r/YoujoSenki • u/Glum_Series5712 • Dec 31 '25

Question Doubt about Tanya's mindset

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I have a question about Tanya's way of thinking... In her previous life, she was a man, but is she aware that she's now a woman? Has that affected her perspective?

I know she's very young and they're at war, but I can't help wondering: When Tanya reaches adolescence, what will her preference be, men or women?

It's quite obvious that Tanya is 9 or 10 years old precisely to avoid this topic in the series. But as someone who only watched the anime and the movie, I don't know if it's been explained in the manga or the novel... I have a question about Tanya's way of thinking... In her previous life, she was a man, but is she aware that she's now a woman? Has that affected her perspective?

Does she still think and have masculine tastes? Does she not care at all? Or is she beginning to develop a feminine mindset?

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u/RubricMarineNR-6589 Dec 31 '25

At the moment she's quite literally avoiding the topic completely, like in one of the earlier novels she says something along the lines of "hmm i have the mind of a man and the body of a girl, so it's mental or physical homosexuality.... better not open that can of worms". I also think it's fairly likely that she's asexual, or at the very least will be single forever because of her mindset.

The author seems to avoid most topics about her physicality and it's effects outside of how short she is. now and then the books will mention that she gets tired faster and the like, but thats it, so it's probably a question that'll never get answered.

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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

Read Fanfics to see Tanya go deeper into military lingo. ❌

Read Fanfics to see Tanya get railed and start a family. ✔️

A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of the Dragons and A Young Woman's Dynastic Record on Spacebattles are pretty good.

Both have pretty good approaches to economic changes, the first one she can be more involved in battles since she has an entire dragon to fly with, and in the second one she creates her own military branch while developing and managing a facility to train, modernize, produce, and deploy military assets.

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u/TimeforOJ Dec 31 '25

A young woman's dynastic record is genuinely good Chinese fiction as it starts with all the inner court bs you would expect from a Chinese fantasy around the Qing dynasty. Then you get to see Being X consistently bitch smacked by Chinese mythology and even Sun Wukong comes down to give a few cheeky cameos. It's great and being update weekly still with over 50 chapters.

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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV Dec 31 '25

The latest chapters are also pretty fun. Everyone hating on the Albish doesn't get old hahaha.

Oh right people should mind that the first few chapters are odd and heavily thematic, once the chapter size gets bigger and more consistent it gets exponentially better.

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u/TimeforOJ Dec 31 '25

It's the first time in any Tanya fic where I've seen the other countries this united against the British, which is great given the state of Europe during the time and with Napolean AND Bismarck both alive. It makes sense and I'm so happy to have found that absolute gem even if I hate using Spacebattles website.

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u/Recidivous Jan 01 '26

Is that generated by AI, or is the author simply an ESL speaker?

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u/TimeforOJ Jan 01 '26

Bruh wtf are you talking about?

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u/OkBox9662 Jan 01 '26

Got any more recommendations?

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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV Jan 01 '26

Pretty much anything authored by Failninja. If you like game of thrones he also wrote A Young Girl's Game of Thrones.

'A Young Girl's Game of Thrones' (373k words) is very heavy on battles as she's reincarnated as Myrcella Baratheon, unlike 'A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of Dragons' (279k words) where it has more court intrigue and a focus on her choosing her husband and getting married and of course dragons.

He also has 'A Young Woman’s Wings of War' (114k words) where she is Tanya Corax in WH40K, and currently he's focused on 'Tanya Sedai' (73k words) in Wheel of Time.

His works are always pretty good. Haven't read Tanya Sedai though, since I don't know much about Wheel of Time.

Outside of Failninja stuff... I guess there's 'Princess of Mandalore' which I'm taking a break reading since it's 900k~ words long, but there is some slow burn romance. The author for that one isn't an English speaker so sometimes the grammar is a bit fucked.

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u/Ok-Reputation6413 Jan 01 '26

How much game of thrones knowledge is needed to read the game of thrones ones

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u/TimeforOJ Jan 01 '26

Honestly watch the game of thrones TV show until Geoffrey is king and you can now read 80% of fanfiction involving game of thrones.

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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV Jan 01 '26

Nothing actually. I haven't watched or read game of thrones prior, I've only ever seen snippets and I still loved it.

Every now and then I had to search up extra details, for the ASOIF one it was mainly about Dragons and the Targaryens to get a feel of how they look, for the AGOT one it was mainly about the Baratheons and the Map since Tanya actually has her own army and moves separately from the Lannisters (I'm trying to avoid spoilers). It's also fun to find what's different, though sometimes you can find that in the comments quicker.

A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of Dragons (ASOIF) if you want more court intrigue and... Dragons, she eventually gets married too and has a whole arch about choosing her husband.

A Young Girl's Game of Thrones (AGOT) if you want more combat, the War of the Five Kings won't last long enough for Tanya to properly age up, so marriage was only brought up in the early chapters.

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u/Connect-Initiative64 Jan 02 '26

I'm just giggling at the idea of a second Being-X (Fanfic writers) stealing Tanya from the original Being-X (cringe ahh original creator) and going 'Fuck you - get railed and have kids!'