Tanya von Degurechaff

“	Curse you, Being X!	„
	~ Tanya's catchphrase

“	If there is a God who rules this world, it is a stern, solemn, and definitely a good being. A being that is far too great. God keeps forcing us to confront these cruel fates. As those were the rules of this world! Oh, God... I'll slice you into tiny pieces and feed you to the pigs! Our battlefield is no place for that piece of shit, God! I think it's time we took over God's work. We, soldiers, will take God's place. Put the arrogant ass, God, out of a job! All right troops... It's time for war!	„
	~ Tanya's speech to her battalion

“	Of course. I'm none other than Tanya von Degurechaff. At the very least, I won't be pushed out of my own home. I'm different from you.	„
	~ Tanya's resolve after she's found comrades she can trust

“	"If you have time for idle chatter, spend it doing all you can to survive---We are soldiers. If the brass tells us to do something, we do it.	„
	~ Tanya to Visha

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It's all... Being X's fault. Until I pound free-market principles into that piece of shit, I won't die, no matter what! I'm going to live... to live and... I'm going to end this!

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“	God save the Fatherland.	„
	~ Tanya's magic ignition

“	Lord, if the day comes when I fly through the heavens. I shall approach thee!	„
	~ Tanya's second magic ignition

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A shovel is an implement born of civilization, Hooray for civilization.

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Patriotism is a really handy tool... and tools are meant to be used.

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“	Animal. I don't have time for your shit. Goodbye.	„
	~ Tanya to Mary Sue

Background

Tanya von Degurechaff is the main protagonist of the light novel/anime Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil. Originally a salaryman who was murdered in 2013, he was reborn as a girl living in an alternate version of Europe during the late Interwar period.

At just nine years of age, Tanya enters the Empire's Mages troops and is promoted to Second Lieutenant. Her talents, strategies, efficiency, and ruthlessness make her a useful asset for the Empire and a threat on the battlefield.

Since she graduated from the War College as one of the twelve knights, she's been granted the title of von.

Moreover, she leads her own newly-formed Mage Battalion known as the Imperial Army 203rd Air Mage Battalion.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Tanya von Degurechaff’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Past In the year 2013 A.D, he was just an ordinary salaryman working in the Human Resources Department. His job was to lay off people, and he is shown doing his job efficiently without any empathy for anyone he fired on behalf of his company. One day, after firing someone for incompetence, on his way back home after work, he was murdered by the vindictive former co-worker, who pushed him to his death in a crowded train station off of the platform to the train tracks. His death led to his first encounter with Being X, in which the salaryman expressed his faithless nature in metaphysical entities such as a God and a Devil. The salaryman also pointed out what he sees as a flaw in Being-X's management of humanity and reasoned why humanity's faith in God has eroded. Enraged by his rudeness but also intrigued, Being-X decided to use the salaryman's soul in an experiment. So the entity reincarnated him in another universe as a blonde-haired and blue-eyed infant girl named Tanya Degurechaff. Present The salaryman is reborn as Tanya in 1914 in the alternate universe, in a nation known as the Empire. When she comes into her consciousness for the first time, she realized she was in an orphanage. She lived at the church for a long time without changes in her daily life. However, it all changed when a group of specialists went to check on all the children. Through a magical aptitude test, she was listed as a child with magical aptitude. Therefore, she became a promising candidate for conscription into the Empire's Imperial Armed Forces. Realizing that joining the military is inevitable and seeing an opportunity to better establish herself in the world, Tanya volunteers instead in order to obtain better treatment and opportunities, with a life plan to get promoted to an elite rear course, Tanya enlisted to the Imperial Army. Prologue/Deus lo vult; Chapter I: The Sky in Norden Tanya successfully graduated from the Military Training Camp at the age of 9 after-which she was promptly promoted to Warrant Officer and was put in command of the artillery firing squad before being deployed on her first mission. Her first mission's directive was to provide reconnaissance for the ground troops. However, while carrying out her task, her unit was ambushed by the enemy. Tanya, upon realizing what was happening, immediately requested permission to retreat, but her request was denied and her orders were changed from providing recon to holding the line while reinforcements were deployed in which she was told that they would take approximately 10 minutes. Not wanting to disobey the command from HQ, Tanya engaged the enemy and fought ferociously, killing three and severely wounding two (one kill and two wounded in the LN). During the battle, Tanya injured herself because, as she saw it, if she were to be injured in battle, she would no longer have to fight and would be taken care of, by the military, in return for her 'selfless' sacrifice. Deus Vult/Deus lo vult; Chapter II: Elenium Type 95 Operation Orb Tanya is assigned to test out the unstable Elenium Type 95 Operation Orb, which is majorly invented by Doctor Schugel. On the first flight, while using the prototype orb, it explodes when she reaches the maximum level (6,000 feet above sea level), Tanya is still unable to control it, taking slight injuries. Therefore, Tanya is notably peeved when she is brought back to retest the explosive orb countless times and always failed to use it reliably and effectively. After Being X blesses the Elenium Type 95 Operation Orb, it sprouts improvements. When she is pulled back the last time for the final checks, she meets Being X again while the orb is about to detonate during the flight, During that brief period, Being X solely states that the only requirement to use the orb unfailingly and safely is the pray to him. Tanya is left with no choice but to pray and grasp the control of the orb, successfully utilizing the orb. This makes her think that the orb is a cursed equipment instead of a blessed thing.

Statistics

Tier: 10-A physically, 9-A with basic magic, 7-C with strongest magic, Higher with Self-Destruction

Name: Tanya von Degurechaff, Their original world name is unknown

Origin: Youjo Senki

Sex: Female, Originally Male (Tanya is the reincarnated soul of a buisinessman that died in his world and reincarnated into another world as a female by Being X)

Age: 9 during Chapter I, 10 during Chapter IV, 11 during Plus Ultra/Episode 6, 12 during Chapter VI, 13 during Chapter V Omnes una manet nox

Classification: The Devil of Rhine, Eleventh Goddess, Mithril, Battalion Commander, White Silver, Rusted Silver, Argent, Ace of Aces, Mad Dog

Status: Other (Tanya is the reincarnated soul of a buisinessman that died in his world and was sent to another by Being X)

Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Tanya notes that due to the society they had to deal with, their personality became warped. They believe heavily that rules are necessary for the system to run smoothly and that they must follow all rules or else they fall into anarchy. Further notes that she isn't a war freak and is merely a peace-loving individual who respects society's rules. Was going to execute a junior student for resisting her orders. Initially viewed getting subordinates as human shields. Tanya is one that follows the complete orders of her country in order to get in a safe position in the army to live in peace, to this end she is willing to kill people who aren't soldiers if she is ordered too, along with kill off men who don't listen to her orders. Though she has shown to have some care for her battlion, going out of her way to save Visha when she ran out of formula along with when she ran in and saved Weiss)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Athlete level physically (Kicks a soldier hard enough to knock him out in a single-strike), Room level with basic spells (Her basic spells can casually cut through planes, along with destroy several bomber planes at once. Noted to have a super strong magic signal. Basic spell formulas can take out incoming shells), Town level+ with strongest spells (With her strongest spell she can detonate a nuclear explosion), Higher with Self-Destruction (If her core explodes it will create an explosion that would be far greater then any of her spells)

Durability: Athlete level, Room level with Passive Defensive Shield (Passive shields protects against shrapnel, small caliber bullets and blast waves along with a 12.7 mm), Higher with Active Defensive Barrier (Her active shields could casually block an avalanche, which reach this level of energy. Used heractive shield to tank the destructive power of a combined optical formula)

Striking Strength: Athlete Class, Higher with Statistics Amplification (She can instataneously increase her muscle power through her magic circuits. Enables her to casually cut men in half)

Lifting Strength: Athletic Human

Travel Speed: Athletic Human, Superhuman Flight Speed (Can move around 250 km/h or Mach 0.2)

Combat Speed: FTL

Reaction Speed: FTL (Dodged a laser beam from Mary Sue's gun, where Mary used an otpical formula, which fires a straight ray which is defined as a beam of light, that's capable of refracting. Casually blocked and reacted to optical formulas. Casually blocked a bullet far after it was shot out and close to her), Higher with Improved Reactions (Has a spell that is able to improve her reaction time through her magic circuits)

Stamina: Superhuman (Went on to take out three platoons, put her men through hellish training for a months time where she'd repeatedly use her magic against them without tiring. Was beaten down and harmed by attacks that broke through her shield and could still get up and fight)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with Bayonets, Tens of Kilometers with Formulas (Can fire at an enemy that is 20 kilometers away along with sense them. Can fire from kilometers in the sky down at grounded enmies, can fire multiple beams from 12,000 feet in the air all the way down to the enemies)

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (In her first real mission, she was able to single-handedly disrupt an entire company, baiting them into close quarters combat. Noted to be a "child perfected as a weapon". Graduated second in her class, and encountered a disturbance in Norden after her unit training in the north, where she put up a valiant fight with the northern army group and her brillain feat and valuable contribution to the army led the commanding officers on-site to submit a joint recomendation. Seen as a huge feat to get the silver wings without being dead. Commanded a platoon of recruits straight out of the cadet corps. She can do analysis at the strategic level. Has over five downed platoons making her an ace and is near reaching fifty downed platooons making her an ace of aces. Saw the flaw in the Empire's planning and saw a potential way they could lose the war. The best soldiers in the Republic's Army were decimated by Tanya herself, along with this it's noted that it was impossible for intel to even get her face as no one survived encounter close enough to make out a face with her. Noted to attack from a distance with precision using high-output sniping formulas. Due to all of her achievements she got a reccomedation from her combat unit and passed the first screening, something seen as rare as most committees require multiple screenings. Became a magic first lieutenant at only age eleven, graduating from the academy second in her class, recieving the silver wings assault badge and reccomended for the aerial field badge, has sixty-two downed and thirty-two assists, recognized as an ace of aces with the alias "White Silver" and is working in the instructor's unit. Noted to be a prodigy, and an outstanding magic officer. Wrote a document at nine years old that was noted that despite her age it feels like it was written by an expert where she emphazies ways to fix material gathering where the railroad department head read it and loved it, practically begging her to be assigned to his team. Noted to fit the bill for an excellent candidate with no problem with her abilities being praised and never once being doubted. Continously gave fast and apt answers to all of her instructor's questions, no matter what the problem was, she responded immedieatly as if she knew the answer ahead of time. Noted that she was already fit for the battlefield, to where she was jointly reccomended for the iron cross econd class during her field training when she was nine years old. Conducting an operation so well that intelligence had assumed the operation was conducted by a battle-tested warrant officer when she was an officer candidate in training. Through her discussion with her superior she explained how she viewed the war would turn out and explained how to counteract their potential loss putting a top general lost in thought from how amazing her suggestion was. Being impressed by her being able to speak about dramatic shifts in war as if she had seen them with her own eyes. Further showed ability to answer questions and give strategies in situations of how to deal with targets and capturing points. Viewed anyone that could be tricked by simple illusions as useless mages for her unit. Trained an entire battalion of rookies to be the best soldiers in a months timeframe, where it was noted it'd take two years in order to train raw recruits. Noted by a colonel that having the ability to transform her troops into elites in a mere month makes her a genius. Took her battalion of only around fourty men to battle against the 600,000 dacians army where they utterly destroyed them, not losing a single soldier in combat. With Tanya noting the officiers in charge fail to understand three-dimensional warfare, commenting on how pathetic the Dacia army is for still seeming to fight under two-dimensional warfare. Noted that her natural abilities surpass that of the entire reich. Took out the first special ops battalion which is considered to be an elite unit of all the best veteran aerial mages with Major Hosman being an aces of aces. Consistently noted to be the greatest soldier in their army. She is the very reason her country has nearly won the war several times, with them not listening at times costing them a chance at fully winning the war)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Multilingualism (Tanya carries newspapers from neutral countries for foreign language studies. Went and took language study to learn Dacia), Martial Arts (Has been noted to have training in hand to hand combat), Weapon Mastery (Shown extreme skill with her gun, being capable of using it for firing deftly along with using it's bayonets for close quarters combat. Noted to attack from a distance with precision using high-output sniping formulas), Social Influencing (Instantly swapepd her face from a delighted smile to an angry scorn, sending fear into her higher up. Her eyes put fear into rookies eyes. One seeing Tanya's face and words during her incantation are taken aback by her "pure innocence" believing her words to be speaking to them even if it's a pre-recorded message, causing them to respond to her questions and praying to god. Her mere presence makes soldiers gladly follow her if she was their battalion commander. A trained captain felt a shiver down his spine just from seeing her. Can use her little kid voice to trick enemies into thinking she's vulnerable and to not take her seriously), Enhanced Senses (Tanya is able to dodge a barrage of bullets before they're even fired through checking their signatures. Tanya is able to evade spatial distortions), Extrasensory Perception (Can detect the use of formulas from 20 kilometers away), Information Analysis (Tanya is able to acquire spatial coordinates along with calcualte potential evasion paths from her opponent. Operation Orbs can process the world's data and convert the manga of user mages), Instinctive Reaction (Shown to do entire actions and speeches when her mind wasn't fully on), Divine Protection, Probability Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Blessed, & Empowerment (As a way for Being X to get Tanya to pray to him, Tanya offering words of prayer will grant them protection from divine grace, grant divine miracles, and empower Tanya with abilities), Magic (Tanya has an aptitude for magic), Reality Warping & Sheer Will (With Operation Orbs, a tool mages use to interfere with reality through magic according to their will, a breakthrough to recreate miraculous phenomena through the combination of both mana and analogue computation), Flight (Tanya uses a flying machine, allowing her to reach altitudes of 3,600 meters, it's also noted she can theoretically ascend to 5,400 meters, she incorporates three-dimensional movement into her flight patterns and she can combine all of these factors with her small body, making her incredibly hard to hit), Healing (Can heal oneself or others with healing formulas that heal from injuries that would've otherwise killed one), Purification (With alcohol detoxification spell, can remove alcohol from oneself), Homing Attack (Can lock onto several enemy fighters and planes at once, shooting out a multitiude of bullets that all home in on the targets), Forcefield Creation (Tanya has two forms of defensive formula's, a passive forcefield that protects against shrapnel, small caliber bullets and blast waves along with a 12.7 mm, and an active forcefield that increases the density of the shell in one part to create a shield that can withstand machine gun fire, it can withstand up to about 40 mm), Glyph Creation & Attack Reflection (Can create a glyph that blocks and reflects attacks, can create these all around her), Energy Projection (Can shoot out energy blast with her magic), Curtain Fire (Is able to fire out dozens of energy beams to hit multiple soldiers. Can fire multiple beams from 12,000 feet in the air all the way down to the enemies), Pain Manipulation (Can use an access formula that causes the nerves to sense pain filling the user with unimaginable pain), Weapon Creation (Able to create a magic blade from her hands that can phase into one's brain), Light Manipulation (With Optic Formula, fires straight ray beams), Reflection Manipulation (Talented mages can bend light beams to change their flight paths), Statistics Amplification' (She can instataneously increase her muscle power along with improve her reaction time through her magic circuits), Pain Tolerance (Can give herself pain suppression with magic circuits), Self-Destruction (Capable of causing herself to self-destruct to take out multiple enemies), Technology Manipulation (With interference formulas, Tanya can jam communicators), Spatial Manipulation (With elinium type 95's four-core synchronization achieved, Tanya can create a spatial detonation), Illusion Creation (Type 1; Can use an optical formula to set up decoy illusions such as fake rooms, and decoys on the battlefield to trick opponents. Can triple the amount of decoys making it impossible for an enemy to tell which is which along with put illusions on the enemy to look like someone else to get other enemies to attack them), Air Manipulation (Can use formulas to create oxygen, allowing them to breathe eight thosuand feet in the air), Radiation Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, & Explosion Manipulation (Can dentonate a nuclear level explosion leaving behind a mushroom cloud. With explosion formula, causes a huge expplosion at the coordinates of the mage's choosing. Can cause a massive diffusive magical explosion, which is noted that even if one survived or dodged the explosion they cannot escape the oxygen deprivation or carbon monoxide poisoning that follows), Fusionism (Can fuse multiple formulas together to unleash a powerful blast of energy), Power Nullification (She is able to jam all spells with her blessings), Miracle & Law Negation (Mary's mother and father prayed to the gods for their daughter to be protected in which swords would break before her, bullets would shirk her, flames would never reach her, and her wounds would heal, though Tanya can negate these miracles/rules with a miracle of equal or greater power), Resistance to Cold Temperatures (Can travel in freezing winter mountains just fine), Heat Manipulation (Can apply heat resisting formulas), Illusion Creation (Type 1; Tanya viewed soldiers being tricked by illusions as mages not fit for her unit, thus this means by proxy she herself cannot be tricked by illusions), Time Manipulation (Unaffected by the passage of time being stopped by Being X, with spin-off series such as Isekai Quartet further confirming Tanya resists time being stopped)

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Standard Equipment

*Operation Orb: An Operation Orb or Computation Jewel is a tool mages use to interfere with reality through magic according to their will, a breakthrough to recreate miraculous phenomena through the combination of both mana and analogue computation. The device is currently a black box, as not much has been revealed about its operation, but its main function is known to process the world's data and convert mana of user mages. The Great Powers had entered a cutthroat competition in researching and developing this technology. In the second chapter of Deus lo Vult, it's revealed that the Empire is the pioneer in this aspect of magical technology through their Chief Engineer Adelheid von Schugel, the man also responsible for keeping Empire's supremacy in magical technology, the culmination of which is the practical implementation of a dual-core Operation Orb: the Elenium Type 97 ‘Mobile Assault’ Operation Orb. Orbs require basic maintenance at least once a month in order to operate properly.

• Type 13 Standard Operation Orb: The operation orb which was from Volcker Arms Factory and used by Tanya in the beginning of the series.

• Elenium Type 95 Operation Orb: Developed by Adelheid von Schugel and his team of Elenium Arms as the first multi-core operational orb. It uses 4 cores as opposed to using only 1 like normal models do, quadrupling the output of an Operation Orb that uses mana in place of fuel, but at the cost of the mana consumption rate increasing by four-fold. The Type 95 is an experimental revolutionary Orb which theoretically allows the user to reach an altitude of 18,000 feet and cast multiple spells. Its final goal is to achieve Mana Fixation. However, it is very unstable and fragile, with a very high chance of exploding. It manga chapter 31, its power output is mentioned as unmeasurable. In practicality, it functions more of a mana battery where she can store some of her mana in the orb over time and then use that mana whenever she prays.

• Elenium Type 97 'Mobile Assault' Operation Orb: An Operation Orb with 2 cores developed by Professor Schugel, a product version of Tanya's Elenium Type 95 that couldn't be mass produced. The principle of this orb is the same as Elenium Type 95, but more stable and far inferior output. However, this Orb is still a generation ahead of existing Orbs used by other countries. It is a revolutionary model that was hard to handle for single-core users. In manga chapter 31, its power output is 300 kt.

*Luger P08: Tanya is seen armed with a Luger P08 semi-automatic pistol in the ending sequence. It is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The design was patented by Georg J. Luger in 1898 and produced by German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900 with other manufacturers; it was an evolution of the 1893 Hugo Borchardt–designed C-93. The Swiss army was the first to adopt the Luger in May 1900. The Luger was the standard issue pistol for the German Army in both world wars, and presumably plays a similar role for the Empire.

• Mauser C96: The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937, firing 7.63×25mm Mauser or 9×19mm Parabellum rounds based on the variants. C96 has one of the most iconic shapes of early semi-automatic pistols which features the integral box magazine in front of the trigger, the long barrel, the wooden shoulder stock, and an iconic grip shaped like the handle of a broom. Due to its successful performance, C96 also had numerous licensed and unlicensed variants manufactured by several countries.

• Mauser Gewehr 98: Regular infantrymen in the Imperial Army are armed with the Mauser Gewehr 1898. In real life, the Gewehr 1898 is a rifle that fires 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridges from a 5-round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935. As with most bolt-action rifles of its time, it was a powerful and accurate rifle with long range that was poorly suited for the close quarter fighting of trench warfare. The considerable length of the rifle and the minimum sight setting of 400 meters (far in excess of the typical range in trench battles) were particular handicaps.

• Mondragón Rifle: Mages in the Imperial Army use Mondragón rifles as their primary weapons, often firing magic rounds out of them. In real life, the Mondragón was a Mexican semi-automatic rifle of the early 1900s, the first such weapon to become standard issue in a national army. The Mondragón was sold to Germany in the First World War, but proved unreliable in the muddy conditions of the trenches, and was thus mostly used as an aircraft weapon until enough machine guns were available. The use of the weapon by mages somewhat mirrors its real-life deployment in the First World War.

• Gewehr 43 (left hand): In the manga, mages of the Imperial Army use the anachronistic Gewehr 43 semi-automatic rifles instead of the Mondragón rifles. In real life, the Gewehr 43 did not exist until 1943. It was the result of Walther modifying the less successful Gewehr 41(W) through the incorporating of a short-stroke piston gas system that was similar to captured Soviet SVT-40 rifles. The weapon uses the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge and is fed by a 10-round detachable box magazine. In the story, all Gewehr 43 rifles are scoped, and unlike the real-life Gewehr 43, a bayonet can be attached to the rifle.

• MG 34 (right hand): The MG 34 is the other primary weapon used by Imperial Mages. In the Rhine Front, Tanya was wielding both weapons during her search and rescue mission. Overall, more mages are seen using the MG 34 than the Gewehr 43. The MG 34 used by the mages received modifications that are not found in their real-life counterparts. They are modified to accept magazines instead of belts, and a forward grip has been added below the barrel sleeve so that the mages can hold the machine gun with two hands.

• Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr: Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr is the name of an assault rifle design by Karl Barnitzke of the Gustloff-Werke for the Primitiv-Waffen-Programm ("primitive weapons program") in 1944 and was intended to be used by the Volkssturm. It was greatly simplified as an attempt to cope with the severe lack of resources and industrial capacity in Germany during the final period of World War II. The weapon employed the same 7.92×33mm Kurz intermediate cartridge as the earlier StG 44 assault rifle and also used the same detachable 30-round box magazine. In the context of the series, the Imperial marine mages use it as their primary weapon. Nevertheless, the weapon's appearance is anachronistic.

• PTRD-41: PTRD-41 was an anti-tank rifle produced and used from early 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. It was a single-shot weapon which fired a 14.5×114mm round. Although unable to penetrate the frontal armor of German tanks, it could penetrate the thinner sides of early-war German tanks as well as thinly armored self-propelled guns. The rifle used a bolt based on the Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle, as this design is legendary for its strength and simplicity and has become the most widely adopted and copied designs of all time. Abnormally and anachronistically, this gun appears in the Imperial weaponry, described as the "anti-armor sniper rifle" that was useful in trench warfare against the panzer's armor and the mage's shield. During World War I, the weapon that served such purpose for the German Army was the 13 mm Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr.

• MP 40: Maschinenpistole 40 was a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during the Second World War. It was heavily used by infantrymen (particularly platoon and squad leaders), and by paratroopers, on the Eastern and Western Fronts. Its advanced and modern features made it a favorite among soldiers and popular in countries from various parts of the world after the war. It was often erroneously called "Schmeisser" by the Allies, although Hugo Schmeisser was not involved in the design or production of the weapon. In the novel vol.4, MP 40 appeared in Loria's imagination, and was hugged by Tanya.

*MG 08 Maxim: The Empire uses the Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, as their primary support weapon. In real life, the MG 08 was an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. In the anime, the MG 08 has a disk-shaped muzzle that is normally seen on Chinese-made Type 24 Maxims, which were not manufactured until 1935. The gun used 250-round fabric belts of 7.92×57mm ammunition, and was water-cooled by using a jacket around the barrel that held approximately one gallon of water. Like the 1884 Maxim gun, the MG 08 operated on the basis of short barrel recoil and a toggle lock. Once cocked and fired the MG 08 would continue firing rounds until the trigger was released or until all available ammunition was expended. Its practical range was estimated at some 2,000 metres (2,200 yds) up to an extreme range of 3,600 metres (3,900 yds).

• Stielhandgranate: The Stielhandgranate is the Imperial Army's standard issue grenade. In the anime, Tanya and the Imperial Mages used Stielhandgranates twice. First bombing the Dacian invasion forces, the second in downing the lead bomber of the Entente Alliance bomber formation. In the real world, it was the standard issue of the German Empire during World War I and World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to it being called a "stick grenade", or "potato masher" in British Army slang. The Model 24 Stielhandgranate is used in the anime, which is correct as it first appeared in 1924. The main distinction between the Model 1924 and previous models is a slightly shorter charge head. Another very minor change in the design was a lengthening of the wooden handle. The intent of these design alterations was simply for mobility.

• Model 39 grenade: The Model 39 "Eihandgranate", M39 or Eierhandgranate 39 ("egg hand grenade") was a German fragmentation hand grenade introduced in 1939 and produced until the end of World War II. It used the same fuse assembly (the BZE 39) as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate ("Stick Grenade"), which was screwed into the top of the sheet-metal body.

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Notable Techniques

*Physical Traits Capacity: As a child, Tanya didn't possess much physical strength. However, she is able to enhance her basic physical abilities through magical enhancement spells. This allows her to engage in proper close quarter combat and wield a rifle like any other soldier.

• Air Warfare: Her movements are said to resemble a fairy dancing in the sky although most enemies only yell "Monster!" as she dodges all mana targeting spells. Her main tactics are focused on outmaneuvering her opponents, luring them into close quarters for her mage blade or mass elimination with single powerful spells. Air warfare may be conducted against other aircraft, against targets on the ground, and against targets on the water or beneath it. Air warfare is almost entirely a creation of the 20th century, in which it became a primary branch of military operations.

• Tactics (Strategy and Planning): Although she has an average record in planning and strategy, she has a special aptitude for analysis and critical thinking skills. Moreover, she can manipulate the plan according to her will. When Tanya gives orders to her subordinates, they can expect harsh punishments if they fail to comply.

• Manipulation Skills: Due to her extremely dangerous cuteness and small size, she can easily fool someone by using her skills, e.g. during her short conversation with previously ranked Captain Maximilian Johann von Ugar, by persuading him to drop in the selection of being one of the Twelve Knights during War College Arc. Also, she has an ability to fool anyone with her voice, e.g in the light novel, manga, and anime version (Episode 5), where she used her child voice during the bombing of the Dacian Capital.

*Magic: Magic is the phenomenon where mages use their mana to interfere with the world, a method that allows apparition of phenomena by giving appropriate stimulation to the point of application. Modern magic is achieved through technology Operation Orb, unlike the era of legends, this allowed people to clearly understand in detail the where, the how, and to what degree of power to interfere with reality.

• Prayer Magic: By using the Elenium Type 95 and praying to Being X, her eyes turn gold and her physical and mental psyche increases beyond the extent of a normal human. Moreover, she has increased accuracy and prediction in a shooting and is able to cast a high tier powerful explosive spell that could destroy a whole company. This, however, makes her suffer by having mental corruptions, and barely remembers what she did after. The rosary on her neck is the only equipment that prevents her from being corrupted permanently.

*Formulas: In Youjo Senki universe, formulas aren't a set of words, spoken or unspoken to invoke some magical effect. Mages have to understand how the phenomenon of formulas they intend to cast works to recreate the deeds such as miracles. It's like the way people understand how to light a fire with a lighter, thus enabling them to recreate the deed through magic.

• Formula Bullets: Formulas are sealed inside bullets or grenades and activated upon firing. Can be initialized with minimum mana necessary for the formula. Bullets are required.

• Flight Formulas: The aeronautic magic, which allows mages to soar through the sky. This magic works by creating propulsion, forcefully raising a mage into the sky and maintaining balance while in the air. The standard altitude for flight mages is 6,000 feet and it's not recommended for them to propel themselves any higher using an ordinary orb due to thin oxygen and massive amounts of mana their orb has to bear to maintain flight. Surpassing these limitations need a multi-core orb. Tanya herself with her gear can reach 12,000 feet.

• Defenseive Formulas
  • Passive Defensive Shell: Protects against small fragments, small caliber bullets and blast waves. Can be kept on indefinitely, also easy to cast together with other formulas. The biggest ordinary single shot it can defend against in a direct hit is 12.7 mm, but in a saturation attack, even infantry small arms can weaken and penetrate it.
  • Active Defensive Barrier: Increasing the density of the shell in one part to create a shield that can withstand machine gun fire. Whether it provides adequate protection depends on the mage's skill. Ordinary, if concentrate on defense and funnel more mana, it can withstand up to about 40 mm.

• Offensive Formulas
  • Enchanted Rounds: Sealing formulas inside bullets or grenades to activate as required. Formulas can be activated with minimal mana, but the rounds need to be prepared.
    • Penetration Formula: As implied in the name, enhancing penetrating power of the rounds.
    • Homing Cluster Shot: Any bullets that imbued with this formula will split into several homing projectiles upon reaching a certain range and will seek out the target.
    • Artillery Shots: Any bullets that are imbued with this formula will have its firepower enhanced to be comparable to artillery shots. It needs several layers control equation to converge the power. With Type 95, Tanya can shoot the magic bombardment that has similar power to 28 cm gun.
    • Long-Range Sniping Formula: A major attack made up of multiple formulas. Normally, anyone leisurely launching this in the middle of a battlefield would end up pummeled by anti-magic artillery.

• Optical Formulas: Emits a straight heat beam. Skilled mages can refract it to change its course. Noted to be the favored formula of Republican mage for their volley of fire doctrine.

• Explosive Formulas: Explosive Formulas: Creates an explosion at any coordinate. Converted to gunpowder, the power of Heavy Explosion Formulas are 150 kilos at most.

• Self-Destruction: Overloading one's Operation Orb with mana causing it to reach critical mass and explode, injuring the user and surrounding enemies if not outright killing them.

• Guided Interference Formulas: Directing a formula's trajectory, could be used for offensive and defensive purposes. It also could be used to interfere with radio signals.

• Magic Blade: Enchanting an item such as a bayonet with mana which makes it sharp and durable enough to cut a man or plane in two. Even a tough magic shield can't bare the attack of magic blade. It can also emerge on hands and arms.

• Combustion Formulas
  • Napalm-Type: A large-scale formula that usually used in trench and unconventional war. It will cause strong mana signal, fire, huge explosion and blast. It isn't efficient in encounter battles or high-maneuver warfare.
  • Explosive Vaporization: A practical combustion formula when attacking the target in buildings.

• Detection/Support Formulas
  • Optical Decoy Forumla: Creates an illusion that will interfere with the visual senses of those around the user when cast. Skilled mages can easily differentiate between what is real and the illusion, especially since this formula is inclusively targeting sight and nothing else.
  • Observation Formula: Processes data of a Mage's surroundings, uses vary from locking on target coordinates, detecting observational waves, and analyzing an enemy's mana signature. In the anime, this formula takes the form of a holographic screen while in the manga it's akin to a halo above the user.
  • Heat Detection Formula: An impractical formula that is hard to handle even for Tanya. In volume 2, she once considered shoot the enemy bombers with the attack formula paralleling this one.

• Other Formula
  • Analgesic Formula: Doping up the target with it. It can improve the target's reaction time, increase instantaneous strength, and work as analgesic.
  • Medical Formula: Easing the pain and curing light wounds. With more advanced magic treatment, it can cure the serious injury by gunshot as well.
  • Magic Interference: The spread of high-density mana that can cause the noise and jamming to the radio equipment and haze the video with static. That basically makes communication units on the battlefield where mages involve in get paralyzed or perform electronic countermeasures.
  • Magic Communication: The radio communication between mages. While using a special format with directional waves via orbs, the high density of magic remaining will create ear-piercing noise to the radio messages.
  • Dehydration Formula: In manga chapter 30, Weiss once threatened the recruits to turn them into dry fishes by this formula.
  • Voice Amplification Formula: Increasing the volume of the user.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Tanya's tactics as a mage has her attack from the air shooting down rains of magic and spatial detonation attacks.

Weaknesses: Testing type 95 muddles her memory, where she instinctively does actions even when her mind isn't completely on.

Note: While FTL may seem weird as a big thing in the verse of Youjo Senki is characters being in battles with bullets constantly being shot at them, the bullets are actually consistently amplified in power and speed, thus bullets give no real contradiction. Optic Formulas are also all light attacks, with any reason for their explosions or bending is due to the wielder bending or causing them to explode with their magic. Thus there is no contradiction with the Light Dodging Feats requirements.

Note 2: While it's also heavily implied they cannot react to moving at 300 kmh along with moving at Mach 1.5, these two are contradicted by the fact that to hit mage units, characters need to amplifiy the speed of their bullets, which wouldn't make sense if they cannot reach Mach 0.37 in speed.

Note 2: The manga, light novel, and anime are all essentially canon to each other with the most minor contradictions and changes to the point that they are essentially seen as all the same canon. Even with the minor contradictions in the way they can simply be ignored as they do not mess with the overall flow of the story and thus all material from the anime, manga, and light novel can be used on this profile. The web novel however, is not canon as it is the official draft made by Carlo Zen before the original LN published to the public.

Trivia

• In the German dubbing of the anime her name has been translated as Tanya Degretschow.
• Tanya Degurechaff has been compared to the Fallen Hero of Germany Manfred von Richthofena.k.a Red Baron.Both ofthem are considered as "Ace of Aces" during their own World War.
• The Assault Silver Wings medal, which was presented to Tanya, could be based on the 1939 Iron Cross with Oak and Gold Wings, Swords and Diamonds.
• Tanya Degurechaff's achievements have been compared to Erich Hartmann known as "Black Devil," who was highly feared by the Allied forces and the Soviet Union. All of the pilots ranked as "Ace of Aces" were killed by him.
• Tanya's traits and missions seem to be inspired by Erwin Rommel during WW1, as both shared the same destination and both are known for their talent with commando operations in small units.
• Tanya was born on July 18. However, her adoptive birthday is on September 24.
• The name Tanya has its origin as a Russian diminutive of TATIANA. It began to be used in the English-speaking world during the 1930s.
• In anime, her eyes are in the vivid shade of azure blue, but in Light Novel and Manga, her eyes are in icy shade almost silver.
• In the manga and light novel, she is shown to be worried about her growth and even consults a doctor. She is told her growth is stunted due to being malnourished as an orphan and rigorous training as a soldier.
• The anime highlights the orphanage Tanya used to live as a very poor one and in a difficult situation to feed their children, while in the Light Novel, it's mentioned by Erich that according to his intel, her orphanage receives a hefty donation and their children are well-fed.
• Tanya currently holds the world record for max height reached by mages in combat standing at 12'000 feet, the average height is 6'000 with Republicans chasing her at 8'000 feet above sea level.
• According to the LN and manga, she wrote her first thesis at age nine (titled The logistics behind a highly mobile war theatre) that the railroad department deeply recognized and desired to recruit her.
• Tanya hates cigarettes and the smell of smokers.
• She loves coffee, especially those made by Visha.
• She likes sweets, mostly chocolates.
• Tanya once fought while being doped in magic, which can simulate a feeling of intoxication due to the magic canals being unrestricted.
• Tanya has a total confirmed 62 kills and 32 assists since her recruitment, when being considered for War College.
• In the Light novel, she is publicly known by 3 names: White Silver as described by the front line troops, her official alias and what the front line troops think she especially after the aide she provides, Mad Dog by imperial command, mainly due to the amount of trouble she causes them, and The Devil of The Rhine, because she happily laughs and dances in the sky when she kills her enemies. These 3 were combined to give her a new nickname, Rusted Silver. This is because when blood dries up, it gives a colour similar to silver oxide (silver rust) in solution.

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