not a fan of non-human (i.e., animal) ships to begin with. Part of that is the fact I don't like KCQ, part of it is...
where do you draw the line?
PT-Boats? Those could get up to nearly 60 tons displacement and 80 feet. PT-109 in particular was in the mid-fifties for her tonnage. Why do I bring this up? Well...like I said, where does the cut-off land if you're going to arbitrarily make ships of a certain size animals? 50? 100? 200?
1000? That last number being in the ballpark for a
Flower-class corvette that BelBat has as Newfies. Where is the cut-off?
Because
canonical Maru-yu weighs only around 300 tons at most. She would be an animal under that rule set.
Or should I tell the subs that their grandma-bote
Hunley is a little puppy? I mean, she displaces significantly less and is a good bit shorter than even a PT-boat. Even the first Brit sub (Holland I) is shorter than a PT and only displaces about twice as much. Or do we run on crew? Because that still leaves the grandma subs out of luck, considering a PT could have up to 17 men.
There's also the
canonical daihatsu. Which can get up to the 20's in tonnage as well, and is a fairy operated craft.
This is why I don't like animals. It works for comedy, but if you're trying to make a serious fic, there's way too much arbitrary stuff in it for me to like it. Leaving out the fact that I personally don't like making something that a bunch of men served on and may have seen as a woman (like most sailors see their ships) into a dog or other animal. For reasons.
