"Sounds cool! They like, live inside you? That's kind of freaky. I wonder if I'll get one..."

"I dunno! You're getting everything else, but I dunno it you can make a crew out of nowhere the way you can a hull. Our crews are based on the sailors who served aboard us, y'know? Where would yours even come from?"

"That's a really good question. I'm not sure how that might work!"

She looks over the room. "So what about the rest of the room?"

"I don't even know how you're moving around without one, if you're becoming a shipgirl, but maybe that counts as a drawback." She shrugs.

"Oh, right! The room! So, my models all go on the shelf above the desk. It's modular, so if I fill up a row I can just add another row on top. I build about one or two of those a month. I used to have a lot of magazines scattered around that I had to keep organized on the shelves too, but Fletcher showed me how to get them all on my phone and computer so now I have less to organize. That's another important part of the process: reducing stuff. I know it seems like I have a whole lot of stuff, but I really have so much less!

"Oh, another thing!" She points at a set of shelves next to the desk, full of clear plastic drawers full of various craft supplies. "If you're like me, you'll forget where things go, so expose it. Clear drawers, take the doors off cabinets, stuff like that."

Sure enough, the only container in the room that isn't clear or doorless is the fridge. The cupboard over the fridge contains cookies and glasses, the shelves of craft supplies variously contain tools, paints, model parts, and clay, and the wardrobe has no doors, and only two opaque drawers.

"It helps with remembering you have things too, so you can use 'em!"

"That makes a lot of sense. I've heard advice of the sort before, but... Never really had the ability to implement it well, partly because I was in my parents' house and they tended to look at me weird if I did things that weren't normal and partly because I just... never really seemed to be able to find the time. I'd try systems, but they'd fall apart after a few months..."

"Well, I'll help you!", Ruby cheers. "We'll just keep at it 'til it becomes a habit!"

"Alright," Maxine says. "I'll do my best. Is there anything else you'd like to show me?"

She goes through how she organized the craft supplies, demonstrates how comforting the weighted blanket is before folding it back up neatly, and shows off her collection of Pokémon and Legend of Zelda games and how they're stored, before eventually running out of things to show.

Maxine follows along, and thinks about how to organize her own things. It seems... surprisingly easy, now that she thinks about it? She's not sure why she never really tried before.

"Thank you for the tour, Morrison. It's really nice to get some help from someone who knows the regs."

"Glad to help!"

"Oh! One more thing!" And she quickly unmakes her bed and walks Maxine carefully through how to make a bed to perfect Naval standard, then has her practice it once herself.

Maxine gets it first try. It's not even hard. 

"Okay," she says. "I'm flabbergasted at how easy that is." 

"Yeah! It took me longer than that to get it that good, and I'm kinda jealous, but that just goes to show how cool you are! Eventually you'll know everything and you can teach me stuff!"

She glomps Maxine and hugs her tightly.

Eeep! 

Maxine freezes, then carefully hugs Morrison back. 

"Um, thank you!" She's blushing a little.

She grins shyly, blushes a bit, then jumps up and kisses Maxine's cheek before running back off to the main room.

She blushes back!

Gosh, these girls keep surprising her with how affectionate they are.

She steps out into the rec room behind Morrison and goes to settle on an unoccupied couch. 

"So," she says. "Anime?"

Missouri and Lexington are idly chatting about the battle they just had in their game, while Morrison looks between anime boxes but looks up when Maxine enters.

"Anime!", she exclaims. "What do you want to start with? I've got lots!"

"What's recent and good?"

She scoops up several boxes, setting them down in front of Maxine one at a time. First box is Steven Universe, "Western, but really great and one of my absolute favorite shows. Cute, has musical numbers, is poignant and heartfelt, has lesbians and enbies and even a probable aromantic person a few seasons in."

Next is Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works. "Action, epic, some romance, really well done. Adaptation of a visual novel."

Then comes Bloom Into You. "Yuri romance, slow burn."

Then Castlevania. "Adaptation of a video game. Really well done. Action and a lot of drama."

"Hmmmm. The one I'm most interested in of those is Castlevania - I played a bunch of the GBA games and they were great. I've never seen a yuri anime, and I don't really watch western animations..." 

"What!? An anime-loving girl who likes girls has never seen anime about girls who like girls!?"

"No, never! I guess it was less common back in, uh, how long has it been again?"

"Seven years ago? I can think of at least ten from before 2013 though."

"Which ones? Maybe we should watch some of them?"

She shrugs and picks up Bloom Into You. "Let's go with this one today. We'll work through my entire yuri collection if we have to, though. This is about a girl who's never experienced romantic love before, and a girl who falls in love with her, and how that changes and heals them both."

"I've never seen it or heard of it."