Kimi no Na Iowa: Difference between revisions
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* [[Dramatic Irony]]: In Chapter Two, the things Uileag-in-Ayaka had done are recounted to Ayaka, who at this point has been made to forget them.
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: In Chapter Two, Ayaka drops her phone after receiving a certain piece of bad news.
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Shipgirls can drink oil and eat metal, though the right kind of metal matters where efficiency is concerned.
* [[Five Second Foreshadowing]]: In Chapter Three, Ayaka notices a droning noise like a propeller plane moments before an abyssal airstrike.
* [[Flashback Cut]]: A large part of Chapter Four involves jumping back and forth between Ayaka's in-universe regaining her memories of what happened previously or in [[Flash Sideways]] and her reaction to them.
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** In Chapter Four, "Mitsuha" was considered as one of the names to give Ayaka.
** In Chapter Five, Washington projects an icon of her scout plane followed by two holographic banners of her guns when entering Artillery Spotting mode, similar to in the game.
** The narration mentions starting with land-based planes before using naval aviation and then reaching shelling range, which is how the order of combat phases goes ingame.
** Quincy points out that Albacore and O'Bannon look like sisters. The fic uses the ''[[Warship Girls]]'' versions of them, which are drawn by the same artist, Saru.
** A [[Running Gag]] starting from Chapter Six is for others to expect Ayaka to look like the canonical version of Iowa.
** Also in Chapter Six is talk of Iowa discussing corn production with Khrushchev, [https://hon-haka.org/archives/2394 which happened in Pacific canon.]
* [[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.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]:
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** [[Team Fortress 2|Any second now. Any second...]]
** When talking about O'Bannon's past in Chapter Six, Albacore does a jig based on Pikotaro's PPAP.
** [[Chinatown|"Forget it, Iowa. It's Quincy."]]
** [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|"Ayayayayayaaaa.exe]] is not responding."
** [[Spec Ops: The Line|"Death toll... too many."]]
** [[Invincible|"What do we have after 500 million?"]]
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* [[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.
* [[Sorry That I'm Dying]]: In Chapter One, {{spoiler|a badly-hurt Uileag who thinks he's dying asks that his apologies be passed along to Ayaka.}}
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Ayaka is a towering 6'8", appropriate considering how her original ship self was among the longest of its generation. Saratoga is
* [[Steel Ear Drums]]: In Chapter Three, Ayaka wonders how her eardrums are still intact after firing naval artillery.
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Mentioned to not be the case in Chapter Four with a mid-battle conversation only possible because of [[Time Master]]y.
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** The abyssal attack on the Task Force VALKYRIE armada that claims the lives of {{spoiler|Ayaka and Yamashiro}} takes place on December 13.
* [[Throwaway Country]]: In Chapter Three, several countries like Indonesia, Malta and Singapore are mentioned as having been harmed by the abyssals.
* [[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.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Hardware diagnostics" is used to describe Uileag-in-Ayaka's exploration of her body, as well as that of her-in-his.
* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: After the summary, the prologue is about the abyssal supreme commander starting the attack on humanity.
* [[Worst Aid]]: In Chapter One, Uileag briefly contemplates the wisdom or lack thereof in moving someone who's been injured. He also tells a constructionman not to remove shrapnel lest the victim bleed out faster.
* [[You No Take Candle]]: In Chapter Six, Alice's brief attempt at speaking Japanese to Ayaka is presented as this after going through [[Translation Convention]].
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