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== 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 [[Improbably-Fundamentally Female Cast]]. Nanoha/Signum rests easily, immune to paradox, and lets the new Nanoha be none the wiser.
* Interestingly enough, Nanoha, like Signum, is close with Fate and occasionally prone to arguing with Vita.
* I wonder if this was a [[Shout-Out]] to this theory or it's coincidence. Material-S from [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's Portable|The Battle of Aces]] PSP game receives an interesting [[Character Development|development]] in the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's Portable|The Gears of Destiny]] sequel game where she ends up being a character with the following traits:
** [[Evil Knockoff|Is based on Nanoha]]
** [[Powers as Programs|Her origins are tied to Ancient Belkan magic]]
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** Separated herself from Nanoha by developing [[Playing with Fire|fire based magic]]
** {{spoiler|Is sent to the future}} at the end.
 
== The Infinite Library is truly infinite... ==
...and contains every possible written work in every possible language ever, including [[Shakespeare]] in [[Star Trek|the original Klingon.]] However, since such a thing would be practically useless, immensely complex spells are used to reduce the possibilities into a large but still limited space.
* Yuuno is appointed as Head Librarian because he is both an excellent academic and greatly talented with barrier spells, which help in making the "restrictions" of the probability-space.
* For more on infinite libraries, go read [http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html The Library of Babel] by [[Jorge Luis Borges]].
* [[wikipedia:L-space#L-space|This happens to any significantly large magical library.]] Do not be surprised if, whilst perusing the shelves of the Infinite Library, you hear a [[Discworld|faint "Ook" in the distance]].
** One would expect Yuuno and the Librarian to start a "I'm not a Ferret/Mon'''*CRASH*''' Ape" club.
*** Or a "I'm not a familiar" club with Zafira.
* Note that this is only a small annex of the [[Sandman|Library of Dream]], which has every book that was never written, including updated and unabridged versions of books that WERE written.
 
== Nanoha's family are all in the [[Ninja]] Bodyguarding business, just like in ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～|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 [[Audio Adaptation|Sound Stages.]]
* Evidence supporting: Children in a school of martial arts are introduced to things such as [[Kiai]], [[wikipedia:Kata|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 [[Those Two Girls|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 [[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～|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.
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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 [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|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.
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* 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).
 
== Agito is Signum's UNISON device from when she was a real person in the age of Ancient Velka. ==
They are clearly leading up to an Agito/Signum UNISON; comments from Zest about how perfect they seem for each other and how Agito is a relic from that age make this quite plausible.
* Apparently, the last few episodes of ''StrikerS'' gave us that Agito/Signum UNISON. No further elaboration on this is given, though.
** Signum does mention that she feels "warm" when in unison with Agito, and Agito starts crying uncontrollably after that (which she didn't do even after {{spoiler|Zest died}}). Agito recalls some good times long ago which abruptly ended. She then went into hibernation until she was awakened and used as a test subject by the Mid-Childans. The end of the "good times" may correlate with the time Signum was absorbed by the Book of Darkness (see above).
** More or less confirmed ever since [[Audio Adaptation|the third Sound Stage]] of ''StrikerS''. The Fansubbers made a slight mistake: Agito didn't call herself the "Genius of the Burning Flames" when she first appeared, she called herself the "[[Flaming Sword|Sword Spirit of the Burning Flames]]". It's not a moniker she fashioned for herself either, it's the name she's referred to by the scientists who were experimenting on her, making it the closest thing she has to a true name ("Agito" was given to her by Lutecia). She even mentioned that, based on that name, her original owner is most likely a powerful sword-wielder who can use fire. Finally, she mentions that "strangely, (her) heart feels warm" whenever she thinks of her original owner, which is the exact words Signum said when they finally performed a Unison ([[Ironic Echo|and probably the reason why she started crying]]). Of course, this opens up more questions: Is Signum really Agito's master (which makes one boggle at just how powerful the first Reinforce must be to create a program that could form her own Unison Device), or, as a lot of people are thinking, is the Signum we know a perfect copy of an earlier human Signum who was the true master of Agito? Hopefully, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', ''Force'' or another installment will reveal more about this.
** The Nanoha game makes the possibility of Signum being based on someone real even more likely. The Book of Darkness is revealed to have the ability to create perfect copies of powerful mages who have ever been near it by gathering memories and magic, and is even able to create improved [[Evil Twin]] versions of the original. While the copies in the game are rather fragile, completely fading the moment they're defeated, the first copies created by the Book of Darkness may have been made up of stronger stuff, especially since the copies in the game were created by a mere fragment of the Darkness of the Book of Darkness.
*** How canon is the game though? Not that I'm arguing, of course, but I'd like to confirm as much as possible...
*** It's an [[Alternate Continuity]] set just after A's where Reinforce lives, but it's written by Tsuzuki himself. So while the events may not happen in the main continuity, it's probably safe to assume that the abilities exhibited by the participants there are canon.
 
== Agito and Signum are perfect for each other because of their similar elemental attributes. ==
Signum's Laetavin typically powers itself up with a flaming edge when using cartridges, and other characters have specialized in specific magics (Zafira with ice, and Erio with electricity). Thus Signum could be more compatible with Agito than with Zest the same way that one can run Windows XP on a Mac, but it's built for a PC.
* Rein also seems to work much better with Hayate than with Vita or Signum.
 
== Hayate and Carim are in the process of taking over Midchilda. ==
Hayate's covering the political spectrum; Carim is handling religion. The current disbanding of the cast throughout remote regions of space is one last effort by former administrators to check their power. Even Chrono comments that it seems eventually Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate will become like "the Great Three Admirals."
* Gotta admit, there's a huge power vacuum after ''StrikerS''.
* Hayate only ''allows'' the former administrators think that it was they who disbanded Section Six and effectively exiled the strongest mages from Mid-Childa. In reality, removing her allies from the homeworld was part of an elaborate [[Xanatos Gambit]] allowing her to covertly discredit and destroy the rest of the old government and reintroduce Nanoha, Fate, and the rest of their merry band back to the homeworld as its saviours and protectors from corruption and anarchy. That way, none of them (except Hayate herself, who is regarded as a criminal anyway) would be stained with the dirt of disposing of the former administration from the masses' point of view. Also, temporarily removing Nanoha & Co. from the picture gives her an opportunity to deal with Scaglietti and those of the Numbers who refused to cooperate with her. [[I Did What I Had to Do|It's sad, but it has to be done to ensure safety of Mid-Childa]]. And Nanoha doesn't have to be involved in it.
** Just As Planned.
** Read [http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=37991 ''Betrayers'' from Himura Kiseki]!
** There a sequel to Betrayers?
*** [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/609273/ Not anytime soon.]
 
== ''BetrayerS'' was the original sequel to ''StrikerS'' ==
Masaki Tsuzuki wanted to go [[Darker and Edgier]] after ''StrikerS'' all along, but he wasn't sure how it'll be received, so he and Himura Kiseki published the first chapter as a doujin with Himura taking all credit. Either because the [[Unpleasable Fanbase|fandom wasn't completely happy]] or due to [[Executive Meddling]], the concept was put on the shelf, that's why "episode 2 is NOT coming soon". Instead, Tsuzuki went for a [[Darker and Edgier]], only less so, route with ''Force'', simultaneously buying off fans with the cutesy loli moe ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]''. Once those are done, though, he and Himura may still return to ''BetrayerS'' storyline.
* This really belongs under [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees]]. [[Grimdark]] Nanoha = [[Brain Bleach|DO]] [[Canon Defilement|NOT]] WANT.
** Speak for yourself. A story with a [[Lawful Evil]] Nanoha and a Civil War in the TSAB could have been a great way to shake up the franchise.
 
== The ''Lyrical Nanoha'' universe is as filled with Feinano shippers as the real world is. ==
Both Fate and Nanoha are essentially superheros and mega-celebrities on Midchilda and probably countless other worlds, and we all know how the private lives of celebrities tend to be publicised. While, with the exception of their close friends, no-one would have as much information as we do, they would certainly be provided with enough information to reach the same conclusions as we do. Hence, large shipping communities.
 
== The TSAB puts a lot of peer pressure into starting families between their officers. ==
They're not just "unusually understanding" of interoffice relations; they ''want them to happen.'' They're constantly besieged by [[Lost Technology]] run amok that could destroy the multiverse, and it's been decided that one of the few things that can stem the tide is magic. So they need mages, lots of mages; and they're woefully understaffed. (Creating artificial mages has turned out not to be cost-effective.) Solution? Have employees make babies who will likely have magic potential and be loyal to the TSAB. So there's economic incentives hardwired into the organization as well as social encouragement.
* Chrono does comment quietly in the manga that he had "little choice" but to marry Amy. This could mean that he had gotten her pregnant; but in ''that'' case, the TSAB probably had the wedding scheduled as soon as the test results were positive.
** There's a much less diabolical explanation for this. An unmarried Admiral or Captain is considered something of a security risk. One with a wife in the same service is a bonus since they can be vetted by the same people. However I suspect the TSAB ''does'' make special allowances for mages simply because it's better not to annoy them greatly.
* ''Adopting'' magical children who will be loyal to the TSAB is a relatively new concept, but one that the cast has shown has definite merit.
** This could be another explanation to the breaking of the cast up at the end of ''StrikerS'', adoption is great, but the [[Improbably-Female Cast]] isn't making as many children. Maybe exposure to other (male) comrades will bear fruit. Notice how Erio and Caro stay together -- the TSAB figures nature will take its course.
*** With Lutecia on the same planet, no less. They figure it's playing the odds -- if Erio and Caro don't get together, maybe Erio and Lulu might. And at the most extreme, one male can get two females pregnant.
**** Or Fate is being sent on Deep Space Missions to encourage Nanoha and Yuuno to have kids together. Even without a Device, Yuuno's pretty powerful. Hayate seems to be actively discouraging "Fate-mama" for whatever reason. Whether this works is another story, since they can't keep Fate in space forever.
***** You guys make it too easy to adopt these ideas into [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5328371/1/Concession fics], you know that, right?
* If the CIA advocates this (if [[Covert Affairs]] is anything to go by), then it's plausible the TSAB would do the same, for much the same reasons. You don't have to read anyone more into the projects, you know they won't try to backstab you, and it keeps couples from breaking up because one is [[Married to the Job]].
 
== [[Clone Jesus]] missed her other Mommy. ==
Whoever came up with the "Hey, let's split them up!" plan got overruled when the clone of the focal point of their religion came to school with the sniffles one day and said it was because her other Mommy had to be in space ''all the time.'' Very quickly Fate started getting more vacation time.
* The ship suddenly needed to be restocked, upgraded and docked for repairs more often, and longer. There are dozens of ways to put someone in-dock for weeks at a time, without giving more vacation time.
* This also a caused few radical changes in the Church.
 
== Quint was a scientist in Project Fate who defected. ==
So she and Subaru's and Ginga's father just "happened" to find a lab where they rescued Subaru and Ginga, and they just "happened" to be made from Quint's DNA? [[Ha Ha Ha No]]. We know that the TSAB is really, really <s>desperate</s> lenient when it comes to repentant scientists and their creations; Subaru's father managed to get Quint to convert; and the TSAB came up with that rather thin cover story. Quint got to bring her two children with her; as long as she went along with the "we found them" story. This is how the TSAB knew how to "upgrade" them each year to accomodate aging, Quint gave them instructions.
* It was probably why Scaglietti had her killed, since she would have explicit knowledge on how the Numbers work and would have opposed him. He may have stolen notes from her on how to start the Number project to begin with. Sure, she was supposedly "interfering" but that still doesn't begin to explain the coincidence of her "finding" robotic upgradable clones of herself.
** Scaglietti didn't mention this to the Numbers because he didn't want them thinking of anyone else but himself as a parent figure.
*** A crucial motive for Major Nakajima adopting any willing Number.
 
== The TSAB is ''entirely'' created from converts ==
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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. ==
== Jail Scaglietti's clones were not disposed of ==
Remember, Scaglietti was a creation of the TSAB higher-ups in order for them to have an advantage in the arms race against criminals. They have seen in Vivio that nurture can convert a perfect product of [[Genetic Memory|Project F]] to their side. What's to stop them from trying the same with the Jail clones? The potential in having twelve [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] working for them may be too tempting, risks be damned.
* It's unlikely that Fate, of all people, (or any of the heroes) would allow the fetuses to be aborted, no matter who their "father" was or how they were "concieved." They're probably all extracted from the Numbers (especially the ones in jail... oh god, the horrible unintentional pun) and [[Human Popsicle|put on ice]] somewhere. And there they will remain until the TSAB can find willing mothers with enough security clearance and parenting qualifications to be trusted with raising twelve VERY dangerous babies.
** Would the Jail clones actually be dangerous if they didn't have his memories implanted?
*** Actually, [[User:Zemyla]] believes that the memories were removed from the babies, purely as a humane measure. Most people would go crazy if they were trapped in a baby's body for several years, unable to talk, walk, or even maintain control of their bladder. So obviously, the rational course is to wipe the memories.
**** Pretty much all combat cyborgs who were still in storage were deported with memory wipes if possible. Except some of the numbers. TSAB Top Brass knew if someone caught a wind of this, they will be in trouble so the non Nakajima combat cyborgs were sent off to colony worlds with limited contact with the outside world to start new lives. That includes magician bases used in the experiment.
* [[Super Robot Wars Alpha|One of Jail's mind-wiped clones will develop white hair due to a random mutation and join the TSAB. He slowly regains Jail's memories over time, but manages to retain his own personality.]]
 
== 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.
 
== Yuuno can't get in on the action any more because he's only a civilian. ==
Less a guess, more a certainty. Yuuno's really happy to pursue a life as a scholar, but he can't be totally happy with the idea of never being able to support Nanoha and their friends in dangerous situations again -- and the military wouldn't let such a valuable combat support mage go untapped without some attempt at recruitment. But he simply doesn't have the permission of his legal guardians to sign on -- at one point, Chrono mentions that technically, he shouldn't even be allowed to work in the Infinity Library without such permission, and Bureau is bending the rules for that much alone. Even after the age at which he could legally join on his own, he'd probably settled in too much and Nanoha and the rest seemed to be doing fine.
* Or, alternatively, he quite enjoys his new job, as it allows him to follow his true passions, rather than forcing him to fight for the lives of his friends. Remember, he is an archeologist and his only reason for being involved in the jewel seed incident is he feels responsible for having found them in the first place, after that, he just wants to go back to his studies and help his friends and clan.
* Yuuno has the Infinite Library at his fingertips; knowledge is power, and he knows where all the bodies are buried and which closets the skeletons are in, as well as a thousand and one ways to cause a dimensional cataclysm before breakfast. If he wanted to go on active duty again, it's doubtful the TSAB would have the means to stop him. Clearly he doesn't ''want'' to.
* I suspect Yuuno learned some magic in order to protect himself from natural dangers while on expeditions with the expectation that he would need armed escorts for anything more dangerous than the Jewel Seed monsters. He primarily got barrier, teleportation and healing skills so he could protect himself and support his allies from afar. Since much of the cast has strong barriers, Shamal not only has healing abilities but also sensors and capture magic, and Yuuno hasn't had any expeditions that we know of, he's decided to stay out of combat, since he doesn't think he can contribute enough (presumably similar to how Arf stopped fighting in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', and switched to a loli form to save mana).
 
== Yuuno can't finally get his own Device because he's only a civilian. ==
Theory: Devices are expensive, and quality Devices are ''really'' expensive, and probably require some kind of liscence. As a civilian scholar and librarian, he probably isn't making that much money or backing, or getting clearance for combat-grade power.
* Support: Nanoha and Hayate got Raising Heart and the Book by luck (or destiny). Fate had her mother's fortune and resources to make Bardiche, or Precia used those to make it for her. Erio's original parents had enough money and illegal connections to create an F-Project "artifical mage" clone of their original son -- getting him Strada while they were at it is only a mild stretch in light of that. Everyone else who has powerful, tailor-made Devices belongs to the military (Chrono, Zest, Subaru's and Lutecia's mothers, Subaru and Teana, etc.) or probably belonged to a military at one point (the Velkan Knight Wolkenritter).
* Yuuno ''does'' have a device, its called the Raging/Raising Heart. He just gives it to Nanoha so she can seal the [[McGuffin]] for him and she never ends up giving it back.
** This doesn't quite explain where Caro got Keykerion, unless it belong to a dead mother or something. Maybe she and Erio got both of their Devices from Fate, who -- thanks to her rank -- might just have the money, backing, and authority to arrange such a thing for children intent on joining the TSAB.
*** IIRC Strada was remade when he got in RF6 and I don't remember Caro having her device before that.
**** All the Forwards' Devices were remade shortly after joining Section Six, but Caro had Kerykeion before that; she uses it to Boost Up Tea in their very first training run. As for where they got their Devices before joining. Tea and Subaru made their original Devices themselves while in training school; they were good enough to last until B-rank at least. They mention both training school and their old unit only provided staves; I presume that's the spear-like things you see TSAB mooks carry. Subaru's Revolver Knuckle belonged to her mother (Ginga has the other one). That leaves Caro and Erio, who probably got theirs from Fate. She trained Erio at the very least (Sonic Move, anyone?); Caro, being a summoner, might be a special case.
* Who knows ''where'' or ''how'' Yuuno picked up Raising Heart, but it's not some random piece of cheap or mass-produced hardware. As an Intelligent Device, and a strong one at that, it must have been made with a real purpose in mind. However, it obviously wasn't with Yuuno in mind -- its capabilities are completely opposite to his own, and it's not even in his colors (everyone else is color matched). He might have found it at some dig site, or maybe got it from one of his adoptive mothers.
* It is clearly not a case for Yuno. While civilian, he is head of one of the TSAB secondary branches and I don't believe anybody in right mind would try to mess with him about that.
** What are you talking about? If the head commanders can demand that Nanoha and bunch have limiters put into their bodies, they can make it difficult for Yuuno to get clearance for a Device. And they'd do it for the same reason -- powerful mages getting more power make them nervous.
*** Limiters or more correct maximum unit powerlevel were clearly described as mesure to prevent headhunting best mages for your unit from other units. If Nanoha was only AAA+ mage in unit she would NOT have limiter at all. May be for some persons it's about nervousness... but Infinity Library is main TSAB HQ where overS mages are common place... and without limiters.
**** The series never says ''why'' there's a maximum total power level per unit, just that there is one, but there are a number of logical reasons. It reduces the threat of a powerful unit going rogue, it prevents any single unit getting too much political influence due to their concentration of magical power, and it satisfies petty office bureaucrats who love that kind of stuff. Also, there's no indication that TSAB headquarters has a significant concentration of powerful mages. The only one we know of is Admiral Graham, and that's an [[Informed Capability]]. Chrono is noted as one of their better enforcers, and he's gobsmacked by Nanoha's power in the ''first'' season.
* It would be a terrible mistake to dismiss Yuuno as "a mere civilian"; the man has the Infinite Library at his fingertips. Knowledge is power, and Yuuno is the one person who could reasonably claim to know where all the bodies are buried and which closets the skeletons were in. The TSAB would probably give him a Device if he wanted one just to keep him happy. They don't ''want'' him coming back to field because he would be impossibly well-connected and capable of bending operations to his whims on a massive scale, but it's doubtful they could stop him: so they do their best to ensure he doesn't have a reason to come back. If he ''gets'' a reason, there will be hell to pay.
** I repeat - he is head of TSAB secondary branch. Calling him "a mere civilian" is like calling head of CIA or KGB "a mere civilian", even without all that OMG WTF stuff that is kept in Infinity Library. And he became that head in an age of what... 9? 10? In terms of "(s)he is scary" he is right up there with miss "WTF power and WTF career" Hayate. Replace "power" with "knowledge" and note one of the fastest careers in most of reality and fiction combined...
** According to the Megami sound stage for A's, he chose to stay off the battlefield because he's not good at combat like Nanoha, but he can support her in other ways.
** Lio, a civilian student at the Sankt Hilde school, has an apparently Belkan-style device in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]''. Then again, we don't know much about her family.
*** It's most likely a Storage Device. Relatively speaking, they're fairly cheap to make or buy compared to Intelligent Devices and they have limited abilities, perfect for young girls practicing magic.
** "For safety purposes "All combatants must be equipped with Device of CLASS 3 or above"." Looks like making a device is not '''that''' expensive or difficult (more like a motorbike or a car at most than a yaht), unless it happens to be an authentic Ancient Welka type. While we've seen only 10 contestants, it looks like they are simply the designated semi-finalists (so that we get interesting fights between people we are able to care about rather than anonymous mooks). The true number of participants is sure to be many times higher than that, otherwise preliminaries won't be taking several months.
 
== Someone could find Alicia's body and Precia and make use of them. ==
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** ... Do want to see it done?
** I do! I do!
 
== Hayate Yagami and Genya Nakajima competing with each other to see who could get the bigger [[Robot Girl]] harem. ==
It would explain why Genya adopted [[Hollywood Cyborg|Nove, Wendi, Cinque, and Dieci]].
* Scaglietti won that contest by a large margin.
 
== 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-<s>familiar</s>Guardian Beast, Quarter-Wolkenritter, half-human? [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Third-Beast, third-Wolkie, third-human]]?
 
 
== Splitting up the cast at the end of StrikerS is just the way the military works. ==
Seriously. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. Yuuno, who's a civilian, comes to help Nanoha take care of Vivio when Fate is away. Fate comes back, Nanoha and Vivio are happy, somebody has to leave again, somebody else comes in to help with the kids. It happens all the time with many a [[Real Life]] [[Military Brat]].
* At at least one point, characters state that it's unusual for all of the main cast to be ''together'' like they were in the unit. The cast seems to understand this well, except for Subaru, who has some reservations about parting ways with Teana, Nanoha and everyone else until Teana reassures her in a typical [[Tsundere]] way.
* The unit was formed to deal with a specific problem, namely Jail's Gadget Drones. They dealt with it, so now they're being reassigned. It's perfectly natural.
 
== In a later season, the Devices will gain [[Powered Armor]] or [[Humongous Mecha]] forms. ==
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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.
 
== Subaru will stop taking "aging treatments" ==
Because she wants to look exactly the same when Ixpellia wakes up, no matter how long it takes.
* Alternatively, Ix just over-estimated her sleep time. Considering how her comatose form has appeared in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', this seems likely.
** Lowest estimate was 1 year. And 1 year it is.
 
== Levantine has a dual-bladed form we've never seen used ==
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== 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. ==
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** 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.
 
 
== Someone's as good as dead in ''Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force'' ==
Chapter 0 ends with "[[media:nanoha-force-ominous-message-to-end-with.jpg|We'll be together. Forever and ever.]]" Tell me if that doesn't sound ominous. Fans of potential [[C-List Fodder]], beware. *eyes [[Cool Big Sis|Ginga]]*
* Some of the main cast are just as likely of a target. I mean, a main character for four consecutive seasons that's also reaching the [[Competence Zone|magical age of 25 and up]] [[Obsolete Mentor|with new cast all around]], things may start looking [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|pretty]] [[Obi Wan|grim]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|for them]]. Unless, of course, the [[Older and Wiser|general trend]] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' continues as they were, then all of the new cast introduced that season are prime targets for [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]
** Actually, the main suspect in this troper's eyes right now is Lily Strosek, simply because she was referred as "Strosek-[[Four Is Death|4th]]" in the very first chapter. [[MacGuffin Girl|MacGuffin Girls]] with "Four" in their names just [[Zeta Gundam|don't tend to live long]]...
*** Not to mention her parallels with {{spoiler|Reinforce Eins}}, in that {{spoiler|she is indirectly harming Touma-in her case, by being a "poison" that kills him by being close to him, and his association with her has resulted in him becoming a criminal to the TSAB}}. Given that {{spoiler|Signum}} is on the case {{spoiler|and has caught up to Touma}}, she may have something to say about how familiar the situation seems.
 
== 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 [[Lethal Chef|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.
 
== During ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', Nanoha has a limiter on her magic ==
At some earlier point Hayate decided to put an even stricter limiter on Nanoha in order to prevent her from over using her magic. This limiter restricts Nanoha's magical capabillity to red shirt levels.
* Makes sense. It's already stated that she's on vacation in order to recover from the events of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]''; and her previous behavior has shown she tends to overextend herself when told to take it easy.
 
== Vita's [[Berserk Button]] reverts her back to her non-sentient form. ==
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== 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.
 
== Magic Cloning is different from Earth-Style "Dolly the Sheep" Cloning ==
Just implanting DNA into an egg will result in a person with their own soul; but they won't have a Linker Core. ''Magic'' Cloning copies (and modifies) the Linker Core and requires a soul in order to work with the Linker Core. Magic Clone someone who is alive; and the copy won't wake up; the soul won't transfer. Magic Clone someone who is dead or else in a Soul-Dead like state; and they'll achieve [[Reincarnation]] with [[Genetic Memory]].
* There is an alternative to this. It is possible to Magic Clone someone and have them be their own person ''if'' you also create an ''AI'' (similar to the Programs of the Book of Darkness) to act as a proto-soul through Cybernetics. (This will prevent [[Genetic Memory]] and soul transfer and will grow into an individual Linker Core and soul.) Although only whoever created Ginga and Subaru was able to grow a "normal" Linker Core in them; the Numbers that came later had modified Linker Cores that only allowed certain abilities.
** Precia's descent into insanity and the incomplete knowledge of whether [[Genetic Memory]] and identity are the same drove her to deny this.
** Vivio's [[Genetic Memory]] of the Saint King were sealed by Scaglietti to prevent [[Kung Fu Jesus]] from his glorified Cradle Battery. Nanoha has decided to keep the seal up so Vivio could live her own life. She'll be told when she becomes 18; and it will be her choice whether to awaken them or not. Incidentally, the "seal" is within Sacred Heart.
** Elio was Magic Cloned when the original died as a baby; so he didn't have any cognizant [[Genetic Memory]].
 
== Whether or not [[Genetic Memory]] is the same as [[Reincarnation]] is a subject of debate within the TSAB itself. ==
In the Sound Stage; we have Subaru telling Ixpellia that Vivio ''is'' the Saint Kaiser reborn; also in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'' Nove refers to Vivio as an Ancient King who can live in peace in this age. However, Ingvalt herself denies that Vivio is the Saint King; nor is she "an extention of the Emperor, merely the inheritor of his memories." Vivio's friends stumble when describing Vivio's relationship with the Saint Kaiser; compromising by calling her an "ancestor."
 
== Nanoha might die... ==
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* Hence her being likely enforced vacation in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|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 ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|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 ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]''.
 
 
== Earth is a convalescence center, probationary clinic, and retirement home for higher-up burned out Administration staff. ==
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* 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.
== Vivio's [[Older Alter Ego]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'' is related to her Sankt Kaiser self; and she'll eventually have to seal it. ==
* 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.
Regardless of her and Nanoha saying it's perfectly fine in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', it doesn't look like she has any involvement in ''Force''. Keep in mind that shapeshifting in the Nanoha-verse is considered very costly, [[Mana]]-wise, yet Vivio was able to do it effortlessly.
* 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."
* It's also possible that she won't have any involvement in Force because 1)She's still in school; even if she's most likely going to be drawn into the problems in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', Nanoha probably wants her to complete her education before joining the TSAB, and/or 2)The writers don't want to write anything that could contradict or spoil events in ViVid (excluding Vivio surviving).
 
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!"
== Vivio does not age naturally ==
Vivio's genetic material being from the Sankt King would be similar to Ixpellia's, who has been alive for millenia. This may also be why there's no "strain" for her age-shifting. Hence Nanoha encouraging her experimenting in age-shifting.
 
== Signum and Shamal actually thought "Testarossa" was Fate's given name ==
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According to the A's manga, she [[Villains Out Shopping|spends much of her time]] playing with senior citizens in the club. In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|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).
 
== The Belkan Saint Church and the TSAB do not get along ==
The Church appears to have its own troops and be an autonomous entity, something the TSAB, as personified by its Ground Forces head responsible for the security of the city, is bound to dislike dealing with. The fact the Church has autonomous agents with Cartridge-capable devices wandering about is just going to make it worse.
* [[All There in the Manual|The Church explicitly governs a number or regions on Midchilda.]] Disliking them for having their own troops is the same as disliking another country because they also have an army.
** Which most countries actually do dislike their neighbors for. However the Church is also explicitly part of the TSAB's power structure; the Church had authority to order a limiter release for 6th Division, something you're not going to give a foreign power. They may be semi-autonomous or be analogous to Native American Reserves in the US, but they're clearly part and parcel of the TSAB; otherwise the TSAB would never have been allowing armed Church agents ''unsupervised'' into their areas, as one person with an Intelligent or Armed Device is capable of immense destruction. If the Church constitute a whole other country, Nanoha or Fate should have been detailed to guard the Sisters every time they entered and left for those conferences. They weren't.
*** Carim has the authority to release the limiters, not the Church as whole, just Carim.
*** Also, I wouldn't consider the Ground Forces opinion of the Church to be inidicative of the opinion of TSAB as a whole.
*** Carim explictly having it doesn't really help, seeing as she is a ranking member of the Church. If the Church was a totally seperate entity the TSAB would expect her loyalty to be to the Church first and perhaps only.
 
== The Belkan Saint Church is the TSAB's real Army ==
The Ground Forces, as seen in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', seem to be somewhere between glorified police and actual soldiers. The Belkan Saint Church's fighters give a better accounting of themselves. The Church might therefore be the real, war-minded Army; the Ground Forces are dedicated peacekeeping and garrison troops.
* This seems unlikely because that would mean the TSAB is relying on another country to fight for it and wouldn't make sense given what we know about the Church's history (i.e. Olivier is worshipped because she brought a war that had caused Belka to become uninhabital to a peaceful end and managed to stop the Belkans from completly wiping themselves out). Also, there is no indication that the TSAB needs an army.
** As above, the Church is explicitly part of the TSAB's power structure as they had one of the two possible limiter-release authorizations for the 6th Division, which is manifestly not the sort of authority you give to a foreign power. The Church also clearly has a martial bent to it and its ranking members are apparently capable fighters. Belkan tradition clearly embraces the use of violence as well; witness Chrono's comments in A's on the nature of Belkan magic and what it does better than Midchildean. The Saint most likely has more than one aspect, not only as peacebringer but also peace''maker''.
*** Carim was the only person in the Church with the authority to release the limiter.
*** The Church could easily be the real army for Midchilda, however unless it has self governed regions on several other planets, I don't think it would be able to act as the army for the entire TSAB.
**** Carim explictly having it doesn't really help, seeing as she is a ranking member of the Church. (As noted.) This is also, I feel the need to point out, the TSAB: rapid deployment across interstellar distances is ''not'' a problem. They recalled a significant portion of the fleet in time to deal with the Saint's Cradle after all. Similarly, numbers is not a great concern either: as A's and the original season taught us, it's better to deploy a few really good mages than a lot of lesser ones.
***** In all of those cases they were dealing with threat on a single planet, as long as the TSAB wages war against individual planets the Church might be sufficient, but it wouldn't be against another organization the size of the TSAB.
 
== 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 ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|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.
 
== Jail is [[The Alcatraz|going to escape the maximum security orbital prison]] sometime in the future ==
Sound Stage X showed that Jail is still the same confident [[Large Ham]] that he is even though he's been imprisoned for three years already. One can't help think that he has something up his sleeve and is just waiting for the right time. The fact that all of the Numbers, including those that are now a part of TSAB, are still loyal to him means that he has an obvious means of escape.
 
Of course, if this does happen, it would be too obvious if one of his Numbers did the freeing. No, if I were to bet on someone being an outside accomplice, it would be {{spoiler|Subaru's [[Cool Big Sis]], Ginga. After all, how certain are we that all traces of [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] have been removed by the TSAB}}?
* I think you underestimate Jail's capablity for self-rescuing.
** I'll do the original poster one better: the Numbers aren't going to free him; he's not going to be freed at all. Jail's just waiting for the backup clones he hid far away from his main base to grow up and finish his work for him, complete with an all-new set of upgraded Numbers.
*** In the tanks inside his hideout, there are several [[People Jars]] with Roman Numerals as high as 15. It's possible he had several other Numbers in production.
** Except none of them were rescued, and even if they get out somehow, they're going to have an awfully large problem getting to space. Plus those clones better age quickly, or Jail'll be dead before even the slightest chance of rescue emerges.
*** One of them contains Lutecia's mother, who is rescued, and recovers from her coma on her own.
 
== Yuuno is no longer on the team because any real offensive use of his powers would ''too lethal'' ==
The guy has chains, barriers, and teleports. Lots of chains, barriers, and teleports. [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|And when you have lots of chains, barriers, and teleports, you start squeezing people painfully around the neck, making them run into barriers at high Mach numbers, and teleporting them places where they can't breathe.]] Either the TSAB's worried about this, Yuuno's worried about it, both, or he runs a bondage fetish club in his spare time.
* OOOH! Fetish club! Fetish club! Which would explain Nanoha's various bindings she pulled out on Vivio.
* Shamal must also be a member. After reading the one ''A's Nano'' page where Hayate tries to get her to wear a dominatrix outfit, I can't help but think "Bondage time!" whenever I see the scene where she and Zaffy capture Otto in the final battle of ''StrikerS''. :P
* I gotta stop coming here. I made a reference to this in a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5331980/1/Pregnancy fic] that I helped write.
* Easy answer is that <big>CHAIN BIND IS A [[Razor Floss|FREAKING!!RAZOR!!FLOSS!!!]]</big>, TSAB formed for utilizing Magical [[Stun Guns]] (some of them are the class of [[Wave Motion Gun]], ''it's necessary'' by the way), [[Technical Pacifist|they don't really need]] [[Clean Cut]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|on human target]].
* To add credence to this theory: who needs [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] or [[Wave Motion Gun]] if you can ''teleport your enemy into an oncoming one, from a friendly source or otherwise?''
{{quote| Mook: "Ha, you? The mage that knows nothing but shields and teleport is going to defeat me?"<br />
Yuuno: "Me? Nah. ''She'' would though. *points to Nanoha with Divine Buster ready*" }}
* He could also [[Tele Frag|teleport people into walls]] or [[Portal Cut|teleport only part of their bodies]]. But since Yuuno's not the kind of person who actually ''would'' do such things...
 
== Signum and Shamal show no romantic interest in anyone, and Zafira prefers his wolf form to his human one, because they were abused by previous masters of the Book of Darkness ==
The kind of people who would use the Book of Darkness aren't very nice; powerful, controlling, and not very moral. Even if they weren't any of these things, the temptation with someone not only manifestly good-looking but also completely obediant is obviously there. Vita managed to escape this, or at least suffer considerably less of it, because of her ''apparent'' age. @/([[Night]] demands he be credited in the inevitable trashy, or maybe even not so trashy, [[Fanfic]].) Shamal and Signum are now breathing easier, but Zafira stays wolfy to keep the idea further from Hayate's mind.
* It doesn't help that Hayate already ''[[Skinship Grope|does]]'' [[Memetic Molester|play with them, although she also does it to a lot of the other girls as well]].
** According to the first A's sound stage, Signum would consent to Hayate groping her (presumably out of a sense of duty), but would feel extremely embarrassed about it, so Hayate does it to her in her sleep (which might apply to other masters). Shamal, however, doesn't seem to mind, and seems pleased when Hayate notes that her breasts have "a nice feel to them".
*** Specifically, Hayate's groping is ''why'' Zafira stays in his wolf form after A's. Apparently, she goes both ways, and with him the only male in easy reach...
* Darn you! I actually wrote a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5306935 fic] that used some of that idea near the end.
 
== Tre and Sette were based off of (or at least Expies of in appearance) Noel and Farin of the original series ==
They both bear an uncanny resemblance to Suzuka's two maids in hair color and style, and Tre has a similar slightly cold personality that Noel does. Granted, Sette is an [[Emotionless Girl]] instead of a [[Dojikko]], but that may be just one of the "unnecessary elements" Scaglietti removed.
** Speaking of Sette, she would had been a prototype for T-elo's template, cruel and malicous. God a pale skinned version of T-elos...
 
== The Wolkenritter, even disconnected from the Book of the Night Sky, do not age. ==
Vita didn't change at all between A's and ''StrikerS''. Neither did any of the others. Though they no longer heal the same way they used to, instead healing like natural humans, they do not age. In effect they are biologically immortal. With careful medical care or Klarer Wind the Wolkenritter might live, unchanged, forever.
* This opens the question of what Reinforce and the Book of the Night Sky will do when Hayate, who is emphatically not immortal, dies. Can Intelligent Devices be passed on? None of the ones in the series seem to be hand-me-downs, though they do not appear to be single-person-useable items based on Raising Heart.
* Then again, the Wolkenritter indicate in A's Sound Stage 3 that they're not interested in outliving Hayate.
** Hayate would probably be pleased if they outlived her, though. And considering the series we're talking about and where it sits on the sliding scale of idealism, it seems likely that either Hayate will give the "you can do so much good" speech, or Nanoha will give the heavier "you have a moral duty to help as many as you can" version if push comes to shove.
*** In the third Sound Stage of A's, when Hayate notes that they're no longer immortal, they say they're fine with living out their last life with Hayate and then joining her and Reinforce in "the sky" (presumably [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]) when they die.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', Vita and Shamal discuss how their connection to the book seems to be slowly fading. Presumably given enough time, they'll start to age too.
** That seems to mainly apply to their regenerative capabilities, since Vita notes in the manga that she'll have to use transformation magic on Earth to hide her not aging, but notes that if Shamal and Signum just change their hairstyle, they'll be fine.
 
== Alicia's dad built the Type Zero cyborgs ==
We never learn who Alicia/Fate's biological father was. We never learn who built the Type Zero cyborgs ({{spoiler|Ginga and Subaru}}), since Scaglietti claims it wasn't him. We do know, however, that Precia and Scaglietti worked together on Project Fate and Scaglietti doesn't claim to be Fate's dad (that would be... [[Luke, I Am Your Father|derivative]]). Ergo, either there were two as-of-yet unknown guys, one who was Precia's lover and one brilliant enough to built cyborgs, or these two were one and the same person all along, whose identity is rigorously hidden away from everyone. Oh, and of course, he will become the main antagonist of some future installment.
 
== Nanoha is dead ==
The real Nanoha never recovered from the Gadget Drone incident two years after joining the Bureau and died due to complications soon after starting the rehab course. However, the TSAB high-ups didn't want to lose such a strong Aerial Mage and conspired with Jail Saglietti to (among other things) resurrect Nanoha as an Artificial Mage. This is the reason why Nanoha keeps overworking herself: consciously or subconsciously (she may be not aware of her condition, just like Fate wasn't, and TSAB doctors are instructed to lie to her), she is aware that if she dies, they'll just "[[Cloning Blues|make another Nanoha]]". This is also the reason why Scaglietti keeps being so smug in prison: he was promised to be bailed out by the ''real'' conspirators, if he keeps his mouth shut at least about Nanoha. However, Hayate Yagami ''did'' find out what TSAB did to her best friend, and has now counter-conspired with Carim Gracia the Saint Church (who seem to be the good guys) to topple the corrupt TSAB leadership and take over Mid-Childa. On a side note, the Takamachi family on Mid-Childa (Nanoha, Fate, and Vivio) is thus made up exclusively of Artificial Mages. Awwww, isn't that cute?
* Considering how the Wolkenritter would react to such a plan, having essentially been the victims of an identical setup during the Book of Darkness years and probably rightly fearing the same fate again if it was done to Nanoha, the probable result of such a situation is not a counter conspiracy but a rage-fueled apocalyptic assault on TSAB headquarters. Hayate, after all, does not keep secrets from her knights. And this time Chrono's not coming to save them from the spaceship that's key to the plan against the TSAB. He's commanding that ship, being a close personal friend of Hayate and friendly to Nanoha. Fate's not going to be taking out the [[Big Bad]]. She's going to lead the attack. Even Yuuno's not going to be on their side. He'll be right alongside Fate. So overall, the potentional risks of this would far outweigh the benefits. At least when they screwed up with Jail, they had the excuse what happened wasn't really a predictable consequence. This is not the case here.
** Bear in mind that this occurred well before the J.S. incident, so at the time, the TSAB wouldn't have had quite the same knowledge of the true might of the White Devil and co. at the time. Also, where does it say that the Wolkenritter are Artificial Mages? I don't recall their origins ever being explained in full... Serious stuff aside, does this make Nanoha [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami]]? :p
*** They're not Artificial Mages, but they ''are'' artificial in whole or part since their linker core is all that keeps them in the real world as of A's. A thousand lifetimes of service to the many masters of the Book of Darkness when you don't ''like'' being an [[Eldritch Abomination]] is enough to to leave anyone pissed off about being resurrected over and over again. They might even simply try to put Nanoha out of her misery and regard it as a mercy killing.
* Alternatively, what the medics recovered was... [[Eldritch Abomination|something]] [[Demonic Possession|else in Nanoha's form]]. We saw a sign of its [[Glamour Failure]] in the infamous "Higurashi eyes", and the supposedly [[Better on DVD]] "fixing" is a [[Retcon]] to prevent us from catching on too quickly. It's biding its time, waiting for the right moment to reveal itself when none can properly oppose it.
 
== Vivio has the unconscious power to influence people to love her ==
This might explain a few things. 1)She already has quite a large number of friends or people who are otherwise fond of her without having to go out and "befriend" anyone Nanoha-style. It doesn't seem as though anyone actively dislikes her (except for Scaglietti and Quattro, albeit regarding her as a tool). Quattro notes that Dieci was a typical [[Cold Sniper]] before she saw Vivio. 2)The seeming [[Retcon]] of Fate wanting to distance herself from being seen as Vivio's other mother (which, I might add, is similar to Nanoha initially considering finding a home for Vivio, rather than adopting her herself, before adopting her) might be due to Fate gradually becoming more and more enamored with Vivio.
* I believe that the power you are thinking of is called [[Moe]].
** I was thinking more along the lines of C.C.s' former Geass power in [[Code Geass]].
* Given that Vivio is a clone of the apparently almost universally loved Saint King, that wouldn't be particularly surprising.
 
== The sea of dimensions is in fact subspace ==
Because besides being slightly different colours theirthey're completely the same, although the different colours may be be a result of them being on different sub-space frequencies.
 
== The Midchildan Ground forces HQ, as well as the Capitol of Administered World #1 (Midchilda), is in Greece ==
And in extension, the Belkan Empire should actually be Anglicized as the Balkin Empire. If you think about it, it fits. The shot we always have of the Saint Church is in a highly forested and mountainous area, that is quickly open to a sea. Some of the tactical screens that we see in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' seem to be shots of the Aegean sea. Also, the de-facto alphabet of the TSAB seems to be the Hellenistic alphabet. I'm not well versed on the supplementary material, but it seems to me like, in that case, the Saint Church could be what the Greek Orthodox Church became after wide-scale revelations of magic became known, and in the chaos, it spread to the Holy Roman Empire (Aka, Germany), which is why all of their devices speak German. There are holes (such as how the Midchildan devices picked up English), but I'm sure I could find ways to patch it with more information.
* Except that, you know... Mid-Childa is explicitly stated to be another planet and it doesn't say anywhere that it is geographically identical to Earth...
** Lack of [[Word of God]] doesn't prove it cant be acurate. There is, infact, more in suppport of the claim than against it, at least until it goes into theories on the origins of the Belkan Saint Church.
*** Then why is Earth designated "non-administrated (!) world #97 (!!)", and why are there so few magic uses native to it? EDIT: Oh, any by the way, according to the ''Sound Stage X'' supplemental material (''Guide Book''), the Saint Church was formed after the end of Saint King Unification War (which happened, what, a hundred years ago? Assuming that the modern Mid-Childan calender is just 80 years long in ''Force''...) and worships the members of the Belkan Royal Family (for their role in stopping the war, no less, although that role was limited to just dying like flies and letting the multiverse to get over it already). You would think that if the Saint Church ''were'' derived from Christianity about a century ago it would, like, you know... mention [[Jesus]] somewhere?
**** The world numbers seem to go by their discovery, with Midchildia being World 1.
*** The Saint Church thing doesn't necessarily work, but everything else can be explained with two words: [[Alternate Universe]].
**** Well, it could just as well be all just a [[Dying Dream]] of Nanoha, as she lies bleeding after having failed to activate Raising Heart and being fatally wounded by the very first Jewel Seed monster, and dreams of a happy life where she is respected, needed, and has a loving family.
** Shamal notes that the area around Riot Force 6's base is similar to Uminari City. It's unclear how far the similarity goes, though.
 
== Subaru and Teana are living together in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'' ==
OK, so we now know that Subaru lives at her own place, rather than with her father and sisters at the Nakajima residence. Considering how good her (and all of her sisters', too) relationship with Genya is, I can only think of one explanation why she'd move away from them: she does not want to be disturbed in her more... private moments. Just think of the fact that she has a positively huge double bed ({{spoiler|wherein Einhart wakes up}}), which is, I'm pretty sure, [[There Is Only One Bed|the only one in the house]]. So my best guess is that she and Teana mirror their mentors' (Nanoha and Fate, respectively) relationship in every major aspect.
* Well, according to the dialogue in SSX, it sounds like Tea doesn't usually stay with Subaru on Mid; she and Runessa had booked into a hotel, initially. But maybe things have [[Relationship Upgrade|changed]] between then and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]''. It's a [[Squee|nice]] thought, anyway...
** Well, considering how explicitly obvious all relationships are in ''Nanoha'', and remembering that Fate officially spends most of her time off Mid-Childa, while Nanoha raises Vivio, yet Vivio still [[From the Mouths of Babes|makes casual remarks]] like "Fate-mama is Nanoha-mama's close person"... yeah.
** Notice that Teana has considerably less "tsun" in her [[Tsundere]] personality in Sound Stage X, only getting mildly annoyed at [[The Glomp]], which could be a sign that she's continuing to warm up to Subaru, possibly romantically. Then again, she seems to be in Subaru's apartment for the first time in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', although she hasn't seen her in person for a year and a half.
*** [[Ship Tease]] all the way. Way to go, Masaki Tsuzuki...
** The Movie sound stage indicates that Subaru often isn't home because of how often she's called in by the rescue team. She probably chose the apartment for a more convenient location (which also most likely helped when picking up Nove, who encountered Einhart en route to the rescue team).
* The Nanoha-verse is all about [[Ship Tease]], with actual ''confirmed'' relationships pretty much confined to the supporting cast.
 
== Mid-Childa and the TSAB will eventually decide that magic is too dangerous and switch to a technology based society. ==
Whats more, this is just the latest stage in a long cycle of societal change. Every few thousand years, magic or technology reach a point where single individuals can cause massive damage to the environment and civilization, which prompts a change to the other system.
* Well, something like this happened already after the end of the Saint King Reunification War: the Belkans used the so-called "mass-based weaponry" extensively, destroying their own homeworld and polluting the rest, so TSAB's first action was to forbid all advance mass-based technology in favor of pure energy-based ones. The energy-based technology is what we know as regular [[Magitek]] in the series. The idea of an [[Eternal Recurrence]] is very nice, though, since we know that energy-based magic also involves considerable dangers, such as warping of the time-space, which destroyed the Garden of Time and which was presumably prevented in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' by putting limiters on Riot Force 6. Maybe, the previous incarnation of an energy-based magical society was Al-Hazard?
** The theory is bassed on the assumption that the last major shift happened at least a thousand years before the series, after the Belkan civil war and the recurrence is rather specific to Mid-childa.
*** However, the ''[[All There in the Manual|Sound Stage X Guide Book]]'' dates the beginning of Belkan Warring Ages to approximately a thousand years ago, back when Al-Hazard still existed. Belkan homeworld collapsed several centuries ago, and the Belkan civil war (if you refer to the Saint King Unification War) ended just a century or so ago.
 
== Hilde was Olivie's mom. ==
She's the only Saint with a school named after her so she must have been important even relative to the other Saint's, and having Vivio go to a school named after her biological mother would be ironic.
* There's also St. Valerie, after whom an airport is named in ''Force''.
 
== Touma may not have killed all those people on World 18, but he and Lily are indirectly contributing to the problem ==
 
At this point, Teana and the other investigators seem to be poised to identify Touma as the one responsible for burning down the village, while Touma is currently oblivious to the problems. The truth will most likely not be so simple, and it may be that Lily's very existence is causing the existence of the other Divider(s) and book(s) (similar to Ix serving as the source of the Mariage against her will). Touma, after learning about this, would be forced to decide whether to continue protecting Lily, and may choose to protect her despite the consequences or [[Take a Third Option]]. This would be an interesting way of exploring what it's like to be one of the [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]] like the Wolkenritter or Fate who do what they do without knowing that it's wrong or that it may not get them what they want, and this may result in the viewer and Touma not learning the truth until a while after the TSAB learns about it.
 
== [[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.
 
== Al-Hazard ''is'' Mid-Childa ==
...in an [[And Man Grew Proud]] way. That explains why nobody could find it. Also: the Saint's Cradle is said to predate the Ancient Belka, meaning that they could have obtained it from Al-Hazard. After the Saint King Unification War, the Cradle was lost but Scaglietti discovered it again... on Mid-Childa, of all places. If the ship ''was'' built on Al-Hazard, it'd would make sense for it to have been programmed to return to it after a certain idle period.
 
== ''Wolfram'' has an [[Improbably-Female Cast|all-female crew]] ==
''Wolfram'' is the [[Cool Starship]] under Hayate's command in ''Force''. Keeping in mind how the last organization Hayate commanded quickly became known as "Hayate's Lesbian Army", which gives us a clear idea of her preferences in subordinates, it's only logical to assume that she has since moved on to "Hayate's Lesbian Battleships"... Plus, the official series designation of ''Wolfram'' is "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|LS]]-class warship".
* It could be worse... the designation could be "[[Girls Love|GL]]-class" :P
** Wait 'til the [[Mid-Season Upgrade|Mid Season]] [[Relationship Upgrade|Upgrade]]. ;)
 
== Vivio will [[Defeat Means Friendship|"befriend"]] Einhart the same way Nanoha did Fate ==
This may not be so much a Wild Guess, but after pages like [http://www.onemanga.com/Magical_Girl_Lyrical_Nanoha_ViVid/6/30/ this] and [http://www.onemanga.com/Magical_Girl_Lyrical_Nanoha_ViVid/7/30/ this] it's almost insultingly obvious that Vivio will take after Nanoha-mama ''a lot''.
* And about 6 months after they become friends, Ixpellia will wake up and become their "Hayate" analogy.
** Well, of course, she is gonna befriend her -- right into the hospital. She wants to make her moms proud, after all... Btw, Einart has now beaten up Vivio twice, just like Fate did to Nanoha on their first meeting... Is it [[Love At First Punch]]?
** The Einhart arc seems to be something of a prologue to the main story of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', so it's possible that, like what happened with {{spoiler|Ginga and Vivio}} in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', Einhart will somehow be controlled by the villains and Vivio will have to defeat her while fighting for her life.
 
== Nanoha will learn [[Gun Kata]] and advanced Blaster Bit control. ==
In the English dubs, [[Cristina Valenzuela]] voices Nanoha as well as [[Blaz Blue|Lamba-11, Noel Vermillion and Nu-13]]. With Teana having learnt {{spoiler|Starlight Breaker}} by the time of ''Sound Stage X'', there's no reason why the master can't learn from the apprentice. Let's face it, [[Gun Kata]] with Divine Busters instead of bullets would be frakkin' sweet. Having her Blaster Bits flying around throwing beams the way Lambda or Nu deliver swords would also be interesting. One hell of an [[Actor Allusion]] at that.
* That will turn Nanoha into ''MG [[Gundam Seed|Strike Freedom]]''.
 
== Precia really did go on a picnic with Fate. ==
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* 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.
 
== The Belkan Empire was an Empire in name only. ==
To be precise the planet Belka itself was ruled by an empire, and people from Belka who colonized other planets claimed those planets were part of that empire, but those planets didn't allow the Belkan imperial goverment to have any actual authority over them.
* So perhaps what happened to the Belkan "Empire" was a repeat of what happened between Great Britain and the 13 Colonies? Where a particularly powerful "subject" world successfully rebelled and the Belkan Empire's loss weakened them?
** Not a good analogy, as the British Empire recovered quite well from that loss throughout the 1800s. A better analogy would probably be the upheavals of the Belkan civil wars and the economic ruin that likely resulted causing an exponential decline (sort of like what World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II did to the British Empire).
 
== Heidi "Einhart Stratos" Ingvalt is Emperor Ingvalt's [[Reincarnation]]. ==
"Inherited his memories." It can't be just genetic, or all the clones in the series would be having [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] to their originals all the time. (Fate has some of Alicia's, but those were intentionally implanted to attempt to make her more similar.)
* She does comment that it's common among her bloodline to have his memories, but hers are especially strong. Vivio should theoretically remember her past as Olivie, just like Fate had Alicia's memories and Zest retained his own. I guess Scaglietti didn't want her to unleash the [[Kung Fu Jesus]] upon him, so he conveniently forgot to copy those memories.
** Magic in ''Nanoha'' isn't just genetic. Keep in mind, while Fate was a clone of Alicia, the original Alicia didn't have magic. There's a magical variable (such as the spiritual "Linker Core") that is passed down in addition to DNA.
 
== Einhart is an [[Opposite Sex Clone]] of Ingvalt ==
Einhart's origins are pretty vague at this point and we haven't seen ''any'' of her supposed family in the first seven chapters. This may indicate that she is an [[Opposite Sex Clone]] of Ingvalt, and the whole "memories are commonly transfered in your bloodline" thing could be a cover story she was given.
** There's nothing in the rules that says someone's soul can't be reincarnated into their own clone.
 
== Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is an alternate universe for ''Magical Canan''. ==
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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.
 
== Aerial Mage Hayate joined the Ground Forces because... ==
...she was so appalled by their dreary brown uniforms, she made it her lifetime mission to change them into something much snazzier.
 
== Teana will redeem Runessa ==
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