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* [[A-Team Firing]]: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals.
* [[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.
* [[Arc Words]]:
** [[Mythology Gag|"Just a little more."]]
** [[Honkai Impact 3rd|"This is my mission."]]
* [[Alternate History]]:
** The main divergence from history is Japanese migration to North America centuries ahead of real world schedule, preceding even the American Revolution.
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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.
* [[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 {{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.}}
* [[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! [[Country Matters|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.
* [[The Cavalry]]: Chapter Five detours from Ayaka's POV to show the members of Amalgam Five "Gonzalez" responding to an abyssal attack.
* [[Central Theme]]: As made explicit in the authors' notes to Chapter 40, there are meant to be four -
** Duty: The defense of humanity is the reason the shipgirls returned, but how far should they go and how much is acceptable sacrifice to that end? Ayaka for her part finds herself sandwiched between her duties to her bloodline and family as a daughter, priestess and wife and those to her nation and mankind as a whole as a soldier. The abyssals too consider their genocidal work a duty to the fallen that they failed previously, with all the literally deadly serious implications that entails.
** Humanity: The question of what it means to be "human" comes up repeatedly, both from the Natural Borns who find new ship drives and instincts intruding on their current lives and from the Summoned/Manifested who find that they are no longer unfeeling and unthinking war machines that exist only to be commanded but now have desires and emotions of their own to contend with.
** Justice: What is "justice"? The abyssals think they are righting a great wrong that was not adequately punished previously, but are willing to commit what an objective observer would consider at least equally great, if not worse, wrongs to do so. Compared to what their still-unrepentant targets did, though, at what point is it "going too far"?
** 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.
* [[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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** The first shipgirl to sink is {{spoiler|Takanami, callsign Riptide}} Four.
** The abyssal attack on the Task Force VALKYRIE armada that claims the lives of {{spoiler|Ayaka and Yamashiro}} is the fourth one directly involving one of their leaders.
* [[Framing Device]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 40 opens with "TERMINATING OBSERVATION OF UNIVERSAL BRANCHES WITH SUBOPTIMAL OUTCOME", implying that the narrator is some sort of multiversal observer and justifying the jump from the bad ending depicted in Chapter 39 to a universe where Ayaka survived.}}
* [[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]]''.
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