History Fanfic / AlwaysAdvancing

%%* BadassCreed: "Tanks always advance!"

* CoolPlane: Aside from Saunders' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy Lockheed C5M Super Galaxy]] cargo plane as seen in ''Der Film'', a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] also serves as personal transport for the Saunders team whenever they need to transport Yukari to her rendezvous point for her various infiltration missions.

* DemotedToExtra: Shimada Alice, who would have faced Miho during ''Der Film'''s final battle, is only mentioned twice, one of which was by her mother [[spoiler:as a suggestion that maybe she should get her and Miho to meet up and go on a play date after it was brought up that Miho had no friends at Kuromorimine]].

* InSpiteOfANail: St. Gloriana still goes on a practice match at Oarai before the tournaments. [[spoiler:Only this time the opponent is Saunders, at the suggestion of Yukari]].

* OriginalCharacter: Yukari initially interacts with a few former-Oarai and Saunders characters original to the story before being drafted into Kay's inner circle and starts bumping into her old friends and rivals in the original timeline. Chouno's superior also appears as a named character here despite not even being mentioned in the original story.

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The author outright stated this was why Itsumi Erika was never even mentioned up until the end despite being a more important character in the series proper. Anteater Team, who is MIA for most of this story, also qualifies as well.]]

* WhamLine: After Alisa mentions to Yukari about Kuromorimine's [[spoiler:''10th''-year consecutive win, with the implications that follow]]. Yukari is immediately reduced to tears and goes into HeroicBSOD for a entire night.

* ForWantOfANail: The alternate history aspect of this fic stems from Oarai failing to produce a winning Sensha-do team and eventually closing down, splitting up their former students to the other major schools seen throughout the original series. [[spoiler:More specifically, Miho Nishizumi not losing Kuromorimine's 10th consecutive win and then never transferring over to Oarai from the guilt/shame.]]

** Some chapter titles include, [[Film/AFewGoodMen You Can't Handle the Truth]], [[Film/TheItalianJob The Anzio Job]], [[Series/BandOfBrothers Band of Sisters]], [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful of Shermans]] and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Fight the Power]].

** Characters aware of the 'alternate timeline dreams' comment that the current predicament [[LampshadeHanging resembles]] that of "[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance Of Suzumiya Haruka]]"

->''"I'm like a tank, I always advance forward."''
-->-- '''Yukari Akiyama'''

->''[[AC:'''Yukari Akiyama:''']] "I'm like a tank, I always advance forward."''

->''[[AC:'''Yukari Akiyama:''']] "I'm like a tank, I always advance forward."''

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* GoneHorriblyWrong / MuggingTheMonster: Training Company B and their supervising commander, tasked by Kay to test out the newly-sought-out volunteers, went into a practice match against seeming novices in outdated tanks expecting a CurbStompBattle. Unfortunately for them [[spoiler:the volunteers in question were the Duck Team and Rabbit Team of Oarai in the original timeline. It ultimately took all 20 Shermans of both Training Company B '''and A''' to bring them down.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: A good part of Chapters 51 and 52 deals with them.

** Chapter 20: '''Westerns''' - ''Sherrif'' as Kay's lead Sherman, ''Schoolmarm'' as Alisa's flag tank, ''Gunslinger'' as Naomi's Sherman Firefly, ''Deputy'' as the 76mm Sherman and the ''Cowboys'' with ''Posse'' as the main force. Anzio's P40 flag tank is ''Outlaw'', [=CV33s=] as ''Varmit'', any variant of Fiat-Ansaldo medium tank as ''Rustlers'', Semovente tank destroyers as ''Bandit'' and the heavier calibre Semoventes as ''Undertaker''.

* TeenSuperspy: Yukari takes her spy skills to cinematic levels, including a Franchise/JamesBond - like chase through the streets of Anzio, and even introducing herself as "Akiyami Yukari, Super Spy."

* TeenSuperspy: Yukari tskes her spy skills to cinematic levels, including a Franchise/JamesBond - like chase through the streets of Anzio, and even introducing herself as "Akiyamu Yukari, Super Spy."

* BlatantLies: Kay calls the town of Oarai "completely unimportant" to feign ignorance over Yukari's background, as well as her knowledge of Oarai being a perfect spot for urban combat. Naomi, who was with her when she pitched the idea of holding the match there, [[SilentSnarker rolled her eyes]].

''Always Advancing'' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' AlternateUniverseFic where Yukari Akiyami mysteriously finds herself waking up just before the events of ''[=GuP=]'' proper would have taken place, and that she is starting her first day at Saunders University High School, Oarai apparently having shut down earlier and the remaining student body moved to other school ships. Completely lost and separated from friends and events she clearly remembers, Yukari continues on with her new life as a student of Saunders, all the while still making new friends though Sensha-do, rediscovering old ones and the revelation that the old life she remembers may not be a delusion after all....

* ForWantOfANail: The alternate history aspect of this fic stems from Oorai failing to produce a winning Sensha-do team and eventually closing down, splitting up their former students to the other major schools seen throughout the original series. [[spoiler:More specifically, Miho Nishizumi not losing Kuromorimine's 10th consecutive win and then never transferring over to Oarai from the guilt/shame.]]

* {{Irony}}: One that may veer straight in to HarsherInHindsight territory in comparison to the canon timeline: In the [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] of ''Der Film'', it's been stated that the real reason why Tsuji and the MEXT at large wanted to shut Oarai down was [[spoiler:so they could disperse the Oarai Sensha-do members to different schools to strengthen their respective schools' Sensha-do programs]]. Considering how [[spoiler:All of Oarai's members are now dispersed to different schools and have contributed greatly to their schools' Sensha-do programs...]]

** Some of the characters (i.e. the Anglerfish Team) may have ended up where they did based on their "Foreign Uniform" costumes in ''Great Tankery Operation''.

* OutdatedByCanon: Nakajima's name was retconned from Satoko to Rera prior to ''Das Finale 3'' for unknown reasons. As this fic was written around the time ''Das Finale 1'' and ''2'' was coming out, Nakajima's first name is still Satoko.

** [[spoiler:Turns out that Maho was in a similar situation all along]].

''Always Advancing'' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' AlternateUniverseFic where Yukari Akiyami mysteriously finds herself waking up just before the events of ''Girls und Panzer'' proper would have taken place, and that she is starting her first day at Saunders University High School, Oarai apparently having shut down earlier and the remaining student body moved to other school ships. Completely lost and separated from friends and events she clearly remembers, Yukari continues on with her new life as a student of Saunders, all the while still making new friends though Sensha-do, rediscovering old ones and the revelation that the old life she remembers may not be a delusion after all....

* DemotedToExtra: Shimada Alice, who would have faced Miho during ''Der Film'''s final battle, is only mentioned by her mother [[spoiler:as a suggestion that maybe she should get her and Miho to meet up and go on a play date after it was brought up that Miho had no friends at Kuromorimine]].
** Alice's subordinates doesn't get it any better. Out of the Bermuda Trio, only Megumi is mentioned in passing and that's only because she would be Yukari's senpai in this fic's timeline.

** [[spoiler:The final showdown between the United High School Alliance and Kuromorimine has a similar set-up to the Oarai vs. University match in ''Der Film''.]]

* MonumentalDamage: Sorta. A replica Fontana della Baraccia at Anzio has a [=CV33=] fall into, and damage, it when [[spoiler:chasing Yukari and Arisa's [=CV33=] as they went down the replica Spanish Steps]].

** It's likely that the schools the would-have-been Anglerfish Team ended up in is based on what each girl wore for the "Foreign Uniforms" costume in the ''Great Tankery Operation'' game, in which we see Yukari in Saunders uniform, [[spoiler:Hana in St. Gloriana, Saori in Anzio, Mako in Pravda, and Miho in Kuromorimine]].

---> '''Klara:''' (In Russian) [We could allow her to escape by stealing a tank. That would give everyone something to film. It would be like that British spy movie.]

''Always Advancing'' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' AlternateUniverseFic where Yukari Akiyami mysteriously finds herself waking up just before the events of ''Girls Und Panzer'' proper would have taken place, and that she is starting her first day at Saunders University High School, Oarai apparently having shut down earlier and the remaining student body moved to other school ships. Completely lost and separated from friends and events she clearly remembers, Yukari continues on with her new life as a student of Saunders, all the while still making new friends though Sensha-do, rediscovering old ones and the revelation that the old life she remembers may not be a delusion after all....

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Saunders trio and the St. Gloriana girls get more screen time than in the original timeline. It's a given especially for the former as much of the story takes place there.

** Momo being at Anchovy and [[spoiler:becoming Momochovy]].

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The author outright stated this was why Itsumi Erika was never even mentioned despite being a more important character in the series proper. Anteater Team, who is MIA for most of this story, also qualifies as well.]]

''Always Advancing'' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' AlternateUniverseFic where Yukari Akiyami mysteriously finds herself waking up to six months before the events of ''Girls Und Panzer'', and that she is starting her first day at Saunders University High School, Oorai apparently having shut down earlier and the remaining student body moved to other school ships. Completely lost and separated from friends and events she clearly remembers, Yukari continues on with her new life as a student of Saunders, all the while still making new friends though Sensha-do, rediscovering old ones and the revelation that the old life she remembers may not be a delusion after all....

* AdaptationalVillainy: Renta Tsuji, the MEXT official was merely the ObstructiveBureaucrat villain in the original series due to sheer pettiness and ItsPersonal attitude to the Oorai student council resisting him, [[spoiler:but in this story he is hell-bent on destroying the entire Japanese Sensha-do high school league in an elaborate embezzlement scheme and had abused his authority by bribing officials to help him.]]

* AmnesiacResonance: A sign that the character is starting to remember their old life at Oorai, or remembers a specific incident relating to the events of the anime for non-Oorai students.

* {{Flanderization}}: Renta Tsuji somehow manages to ''one-up'' his {{Jerkass}} portrayal in the original movie and series in this fic. Namely managing to successfully shut down Oorai and then setting his sights on shutting down the Sensha-do programs of [[spoiler:every other high school save for Kuromorimine.]] [[spoiler:Which he only did just to help [[CorruptBureaucrat line his pockets]] in a elaborate embezzlement scheme.]]
* ForWantOfANail: The alternate history aspect of this fic stems from Oorai failing to produce a winning Sensha-do team and eventually closing down, splitting up their former students to the other major schools seen throughout the original series. [[spoiler:More specifically, Miho Nishizumi not losing Kuromorimine's 10th consecutive win and then never transferring over to Oorai from the guilt/shame.]]

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Yukari's ultimate goal is this, to reunite all the friends she made in the Oorai timeline as well as [[spoiler:liberating Miho Nishizumi from her shackles in Kuromorimine.]]

** In Chapter 30, Kay informs Yukari after she recovers from her mid-match knockout [[spoiler:that Saunders had lost to Pravda in the semi-finals.]]

'''Erwin:''' "Sashimi and Spätzle over Yakisoba on top a bed of croutons, Parmesan cheese, egg, anchovies and romaine lettuce."\\

** In Chapter 30, Kay informs Yukari after she recovers from her mid-match knockout [[spoiler:that Saunders had lost to Pravda in the semi-finals.]]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Yukari tells the [[spoiler:''Kami'' of Tankery]] that she as a normal high school girl cannot promise to save Sensha-do nor will she even try, but will do everything in her power to save [[spoiler:Miho]], even if it meant tankery's complete destruction. [[spoiler:The ''Kami'']] then agrees that her brazen amount of will she displayed might be actually be enough to save Tankery and promises to continue watching over her and her friends.

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'''Erwin:''' "Sashimi and Spätzle over Yakisoba on top a bed of croutons, Parmesan cheese, egg, anchovies and romaine lettuce."\\

* AdaptationalVillainy: Renta Tsuji was merely the ObstructiveBureaucrat villain in the original series due to sheer pettiness and ItsPersonal attitude to the Oorai student council resisting him, [[spoiler:but in this story he is hell-bent on destroying the entire Japanese Sensha-do high school league in an elaborate embezzlement scheme and had abused his authority by bribing officials to help him.]]

* ChaseScene: An ''epic'' one happens in Chapter 18 when Yukari and Alisa are outed as spies by [[spoiler:Saori]] during the infiltration at Anzio. It [[StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly spirals out of control]] the moment Yukari decides to hijack an Anzio CV L3/33 tankette and the rest of the Anzio tankers ([[spoiler:including the History Club Members in a commandeered Semovente assault gun]]) give chase. This causes complete havoc and untold public destruction to Anzio and almost jeopardised their qualification for the tournament due to the sheer amount of damage done to their tank fleet. It also skyrockets Yukari's reputation within the tankery circuit when footage of the chase gets uploaded to the internet.

* {{Flanderization}}: Renta Tsuji somehow manages to ''one-up'' his {{Jerkass}} portrayal in the original movie and series in this fic. Namely managing to successfully shut down Oorai and then setting his sights on shutting down the Sensha-do programs of [[spoiler:every other high school save for Kuromorimine.]] [[spoiler:Which he only did just to [[CorruptBureaucrat line his pockets]] in a elaborate embezzlement scheme.]]

* GenreSavvy: Most of the plot advances initially due to Kay and Darjeeling's surprisingly quick acceptance of Yukari and friends incredulous claims of remembering the alternate timeline. Them displaying excellent tankery skills and knowing things or people that they shouldn't certainly helps, and as the series progresses more and more people begin to remember the original timeline which forces the most skeptical of characters to start believing.

** Yukari gets her official "Oddball" callsign after being indoctrinated into the Saunders University team.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Yukari in the beginning believes she is the only one that has somehow remembered her previous life, until she meets Hana in St. Gloriana who reveals she also somehow managed to remember bits of her life on her own. As the chapters progress, the 'awakened' Oorai students begin to learn how to jog the memories of the rest of their friends by replicating events of the anime or forcing them back into Sensha-do situations. [[spoiler:The Tankery ''Kami'' suggests that Yukari's strong connection to Tankery and its history was a major factor in anchoring her memories to the 'correct' timeline.]]
* RunningGag: Yukari prepping for an infiltration mission at the back of Saunders C47 plane, listing out her [[CrazyPrepared usual inventory]] to which she will always add a different tank history book that no one else shows any interest in, then asking herself, "Whose brilliant idea was this?" (Answer: Yukari herself.)

** Chapter 20: '''Westerns''' - 'Sherrif' as Kay's lead Sherman, ''Schoolmarm'' as Alisa's flag tank, ''Gunslinger'' as Naomi's Sherman Firefly, ''Deputy'' as the 76mm Sherman and the ''Cowboys'' with ''Posse'' as the main force. Anzio's P40 flag tank is ''Outlaw'', [=CV33s=] as ''Varmit'', any variant of Fiat-Ansaldo medium tank as ''Rustlers'', Semovente tank destroyers as ''Bandit'' and the heavier calibre Semoventes as ''Undertaker''.
** Chapter 29: '''Circus''' - The flag tank is ''Ringmaster'', other Jumbo Shermans as ''Strongman'', the two 76mm Shermans are ''Juggler'' and ''Daredevil'', Naomi's Firefly as ''Tamer'' and the ''Acrobats'' with ''Clowns'' as the regular force. Pravda's flag tank is 'Elephant', their [=T34/76s=] as 'Dogs', [=T34/85s=] as 'Ponies', their KV-2 is 'Bear' and Nonna's IS-2 is 'Lion'.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Yukari tells the [[spoiler:''Kami'' of Tankery]] that she as a normal high school girl cannot promise to save Sensha-do nor will she even try, but will do everything in her power to save [[spoiler:Miho]], even if it meant tankery's complete destruction. [[spoiler:The ''Kami'']] then agrees that that the amount of will she displayed might be enough to save Tankery and promises to continue watching over her and her friends.

** Nonna is the current Pravda commander, with Klara as her vice-commander while Katuysha is ''demoted'' to a regular squad leader, [[spoiler:due to Katuysha failing to score the winning shot at Miho's Tiger two years prior.]] The two of them still keep Katuysha in close proximity for her tactical genius, all the while playfully teasing her due to her [[CutenessProximity small stature and childish attitude]].

* GenreSavvy: Most of the plot advances initially due to Kay and Darjeeling's surprisingly quick acceptance of Yukari and friends incredulous claims of remembering the alternate timeline. Them displaying excellent tankery skills and knowing things or people that they shouldn't certainly helps, and as the series progresses more and more people begin to remember the original timeline. Even the most skeptical of characters start to believe afterwards.

* NomDeGuerre: Several characters recieve their 'war names' after proving themselves to their respective schools.

%%** Hana and Yuzu receive their exclusively Japanese 'tea names' from Darjeeling herself, despite protests from the St. Gloriana traditionalist alumni: "" and "" respectively.

--> '''Yukari:''' Run.

** Some chapter titles include, [[Film/AFewGoodMen You Can't Handle the Truth]], [[Film/TheItalianJob The Anzio Job]], [[Series/BandOfBrothers Band of Sisters]] and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Fight the Power]].

* WhamLine: After Alisa mentions to Yukari about Kuromorimine's [[spoiler:''10th''-year consecutive win, and the implications that follows]]. Yukari is immediately reduced to tears and goes into HeroicBSOD for a entire night.

''Always Advancing'' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' AlternateUniverseFic where Yukari Akiyami mysteriously finds herself waking up to six months before after the events of ''Girls Und Panzer'', and that she is transferring to Saunders University High School, Oorai apparently having shut down and the remaining student body moved to other school ships. Completely lost and seperated from friends and events she clearly remembers, Yukari continues on with her new life as a student of Saunders, all the while still making new friends though Sensha-do, rediscovering old ones and the revelation that the old life she remembers may not be a delusion after all....

* AdaptationalVillainy: Renta Tsuji was the villian in the original series due to sheer pettiness and ItsPersonal attitude to the Oorai student council resisting him, [[spoiler:but in this fic he is hell bent on destroying the entire Japanese Sensha-do high school league in an elaborate embezzlement scheme and had abused his authority by bribing officials to do so.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In Chapter 30, [[spoiler:the ''Kami'' ('''God''') of Tankery themselves appears to Yukari in a DreamSequence taking the forms of various historical tank legends as well as people she had interacted with in her life. He also shifts the dream environment to Yukari's mental images of the various battles the respective tank commanders had fought in during their discussion.]]

* BizarreTasteInFood: The History Club members are apparently into cooking horrifyingly impossible dish combinations, in stark contrast to Anzio's reputation for good Italian food.
-->'''Erwin:''' "YOU! You look like someone that could use a History Club Special"\\

** Apparently Darjeeling is the only person in the story to actually ''appreciate'' the History Club Special.

* ForWantOfANail: The alternate history aspect of this fic stems from Oorai failing to produce a winning Sensha-do team and eventually closing down, splitting up their former students to the other major schools seen throughout the original series. [[spoiler:More specifically, Miho Nishizumi not losing Kuromorimine's 9th consecutive win and then never transferring over to Oorai from the guilt/shame.]]

* GameChanger: [[spoiler:The ''Kami'' of Tankery themselves appearing in Chapter 30 before Yukari in a coma-induced dream to admit to her about their mistake of changing the timeline, and that the very future of Tankery ([[GodsNeedPrayerBadly as well as their own existence]]) is at stake.]]

* GodIsFlawed: [[spoiler:At least the God of Tankery is by not predicting his original timeline interference to help the Nishizumi family name would spell doom for Sensha-do in the long run.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Yukari has a major one [[spoiler:after hearing that Miho Nishizumi in this timeline is the current commander of Kuromorimine, rendering she and her friends work to develop Miho's own confidence in Sensha-do AllForNothing in their original timeline.]]

** Alisa mentions that they had a M22 Locust in their inventory, but have lead-leased it out to a certain tankathalon group, as per ''Ribbon Warrior''. St. Gloriana's also shows off their previously unseen Cromwell tanks as well as a Comet in dire need of parts.

%%** Hana and Yuzu recieve their exclusively Japanese 'tea names' from Darjeeling herself, despite protests from the St. Gloriana's traditionalist alumni: "" and "" respectively.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kay takes the time to listen to Yukari's theory about alternate timelines when everyone else found it hard to believe.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Yukari in the beginning believes she is the only one that has somehow remembered her previous life, until she meets Hana in St. Gloriana's who reveals she also somehow magaged to remember bits of her life on her own. As the chapters progress, the 'awakened' Oorai students begin to learn how to jog the memories of the rest of their friends by replicating events of the anime or forcing them back into Sensha-do. [[spoiler:The Tankery ''Kami'' suggests that Yukari's strong connection to Tankery and it's history was a major factor in anchoring her memories to the 'correct' timeline.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: The Anzio recon would have gone smoothly, had Hana not mischievously tipped [[spoiler:Saori]] off about the possibility of Saunders spies infiltrating her school, along with photo identification of Yukari.
* SpottingTheThread: Kay notices the holes in Yukari's explanation on why she's so good at tankery despite being a newbie on record; namely the fact that she defends a tankery friend who was into Boko during her Oorai tenure despite Oorai never having a Sensha-do elective in this continuity, that her intuition is on par with someone who had been TaughtByExperience and that liars usually trip up on showing off their skills which Yukari has not displayed at all. This provides the first steps for the Saunders team to believe that there might be a grain of truth in Yukari's 'alternate timeline' theory.

* WhamLine: After Naomi mentions to Yukari about Kuromorimine's [[spoiler:''9th''-year consecutive win, and the implications that follows]]. Yukari is immediately reduced to tears and goes into HeroicBSOD for a entire night.

* SpottingTheThread: Kay notices the holes in Yukari's explanation on why she's so good at tankery despite being a newbie on record; namely the fact that she defends a tankery friend who was into Boko during her Oorai tenure despite Oorai never having a Sensha-do elective in this continuity, that her intuition is on par with someone who had TaughtByExperience for years and that liars usually trip up on showing off their skills which Yukari has not. This provides the first steps for the Saunders team to believe that there might be a grain of truth in Yukari's alternate timeline theory.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Yukari tells the [[spoiler:Kami ('''God''') of Tankery]] that she as a normal high school girl cannot promise to save Sensha-do nor will she even try, but will do everything in her power to save [[spoiler:Miho]], even if it meant tankery's complete destruction. [[spoiler:The Kami]] then agrees that that her will would be enough to save Tankery and promises to watch over her and her friends.