History Fanfic / AKaiserinsPostLivingArrangements

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Archer's thought process has him note just how odd of a Heroic Spirit Tanya is. Not for her achievements, which he believes is easily enough for her to reach the Throne, but because he's never heard of her before. From his memories, even in timelines where certain Heroes do not rise to usual prominence because of some change, they'd still leave enough of a mark on history that people from other timelines will recognize the failed attempt. ''But Tanya doesn't have that''. From Archer's view, Tanya only seems to exist, not just as a Heroic Spirit, but also as ''a person'', within this single timeline and no other reality even contains a possibility of her appearing.

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-kaiserins-post-living-arrangements-youjo-senki-fate-crossover.833232/#post-65698491 A Kaiserin's Post-Living Arrangements]]'' is a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' crossover with the ever excellent ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'' by jacobk, operating with the assumption that the ''Franchise/FateSeries'' is the world that Tanya had shaped in life.

* JustTheFirstCitizen: Despite her modest status as Chancellor of Germania, the influence Tanya possesses both within the OZEV polity and outside it far exceeds what she could theoretically be capable of. It is telling that, despite Tanya's insistence on being called Chancellor, both followers and enemies have collected a vast array of titles for her: From the titular [[HundredPercentAdorationRating Kaiserin]], to the much more fearsome [[TheDreaded Devil of the Rhine from the First Great War]].

* MulticoloredHair: Sakura's hair is apparently purple with strands of white in it, instead of the pure purple it was in canon.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Computation Orbs should not have come into existence, as not only were the scientists who invented them trying to reverse engineer ''dangerous and complex'' Mystic Codes, and were trying to study them as a science instead of like Magecraft, which is a literal OutsideContextMagic, but the Computation Orbs do not need Mystery to function and to have potency, which Magecraft requires and is an important Lore note in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} that Magecraft is slowly decaying due to the waning of Mystery with the advance of science. However, despite the odds, the scientists did ''just that'', turning it into a science that was accepted by the general consciousness of mankind and thus immune to the decay of Mystery.

* MagicalIncantation: Tanya has one that seems to increase her magical power and allows her to summoned various war armaments and ghostly visages of her old unit, growing more powerful with each line chanted. Only three lines have been revealed so far. She has described it as "exerting her will upon the world", which heavily implies that [[spoiler:Tanya has a '''Reality Marble'''.]]

* MagicalIncantation: Tanya has one that seems to increase her magical power and allows her to summoned various war armaments and ghostly visages of her old unit, growing more powerful with each line chanted. Only three lines have been revealed so far. She has described it as "exerting her will upon the world", which heavily implies that [[spoiler:Tanya a has '''Reality Marble'''.]]

** Another detail revealed is the revelation that [[spoiler:Shirou actually ''has'' been trained in Magecraft. First by Kirei, then by Caren Ortensia. What the extent of his training is is unknown, but it appears that Kirei and Caren did not deem to teach him about the greater world of Magecraft beyond the need for secrecy, leading him to still be ignorant about numerous aspects of the world of Magi and Servants. Furthermore, Shirou's idea of magic before this training was of the use of Computation Orbs, like many people who first enter the world of Magi's Magecraft. However, the titbit raises the question of what constituted Kiritsugu's teachings to Shirou; was Kiritsugu's training so bare-boned that Shirou researched and found out about Computation Orbs, which formed his view of Magecraft, or did Kiritsugu ''use Computation Orbs'' in his profession as the Magus Killer?]]

* CassandraTruth: Rider straight-up admits to Tanya that he's Alexander the Great. However, because Tanya find revealing their true identity to an enemy Servant to be so ''[[HonorBeforeReason phenomenally stupid]]'' that no actual Heroic Spirit, let alone a tactical genius like Alexander, would do so, and that Rider is just a young, energetic, slightly idiotic boy instead of an capable adult that she doesn't treat what he said as true. It takes him fighting seriously and calling down divine lightning for her to believe him.

* DifficultButAwesome: Tanya's Territory Creation Skill is this. Derived from two parts of her legend[[note]]First, that her that she had never been defeated in battle and that the land she took had remained hers for the rest of her days. Second, that the land and its people grew so divergent from the common sense of the world's current era, so intertwined with her will and vision, that her dominance over her territory grew to be taken as absolute and unyielding.[[/note]], it allows her to have ''absolute'' control over any area claimed as Hers. By "absolute", this means that she can instantly control certain phenomena, such as prohibiting ''magical, divine lightning strikes and any movement that isn't hers'', or to tell a few dozen non-magical blades to spontaneously explode. If sufficiently set up, her Domain would be able to literally ''"reject reality"'', such that if an powerful explosion was dropped right on top of her in her Domain, then everything in the Domain would remain intact. However, the problem is that what counts as her Domain is subject to a number of preconditions, with it becoming stronger and less mana-consuming the more conditions are fulfilled. These conditions being having her blood spillt on the land, having the land taken by force, and having the land given by submission or agreement. In addition, the larger the active Domain and the more people within it, the higher the mana cost. As such, Tanya finds the spell to have such narrow usage that she refrains from using it.

* MagicalIncantation: Tanya has one that seems to increase her magical power and allows her to summoned various war armaments and ghostly visages of her old unit, growing more powerful with each line chanted. Only two lines have been revealed so far. She has described it as "exerting her will upon the world", which heavily implies that [[spoiler:Tanya a has '''Reality Marble'''.]]

"A Reward fitting for your Loyalty, your Obedience."

* TookALevelInKindness: Tanya, while still rather cruel, calculating, and pragmatic, is notably less so than she was in life as evidenced by her hesitance to either use methods like Galliasta's or to kill children and teenagers like most of Masters in the War are. [[spoiler:Kirei reveals that this because of her Class: As Caster, she was summoned as the part of Tanya remembered as peacemaker and bringer of stability, where she had sought and achieved victory not by destroying the opposition, but from mutual benefit and peaceful collaboration. As such, though she can certainly imagine the horrendous acts of War that her living self could ''and would'' do, her Caster self refrains herself from taking those same steps. However, a version of her summoned in a different class, one which was contain an aspect of Tanya that was still a soldier and "never left those bloody trenches", would show much less hesitation in the murder of children for her success.]]

** Archer recognizes that Rin has a very obvious crush on Tanya from her HeroWorship of her, including all the research she did on her long before the Grail War (and completely separate to ''preparing'' for the Grail War), the sheer confidence that she'd easily be able to win the War if Tanya was on her side, the pictures she has as he cosplay as Tanya (which she vehemently orders Archer to '''never''' tell Tanya about), all the embarrassed blushes and {{Tsundere}} attitude she gets when Tanya catches her off-guard (which is something that was really only done with Shirou in canon), and with her self-loathing and comedic despair about the idea that she made a fool of herself in front of Tanya and that she thinks Rin's an idiot.

* AgeLift: Kirei is ''noticeably older-looking'' in this fic, with Tanya considering him to be "unnaturally old", having withered hands, pale, wrinkled skin, and non-balding white hair. [[spoiler:When Tanya blows of one of his legs, he doesn't flinch and there is the sound of ''insects'' afterwards, revealing that Kirei has implement Zouken's magecraft methods into his body and transformed himself into a body of insects iin the guise of a human]].

** Another detail revealed is the revelation that [[spoiler:Shirou actually ''has'' been trained in Magecraft. First by Kirei, then by Caren Ortensia. What is the extent of his training is unknown, but it appears that Kirei and Caren did not deem to teach him about the greater world of Magecraft beyond the need for secrecy, leading him to still be ignorant about numerous aspects of the world of Magi and Servants]]. [[spoiler:Furthermore, Shirou's idea of magic before this training was of the use of Computation Orbs, like many people who first enter the world of Magi's Magecraft. However, the titbit raises the question of what constituted Kiritsugu's teachings to Shirou; was Kiritsugu's training so bare-boned that Shirou researched and found out about Computation Orbs, which formed his view of Magecraft, or did Kiritsugu ''use Computation Orbs'' in his profession as the Magus Killer?]]

*** The Einzbern Master was brutally killed by the War's Archer,[[spoiler:Devil of the Rhine Tanya]], and done so severely that the Grail ritual was put in danger with the damage to the Lesser Grail.

*** [[spoiler:A version of Tanya was summoned in the War. Not as we know her, but as the Devil of the Rhine that was still fighting in the trenches during the First Great War, who was much more violent and cruelly pragmatic than the Caster version of her. Her Class was Archer according to Kirei, and was Kirei's Servant instead of Hundred-Faced Hassan]].

** [[spoiler:Saber Alter cuts of her one of her own hands in her fight against Tanya.]]

* BeyondTheImpossible: Computation Orbs should not have come into existence, as not only were the scientists who invented them trying to reverse engineer ''dangerous and complex'' Mystic Codes, and were trying to study them as a science instead of like Magecraft, which is a literal OutsideContextMagic, but the Computation Orbs do not need Mystery to function and to have potency, which Magecraft requires and is an important Lore note in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} that Magecraft is slowly decaying due to the disappearing of Mystery with the advance of science. However, despite the odds, the scientists did ''just that'', turning it into a science that was accepted by the general consciousness of mankind and thus immuned to the decay of Mystery.
* BloodKnight: Despite Tanya's preference to solve things diplomatically, she has a secretly love for combat. Lancer notes, when she went from a chaste, embarrassed girl to calculating, controlled ball of excitement upon the mention of them sparring together, that Tanya most likely isn't interested in sex whatsoever and is more drawn to fighting.
* BreakThemByTalking: Kirei, just like his canon!counterpart. [[spoiler:His knowledge of Tanya from the version summoned in the Fourth War, as well as the secrets she told him like the existence of '''Being X''', allow him to casually and repeatedly break current!Tanya when he reveals them, utterly shocking, disturbing and infuriating her]].
* CanonImmigrant: Caren Ortensia is present as Kirei's aide as Moderator in this timeline. [[spoiler:And also as Shirou's teacher]].

* ChildSoldiers: To hide from Archer her plan to replace him as Rin's Servant, Tanya monologues about her disgust of the use of child soldiers, having been one herself, and the reason why she didn't kill Rin because she's a teenage being forced into a death-match by her elders.
-->'''Tanya:''' "I expected to come across skilled combatants and ruthless magi, I expected that I would have to bury more than a few of them before the war was over. I didn’t expect for those combatants to not even be old enough to drink yet.”
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:When Sakura confronts Rin about what happened to Shirou, she projects and cheerful and teasing persona. However, when Rin is deliberately avoiding saying what happened to Shirou, Sakura abruptly lashes out at her in a cruel tone and briefly takes on a manic sense of urgency. She then attacks her with her Servant Rider.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Sakura]]''':“Don’t play ''games'' with me, Rin! Not with him!”

* DifficultButAwesome: Tanya's Territory Creation Skill is this. Derived from two parts of her legend[[note]]First, that her that she had never been defeated in battle and that the land she took had remained hers for the rest of my days. The second, the land and its people grew so divergent from the common sense of the world's current era, so intertwined with her will and vision, that her dominance over her territory grew to be taken as absolute and unyielding.[[/note]], it allows her to have ''absolute'' control over any area claimed as Hers. By 'absolute', this means that she's can instantly control certain phenomena, such as prohibiting ''magical, divine lightning strikes and any movement that isn't hers'', or to tell a few dozen non-magical blades to spontaneously explode. If sufficiently set up, her Domain would be able to literally ''"reject reality"'', such that if an powerful explosion was dropped right on top of her in her Domain, then everything in the Domain would remain intact. However, the problem is that what counts as her Domain is subject to a number of preconditions, with it becoming stronger and less mana-consuming the more conditions are fulfilled. These conditions being having her blood spilt on the land, having the land taken by force, and having the land given by submission or agreement. In addition, the larger the active Domain and the more people within it, the mana cost will be significantly higher. As such, Tanya finds the spell to have such narrow usage that she refrains from using it.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: A few photos exist of Rin dying her hair blonde and cosplaying as Tanya when she was younger. Archer teases her about revealing these to her idol.
* {{Fangirl}}: Rin, Illya and Isabel are all total Tanya fans. Illya still cosplays as her, and Rin used to when she was a child, the latter having extensively studied all the stories about Tanya and even had a small hope of summoning her that she hides away by her {{Tsundere}} personality when Tanya teases her.

* FantasticNuke: [[spoiler:Kirei believes that the living!Tanya blowing up an entire mountain when killing her rival, Mary, was what ascended her to the Throne of Heroes. It is the damaged and-now-hate-filled barrel of her overloaded machine-gun that was used as the catalyst to summon her for the Fourth War]].

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Being X's deal with Tanya was that if Tanya did not accept and worship Being X as God, and she died from anything other than old age, then Being X would not reincarnate her. However, her actions during her life in order to survive until old age lead her to being treated as a Saint and holy figure, increasing public worship in God, and also becoming a famous enough figure to be recorded on the Throne of Heroes, which takes Tanya out of the cycle of reincarnation anyway as [[LoopholeAbuse a separate unrelated power to Being X]]. Now she can ''never be free'', forevermore just a tool in servitude to the commands of whoever or whatever summons her, all to a system she had no possible way of knowing about.

* HeroWorship: Akitsushima (Japan in this timeline) has a ''very'' sizeable portion of their population that idolises Tanya, with their grandparents having cried when she sent the first care packages to the country, while about a 20% to a third of all women nowadays dye their hair blonde and cosplay as her regardless of whether they're teenagers or elderly grandmothers. Rin also notes that Europe basically worships the ground Tanya walks on, and her real-life tomb is considered a popular site of pilgrimage.

* KissOfDistraction: [[spoiler:To win her first fight against Rider, Tanya gives him a quick kiss. Due to Rider having some form of feelings for Tanya, and due to being an adolescent boy, this causes him to freeze up and allowing her to get out of his grip and let him crash down into a building]].

* MagicalIncantation: Tanya has one that seems to increase her magical power and allows her to summoned various war armaments and ghostly visages of her old unit, growing more powerful with each line chanted. Only two lines have been revealed so far. She has described it as "exerting her will upon the world", which heavily implies that [[spoiler:Tanya has '''a Reality Marble'''.]]
-->“Only the Chosen may enter my Garden.”\\
“A Reward fitting for your Loyalty, your Obedience.”

-->'''Tanya (Internal Monologue)''': ''I was more than a scholar. I had been a soldier, a statesman, a ruler. But more than that? I’d mastered the art of using modern magecraft to kill people when I was thirteen years old.''

* OhCrap: Tanya has a moment when she realises that the girl confronting her and Rin [[spoiler:is the Matou Master for the War]].

* OldMaster: Kirei may be physically older than canon, but he is no less dangerous; he may even be ''more so'', considering [[spoiler:he's body is now made of insects like Zouken]]. [[spoiler:When Tanya tried to shoot him in the head, he dodge a magical-enhanced bullet at point-blank from behind him, then quickly grabbed the rifle and broke it in half with a single punch. Tanya notes that his speed and strength would be utterly improbable for someone with a Computation Orb, and utterly ''impossible'' for a normal Human. Kirei neither has an Orb, nor is he human]].

* RuleOfCool: Tanya doesn't understand why her magical blasts are blue-coloured, since that colouration existed in the original Elenium Computation Orb as a design inefficiency that bled energy. As she no longer has that issue, she is confused by why she has it as a Servant, before jokingly thinking there's some weird symbolism to it.

** Archer recognises that Rin has a very obvious crush on Tanya from her HeroWorship of her, including all the research she did on her long before the Grail War (and completely separate to ''preparing'' for the Grail War), the sheer confidence that she'd easily be able to win the War if Tanya was on her side, the pictures she has as he cosplay as Tanya (which she vehemently orders Archer to '''never''' tell Tanya about), all the embarrassed blushes and {{Tsundere}} attitude she gets when Tanya catches her off-guard(which is something that was really only done with Shirou in canon), and with her self-loathing and comedic despair about the idea that she made a fool of herself in front of Tanya and that she thinks Rin's an idiot.
** [[spoiler:Rider has such admiration for Tanya that, near the climax of a great fight with her, he asks her to marry him. She declines, stating she's already married, but she soon after uses his feelings against him with a kiss to win. But even knocked out, Rider had a big smile on his face]].

* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Computation Orbs are this in this setting, having originated from various Mystic Codes that were being held by the Church that fell into the hands of modernists, scientists, and Church Hunter defectors. This lead to the creation of "The Magic of the Spheres", a brand of magic combined with numerology and mathematics and analysed into a science that was accepted by the collective consciousness of mankind, making it un-reliant on Mystery.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Archer's thought process has him note just how odd of a Heroic Spirit Tanya is. Not for her achievements, which he believes is easily enough for her to reach the Throne, but because he's never heard of her before. From his memories, even in timelines where certain Heroes do not rise to usual prominence because of some change, they'd still leave enough of a mark on history that people from other timelines will recognise the failed attempt. ''But Tanya doesn't have that''. From Archer's view, Tanya only seems to exist, not just as a Heroic Spirit, but also as ''a person'', within this single timeline and no other reality even contains a possibility of her appearing.
* TheWormThatWalks: Zouken, like canon. [[spoiler:However, he is fully dead as of the time of the story. But a new person has used his magecraft to become one himself: Kirei Kotomine]].
* TookALevelInKindness: Tanya, while still rather cruel, calculating and pragmatic, is notable less so than she was in life as evidence in her hesitance to either use with like Galliasta's method or to kill children and teenagers like most of Masters in the War are. [[spoiler:Kirei reveals that this because of her Class: As Caster, she was summoned as the part of Tanya remembered as peacemaker and bringer of stability, where she had sought and achieved victory not from the destroying the opposition, but from mutual benefit and peaceful collaboration. As such, though she can certainly imagine the horrendous acts of War that her living self could ''and would'' do, her Caster self refrains herself from taking those same steps. However, a version of her summoned in a different class, one which was contain an aspect of Tanya that was still a soldier and "never left those bloody trenches", would show much less hesitation in the murder of children for her success]].
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Alluded to. Tanya mentions having an extensive list of titles when she was proclaimed Kaiserin but she only ever gives the audience a snippet: ‘By the Grace of God, the Holy Kaiserin, ever Augustus’ etc.

--> '''Kirei:''' [[spoiler:“But in this war, there can be no mutual collaboration, only butchery and violence. You had understood it immediately back then you know, though I suppose making that comparison would be somewhat unfair. ''That'' version of you had never truly left those bloody trenches, what else could she offer in that form, except for an unsurpassed appetite for violence?”]]

* HateAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Saber Alter]] holds a great deal of distain and hate for Tanya for an currently unknown reason, to the point where she constantly discourages Shirou from trusting her or forming an alliance with her to a greater degree than she does with Archer and Tohsaka, citing that she is a "menace" that is "built only to to destroy and corrupt and deceive for her own benefit." She also [[spoiler:goes behind his back in secret to try and kill Tanya, using LoopholeAbuse to get around his orders, even when Tanya points out that she is currently in the company of rescued children. Also, she makes it clear that she won't go kill every Servant that comes to Shirou on friendly terms; ''[[IrrationalHatred just Tanya]]''. Even further, during her second fight with Tanya, not only did she look at Tanya with absolute hate and rage when her visor was broken, but every comment Tanya made that even ''entertained'' the idea of diplomacy between the two of them or suggested ''any'' similarity between themselves or their relationship with their Masters kept making Saber lose her composure more and more and try a bit harder to kill Tanya. Keep in mind, Saber Alter was using a minimum amount of power so as to not tip Shirou off that she was fighting Tanya behind his back, so her hatred for these comments and Tanya eventually overthrew her reason and drove her to kill her regardless of whether she got caught. ''Even further'', when they were both in a stalemate and Tanya commented that all this commotion could eventually draw in another Servant to kill them both while distracted, Saber Alter '''didn't care'''; she was completely fine with dying, so long as the other Servant killed ''Tanya first'']]

* DifficultButAwesome: Tanya's Territory Creation Skill is this. Derived from two parts of her legend[[note]]First, that her that she had never been defeated in battle and that the land she took had remained hers for the rest of my days. The second, the land and its people grew so divergent from the common sense of the world's current era, so intertwined with her will and vision, that her dominance over her territory grew to be taken as absolute and unyielding.[[/note]], it allows her to have ''absolute'' control over any area claimed as Hers. By 'absolute', this means that she's can instantly control certain phenomena, such as prohibiting ''magical, divine lightning strikes and any movement that isn't hers'', or to tell a few dozen non-magical blades to spontaneously explode. If sufficiently set up, her Domain would be able to literally ''"reject reality"'', such that if an powerful explosion was dropped right on top of her in her Domain, then everything in the Domain would remain intact. However, the problem is that what counts as her Domain is subject to a number of preconditions, with it becoming stronger and less mana-consuming the more conditions are fulfilled. These conditions being having her blood spilt on the land, having the land taken by force, and having the land given by submission or agreement. In addition, the larger the activate Domain and the more people within it, the signicicantly higher the mana cost. As such, Tanya finds the spell to have such narrow usage that she refrains from using it.

* DifficultButAwesome: Tanya's Territory Creation Skill is this. Derived from two parts of her legend[[note]]First, that her that she had never been defeated in battle and that the land she took had remained hers for the rest of my days. The second, the land and its people grew so divergent from the common sense of the world's current era, so intertwined with her will and vision, that her dominance over her territory grew to be taken as absolute and unyielding.[[/note]], it allows her to have ''absolute'' control over any area claimed as Hers. By 'absolute', this means that she's can instantly control certain phenomena, such as prohibiting ''magical, divine lightning strikes and any movement that isn't hers'', or to tell a few dozen non-magical blades to spontaneously explode. If sufficiently set up, her Domain would be able to literally ''"reject reality"'', such that if an powerful explosion was dropped right on top of her in her Domain, then everything in the Domain would remain intact. However, the problem is that what counts as her Domain is subject to a number of preconditions, with it becoming stronger and less mana-consuming the more conditions are fulfilled. These conditions being having her blood spilt on the land, having the land taken by force, and having the land given by submission or agreement. As such, Tanya finds the spell to have such narrow usage that she refrains from using it.

* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Tanya's Third Noble Phantasm, ''The Art of the Possible'', is this. Taken influence from two facets of Tanya's Legend; her subversion of systems and organizations, and her seemingly total knowledge of anything and everything relevant in the modern age (based on her not-public known future knowledge from her very first life). This allows her to subvert the magic and systems of others to a yet unknown degree, most notably that of Heroic Spirits. For the Servant example, Tanya was able to subvert the power of Saber's ''Noble Phantasm, Excalibur Morgan'', taking it from her weapon and using a degraded version on one of her knives in conjunction with her own magic, and then manifest a copy of a Gae Bolg to stab through Saber's wrist. Although the exact specifics and limitations are not fully revealed yet, there are a couple that are known: it has a high mana cost, she can only take abilities of Servants she's in physical contact with, and her taking of them isn't permanent. She can use it on an item relating to them instead, but it increases the degradtion of the stolen ability and allows the Servant the chance to resist her theft]].

* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Tanya's Third Noble Phantasm, ''The Art of the Possible'', is this. Taken influence from two facets of Tanya's Legend; her subversion of systems and organizations, and her seemingly total knowledge of anything and everything relevant in the modern age (based on her not-public known future knowledge from her very first life). This allows her to subvert the magic and systems of others to a yet unknown degree, most notably that of Heroic Spirits. For the Servant example, Tanya was able to subvert the power of Saber's ''Noble Phantasm, Excalibur Morgan'', taking it from her weapon and using a degraded version on one of her knives in conjunction with her own magic, and then manifest a copy of a Gae Bolg to stab through Saber's wrist. Although the exact specifics and limitations are not fully revealed yet, there are a couple that are known: it has a high mana cost, she can only take Noble Phantasm of Servants she's in physical contact with, and her taking of them isn't permanent]].

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Being X's deal with Tanya was that if Tanya did not accept and worship Being X as God, and she died from anything other than old age, then Being X would not reincarnate her. However, her actions during her life in order to survive until old age lead her to being treated as a Saint and holy figure, increasing public worship in God, and also becoming a famous enough figure to be recorded on the Throne of Heroes, which takes Tanya out of the cycle of reincarnation anyway as [[LoopholeAbuse a separate power to Being X]]. Now she can ''never be free'', forevermore just a tool in servitude to the commands of whoever or whatever summons her, all to a system she had no possible way of knowing about.
-->'''Being X:''' ''"'Consider this a reward. A gift to my most reliable, bloodthirsty, apostle."''

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Being X's deal with Tanya was that if Tanya did not accept and worship Being X as God, and she died from anything other than old age, then Being X would not reincarnate her. However, her actions during her life in order to survive until old age lead her to being treated as a Saint and holy figure, increasing public worship in God, and also becoming a significant enough figure to be recording on the Throne of Heroes, which takes Tanya out of the cycle of reincarnation anyway as [[LoopholeAbuse a separate power to Being X]]. Now she can ''never be free'', forevermore just a tool in servitude to the commands of whoever or whatever summons her, all to a system she had no possible way of knowing about.

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Being X's deal with Tanya was that if Tanya did not accept and worship Being X as God, and she died from anything other than old age, then Being X would not reincarnate her. However, her actions during her life in order to survive to old age lead her to being treated as a Saint and holy figure, increasing public worship in God, and also lead to her become part of the Throne of Heroes, which takes Tanya out of the cycle of reincarnation anyway as [[LoopholeAbuse a separate power to Being X]]. Now she can ''never be free'', forevermore just a tool in servitude to the commands of whoever or whatever summons her, all to a system she had no possible way of knowing about.

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Being X's deal with Tanya was that if Tanya did not accept Being X as God and she died from anything other than old age, then Being X would not reincarnate her. However, her actions during her life in order to survive to old age lead her to being treated as a Saint and holy figure, increasing public worship in God, and also lead to her become part of the Throne of Heroes, which takes Tanya out of the cycle of reincarnation anyway as [[LoopholeAbuse a separate power to Being X]]. Now she can ''never be free'', forevermore just a tool in servitude to the commands of whoever or whatever summons her, all to a system she had no possible way of knowing about.

--->'''Being X:''' ''"'Consider this a reward. A gift to my most reliable, bloodthirsty, apostle."''

* BreakThemByTalking: Kirei, just like his canon!counterpart. [[spoiler:His knowledge of Tanya from the version summoned in the Fourth War, as well as the secret she told him like the existence of ''Being X'', allow him to casually and repeatedly break current!Tanya when he reveals them, utterly shocking, disturbing and infuriating her]].

** Details of the Fourth War show that things went differently, and though Iskandar was still the Rider and was Waver's Servant, and Tokomi's Servant was also Gilgamesh, it is subtly implied that the rest of the War's Servants (including Gilgamesh's Class) were different (or at least had different Masters):

*** [[spoiler:A version of Tanya was summoned in the War. Not as we know her, but as the Devil of the Rhine that was still fighting in the trenches during the First Great War, who was much more violent and cruelly pragmatic than the Caster version of her. Her Class was Archer according to Kirei]].

*** The Einzbern Master was brutally killed by the War's Archer, and done so severely that the Grail ritual was put in danger with the damage to the Lesser Grail.

*** The winner of the War was [[spoiler:"a bright eyed priest", possibly Kirei]], who had let Waver live after Rider was defeated.
*** [[spoiler:A version of Tanya was summoned in the War. Not as we know her, but as the Devil of the Rhine that was still fighting in the trenches during the First Great War, who was much more violent and cruelly pragmatic than the Caster version of her. Her Class is currently unknown, only that it wasn't the Caster Class]].

* AgeLift: Kirei is ''noticeably older-looking'' in this fic, with Tanya considering him to be "unnaturally old", having withered hands, pale, wrinkled skin, and non-balding white hair. [[spoiler:When Tanya blows of one of his legs, he doesn't flinch and there is the sound of ''insects'' afterwards, suggesting that Kirei has some involvment with Zouken's magecraft methods]].

*** [[spoiler:A version of Tanya was summoned in the War. Not as we know her, but as the Devil of the Rhine that was still fighting in the trenches, who was much more violent and cruelly pragmatic than the Caster version of her. Her Class is currently unknown, only that it wasn't the Caster Class]].

* JustTheFirstCitizen: Despite her modest status as Chancellor of Germania, the influence Tanya possesses both within the OZEV polity and outside it far exceeds what she could theoretically be capable of. It is telling that, despite Tanya's insistence on being called Chancellor, both followers and enemies have collected a vast array of titles for her: From the titular [[HundredPercentAdorationRating Kaiserin]], to the much more fearsome [[TheDreaded Devil of the Rhine]].

* HateAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Saber Alter]] holds a great deal of distain and hate for Tanya for an currently unknown reason, to the point where she constantly discourages Shirou from trusting her or forming an alliance with her to a greater degree than she does with Archer and Tohsaka. She also [[spoiler:goes behind his back in secret to try and kill Tanya, using LoopholeAbuse to get around his orders, even when Tanya points out that she is currently in the company of rescued children. Also, she makes it clear that she won't go kill every Servant that comes to Shirou on friendly terms; ''[[IrrationalHatred just Tanya]]''. Even further, during her second fight with Tanya, not only did she look at Tanya with absolute hate and rage when her visor was broken, but every comment Tanya made that even ''entertained'' the idea of diplomacy between the two of them or suggested ''any'' similarity between themselves or their relationship with their Masters kept making Saber lose her composure more and more and try a bit harder to kill Tanya. Keep in mind, Saber Alter was using a minimum amount of power so as to not tip Shirou off that she was fighting Tanya behind his back, so her hatred for these comments and Tanya eventually overthrew her reason and drove her to kill her regardless of whether she got caught. ''Even further'', when they were both in a stalemate and Tanya commented that all this commotion could eventually draw in another Servant to kill them both while distracted, Saber Alter '''didn't care'''; she was completely fine with dying, so long as the other Servant killed ''Tanya first'']]

** Details of the Fourth War show that things went differently, and though Iskandar was still the Rider and was Waver's Servant, and Tokomi's Servant was also Gilgamesh, it is subtly implied that the rest of the War's Servants (including Gilgamesh) were different (or at least had different Masters):