Some days, when I’ve had a long day, this is what I do in response. Literally I want to grab my pillow and go sleep.

But, then I take a look at the site, and went, hmm, what to show today…

Eh, a new shipgirl can be shown later. Some days I’m seriously tired and don’t want to answer questions. It’s not like I’ve stopped writing or reading, though. That is a sort of daily hobby at this point.

I think instead, I’m going to talk a little about one of the characters we plan for the next book. Unfortunately, much of what I know about her happens to be from family hearsay (and not to mention, family bias), since I have family members (still living!) who served on her during the war.

Yes, he’s aware of this project. In fact he’s made some very curious demands about her er, proportions.

No, I’m not going to have him pose with a cardboard cutout. I thought about it, and I don’t think the hilarity or the advertising it could bring is worth his peace and quiet. I’d rather that the character we created stand on her own, and said family member made it pretty clear that “his gal” was literally the best and doesn’t need anyone’s endorsement to be the best shipgirl ever.

Hoo boy. I know from lurking about that WWII veterans come in all shapes and sizes. Mine just happens to be … very open minded with the idea of shipgirls and whatnots. He loves the idea of Pacific, and absolutely finds this whole thing to be hilarious. In fact, he showed me some sketches from below decks (apparently the navy had a strict policy at the time about pin-ups and whatnots, but below decks where officers hardly lurk, that’s another story) and basically said, yeah, your girls need less clothing on them thanks.

(So in other words he basically think like Sune.)

… What, were you expecting some high-browed opinion? Not everyone’s got families of generals and admirals you know, though, come to think of it, a few did get fairly high up the food chain…

Anyways, should be interesting. We did sit down and basically lay out exactly what kind of a girl she’d be. To be honest once you hear some of these sea stories, I really, really, really can’t see her being written any other way.

And, yes, someone‘s got competition…

This isn’t really one question, but more like a variant of the following questions.

“Does Pacific still draw ________________ if she’s been drawn by ___________?”

The answer is of course! We do our own thing. We’ve had Saratoga drawn for one of our covers way before her announcement, for instance, and I had written a Bismarck back in 2014ish before she was introduced in game. Pacific’s Roma (another legacy character from 2014) exists in a number of side stories (mostly as Jer’s shopping buddy – she’s a lot more like say, Nero from the Fate series than the serious one we got in the event). Those are just a few of the examples, but I think it’s generally safe to say that we’ll go ahead and make a shipgirl if we feel like she belongs in Pacific’s setting.

This next bit is actually a sketch from November, showing some posture work with Sarah. November works very hard at each shipgirl, of course, and he spends a lot of time figuring out what pose would be good at communicating what we want to do with each character.

Now, because we already had Lexy figured out (Lexington herself hates that nickname), this one’s clothing was actually fairly easy to follow up with. Whatever we do with our girls, the one cardinal rule is that it has to please our own sensibilities. Let’s just say when we were sorting out the CV girl outfits a lot of work went into researching pin-up (and noseart) from the era. 🙂

I mean, we gotta get vol. 3 done for this summer, so you’ll see a lot more work roll out in the near future. See you next time. 🙂

Just another quick update from the front. I’ll probably resume tomorrow since Zero is tallying our results this run. 🙂

(Yeah, ironically, since we’re generally doing stuff on the weekends, weekend updates tends to be shorter than other times.)

No major updates today as our team’s either out in Chengdu for a convention, recuperating, or otherwise busy with stuff.

November sometimes posts pieces to Chinese social media. Here’s Florida, for example, drawn in all her condescending glory. 😉