Tanya Tell

Tanya (center) with Cammy and Angela.

**Tanya Tell** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She is a junior at SAU and officer of the SAU Cheerleading Team. She is a friend and left hand of captain Cammy DeCroix, and is the social media and gossip expert of the team. Tanya is first mentioned in Chapter 23, debuted in the "Cheer Itself" vignette as "Tanya West", then made her main series debut in Chapter 31, which changed her last name to Tell. A character matching Tanya's description appears in the "Black Cats" vignette.

## Physical appearance

Tanya is a short young woman who is considered very attractive. Her most distinctive and prized feature is her large breasts, and she often dresses in clothing that emphasizes them. Her hair is a lime green color referred to as lime emerelde. She is often seen wearing the cheerleader uniform, wearing thigh high socks instead of the regular ones.

## Personality

Tanya is shallow and self-absorbed, and considers herself a highly important figure. She is a party animal who seems to think of everything in terms of appearances and sex. She is known to drink alcohol, though she is under the US legal drinking age of 21. She is nosy and takes every opportunity to pry into others' business, and is usually distrustful of those she can't find dirt on. She is a shameless gossip and a frequent liar, but is poor at keeping secrets herself.

Tanya is an officer of SAU's cheer team and left hand of captain Cammy. She is in charge of monitoring gossip and social media, and will snoop into someone if she is ordered to or they catch her eye.

## Abilities

Tanya has been a cheerleader for at least two years, and is currently an officer of SAU's cheer team. While she does manage other cheerleaders, her most prominent duty is social media management. She is good at investigating others, as she is skilled at digging up obscure information and making connections with people. She is also adept at navigating and controlling the rumor mill. She is poor at keeping secrets herself, however.

## Biography

### Background

Tanya Tell began to attend Schuyler Adamson University two years prior to the start of the series and joined the cheerleading team. A year later, team captain Cammy DeCroix began grooming Tanya to join her inner circle.

Though she is not named, a "lime emerelde girl with huge breasts" is among the four SAU cheerleaders that appear in "Black Cats". One day in late October one year ago, the group visits Poltergeist Halloween in search of costumes. As they're about to enter, Angela claims to have forgotten something in the car and splits off from the others. While the three cheerleaders are speaking with store employee Lauren, they are interrupted by Spirit Guard Valor breaking down the emergency exit and a black cat decoration revealing itself as Tricky Streetcat. Valor orders everyone to evacuate so she may fight the monster, prompting the cheerleaders to immediately run through the emergency exit.

In a blog post, Taralynn Andrews shows art depicting Cammy, Tanya, and Angela at a Halloween party and describes the circumstances behind it. Tanya and Cammy are dressed as Spirit Guards Tenacity and Valor, respectively, while Angela has run late from promotion duty and is unable to change out of her cheerleader uniform. Angela is shocked at the provocative interpretations of the Spirit Guard costumes and put off by the pair's attempt to have her drink alcohol with them.

At some point during the next two months, Tanya is asked by Angela to aid an investigation into the cheer team's suspicious promotion activities. Through Tanya's connections and snooping, the two learn that the cheer team takes a cut of all club dues, with the Promotion Squad's assignments favoring clubs that are on good terms with Cammy. Angela would later confront Cammy about this, which led to drama that ended in Angela getting kicked off the team. Tanya apparently felt no repercussions from this and went on to become Cammy's friend.

"Cheer Itself" occurs one month before the start of MGP, at the end of the summer tryouts for the cheer team. By this point, Tanya has become a cheer team officer and Cammy's left hand. A tired Tanya arrives at the gym early in the morning and is surprised to see hopeful recruit Stacy is already there. Tanya posts a list from Cammy of those who were selected to join the team, then leaves for coffee.

### Weeks 2-4

Cammy and Jodi are helping with promotion in the Club Week area when they spot Robynne exit the SFEERS booth, deciding she'd make the perfect cheerleader they can use to manipulate the nerd club's Student Association votes. Jodi later contacts Tanya and asks her to find out everything she can on Robynne so Cammy can effectively recruit her. After finishing her research, Tanya calls Jodi in a panic as there was almost no info to be found on Robynne, who has zero social media presence and scant few records. She does, however, learn about Kara and Vivian, who happen to be Robynne's roommates and were also previously seen at the SFEERS booth.

Three days later, Tanya, Cammy, and Jodi meet in the club administration office for promotion planning. Cammy tried to recruit Robynne yesterday and was met with strong rejection, but is confident Rob will change her mind, which confuses the officers. The three cheerleaders are then surprised to see that Robynne and Vivian have found this private meeting. Vivian walks away as Rob enters the room, so Tanya and Jodi leave the office to look into her.

As a result of Robynne's meeting with Cammy, both Robynne and Vivian are granted spots on the cheer team. A condition of this arrangement is for Rob to be exempt from promotion duty, so Tanya and Jodi are instructed to give her inconsequential promotion jobs that the officers can turn a blind eye to if she slacks on them.

The next day, Robynne and Vivian meet with Tanya so they can be given their cheerleader uniforms and have their photos taken for the team's website. Afterwards, Tanya leaves and assigns Stacy to sort through and edit the pictures, but since they won't be checked until the next day, Stacy puts it off and takes up Vivian's offer of going to the SFEERS opening social.

### Week 5

About two weeks later, Tanya gives Robynne, Vivian, Stacy, and Lilly the surprise assignment of promoting SFEERS's *Mega Mash Family Battle* tournament. This is in blatant disregard of the agreement of Robynne's promotion work, but her friends believe this is a way for Cammy to test her loyalty now that she's had the computer she extorted from Cammy for a while.

## Relationships

### Cammy DeCroix

As a sophomore, Tanya started to become close to cheer team captain Cammy, who would go on to accept her into her inner circle sometime after Angela was booted from the team. Tanya uses her gossip and social media snooping to keep the captain up to date on the goings on at the university as well as people of interest.

### Angela Warrant

Tanya became acquainted with Angela when the latter was on the cheer team. Angela obtained intel on Cammy's schemes from Tanya's snooping. When Tanya learned Angela was a virgin, she'd continuously try to set her up with guys, which along with her general attitude led to Angela never really liking her.

### SAU Cheerleading Team

Tanya became a cheer team officer during her sophomore year. She is involved in managing the other cheerleaders' assignments, but seemingly not as much as Jodi. Tanya is the social media manager for the team, and is often tasked with tracking or learning about persons of interest and gauging reception to promoted events. She is deeply involved in the rumor mill, and will plant rumors to investigate or control the narrative.

### Robert Dreese/Robynne Darling

When Tanya is assigned to look into potential cheer recruit Robynne, she is shocked to find no info on social media and only a few records. When Robynne does join, Tanya takes every chance she can get to probe information from the recruit, who placates her by giving vague or half-truthful answers. Tanya likes to tease Robynne, who considers Tanya extremely irritating. Per Robynne's arrangement with Cammy, Tanya is instructed to give Rob promotion assignments that can be skipped without consequence.

### Vivian Feliz

When Robynne's roommate Vivian joins the cheer team, Tanya is relieved to see she has actual information to be found. Vivian plays up a stereotypical cheerleader attitude when around the rest of the team to make it seem Robynne is the only one to be suspicious of, which leads to her quickly earning Tanya's trust.

### Kara Balmer

Tanya occasionally meets Robynne and Vivian's roommate Kara. Kara knows all about Tanya due to Robynne complaining about her, but pretends not to know her whenever they meet to annoy her.

## Gallery

Tanya, dressed as Spirit Guard Tenacity, at a Halloween party with Cammy and Angela.Tanya on the winning team of the first Magical Gridiron Posse fantasy football league.Tanya and Robynne dressed as a superhero and villain, respectively, in the style of *Villain-in-Distress*.