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'''''Kimi no Na Iowa''''', also known as '''''your (name is) Iowa''''', is a ''[[Kantai Collection]]/[[Your Name]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic|Alternate Universe]], [[Continuation]] and [[Fusion Fic]] cowritten by max_and_emilytate and WarpObscura, with art from bapjart, Hiroki Ree and melisaongmiqin. It can be found at [https://archiveofourown.org/works/10736196/chapters/23795292 Archive of Our Own], [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12428909/1/Kimi-no-Na-Iowa FanFiction.Net], [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kimi-no-na-iowa-the-zeroth-draft-kantai-collection-kimi-no-na-wa-inspired-au-continuation.497240/ SpaceBattles] and [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/kimi-no-na-iowa-the-zeroth-draft-kantai-collection-kimi-no-na-wa-inspired-au-continuation-rehost.37595/ Sufficient Velocity]. It originally ran from February 2017 to December 2021 and was initially marked complete, but returned in June 2022 after a [[Creator Breakdown]]-induced hiatus.
'''<big>WARNING! Unmarked [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]s ahead for ''[[Your Name]]'' and the rest of [[Makoto Shinkai]]'s filmography. Beware.</big>'''
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* [[A-Team Firing]]: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals if not equipped with hypertech either of their own or to take targeting data from shipgirls. How much is due to the simple reality of conventional antiship weapons not being made to hit human-sized targets and how much is due to exotic factors is debated in-universe.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In Chapter 31, one of the hints as to the abyssal supreme commander's true identity is that her voice is described as "like a stony river". {{spoiler|In Japanese, "stone river" is literally translated as Ishikawa... as in Yui Ishikawa, the Japanese voice actress of ''[[Azur Lane]]'''s Enterprise.}}
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Shipgirls have, beyond the physical superhumanity inherent to their being warships, [[Teleport Spam]], full spellcasting, and [[More Dakka]] for cruiser-and-above units. They fight abyssal encounters that are larger than in canon, to say nothing of Demons that now {{spoiler|can Step, have [[Anti-Magic]], destroyers with barrages and cruisers with [[Beehive Barrier]]s,}} or the leadership {{spoiler|who as [[Evil Counterpart]]s have the same supernal magic.}}
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Most Natural Borns retain their original names, which are normal-for-their-culture ones like Alice or Ayaka. This is contrasted against the Summoned/Manifested who use their ship names rather than bothering to adopt human ones, and many of said names are things not normally used as names.
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** What Mitsuha was trying to write on Taki's palm in canon is a mystery. Here, it's clear that Ayaka was writing her name.
** The swapping takes place over multiple months here, as opposed to the roughly one of canon.
** Tying in ''[[The Garden of Words]]'', it is eventually revealed that the local versions of Yukari and Takao got married.
* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Chapter Two briefly mentions missing limbs among the injuries inflicted by the first abyssal attacks.▼
** Tying in ''[[Weathering with You]]'' is the presence of Taki/Uileag's grandmother.
** From ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'', {{spoiler|Naganami is actually Mikako born a generation early.}}
* [[An Arm and a Leg]]:
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** In Chapter 33, shipgirls lose limbs to an abyssal attack.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Dead major characters include {{spoiler|Takanami, Yamashiro and Ayaka herself, the last at least in a bad ending that ends at Chapter 39 but is switched away from in Chapter 40.}}
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The full extent of the abyssal target planning seeks the elimination of almost every country that fought either for or against Japan in World War 2. This would entail the destruction of most of the member nations of the G20, and thus the wrecking of the existing world order. Much of Africa, central and eastern Europe less the former USSR, and South America would be spared, and humanity would thus survive, but given the concentration of culture, industry and technology in the destroyed nations, civilization would likely stall for a long time to come even if it avoids major regression.
* [[Arc Words]]:
** [[Ace Combat|"X in every generation..."]]
** [[wikipedia:The lamps are going out|"The lamps (are) go(ing) out..."]]
** [[Mythology Gag|"Just a little more."]]
** [[Battleship (film)|"(You have) given so much (to your country)..."]]
** [[Ace Combat|"We will start over from zero..."]]
** "For the good/[[NieR: Automata|glory of mankind.]]"
** [[Honkai Impact 3rd|"This is my mission."]]
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]:
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** Chapter Eight alludes to Peter's denial of Jesus.
** Or Energy is called "mana from Heaven" in Chapter Nine.
** Yorktown asks Ayaka whether saving Willie D was really the right thing to do, or merely what was right in her own eyes.
** The question of whether to give a screwup seven chances or 70 times 7 is asked, analogous to Peter's question of how many times to forgive a sinning brother.
** Ayaka wonders just how far the parable of the lost sheep can be extended.
** [[Religious Bruiser]] {{spoiler|Northampton}} throws Biblical allusions and quotes around like candy.
** In Chapter 36, a character pulling a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] tells one who she had done it on behalf of the following:
{{quote|“You’re a righteous ship I would sink for... this counts as a good fight to have fought, a race to have finished and a faith to have kept… hah… doesn’t it? It’s okay. This is part of that plan to prosper you and give you hope and a future. Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead.”}}
* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]: Japanese American Ayaka and Irish American Uileag. He also previously had a crush on and failed date with his Japanese senior at work. It's left ambiguous whether he has a type, though, or it's just proximity considering that his besties, in the apparent absence of additional [[Race Lift]] from canon, are also Japanese.
* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: Combined with [[Cluster F-Bomb]] and [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]], Uileag shouts in Chapter 39 that all the medals he gained were not "WORTH A DAMN! FUCKING! [[Country Matters|CUNT]]! THING!"
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted; shipgirls get wounded, even to bloody and limb-losing extents. {{spoiler|Ayaka gets a scar going diagonally across her face as a result of the events of Chapter 36.}}
* [[Being Human Sucks]]: Various Summoned/Manifested shipgirls feel that growing more attuned to humanity, which makes them vulnerable to emotional foibles and suffer longer, is not worth it.
* [[Big Eater]]: Shipgirls regularly eat several times the amount normal humans do, and even moreso after combat, although not to the full hundreds or thousands that their crews would have consumed previously.
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Canon has almost exclusively [[Clothing Damage]], very occasional blood or injury, and only abyssals suffer [[Body Horror]]. Here, however, [[Reality Ensues]] is in play regarding the effects of high-powered naval artillery and antiship bombs, and similar to ''[[Freezing]]'', [[Clothing Damage]] is not about titillation, but comes with gore, even maiming and ''[[Terminator]]''-style degloving down to the endoskeleton.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In Chapter 17, Ayaka suggests bringing Yamashiro to a hedgehog cafe. In Chapter 29, the results of doing so are briefly shown.
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** Legacy: For Ayaka it is the problem of living up to the example of her bloodline and (believed to be) far more capable mother. Historical baggage also affects others, as all shipgirls are moulded by the accomplishments, experiences and failings of their past lives, and so too are the abyssals driven by the need to deal with their own unfinished business.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In Chapter Eight, Uileag is mentioned to be holding something tightly enough as to hurt. It's later revealed to be {{spoiler|a ring}}.
* [[Chest of Medals]]: In Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag says that he drove himself into nigh-suicidal heroics that got him enough in the way of awards to wear as armor.}}
* [[Code Emergency]]:
** In Chapter Five, the spectre of a Case Jötunn - hostile magic user - comes up but doesn't come to pass. This [[Chekhov's Gun]] doesn't get fired until Chapter 32.
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** Chapter 34 takes the perspective of Shizuka Minami, the admiral in charge of Yokosuka's shipgirl flotilla, following the events of the previous two chapters.
** Chapter 35 is a three-in-one, starting with the heads of the various countries' shipgirl forces having a conference on the events of 32 and 33, then a discussion between Ichiyo and a director of BERND, before ending with an attack by abyssal leaders.
* [[Death by Disfigurement]]: In the original universe, {{spoiler|Ayaka succumbs to damage that includes a facial scar.}}
* [[Death Notification]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 38 ends on the door-knocking just before one is delivered. In the bad ending depicted in Chapter 39, it was played straight, but in the alternate universe starting from 40, it is "only" telling of Ayaka's severe injury.}}
* [[Death Seeker]]: As of Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag spent some time as this after Ayaka's death.}}
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* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Such a joke is made in Chapter Nine regarding the sheer size of the ostensibly ''onsen''-style repair baths.
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Shipgirls can drink oil and eat metal, though the right kind of metal matters where efficiency is concerned.
* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|The abyssal leadership is revealed to be composed of American warships... and why? The belief that the Allies have themselves become this by allowing the continued existence of Japan.}}
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
** Shipgirls suffer [[Clothing Damage]] like in canon. Unlike canon, losing clothes usually also comes with suffering injuries and burns, losing blood, flesh and skin, and generally being in a state that anyone who experiences sexual arousal from it should see a mental health professional.
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* [[Four Is Death]]:
** [[Doom Magnet]] William D Porter, whose outrageously bad luck causes harm to those around her, has the callsign Uatu One-Four. Later, {{spoiler|Ayaka is [[Cast from Hit Points|Casting from Hit Points]] in her attempt to save everyone during the retreat from Southeast Asia and runs out after the 256th - 4^4 - rescue,}} and she is once again to blame.
** Inverted in Chapter 32, where it is on the fourth attempt that the [[Sole Survivor]] aircrew of a critically-damaged bomber manages to eject.
** In Chapter 33, it is on the fourth attack of each combo that {{spoiler|Northampton}} manages to get through Naganami's defences.
** The first shipgirl to sink is {{spoiler|Takanami, callsign Riptide}} Four.
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* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: After the initial abyssal attacks on China out of the Yellow Sea penetrated deeply enough inland to do damage to Beijing, fatally wounding none less than the then-president, the dying man told the PLA to do whatever it took to defend the people. They turned to the [[Nuclear Option]] and succeeded. The idea of a LAMP RUB<ref>As in to summon a [[wikipedia:AIR-2 Genie|Genie]]</ref> comes up a few times later as a kind of [[Black Comedy]] [[Running Gag]], only to be used for real in Chapter 36. {{spoiler|With a massive abyssal air attack underway that a human armada has been forced to retreat from, the PLARF CO is brought to the realization that nukes are the only way to drive off the attackers before they sink the armada and turn their attention to Chinese cities once again.}}
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: What exactly happened to a would-be mugger in Chapter 40 is left ambiguous. Uileag only notices some kind of distant mess and red stains around Ayaka's mouth.
* [[Great Offscreen War]]: Not one but two of these. First and further back is some vaguely alluded-to mess with "Yamata" that is strongly implied to be but never outright confirmed as the events of ''[[Debt of Honor]]'', given various Japanese characters' talking about the stains it left on Japan. Second is a "Terror" that Ended over a decade ago, but not before badly impacting the Middle East.
* [[Guilt-Free Extermination War]]: The abyssals want nothing less than the total annihilation of Japan and the USA. They have made unambiguously clear that any other country involved in World War Two must either do a [[Face Heel Turn]] and join them in destroying Japan, or else face the same fate, no other peace talks or surrenders accepted. Even historically-unaligned nations have had their maritime industry destroyed. Mankind naturally has no qualms with fighting back with extreme prejudice.
* [[Hands Go Down]]: In Chapter Nine, Stingray asks the class if they think they can juggle the requirements of spellcasting in their heads. A few hands rise. She asks further about doing so in the heat of combat. The hands drop.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]:
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** The American version of the summoning speech, as shown in Chapter 22, combines and adapts the Day of Infamy speech, Declaration of Independence, and Gettysburg Address.
** As introduced in Chapter 33 and confirmed in the relevant art, the way {{spoiler|a sinking shipgirl disintegrates into [[Cherry Blossoms]] and [[Disappears Into Light]]}} is based on ''[[Your Lie in April]]''.
** In Chapter 36, a character close to the protagonist makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] while saying "It's my turn now. I hope you don't mind" and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4rtcJnRd6s Nightglow] is playing. {{spoiler|Himeko}} from ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'' or {{spoiler|Yamashiro}} here?
** In Chapter 37, some of {{spoiler|the last words of Uileag to Ayaka in this bad ending}} mirror what Kousei says to Kaori, also from ''[[Your Lie in April]]''.
* [[Horror Hunger]]: Early on after realising her true nature, Ayaka grapples with a newfound unrelenting desire for semen as the most effective source of manpower and mana, which she desperately holds at bay with doubled prayer and ritual. She comes to learn that it's a common issue across all shipgirls courtesy of their sort of [[Enemy Within]], one that most of them happily indulge. That at least some of the few fellow resisters use the consumption of blood as a kind of second-best mystical nicotine replacement therapy doesn't allay her fears. She eventually lets herself go after marrying Uileag, though the boyfriend-turned-husband is understandably concerned about her enthusiasm.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Takanami from Northampton}} in Chapter 32.
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: In Chapter 42, Ayaka wonders if Harumi's OOC frankness is due to the alcohol the other shipgirl is drinking.
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** In Chapter Eight, "you can rely on me more", a catchphrase of Ikazuchi from the game, is used.
** Also in Chapter Eight, a joke is made about Hitomi being a Natural Born. As related in the authors' notes, the authors had previously noted that [https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=61372781 the redesigned Pacific version of Yorktown resembled Sayaka.]
** In Chapter 36, Yamashiro's warcry of "''Watashi wa jama da''!" reflects her canonical "''Jama da''" line from the game's Fall 2017 event.
* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Shipgirls may be [[Big Eater]]s, but they don't need to eat the hundreds to thousands of men's worth of food that their ship selves' crews would have needed in order to function properly.
* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: In Chapter One, {{spoiler|Uileag gets caught in an abyssal bombing that briefly knocks him out, but he is still able-bodied enough after he regains consciousness that he can lead multiple rescue expeditions. It takes a second bombing, which has him [[Blown Across the Room]], to inflict internal injuries that lead to a month-long coma.}} One Corpsman remarks on his luck.
* [[Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond]]: This is used to put the abyssal threat into perspective and illustrate why the shipgirls are needed. By naval standards, a PT boat is no match for a "true" warship, being reliant on ambush tactics and numbers to prevail. Compared to humans, an abyssal PT Imp mounts heavy weapons that will tear a tree in two, never mind a man, will resist anything less, has the size and agility of an [[Enfant Terrible]] with the speed of a car, and is still deployed in numbers more like infantry than ships. The second-weakest abyssal type, destroyers, all carry multiple artillery cannons and need direct hits from equivalent weapons to sink, and things only get worse for the [[Puny Earthlings]] from there. The same applies to the shipgirls opposing them; it is said in-universe that even a destroyer would easily overpower any wannabe sexual predator no matter what fancy grappling tricks might be employed, and an old battleship like Yamashiro can still pull a train or plow unstoppably through a crowd.
* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: Even years after the Cometfall, Ayaka still finds strange that her once staunchly exclusive grandmother is willing to consider applicants to the shrine who aren't linked to the family either by blood or marriage.▼
* [[The Oathbreaker]]: {{spoiler|The abyssals consider themselves this. Halsey made a promise that they
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]:
** The fall and later retaking of Pearl Harbor take place at some point in between Chapters One and Three. The readers get naught but brief comments as to what happened during these two vital battles.
** Chapter 32 starts in the midst of a campaign to liberate Southeast Asia, one that has retaken Singapore by the start of Chapter 36, but none of the intermediary battles are covered onscreen.
▲* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: Even years after the Cometfall, Ayaka still finds strange that her once staunchly exclusive grandmother is willing to consider applicants to the shrine who aren't linked to the family either by blood or marriage.
* [[Overranked Soldier]]: Discussed and inverted in Chapter Seven. Ayaka asks why a captain is commanding a mere six shipgirls, something that seems like a junior NCO's assignment. Cecil points out to her that, command of the support staff notwithstanding, having a battleship and a carrier means this would normally be for an admiral to take instead.
* [[Painting the Medium]]:
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** Averting [[Rock Beats Laser]], anti-abyssal guerillas are not having a good time; unlike normal human invaders, even the weakest PT Imp is [[Immune to Bullets]] and retaliates with heavy weapons that will tear a tree in half, never mind a man. Anything that does work, the abyssals have the numbers to push through, and their not having a civilian populace to be [[Slave to PR]] to means that they have no rules of engagement forcing them to play nice with humanity.
** William D Porter being a clumsy, fratricidal [[The Jinx]] is not [[Played for Laughs]] like in most other ''[[Kantai Collection]]'' stories, but instead results in her being [[The Millstone]], [[The Friend Nobody Likes]], and developing suicidal ideation from the guilt of her repeated wrongs however accidental.
** [[Ragdoll Physics]] looks funny in fiction, but is wince-inducingly agonising in "reality".
** People don't universally react to an [[Inhumanly Beautiful Race]] with attraction or desire. Some have [[Uncanny Valley]] reactions.
** [[A Man Is Always Eager]]? No. When Ayaka turns out to be an [[Insatiable Newlyweds|Insatiable Newlywed]] whose newfound postmarital hunger drives her into [[Making Love in All the Wrong Places]], Uileag is more than a little disturbed and reluctant.
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** People expecting the canonical depiction of Iowa.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Takanami}} is a major occupant of Naganami's orbit, spends several scenes together with her, and is the first shipgirl to sink a decently large number of chapters in.
* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: The abyssals desire to annihilate modern Japan for the crimes of its generations-removed old empire, and any other country that fought it previously but stopped short of destroying it entirely as well.
* [[Snow Means Death]]: In Chapter 37, it is snowing as {{spoiler|Ayaka has a premortem conversation with Uileag.}}
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: In Chapter Four, {{spoiler|Nijimi}} proves that she's not a hallucination by telling Ayaka something only the two of them would have known.
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** In Chapter One, {{spoiler|a badly-hurt Uileag who thinks he's dying asks that his apologies be passed along to Ayaka.}}
** Chapter 33 has "''osaki ni shitsureishimasu''", a common Japanese expression of apology for leaving early, being the last words of {{spoiler|Takanami.}}
** Chapter 34 recounts Admiral Minami apologising to her husband and children when she thought she was having her last moments.
** Chapter 37 has {{spoiler|Ayaka repeatedly apologising for (what she thinks is) her imminent death.}}
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]:
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** Chapter 12 mentions the cooldown to restart Stepping and how {{spoiler|Ayaka's}} magical defences are protecting her. A short while later, they fail at a bad time.
** In Chapter 29, Naganami mentions that no abyssals fight in melee. Guess what happens a few chapters later.
* [[Thank the Maker]]: Summoned shipgirls swear by the Secretary of the Navy or equivalent office.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]:
** In Chapter One, {{spoiler|after completing 12 runs of search and rescue, it is on the next one that Uileag falls victim to a second abyssal bombing.}}
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** Unlike in ''Pacific'' canon where Iowa came with the hat, Ayaka here inherits it from her late mother.
** In Chapter 41, {{spoiler|Ayaka is passed a set of tassels from now-sunken Yamashiro's spares.}}
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: In Chapter 33, two characters demonstrate anger so cold it becomes "Arctic".
* [[Translation Convention]]: Various bilingual or multilingual characters exist, including all shipgirls, and their use of non-English languages is mostly rendered as English in curly brackets instead of quotes.
* [[True Sight]]: As of Chapter Eight, following Ayaka's Reawakening, some of the people around her develop the ability to see her true nature even when she doesn't have her rigging out.
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** "Hardware diagnostics" is used to describe Uileag-in-Ayaka's exploration of her body, as well as that of her-in-his.
** The fact that consumption of semen is the most effective means for a shipgirl to gain manpower for her crew leads to "recruitment" (as in recruiting sailors) being used extensively when shipgirl (hyper)sexuality is discussed.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Appropriate appearance and behavior or not, you'd think a woman taller than most men would attract more attention. The narration is almost aggressive in its insistence that nobody is taking a second look at Ayaka.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: On one side is Shinkai's [[Original Flavour]] refusal to spoonfeed the viewer, combined with much drawing from the canon of his filmography. On the other is that many instances of [[Foreshadowing]] draw on knowledge of naval history and technical specifications. Put them together and this was probably inevitable.
* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: After the summary, the prologue is about the abyssal supreme commander starting the attack on humanity.
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