Shigure of Sasebo

RP blog for Shigure, second ship of the Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.

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lcvinlight‌:

 He pauses. thoughts disoriented. 

 thats right. how rude of him, no name was given and gives a calming smile, his mouth twitching at the rudeness, how rude of him, how rude of him. Its not a thought that should turn him obsessive but its there. 

 “that is fine Lady Shigure. I am… known as Hermenost, brother hermenost, I am just a local priest.” with a war axe hidden in the garden and armour of a knight. then again most holy men end up in combat when they couldn’t help it. 

 “though if your feeling flighty, I was also known as Levinlight because of this.” he makes both the palms of his hands face each other, and lightning generates itself between his hands like some sort of science experiment. 

She watched, fascinated, as the sparks danced between his open palms. “Wow...” she whispered, awestruck. “That’s pretty amazing.” On an inexplicable impulse, the shipgirl stuck her finger into the arcs of dancing electricity.

Predictably, the lightning zapped her, and she yelped, though more in surprise than pain. “Oof. I should’ve expected that, really,” she said, smiling sheepishly. Shigure looked at the burn mark, examining the mark curiously. “Though it doesn’t really hurt as much as I thought it would,” she said. Even as she said so the mark seemed to be a little less red. Ah I should introduce myself too.

Turning to face Hermenost fully, she bowed. “My name is Shigure. Second of the Shiratsuyu-class of destroyers. Pleased to meet you. Sometimes I am called the Miracle Destroyer, or Shigure of Sasebo, but I don’t really like those titles.” 

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dyadikotita‌:

an aesop he understood well; the strong should look out for the weak, it was how most people operated. the loudest exception being those arrogant who believed themselves to be better than everyone else — and what a headache they were.

« so let me get this straight: we’ve all been extracted from where we live and transferred together in this city. i can only imagine what kind of technology is here to pull that off, it’s gotta be insane. pretty risky game though; if they pick up the wrong person, they’ll hear loud and clear about it. what about these people who aren’t like us? they can’t be thrilled at a bunch of strangers showing up, if they can even recognize us from any other random stranger on the streets. actually— who even knows if they’re in on it. they might just be like regular NPCs who aren’t programmed. ahh, but they’re real people, so talking about it that way would be disrespectful. »

Shigure rooted around in her pocket as she listened. She nodded as he finished his conclusion, pulling out a pack of mints. The shipgirl tapped out two for herself, popping them into her mouth before offering them to the boy.

“They aren’t NPCs, at least not in the traditional sense of the term. It’s more like they don’t question their existence? Or why they’re here, I should say.”

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lcvinlight‌:

He feels more doubt in his mind rather then gratitude, Aside from that, he is a bit touched someone would help him with words alone rather then harsh judgement, he has been having memory blots ever so often, that he had gotten used to it. Forgetting that many things have existed, that many people have forgive him, its not something the knight of thordan should remember once they leave. 

 “I … see. “

His tone said opposite. 

He violently uproots a plant next turn. 

Shigure watched as the tall man aggressively uprooted a plant. Inwardly she sighed. I guess cheering someone up isn’t as easy as the admiral makes it out to be. But...!  “I don’t think you do. But that’s ... okay. It’s never easy, after all ... “She paused mid dig, having realized something.

Shigure didn’t actually know his name. I DIDN’T EVEN ASK HIS NAME AND THEN I GAVE HIM LIFE ADVICE HOW COULD I DO THAT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH she screamed internally.

“... Erm. I realize this is something you normally do when first meeting someone, but in my eagerness to do something that reminds me of home, I did not ask for your name.” Shigure bent over immediately in apology, bowing before the tall man, and repeating the bow over and over.

“I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry ... !”

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lcvinlight‌:

 “Indeed, you are not. But…I suppose I should be, considering I am still a ordained priest of the fury.” still , no matter how much he spreads the word of the glacier, no one would flock to him. He fails, as a soldier and a priest and there is no goddess to turn to. No one to confide in, all his friends, they cannot understand this misery only unique to him. 

  “Can it be possible? Many people say those beliefs…that they are wrong, are the wrong.” a sudden bout of anger, his fist clenching, clumps of soil removed by his own hand as he thinks of it more… 

 “…Its difficult.”

"’Nothing worth doing is easy’, as my admiral once said. He says a lot of things, most of which are better forgotten than remembered,” she said with a wry smile. “But once in a while he does get something right, and I think he’s right in that if something’s worth doing, it’ll never be easy.”

“But you know, I think you’ll be able to do it. I will admit, I don’t know you very well,” Shigure smiled again. “Well, I don’t know you at all. But I have the feeling that you’ll be able to figure out what to do in the end!” 

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lcvinlight‌:

 “…So I should be happy then? That it is a good thing that …my brothers, they all gave their lives for nothing but a lie?” a story summary, his own anger nearly causes sparks to form between his empty hands now. While not actively acquiering his powers back, he has been here for quiet a long amount of time, hence he has majority of them returned. 

 “…Forgive me, I spoke out of turn.” 

he pats the soil, remembering himself for now. It seems that bad memories would only trigger horrible powers within him. 

She shook her head. “Like many of the soldiers, airmen and sailors of the past, your brothers gave their lives for their beliefs. Such dedication and honor should be remembered. It was no fault of theirs that such was the strength of their faith that they chose not to doubt their beliefs.” Shigure paused, trying to search for more words to say to get her meaning across, but she was far from the most eloquent of ship girls. After all, she was a destroyer, not a diplomat. 

“I do not think you should remember them as having fought for a lie. Rather I think you should remember them as having fought for their beliefs, and died for those beliefs.” She shook her head again. “I’m not very good at words, I’m afraid,” she said, starting to dig a new hole for another sapling.

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dyadikotita‌:

« huh, that’s pretty handy. » trying to wrap his mind around the notion of ‘ship girls’ still, he didn’t quite know what to say. though he did recognize her distraction; sure, she could heal without need of an item or treatment, but not all wounds were physical — something he knew well, learned the hard way. « sailing after taking on all that, you’re pretty incredible. »

over his shoulder, a hand reached detaching the lone wooden sword that had taken the place of the two. it was much lighter than he was used to, balancing the hilt on the palm of his hand without much pressure applied by the fingers closed around it. « that’s a relief. Lisbeth put her heart into forging Dark Repulser. she’d kill me if she knew it was missing. wonder what we requirements have to fulfill to get them back. » his sights returned to the girl, slowly catching up to the implications within her words. « so there’re more people that have been trapped here. out of the frying pan and into the fire… »

She shrugged. “Someone has to turn back the Abyssals and keep the seas safe. If not us, then who? We can do it the most effectively, so logically speaking, it should be us. ‘With great power comes great responsibility’.” Shigure paused then shrugged again. “Or that’s what my admiral always says. Though he’s an excellent commander he can be a bit unreliable.”

“Yep, there are lots of us. Enough for an entire city of people, after all,” she said, gesturing to her surroundings. “Not all of them are ... like us, I should say,” she added.

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lcvinlight‌:

 “Many…many times. Its… annoying , isn’t it. to have your whole world view challenged…many times I have seen those who hated what I am… many times I wish to ignore them.”

 “I want to forget…I ever met them to be honest. But that wouldn’t be so mature of me. I am thirty six summers old… I should be above all…this.” 

Aggressively he plants the next seed. 

She paused, the ... anger? And at the same time what felt like sadness in his tone was obvious. 

And ... familiar.

Shigure resumed planting seedlings as she spoke. “You ... may not believe this, but I know how you feel. Perhaps not exactly, but I can relate.” She kept her gaze on her hands as she continued. “My memories of the old war are imprinted with the emotions of my crew of that time. Fear, pride, anger ... they felt they were waging a just war, and honorable war. A war against colonialism, Western aggression.”

She finished covering the newly planted seedling with dirt and looked up with a wan smile. “Imagine my shock and horror to realize what was happening in places like Nanking, China, Singapore. And then I realized it was a good thing we lost the war.”

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lcvinlight‌:

 “…No. I would love nothing more then to return. But if I did…I would be banished. After everything I have done, it seems I would be end up as a villain.” 

More planting, less explaining. Hermenost is one who wishes to return home, meet familiarity. 

 “But it has been three very long years now, since I have arrived in this…no even in the last city, it has been quiet a long time.”

 “I forgotten what home looks like now.”

“Three years ... I can’t imagine being away from home for that long.” Shigure thought about having to stay on this unknown land for three long years.

Her mind was unequal to the task, but she knew if nothing changed, she might very well be here for that long.

“I do know some others met people from their own home,” she said, continuing to dig out a hole in the soft soil. Satisfied with her labours, she placed the sapling gently into the plot, and began filling in the hole. The destroyer turned up to look at the man. “Although I know such meetings aren’t always happy ones, perhaps you’ve met someone from home...?

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opticallyenhanced‌:

“Ah, a shame.” Shalem grumbled a bit as he glanced out to the ocean. “And here I was hoping I could hop onto a boat and escape from this place. But then again, those in charge of this city probably wouldn’t want any of that happening. Real, real unfortunate.”

Looking back at the young girl, Shalem extended a hand out. “Well Miss Sigure, it is a pleasure to meet you. And it is rather unfortunate that there seems to be nothing out there. I wonder if there is anything under the ocean at all. Perhaps something other than nothing.” It was only then the assassin realized what Shigure had fully said. “… Destroyer? What, you mean like those naval ships?”

“Yes. Like those naval ships,” she echoed, taking the hand and shaking it. “I’m afraid I can’t tell you anything about under the waves. I’m not a submarine, but a destroyer, and I think you’ll understand why I have some reservations about going undersea,” Shigure said with a slight smile. “I have realized my existence is rather rare outside of my ... world.”

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dyadikotita‌:

she looked like any ordinary girl to him, but spoke to being something else entirely — that by itself had Kirito scratching his head.  « you’re awfully laid back about this whole thing. doesn’t it bother you that somehow we wound up some place neither of us know? it sounds like you had a rough time before whatever whisked you here intervened, on top of that. you aren’t still hurt, are you? » he had it in mind to use a healing skill should it be required, assuming they even worked in this new place, completely obviously to the stripping down of any such ability.

it was only when the girl manifested her gun and then drew attention to the sword fixed to his back that he took note of the chance. and to his horror, upon drawing it, he discovered it wooden. « what the—?! this is some basic starting equipment! what happened to elucidator and dark repulser?! »

"No. We heal fast, we ship girls do. It usually doesn’t take more than a days rest before we’re all fine, although I know that once Yamato was out of it for 3 days.” Even as she said so, she reflexively looked down at her body. Though she knew the wound was long gone, without even a blemish to mark it’s passing, the shadow of pain from the hit still reminded Shigure that hers had not been an easy life.

Her introspection was interrupted by the boy’s exclamation of surprise. “Oh. Yeah, it happens. I don’t know why. I’ve seen people around with actual weapons though, so there does seem to be a way to get them. I don’t know if they’re your actual weapons though ...”

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lcvinlight‌:

 There isn’t anything he like to do more then to go back home, but home is now abstract, and home is unwelcoming to someone like him who is labelled a traitor, meant to be erase from history and a poor reminder of what blind faith would do to someone. 

He hates home, or perhaps he never belonged there ever again. 

 “… Does it? Enjoy that feeling then.”

theres a lot of emotions there. 

 “Come, help me plant these herbs.”

Somehow Shigure sensed that she may have stepped on a landmine. It shouldn’t really surprise her by now, but it still did whenever it seemed like someone preferred being on Isola as opposed to being home.

“Do you perhaps prefer being on this island as opposed to being back where you were before you came here?” she asked, even as she took the plants from the elfin man and began to plant them.

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dyadikotita‌:

not the most reassuring introduction — if anything, it had the adverse effect and he was even more worried about what new mess he had landed in. how much he regretted obeying the cab driver’s request… « uh… nice to meet you, Shigure. » there was a flatness in his voice, it was simply a formality to respond with pleasantries. likewise, the taking of her hand was automatic, more an act of his body without thought, and only once they were connected did he become aware of the gesture. « i’m Kazuto, though you can just call me Kirito. so this place; Isola? how did we get here? everything before waking up in the backseat of a vehicle is a blur at best. » there were a thousand questions vying for his breath, and though she appeared content with assisting him, it’d be best not to overload her. oh, but— « —hold on. ‘ship’? »

“Mmhmm. Ship.” Shigure answered. She was used to it by now, and if she was honest, she enjoyed seeing people’s reaction. “Second ship, to be exact. Of the Shiratsuyu-class of destroyers, of which ten were built, and I am the second.” She kept her tone casual and matter-of-fact, as though such things were normal. Though I suppose it is normal for me.

“As to how we got here, well. No one knows. Everyone arrives differently. For me, I took a big hit from a Ru-class battleship, and when the fire and smoke cleared I was standing on a street outside a building. I wasn’t even damaged anymore, though all my weapons were gone.” She paused. “Well, not exactly gone, I suppose,” she amended. Holding up a hand, she exerted a flick of effort and with a pop of displaced air, the toy gun that had replaced her main gun appeared. “I imagine it’s the same for your sword,” she mused, glancing at the hilt of the toy sword sticking out of his back.

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opticallyenhanced‌:

Passing by the ocean in this city was a bit of something else. The last city he was in didn’t have such a feature, so seeing a large ocean that seemed to go as far as the eye can see felt off. As if it were taunting him. Taking a moment to at least get a better look, he took a moment to stop and looked towards the young girl passing him.

“… Excuse me miss, but were you out on the ocean earlier? I thought I saw someone out there at sea before coming down.” Shalem kept his tone neutral, even if it was a bit more inquisitive than normal. “I curious to know just how far that ocean goes. I wonder if maybe there is something out there beyond the horizon.”

She blinked, turning to the voice that interrupted her thoughts. Shigure looked over the man; her instincts warned her immediately this man was dangerous. Though for the moment, it seemed he was harmless. And she supposed no one ever went out as far as she did. “Yes I was, actually. I’m afraid the ocean goes out as far as I know. I haven’t seen any other significant landmasses, although I will admit I can only stay afloat for half an hour, so I can’t go that far, even if I go flat out.”

She tilted her head as she ran some quick calculations. “Because of my current limitations, I can go only as far as say ... 29, 30 kilometers? Or about 18 miles, give or take. But because I need to come back that cuts my maximum range, at top speed mind you, to 14 kilometers, or about 9 miles.” She paused as she checked her math. “Yeah, that seems about right. But even if I didn’t have a limitation, I somehow don’t think we’d be able to just leave the island like that,” she said, flashing a sad smile. “My name is Shigure, by the way. Second ship of the Shiratsuyu-class of destroyers.”

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lcvinlight‌:

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 “I thank you for answering my request for help.” he says, picking out weeds from the garden he had made himself. Everything is in order and he wants to harvest the new herbs as soon as he can. 

The destroyer stretched, working the kinks out of her back. She smiled at the man. “It’s no trouble at all. I quite enjoy doing mundane things like this.” Shigure cast her gaze over the small garden. It was obviously well cared for despite it’s small size, and as it had when she had first laid eyes on it, it put her in mind of the Admiral’s own small collection of plants.

“It sort of reminds me of home too, so that’s also why I don’t mind helping, if I’m honest,” she admitted with a sheepish smile. She gestured at the plot of land. “My admiral used to have several small plants that he always talked to and tended to, even when the times were tough.”

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Shigure stepped lightly back onto dry land, the hem of her skirt inevitably damp from spray. She’d spent about fifteen minutes of her available 30 out on the water; though there wasn’t much space to maneuver, and divested of her weapons it seemed foolish to just go through the motions of gunnery drill.

“Although I don’t suppose the people around her would like it if I started firing high explosive shells. Even blanks make quite a loud noise compared to normal guns,” she muttered to herself as she passed by a tall, broad-shouldered man.