Hayate Yagami

Infobox animanga character
name = Hayate Yagami
series = Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha


caption =
first = A's Episode 1
last = StrikerS Episode 26 +
Sound Stage 04
creator =
voiced by = Kana Ueda
alias =
age = 9 in "A's"
15 in "A's" epilogue and "StrikerS" manga
19 in "StrikerS" anime
born =
occupation =
title = Special Investigations Officer ("A's" epilogue)
Commandant of Lost Property Riot Force 6
rank Lieutenant Colonel ("StrikerS")
relatives =
paux1 name = Home world
paux1 = Earth
paux2 name = Affiliations
paux2 = Pacifist ("A's")
Time-Space Administration Bureau ("A's" epilogue, "StrikerS")
divider = yes
aux1 name = Magic system
aux1 = Ancient Belka
aux3 name = Partner
aux3 = Reinforce, Signum, Shamal, Vita, Zafira

nihongo|Hayate Yagami|八神 はやて|Yagami Hayate is one of the main characters of "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's", though she appears in neither the previous series "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" nor the later alternate story "Triangle Heart". She is voiced by Kana Ueda in a strong Kansai dialect. Hayate is a cute, kind-hearted orphan in a wheelchair who is actually the mistress of the "Book of Darkness" and the Wolkenritter (Signum, Vita, Shamal and Zafira) but is unaware that they are causing harm to other people.

Hayate's magic works slightly differently than that of Fate or Nanoha, in the fact that the closest thing she has to "familiars" are the Wolkenritter and her "weapon" is the Book of Darkness. She uses a mix of the Mid-childa and Belka styles, but in the manga, identifies herself more with the Belka side.

Hayate in "A's"

"A's" opens with Hayate sleeping in her room as the Book of Darkness on her bookshelf activates and begins to write its own pages. Though Hayate is an orphan, she gets an allowance from her father's friend and lives with the Wolkenritter, whom she tells civilians are her relatives. Though she is their mistress, she sees herself only as their friend, and has a good relationship with them—especially Vita, who reprocically devoted herself for her to a fault. Hayate also befriends Suzuka Tsukimura, who is, unknown to the Wolkenritter, one of Nanoha Takamachi's best friends. 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. Nanoha and Fate are sent to protect the innocent victims and stop the Wolkenritter, 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. However, what the Time-Space Administration Bureau (TSAB) knows that they do not 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. Just before said completion, Suzuka brings Hayate some friends in the hospital as the Wolkenritter are there... Nanoha and Fate. 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, who trap Nanoha and Fate and pose as them as they bring Hayate up to the roof and reveal that she can not be cured if the "Book" is finished, pretending that Nanoha and Fate killed the Wolkenritter. 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. As Nanoha and Fate fight her to no avail, Chrono confronts Graham as to why Alia and Lotte had done this. The old man reveals that he sent them, and also that he was Hayate's benefactor, not a friend of her father's. Graham had known all along whom the mistress of the Book was, and he wanted to at least give the innocent Hayate some happiness before he was forced to seal her away in another dimension with her book. Chrono asserts that Hayate does not deserve this fate and that there is another way.

Nanoha and Fate attempt to attack Hayate as she has fused with the power of the Book, but to no avail. They even attempt to communicate with her, telling her that she was tricked, but she cries and, as the "Book", says that she is only carrying out the wishes of Hayate. The "Book" claims that Hayate, losing her friends, has been driven to near-madness in much the same manner as Precia Testarossa had at the death of Alicia prior to the first season. The girls try again, but the "Book" says that she is simply a tool and will not last long, but must carry out her master's wishes. She absorbs Fate into a dream from which she will never want to wake and reveals that Hayate is in much the same sort of dream. In the middle of this, Hayate, inside a void in the "Book's" separate dimension, opens her eyes, but the "Book" tells her to go back to sleep and escape the tragic reality. She could stay with her friends forever, but it would not be real... Hayate cries out that she did not want this at all.

Absorbing the knowledge of the "Book of Darkness", she realizes the truth of everything that has been going on behind her back, the innocence of Nanoha and Fate and the sadness of the Wolkenritter. That cannot be forgotten, Hayate asserts. She is the mistress, and the "Book" has to do what she says. She takes control of her body again so that Nanoha can disable it and gives the "Book" a new name, "Reinforce". Hayate reprograms the entire "Book", but something still remains inside that wants to continue its path of destruction and pain. She identifies it as a corrupted automatic defense program and that it caused the evil aspect of the "Book" in the first place. Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Reinforce, Chrono, Arf and Yūno meet up inside the "Book"'s pocket dimension, along with Signum, Shamal, Vita and Zafira, whom Hayate restores to life. They team up and, pooling all of their power, defeat the viral creature. Reinforce believes that she has to be destroyed for the virus never to return, but Hayate refuses to let her go. Stating that she will always be with Hayate, Reinforce turns into a small form of the version of her that is Hayate's weapon...

In an epilogue-taking place six years later, Hayate is older, able-bodied, still living with the Wolkenritter, and working for the TSAB along with Fate and Nanoha.

Hayate in the manga

Two official manga series expand on what happens to the characters between "A's" and the sequel, "StrikerS".

In the epilogue issue of the "A's" manga series, stated as being five months after the conclusion of the "A's" anime, Hayate is depicted as having enrolled as a cadet in the Special Investigations Unit of the TSAB. The Wolkenritter have been allowed to remain with Hayate—she explains that this is because Admiral Leti believes they possess greater potential as a single unit as opposed to being deployed individually.

The ongoing "StrikerS" manga series occurs six years after the events of "A's" [Stated specifically in "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS" manga Chapter 1, page 5.] and four years before the events of the "StrikerS" anime series [Stated specifically in the "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS" manga at the end of Chapter 3.] . In it, Hayate is no longer paralyzed and is in her third year of junior high school. She is also now a Special Investigations Officer of the TSAB Surface Division and is actively pursuing a command rank, having passed the command school exam on her first attempt. Hayate tells Nanoha and Fate in the first issue that she intends to relocate herself and the Wolkenritter from Earth to Midchilda before her high school graduation.

Hayate in "StrikerS"

Four years after the "A's" epilogue, Hayate has indeed dedicated herself to her job to the point of dropping out of Earth schooling, and has surpassed even Nanoha and Fate in ranking. She and the Wolkenritter now only work together on special occasions, save for her constant partner, Reinforce II. She was serving under Ganryu Nakajima and was very close to him. She, Nanoha, and Fate joined together to rescue civilians from an airport disaster using their abilities, among them were the Nakajima Sisters, Subaru and Ginga. Even though the trio wasn't credited for their heroism due to the fact Nanoha was only a visitor and Fate and Hayate were still classified as "criminals". But, that event alone, motivated Hayate to create Long Arc and Riot Force 6.

Powers

*Hayate, possessed by the "Book" when she fights Nanoha and Fate, knows and can use all the power of those whose Linker Cores it has absorbed, partially or fully. This includes those of Nanoha, Fate, Vita, Signum, Shamal and Zafira.
* "Transformation": Hayate transforms into an able-bodied blonde mage, Reinforce into her staff. Activated with the phrase "Blessed wind, Reinforce! Set up!"
* "Knight Armour": Her costume consists of a black and white battle jacket over a black and yellow minidress, with a white balmoral, and three pairs of black wings. As she does not use the Mid-Childa magic system, it is not called a "Barrier Jacket", but the purpose is largely the same. Hayate simply refers to this as her "nihongo|armor|甲冑|kacchū".

Offensive abilities "(attack magics)"

* "Atem des Eis" - An ice magic attack, creating four icy-blue cubes that shoot against targets, creating a wide area freezing effect. In "StrikerS" episode 2 (flashback), it is used to put out the fire. It was classified as an S-Class technique and even Hayate admitted she cannot fully control it.
* "Diabolic Emission" - This Area-of-Effect type magic attack creates a dark-colored globe of concentrated magic that progressively expands, thus destroying everything in its way. Originally used by the first Reinforce near the end of "A's", during episode 12 of "StrikerS", Hayate is shown also to be capable of using this spell.
* "Hræsvelgr" - Hayate conjures multiple Mid-Childan sigils in front of her and use them to fire powerful energy beams. Once the beams reach a designated area, their energy compacts itself and explodes. This spell can be used to take down multiple enemies in different and distant locations. Though this is a Ancient Belkan spell, the Midchildan magical sigil was used in episode 11 & 12. This is believed to be an effect of the Long Arch team's control over its aiming.
* "Misteltein" - ("Stone Spears") Hayate's first attack in "A's", an area of effect that rains down seven light spears on her target and petrifies it.
* "Ragnarok [Though Hayate appears to shout "Breaker!" along with Nanoha and Fate when they fired their spells together in the final battle in #12, the actual name of her spell is given as "Ragnarok", as shown in the [http://www.nanoha.com/archive2/story/story_s12.html official A's homepage] as well as the information booklet that comes with the 6th A's Sound Stage.] " - Hayate's final attack in "A's", in the same area of strength as Nanoha's Starlight Breaker and Fate's Plasma Zanber Breaker. A triple buster, firing at the three tip points of the Belkan Triangle.

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