Do shipgirls die? / Azur Lane
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2022
- Disclaimer: Highly controversial and theoretical; merely to entertain the thought.
Shipgirls are the human reincarnation of warships brought forth by the wisdom cube. Their might and power are enough to contest human fleets, had there been any left. However with these inherited strengths, they fall short of any weaknesses. A possibility is left unclear, do shipgirls die? 
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In the a event story, Jean bart said “sink yourselves.” To prevent being captured.
Toulon.
Jean Bart: "You should sink yourself. NOW."
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Damn 😂
@@AngelofKaoslow tier ship
Azur Lane has come a long way from a simple waifu WW2. All those dimensions and Mirror Seas wouldn't be out of place in a Dr. Strange movie. So far only one kansen, Amagi, has died (due to the defective cube). (Un)fortunately, Akagi is currently more unstable than ever and is on a path to joining her sister. In CN version, Jean Bart and co. did die (according to Algerie) only to be resurrected by Ironblood, whereas they were simply rescued in EN version which is honestly more plausible.
The next Eagle Union event which will focus around Arbiter's attack on the Sea of Stars with the Commander present might be very interesting and important lore-wise.
I believe that the only two girls that died are
Amagi and Dunkerque.
Amagi died from Corona and Dunkerque stood her ground like a fucking warrior against those coward Royal Navy ships.
As I've started playing the way I equate Wisdom Cubes is pretty much this. Wisdom Cubes is the embodiment of Human Will giving form and shape through creation. Since most naval officers and crewmen refer to their ships as female the etching of these men on these vessels collects that willpower through every deck plate and bolt of the warship. Even if that ship itself no longer afloat or is retired. As long as that immense collection of willpower and feelings is seeded into the object the ship can take form. The same goes with PR ships as they are collective wills of their designers and engineers, given form on paper...its only when the Wisdom cube along with the us (the commander) wills them to take shape...that they are formed.
This also stands to reason why the Iowa Class looks more futuristic. All 4 Iowa Class battleships were part of the 600 Navy Initiative of 1981. Meaning these ships have the higher curve of being strongest Kan-Sen out of everyone in the fleet.
I'm pretty sure the game actually has two storylines going on that can definitely cause some confusion with most players. There is a 'prequel' storyline which is essentially a retelling of the naval events of WW2, but with shipgirls. This happens in the main story as well as some of the events like Winters Crown. This is where many of the shipgirls are killed off in the story just like their real world counterparts.
Then there is a 'sequel' storyline which takes place in the present day in which all of the shipgirls killed in WW2 have been revived using the wisdom cubes, and you the commander lead them with a reformed Azur Lane. Events like Ashen Simulacrum take place in the present storyline. So far in this story the only shipgirls who are permanently dead or haven't been brought back are Amagi and Dunkerque due to their cubes being irreparably damaged. Its also why Akagi in the present day is obsessed with trying to bring back Amagi.
USS Arizona was one of the casualties bomb threw the back of the neck hitting the magazine it blew up nearly decapitating her and causing massive internal bleeding USS Vestal tried to save Arizona but failed her sister Pennsylvania was devastated she wanted to tear those air craft carriers a new look
theory 1:
if a shipgirl does die, it seems reasonable that she would be able to be recreated, given that they can be created from wrecks of regular boats. this does provide a possible canon explanation for why we are able to build ships that are supposedly dead and gone, such as amagi. this makes some sense given the cubes operate off of the thoughts, feelings and memories of people, which don't go away when a ship dies or sinks. it could just be that they need to be 'captured', so to speak, in another wisdom cube.
theory 2 (not mutually exclusive by any means):
it doesn't seem to be the case, as far as i understand, that we actually need parts from a ship in order to build the corresponding girl, only that when parts of the ship are used, it seems to always create the girl. so it seems that the memories and feelings get attached to the ships they're about, and the cube can draw on those for creation. however, when we build random ships with whatever wisdom cubes we've collected, it kind of draws feelings randomly from the ether.
Edit: this makes no sense at all if we also want to explain the rarity system, given one would assume this sort of random creation would result in more famous ships appearing more often.
as for the anime, i haven't seen it, but it would make sense that without the build mechanic as the game has it, there's just no possible way to have that happen that makes sense. plus, it does undermine the weight of any deaths in the story, and the anime is all story, no gameplay, so it doesn't have any excuse to undermine the story.
In my AU Novel it works differently
Long story short, Yes.
In short, shipgirls just work as a physical manifestation of a warship's soul, and this human body can function completely independant to their ship body, but has the ability to control the entire vessel with all functions they have, as long as they are in close proximity of them. But Riggings don't exist. Or at least not in the classic form. Riggings can manifest on a Shipgirl if they unlock it through sheer willpower, but it's so hard, that only a select few can get a hold of a rigging.
The riggings do not provide any other benefits to the shipgirl, but the ability to use their weaponary away from their large warship bodies, but the power of the weapons also scale down. That's about riggings.
Since the story takes much much more root in real world war two, and real engineering, that was the line I drew to keep shipgirls, and real combat both relevant in the story.
Plus aircraft and repair crews are still needed on ships.
But death.
Many, and I mean many shipgirls die.
A ship's soul is born when it is laid down, and they die if they sink.
But as a Shipgirl, they need Wisdom Cubes that are just chunks of Siren Magic, enough to awaken a shipgirl from the steel hulls of a warship.
A Shipgirl is completely interlocked with their ship bodies. If the Ship is damaged, the shipgirl also gets injured. In the yet to be finished second season, when Kaga gets hit by a Siren Laser, part of her bridge and superstructure is destroyed, resulting in part of her face and right arm also being ripped clean off.
But when she later got repaired, she only had a scar on her face, which came from the hastly welding done on her. Then it's later rewelded properly, and her scar is gone.
So when a warship sinks. the shipgirl dissipates into the air. If the Ship somehow gets refloated, another wisdom cube will resurrect the shipgirl as well.
But a ship does not need to sink for a shipgirl to dissipate like that.
The story starts off with Kaga being heavily bombed and immobilized in the Attack of Pearl Harbor, her scuttling failed, but she gave up on life anyways, and as a shipgirl she dissipates. (Note: at this point, Shipgirls are a type of magical mechanic only known by the Japanese Navy.)
With Barny Kirashi (Me, the main charachter of the story) finding a wisdom cube and accidentally dropping it on the in repair Kaga, Kaga is resurrected as a Shipgirl.
So it's not hard for a Shipgirl to die, right? Absolutely.
There could be a list of dead Shipgirls at the start of the story. Notably, Tosa and Amagi.
Then there's the Akagi plot of her being her normal traumatized self and just abusing Kaga, and later, when Kaga is captured, Hiryu, but I don't want to get into that.
So anyways, throughout the War everyone dies, the end. Okay, not everybody, but nearly everybody. Like a genuine list, but most importantly, Akagi.
In the Battle of Midway, It turns into a 1v1 scenario between Kaga and Akagi. Not just air to air, but even gunfighting, and furthermore, Kaga does cross from her deck to Akagi's deck to personally deliver the killing blow. Kaga gets slight damage but nothing serious. Akagi gets heavy torpedo damage on her starboard side, making her slowly list, heavy bomb damage from the top, making her deck burn down and fall in on itself, and all three of her port side casemates completely destroyed, one of them exploding ripping a huge hole on the side of her.
Kaga then jumps over, and finds Akagi, bleeding from all the damage, barely standing. Kaga stabs her, grabs her by the neck, and lifts her up, they exchange a few scentences, with Kaga finishing with "I am not your sister, I never was!" before snapping her neck, and throwing her body into what remains of her hangar and superstructure. As Akagi is burning like a campfire, one last WM-87 "Stuka" from Kaga dives on her. In this heavily damaged state, the bomb falls through the rumble, and explodes too close to her boilers, which results in a heavy chain of boiler explosions, which have enough force to split her damaged hull clean in the middle. That's when Kaga leaves back to her own deck, Akagi's body dissipates, and her ship sinks beneath the waves.
Is there anything afterwards?
Yes.
If humanity would build a ship under the same name, a Shipgirl does have the ability to resurrect into their new body. That's how Essex Class Hornet comes back to life. (There is no Saratoga, and Lexington survives)
Akagi would be built as an Unryu Class Ship (In place of Amagi) but the dockyard gets bombed, and she can't resurrect.
After Japan Loses the War, they sign one treaty on board USS Missouri first, then move over to Royal Hungarian Ship (RHS) Musashi sign another treaty. This treaty basically puppets them, but most importantly here, they are banned for ever using the name Akagi in the future on any of their ships. (As the writer, I did also add that Japan eventually forgets this treaty in the 23rd century, and build a space ship named Akagi, which breaks the treaty, and results in a war between Hungary and Japan, where the Space Ship Akagi gets destroyed, and with that, they declare peace and renew the treaty, still banning the use of the name. Later down in history, the reason for this ban becomes debated, what was the reason they banned the name. At this point they have accepted this rule as part of their history, and moved on, Never ever using the name Akagi.)
Thus Akagi is the only ship-shipgirl that have Permanently died.
Tosa's wreck was located, and resurrected.
Amagi was never actually scrapped. Amagi as a shipgirl also dissipated, but her hull was anchored outside of a japanese ship graveyard, where it eventually broke in half, and "sat down" in the shallow waters. Her hull was found after the war, repaired and rebuilt. She is the only Hungarian Battlecruiser, but had a very successful service in the Siren War and later in Korea and Vietnam.
Who else died? Well, think about it. World War Two. Aside of an Overpowered Allied Hungary(That steals from germany and japan so much that they make the Romanians blush), take history in account. Just think about Ironbottom Sound.
That's how many shipgirls have died.
I mean technically yes they do die in fact until this event we kind of had Hornet & Yorktown out of the picture from events. Lexington is no where to be seen and even so Bismarck was about to but rescued.
"Feelings and emotions about a specific ship"
Wait, then how the hell did Roon appeared? I dont remember there existing any record of a K.M.S. roon during WW2.
it was a planned H-Class Cruiser, never actually even got to even start production, but yeah.
Actual AL lore!
We need more of these.
Wisdom Cubes is a collection of various feelings to form a "physical body" for a specific ship.
By that logic, Nagato, is one of the biggest dreadnought battleships during the world war. Preceded by the Ise class and succeeded by the Yamato class...
...is being manifested base on various feelings from late sailors and beliefs of the people in a form of a...loli?... 🤔
who knows, maybe they liked that 😉
@@Noobular I heard that USS Arizona was teased, tortured and killed by having her throat ripped out nearly decapitating her also having every single bone in her body broken all by her magazine blowing up killing her in front of USS Missouri but she was still alive bleeding to death unfortunately they were unable to save Arizona she died in Pennsylvania's arms
I mean the refined, petite figure of Nagato while being able to manifest great authority matches her otherwise colorless service history
Yeah I don't believe the sailors and people's thoughts and feelings of the ship shape the entire look of her but possibly play a small factor while other factors like how it performed or other people's opinions outside of that may also factor in the look the ship takes on for example if a US war ship was small in size and people complained or worried about the ships survival but the enemy seriously feared it then you may end up with a shipgirl who's tiny in size, seriously powerful but is afraid of sinking or constantly worries about damage being made to her or her rigging for example I'm just not well versed in naval warfare if anything so idk much at all about those intricate details but it is very much a guess from what pieces I do have given by the game
Bro we need more lore like this i never knew something like this, it's so well made.
Great video, very informative ❤ I always thought that the ship girls of azur lane are tsukumogami which is based on the Japanese mythology and beliefs that objects become a spirit or Yokai or kami. In the west there is a belief in most religions and spiritual paths that a spirit can attach themselves to an object. Think it's all the same. To me ship girls of azur lane are tsukumogami of japanese mythology..
"do shipgirls die?"
me: uh *imagining a sunken battleship* idk
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So a ship wear less clothes because we want them to wear less clothes. Bravo humanity even when extinction is near we are still the horniest creature in this damn planet.
That’s an amazing informative video
And it would be a great idea for someone to create something like a E-cube in our world.
This Video is very well made, Well done! ^^
i mostly think the only real human survivor is skk and the ships who technically are dead are revived by the skk will and emotions thats why u can get in term 'dead ships' and probably skk has memories or he saw visions so he can kind of resurrect them.
This video is so well edited wtf
You should've read that nya at the end of every sentence of Akashi lol
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Ship girls are SMT demons?
HELLYEAH!
For certain ships that perhaps, sunk with people dying on it, each character being manifestation of those emotions.
That's kinda dark.
I was always under the impression they could die in battle...they're just VERY VERY hard to kill...
They can sink for both rigging and the user
So shipgirls are basically T-dolls from girl's frontline?
You tellin me if we believe hard enough they'd add the UNSC Infinity
Anything is possible my friend, I’d want that too
They'd also have to go biblically accurate angel on the turrets, plus she'd be a good few stars above the rest with stats that're simply 'yes'
shipgirls are formed by attaching wisdom cubes to the keel of the ship. this gives the KEEL of the ship spiritual wisdom and the ability to manifest as human, as per taoism or other asian religions.
if the keel is broken and repaired, the original ship still exists and the smaller portion of the damaged keel can form a smaller version of themselves like little enty or little belfast. if a ship was heavily damaged and repaired in WW2 that makes this more likely to occur. but if the fans demand a little ship of a ship that doesn't exist they can always make one.
but yeah, Wisdom cubes = spiritual wisdom. which is a state of taoism that allows objects to manifest as humans.
The edit on this is so clean wtf
Fantastic
yo, great video and thats some great Edits!
Great video.
Do ship girls die?……shigure….nooo…not like this.