Tanya: Clear with a chance of artillery shells. Visibility is excellent again today, and so a bloody war is taking place. Just when you though we've finally taken out the Entente Alliance you find yourself back back to the front lines, dealing with shells the whole day. And sometimes when you wake up you can find that the comrade who went to sleep next to you is dead. That's how the life is on the Rhine front.
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Tanya: Battalion, it's getting lively here. Fun, ain't it?
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Tanya: Battalion, it's getting lively here. Fun, ain't it?
—The opening scene of Ep.8.
Tanya: "But we are soldiers, and if orders say we must burn beautiful Arene to the ground, that is what we must do."
Commander Mortiz Paul Von Han: "Who would want to be a soldier, huh?"
Commander Mortiz Paul Von Han: "Who would want to be a soldier, huh?"
—Ep. 8 before the retaking of Arene.
If there truly is a God looking down on us from above, then He is a stern, solemn, infinitely good being. A being we don't deserve, who's far too great for us. A God filled with wrath who keeps forcing us to risk our lives on the battlefield. Because if He is in control, then this is all His fault, right? And so, men, I declare before you all, so you've no doubts about where I stand...
Oh, dearest Lord.....I'M GOING TO SLICE YOU INTO TINY CHUNKS OF FLESH AND FEED YOU TO THE DOGS!!!
We don't need a God! The battlefield's no place for that shit, so let's cut God out and take over His glorious work ourselves! We soldiers are going to take His place! We're going to put that arrogant asshole out of a job! Do you understand me, men?! ARE ALL OF YOU WITH ME?!
Let's make peace with our Maker! It's time for us to go to war!
Oh, dearest Lord.....I'M GOING TO SLICE YOU INTO TINY CHUNKS OF FLESH AND FEED YOU TO THE DOGS!!!
We don't need a God! The battlefield's no place for that shit, so let's cut God out and take over His glorious work ourselves! We soldiers are going to take His place! We're going to put that arrogant asshole out of a job! Do you understand me, men?! ARE ALL OF YOU WITH ME?!
Let's make peace with our Maker! It's time for us to go to war!
—Tanya's Badass Creed-slash-Rage Against the Heavens to the 203rd Mage Battalion, Ep. 12 Epilogue.
To the battlefield! The front lines! Then the edge of death!
Show this commitment born from casting your life away!
Offer your loyalty! Your obedience! Then your very soul!
Offer every fiber of your being, raising a triumphant shout!
Go forth! Prove that we can build
A pile of corpses that can reach the heavens!
Show this commitment born from casting your life away!
Offer your loyalty! Your obedience! Then your very soul!
Offer every fiber of your being, raising a triumphant shout!
Go forth! Prove that we can build
A pile of corpses that can reach the heavens!
—Los! Los! Los!
We guide him always, abandon him never, go where there is no path, never yielding, forever on the battlefield. Everything we do, we do for victory. We seek mages for the worst battlefields, the smallest rewards, days darkened by a forest of of swords and hails of bullets, and constant danger with no guarantee of survival. To those who return go the glory and the honor.
—General Staff Office 601st Formation Committee
