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a-dauntless-daffodil · 2 months

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You can look at Nanoha's first reaction to Vivio being "we need to find this kid's real mom" / "but I'll look after her meanwhile" / "but we still need to find her ACTUAL mom"

compared to Fate's history with Caro and Erio of

"I'm not old enough to adopt them so my adopted mom will sign the paperwork until I can be their legal guardian" and Vvio "legally I'm just Nanoha's friend but I am also the 'fate-mama' to our newly adopted daughter" and then with former enemy Lutecia "so her mother is still out of commission and that means I'll be her guardian until things get better"

you could say, that's just Fate being kind softhearted Fate, and Nanoha being stubborn like usual, but the thing is, it tracks so well with both their experiences AS children WITH their families

Nanoha's childhood was lonely sure, but never because her birth family didn't love her or try their best to care for and support her. She values the way she was raised- repeats it with Vivio later on, giving her freedom and responsibility, focusing on teaching Vivio how to stand up on her own after getting hurt, letting her have the tools and chances to make dangerous mistakes and learn from them. Even (spoilers for Vivid) even when her kid has a completely messed up leg after fighting in a tournament for FUN, Nanoha says she's proud of her for that, for Vivio following through and putting in her all, and helping her new friends and competitors grow as people along the way

All of that Nanoha got from her parents and her family, the ones she was born into.

So when she first meets lost and abandoned Vivio, she thinks, where is this girl's family? It takes a while for Nanoha to sink into the idea of Vivio not being born into a family that cares or can care for her. It takes time for Nanoha to decide, actually, maybe SHE could be Vivio's family now. Maybe she already is

And Fate- it's easy to joke about her running around adopting every kid she sees- but a lot of people I know who WERE happily adopted later in life are like that too. It's not universal. Still for people who know what the difference can be and how GOOD it can be, some of them end up like Fate, they end up repeating what their own adopted family did (Lindy her mother, and Chrono her big brother, looking after Fate while she was still facing trial, asking her very gently if they could all be a family together) and when Fate sees other kids being abandoned or locked away she also repeats what her family taught her by immediately reaching out. She offers to be there for Erio and Caro and deals with figuring out HOW to do that afterwards, accepts making that her job to study up on and get advice about while already knowing that it can work. She's been living proof that a family that's made by choice can be wonderful- just as good or better than the one she lost before.

But she also knows how much a parent can hurt a child, even without whips involved. Fate is soft with her kids, worried about them and for them and how they feel about her, never wanting them to think for a moment that she doesn't care or would be okay with them being hurt, and it's a reaction to her birth mom Precia, sure- (her memories of how a kind mother could be be so cruel to a child she didn't love)-

it's also just as much a repeat of Lindy's gentleness with Fate, too. Lindy who signed that paperwork so her teenage daughter could split time between her new career and two different kids who needed her. Fate wanted to be there for children who had no one, and Lindy made it work.

So when Nanoha finally decides to try being Vivio's mom, even though she wasn't Vivio "real" mother- Fate is already settled into them all being a family. She's there and ready to make this work.

I just always really like the writing in that. How you start off with these nine year old magical girls, and when you check back in with them 10-15 years later, everything they lived through at age nine has shaped them into the people and parents they end up being together today.

It's very sweet. I love that for them, for all of them.

#magical girl lyrical nanoha #nanoha takamachi #fate testarossa harlaown #vivio takamachi #nanofate #lindy harlaown #thinking about them again #always

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kon-kon-kon-kon · 2 years

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tojk0524 · 6 months

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Lindy Harlaown (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)

#magical girl lyrical nanoha #Lindy Harlaown

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anime-captured · 2 years

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Lindy Harlaown

#nanoha a's #magical girl lyrical nanoha #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha a's #lindy harlaown #anime opening #2005 anime #n anime #m anime

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fuckyeahcrossoverships · 2 years

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Genjuro Kazanari x Lindy Harlaown

Relationship Type: Romantic

Submitted by Anonymous

#crossover #crossover ship #Symphogear #Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha #Genjuro Kazanari #Lindy Harlaown #Romantic #F/M #M/F

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nanofate · 2 years

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Firstraum:

Known Information about World: Nothing

Known inhabitants: Lindy Harlaown and possibly Leti Lowran

HCs about World: A planet infested by giant glowing mushrooms. Underneath these mushrooms many creatures make their homes, including the Raumial. Most of the settlements on this planet are in the form of villages and burrows, but there are people who make their homes atop these mushrooms. The spores in the air may be harmful to those who do not originate from this planet, but to it's inhabitants it's entirely harmless.

#lindy harlaown #nanoha #lyrical nanoha #magical girl lyrical nanoha #mgln #design #firstraum #art #lore

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villafordefeatedvillains · 2 years

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fuck you paci /nm

YOU made me watch Reflection and Desolation. FUCK YOU. </3 /nm designs are by @werewolfcave / @nanofate [Image ID: Drawings of Nanoha Takamachi, Lindy Harlaown, and Fate Testarossa-Harlaown from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Nanoha Takamachi is a brown-haired and pale-skinned Japanese girl with blue eyes, one of which is a prosthetic. The side of her face on the viewer’s left is extensively scarred. Her hair is in pigtails, and she is looking right and smiling. She is wearing her Barrier Jacket, a white and blue jacket with a black and gold shirt underneath. Lindy Harlaown is a mint-green insectoid alien with brown stripes on her face and neck. The back of her neck is fluffy, and she has antennae. Her eyes are closed happily and she is smiling. Fate Testarossa-Harloawn is a pale-skinned blonde girl with pointed ears and scars on her face. Her eyes are also closed happily, and she is leaning into Lindy’s chest. She is wearing a black shirt and is smiling. End image ID.]

#magical girl lyrical nanoha #nanoha takamachi #fate testarossa #lindy harlaown #our art #jonny.txt #pictures in the sand

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lyricaldarkmage · 3 years

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I really wish Nanoha Original Chronicle would be translated 😔 Even though Vivid translations has the raws, they pretty much don't have anyone to do the redrawing, cleaning and typesetting.

It's like the only official Nanoha manga that's not completely translated and I know it's just mixing the Novel, Anime, movie and the sound stages. I still want to finish reading it, well maybe that's just me....even though... my heart literally breaks when I accidentally stumble upon anything related to it...like just today when I was casually on reddit I found this.

#Manga Scanlation #redraw #typesetting #manga translation #magical girl lyrical nanoha #mgln #chrono harlaown #nanoha takamachi #fate testarossa #Lindy Harlaown #cleaning and typesetting

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elle-lavender · 4 years

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I love that the best thing she can say about Precia is that she was her biological mom. She’d never express anger towards Precia, because Fate is a devoted, loving girl who could never express anysort of ill-will towards bio mom, no matter how much she might deserve it. Instead, she sees that Precia couldn’t be the mother she needed and credits Lindy with being a mother to her in all the ways that matter.

Even the memory of Precia that Fate is recalling is of Fate rejecting her in the Book of Darkness when she tries to reach out to Fate. Because subconsciously projected her image of she thinks a mom should be like onto her ideal world version of Precia. An image she got from Lindy:

#magical girl lyrical nanoha #fate t. harlaown #lindy harlaown #fate's relationships with her mothers were written so well

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anonarat · 4 years

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When Lindy Harlaown returned home, she could instantly tell that something was wrong. It was clear that Fate had been waiting for her, and nervous anxiety radiated off of her even without any fidgeting.

“I’m home Fate,” said Lindy, with a warm smile in the hope that routine would help calm her daughter.

“Welcome home,” came Fate’s reply, a touch softer than usual as Lindy changed her shoes for slippers.

When she joined Fate on the landing Lindy briefly considered and then asked, “is something wrong?”

“We received our report cards today,” said Fate, turning her face away as she held out the brown envelope for Lindy’s inspection. For all that the envelope seemed innocuous, it was hardly a surprise that it was the source of anxiety for a child.

“Shall we have a look at it together?” Lindy asked gently. A small nod affirmative from Fate, even though she was still struggling to look at Lindy. For her part, Lindy couldn’t really understand why Fate was so concerned, she was a studious girl and Lindy trusted that she’d done well.

Together they went into their living room and sat down next to each other on one of their sofas. Lindy carefully opened the envelope and had a look through the report card. Almost every subject was an ‘S’ with a smattering of ‘A’s and a couple of ‘B’s in History and Japanese Language.

“Oh Fate,” said Lindy, taking in a deep breath so that she could put as much love and emphasis into her following words, “these are wonderful.”

Fate bursting into tears and crying into her side was not what Lindy expected. Without a second thought she pulled her daughter into a tight hug. While she may not understand it, Lindy had no doubt that Precia was the cause.

After a long while, through sobs, Fate managed, “but I wasn’t perfect.”

“Fate, you are perfect to me.”

#Daily not drabble #Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha #Fate Testarossa #Lindy Harlaown #I got inspired by a picture set and wanted to write this #Lindy being a good mom #In every way that Precia was not

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animiconz · 5 years

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lindy harlaown/mahou shoutouts lyrical nanoha icons (300x300)

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#lindy harlaown #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha #lindy harlaown icons #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha icons #anime #anime icons #manga #manga icons #twitter icons #icons #japan

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a-dauntless-daffodil · 3 months

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the handling of moving on from terrible things without ever forgetting them in the Nanoha-verse is something that will always get to me.

Fate, as the longest running and most visible example of that, gets to me.

Seeing her as a kid asking herself- after being thrown away by the mother she loves- wondering, maybe things haven’t really started for her yet?

To see that again after you’ve watched the later seasons and seen her in StrikerS, with a whole new life and sense of purpose, but with both her birth and adopted mother’s pictures framed and set out for Vivio to see.

Listening to her explain to curious little Vivio that both of these women raised her (like Nanoha and her will be raising Vivio from now on) and rewatching the memories Fate inherited from dead Alicia, the girl she was cloned from, the daughter she was meant to be, memories of her mother being so kind and loving… just never actually to HER…

rewatching Lindy so carefully reaching out to this little girl who’s lost so much, an adoption entirely at Fate’s speed and on her terms, as she flinches from a caring touch from a mother figure and apologizes for it and Lindy tells her no, it’s okay, she’s doing great- remembering Precia answering all of Fate’s desperate help and hopeful affection with harsh words and a whip’s snap-

and now Fate, nineteen and still so young, already the legal guardian of two other kids who had lost so much. Kids she reached out to, calm on the surface, reading through parenting books in the background, asking Lindy for advice

this Fate slipping past Nanoha to go pick up tiny little Vivio after she trips and falls and looks up with tears in her eyes.

Fate lifting Vivio up, holding her close, cheerfully telling her to be careful. If she gets hurt, her mothers would be sad.

(child Fate strung up and bleeding from Precia's lessons)

The playfulness in her and Nanoha’s first little tiff as young parents together “Fate-mama, you’re spoiling her” but Nanoha is smiling, and Fate’s exaggerated and teasing “Nanoha-mama’s just too strict” rings out lightly as Vivio clings to Fate’s neck and watches them with big, wide eyes, soaking in her first ever family.

Going back to the sound stages when child Fate found a dying wolf pup and had to do something, anything, to answer it’s cries for help. How she made Arf as a magical familiar not to serve her or even to keep her company in her lonely life of training training training-

she makes an open contract with Arf in the end, promising her magic to Arf with no strings attached, telling to go where she wants and live as she wishes-

seeing this, knowing how scared she’ll be over a decade later, about her adopted kids Erio and Caro.

How they both followed her into a military career and ended up being trained by her- old enough to decide what they want, but Fate doesn’t know how to be sure of that yet, and the villain tells her she’s just like her own mother- using her children as weapons just like Precia-

it comes so close to breaking her, before Erio and Caro butt into say no. No. It’s not like that at all. She gave them the safety to choose what they wanted to be. And they want to help people, just like she does.

Fate.

Watching the in-universe film version of her and Nanoha meeting as children. Watching a recreation of her child self being whipped by Precia, and saying, she never gave wounds magic couldn’t heal.

(she took the name Harlaown from Lindy, calls her mother)

(she keeps the name Testarossa from Precia too though. Reaching out to the very last minute, even after being thrown aside, a useless doll, a failed right-handed clone of a dead left-handed daughter- still dreaming of a happy life with Precia, but also letting it go for the sake of the friends and family she's found since then...)

There are so many things that never really heal. So many things that never go away.

even so, the rest of Fate has grown up around them. She was right all that time ago, things hadn’t even started for her yet back then.

She can’t leave them behind her but she still kept moving on with them anyway.

When you see the opening for the first season, before we even meet her, with kid Fate alone in a dark and empty apartment, tired, but still petting Arf softly…

…then she’s in her twenties in Vivid coming home to a house full of life. Smiling as she makes dinner with Nanoha and Vivio. The perspective of Vivio watching Fate and Nanoha sitting happily next to each other with Vivio musing on how Fate is Nanoha’s special person and that’s why she’s Vivio’s mama.

Fate, a few years before, sitting side by side with Nanoha in their shared apartment room, telling Vivio

“it’s my job to watch over you and your mother, Nanoha”

and this is the purpose she’s chosen for herself.

Passing down only the softest things she’s learned from Precia, through Alicia, with that determination to keep her children safe- doing with Vivio as her own adopted mother Lindy did with her, slowing down, but always reassuring and reaching out, never leaving any room to wonder if this new person in Vivio’s life would always want her happy, safe, would always run to Vivio when she cried.

And Vivio isn’t Fate.

She doesn’t end up living that painful childhood, she doesn’t carry that same weight with her.

She grows up more like Nanoha did, independent and steadied by knowing that her family- though not always with her, sometimes busy or far away- cares about her so much.

(Nanoha, who smiled and took care of herself from too small of an age, victim of everyday circumstance)

(little Nanoha knowing her family loved her, loved to see her smile, and her smiling for them, being strong for them while her dad was in hospital and her mother looked after him and her older siblings looked after the business and)

(she met a girl one day, with such beautiful, sad eyes. She saw Fate and couldn’t look away)

(Ten years later, she breaks down on Fate’s shoulder, alone on the roof top- she cries- like we’ve never seen her cry before- because Nanoha is strong, always, she’s full of hope and the power to push through… but Vivio is gone. And Fate throws her arms around Nanoha promising her, holding her as she shakes, they WILL get Vivio back)

(Nanoha has a person in her life now to stop smiling for. A sad, kind girl that knows loneliness and has done things she regrets as a child, so determined and so strong, seeking love)

(a woman with more happiness in her life now than sadness. Here, with Nanoha, in the life and pains they share)

But Vivio also knows something Nanoha didn't back then.

Something Nanoha's learned since then, with Fate failing her Enforcer exams over and over while Nanoha is hurt and recovering, more worried about Nanoha than anything else- and then passing those same exams with flying color in the end, not at all burdened down by her worry for Nanoha, those failures meaning nothing in the end, so easy to move past, once Nanoha was okay.

Vivio has the memory of a parent who slipped past Nanoha's lesson on learning to stand up on your own, lifted Vivio carefully off the ground, and said all that matters is Vivio being okay. She doesn't have to be strong.

(Nanoha doesn't have to be strong)

(she's the hero and she doesn't save Fate. She's only there to catch Fate when she falls, when Fate makes the choice and leaps into a new life)

(Nanoha, crying into Fate's chest as kids standing on a bridge right before saying goodbye, at the end of season one, the start of more things than they can imagine)

Fate’s name is so ironic and so apt.

She was named after the project that failed to decide who she would be.

And every child she meets who other people have already decided on- too troublesome, too dangerous, useful only as a weapon- even the ones who've shouldered a decision they think was already made- have to keep smiling, stay strong- she only sees them as someone for who things haven’t even started yet.

There is no fate binding the people she loves, only Fate, wanting to protect them. So that they can keep making choices for themselves.

Like she did.

#Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha #Fate Testarossa #Vivio Takamachi #Nanoha Takamachi #Precia Testarossa #Lindy Harlown #mentions of fictional child abuse #character introspection #this series really didn't have to do so much so quietly and in such a long echoing way #it's not even the focus #but it comes for my heart anyway

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kon-kon-kon-kon · 2 years

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kunoichi-of--destiny · 5 years

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Yo Nanoha fandom, have a quality shitpost and some good tea. Plus Lindy Haralown is bae and needs more love.

#lindy harlaown #anti presea testarossa #lindy is a better mom to fate change my mind #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha

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anime-captured · 2 years

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Lindy Harlaown

#nanoha a's #magical girl lyrical nanoha #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha a's #lindy harlaown #2005 anime #n anime #m anime

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isagrimorie · 6 years

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Thing I noticed re-watching Nanoha Reflections:

Fate’s already taller than most of her peers!

Nanoha and Fate are damned strong to carry their friends! So magic + increase physical strength?

I love that Nanoha doesn’t forget her friends and are actually brought into the magical group, and Arisa and Suzuka’s parents were also invited in.

Team Mother got to relax and have coffee while Arisa’s dad took care of the kids.

Magical shields are effective against bullets. Take That people who are determined to show Grim Dark military easily winning against TSAB.

It was really awesome to watch Hayate fight and use magic and use it without using her barrier jacket.

Amitie is awesome.

Are is in mini mode, she’s really trying to conserve magical energy for Fate and that makes me want to hug her so much.

Um, how do they know who Hayate, Fate, and Nanoha are? Even down to Fate’s backstory? I doubt that was advertised -—wait, are they from a future????

I can’t get over how Hayate kept listing all of Amitie’s traffic violations! Something worthy of a future Special Branch Investigator and Future Commander.

Kyrie did a lot of terrible things and all for nothing. In the Nanohaverse, Ends Justify the Means never ever works out.

Nanoha (the character) must really hate ‘The End Justify the Means’ mentality because in her experience all that ever does is lead to more heartache with zero results.

Shooting poor Rein was just terrible!

Hayate calling the Tome of the Night Sky her treasure, shades of her fully embracing the Master of the Book role.

Maria says that Bardiche in particular is very hard to upgrade, possibly implying Bardiche’s design is unusual? After all Linith (who possibly had Precia’s knowledge in engineering) designed it. And as mentioned Precia was a genius, of a whole other level.

Arisa noticing Nanoha’s pensive look and thinking that with Nanoha, it’s not far off to think she might go somewhere she can’t follow. And knowing Nanoha’s future, it’s true, Nanoha moves to Midchilda. It’s very bittersweet.

It’s that look and her determination that had me questioning why Nanoha shifted to Combat Instructor, and on a Watsonian level I know it might have to do with Nanoha’s injury.

Fate has a long way to go becoming the Enforcer we saw in StrikerS, she still gets startled by appeals to her good nature, but her determination to help people like her, who was so determined to do anything to help the people they loved and unwilling to listen to anyone else might be the jumping point for Fate choosing to become an Enforcer.

Haha! Nanoha’s response to, ‘But why would Amita choose Fate as her interviewer?’ was a confident, ‘Maybe because she looks gentle?’ It’s like Nanoha is 100% startled when people don’t think that of Fate. I fully believe Nanoha goes around saying stuff like that to the point that Vita gets annoyed.

I am a bit confused about stealing the Tome of the Night Sky, I thought the Book was connected to Hayate’s linker core?

I honestly love that it’s Fate asking witness questions with Lindy on hand to supervise, it feels like a step for Fate becoming an Enforcer.

Hee. Fate unknowing using her charm to get Amita’s promise they’ll work together, and Amita getting more and more flustered at Fate’s enthusiasm and positivity.

Hah! Vita’s face learning that Amita chose Fate as an interview because of her ‘gentle face’ and Nanoha’s happy ‘validated!’ reaction is everything.

And then Fate insightfully zero-ing on an important detail that could help with their case/mission, Iris.

If you really think about it, Shamal’s powers are terrifying, she can reach in to get someone’s linker core, computer core, heart, if she so chooses. Good thing she’s on the side of good people.

Honestly Nanoha’s will power is something else, she doesn’t believe in half measures, she’ll lay everything on the table and the some more. Giving it her full 200% is always her life’s motto— which contributed to her injury in the future. And the reason why Nanoha’s learned to play things smartly, doesn’t mean she’ll stop giving everything her 200% when it comes down to it.

Nanoha’s fight with Stern showcases once again what an inventive fighter Nanoha is, most bombardment mages just stay where they are in a fight. Not Nanoha, she uses the Beam War as cover and momentum no move forward and make the fight a close quarters fight. When Nanoha tells Fate in StrikerS that she was sturdy, she wasn’t kidding. Kid’s tougher than a diamond. And a willpower that’s a thousand times tougher.

Fate’s first instinct this time around is to talk to her opponents, she internalized Nanoha’s method very well, but with her own twist, in that she’s initially not willing to give a fight her 100% until she’s certain. Nanoha’s technique is, talk to the opponent, get their motivations but if repeated reaching out is spurned. Make them listen through superior fire power.

Lindy saving Fate tho! Fate calling Lindy mom! Fate realizing all the people she lost is in her and she has more family because of it!

Hmmm… it seems like Bardiche is more connected to Fate. The moment Fate became more certain of what she wants, Bardiche became better (season/movie 1 and 2). The moment Fate became certain of her family, Bardiche activated (Reflections). Raging Heart (raging is so much better than raising heart! fight me!) seems to work with Fate as a true AI partner, the Book is a utensil to Hayate and Rein is a really cute true living constructed device. But just like Arf, Bardiche seems to be a part of Fate, he doesn’t need to vocalize his thoughts because he already knows Fate’s thoughts. They can work in sync without talking.

Body horror! BODY HORROR!!!

Is Iris the second villain in (animated) Nanohaverse who doesn’t have good motives beneath their terrible actions?

‘Goodbye, Stranger.’ Ouch. That is the harshest thing Iris could ever say to Kyrie, and this is the harshest wake-up call of all too. Again proving, in Nanohaverse, the End doesn’t justify the Means.

‘I’ve had enough of regretting because I gave up, causing someone to be sad. That is the purpose of my magic.’ Nanoha, you’re a fifth grader! You are 10! (or 11!).

I wonder why the Wolkenritter didn’t recognize Levi, Stern, and the King? I would’ve thought he was the previous owner of the Book?

BODY HORROR!!! BODY HORROR!!!!! AUGHHHH! EXPLODING EYE. WHYYYYYY??????

I love that when Nanoha and Fate aren’t partnered, Fate is usually partnered with Signum. They complete each other very well, and I would like to think Signum taught Fate more sword techniques. Fighting wise, Fate’s style is very diverse.

Although, I’m not keen at how often the Wolkenritter, especially Signum, are defeated in this movie.

AHHHHH. BODY HORROR. I SEEM TO HAVE ERASED THE AMOUNT OF BODY HORROR I SAW I THIS MOVIE. AND THEY’RE HURTING FATE AND SIGNUM! THEY ALREADY HURT CHRONO. STOP THIS!

I will always love how hungry Nanoha and Raging Heart to update their systems in order to level the playing field against an enemy.

Fighting wise, Fate has a diverse set of it. But Nanoha? Nanoha’s magitech capabilities are a hybrid of everything she can see a use for, there’s no limit to what Nanoha can and will incorporate to help her win a fight for a happy outcome.

‘A magician helping a crying child’ once again, this fits so well with what I think Fate’s Enforcer work in the future, that now it’s strange to me they’re not working for the same branch as partners.

Also, this is why Nanoha is the Ace of Aces.

#film: nanoha reflections #magical girl lyrical nanoha #nanoha takamachi #fate testarossa #hayate yagami #wolkenritter #lindy harlaown #fate t harlaown #signum #vita #shamal #zafira #arf

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