Ship or Human?

[Cheezystix]

I'm new to this series and one thing I can't figure out is are the girls here ACTUALLY ships or are they human and just named after them? It doesn't really matter either way but I'm just curious.

[Shiroi Ren]

They are real ships that were transformed by derative of Siren technology known as Wisdom Cubes.

[Cheezystix]

Originally posted by Shiroi Ren:

They are real ships that were transformed by derative of Siren technology known as Wisdom Cubes.

Sooooooooo does that mean they're still ships or are they human now?

[Shiroi Ren]

They are shipgirls...

[Hydremajor117]

if anything I guess they'd be closest to reverse cyborgs ?

Simply put Cyborgs are usually created by adding technology to a human body

Here the process is reversed, the Wisdom cube converts the technology of a warship to take on the shape of a human body, down to the scale and bodily functions, such as hunger, need to sleep, thirst etc etc....

[Cheezystix]

Originally posted by Hydremajor117:

if anything I guess they'd be closest to reverse cyborgs ?

Simply put Cyborgs are usually created by adding technology to a human body

Here the process is reversed, the Wisdom cube converts the technology of a warship to take on the shape of a human body, down to the scale and bodily functions, such as hunger, need to sleep, thirst etc etc....

Oooooooh okay
That seems wildly impractical but it still makes enough sense for my monkey brain to understand so thx

[Zimtfuchs]

they are basically a projection of the memories of the real ships. they do have their actual ship equivalent with them, thats what the dock is needed.

and thats also how ships that never fought like graf zeppelin can exist, its the feelings, emotions and expectations that were put towards this ship that formed the human form zeppelin. the cruel thing tho, even tho these characters are fine on the outside, they do have the memories of the ships that sunk, so they basically feel a pain and are haunted by memories that arent their own.

[Hydremajor117]

Originally posted by Zimtfuchs:

they are basically a projection of the memories of the real ships. they do have their actual ship equivalent with them, thats what the dock is needed.

and thats also how ships that never fought like graf zeppelin can exist, its the feelings, emotions and expectations that were put towards this ship that formed the human form zeppelin. the cruel thing tho, even tho these characters are fine on the outside, they do have the memories of the ships that sunk, so they basically feel a pain and are haunted by memories that arent their own.

if you watch the show you see that the human part is effectively the "soul" of the ship given form while the ship itself still exists, it is now a husk who answers to the orders of its human part

one such order the ship can answer is transforming into the rig of the human form, wich the show displays, further the human "half" is seemingly at the exact same level of a human when it comes to weight and other such data

Show shows off enterprise surfing on a hellcat to fly into combat wich would be impossible if she was at her ship weight, the ship rig also appears to SIGNIFICANTLY reduce its weight of its ship form when changed into a rig...

stuff like graf Zeppelin existing is explained by the world of azur lane being a sort of alternate universe business, gives the writters a comfortable degree of creative freedom and allows them to cherry pick what they want to put in and if something isn't "faithful" to the real life events they can lob the "its an alternate universe" excuse at it and effectively nuke the plot hole from orbit...

[Shiroi Ren]

Originally posted by Hydremajor117:

stuff like graf Zeppelin existing is explained by the world of azur lane being a sort of alternate universe business, gives the writters a comfortable degree of creative freedom and allows them to cherry pick what they want to put in and if something isn't "faithful" to the real life events they can lob the "its an alternate universe" excuse at it and effectively nuke the plot hole from orbit...

Ships are humanized by Wisdom Cubes through the wish of the humanity... So, it is possible to materialize something that humanity hoped to make but never were able...