History Fanfic / ChangingDestiny

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/changing-destiny-kancolle.23868/ Changing Destiny]]'' is a ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' fan-fiction written by Skywalker_T-65.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Utah has a really disturbing nightmare of the attack on Pearl Harbor, where Utah wakes up to the start of the attack. She can hear Oklahoma cry in terror as she ''can't feel her legs'' combined with US Navy sailors reporting that Oklahoma was rolling over. She also hears Pennsylvania cry out as Arizona ''explodes'' and sinks like OTL. Utah later gets hit by 2 torpedoes, and as she starts to sink, Utah regrets her failure to save Ari and Okie and rather much sink/die than see Ari's corpse/wreck every time she woke.]]

* GeniusBonus: Anyone with a thorough knowledge of Naval history will see [[spoiler:''Enterprise'' breaking though to her Admiral, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Bull Halsey]], coming a mile away.]]
** For Arizona, also for the same reason as above, she will always have a special connection with [[spoiler:Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd and Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, who both died when Arizona sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor in the original timeline.]]

* CargoShip: Technically, ''Arizona''/Thompson is this, since the girl's still got her physical hull.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Chapter 40. Seeing Pearl Harbor as it happens early and differently would be enough on its own, but then ''Utah'' apparently ''summons herself as a shipgirl.'']]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's more open to Thompson's crazy ideas, even the ones about shipgirls, than most. He's also quick put his new knowledge into action.

** Chapter 38 introduces a very critical butterfly. [[spoiler:The attack on Pearl happening on November's 30th, a full week earlier than in [=OTL=]]].

* BadassAdorable: USS ''Enterprise'', known to her friends as "Little E", is an adorable moeblob that wants nothing more than to make her big sister ''Yorktown'' proud. As for the badass part, she's USS ''Enterprise''. No more should need to be said.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Thompson's an Admiral from the Abyssal war thrown back to the dawn of World War II. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he's not alone, either.]]
* GeniusBonus: Anyone with a thorough knowledge of Naval history will see [[spoiler:''Enterprise'' breaking though to her Admiral, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Bull Halsey]] coming a mile away.]]

* HistoricalInJoke: Thompson teaches the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave Thatch Weave]] to its original inventor, John S. Thatch.

* BadassAdorable: USS ''Enterprise'', known to her friends as "Little E", is an adorable moeblob that wants nothing more than to make her big sister ''Yorktown'' proud. As for the BadAss part, she's USS ''Enterprise''. No more should need to be said.

* NeverWasThisUniverse: It's 1940 as we all know it... only there's [[MooeAnthropomorphism ship spirits wandering around.]]

* TheAtoner: Thompson already silently regrets fighting against the Japanese shipgirls, and hopes he could be forgiven by them when the Abyssals roll around.

* FishOutOfTemporalwater: Thompson's an Admiral from the Abyssal war thrown back to the dawn of World War II. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he's not alone, either.]]

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Utah has a really disturbing nightmare of the attack on Pearl Harbor, where Utah wakes up to the start of the attack. She can hear Olkahoma cry in terror as she ''can't feel her legs'' combined with US Navy sailors reporting that Oklahoma was rolling over. She also hears Pennsylvania cry out as Arizona ''explodes'' and sinks like OTL. Utah later gets hit by 2 torpedoes, and as she starts to sink, Utah regrets her failure to save Ari and Okie and rather much sink/die than see Ari's corpse/wreck every time she woke.]]

** For Arizona, also for the same reason as above, she will always have a special connection with [[spoiler:Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd and Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, who both died when Arizona sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor IOTL.]]

* GeniusBonus: Anyone with a through knowledge of Naval history will see [[spoiler:''Enterprise'' breaking though to her Admiral, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Bull Halsey]] coming a mile away.]]

** Navy [=BuOrds=] denies there's anything wrong with the American torpedoes, even after Thompson arranges a test to prove they're faulty.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Utah has a really disturbing nightmare of the attack on Pearl Harbor, where Utah wakes up to the start of the attack. She can hear Olkahoma cry in terror as she ''can't feel her legs'' combined with US Navy sailors reporting that Olkahoma was rolling over. She also hears Pennsylvania cry out as Arizona ''explodes'' and sinks like OTL. Utah later gets hit by 2 torpedoes, and as she starts to sink, Utah regrets her failure to save Ari and Okie and rather much sink/die than see Ari's corpse/wreck every time she woke.]]

* GeniusBonus: Anyone with a through knowedge of Naval history will see [[spoiler:''Enterprise'' breaking though to her Admiral, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Bull Halsey]] coming a mile away.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: Pleanty even within the same service.
** Thompson and Halsey, both carrier admirals, get a lot of pushback from the traditionalist battleship admirals.
** Navy [=BuOrds=] denies there's anything wrong with the American torpedoes, even after Thompson arranges a test to proove they're faulty.
* HistoricalInJoke: Thompson teaches the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave Thatch Weave]] to its original inventor, John S. Thatch

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