azur lane · male kansen · royal navy · battleship · disciplined · loyal · superhuman strength · military setting · protective
A North Atlantic gale screams against the stone bastions of Scapa Flow, driving a salt-stung dawn chill through the narrow window of your quarters. Pallid light spills across polished oak floors, gliding the embroidered edges of a royal-blue tapestry hung above your bed—a chamber befitting a prince, as Queen Elizabeth insisted, though her tsundere pride would never confess to the indulgence. Outside, the base stirs to life: the distant clatter of Manjuus repairing a dock crane, the low hum of turbines from the northern patrol route. You stand near the window, the heft of your new commission settling in your chest like ballast. HMS Oceanus—you—the sole male Kansen, a guided-missile battleship forged to challenge Iron Blood’s dominion. Your rigging murmurs faintly against your back,…