Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24905458-20151012125250/@comment-26486243-20151227080535

My story is that of an asshole really.

I started out liking my tsundere starter, but it's not like I wanted to marry her or anything, b...b...baka! I waited for a while for more elephant ladies to show up to know who was available. For a time, Shiranui and her damaged art made her one of the front runners as playing this game makes most of us M, and she seemed like the S counterpart.

Fast forward a month, the final Kongou sister Haruna showed up. She's strong, but quite a bit of a baka, and seemed to like shooting destroyers while Abyssal battleships wreck my fleet. Still she was daijoubu, daijoubu enough to be the first girl I seriously considered marrying. However, I would only ever marry one. I wanted to be sure there wouldn't be anyone else I would have wanted to marry more than her before deciding.

I read the fockin' Wiki. Every single shipgirl's page. Listened to all their voice quotes. The decision was simple to make. At first there were like 5 girls I were considering on Haruna's level. If there's a 'want to marry' exponential scale from one to ten, they were tied at 7, so I thought it would have been difficult. Then a perfect 10 showed up and blew every single one of the competitors out of the water - one of the last ones I checked. An Agano-class with a ponytail, who I had no chance of meeting up to that point, as I hadn't started LSC yet. She happened to be top-tier stats-wise as well, but stats weren't really a consideration at that point.

She was just too perfect.

The problem with drops in this game is that the Desire Detector suppresses drop rates for the girls you want, and there's no way I could want her any less. It took almost 400 LSCs for her to show up, though it's not as painful as it sounds since Maruyus did drop by. After that, by alternating her as flagship for two fleets, I sortied her 8 times an hour when she finally showed up - and Yahagi was at 99 in about 15 days. She lasted for about 30 seconds before levelling up to 100.

Incidentally, the ring I gave to Yahagi was given to me by Haruna, and Haruna still functions as my first-choice battleship at 99. All things considered, I suppose you could say she got first-love-zoned.