Talk:Saratoga/Gallery/@comment-27742165-20161121021241/@comment-17703786-20161121031942

Giving her a bow would've been a real lack of imagination actually, due to how many other shipgirl carriers use it. Also, if you're going with wild west pistols, then you're giving her firearms anyway, so might as well give her a firearm that's contemporary for her day, which is the Thompson.

Finally, her left-handed configuration actually has a very imaginative reason for it: if she shoulders her weapon left-handed with the configuration she is now, then her flight deck aligns with her head smokestack and her gun mounts to essentially form her actual ship arrangement IRL. Iowa also has a similar concept where aspects of her outfit align perfectly with how the real life ship arranged them.