A/N: Salutations to RWBY and Kantai Collection!


Shot 7: The Power of YOUTH

Circa 2195

"The Americans have summoned Iowa for the first time… why did you feel the need to mention this in your message?" Hannah asked her ancestor.

Crutch… ahem, Kane (oh how he loathed that original name that had been the birth of the concept of the "Crutch Character" long before the first role-playing games currently known were invented…) "Look at the picture, and the genetic sample analysis."

"No match for any well-known victim of the Long Night of Solace… but we hadn't run out of victims who were publicly enough killed and consumed for capital ships yet?" Victims of the Long Night of Solace served as genetic templates for the biological parts of the bodies of ship-girls, though their souls, or rather Psionic Waveforms, were imprinted from the wandering spirits of Pre-dreadnought to Third World War era warships.

"She reminded me of an old… acquaintance of mine. Long before the Galactic Liberation War, before humans managed to leave the planet I took them to, there was a heroine…"

"I'm pretty sure Amber Stone did not have those huge boobs, and her hair was much duller than that." Hannah said, remembering the picture that she'd been shown of the ideological founder of Nod.

"No, she didn't, but one of the comrades who aided her in the revolution, Yang Xiao Long, did. She also was famous for her blonde mane."

"…That name sounds familiar, I think I might have heard it somewhere."

"Almost two hundred years ago, a young man received a dream, inspiring him to create an animation series. Even though he was only reviewing the Empire-sanctioned version of history, one of the few remaining Empire AI breached the truce between it and myself and assassinated him. Such is the fear of the former ruling class of history, of the peasants understanding the past and learning from it. Still, Ohm did not die for nothing, for many fanfiction writers have already realized much of the history of that distant time. Many fiction writers too have subtly referenced it. Consider the Nod propaganda I put in games when I worked with Northwood Studios."

Hannah recited it for him "…Ever since man has had breath the Brotherhood has existed, for from the beginning, when man's struggle was with nature, not knowing where he would sleep, how he would eat, or whether he would survive to see the light of dawn, there have always been those who would lord over others. Those who believe that they, by some unseen right, hold power over others, and would push others down so that they might climb, are the greatest threat to mankind's existence. For many years has one man or one race prospered on the sweat and work of others…"

"Go watch RWBY, which is very loosely based on historical figures. Consider what the ruling Psi-users would do to the non-Psionic peasants, and why it took a revolution for them to begin venturing into space. You might be interested to know that they killed off the first character they had named Amber as soon as possible, perhaps out of fear of AI retaliation, not knowing I had long since eliminated the threat."

Hannah frowned "Interesting… I got a question, given how many words or concepts are crossed between Chinese and English languages due to this ancient, pre-Earth-Humans history, did she have any influence on the languages?"

"Well, since her berserk episodes due to hair damage were often referred to by her peers as 'the power of youth' and she sometimes acted rather childish, Yang is the source for the English term of 'young'. Her blazing yellowish Psi-glow also led to the Chinese naming the Sun after her, because the Star Remnant orbits is a lighter yellow compared to Sol. Ancient Chinese seers peering back in history thought the yellower Sun might warrant a name to match the blazing yellowish glow they saw being referred to as 'Yang'."

"How very complicated."

"Indeed…"


A/N: The crossover Yang images for Kantai Collection on Danbooru went into the "Hilarious in Hindsight" pool because those images were LESS Yang-like than the official Iowa art…