History Fanfic / TheSagaOfTanyaTheFirebender

-->Nobody would believe that Tanya could be Zhao's real murderer after word of that speech got out. The right to rename captured cities was afforded to generals as a way of recognising their achievements, and to date had only been used to rename somewhere after the general themself [[{{Egopolis}} in a vain attempt to immortalize their own name]], [[ProfessionalButtKisser or after whatever wealthy lord the general was hoping to impress]]. It had never been used to honour the memory of a fallen soldier before, and you could bet that the ignorant masses would lap it up when they heard. When stories were told of Tanya's victory, Zhao would now forever be cast as the wise and kindly mentor who led her to greatness. And that same wave of goodwill would strangle the rumours of the truth in their crib.

* DiscardAndDraw: After being reborn into the Avatar World, Tanya lost her magic abilities, but instead gains Firebending which she uses to great effect.

* TheDreaded: Tanya, natch, as Zhao's "''Devil Of The South Seas''". [[spoiler:After conquering The Northern Water Tribe, she becomes ''[[RankUp Admiral]]'' Tanya, "''The Devil of The North''"]]. This is especially true for Team Avatar, all of whom have nightmares relating to Tanya after the Siege of the North.

* ActionGirl: Tanya, Katara, Toph, Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai are these.

* DisappointedInYou: Ozai all but says this to Azula when she ties with Tanya in the tournament instead of beating her. He admits to himself never had to say that to his daughter until that day.

* UngratefulBastard: Despite scoring major victory for the Fire Nation by taking over the North, Ozai still chews out Tanya for letting the Avatar escape from her grasp and bringing Zuko in on her plans.

* OneManArmy: Tanya can wipe out whole bender armies by herself.

* YouMonster: Katara calls Tanya evil for not even bothering to remember the name of her Waterbender Master whom Tanya had murdered not too long ago in the North.

* DisappointedInYou: Ozai all but says this to Azula when she ties with Tanya in the tournament instead of beating her.

* HumiliationConga: Despite all the success Tanya achieves in every other goal, catching the Avatar turns into a long string of failures in Tanya's otherwise perfect record. She gets so frustrated with the GAang slipping out from her gasp every time she seems to have the Avatar captured, that when she encounters them in Omashu, she's convinced their success has to be due to the Avatar receiving help from either the spirits or Being X.