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** [[spoiler:several members of the Shiratsuyu-Class demonstrate this, like Umikaze and Kawakaze.]]
** [[spoiler:the members of the Burial Agency demonstrate this too - the crests of the Last Rites that they possess are designated with ranks from I to VII, and according to Pope Julius IV, ascending the ranks of the Last Rites means that one is learning enough about their own powers and skills to improve noticeably and remarkably to earn the subsequent ranks.]]
** [[spoiler:several members of the Shiratsuyu-Class demonstrate this, like Umikaze and Kawakaze.]]
** [[spoiler:the members of the Burial Agency demonstrate this too - the crests of the Last Rites that they possess are designated with ranks from I to VII, and according to Pope Julius IV, ascending the ranks of the Last Rites means that one is learning enough about their own powers and skills to improve noticeably and remarkably to earn the subsequent ranks.]]
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** Kane, during her stay in Australia, invented a new type of ammunition, [=SSP=] ('''S'''mart'''S'''teel '''P'''iercing) rounds, designed to defeat Smartsteel that can be loaded in conventional small-arms with no modifications. To that point, [=SSP=] was produced in pretty much every caliber of ammo in use by the Australian Armed Forces, all in the name of helping them fight off the Abyssals, as they had no ship girls for support.
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* NotTheIntendedUse: During Operation South Town, [[spoiler:Deimos' Reverse Psi Emitter and Kane's [=SSP=] rounds were originally meant to keep Abyssals away, and to defeat those that managed to brave the effects of the [=RPE=], respectively. They work just as well against actual ship girls due to the presence of Smartsteel.]]
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** [[spoiler:as of chapter 394, Shigure, after Operation South Town, is the story's first true fatality.]]
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*** [[spoiler:The newly introduced Richard P. Leary uses an M32-A1 MGL as part of her loadout.]]
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* FingerlessGloves: many of the characters in the story wear these as part of their clothing, to the point where it could be classified under CreatorsThumbprint.
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* {{Lime}}: [[spoiler:naturally, with the story unafraid of exploring darker and more explicit themes, there are scenes where sexual activity is heavily implied to the point of explicit blatant mention, but the narration always leaves the explicit details out.]]
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* ICallItVera: [[spoiler:Daemonbane and Daemonedge for the two revolvers that come with Damon's ATLAS exosuit. While it's unknown if Damon himself gave those revolvers those names, given the fact that they both start with his own name, this may be the case.]]
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** in chapter 391, Damon recreates the most famous scene from Film/PulpFiction.
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* PreClimaxClimax: In chapter 289, the narration cuts out just as [[spoiler:Damon and Shigure have at it in the base bathhouse before going on the mission to find Sandman and !Samidare, which they may not live through.]]
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* PreClimaxClimax: In chapter 289, the narration cuts out just as [[spoiler:Damon and Shigure have at it in the base bathhouse before going on the mission to find Sandman and !Samidare, which they may not live through. This applies also for all the other times Damon sleeps with several of his destroyers, who include Murakumo, Samidare, Umikaze, and Kawakaze as of chapter 375.]]
** [[spoiler:heavily subverted in chapter 391 - when he and a part of the fleet reach Moscow, Damon catches Kawakaze redhanded in the act with the Russian spy Ramsay.]]
** [[spoiler:heavily subverted in chapter 391 - when he and a part of the fleet reach Moscow, Damon catches Kawakaze redhanded in the act with the Russian spy Ramsay.]]
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** In chapter 74, Damon does this to a Granite Quarry gangster.
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*** [[spoiler:Damon's late teammate, Ghaffey, once carried a custom-made 8-gauge double-barrel shotgun.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Heaven or hell,]] [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear let's rock,]] [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker.]]]]
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As of June 17th, 2016, this story has surpassed Fanfic/TheSubspaceEmissarysWorldsConquest in overall length at 4,061,145 words, becoming the world's longest piece of fanfiction.
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** the fleet's main base is called the Mid-Atlantic Provisional Seabase - or "MAPS" for short.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: [[spoiler:the Abyssal.]]
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* FunWithAcronyms: the fleet's HAVOC low-orbit attack satellite - Heavy Assault Vulcan Orbital Cannon.
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** Damon grew up in a CCPL Post, which stands for Controlled Center for Protected Living.
** the fleet's HAVOC low-orbit attack satellite - Heavy Assault Vulcan Orbital Cannon.
** Damon grew up in a CCPL Post, which stands for Controlled Center for Protected Living.
** the fleet's HAVOC low-orbit attack satellite - Heavy Assault Vulcan Orbital Cannon.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. A girl named Miyuki shows up who doesn't seem to have any link to the destroyer of the same name. [[spoiler:Subsequent events make this more unclear, but given the sheer mutation she's undergone by then, it's hard to tell anyway. Now a moot point after her apparent death in chapter 121.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Averted on not one, but ''two'' occasions:
** There are two Benjamin's: Benjamin Yamamoto, Damon's best friend and the self-proclaimed descendant of the historic Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and Benjamin Korotayev, the Controller of Chicago and one of Sanford's acquaintances and ex-special forces partner.
** A girl named Miyuki shows up who doesn't seem to have any link to the destroyer of the same name. [[spoiler:Subsequent events make this more unclear, but given the sheer mutation she's undergone by then, it's hard to tell anyway. Now a moot point after her apparent death in chapter 121.]]
** There are two Benjamin's: Benjamin Yamamoto, Damon's best friend and the self-proclaimed descendant of the historic Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and Benjamin Korotayev, the Controller of Chicago and one of Sanford's acquaintances and ex-special forces partner.
** A girl named Miyuki shows up who doesn't seem to have any link to the destroyer of the same name. [[spoiler:Subsequent events make this more unclear, but given the sheer mutation she's undergone by then, it's hard to tell anyway. Now a moot point after her apparent death in chapter 121.]]
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->''...their solution was not to make improvements to current generation ships, but instead to use the cheap, older-generations of ship technology - namely that of the Second World War - and condense it to the size of a human. In other words, their goal was to create [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots a fleet of humanoid robots]] - or something like that - that had the firepower of World War II-era ship technology that would be incredibly cheap but still be able to to wield significant battle power and augment the larger, more modern ships of the American fleet nicely as escort boats or naval support squadrons...the team eventually decided to name their new human ship after the World War II navy of Imperial Japan...the scientist told Damon that they had shipped one of their first products to Houston, Texas, to be transported to the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, but as fate would have it, the nukes fell a few days after its arrival in the city. Apparently, it had been moved to the underground basement of the home of one of the American scientists as an extra safety precaution that it did not fall into the wrong hands, and it has sat there to this day, inactive.''
-->-- [[LemonyNarrator The Narrator]], explaining the advent of the F.L.E.E.T. Project - Chapter 1: First Contact
-->-- [[LemonyNarrator The Narrator]], explaining the advent of the F.L.E.E.T. Project - Chapter 1: First Contact
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** Of all people, Nagato is this - to ''Damon'', of all people too. There's a bit of a RunningGag between the two that Nagato thinks Damon is gay (jokingly) because of their first encounter at Charlotte, and she's casually been spreading a small false rumor about it. That, and she's also been telling the destroyers that he ''prefers'' them...
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** Of all people, Nagato is this - to ''Damon'', of all people too. There's a bit of a RunningGag between the two that Nagato thinks Damon is gay (jokingly) because of their first encounter at Charlotte, and she's casually been spreading a small false rumor about it. That, and she's also been telling the destroyers that he ''prefers'' them...[[spoiler:which, given Damon's relationships with the destroyers, would actually be quite true.]]
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** Tatsuta doesn't troll her sister Tenryuu as mercilessly as she does in other fanworks, but she likes to poke fun at her from time to time.
** Damon himself likes to tease his girls, having a little bit of fun at their expense and chagrin.
** Of all people, Nagato is this - to ''Damon'', of all people too. There's a bit of a RunningGag between the two that Nagato thinks Damon is gay (jokingly) because of their first encounter at Charlotte, and she's casually been spreading a small false rumor about it. That, and she's also been telling the destroyers that he ''prefers'' them...
** Tatsuta doesn't troll her sister Tenryuu as mercilessly as she does in other fanworks, but she likes to poke fun at her from time to time.
** Damon himself likes to tease his girls, having a little bit of fun at their expense and chagrin.
** Of all people, Nagato is this - to ''Damon'', of all people too. There's a bit of a RunningGag between the two that Nagato thinks Damon is gay (jokingly) because of their first encounter at Charlotte, and she's casually been spreading a small false rumor about it. That, and she's also been telling the destroyers that he ''prefers'' them...
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* FragileSpeedsters: all destroyers, all submarines, and several light cruisers. There are outliers within the other ship types as well that count as this within their respective ship types. And on the Abyssal side, all their destroyers.
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:following Damon's first death after Little Rock, he gains access to a dreamworld that he can only access when he goes to sleep. There, he can meet his deceased mother Losira, a copy of whom dwells in her son's subconscious through means unknown. He can train with her to master his control over his YRC power, and it will all stay within his subconscious. The one exception that this has not been the case are when Losira managed to materialize using Ushio's body as a third-party vessel, once in Baltimore, and twice through Ushio's YRC power.]]
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* AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:heavily implied that A:AFS and Fanfic/AmbiencePlatoonMoebiusFour are these to each other. While no explicit mention exists, several characters and entities are, by themselves, evidence of connections between the two fics.]]
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* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Admiral Kevinson has a cybernetic arm and cybernetic legs - he even states that his cybernetic limbs are the predecessor to Damon's ATLAS exosuit.]]
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* BossBattle: [[spoiler:Damon vs. Blackwood, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10333897/250/Ambience-A-Fleet-Symphony chapter 250.]]]]
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: the NDP troops in Germany whom the fleet fights against are noted to have both male and female soldiers. Averted with most other enemies they fight - including the Abyssals, since ''their'' members are either female or gender-neutral, with no male members [[spoiler:except for the Abyssal himself.]]
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* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:during his fight against Blackwood, Damon suffers having his exosuit ripped right off him - since the exosuit must be directly linked with his central nervous system so that the suit can obey Damon's neural commands as responsively as possible, doing this means that it will undoubtedly cause huge pain and damage to Damon's nervous system, and according to the narrative, it's essentially no different from tearing Damon's nerves straight out of his body; yet, despite this, he manages to get up anyway for one last attempt to beat him.]]
** [[spoiler:the Shiratsuyu-Class standing up to Suzukaze while in her Demon Angel form in Houston also counts, as they manage to stand up tall in an area where gravity is much, much stronger than usual and keeps everyone else pinned flat against the ground.]]
** [[spoiler:the Shiratsuyu-Class standing up to Suzukaze while in her Demon Angel form in Houston also counts, as they manage to stand up tall in an area where gravity is much, much stronger than usual and keeps everyone else pinned flat against the ground.]]
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: subverted slightly - ship girls with special protocols or powers may use their abilities to varying degrees in combat, but they will always use their issued infantry weapons and ship guns in combat. Even the Shiratsuyu-Class, who are the most guilty of [[spoiler:possessing magical powers with their protocols]], still depend very heavily on their ship munitions to fight the Abyssals, and oftentimes their protocols even work with their standard guns and power them up.
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* LawOfConservationOfDetail: ties in with ChekhovsGun from above - when [[spoiler:the fleet first buries Damon at the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery outside of Chicago]], Sanford leaves a plain karambit knife in place of a tombstone, since [[spoiler:Damon]] used a karambit during active service. When Damon returns to [[spoiler:dig up the coffin to claim the weapons that are actually inside rather than his own body]], he also takes the karambit with him. [[spoiler:He uses this karambit knife to ultimately kill Blackwood in chapter 250.]]
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* MiniMecha: [[spoiler:both the Metal Slug and the Slug Gunner are described as miniature tanks that can only seat two people each.]]
* MiniMecha: [[spoiler:both the Metal Slug and the Slug Gunner are described as miniature tanks that can only seat two people each.]]
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** Sanford is TheLeader.
** Chuck is a FriendlySniper and TheBigGuy.
** Lauren is TheSquadette and ThePointMan.
** Irene is TheQuietOne and also the ColdSniper, though she's actually pretty friendly and is only considered cold because of her dominating trait of being extremely quiet [[spoiler:due to her perceived muteness.]]
** [[spoiler:Jeannie]] is the NewMeat - but with the way she fights, she'll have you fooled that she's actually TheVeteran.
** Sanford is TheLeader.
** Chuck is a FriendlySniper and TheBigGuy.
** Lauren is TheSquadette and ThePointMan.
** Irene is TheQuietOne and also the ColdSniper, though she's actually pretty friendly and is only considered cold because of her dominating trait of being extremely quiet [[spoiler:due to her perceived muteness.]]
** [[spoiler:Jeannie]] is the NewMeat - but with the way she fights, she'll have you fooled that she's actually TheVeteran.
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** [[spoiler:and now with the chapters detailing Operation Sandblast, Damon's uncle and Losira's brother, Hank, is heavily implied to be involved with the launching of the nuclear missiles that kickstarted the nuclear World War III.]]
** Despite having died in the backstory, Damon's father Deimos keeps having an impact on the present
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** Fictional: Damon's [[spoiler:Daemonbane and Daemonedge Revolvers. They're chambered for an entirely fictional .80caliber "Lilith Express" cartridge that are specifically manufactured just for Damon to use against the Abyssals and is powerful enough to rip a normal human man in half; the revolvers are so powerful that Damon must use them while wearing his exosuit because it would break even his wrists if he attempts to shoot one without the suit. Daemonbane sports a neon red/black color scheme, while Daemonedge has a neon blue/white color scheme.]]
