Tanya Woven (Gerosha Crossover Gaming Universe)

Tanya Anita Steffan (neé Woven) / Ciem of Seattle / Ciem of San Antonio is a superheroine from an anomaly-produced alternate timeline dubbed "Earth-G7.2.9," in which a scientist working a double shift allowed her to become a proper Chilopod Crusader rather than an elaborate imposter of one. She features briefly in A Centipede Once Again Saves the Spider-Verse.

Abilities and equipment
Tanya's powers in this timeline are virtually identical to those of Candi Flippo-McArthur. Tanya's suit and its accessories are similar to those given to her Earth-G7 counterpart, though less justified due to her having actual powers. The Padua Network saw little issue, however, with doubling up on how powerful they could make her as the Ciem of Seattle during her tenure in that role. This is a departure from Earth-G7 canon, where the suit and its enhancements proved necessary - given that Tanya's lack of superpowers in G7.0.

Pre-birth history
The most interesting part of this Tanya's history, ironically, is before her birth. Dr. James Offe, a scientist with the Phaelite Society of Earth, was tasked with applying the Centhuen Prototype Phexo program onto several new experiments, in the hopes that one of them might have a child that became a Centhuen Prototype. In most timelines, however, Offe went home after his shift. Damian and Marcella Woven, the parents of Brandon Woven, were asked to stay with their baby boy for an extra night. However, Offe forgot to lock the security door.

Growing insecure about how long they were being kept in the facility, essentially like prisoners, and beginning to suspect that Phaelites were secretly just as malevolent as Meethlites, the Wovens prepared to leave. Offe never returning, in most timelines, allowed the Woven family a chance to escape before Brandon was experimented on. With the Wovens refusing to return to the lab, the Phaelites of Earth elected not to kidnap them, lest they fall out of their good graces and be seen as being just as bad as the Hebbleskins.

This resulted in Tanya leading a fairly less-than-noteworthy existence, until she had a chance run-in with Candi Flippo while both were incarcerated at the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility. However, a set of anomalous actions affecting the Percolation Wave resulted in a further rift in the Divergency, resulting in Earth-G7.2.9 splintering off its timeline logic from that of Earth-G7.2.1. This resulted in the G7.2.1 version of Offe becoming temporarily displaced in G7.2.9, and becoming very confused.

Offe-7.2.9 returned to work, not realizing what day or night it was, shortly after Offe-7.2.1 left for the day. His hours were flexible, and he was often permitted to work as long as he had the energy. As such, no one in the PSE lab in G7.2.9 questioned why Offe was suddenly working a double shift. Offe's mere presence, however, led to the Wovens being addressed before their doubts led to their escape. Brandon was then experimented on, but nothing interesting happened after that. Offe-7.2.1 eventually was re-Percolated back to his own timeline, to right before he would've left, and went to bed losing nothing.

Brandon went on to lead his life in G7.2.9 the same exact way as he previously had in G7.2.1 and G7.0, never realizing that he could potentially have a daughter that would grow up to become a Chilopod Crusader.

Losing her friend
Screwworm operative Vance Rancon was hired by the Hebbleskin Gang to to hunt down Ajeerma Casey after she made a careless pro-Ciem Instagram post, implying that a copycat Ciem was operating in Richmond, Indiana. Accompanied by what remained of the Anito Squad, Rancon stalked Ajeerma and her friends down a countryside road at night. Tanya, the driver, lost control, driving into a ditch, amidst the chaos and confusion. The Jeep she was driving crashed into a culvert, sending the Jeep and its passengers flying. Tanya and most of her friends survived, though Ajeerma was determined to be dead by her friends only a minute or so after the crash.

Another car arrived, and allowed Tanya and her friends to flee to safety before the Anitos could catch up to everyone. Amidst the panic that ensued, neither Tanya nor her friends nor their rescuers considered that there was a house nearby behind the nearest driveway, hidden behind several trees, with residents inside. The Anitos slaughtered everyone inside that home instead, then continued their rampage before finally being subdued some time later.

Feeling responsible for Ajeerma's death, given it was her copying Candi that led to Ajeerma making the foolish Instagram post that nearly got everyone killed, Tanya turned herself in. She was sentenced to complete a program at the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility. While there, she befriended Candi - who encouraged her to make some contacts, to become a better Ciem.

Defeating Quoll and Duzerit
Just like in the regular timeline, Tanya was later captured by the Hebbleskins, along with the Last Legs. Using a Carbonica suit given to her by Candi, Tanya helped the Last Legs escape. She then helped Candi defeat Quoll and Duzerit.

Seattle life
Once ready to leave the rigors of life in Indiana behind her, Tanya moved with her mother and friends to the Seattle area. However, she was unable to save her new home from the devastation of a war that broke out between China and the Hebbleskins. Nearly everyone Tanya had left - her mother, her mentor Hubert Rechere, and most of her friends, became casualties. This caused Tanya to wonder if she weren't a failure at being Ciem, or else what it was that she was doing wrong.

She eventually reunited with her boyfriend, Yong Steffan, and fled to Texas. They were stalked mercilessly by a mutated frog-man assassin going by "Cerato." Cerato racked up a huge body count, determined to make himself into Tanya's archnemesis. She eventually defeated him at a chemical plant.

San Antonio life
Knowing there would be others like Cerato, Tanya remained committed to being Ciem. However, she was careful to avoid becoming overly interesting to SCALLOP, or to local law enforcement. She became Ciem in a very part-time fashion, preferring to spend more time as a civilian aiding the Last Legs. Eventually, she and Yong discovered they were expecting a child, and made haste to get married. Tanya wanted to help out the Sodality against Capp Aard, but Candi urged Tanya not to get involved. This was due to the Beliah Amendments fanatics ramping up their efforts toward an "Enforcement Drive" that would put all of the Sodality of Gerosha and anyone perceived as an ally in serious legal danger. On top of this, Candi, on maternity leave at the time, had already allowed Michelle Winston to volunteer to be Ciem in her stead.

After her child was born, however, minor threats to the San Antonio area still occasionally required Tanya to come out of retirement as Ciem. Unlike in most timelines, Tanya never surrendered her suits to SCALLOP to stay off the radar in this timeline. This was due to her having actual centipede powers like Candi's and feeling that made it the wise choice to remain being Ciem. Lack of powers convinced every other Tanya that it was wiser to hand over her suits and retire permanently.

Helping Candi and the Spiders
In the fanfic A Centipede Once Again Saves the Spider-Verse, the Candi of Earth-G7.2.1 gets some surprise assistance in her quest to help Miles Morales from this particular Tanya. Noting that she has actual powers, unlike the Tanya that Candi was more familiar with, Candi was confused but grateful. Tanya eventually proposed a solution to how best to hide Miles and Gwen for a time, by initially hiding them in Hawaii with Kamohoalii. However, this didn't initially work out as hoped, given that Kamohoalii, Anarteq, and Nemara then got displaced by the Percolation Wave inside of a Dromedeverse pocket dimension obeying the narrative logic of Disney's film Moana.

While Tanya's time with Candi and the Spiders was brief, her being an anomaly caused by Miguel tampering with the Percolation Wave to get revenge on Candi inspired Miles to believe that his being an anomaly didn't matter. After the adventure ended, Candi at one point returned to her homeworld. The Tanya there was very puzzled and amused to learn of her G7.2.9 counterpart.

Aiding the Percolation Warriors
Tanya continued to work with the staff of Menehune even after most of the Multiversal Triumvirate had been defeated, and most of the Percolation Warriors had returned to managing their local affairs. Her role with the team wasn't as large nor spotlight-heavy as Candi's; but Tanya still pitched in where she could.

Personality
Tanya's personality in this edition is similar to that of her Earth-G7 counterpart, save for the fact that gaining actual centipede powers allows her to have a slight confidence boost. She also takes it as a huge responsibility to resume being Ciem after coming out of maternity leave. While not needing to be as cautious as most other iterations of her are, her general caution remains intact, as she wasn't given as much training nor experience early on as what Candi already had.

Trivia

 * Tanya was retrofitted into the plot of A Centipede Once Again Saves the Spider-Verse, in order to take advantage of Wonder AI's capabilities to render a version of her that matched the style of Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. Given how impressive the results were with giving Candi this treatment, it seemed like a wasted opportunity to not also apply this treatment to Tanya - especially given the fact that Tanya was in theory capable of using this loophole break in canon to become an even greater inspiration to Miles than Candi was capable of being.
 * Making this break to canon actually further justified Tanya's side story in G7 canon, which was tacked on to the Sodality: Instigation timeline as a way to both continue Tanya's story from Ciem: Caldera and also further pay homage to how Taryn Twine inspired Gerosha mythos via her role on the Netflix show Girls Incarcerated.
 * Real-life Taryn's methods of handling her trauma not only informed the creation of Tanya Woven-Steffan as a character, but also informed some of Candi's rationale for addressing her own moral dilemma at the end of Ciem: Inferno.
 * Tanya's render turning out as well as it did furthermore encouraged the pursuit of a render for Alrugo Entertainment's Italian Spiderman using Wonder, to theorize what he would look like in the Spiderverse animated film series. Tanya and Candi's Spiderverse-style renders were used as a proof-of-concept for Franco.