Introduction: This is a story that goes into the yuri pairing in the Strike Witches series, but most stories at least involves a Joint Fighter Wing
The witches appears in the stories will be existing witches in the Strike Witches world.
The stories may not be the best, or good at all. But will try to explore various pairing options in the Strike Witches world and write whatever/whenever feel like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Strike Witches and all this is purely fan made
Something Sensible: Stories that analyzed the possible outcome of a character's possible relationship that's relatable to canon material... Well, at least tried... Don't know when or ever will there be another attempted sensible story...
The base of Misfit Witches - A 507th related story
Some time after the Neuroi Witch Clones incident. As every thing returned to normal, sort of... Except a real question arose from a girl's heart, it was Lieutenant Tomoko Anabuki.
It was an early morning at Kauhava, Suomus. Tomoko was awake way earlier than the planned schedule despite the bedroom problem she have between Flight Officer Giuseppina Cenni and Sergeant Haruka Sakomizu, so she got up and made herself a cup of coffee and sat at a table in the mess hall. She took a sip of her coffee while looking around the empty mess hall, then she look out of the window and gazed upon the snowy and sunless morning sky.
She thought, "The skies are white, snows are too. Simplistic views, yet I'm confused. And I still asked myself, what an unusual feel..."
She took another sip of her coffee, and thought, "Am I really a lesbian? But I don't want to be like that obsessive Haruka... Yet I never found any REAL men attractive before... But I also don't want to be a lesbian harem master even if I am..."
Then Ensign Katharine O'Hare happened to got up to get a drink, she walked towards the mess hall and saw that Tomoko was deep in thought. She gently patted Tomoko in the shoulder and said, "You alright, commander?"
Tomoko looked back at the blonde and responded in surprise, "N-n-nothing really, what are you doing here? Training doesn't begin for another three hours."
Katharine smiled at Tomoko and said while sitting next to her, "There ain't nothin' wrong with carin' for my superior, we're a team after all. Come on, what's buggin' ya?"
Tomoko looked at the Liberion country girl with a little chuckle from her Texan-accent Britainnian, then Tomoko smiled at her and said, "You're always so positive and cheerful, I'm glad to have a teammate like you."
Katharine gave her a big smile from the compliment, then Tomoko continued and reverted to her troubled expression, "I always wondered if anything that'll ever let you down... Like sexuality and stuff conflicts your feelings and beliefs..."
Katharine asked, "Like what?"
Tomoko said, "Well... There's one hand that I believe I like men, but my feelings and body on the other hand been in favor of girls. But I don't want to be a crazy person nor become a harem master even if I am one, yet I have never found real men attractive."
Katharine said, "Sexuality ain't goin' to change who you are or make ya a harem, as long ya don't think that way. Like my Pappy always said, "Never stereotype somethin' from only seein' it once..." Or was it somethin' else... Just don't label every lesbian a pervert because of the only lesbian ya see is."
Tomoko said, "Well, you wouldn't know because you're not a lesbian nor ever had something like this ever happened to you."
Katharine blushed and said as she tilted her head away from Tomoko, "I guess ya got me there..."
Tomoko looked at the suspicious way Katharine acted and asked, "Wait, are you a lesbian?"
Katharine denied as she still avoiding eye contact with Tomoko. Tomoko got up and forced Katharine to face her by grabbing onto her shoulders, then she asked again, "Are you?"
Katharine felt pressured and finally said quietly, "I am a lesbian, 'kay... But I don't want my Pappy to know or else he'll disown me for being a queer, which is why I never told anyone else that I am. Promise me that you'll keep this between us?"
Tomoko was surprised to see Katharine having something she's embarrassed about. She let go of Katharine and said, "I promise, and I'm sorry that I grabbed you. But you are such a typical country girl, it was practically impossible to think that you are..."
Katharine said in embarrassment, "I would talk more about it, but I'd prefer to not talk about it out loud."
Tomoko apologized again and asked quietly, "You're a lesbian, but you don't do things like that Ahonen or act all nutty like Haruka..."
Katharine said quietly, "Honestly, almost every witches are lesbians, it's just that there ain't nobody goin' to openly admittin' it in public. But lesbians are still women and they still act just like any other normal woman would."
Tomoko asked quietly, "Even Elma and Ursula?" Tomoko always considered Ensign Elizabeth Beurling a unique one, so she's not surprised if Elizabeth was one. But Lieutenant Elma Leivonen and Sergeant Ursula Hartmann were rather too innocent to be a lesbian from her point of view.
Katharine emphasized quietly, "EVERY witch..." Then she blushed and continued, "But Ursula is probably too young to understand this, those Karlsland books sure ain't goin' to teach her that."
Tomoko looked at the blushing Katharine and asked quietly, "Why are you blushing?"
Katharine thought that Tomoko was going to say something about Ursula, so quietly shouted with red face, "I ain't no pedophile!"
Tomoko was confused and surprised by the blushing Katharine again and said, "I didn't say anything close to that..."
Katharine covered her mouth and said, "Got darn it, my stupid yapper... Might as well spill the beans... I like huggin' Ursula sometimes when she start readin' her Karlsland books that I can't understand, but I doubt that she'll like me like that since she ain't at the age to think about love yet. I also don't want to be labeled a pedophile, so I treat her more as my lil' sis."
Tomoko nodded, but realized the whole conversation was supposed to be about her own problems. She said and wanting to go back to her original conversation, "Well, you're doing the right thing... But what about me... Even if I finally admit that I am a lesbian, who is the one I truly love?"
Katharine returned to her usual cheerfulness and said, "I wouldn't openly admit that if I were you. Also, bein' a lesbian is a matter of acceptance, but your love is your own business. Well, I was fixin' to get some water but talkin' here got me more tuckered out. So I'ma gettin' my water and goin' to bed before your trainin'." Katharine got up from the seat and waved Tomoko good night, Tomoko waved back at her and thanked her for the company.
After Katharine left, Tomoko returned to her deep thoughts and took a sip of her somewhat cooled down warm coffee. She thought, "I guess nothing would change if I am a lesbian, but the main question lies in who do I truly like as I would like to commit to only one person even as a lesbian...
For Haruka, she was already extremely clingy ever since I first got here. But ever since she was trained by that Ahonen, she became quite different in spite of her even more clinginess and sexual abilities, perhaps her confidence is what changed her.
For Giuseppina, my heart gone bonkers for her ever since we first met. I thought it was because of the personality she had when the Neurois controlled her, but I still feel that way about her even after she was free from their control.
But they both are equally weird and seductive... I guess the only thing it comes down to is who would I choose?"
As she thought that, the first person came to her mind was Giuseppina because she remembered that encountering Giuseppina was what started her belief that she might not be as straight as she thought she was supposed to be, especially since Giuseppina was the first girl she was fine to have sex with... But she also really cares about Haruka because she knew her since she first joined the squadron... Yet she can't think anymore than a junior-senior relationship with Haruka despite everything that happened between them...
After an hour of thinking, her mind finally concluded that she should not change anything at all because she realized that being in the front line is probably the worst time to get in a relationship. So she won't say that she likes either of them for the time being, not just to avoid affecting either one of their performance in battles, and to prevent possible uproars like last time. Although she finally accepted the fact that she's a lesbian and considered dating Giuseppina after she retire, but not after she makes Haruka a better dogfighter because she believes as a senior and comrade, it's her duty to teach a fellow Fusoan Navy how to fight like one.
She cleaned and put up her coffee mug, and went into the squad commander's room just before everyone was about to wake up. She checked on today's training plan and looked at her beloved family sword that was strapped on her waist since she got up, she thought to herself, "Maybe I should at least get Haruka her own katana before making her a great dogfighter since most of our dogfighting does use melee weapons a lot and katana is our country's sword... And it'll probably be something for her to remember me by when I retire." She then got out of the squad commander's room and get ready for today's plans.
As a result of Tomoko's sexuality acceptance, she became a more confident squad leader while still seems like the same person in the past. When Haruka isn't looking at her, she looks at Giuseppina for a bit, enough for Giuseppina to notice but not everyone else. And Haruka also slowly became a better dogfighter from Tomoko's special training that she got her own katana and a better pair of glasses, but Haruka also became more like Captain Mika Ahonen as the time went by.
Reference:
Tomoko - Lieutenant (British: Flying Officer) Tomoko Anabuki - undetermined temporary commander of the 507th JFW(Formerly the Suomus Independent Volunteer Air Squadron / "Misfit" Squadron)
Giuseppina - Flight Officer (British: Warrant Officer) Giuseppina Cenni - member of the 507th
Haruka - Sergeant (British: Sergeant) Haruka Sakomizu - member of the 507th
Katharine - Ensign (British: Pilot Officer) Katharine O'Hare - member of the 507th
Elizabeth - Ensign (British: Pilot Officer) Elizabeth F. Beurling - member of the 507th
Elma - Lieutenant (British: Flying Officer) Elma Leivonen - member/commander of the 507th
Ursula - Sergeant (British: Sergeant) Ursula Hartmann - member of the 507th
Ahonen - Captain (British: Flight Lieutenant) Mika Ahonen - commander of Suomus's 1st Squadron whom occasionally helps out the 507th during combat.
Sources:
Sumous Misfit Squadron novels
Other Strike Witches comics(mangas)