Just posted a short one-shot called 'Frigate', about the surprising way an unexpected type of ship could contribute.
As I recall, Chicago was the Home Port of a US training ship carrier."The docks were on fire, but it wasn't my fault..."
Turns out having a public listing as a wizard in the phone book and a few official contacts among the police and other departments who know that it's not just card tricks and wires makes you a hot commodity when the angry spirits of sunken warships rise to claim the seas from humanity. Harry Dresden had his hands full dealing with the White Council and fae and vampires, why is everyone so eager to make him the point man on dealing with these new "Abyssal" creatures too?
In most of the cultures writing These fics, ships are traditionally referred to as "she/her". And almost every case we see of "shipboys", they are used to avoid having LGBT pairings that would normally result from shipping in such a mono-gender cast of characters, so the use of them is frequently frowned on in the fandom.
From what I understand, India uses male pronouns for ships (but female for submarines), and Russia has them referred to as a gender matching their name. So, it might be best if you used a ship from one of those, rather than a Japanese, English/American or German one, where tradition uses female gender for them?I'm not even talking about using one for the pairing value, just the idea of a male with the full power of a warship within his body.
Hell, maybe make him the only Fleetchild in existence for the fic....
Not in Kantai Collection, but honestly I don't see why not. Some national traditions do hold ships as being male. And besides, the whole idea is the personification of an inanimate object. I don't see why male would be any different from female from an in-universe perspective.
It's actually wrong. der - die - das ... the 'gender' of German ships, ultimately explained.The first result on google for "warship gender" is Why do ships have a gender?
Which notes the German navy uses he, at least historically.
Merchant ships are refered as male in Italy, yes. Warships are customarily female, despite whatever name they bear.I think Italian ships are considered male? ISTR something about that in some kancolle story thread. I know a lot of the words pertaining to ships in French and Spanish are masculine, but all their nouns are gendered unlike English, and no one expects furniture to be packing some junk under the tablecloth.
Uh, no? We need to distinguish betwwen common parlance (in which the gender can change depending on the term used - such as nave/battello or incorciatore/cacciatorpediniere/corazzata) and official/customary speak where:Merchant ships are refered as male in Italy, yes. Warships are customarily female, despite whatever name they bear.