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An army of cats comes to boop Tanya. Anyone in the way gets booped.

thank u josh (and everyone who else) who terrorized tanya for halloween this year.

shes sufficiently traumatized now

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Well, since you've just drawn your mermaid Tanya, I gotta take advantage of the situation and ask what the others are like in this AU.

PS. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Fantastic, beautiful art as always, my friend.

That is a very good question, what is everyone else up to? I'll try to be brief (failed).

So we know Tanya's a fish, but what about the rest of them? The general rule of thumb I went with for splitting up the characters is that the Staff officers (this includes Tanya) are all merfolk, and the rest of the 203rd are humans. There is one exception, but we’ll get to that.

Starting with the 203rd because they have less complicated things going on. Weiss, Koenig, Neumann, Grantz and Visha are all college students & friends. I haven’t actually decided what their majors are as it’s not the focus of the story, but I am taking suggestions if anyone has any. Otherwise it’s going to be left unspecified.

Grantz is the male lead, obviously. I’ve talked about it vaguely before, but he’s infatuated with Tanya and wants to see her again after she rescues him from drowning.

Grantz's current hobbies during the plot of the story include: Trying to learn Tanya's song (going poorly), Trying to learn to play a shell trumpet (also going poorly), and barely managing to pass his classes because he's too obsessed with the fish that almost got him killed.

As for the others, they're varying degrees of supportive. I don’t think Grantz tells them what happened immediately, but as each of them find out, their reactions range from “concerned for Grantz’s well-being” to “number one wingman”

As for the ones under the water, we'll start with Uger. I struggled a bit to come up with a good fish for him, but then it hit me and I refuse to change my mind now. He’s a sea horse. I don't think I have to explain this choice. He's literally a father. As for the specific species, it's hard to decide but I'm leaning toward the short-snouted seahorse. I'm not sold yet, but I'm considering.

Anyway, Tanya is an orphan in this life too (her parents being tragic losses to The War that occurs before the fic starts). While she was more communally raised by the other merfolk, she was mostly taken care of by Uger and his wife. After Tanya leaves the merfolk-equivalent to The Empire, he and his wife end up having a child.

Onto Lergen. I’m not sure how much it suits him, but the image in my head from the start has always been that he’s an atlantic sailfish. Something about the dark blue sail I think would be very majestic on him.

Similar to canon, he's worried about Tanya being weird, but it's less about how she's a monster, and more that she's A) far too curious about humans B) far too similar to Zettour.

And speaking of Zettour, I have decided he is an eel. I'm not fully set on what exact species, but I'm leaning toward a white ribbon eel.

Zettour doesn't live in The Empire during the time the fic takes place. To cut a long story short, he committed too many fish war crimes before the story starts and got exiled for it.

This is convenient for Tanya who doesn't want to be roped into fighting in one of The Empire's many territory disputes, so when she leaves The Empire, Zettour becomes her guardian, of sorts. (She would prefer to travel the seas alone, but Uger doesn't think she should on her own yet.) (Also, despite being exiled, Zettour is still in contact with at least Lergen and Uger and keeps them updated.)

And last is Rudersdorf. He’s my one exception to the guideline I set earlier. He’s actually human, but still very strongly associated with the sea. He’s former member of the navy, now retired as a sailor/fisherman. He meets Zettour and together they devise a plan to end the Empire’s war. Incidentally, getting humans (Rudersdorf) involved in the conflict is what gets Zettour exiled from the empire.

So that was everyone else, and I'll include a little bit extra about Tanya, despite this ask being about what everyone else is up to.

Tanya is still the reincarnation of the salaryman, but the circumstances of his death are slightly different from the original story. Instead of getting pushed in front of a train, he’s pushed off a bridge and drowns. As a result of this, his reincarnation is a mermaid (a bit of a mean joke for Being X to reincarnate the man who died in water as a creature that lives in water).

Anyway, her fish half is reminiscent of a betta fish (which is technically a freshwater fish, but Tanya lives in the ocean so ignore that), and I officially decided I’m going to disregard that poll I did a while ago. I really do prefer the white/blue color palette bc it fits my Artistic Vision (tm) more than the winning option does.

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Ah, good olé idol Tanya. I can already hear her screaming into a pillow from how embarrassed she was.

Normal mistakes like messing up her lyrics or missing a dance step can be easily forgotten and moved on from.

But the Moe-Moe-Kyun persona she has to put on for the public will haunt her forever.

I think, in this universe, the moment Lergen learns to fear her is when encounters her after like a handshake event or something. He will not forget that breakdown ever.

more idle idol thoughts.

I want to say she’s not just a solo idol, but in a girl group. Obviously Visha is in it too, but also maybe Lotte (Manga ponytail girl), and Lebenstein and Pringsheim (the two girls from the gacha game).

I am taking band name suggestions.

Anyway. Rudersdorf and Zettour are co-founders/investors of this talent management company. Obviously Tanya’s quintet is their favorite new up-and-coming group.

Lergen is their manager who is still terrified of Tanya, just for different reasons. He’s fully convinced Tanya’s going to snap and kill one of her more obsessed fans one day.

And last, the rest of the 203rd members… I’m debating what I want to do with them.

My first impulse is to make Weiss, Koenig, Neumann, and Grantz into the group’s security detail, but there really is something about making Grantz one of Tanya’s fans that appeals to me. I’ll have to think on it.

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Today’s Daily Degurechaff is… Regular Tanya is on vacation day # - Kitsune AU

au bonus round: kitsune

I think an AU where Tanya's reborn as a Kitsune has potential. Honestly, my first thought of how it'd go is it that people assume she's some kind of diety and decide to make a shrine to her. I think it would be funny, bc she'd probably hate it immensely. I don't think i'll write something like that myself tho.

I believe there is actually a person out there writing a Tanya Kitsune AU tho! Tanya's Tail by ErikTheos. I've read whats been released so far and I think the fic is just getting started but its one I'm gonna try to keep up with :)

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Someone: "You have terminal baby disease!" Tanya: "What?!" Someone: "It's true!" Tanya: "No!" Someone: "The doctor said so." Tanya: "Their a quack!" Someone: "Your just a baby." Tanya: *Flustered noises.*

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… inb4 visha gets shot

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hm... I request... Tanya in Konasuba?

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… Crimson Devil Tanya

im sure it doesn't surprise anyone at this point that ive not watched konosuba, so of course I had to base it on a friend's fic. The design/idea comes from them!

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Can we get Tanya the cat getting attracted to the smell of fish and stumbling on Tanya the mermaid and Tanya.

I think this weird au has jumped the shark at this point

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Don't worry about Mermaid Tanya, their dad (Rerugen) will sort things out for them. Besides, mermaids are often depicted with some sort of magical ability, so I'm sure she'll be fine.

Unless, of course, she can't or has not had the opportunity to learn said magic, then she's screwed till dad (Rerugen) saves the day.

I don't doubt that Erich, upon hearing the distressed fish noises, would go to help her, but I also think he would probably be a bit preoccupied with the fact that the random fish he rescued is suddenly four almost identical people of varying levels of humanity

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I love in the most recent daily degurechaff's, ("too close, please step back tanya," "too far now, come back tanya," & "out of frame,") it looks like Tanya was supposed to get her picture taken for whatever reasons, (propaganda, fun, "family,") and ends up messing up the photos' that are both frustrating and endearing at the same time. I'm sure she'll be real embarrassed afterword's.

(Context, these posts: 1, 2, 3)

In the extra Side Story/Gaiden chapters in the manga about the propaganda photoshoot, Tanya ends up asking Lergen to get rid of all of those photos for her. If those posts really were more photoshoots for propaganda, I can only imagine that she’s dodging the camera intentionally to avoid having any more embarrassing photos created.

anyway, some commentary abt her behavior from the onlookers

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I want to make a request but I'm not sure what to ask... hmm... How about... Tanya in Invader Zim? That'll be interesting to see. The question is, will Tanya be the human or the invader, or will she be a different kind of alien in the same universe? Maybe she could even be a S.I.R. unit? Anyway, have fun with this one!

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… I really don't know anything abt Invader Zim so... Zim Art Style/Alien Tanya...?

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I just remembered this story and thought you may like it. It's called The Uniform Crisis, by Kat_Ivu

(Link to fic)

I've read it before!! Its such a cute and silly little fic I love it.

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Can we see Tanya playing with Rudersdorf's puppy dog?

A good way to tire out both a excitable puppy and a young mage unused to normal civilian life: have them play fetch together

i have this mental image of Tanya playing fetch with the dog, but like, she uses strength enhancement formulas while throwing so she can just absolutely yeet that bone as far as possible

and then afterwords its nap time

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You know, if cameras weren't so expensive back then, I can see the nun's taking pictures of the children doing cute things. If they aren't as expensive as I thought, at lest in this AU, then I can see baby Tanya's picture being circulated between those who are close to her.

Lergen mentions once that he investigated the orphanage Tanya grew up in to see if there was a reason Tanya grew up the way she did, right?

Can you imagine, while he's there, the nuns are like "here have some baby photos" and despite how much Erich Does Not Want Them they make him take them anyway. He throws them in her personnel file, not sure what to do with them.

Wrong move. Someone finds them. Suddenly we have Ultra Rare White Silver Trading Cards that are being passed around the army. Everyone wants cute photos of their favorite war hero. Copies are made. Original copies are worth more.

Tanya finds out when Weiss gets drunk and accidentally reveals the whole underground trading network and shows off his photos. He is subsequently blacklisted from the network because that incident led to Tanya burning several rare Originals.

I imagine Tanya vaguely threatens to find the person responsible for this whole mess at some point in front of Erich. Poor guy's stomach pains put him out of commission for the next few days.

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I wonder, how did your SI became friends with the infamous "Devil of the Rhine?"

yknow. in my first concept of clara, they were going to meet and have a very rough start thanks to a bit of a misunderstanding, but now the story is changing so i think their first meeting pretty much goes like this

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Just sending love and appreciation towards you, and the hard work you do to put your art into the world.

ausdfghgf <3 Thank u!!! :')

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… boop boop boop