History FanFic / Eternity

* TheCorruption: [[spoiler:It is suggested that the Abyssals can "convert" shipgirls.]]

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: What everybody tried to do with Enterprise to wake her up, from the loaned US destroyers, her own sisters and even all of the Kidou Butai carriers.

''Eternity'' is a VideoGame/KantaiCollection fanfic written by Sheo Darren, set in an alternate Earth, where the first small, but major change occurred in 1945 when a raid on Kure by USS Enterprise and others managed to damage Yamato's engines, preventing her participation in Operation Ten-Go (with Nagato taking her place) and leading to her capture by the Americans.

Fast Forward to 1957, New York. Fleet Admiral Halsey was unable to secure support to retire Enterprise as a museum ship, and unwilling to see her scrapped, he contacted General [=MacArthur=] with a deal: He will help the General in convincing the Government to keep Yamato on the more permanent basis, and in return the General will help him persuade the Japanese, who were looking to strengthen their Navy as the precaution against the communists, to buy Enterprise.

* StarterEquipment: The Five Starter Destroyers were one of the first to awaken, and are now an elite group.

* StudentAndMasterTeam: Due to manpower shortages and the general inexperience of late war shipgirls, the IJN Carrier teams consists of two shipgrils: a veteran carrier and a rookie carrier, with the former training the latter until deemed combat-ready on her own.

* RefusalOfTheCall: When initially called to in the beginning of Abysall War in 2026, Yonaga refuses, partly to allow the reborn Imperial shipgirls to prove and redeem themsevles, and partly out of fear that she will regress to her murderous Pacific War-self and kill them all.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [=WOEntrerpise=], Big E's cooped-up bloodlust and hatred.

* BrokenAce: With her sisters and many of her friends dead, living friends droven away, and having driven the Japanese into ground more than strictly nessecarry, Enterprise was this at the end of the Pacific War.

Fast forward again to 2027, one year since since the beginning of The Abyssal War, and Yonaga was one of the few who still hasn't appeared. But when she did, the shipgirl who answered the call was radically different from the one who fought in the Pacific War, to the mixed reactions on the both sides of the pond. And on top of that, Yonaga has her own issues to deal with.

Fast forward again to 2027, and a year has passed since the The Abyssal War started, and Yonaga was one of the few who still hasn't appeared. But when she did, the shipgirl who answered the call was radically different from the one who fought in the Pacific War, to the mixed reactions on the both sides of the pond. And on top of that, Yonaga has her own issues to deal with.

* SoldierVsWarrior: Hiryuu's (Warrior) conflict with Yonaga (Soldier) has overtones of this, though it also comes from what Hiryuu considers as Enterprise demeaning herself.

* TheBait: During the Pacific War, knowing that it will anger the Japanese, the Americans used the damaged Nagato as a kamikaze bait. Despite the orders to let the suicide bombers to do as they wish, Willie D. Porter's captain ordered his crew to shoot them down, resulting in friendship between the two as shipgirls.

* BrokenPedestal: Hiryuu is very conflicted about the OlderAndWiser, but from her point of view very passive Yonaga who is very unlike Enterprise against whom she fought and lost.

Fast Forward to 1957, New York. Admiral Halsey was unable to secure support to retire Enterprise as museum ship, and unwilling to see her scrapped, he contacted General [=McArthur=] with a deal: He will help the General in convincing the Government keep Yamato on the more permanent basis, and in return the General will help him persuade the Japanese, who were looking to strengthen their Navy as the precaution against the communists, to buy Enterprise.

Fast forward again to 2027, and it is year since the The Abyssal War started, and Yonaga was one of the few who still hasn't appeared. But when she did, the shipgirl who answered to call was radically different from the one who fought in the Pacific War, to the mixed reactions on the both sides of the pond. And on top of that, Yonaga has her own issues to deal with.

* TheBait: During the Pacific War, knowing that it will anger the Japanese, the Americans used the damaged Nagato as a kamikaze bait. Despite the orders to let suicide bombers to do as they wish, Willie D. Porter's captain ordered his crew to shoot them down, resulting in friendship between the two as shipgirls.

** To elaborate: Not taking part in Ten-Go led to Yamato being captured when US Marines secured Kure, leading to General MacArthur deciding to keep her as a war trophy and to hold the surrender ceremony on her deck as a further humiliation to the Japanese. He then kept her as a war prize in Tokyo, and in the 50s used his influence to have her crewed by American and Japanese sailors, where she participated in shore bombardment duties in the Korean War, alongside USS Iowa and USS New Jersey. This leads to:
** 1957: Fleet Admiral Halsey calls MacArthur to offer a quid pro quo: MacArthur wants to keep Yamato as an American war prize, Halsey wants to keep Enterprise from being scrapped. Halsey lends his support to MacArthur's efforts to retain Yamato in US service, in exchange for MacArthur convincing the nascent [[KaijuDefenseForce JMSDF]] to purchase Enterprise as their flagship. Both ships receive refits and serve for decades with their new navies.

''Eternity'' is a VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' written by Sheo Darren, set in the alternate Earth, where the first small, but major change occured in 1945 when a raid on Kure by USS Enterprise and others managed to damage Yamato's engines, preventing her participation in Operation Ten-Go (with Nagato taking her place) and leading to her capture by the Americans.

* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Yamato saw a lot more action as Montana, since USA had lot a more resources to spare.

And thus Yamato was formally made part of USN as USS Montana, while Enterprise joined the nascent Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force together with Halsey as an advisor. Enterprise in particular, now renamed Yonaga (Long Night), served Japan for so long that she earned the nickname "Eien", "[[TitleDrop Eternity]]".

The story can found on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/eternity-a-kantai-collection-story.372481/ SpaceBattles.com]]

* GoingNative: Enterprise > Yonaga and Yamato > Montana are the biggest examples, and there are many more, like the Destroyers that USA loaned to Japan.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Jun'you is one of the few who fough Enterprise and lived to tell about, and the experience made her heavy drunkard.

* TheAtoner: Yonaga sees herself serving the Japanese as an atonement for her extremely violent past.

* GoingNative: Enterprise > Yonaga and Yamato > Montana are the biggest examples, and there are many more, like the Destroyers that USA loaned to Japan.

And thus Yamato was formally made part of USN as USS Montana, while Enterprise joined the nascent Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force together with Halsey . Enterprise in particular, now renamed Yonaga (Long Night), served Japan for so long that she earned the nickname "Eien", "[[TitleDrop Eternity]]".