On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

[Pinklestia]

Tanyas with a loving family are so rare.

 

[Chrisleech]

Tanyas with a loving family are so rare.

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I've seen it before in one where she ended up in Psychonauts as her 3rd life.

 

[PatUrgotten]

Urara-san was actually some sort of undercover morale officer

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She's honestly pretty close to the truth. The canon explanation for Haru being at Tracen is that she completely bombed the application/tryouts but the recruiter was so impressed by her ability to spread good vibes that they let her in anyway.

 

[Kukulan]

Can't wait to see how more much anti-Russian and anti-German rants are brought up now that the grandparents are here. Shirogane has already has a dim view on Turks that I don't believe she ever had in any of her previous lives so clearly her Polish mother and grandparents have influenced her.

 

[Pinklestia]

I've seen it before in one where she ended up in Psychonauts as her 3rd life.

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There is also the Chansey one.

 

[macdjord]

even if she has now watched plenty

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she has been too busy catching up,

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'has' -> 'had' in both cases.

I think there might have been a couple other cases where you slipped into present-tense, too.

I've seen it before in one where she ended up in Psychonauts as her 3rd life.

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There is also the Chansey one.

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Links?

 

[Chrisleech]

Links?

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This is the one I know. No idea about the chansey one.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/psychoprotective-youjo-senki-psychonauts.1040559/

 

[Greymatter02]

Links?

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This is the Chansey fic they were talking about.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-saga-of-tanya-the-chansey.1217306/

 

[Thrackerzod]

Highly recommend both of those.
The epilogues of Psychoprotective were especially great:

Spoiler: minor Psychoprotective spoilers

As the chapter titles give away about the epilogues, they follow several more of that Tanya's reincarnations, in a neatly condensed manner.

 

[macdjord]

Omake​

It's Time to Du-du-du-duel!​

"Alright, Shirogane-chan, explain to me what happened."

"I'm not really sure, Toujou-sensei. I know, from working in parents' restaurant's kitchen, that it is good practice to announce when you are stepping behind someone who is cooking, so that they do not turn around suddenly and bump into you, and furthermore to warn them if you are carrying something dangerous, such as a pot of hot soup or a carving knife. Apparently Flash Stepping, despite her interest in cooking, was not aware of this, and interpreted 'behind you with a knife' as some sort of threat. Things escalated from there."

"Only you, Shiro. You understand she has registered a complaint with the school, and issued a formal challenge to a duel?"

"... while I inherited my grand-aunt's cavalry sabre along with her uniform, no side-arm was included. Will the school be providing weapons?"

"Weap- no, Shiro, a racing duel. You and she will face off in a one-on-one race, with the loser being expelled while the winner inherits their team position."

"Ah. What is the setup for the race?"

"As the challenged party you have the choice of conditions. It has to be from a recognised, organized race, so no designing a set of rules so that only you can win, but otherwise, anything goes."

"..."

"Shiro. Why are you grinning like that."

"Sensei, I'm going to need your help setting this up properly..."

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As Flash Stepping walked onto the track, her confident swagger faltered at the sights she was seeing. At several points around the one-kilometre oval, tables had been set up, each covered in bottles of water. At the starting line, the usual gates had been removed, and a crowd of several dozen racers were limbering up; her trainer had warned her that Shirogane had invited additional participants, though only hers and Shirogane's relative placements would count for the outcome of the duel, but inexplicably most of the crowd appeared to be humans rather than uma.

Most worrying, though, was the scoreboard, which appeared to have been enhanced with extra lap indicators. A lot of extra lap indicators. In fact, there were now... she counted again... forty-two lap indicators.

"Flash Stepping."

"Eeep!" Flash Stepping turned to find the little witch had somehow snuck up behind her again.

Shirogane Orzeł merely looked at her in bemusement as she tried to get her heart-rate back under control. "If you're ready, Flash Stepping, let's join the starting line and we can begin."

There was a dramatic pause that had to be deliberate, no matter how blasé Shirogane looked.

"Welcome to the Boston Marathon."

 

[ranmatoushin]

Omake​

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Very nice omake, I like that Shirogane was being nice even when picking a race that played to her strengths.
Picking the 42km Boston Marathon which is 'just' a marathon rather than something like the 160km Tevis cup, which is a horse riding, cross-country endurance race that must be completed in under 24 hours. It would probably wreck most of the Tracen racers as they train for a very different style of racing.

 

[Rock1244]

while I inherited my grand-aunt's uniform, neither sabre nor side-arm was included. Will the school be providing weapons?"

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I love the implication that Shirogane was all set for a sword fight or pistols at dawn

 

[The Castle of Jutland]

I love the implication that Shirogane was all set for a sword fight or pistols at dawn

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What, you think Shirogane is some kind of honourless, cowardly cur who'd run from duels? If Shirogane had also inherited her grand-aunts sword and pistol she'd have shown up ready to duel with them the next day.

 

[wildredlifer]

Duel? Swords pistols? Eh, War uma is going to War uma.

 

[WrandmWaffles]

"... while I inherited my grand-aunt's uniform, neither sabre nor side-arm was included. Will the school be providing weapons?"

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Point of fact, Shirogane does actually have the sabre. It was a dress uniform though, so she doesn't have the pistol.

 

[macdjord]

Very nice omake, I like that Shirogane was being nice even when picking a race that played to her strengths.
Picking the 42km Boston Marathon which is 'just' a marathon rather than something like the 160km Tevis cup, which is a horse riding, cross-country endurance race that must be completed in under 24 hours. It would probably wreck most of the Tracen racers as they train for a very different style of racing.

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The Boston Marathon was the superior choice. Shirogane hasn't trained for ultra-long-distance endurance racing either, so with the Tevis cup there would be a risk she might not be able to complete the course, which would make it a tie even if Flash didn't complete it either. 42km, on the other hand, is merely a particularly long and busy day of delivery-running, which she knows she can do, and certainly faster than Flash can.

Point of fact, Shirogane does actually have the sabre. It was a dress uniform though, so she doesn't have the pistol.

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Fixed!

 

[AmeliaNyoom]

The Boston Marathon was the superior choice. Shirogane hasn't trained for ultra-long-distance endurance racing either, so with the Tevis cup there would be a risk she might not be able to complete the course, which would make it a tie even if Flash didn't complete it either. 42km, on the other hand, is merely a particularly long and busy day of delivery-running, which she knows she can do, and certainly faster than Flash can.

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She could probably run the Steel Ball Run, from what I've worked out, 6000km in 116 days, sits around roughly 50-52km a day, idk how difficult it would be to perform to that standard each day, it doesn't seem infeasible but I literally know nothing about horses and horse racing so I could very well be completely wrong.