>the first that comes to mind is - "Feel free to rely on us!" Ikazuchi
>added with a wink. - which is cute and all but fairly out of place in
>a first meeting with a complete stranger who may/may not be exactly
>friendly.

Well, that's just Ikazuchi. She's always like that. She just wants to get across the notion that DesDiv 6 is reliable, and doesn't know any more general way of saying it. Anyway, she was the quickest of the four to take a liking to him, for reasons which will be examined in the next line.

>none of the Fog characters, Iona not withstanding, have any
>reason to say such things to someone they just met.

No, but they do have instincts - which, as it happens, they didn't have before, and are still getting used to the concept. That was kind of the idea, anyway.

>another, though at that point less of an issue under the circumstances
>is Oyodo's "Light cruiser Ōyodo. Please leave the fleet
>administration and supervision to me."

It might be out of context; on the other hand, it might equally indicate that Ōyodo has already figured out how the situation is likely to unfold. She's pretty sharp. Battleship-class processor in a light cruiser, y'know. :)

>Tenryu's seemed the most Fog-ish response
>though i cant say anything about her Kancolle persona, having made no
>appearancein the anime and not having played the game.

Strangely, Tenryū's stock self-introduction line makes more sense in Cantata than it does in the game, where she is, in essence, trying to intimidate her newly assigned commanding officer.

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