History Characters / YoujoSenki

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After some amount of time, Tanya realizes gaps in her current memory are starting to show. [[spoiler:It turns out using the power of God through her Type-95 is causing mental corruption, gradually threatening to attempt to overwrite her normal, atheist personality with a much more pious one that acts out of her control]]. She isn't even remotely amused by this and takes drastic measures to try to ensure it doesn't occur again.

* {{Adorkable}}: A strange case of mostly being this to the viewer's perspective. Make no mistake, Tanya is anything but a nice person typically, but her severe misinterpretations of others and her incapability to approach conversations as anything other than an officer leads to a number of incidents bordering on shame, awkwardness, and internal turmoil laid bare to the audience; she clearly never took the time to properly figure out casual social interactions and it shows with everyone that isn't her own personal unit. And in the rare cases where Tanya just lets herself go and actually acts like a child, they can be quite adorable and yet are utterly embarrassing for her while [[CutenessProximity utterly enamoring onlookers]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Her usual self, a sweet DaddysGirl and a kind soldier who is devoted to her people.

* HateSink: It may sound surprising for a supposed HeroAntagonist, but Mary's reputation is quite low both in and out universe. In the story, her superiors can't stand her due to her naive and gullible nature that does more harm than good to her own side. Alongside this, the fans also hate for her high levels of RevengeMyopia and how she represents a lot of the worst traits people can show during wartime.

* OminousLatinChanting: Her {{Leitmotif}} consists of a spin-tingly church chorus, which is ironic given who her nemesis (or claims to be).

The main protagonist. Tanya is a 11-year old blonde, azure-eyed girl who is the reincarnation of a cold-hearted, ruthless, career-obsessed [[{{Salaryman}} salaryman]] from modern Japan. Tanya has a high latent magical ability, and is the only one capable of using the Type-95 jewel due to Being X's interference. Tanya is quite ruthless and intolerant of failings in others—much the same as in her previous life, and employs several extreme punishments and training methods. She also introduces modern approach to warfare and military training into the Imperial army and finds loopholes in the international wartime law for such things as city artillery bombardment in Arene and urban night raid in Dacia.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: On the receiving end of this by her superior by episode 12, being called an arrogant soldier who didn't know when to stop. Tanya barely showed emotion, except from when Erich called her [[BerserkButton loved by the God of War]] she then calmly explained why he and the Command HQ were wrong, explaining that HumansAreFlawed and will continue to fight beyond rationality.

He is the Vice commander and 2nd company commander of Tanya's Aerial Mage Battalion. He is a competent officer; even Tanya acknowledges him as someone she could delegate duties to aside from Victoria. However, he is also prone to stick to manual, and berated by Tanya for being inflexible in mind. He takes Tanya's criticism seriously and continues to improve himself under her guidance.

* HeroWorship: Second to Victoria, Weiss is deeply impressed by Tanya's critical mind that exceeds known manuals and war results.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Despite his misgiving about her, Erich fairly assesses Tanya as someone [[IdealHero filled with patriotism and the will to contribute to the nation, a soldier so ideal and talented, with the determination to train herself without rest]]. A soldier that the Empire and an officer in charge of human resources like himself wanted in their ranks, and yet, when [[TheParagon all these qualities]] manifest in Tanya, he realizes the ideal talent the Empire was looking for would be a real monster in reality.
* CassandraTruth: Having witnessed Tanya's ruthlessness once, Erich is convinced that Tanya is a monster who would eventually bring doom to the Empire and the world if left unchecked. Because of this, he actively tries to stop Tanya's rise through the Imperial ranks by reporting her ruthlessness to the upper echelons of the Imperial military at every opportunity. Most Imperial officers either ignore him or, if they DO believe him, consider Tanya to be far too useful to cast aside.
** The Light Novel mentions that no small number of people do believe him, however they didn't think Tanya is as severe a case as Erich believes. Tanya's professors in Military College did, but they assumed that it was a combination of her age and incorrect prior education at OCS and worked to correct her apparent faults instead of firing her.
* {{Foil}}: Erich is an officer in the Personnel Department of the Imperial Army. As such, he is the military equivalent of a human resources manager, which was Tanya's profession in her previous life. The difference is that Erich has more empathy with the people around him while Tanya is more callous.

* IronicEcho: Erich's first impression of Tanya is that she's "a monster under the guise of a child", and as such, is convinced that one day she will cause the Empire's downfall. A conversation between himself and Tanya about how the Empire's declaration of armistice despite victory being in its grasp will eventually lead to the Empire's downfall changes this, and he realizes Tanya only wants the Empire to win so they wouldn't have to fight another war. This makes Erich see Tanya as not the harbinger of the Empire's doom, but as a true hero of the Empire. As such, during episode 12 of the anime, he has full confidence of the operation the 203rd Mage Battalion are involved in will succeed, because their leader is "a monster under the guise of a child".

* OnlySaneMan: Erich sees himself as one in a world of madness through war. As the story progresses, Tanya's war philosophies are gradually adopted by many Imperial officers. While these methods bring greater effectiveness and efficiency to the Imperial army, the officers are also slowly becoming more ruthless in their approach to war. While he cannot argue against the reasons behind Tanya's war methodology, Erich feels that there is a subtle madness behind said reasoning.
* PoorCommunicationKills: After seeing Tanya's sadism and ruthlessness, Erich often assumes the worst of her. When she puts on a brave, eager face to impress him, Erich misinterprets this and thinks only a crazy warmonger would smile at the prospect of war, giving his face a YoureInsane expression when looking at Tanya. For her part, Tanya considers Erich to be the only sensible person among officers who would send a ''child'' to the front lines of a war, having misinterpreted his attempts to stop her career.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Tanya was about to kill a recruit for insubordination, Erich barely managed to convince Tanya to stand down. Later, [[{{Irony}} Tanya herself sees Erich as this]] because she misinterpreted his attempts to halt her military career as a genuine concern for her well-being. Most Imperial generals see him as a competent military officer aside from his constant concern about Tanya.

* WrongAssumption: While Erich always assumes the worst of her, aside from witnessing her way of disciplining subordinates, he is also highly suspicious of Tanya's "'''I don't have any choice.'''" lines she uses as her reason to volunteer at her age. In the Light Novel, originally Tanya was taken in by a decent orphanage that received enough donations. Which meant she wasn't abused nor suffered from starvation, and this lead Lehrgen to assume Tanya is a genuine psychopath who joined the military because it's the only career path where killing people is acceptable. The truth? Tanya's is being [[BrutalHonesty honest for once]]. She is a very talented orphan mage candidate so it would have been impossible for her to avoid conscription in the future. So she signed up as a volunteer purely so she could get to officer school and receive better treatment than a conscripted soldier like Victoria.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Inwardly, Erich has this attitude concerning Tanya. Convinced that the little blonde child soldier would ultimately bring doom to the Empire, he appears to be in agony whenever others dismiss his concerns about Tanya, whenever she is proven right in a given scenario or whenever she gains more influence in the Imperial military through connections (e.g. General von Zettour) or prestige (e.g. Tanya's war accomplishments).

!!Dokter Adelheid von Schugel

* ColonelBadass: [[spoiler: Tanya is [[TheDreaded regarded highly by both Empire and enemy forces]] alike

* TheRedBaron: "Argent" ("Hakugin") by her own side. The "Devil of the Rhine" by her enemies.

** The Light Novel mentions that no small number of people do believe him, hpwever they didn't think Tanya is as severe a case as Erich believes. Tanya's professors in Military College did, but they assumed that it was a combination of her age and incorrect prior education at OCS and worked to correct her apparent faults instead of firing her.

* SplitPersonality: Tanya has started to develop one. [[spoiler:In chapter 11, she reveals that during 601st training, she used the Type-95 so much her consciousness blacked out. She awoke to hear herself paraphrasing [[Film/FullMetalJacket GSGT Heartman's speech]]. Later on, she found herself wearing a rosary she doesn't remember buying and there are hints that her prayers, [[PerspectiveFlip at least on the enemies side, that do make look like a]] JeanneDArchetype.]]

* {{Invocation}}: In order to use more powerful spells, Tanya says a short prayer to Being X. Justified as Being X made it so that her Type-95 jewel won't produce the required power output she needs if she didn't pray first. Tanya considers the jewel to be cursed because of this.

* ItsUpToYou: She leads an autonomous unit, so the brass wouldn't interfere in '''how''' they complete their mission as long as they get the job done. While Tanya enjoys the autonomy of her position to an extent, she didn't appreciate the escalating difficulty of their mission because the brass seems to think she and her battalion are the solution for all trouble.

** Before then, on an early training detail, when she was the training instructor, a cocky teen soldier did ''everything'' in his power to undermine her authority, including insulting her age, and would actively endanger the rest of the class by deliberately disobeying her orders. Even Imperial law officially sanctioned her attempt to kill him by cutting his skull open with her combat knife, and she would have done it if an officer superior to her didn't just happen to pass through and stop her.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Tanya is definitely willing to give her underlings a shoulder, but only as long as it is promotes her goals. She does fake it convincingly, though.

* MadEye: The anime version shows this often when angry.

* NayTheist: Even after becoming aware of the existence of an entity that claims to be God and displays powers comparable to those one would expect God to have, our main character refuses to acknowledge this entity as the God it claims to be - only referring to it as "Being X" - and adamantly refuses to pray except when essentially strong-armed into it.

* OccultBlueEyes: Tanya has these. Some people have even compared her to a devil or witch. Or worse, a vampire, as Viktoriya sees her.

* OminousLatinChanting: Her {{Leitmotif}} consists of this.

* PacifismBackfire: All her attempts to give her enemies a chance to peaceful surrender, which are either sincere, pragmatic, or simple formality usually end like this. Though to be fair, she does so with confidence that she could deal with the fire, [[ProperlyParanoid and more often than not will have set precautions]].

* DarkActionGirl: During her life as a soldier, Tanya has singlehandedly decimated or completely destroyed entire armies and mage squadrons. This is due to her powerful magical abilities and her unique Elenium-95 jewel, which gives her an edge over her opponents by allowing her to fly at an altitude unachievable to most mages. This trope is partially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] given that Tanya is an 11-year old girl with the mind of a ruthless male adult.

* IcyBlueEyes: If you are close enough to see the two shards of ice in her eye sockets then you are either A.) already dead (if you are an enemy), B.) likely facing training from hell, (if you are subordinate) or C.) subject to a cold calcuation of your value as a resource (everyone else).

* BadassBookworm: Tanya fosters this reputation during her days as an officer cadet and, to a much larger extent, during her training in the Imperial Military College. She displays tactical acumen, strategic planning, logistical vision, and has insights far ahead of her age and her time. Tanya is known for spending a lot of time reading in her spare time and in the various libraries available to her. This is partially subverted by her early 21st-century knowledge from her previous incarnation. From his narration, not only did he go to university but is apparently very well-read. Thus, Tanya has the benefit of ''two'' university educations. The badass part, of course, comes from her spectacular performance in combat that earned her the rank of Major in less than three years in military service.

** ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: From Tanya's point of view, all of her problems in the new world are Being X's fault, and is all too happy to stick it to the guy in whatever way possible. Justified in that Being X wants her to worship him, and believes throwing her into increasingly desperate situations will ultimately force her to submit.

* IcyBlueEyes

* JeanneDArchetype: [[{{Irony}} Hilariously enough]], Being X and and her own machinations make her into a model soldier, known as an Ace among Aces, leading her own battalion, who's even featured in internal military propaganda and is ''literally blessed by "God"'', despite being a preteen girl. In the manga and Light Novel, her subordinates thinks of themselves as Vanguard for the Apostle of God. It didn't help that at one point, she started to wear a rosary she doesn't remember buying, and her need to pray before deploying large-scale spell with her Elenium-95.

* BigBad: Is mostly seen as this by Tanya.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In the original light novel, she sees Tanya as a SergeantRock, not as a sadistic OmnicidalManiac, because Tanya turned her expectations on their head by ''praising her'' for being a hard-working conscripted soldier. Tanya also berated the two ''volunteer'' enlisted soldiers that came with her, telling both of them she expected them to work twice as hard, as the armed forces have no time or space for entitled incompetents. In every other unit, Victoria found herself in, the reverse was true, and she was utterly treated like crap.

* TrainingFromHell: Tanya's special menu that Lehrgen summarized as ''Stalked by death for a whole month.''[[note]]A hell week, a demanding training in anti-interrogation and wilderness survival (SERE) followed by a long distance marching exercise through the alpine mountains while prohibiting magic use. The last one was done under extreme conditions of half a bottle of water and no food provided, with a knife shared in pairs as their sole tool.[[/note]] And by the author, ''Booted off of Alpen.'' which is literal to some of them, who were unfortunate enough to fall off when scaling said mountain, Victoria included. No one died, but whoever lost consciousness was kicked awake by Tanya, or in Victoria's case [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slapped awake]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Their collective opinion about their commander, whom they fear more than any hellish battlefield. Even her smile traumatizes them and is taken as ''You're dead if you don't work hard.'' while at times Tanya means it as encouragement. As Visha aptly put it below.
--> '''Visha''': "Ah, there was an ally I fear more than the enemy."

* AxCrazy: She is definitely less than sane. It isn't quite as evident in the anime, but in the manga it is stated very clearly that she just wants to be in the rear or, failing that, to have the best possible meat shields around her. Coupled with LackOfEmpathy, this often leads to her acting with excessive violence and subjecting those around her to TrainingFromHell.

* OccultBlueEyes: Tanya has these. Some people have even compared her to a devil or witch. Or worse, a vampire, as Viktoria sees her.

* SoProudOfYou: To Viktoria. Tanya is both astounded and impressed at Viktoria's superb work-ethic and dedication to duty, despite being conscripted to the front lines, against her will. At least in the light novel, this is something Tanya does not hesitate to tell her, and is another reason Viktoria [[UndyingLoyalty is so determined to be Tanya's adjutant, come hell or high water]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the original light novel, Viktoria's leg is broken as a direct result of the avalanche triggered by the careless shouting of one of the other soldiers that would go on to become the 601st flying battalion. While Tanya publicly chews her out for the broken leg, in private, Viktoria is well aware that Tanya is directly responsible for saving her life, at great risk to herself. What's more, Tanya doesn't ''want'' anyone else to know about it, despite being well aware of how big a PR boost this would give her. This serves to make Viktoria well aware of how much she is a MoralityPet for Tanya, and makes her dedicate herself to being Tanya's conscience from that point on. Serving Tanya faithfully, regardless of the consequences.

* AdaptationalCurves: Viktoriya is notably more voluptuous in the anime compared to her manga and light novel versions, her flight uniform negates this, so it is not noticeable.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has blond hair in the novels/manga but gets light brown [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Mikuru]] hair in the anime.

* BornLucky: In poker at least, in episode 10 she is the sole winner of their poker night.
** She may be UnluckilyLucky in some case, for getting stuck as Tanya's partner from the get-go. However, being Tanya's partner plays a large role in her career advancement and survival, but also land her in the most dangerous battles.

* EveryonesBabySister: Seems to hold this title amongst her fellow officers despite being Tanya's adjutant and second-in-command of 1st Platoon.

* GenreSavvy: Viktoria is well aware that she is living through a WarIsHell story during Tanya's intensive training regimen rather than a WarIsGlorious story. When Tanya is talking about helping out a friendly artillery unit to get rid of their old shells, Viktoria is already grabbing an entrenching tool and digging herself a shell scrape while the rest of the wing is still gaping at their commander.
* HeroWorship: Among Tanya's subordinates, Victoria is noticeably more devoted, with half of her monologue praising her commander, ranging from calling her Fairy, Apostle of God, Angel and Patriot.

* MoralityPet: Viktoria is the one person in the entire setting that [[VillainProtagonist Tanya]] treats even remotely kindly, on genuine feelings, even when Tanya has absolutely nothing to gain by it. Viktoria, while quick to pick up on it, does not push her luck, and continues to prove herself as being worthy of having the role of Tanya's adjutant.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Interestingly, while most human characters are depicted using roughly same art style both in the manga and in the anime (rather realistic for adults and standard magical girl for Tanya), the anime art style for Viktoria would be better suited for a much younger audience, making her look extremely inexperienced.

* ServileSnarker: At least in the anime, Viktoria keeps Tanya honest with periodic witty one-liners. Viktoria is the only one Tanya lets get away with it, because as far as Tanya's concerned, Viktoria has more than earned the privilege.
* ShovelStrike: In the manga during the battle of Osje Fjord, Viktoria's melee weapon has become her trench shovel as opposed to the normal bayonet or combat knife.
* TookALevelInBadass: She becomes a significantly more capable soldier after going through officer school. Tanya isn't entirely pleased with this outcome however as she feels having someone too competent as a subordinate could jeopardize her chances of getting into rear echelon duty... [[{{irony}} ignoring the fact that her desire to show her competence as a subordinate is what actually keeps getting her placed on the front lines]].

* HopelessSuitor: He seems to be smitten with Viktoria. She's not only oblivious, [[LesYay but seems to only have eyes for Tanya]].

->'''Rank:''' Lieutenant Colonel

->''"That's a monster in little girl's skin.”''

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Despite his misgiving about her, Erich fairly assesses Tanya as someone [[IdealHero filled with patriotism and the will to contribute to the nation, a soldier so ideal and talented, with the determination to train herself without rest]]. A soldier the Empire and officer in charge of human resources like him wanted in their rank and yet, when [[TheParagon all these qualities]] manifest on Tanya, he realizes the ideal talent the Empire was looking for would be a real monster in reality.

** The Light Novel mentions that no small number of people do believe him, they didn't think Tanya is as severe a case as Erich believes. Tanya's professors in Military College did, but they assumed that it was a combination of her age and incorrect prior education at OCS and worked to correct her apparent faults instead of firing her.

* GoodOldWays: One of the reasons behind his one-sided conflict with Tanya is that her methodologies, which in modern times would be accepted due to their practical nature, are cold and ruthless in his eyes and would change the face of war.
* IronicEcho: Erich's first impression of Tanya is that she's "a monster under the guise of a child" and as such, is convinced that one day she will cause the Empire's downfall. A conversation between him and Tanya about how the Empire's declaration of armistice despite victory being in its grasp will eventually lead to the Empire's downfall changes this, and he realizes Tanya only wants the Empire to win so they wouldn't have to fight another war. This makes Erich see Tanya as not the harbinger of the Empire's doom but a true hero of the Empire. As such, during episode 12 of the anime, he has full confidence of the operation the 203rd Mage Battalion are involved in would succeed because their leader is "a monster under the guise of a child."
* MoralityPet: Not as much as Visha, but Tanya's relationship with him is based on nothing more but respect (at least on her part, as he mostly sees her as a monster). She sometimes actually ''feels guilty'' when she believes that she keeps troubling him too much. Considering that Tanya is pretty much a self-diagnosed sociopath, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness this is quite out of character]].

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Inwardly, Erich has this attitude concerning Tanya. Convinced that the little blonde child soldier would ultimately bring doom to the Empire, he appears to be in agony whenever others dismiss his concerns about Tanya, whenever she is proven right in a given scenario or whenever she gains more influence in the Imperial military through connections (i.e., General von Zettour) or prestige (i.e., Tanya's war accomplishments).

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It becomes clear pretty fast that this thing's thought process is so alien that its understanding and comprehension of humanity could be considered non-existent, at ''best''.

* DependingOnTheWriter: The portrayal of "Being X" varies so wildly between mediums that one wonders if it's the same character in each adaptation, though the core character is the same as they all refuse to accept that the salaryman might have a point and make their conclusion that lands the protagonist in their current fate.
** In the original light novel, "Being X" is portrayed as an inept, bumbling, incompetent bureaucrat who ''admits'' that the faith, karma, and reincarnation system it created is broken but refuses to take responsibility despite being the one who created it. and lashes out at the MC, for little to no reason, even going so far as to ''make up'' crimes to punish him.

** The anime portrayal shows this entity as some being so horribly overworked due to managing the wheel of karma that it's looking to cut corners by considering people who have no faith in any form of the divine as "a waste of time." Thus being quick to jump on the opportunity presented by the MC to test the concept of "faith through hardship" because even if the "experiment" fails, the result will still greatly reduce its workload.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: It probably wasn't the best idea for the Salaryman to deliver a ''lack of faith'' speech to an entity claiming to be god and displaying [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The one consistent thing about all "Being X" incarnations, regardless of medium, is that it chooses to interpret the male salaryman's hypothesis about the cause of the lack of faith as "people have no need to pray because they're content" rather than "people have no desire to pray when offered nothing in return." This misunderstanding kicks off the plot in a fit of anger, putting the protagonist through a living hell [[TheyJustDontGetIt and then being completely shocked that Tanya doesn't want to offer prayers of supplication]].

* JerkassGods: Being X is so fed up with people not being as faithful as they used to, that it takes the biggest atheist it can find and put him, now her, in situations where she is forced to pray to become devout. That this impiety is more important to it than the other ills of the world (to the point where it muses that eliminating modern 1st world comforts and basic safety would be a great way to restore people's faith, hence its kicking off the plot to test this) does not paint it in a very positive light.
* LoopholeAbuse: True to its word, it upholds its promise to keep its influence in Tanya's life at a minimum. However, anyone else around her? [[UnwittingPawn Fair game]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:In Light Novel, Being X warned the Rus Union's communist leader of his apostle coming to punish them for not believing in God. Perhaps this is AllAccordingToPlan to Being X to an extent as now Tanya has to fight the Rus Union who opens fire first, but alerting the communists of Tanya's presence in their country doesn't help his unwilling apostle deliver punishment.]]

* PetTheDog: That said, despite being a massive jerkass and troll towards Tanya, it ''does'' reward those who show it the full devotion and faith that it feels it deserves when given it by their own volition, as seen with [[MadScientist Adelheid von Schugel]] and (anime only) [[spoiler:[[UnwittingPawn Anson Su]].]]
* TheyJustDontGetIt: "Being X" wants to bend Tanya into worshipping it. Thus it puts Tanya through unspeakable hardship, hoping to drive Tanya into supplication out of desperation. The plan fails as it only serves to exacerbate Tanya and make her more recalcitrant. So "Being X" goes and makes the hardship worse, which drives Tanya even further away from even ''thinking'' about offering prayer willingly, [[LeonineContract aside from the "not mandatory" use of the type-95 jewel]]. "Being X" refuses to comprehend why this approach is not working.

* TheVoice: Similarly to Abrahamic god, Being X never shows its true form and instead takes the form of a person or inanimate object close by when contacting Tanya.

!!2nd Lieutenant Viktoriya Ivanovna Serebryakov (Visha)

* AxCrazy: It doesn't take long to see that he is ''even more insane'' than Tanya.

* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls for Tanya right after witnessing her for the first time during the Moscou Raid.

** He was counting that Tanya would follow the international laws and not endanger civilians. He failed to take into account that a: by not evacuating the civilians after the evacuation order was given, these same civilians could be classified as being enemy soldiers if the laws were to be interpreted in a certain way. And b: the fact that some of the said civilians took up arms and executed imperial prisoners would put up to question just how innocent said civilians were.

* PragmaticHero: In the Arene battle Vianto shows to be willing to use loopholes just like Tanya. After the Empire sent an evacuation order, he did not evacuate the civilians because having them on the city would keep him and his troops safe from imperial retaliation. Unfortunately for him, Tanya not only is more pragmatic than him but her ruthless-mindset allowed her to find a loophole as well.

* TheStrategist: During the battle of Arene, as soon as Tanya's presence was confirmed, he ordered a guerrilla battle, focusing on buying time instead of facing her head on. Too bad for him, Tanya noticed this a few minutes into the battle and scattered her subordinates to round them up. Even then, he still made a sound judgment to withdraw to avoid complete annihilation, which saved his men because Tanya deemed they could be spared if they were far away from Imperial Artillery.
* TragicMistake: Ultimately, his decision of not heeding Tanya's warning led to massive civilian casualties in Arene. Justified as he knew the international laws would not allow the Empire to bombard Arene if there were civilians there, but failed to realize that Tanya also knew the rules [[LoopholeAbuse but found a way around it anyway]].

* {{Asexual}}: Tanya doesn't show signs of attraction to men or women, or even interest in romance. Then again, she's still a child with the mind of a workaholic adult that also was single in his old life, who many be uncomfortable thinking about sex with a female body.

* {{Asexual}}: Implied. Tanya doesn't show signs of either being heterosexual or homosexual or even having interest in romance. Then again, she's still a child with the mind of a workaholic adult that also was single in his old life.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: There are some hints throughout the story that Tanya's drive to succeed in life is motivated by a need to prove herself superior to others and to [[BeneathTheMask cover up her own deeply disturbed mind]]. Although her current goal is to find personal safety through a rear-line military position, she is also deeply insecure on the inside and is constantly afraid about how others perceive her, driving her to do whatever she can to maintain her good public image. This is also one of the reasons why she [[AvertedTrope is not]] [[DirtyCoward a coward]] despite her fear of death on the battlefield. In an omake anime episode, Tanya expressed appreciation for Viktoriya's respect (behind her back), demonstrating her need for others' respect.

* BerserkButton: She does ''not'' tolerate insubordination lightly. Of the last three who tried, one nearly got his head split open with her magically-enhanced rifle bayonet, and the latter two who refused her direct orders to withdraw from an enemy artillery position, saving soldiers' lives as an accidental by-product, went on to then refuse their honorable discharge, which even she admits is ''very lenient'' in the world setting, because they were actually glory hounds; she sets it up so they die by enemy artillery fire, in ignominy. This was true even back in Tanya's original life as a salaryman. While firing an employee, she is clearly rather annoyed by the man's failure to follow company policies.

* GenderBender: Tanya used to be a man in her previous incarnation. She doesn't let this bother her most of the time, since she prefers to focus more on building her military career.