Tennessee and California, whose poses gave me the hardest time while I was drawing, but they turned out better than I expected.
Those two were quite a close pair of sisters, though they had their moments here and there, especially since sometimes one liked one ship and the other didn't and then argument about why X sucks, why are you even friends with her, but no she has this or that quality, and all. Both survived Pearl, but California was sunk and even after repairs, lost part of her hearing and remained with chronic pain from the damage her vessel had endured until the end of her life. Tennessee had to fight two wars, the actual one, but also supporting her beloved Pennsylvania, who she had been with since the 1930s, and was completely broken after Arizona's violent demise. She even thought of leaving her because at times it was just too hard to process her own trauma (she was almost undamaged but saw everything, which was horrifying in itself, + survivor's guilt) and in addition supporting her lover, but she stayed, and it was the right decision. At the end it's Penn who left her after the war, because she thought she was protecting her in the process and setting her free to explore new options in the mothball fleet, but Tennessee, until the day she died, missed her dearly, each anniversary more painful than the last. The two sisters were mothballed together for 12 years, before scrapping.
Those two were quite a close pair of sisters, though they had their moments here and there, especially since sometimes one liked one ship and the other didn't and then argument about why X sucks, why are you even friends with her, but no she has this or that quality, and all. Both survived Pearl, but California was sunk and even after repairs, lost part of her hearing and remained with chronic pain from the damage her vessel had endured until the end of her life. Tennessee had to fight two wars, the actual one, but also supporting her beloved Pennsylvania, who she had been with since the 1930s, and was completely broken after Arizona's violent demise. She even thought of leaving her because at times it was just too hard to process her own trauma (she was almost undamaged but saw everything, which was horrifying in itself, + survivor's guilt) and in addition supporting her lover, but she stayed, and it was the right decision. At the end it's Penn who left her after the war, because she thought she was protecting her in the process and setting her free to explore new options in the mothball fleet, but Tennessee, until the day she died, missed her dearly, each anniversary more painful than the last. The two sisters were mothballed together for 12 years, before scrapping.