Vita (Nanoha)
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| Vita | |
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| Age | Apparently 8, actual creation date unknown |
| Hair Colour | Red |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Device | Graf Eisen |
| Magic System | Belka |
| Master | Hayate Yagami |
| Magic Colour | Red |
| Seiyū | Asami Sanada |
Vita (ヴィータ Vīta?) is a character in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, voiced by Asami Sanada. She appears in neither the previous series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha nor the later story Triangle Heart, but she is slated to appear in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Vita is one of the Wolkenritter, a creation of the Book of Darkness. She is the most devoted of the three to Hayate Yagami, their mistress, and appears to be in love with her. Vita's weapon is a mallet called Graf Eisen, and as a magical creation, she has no familiar. She is named for the Opel Vita, much like characters of Magic Knight Rayearth are named for cars. For example. Opel Zafira.
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[edit] Vita in A's
Vita enters A's on a hunt with Zafira for strong Linker Cores to absorb into the Book of Darkness. She targets Nanoha Takamachi, which she deems to be a juicy target, unlike the usual TSAB "redshirts" which can barely fill up a single page of the Book of Darkness.
Nanoha puts up a decent fight, but Vita tilts the deck with two cartridges (bullet shaped things that contain high-pressure magic) manages to overpower her, obtaining a power superiority so vast that she heavily damaged the Raising Heart. However, before she could get the Linker Core, Fate Testarossa and Yūno Scrya come to the rescue. Vita fights them off with her fellow Wolkenritter, Signum and Shamal, and they declare themselves enemies. The battle ends with Shamal finally managing to get Nanoha's Linker Core and Nanoha breaking Vita's barrier.
Vita fights for the sake of protecting their mistress, Hayate, whom she is completely dedicated to and possibly (in the manga, certainly) in love with. The Wolkenritter attack mages to steal their Linker Cores, their sources of magic, to fill the 666 pages of the Book of Darkness with this power before it saps any more of Hayate's and she becomes fully paralyzed. They continue to obtain Linker Cores and fight off interference from the Time-Space Administration Bureau (TSAB), mainly Fate and Nanoha- whose name Vita purposely gets wrong to annoy her- while they try to keep Hayate from knowing that they are stealing magic for pages; she has told them that as long as she is mistress of the Book, she will not allow anyone to be harmed over it.
The Wolkenritter, especially Vita, are determined to save Hayate even if it means going against her wishes. What the Wolkenritter don't know about Hayate is that the Book of Darkness, once completed, may stop sapping her Linker Core for pages, but that does not mean that it will stop hurting her or undo its damage. In fact, the master of the Book dies upon its completion. Vita is the first to recognize that something may be wrong with what they are doing and that they have forgotten something very important, but her devotion to Hayate keeps her fighting for Linker Cores regardless. Just before the Book of Darkness is completed, Suzuka brings Nanoha, Arisa, and Fate to visit Hayate in the hospital while the Wolkenritter are there. The warring groups recognize each other and their shared wish at once, and meet on the roof of the hospital. Nanoha and Fate try to tell the Wolkenritter about what will happen to Hayate, but their confrontation is cut short by both the interference of two masked men and the completion of the Book of Darkness with the Linker Cores of the Wolkenritter themselves.
The masked men are actually women, Alia and Lotte Liese, who frame Nanoha and Fate for the death of Vita and the others. Hayate screams in horror for all of this to stop and is taken over by the will of the Book of Darkness, becoming the fearsome, possessed woman inside of it just as the real duo escapes their prison. Meanwhile, Vita's spirit is trapped inside the Book of Darkness with the others. When Hayate rejects her own wish of vengeance, she reprograms the entire Book, but a virus still remains inside, the one that caused the evil aspect of the Book in the first place. Hayate awakens the spirit of Vita and her friends inside the book of Darkness, and she decides to join the fight against the automated defence program that Hayate describes as "the 'darkness' in the Book of Darkness." Vita finally recognizes Nanoha as an equal, though she won't admit it, and calls her by her real name.
In an epilogue taking place six years later, Vita has not aged, considering her nature as a computer program, and still lives with the other Wolkenritter and Hayate, posing as a relative.
[edit] Vita in the manga
The two manga series take place between A's and StrikerS, the A's manga immediately after, the StrikerS manga after the epilogue.
Vita is still an eternal child, living with Hayate. It has been mentioned in the manga, however, that she may use transformation magic to appear older. It remains to be seen if she will in StrikerS.
Also, Vita is at times haunted by memories of a mission that she and Nanoha participated in that nearly ended in the death of Nanoha. It is unknown when this mission took place, but as Nanoha is depicted to have been in her classic Barrier Jacket, it can be surmised that it happened not too long after the conclusion of Nanoha A's.
[edit] Vita in StrikerS
Four years after the A's epilogue, Second Lieutenant Vita is sub-commander of the Stars Squad in the TSAB, working directly under Nanoha, who, in turn, obeys Hayate. She and the other Wolkenritter were kept close to Hayate and each other-- Shamal and Zafira are support, Signum is with the Lightning Squad-- because they work most effectively as a team.
[edit] Powers
- Hammerform — The default mode of Graf Eisen.
- Raketenform — Translated as "Missile Form" in the fansubs. Graf Eisen transforms into its more powerful rocket-propelled assault mode.
- Gigantform — Graf Eisen grows to many times its (or for that matter, Vita's) size. Translated in the fansubs as "Giant Form".
- Transformation — Vita performs a group transformation with Signum and Shamal, or simply transforms.
- Telepathy — Not notable, as like flight and teleportation, all other mages in the Nanohaverse have it; however, her links appear to be strong with the other Wolkenritter, so it is tentatively listed here.
- Gegenstand kommt nah — Vita can use Graf Eisen to close in on a target. Translated in the fansubs as "Approaching target."
- Nachladen — Not a real attack, just Graf Eisen reloading cartridges.
- Explosion — Also not an attack; Graf Eisen says this when using cartridges, analagous to the English-speaking devices' "Load cartridge.".
[edit] Defensive Abilities
- Knight Armour — A red Gothic Lolita-style dress with black frills and yellow ribbons, a large red hat with plush rabbit heads, and black and red boots.
- Triangle Shield — Blocks all magical attacks coming from one direction with a triangular barrier, much like Fate's or Nanoha's Round Shield.
- Pferd — Briefly boosts Vita's speed by summoning up a localized wind effect focused on her feet. Translated in the fansubs as "Horse Speed".
- Panzer Hindernis — Creates a domed shield that protects against everything in Vita's field of vision, but fails to protect against attacks coming from behind. Translated in the fansubs as "Tank Barrier".
- Eisengeheul — Vita gathers pulsing red and white energy in her hands and explodes it with Graf Eisen, creating a growing circle of spinning red winds around her. It is used as a distraction, the winds and noise being enough to chase birds out of their trees and catch the opponent off guard. Translated in the fansubs as "Iron Howl".
[edit] Offensive Abilities
- Tödliche Strafe — Vita's first attack. Translated in the fansubs as "Deadly Punishment".
- Schwalbe Fliegen — Vita produces up to four silver balls and strikes them with Graf Eisen. The balls home in on their target and explode. Translated as "Swallow Flier" in the fansubs.
- Raketen Hammer — Vita spins Graf Eisen around several times in Raketenform before flinging herself at an enemy and using the rocket-assisted momentum of her swing to break through whatever shielding they have in place. Translated in the fansubs as "Missile Hammer".
- Roaring Storm Gigantcrusher — Much like Fate's Jet Zamber, Graf Eisen stretches out to smash the enemy, however far away the enemy is from Vita's position.
| Nanoha |
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| Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha | A's | StrikerS | Triangle Heart |
| Characters |
| Main: Nanoha Takamachi | Yūno Scrya | Fate Testarossa | Arf | Hayate Yagami |
| Wolkenritter: Vita | Signum | Shamal | Zafira | Reinforce |
| Others: Precia Testarossa | Chrono Haraoun | Minor characters |
| Other |
| Spell list: List of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha spells |
| Glossary: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha terminology |
