Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)/WMG/Open One

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This is a list of Wild Mass Guesses which are still possibly true. Just for Fun and silly guesses go on the silly page. If a WMG is Jossed, please move it to the jossed page, if it is Confirmed, please move it to the confirmed page.

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It's a common misconception that Nanoha's magical axis is light. Or anything else vaguely elemental.

Unlike the Fate, Erio, Signum etc. with their cute lightning and fire axes, Nanoha doesn't have an elemental axis to her magic. Instead, her axis is friendship, resulting from her loneliness before meeting Yuuno--she actually powers her magic with the desire to be friends with someone. This is why she's a master of magic damage spells. This is why she always tries to get them to listen to her--defeating someone that won't listen just happens to be a by-product of hitting them with enough friendship to blow through their defenses; Similar to how leveling the city behind them with the same blast is a side-effect.

  • In The Battle of Aces, Fate's clone is named Material-L after "Lightning", while Hayate's is Material-D after "Darkness". Both are elements those two are respectively assocated with. Nanoha's clone is called Material-S, which presumably stands for "Starlight", so... yeah.

Signum is an alternate-future time-traveling version of Nanoha

In the original timeline, Hayate and her three knights were sealed in the Durandal Time Lock, which resulted in Nanoha rebelling against the TSAB and losing her magical staff. She took up swordcraft from her father but, in the battle against the TSAB, got sent back to ancient Velka and was absorbed into the Book of Darkness. When she helped the Knights as Signum, the timeline changed; Hayate's political power changed the TSAB into the Fundamentally Female Cast. Nanoha/Signum rests easily, immune to paradox, and lets the new Nanoha be none the wiser.

Nanoha's family are all in the Ninja Bodyguarding business, just like in Triangle Heart, but she was born with a defect leaving her unable to use Chi.

It's the Chi version of being Psi-Blind. So she got left out of anything other than baking. Hence the students at her family's dojo not fighting around her. It was considered rude. But she was unsatisfied with her life (it's downright howl to the skies depression in The Movie) because she couldn't kick ass, too. Nobody could have predicted the alien crashlanding with Magitek that enables her to tap Mana. This neatly circumvented that and she took to it with gusto. Clearly her family doesn't mind her being a magus as she introduces her subordinates in the Sound Stages.

  • Evidence supporting: Children in a school of martial arts are introduced to things such as Kiai, kata, and breathing techniques early on. They're encouraged to do so as kids learn such things even faster than adults do. But none of that was passed on to Nanoha. Sure she isn't the Heir to the Dojo as third-born; but surely she'd be taught something. And given her workaholic personality, she'd be doing it a million times a day with enthusiasm. But she's not.
    • Alternate Theory: Shirou's accident resulted in the family spending most of the time at the hospital while Nanoha was growing up. His recovery was gruesome enough that Nanoha was not brought along; leaving her with a lot of time to spend alone to herself. While the Takamachi family still retained some training, this experience also lead them to drop the anti-terrorist careers and concentrate on the bakery. Nanoha was started on the early training, but it ended with the accident; leaving her feeling unfulfilled.
      • Partially confirmed, so far only in the Movie's tie-in manga series.

There's...something special about Alisa and Suzuka, Nanoha's two Earth friends.

In the second season, they appeared in a Phantom Zone that the Book of Darkness created. Supposedly, only mages and magical creatures appear in those. In another universe, Alisa Bannings was an Expy named Alisa Lowell who was a ghost. Suzuka doesn't exist in the Triangle Heart universe, but her family does, and they have vaguely mystical origins, a possible vampire, and Robot Girl Meido. What are they here....?

  • Or the Book pulled them inside the barrier just in case they contributed to Hayate's grief; it meant to kill them after Nanoha and Fate.
  • Suzuka's family may have extremely distant connections with the Tohnos. Arisa has potential as a flame haze. (One is a vampire gag, the other is a voice actress gag.)
    • Obviously Arisa is a shinigami in a gigai. Her sword's name is Shana. Eventually she'll learn cero and discover that her inner hollow is named Louise.
  • Alisa and Suzuka were in the Phantom Zone because of their connection to Hayate.
    • But Dr. Ishida also had a connection with Hayate, and she wasn't pulled into the barrier. This means that there is something special about her that prevented her from being pulled in.
      • Rampant speculation: Those who grow up under the Masquerade and chose a science-related field of study but were magically adept end up with anti-magic Reality Warper powers; it doesn't exist as far as they are concerned.
      • Probably because Dr. Ishida was always helpful to Hayate, almost as an actual parent and even offering to go out together on Hayate's birthday pre-Wolkenritter (because you know, paraplegic nine-year-old living alone... Suzuka, on the other hand, was the link by which Hayate met Nanoha and Fate. Thus, Reinforce may have held her somewhat responsible. Alisa was probably there by association. So the real question is, why wasn't Dr. Ishida being saved? Even if Reinforce is bound to go berserk, why not absorb the Doc like what she does with Fate?
  • At the least, Suzuka has some level of latent magical power. There is one scene showing her reacting to a powerful burst of power from Nanoha and Fate, and she was apparently the only one who could see the battle with the Book of Darkness. Arisa had to ask her if the bright light was still there.
    • She's also (in the manga) able to catch a superpowered dodgeball throw from Fate, return it, and knock Fate cold. Yes, Suzuka had potential.

Alisa is Suzuka's Renfield.

Like her sister in Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～, Suzuka is a vampire. She shared her blood with Alisa, giving her incredible strength. She did this to prevent her death; appropriately it was whatever killed Alisa Lowell.

The Book of the Night Sky was corrupted into the Book of Darkness by a Velkan mage.

The book is a Lost Logia -- a device that dates back to when Al-Hazred was still around, which happened long before Midchilda ascended to its current position. Velkan magic is explicitly held to be an offshoot of Midchild magic; Velka was likely a younger "country" -- but the point is that Velka and its magic wasn't around when Alhazred was. The Velkan mage reformatted the Book into a weapon of mass destruction; the reformatting brought it in line with the Velkan style of magic because it was more familiar and more warlike.

  • Striker S implies that Lost Logia include artifacts from any ancient civilisation. ("It was considered a Lost Logia even in the time of ancient Velka".)

Hayate's Wolkenritter were not originally part of the Book of the Night Sky.

Works hand-in-hand with the idea above -- as a Lost Logia, the book clearly predates Velka, the time and place where the through-and-through Velkan Wolkenritter must originate. The reason for their inclusion at the time of reformat is simple -- the Book has gone from being a repository of magical knowledge into a weapon of mass destruction, and so it and its master require more protection. Also, it needs hunters to gather the Linker Cores necessary to fuel its destructive power. This also handily explains why the Wolkenritter don't know the original name of the Book and why they don't know anything's wrong with the Book -- they never knew it in its original form.

The Wolkenritter were once humans living in ancient Velka before they were "absorbed" by the Book of Darkness.

A popular theory, since it can be difficult to believe that programs can be people too. It's unlikely that they have direct memories of that time other than their training, though.

  • Rein and Agito prove that programs can be people too.
  • Either they don't remember ever being human, or they've accepted that they're not anymore -- or at least not enough to matter in their own eyes. A couple of centuries and lots of trials can convince one to get over a problem like that to deal with the more immediate problems.
    • Perhaps they're not actually sure anymore. They are aware that the Book of Darkness is capable of presenting a fake but convincing reality, and perhaps even have spent time there when the Book is currently ownerless. They have memories of living in Ancient Belka, but they don't know if those memories are real.
  • Not only were they human, but they were also former owners of the Book of Darkness.
  • Alternatively, they could be a bit like the Servants of Fate/stay night as famous heroes of ancient Belkan history who came back with different names (They do seem to have distinct skillsets like the Servants do).

The TSAB is entirely created from converts

There is no original TSAB anymore. The Original TSAB was a group of actual non-mechanical wizards fighting Mad Scientists. Some of the mad scientists converted, adapted magic into their processes. Over the ages, their descendants were the only ones to survive as a pure magic system became insufficient (and impossible due to spacial warping) against the Lost Technology threat.

Yuuno has infinite mana, or at least lots of it

If the Battle of Aces system of Broken Meter relying on mana left after casting spells, for all we know, Yuuno has enough mana to withstand so many stuff at him he's practically has tons of mana to do anything. Except that he still can't do offensive magic...

Precia actually did reach Alhazred.

Of course, returning is a different story. The creators almost certainly left that plot thread hanging just in case they needed a villainess on short notice. All they need to do is reveal that even in Alhazred, there is no way to revive Alicia. Alternatively, Alhazred and ancient Belka might be one and the same. If Precia travelled back in time and found no way to directly revive Alicia, it stands to reason that she would have tried a different approach such as creating an artifact that would go out into the universe and search for spells, hopefully finding one which could revive her. Now doesn't that sound familiar...?

  • Alternatively, Alhazred is in a dimension outside of the TSAB's normal reach, and Precia did revive Alicia there, and they're living their days happily together. Also, Alhazred is the original source of magic in the multiverse.
    • Or, in keeping with the majority of the villains of Nanoha, Precia makes it to Alhazred and revives Alicia. However, due to her own insanity and the dark weight of the dying world (pictures of Alhazred are not that nice) she treats Alicia just as she did Fate. Which means that Alicia can show up in a future season and be the dragon for whatever Big Bad that season has and act as foil to show what Fate would have become without Nanoha's befriending.
  • When Arf falls after being defeated by Precia, she somehow manages a transportation spell, winding up on Earth and being adopted as a dog by Arisa. It's possible that Precia did the same, since the cast was too busy escaping to try to confirm her death.

The Phantom Zone barrier spell has an intended secondary purpose of finding magical recruits.

It's both convenient for avoiding the locals in non-administrated worlds and anyone with a lot of magical ability will be automatically drawn towards the Phantom Zone. These individuals are then courted into joining the TSAB. It just seems...dang convenient that Admiral Graham was also a human with magic powers who happened to witness a crash.

  • This is another reason that the Barrier spell isn't used on Mid-Childa, they want Mid-Childan civilians (who have a higher average of magic, but lesser number of outliers) to avoid battlegrounds, not be attracted to them.
    • In fact, being able to recruit a high-level mage can used for insurance reasons for not getting in trouble for crashing a spaceship.

Someone could find Alicia's body and Precia and make use of them.

So they fall into a "dimensional void" huh? What a convenient excuse for Never Found the Body! If someone manages to find and revive them, it could prove for an interesting plot.

  • User:Ace Of Scarabs has considered using that to tie the Nanohaverse to the GGG-verse for the purposes of either budget crossover-fic, or to have an excuse to put them in a mecha-filled Super Robot Wars Fan Game. To expand on this: a nearly-dead Precia is picked up by a major Zonderian unit and converted, her 'wish' fulfilled by converting both her and the late Alicia into Zonders. As G-Stones, Element Z0, and J-Jewels would be considered pretty powerful Lost Logia in a way, things will unfold, and before you know it, Nanoha and Fate are sent over to the universe next door to investigate, arriving just in time to see GaoGaiGar dispose of a Zonder mecha.
    • ... Do want to see it done?
    • I do! I do!

Yuuno is part Ferret familiar.

Half-Human Hybrid; Yuuno's ancestors were humans who got really close to their familiars (In humanoid form). Not really an issue in present day; his people are simply able to transform more easily than others. However it is a problem when one is low on Mana in a world away from civilization such as Earth. Ironically full-blood familiars have more control in shapeshifting and no problem with such environments; since they can fall back on their contract.

  • The assumption that familiars can have kids of their own raises the question what Zafira's kids would be, species-wise. Quarter-familiarGuardian Beast, Quarter-Wolkenritter, half-human? Third-Beast, third-Wolkie, third-human?

In a later season, the Devices will gain Powered Armor or Humongous Mecha forms.

The reason this will be done in-story is so Nanoha can continue fighting at optimum levels even as her Magical Power continues to ebb away from Deadly Upgrade overuse (according to the fourth StrikerS Sound Stage, her actions in the Cradle caused a near permanent drop in her Power Level by 10%. She could fix this problem by resting for a year or two, but this is Nanoha we're talking about), and naturally, everyone would get their own once Nanoha's Super Prototype run proves successful. The out-of-story and true actual reason why this will be done is so the Nanoha series could be eligible enough to join the ranks of Super Robot Wars. Considering the people behind Nanoha, such a development is inevitable.

    • As of the current situation in Force, the Bureau is well on its way to do just that. Nanoha is the first on this. Behold.

Al Hazred was destroyed by Eldritch Abominations or Demonic Invaders rather than... "collapsing".

If you know your H.P. Lovecraft, you will recognise Alhazred as the surname of the Necronomicon's author-apparent. Now, unless that is a mere Contrived Coincidence, the apparent Shout-Out suggests that... darker things were at work in Al Hazred than the show states. Combine that with the fact that the Jewel Seed beasts have otherworldly, inexplicably wrong forms. Admittedly, the show being idealistic as it is, you will never see these Cosmic Horror elements played to the hilt in canon.

  • Going with the above theory, then the dimensional collapse that sealed Al-Hazred away was intentional. Rebels or Heroes or an opposing Cult decided that the evil should not be allowed to spread to the rest of the galaxy, and collapsed all of the Ways. And so it shall be...until the stars are right.

Levantine has a dual-bladed form we've never seen used

It could, however, be briefly glimpsed in A's before it transitioned to Bow Form.

Raging Heart is in love with Bardiche

All the shooting and stuff is their way of coping with their UST. If they were left in a room alone together, one would not want to be nearby.

    • They were left in a room together, at the beginning of A's. They came to a remarkable concurrence of opinion, if you know what I mean.

The "Collect Spells" and "Collect Pages" functions of the Book of Darkness were originally separate.

Collecting spells alone would merely require analyzing the target's linker core and would presumably be harmless. Furthermore, the target could learn new spells at a later date and thus it would make sense to target that person again. On the other hand one of the purposes of page collection is to store mana for later use (such as when Shamal broke though the TSAB's barrier) which requires draining the target's linker core and thus could cause long term harm. Thus it makes sense that the two functions were originally separate and that only the collection of pages had a once per target limitation.

Nanoha takes place in the same world as Mahou Sensei Negima

Fans have observed that the magic of the two series seems quite similar.

  • This troper supports this: Especially after gaining the Deadly Upgrade Negi has shown some amazing resemblance to Nanoha in the recent chapters. Except he doesn't prefer to blowing his opponents up, but to IMPALE THEM!
    • Alternately, the two stories take place in parallel universes. Negi is Nanoha, Fate is...Fate, Asuna is Vivio, and Setsuna is Signum.
    • Who's Precia, then? The creepy black-cloaked guy from the flashback/movie Jack Rakan showed Negi's gang?
    • Chamo is Yuuno, and Mana is Teana.
    • Precia would be Chigusa Amagasaki, the woman who summoned that titanic demon during the Kyoto trip, Chrono is Kotaro.
      • Doubtful. Chigusa was, on the whole, rather pathetic an opponent. Precia was stated to, when in the prime of health, have been an extremely powerful mage. (That purple lightning spell she cast when she made her presence known to the TSAB was an S-level spell, and she managed to hit two targets (an AA-rank mage - Fate - and a starship) that were in completely separate dimensions from each other at the same time).
    • Also, Nanoha is known as the White Devil. Now... behold the Black Devil.
      • Now that he's gained control over that form, he has decided that what he really wants is to befriend Fate.
    • Kurt Godel and Jail Scaglietti: smug manipulative bastards who were/are both part of a Government Conspiracy.
    • Magicus Mundus is a Lost Logia like the Book of Darkness; it's inhabitants are Living Programs. The Lifemaker is the Self-Defense Program.
    • Eclipse seems rather similar to Magia Erebea.

Shamal is gonna go Yandere in the next season

Let's do the math: Vita is all Tsundere over Hayate, Signum has qualifications for Kuudere, the only one that's left is... Shamal. At the moment, she appears as a perfect Yamato Nadeshiko (well, except the cooking part): polite, soft-spoken, stays behind the others, never objects to orders, etc. Hayate seems to have least concern about her than Vita or Signum. However, if Shamal ever snaps because of that, this troper wouldn't want to be anywhere closer than three dimensions away from her.

  • Hayate seems to spend the second most amount of time with Shamal (behind Vita), often going shopping with her, so there seems to be less likelihood of her feeling left out.

Vita's Berserk Button reverts her back to her non-sentient form.

Think about the first time it happened. Nanoha knocked her hat off. Perhaps that was more than an extreme reaction to losing the hat, rather losing the symbol of Hayate's affection for her causes her to revert to her "base programming," as Hayate's friendship is what caused the Wolkenritter to develop sentience in the first place. So when something jars her out of that, she loses the sentience she gained and reverts back to being a mindless killing machine.

  • Judging by when they first met Hayate, the Wolkenritter have always been sentient. It's just that Hayate is the first Master to treat them that way; and with love. How does she show her love to Vita? By making her that Hat and her other costume. To Vita, someone damaging that Hat is threatening her relationship with Hayate; hence Unstoppable Rage backed up with being a Person of Mass Destruction.
  • It's more likely that the Wolkenritter were emotionally repressed due to fighting all the time and being treated as tools; during that time, Vita's temper was even worse than it is in the present day, (especially shown when she's assaulting a wounded knight for screaming too loudly, and then yelling at Signum when she tries to stop her) and refused to let the others get close to her. Shamal, despite being somewhat unemotional back then, was still capable of kindness to her allies, like inviting Vita to come sleep with her to stay warm. Hayate treated them like human beings, and thus allowed them to open up to others.

Nanoha, Hayate, and, possibly, Fate are Indigo Children.

Hence their unlikely personal maturity, responsibility, and magical prowess at the improbably age of 9. Though Fate's may have to do with Project Fate and whatever enhancements Precia may have applied to her genetic code.

Fate was a perfect clone of Alicia.

The initial differences between Fate and Alicia were due to post traumatic stress disorder caused by having memories of dying.

  • Chaos Theory dictates that even with a perfect genetic match and memories, personality changes can still occur. Also, Precia knows that Fate isn't Alicia; yet was in denial at first. This came out as rage and she sublimated that into being Fate's fault and she looked for any behavior that could be defined as "not Alicia."

Fate is Alicia

Because wouldn't the irony be heart-wrenching, due to some Switched At Birth situation, the clone body and the original body got mixed up (and the research on the clone body's magic changed Alicia's DNA to include an enhanced Linker Core) but Precia didn't know. She's been agonizing over a copied body in a tube that never woke up; while treating her blood daughter like dirt.

Fate is a clone of Alicia, and is Alicia.

She's got the exact same body (possibly with enhanced linker core), and the exact same memories. The movie manga even goes out of its way to point out that she acts the exact same way, indicating that it's the exact same mind all-over. She's Alicia, just with a new body.

  • The fact that everyone calls Vivio the Saint-King suggests that there is the belief that transfer can occur.

Nanoha might die...

Due to her overuse of dangerous magic (or befriending), Nanoha might die before the age of thirty. All the Divine Busters and Starlight Breakers aren't helping. And that Blaster System, that thing is guaranteed to convert HP to MP and pretty much shorten her life.

  • Hence her being likely enforced vacation in Vi Vid. My guess is that most of the older Command Staff over 30 in the administration are burned out mages. Oh, they can do something big every now and then, but then the Mana just doesn't come out for a few years. Like Lindy's energy wing thing.
  • In Part 20 of Striker S Sound Stage 4, Shamal suggests that Nanoha take a year or two off of magic, which might be part of the reason why she's on leave and working as a civil servant in Vi Vid.

Earth is a convalescence center, probationary clinic, and retirement home for higher-up burned out Administration staff.

Hence it's "Unadministrated" status yet the heavy Masquerade despite being out in the boonies in The Multiverse. It isn't to "protect" Earthlings so much as to keep the physically, mentally, and magically tired mages from being involved. The tech levels of the natives are high enough to be be comfortable (almost on par with the civilian parts of Mid-Child, actually); but no native Logia is present to cause situations. (The first two seasons were severe abnormalities.) There's a massive network throughout the planet setup by Administration staff to create well off Undead Tax Exemptions; as seen via Admiral Graham's and Admiral Lindy's easy transition.

  • Graham was originally from England, so it was more a question of transferring back. (Still, he left Earth as a young man. It would still take some incredible paperwork to explain where he's been since then.)

Precia destroyed the ship carring the Jewel Seeds and the archeologist who discovered them as it passed near a conviently nearby Non-Administered World.

She did this by teleporting Fate and Arf onto the ship, with orders to capture the Seeds. While attempting to complete their mission, the ship was destroyed (either by self-destruct or as a side effect of Fate's power), causing the Jewel Seeds to be lost on Earth. The reason this ship was approaching Earth was because of a report from an observation post on a small island off one of the northern continents of the appearence of a powerful linker core in Japan. Following standard procedure a retired member of the TSAB to recruit this potential high powered mage. Due to the family's previously existing connections with the TSAB (read below), this pickup operation was not given high priority and the reports have since been lost, likely to turn up during a review of case archives following the JS Incident. This possibly ties into the above theory of the TSAB's use of Earth as a retirement/recuperation area. This also explains Nanoha's parent's ready acceptance of her life choices.

Momoko Takamachi was an elite Enforcer for the TSAB before she met Shiro.

Ties into the above. After working with, and falling for, a local ninja bodyguard on a difficult assignment that left the local badly injured and cost her a powerful Intelligent Device, she decided to retire. The TSAB allowed her to retire without complaint or official record to hide their own complicity in the events and because they had an "alternative" solution to their crime problems. Even the loss of a powerful intelligent device into a mysterious rift was acceptable due to recent breakthroughs in their other projects. The device was eventually returned to the family.

  • That device wouldn't happen to be Raising/Raging Heart, would it?
    • Well, it could be that, or some kind of frightning midseason upgrade when combined with Rising Heart. one particular fan art with a Rising Heart armed with three clips of Catridges and grown the the size of a small motor cycle comes to mind... There is also nothing to state that a mage is limited to one intelligent device after all. (the mental image of Vivio armed with Rising Heart and Bardiche in Kiser form chills me to the marrow.)

I somewhat doubt this because there is so much that the show's creators could have milked this idea for.

  • Lindy Harlaown would very likely have known Momoko if this was the case - if, for nothing else, than by reputation alone. We've also seen that in the TSAB, very few people are strangers to each other. The fanon idea that "there are never enough mages" has teeth to it, and would in-turn imply that Lindy has worked with just about every elite enforcer out there.
  • Also, Momoko does not practice any sort of martial arts - emtpy-hand or otherwise. It's a very rare case that someone so steeped in military thought patterns would simply stop practicing. It goes against their grain.
  • Lastly, can you see the show's creators not dumping even more fuel on the Yuri Fires if they had it that Momoko was with the TSAB before? "We knew each other ever since our time in the academy together. We were... very close friends."

So, imagine Lindy arriving on UAW97 to meet Nanoha's parents for the first time... except it's not for the first time with Momoko. There would have been much squeeing and hugging while everyone else looks confused, with a side order of "Still taking your green tea with cream and sugar?" and "I thought she (Nanoha) reminded me of someone I knew!"

Signum and Shamal actually thought "Testarossa" was Fate's given name

In the second episode of the original series, Yuuno Scrya points out that his given name is first, after Takamachi Nanoha introduces herself with her family name first. Fate introduces herself with her given name first without mentioning this, most likely causing Signum to believe that it was. Fate most likely didn't know that Signum was making that assumption, and didn't bother to correct it. Interestingly enough, Shamal twice refers to Fate as "Testarossa-chan" ("-chan" being an honorific typically not used on last names), while referring to Nanoha (who introduced herself to Vita with her family name first) as "Nanoha-chan". While Shamal switches to "Fate-chan" in Striker S, Signum does not change; presumably because calling her "Testarossa" stuck due to their fighting one-on-one on several occasions.

Vita is attracted to old people

According to the A's manga, she spends much of her time playing with senior citizens in the club. In Striker S, she notes how old the three legendary admirals are, but after Fate and Nanoha point out how important they are, says that she likes them anyway. It's also revealed that one of the admirals took a liking to Vita.

  • Ironic, seeing how Vita is technically one of the oldest individuals alive (rivaled only by other Wolkenritter and Ixpellia).

Cartridge technology was itself Lost Logia or nearly so until the Wolkenritters' Devices reintroduced it.

While the TSAB had the parts, the technology doesn't seem to have been in vogue for field agents like Chrono; Raising Heart didn't have it when Yuuno picked it up; Precia and/or Fate didn't build it into Bardiche. Considering the obvious power boost and its usefulness, as well as its apparent ubiquity for anyone not of the Redshirt Army in Striker S, it seems criminally stupid none of the Devices included it originally. It must have been unusable somehow. Scans of the Wolkenritter's Devices must have been instrumental in developing Raising Heart Excellion and Bardiche Assault, and in turn those two Devices and Graf Eisen/Levantine repopularized the technology.

  • It's more likely that when the TSAB first tried to use the Cartridge System the devices they had weren't capable is handling the increase in power and were eventually destroyed as a result because of this their use was unpopular especially among the Redshirt Army (since they would probally be unable to cast useful spells without a device) and users of Intelligent Devices (since their devices could be consider living beings). Naturally, as time went on they figured out how to make the devices more and more durable and by the time A's occured they had become durable enough to safely use the cartridge system, but since very few people used the cartridge system no one was aware of that.

The sea of dimensions is in fact subspace

Because besides being slightly different colours they're completely the same, although the different colours may be be a result of them being on different sub-space frequencies.

The Movie Nanoha was starting to become suicidal.

She was rejecting reality more and more. She would have either killed herself physically or become numb inside. However, the crash let her deny reality and substitute her own in a different way.

Precia really did go on a picnic with Fate.

Shortly after the clone of Alicia was made Precia took her on a picnic to celebrate Alicia's revival, it wasn't until shortly afterwards that she realized that the clone wasn't the same as Alicia and started calling her Fate.

  • Manga of The Movie corresponds with this, Precia was originally warm and loving with Fate; she fell into a broken detachment when Project Fate demanded she be a mage; and this collapsed into full blown abuse.
    • The essay Fate wrote about Precia seems to be from when Alicia was alive, since Precia still had her job. By contrast, Sound Stage 2 had shown that Precia was quite distant from Fate when Linith was alive, and only ate with her once after her training was complete. After Linith died, Precia started physically abusing Fate for failure (or even success that didn't satisfy her), and Arf suggests that it's because Linith is no longer around to do anything about it. Fate knows about the incident that resulted in Precia losing her job, and believes that is what caused her mother to become like this.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is an alternate universe for Magical Canan.

Chihaya becomes Nanoha, Sayaka becomes Fate, Septem becomes Precia, Natsuki becomes Yuuno, and Hazuna becomes Arf.

  • Holy crap, you are right. Redheaded Magical Girl who seeks to break others' loneliness? Check. Her shapeshifting and empowering sidekick? Check. Blonde Dark Magical Girl with a history of child abuse? Check. (And they say that Fate was the original blonde DMG...) Her mysterious shapeshifting protector? Check. Artifacts of doom called "Seeds" from another world? Check! Mandatory crackpot conspiracy theory: Tsuzuki didn't like the Lyrical Toy Box premise, so he ripped off Magical Canan (the original OVA was released in 2000, four years before MGLN and just half a year before Toraha 3) when asked to write an actual MG anime. However, he did completely revamp the DMG's character, turning Sayaka into our beloved Stoic Woobie Fate. Interestingly, Fate's introduction was the exact point that set Nanoha so far apart from other shows in the first place.
  • Accidentally, this theory also explains the persistence of Yuunano vs. Feinano debate: in the original OVA, Chihaya had sex with both (though in the end, she is straight for Natsuki).

The concept of Hückebein was originally "Anti-Hero Wolkenritter"

As follows:

  • Curren = Hayate
  • Cypha = Signum
  • Deville = Zafira
  • Fortis = Shamal

Veyron seems to have been added later as the Evil Counterpart to Thoma and Evil!Vita was probably split into Stella (predominantly adorable) and Arnage (predominantly badass) at some point. Also, Lily is a Reinforce Eins lookalike.

Teana will redeem Runessa

She really meant it when she said she wanted Rune to become her permanent partner, she keeps visiting her in prison in SSX, and she hasn't taken another aide in either Vivid or Force. Runessa is essentially Teana's personal Dark Magical Girl, and we know what happens to DMGs in this franchise.

Linith wasn't completely honest when she told Fate about familiars

In Nanoha Sound Stage 02, she says that familiars are created from dying animals by infusing them with magic. However, in The Movie 1st, Presea just kinda points her Device at her and turns her into a familiar, meaning that any mage, at any time can take an animal and effectively enslave it. She might have been trying to protect Fate from the knowledge of how far her mother has fallen, or it might be a Fridge Horror moment: the spell Presea used has simultaneously (nearly) killed Cat!Linith and turned her into Familiar!Linith at the same time. Don't know which is worse.

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