Kimi no Na Iowa

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Kimi no Na Iowa, also known as your (name is) Iowa, is a Kantai Collection/Your Name 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 Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.Net, SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity. It ran from February 2017 to December 2021 and is now complete.

WARNING! Unmarked Late Arrival Spoilers ahead for Your Name and the rest of Makoto Shinkai's filmography. Beware.

In one universe, Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu reunite at a certain staircase, and their story ends.

In another, Uileag Greer and Ayaka Godai discover that theirs is not over yet. Aquatic hostiles codenamed "abyssals" emerge to wage war on mankind, while warships of old return in human form to defend us. Ayaka is thrust into the spotlight when she learns that she is really the reincarnation of USS Iowa (BB-61), specifically the Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls version thereof, and is forced to struggle with what this means both for herself and those around her.

Tropes used in Kimi no Na Iowa include:
  • A-Team Firing: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Chapter Two briefly mentions missing limbs among the injuries inflicted by the first abyssal attacks.
  • Anyone Can Die: Dead major characters include Takanami, Yamashiro and Ayaka herself.
  • As the Good Book Says...: In Chapter Three, “What profit you if you save the whole world and lose your soul?!” is asked of Uileag.
  • 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! CUNT! THING!"
  • 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.
  • Continuation: While there are some small changes because of the different setting, what came before is mostly adherent to what was depicted in Your Name.
  • Continuity Porn: There are many, many Call Backs to canon. The authors Shown Their Work on knowledge of canon, but it can be confusing to those coming in from the other fandom.
  • Death Seeker: As of Chapter 39, Uileag spent some time as this after Ayaka's death.
  • Distant Finale: Chapter 39 takes place nine years after 38.
  • Downer Ending: By way of inverting Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending. Humanity has won the war, but at the cost of 500 million dead. Ayaka dies. Even nine years later, both her family and Uileag are still suffering the effects of her loss.
  • 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.
  • 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, Ayaka is 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.
    • In Chapter 33, it is on the fourth attack of each combo that Northampton manages to get through Naganami's defences.
    • The first shipgirl to sink is Takanami, callsign Riptide Four.
    • The abyssal attack on the Task Force VALKYRIE armada that claims the lives of Ayaka and Yamashiro is the fourth one directly involving one of their leaders.
  • Full Name Ultimatum: Ayaka gives Uileag the full three-name treatment in Chapter Three out of her Anger Born of Worry.
  • Fusion Fic: This world sees the events of an Alternate Universe Your Name happen in the backstory and it progresses into the abyssal attacks and returning shipgirls of Kantai Collection.
  • History Repeats:
    • Once again, an attack on Pearl Harbor is begun with a command to climb a mountain.
    • The sinking of Takanami occurs in the Solomon Islands from an attack led by Northampton, but not before she plays a vital part in the counterattack.
    • The sinking of Yamashiro occurs in Filipino waters as she is covering a retreat, though also inverted as it takes place in day rather than night.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: Uileag crying in Chapter 39 is explicitly described as "loudly and uglily".
  • Ironic Echo: In Chapter Three, Uileag gives not being able to leave anyone to die as the reason for his actions in Chapter One, something that Ayaka gives him grief over. In Chapter 36, it's Ayaka's turn to do just that, something she acknowledges in Chapter 37.
  • Libation for the Dead: In Chapter 39, Uileag offers this at Ayaka's grave.
  • Mama Bear: In Chapter Two, Uileag's mother erupts in a fierce enough motherly anger as to frighten the war-hardened senior NCO father.
  • Non-Fatal Explosions: In Chapter One, 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.
  • Pun-Based Title: It is an obvious play on Kimi no Na Wa, the Japanese title for Your Name.
  • Shout Out:
  • Snow Means Death: In Chapter 37, it is snowing as Ayaka has a premortem conversation with Uileag.
  • Sorry That I'm Dying: In Chapter One, 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.
  • Technology Marches On: Chapter Two mentions that Ayaka uses an iPhone 9. It was written before Apple announced that they were skipping 9 and jumping straight to X.
  • Thirteen Is Unlucky:
    • In Chapter One, after completing 12 runs of search and rescue, it is on the next one that Uileag falls victim to a second abyssal bombing.
    • The abyssal attack on the Task Force VALKYRIE armada that claims the lives of Ayaka and Yamashiro takes place on December 13.
  • 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.
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