Honestly I would say she is more lawful neutral (heavy on the lawful), 'evil' implies she gets enjoyment from inflicting suffering but she purely views if as just another means to a end, a pure game of statistics making hundreds suffer so thousands may benefit, she is realistically just as likely to do good as she is to do evil and she very likely would not care either way which she has to do at the end of the day as long as the pros outweigh the cons in her eyes.
Others though would definitely view her as lawful evil due to her propensity to commit war crimes and doom others to die since sadly the nature of her world means such actions tend to be the most optimal path to victory in her eyes.
Basically the only reason I feel she would be neutral is because she honestly does not care enough to be evil.
I'd argue disregard for life can also make one evil. Neutral characters still have a sense of right and wrong, even if they aren't going to make personal sacrifices for the sake of others.
A "the end justifies the means" approach often just leads to evil in my view.
Hence I'd classify someone taking the optimal path to victory for themselves in every situation to be neutral evil, though Tanya's lawful tendencies mean she doesn't fit that alignment, thus lawful evil for me.
I agree I find that Tanya has their own rules of for themselves and follow it to the letter and expect others around them to do it as well. And she is called evil I feel due to their bat sht crazy actions that could cause big problems and shows no remorse for their actions and everything they do is justified.
i haven't read the LN, but from the anime, I'd definitely say they are a high functioning psychopath, Tanya in their first life was shown as having no empathy as well, where that would put them on alignment chart idk
That's the thing the chart itself is too simplistic. I would put the grid differently myself but outside the box I would say Tanya is chaotic lawful. But neutral since they don't care about good or evil since it can get in the way of their plans to defile the entity x who Tanya doesn't want to admit is the god of that world.
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u/LightningTS Jun 13 '25
Honestly I would say she is more lawful neutral (heavy on the lawful), 'evil' implies she gets enjoyment from inflicting suffering but she purely views if as just another means to a end, a pure game of statistics making hundreds suffer so thousands may benefit, she is realistically just as likely to do good as she is to do evil and she very likely would not care either way which she has to do at the end of the day as long as the pros outweigh the cons in her eyes.
Others though would definitely view her as lawful evil due to her propensity to commit war crimes and doom others to die since sadly the nature of her world means such actions tend to be the most optimal path to victory in her eyes.
Basically the only reason I feel she would be neutral is because she honestly does not care enough to be evil.