History Fanfic / AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Neuman isn't a particularly outstanding as a member of the 203rd and Tanya cites his heavy build and slight fear of g-forces as detriments. During an exhibition show in the Unified States, he handily outperforms the best of the US aerial mages (at about a third faster than the top US record) to the shock of everyone around except for Tanya, who berates him for his slow time, shoddy maneuvering and excessive showboating.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Tanya works out how to fly and use illusion magic using a civilian computation orb. She doesn't get just how impressive they are to the people she shows them off to. The same with her figuring out stealth casting.

* TheDreaded: Tanya's already established herself as a terror on the battlefield and quickly becomes the same in politics. The foreign powers understand immediately that they have to watch her closely and she never actually meets the Francois ambassador because he fears for his life.
* EnemyMine:

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Tanya's inner monologues show that she always believes herself as being on a knife's edge where her support is concerned and usually has low expectations of her political efforts. It is immediately apparent to the viewer that she seriously sells herself short and that she is actually a near-universally loved (in Germania) and nigh-unstoppable political juggernaut despite being in an inferior position to the Allied Powers.

** Tanya provokes the Francois Republic with an eye towards being removed from power in exchange for a comfortable exile. The other Great Powers backstab the Francois Republic and basically tore up most of the Treaty of Trianon. Notably this was a major plank in Tanya's (thought to be impossible to achieve) party platform.

** Elya's employment is this on Tanya's part thanks to miscommunication between the two. Tanya assumes that she's hired Elya for secretarial work and to conduct polling operations, but Elya assumes that Tanya hired her for her intelligence background and quickly sets up an (initially) unofficial intelligence apparatus and secret police under the guise of "polling operations". Both events listed under ThePurge happen with Tanya unknowingly ordering them.

* BerserkButton: While a lot of her hatred for The Treaty of Triano, the Francois and communists are played up for the public, Tanya's private monologues show how much she really just does not like them.

** Anton Ehrlich is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche Ferdinand Porsche]] (the name coming from his parents, '''Anton'''ius Porsche and Anna '''Ehrlich''').

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Tanya ''thinks'' she's using the Socratic method to tell Visha that she doesn't really mean to break the Treaty of Triano and provoke the Francois, she's just securing a cushy lifestyle working for a small political party. Unfortunately for her, Visha takes her words at face value.
** Elya also finds some letters to Tanya from military manufacturers, using words like "touring facilities" or "discussing the future of the nation" to hide that they really want to hire her to be a lobbyist for them but Tanya declined them because she simply didn't know that they were actual job offers. Elya assumes she did so as part of an intricate plan to take control of Germania and lead it to glory.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Tanya refuses to blame Germania's religious and ethnic minorities for the country's woes because they are voting citizens. Instead, she focuses people's ire on the Francois.

** A bar patron in chapter 1 suggests the Germania Republic change its name and join the Kingdom of Ildoa to escape paying reparations from the Treaty of Triano since it only applies to the nation called Germania. Tanya mocks the patron since not only is the idea stupid, changing the country's name won't fool the Allied Powers, especially the Francois.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Elya secretly has the leader of the Germania's Communist Party along with his wife and second in command assassinated by making it look like a murder suicide where the leader caught his second in command having an affair with his wife in his bedroom, killing them before killing himself. Tanya, unaware of the assassination, truly believes it was a murder suicide.

* ThePurge: Upon being hired, Elya purges the Germanian Workers Party of its old guard, ensuring that all who remain are loyal to Tanya.

* ShipTease: Boatloads between Tanya and Visha. Some fans have even wrote future FictionalDocument where historians argue whether Tanya was the first openly lesbian world leader or had a three-way relationship between her, Visha and Elya.

* OCStandIn: Elya is a very minor character, only showing up in two scenes months apart in-story, that was Vikotria's friend and roommate during their time in basic and due to her penchant for finding gossip, joined the intelligence department under the cover of being an observer mage. Here, she reunites with Vikotria and becomes a secret SecretPolice for Tanya.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: In a mirror to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr the Occupation of the Ruhr]], the Francois occupy the Rhine Industrial Area when Tanya stops payments to both fix Germania's ailing economy and to draw the Francois to the negotiating table to try to wring better terms. After getting her hands on the Type 95 again, she utterly destroys the occupying forces.

* EnemyMine: Tanya has a bit of fondness for the Akitsukushima Empire because she was Japanese in her previous life, but she doesn't think too kindly of their imperialist ambitions or their military policies. That said, she covertly sends some advisors to aid them in their fight against the Russy Federation.

* SingleIssueWonk: Tanya refocuses the direction of the Germanian Workers Party from Dressler's scientific socialism to railing against the Treaty of Triano. From the the start of her brand awareness campaign to the vote that won her the chancellorship, she never misses a chance to decry it.

* ThePurge: The leaders of Germania's communist party are either arrested for their ties to the Rus or disappeared by Elya.

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Tanya notes that she's not in the best time period for this as she's been isekai'd to a time too developed for her to be able to introduce anything that can introduce another industrial revolution or get rich and she's not really knowledgeable of any good future tech that can be developed in her situation.

* IconicOutfit: Tanya started out wearing simple white dresses provided to her by the orphanage and her military jacket on top. She keeps the look well into her career because it's become very recognizable.

* WorthyOpponent: Tanya regards Lieutenant John Green of the Allied Kingdom to be this after fighting him for years in Africa.

** That said, she does introduce 21st century marketing and political campaigning techniques, getting R&D done on the assault rifle and kick-starting the rise of the middle class.

* LivingLegend: Tanya starts the story as the world (in)famous Argent Silver/Devil of the Rhine. In the political field, she very quickly rises to power, saves Germania from economic ruin and makes good on her campaign promise to end the Treaty of Triano, while also getting a favorable deal from the rest of the Allied Powers that basically leaves the Francois in the dirt. POV sections from other Germanians has her described as a near-mythical savior in their eyes.

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Tanya ''thinks'' she's using the Socratic method to tell Visha that she doesn't really mean to break the Treaty of Triano and provoke the Francois, she's just securing a cushy lifestyle working for a small political party. Unfortunately for her, Visha takes her words aid at face value.
** Elya also found some letters to Tanya from military manufacturers, using words like "touring facilities" or "discussing the future of the nation" to hide that they really want to hire her to be a lobbyist for them. Tanya simply didn't know that they were actual job offers and Elya assumes she declined them as part of an intricate plan to take control of Germania and lead it to glory.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Tanya keeps doing this to herself. In keeping up with her difficulty in understanding people, she severely underestimates her own reputation as the Argent Silver and the effectiveness of modern political and marketing methods and just how much of an impact those have in getting support for the Germanian Workers Party when she takes over. She also miscalculates how significant her focus on Germania's economics are and how much that sways the people's voting (and later approval of her) when inflation is running rampant and the economy is tanking despite her adopting the stance of a warmongering revanchist specifically so she wouldn't get voted into power. When she and the 203rd end the Rhine Occupation, she has no idea how big a deal it is when General Ziegler immediately follows her direct orders without running anything by Generals Zettour and Lergen, the latter two respectively being the Minister of the Interior and the Secretary General of the Army who are supposed to be limiting her power.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Tanya's political career mirrors her military one. That is, all attempts to attain a quiet, stable job with minimal responsibility ends with her being elevated to the heights of political power. Later, her attempts to provoke the Allied Powers to the negotiation table so she can get them to ease up on the treaty terms for Germania and secure herself a cushy exile end with her stuck in office, the Treaty of Triano ended and the Francois bloodied in her wake. She succeeds so much that she drunkenly proposes to Visha that they should run to Argentina.

* ShipTease: Boatloads between Tanya and Visha.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: Tanya gets totally sloshed after little more than half a bottle of wine.

** That said, she does introduce 21st century marketing and political campaigning techniques, getting R&D done on the assault rifle and kick-starting services for the middle class.

* CultOfPersonality: Tanya is entirely unaware of the one that popped up around her, initially made up of the extremists in the Germanian Workers Party. By the time she becomes chancellor, we see many others being swept up in the same way of thinking.

** That said, she does introduce 21st century marketing and political campaigning techniques and is getting R&D done on the assault rifle.

* TheAce: Tanya is noted by both General Lergen and John Green, a Lieutenant in the Allied Kingdom, to be the absolute best aerial mage in the world. Johan Dressler, President Rudersdorf and Ambassador Lloyd describe her as far-seeing, .

* GoneHorriblyRight: Tanya's political career mirrors her military one. That is, all attempts to attain a small, stable job with minimal responsibility ends with her being elevated to the heights of political power. Later, her attempts to provoke the Allied Powers to the negotiation table so she can get them to ease up on the treaty terms for Germania and secure herself a cushy exile end with her stuck in office, the Treaty of Triano ended and the Francois bloodied in her wake. ''The latter two were her two biggest campaign promises'', so vowed because she assumed they would make it impossible for her to be voted into power!

* LivingLegend: Tanya starts the story as the world (in)famous Argent Silver/Devil of the Rhine. In the political field, she very quickly rises to power, saves Germania from economic ruin and makes good on her promise to end the Treaty of Triano, while also getting a favorable deal from the rest of the Allied Powers that basically leaves the Francois in the dirt. POV sections from other Germanians has her described as a near-mythical savior in their eyes.

* TheAce: Tanya is noted by both General Lergen and John Green, a Lieutenant in the Allied Kingdom, to be the absolute best aerial mage in the world. Johan Dressler finds her to be the very model of a perfect politician just before he makes her chairman of his political party.

* CultOfPersonality: One around Tanya pops up, made of the extremists in the Germanian Workers Party. By the time she becomes chancellor, we see many others being swept up in the same way of thinking.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Tanya's political career mirrors her military one. That is, all attempts at a small, stable job with minimal responsibility ends with her being elevated to the heights of political power.
* LivingLegend: Tanya starts the story as the world (in)famous Argent Silver/Devil of the Rhine. As she gets into politics, she wows the people and the politicos when she steers the country out of the financial mess her predecessors dragged it into. Then she gets back in the air...

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Tanya keeps doing this to herself. In keeping up with her difficulty in understanding people, she severely underestimates her own reputation as the Argent Silver and the effectiveness of modern political and marketing methods and just how much of an impact those have in getting support for the Germanian Workers Party when she takes over. She also miscalculates how significant her focus on Germania's economics are and how much that sways the people's voting (and later approval of her) when inflation is running rampant and the economy is tanking despite her adopting the stance of a warmongering revanchist specifically so she wouldn't get voted into power. When she and the 203rd end the Rhine Occupation, she has no idea how big a deal it is when General Hans Ziegler immediately follows her direct orders without running anything by Zettour or Lergen, the latter two respectively being the Minister of the Interior and the Secretary General of the Army who are supposed to be limiting her power.

* AlternateUniverse: Aside from the setting already being an alternate, magical Earth around the time of World War I, the Rus never entered the war in this one.

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-young-womans-political-record-youjo-senki-saga-of-tanya-the-evil.660569/ A Young Woman's Political Record]]'' is a ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'' fanfiction that deals with what would have happened if the Germanian Empire lost the war and was subjected to a ruinous peace treaty, closely mirroring the aftermath of post-World War I Germany.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Tanya keeps doing this to herself. In keeping up with her difficulty in understanding people, she severely underestimates her own reputation as the Argent Silver and the effectiveness of modern political and marketing methods and just how much of an impact those have in getting support for the Germanian Workers Party when she takes over. She also miscalculates how significant her focus on Germania's economics are and how much that sways the people's voting (and later approval of her) when inflation is running rampant and the economy is tanking despite her adopting the stance of a warmongering revanchist specifically so she wouldn't get voted into power. When she ends the Rhine Occupation, she has no idea how big a deal it is when General Hans Ziegler immediately follows her direct orders without running anything by Zettour or Lergen, the latter two respectively being the Minister of the Interior and the Secretary General of the Army who are supposed to be limiting her power.

* TheAce: Tanya is noted by both General Lergen and John Green, a Lieutenant in the Allied Kingdom, to be the absolute best aerial mage in the world. Johan Dressler finds her to be the very model of a perfect politician he makes her chairman of his political party.