Reinforce (Nanoha)

Infobox animanga character
name = Reinforce
series = Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha


caption =
first = A's Episode 9 (Reinforce)
A's Episode 13 (Reinforce II)
last = A's Episode 13 + StrikerS Sound Stage 03 (Reinforce)
StrikerS Episode 26 + Sound Stage 04 (Reinforce II)
creator =
voiced by = Sanae Kobayashi
Yukana (Reinforce II)
alias =
age = Unknown, likely ancient
born =
occupation =
title = Special Investigations Officer
relatives =
paux1 name = Home world
paux1 = Unknown; Along with Hayate and the Wolkenritter she is part of TSAB.
paux2 name = Affiliations
paux2 = Hayate Yagami
divider = yes
aux1 name = Magic system
aux1 = Belka
aux3 name = Partner
aux3 = Hayate Yagami

nihongo|Reinforce|リインフォース|Riinfōsu is a key character in "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's", who reveals herself near the end. She does not appear in either "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" or the alternate universe shown in the "Triangle Heart" series. She is voiced by Sanae Kobayashi. The former Book of Darkness and creator of the Wolkenritter (Signum, Vita, Shamal and Zafira), Reinforce was reformed by Hayate Yagami and became her partner.

Reinforce is a Lost Logia and an intelligent creation of Belkan mages whose names have been lost to time. In "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS", she is reformatted into the much smaller Reinforce II.

The Book of Darkness

The Book of Darkness (闇の書, "Yami no sho?"), or "Buch der Dunkelheit", is a Lost Logia that has been around for centuries. As a Belkan device, it speaks German. The Wolkenritter, Vita, Signum, Shamal and Zafira, seek to complete its 666 pages to save their mistress, but Nanoha and Fate oppose their absorbing innocents to do so.

It turns out that the Book has been completed once every few decades, killed its master rather than reviving him or her, and wiped the minds of the Wolkenritter of what it has done. However, it was originally a benevolent book called the "yaten no sho/yaten no madosho", but was corrupted by its own automatic defence program. In the 5-episode climax, the Book is completed by the two "masked men" with the Wolkenritter's own Linker Cores and fused with its mistress Hayate, becoming a frightening, vengeful woman who exists only to wreak destruction on the world and then kill Hayate. The Book almost destroys Uminari City, absorbs Fate into "a dream from which she will never want to wake," and corners Nanoha when Hayate finally takes control of her body again.

Reinforce in "A's"

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. Just as the Book has Nanoha cornered, Hayate takes control of her body again so that Nanoha can disable it and Hayate 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 defence program and says that it caused the evil aspect of the Book in the first place. Reinforce frees Hayate and becomes her partner. 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. Reinforce and Hayate uses Unison Mode to transform into one powerful being that uses the Mid-childa aptitude and the Belka technology that both possess. The group teams up and, pooling all of their power, defeats the viral creature. Reinforce believes that she has to be destroyed for the virus never to return, and approaches Nanoha and Fate to do so, but Hayate refuses to let her go. She asks Hayate one request to give the new container a new title, "The Blessed Wind", stating that she will always be with Hayate through the Knights and the new container. Reinforce then turns into a small form of the "Schwertkreuz", the staff that Hayate uses as an intelligent device.

In an epilogue that bridges the gap between A's and StrikerS, Reinforce is revealed to not have disappeared completely. A new Reinforce created from the remains of the first. Known as Reinforce Zwei (Two in German). She is much smaller than her predecessor but still allows the normal functions of a unison device.

Reinforce II in "StrikerS"

Reinforce II is a smaller version of Reinforce that has been accepted as a member of Hayate's task force in the Time-Space Administration Bureau; she even wears the uniform. She can be summoned as a hologram from the Schwertkreuz, and promotional pictures for StrikerS show a very solid Reinforce II accompanying Hayate as well.

Reinforce II (pronounced "Zwei") is apparently solid, and needs to eat and sleep daily; she has a "room" of sorts in Hayate's bag. She holds the rank of Sergeant Major and serves as Hayate's SNCO/ Chief of Staff in Lost Property Management Division 6.

In the anime, she is shown capable of unifying with other Wolkenritter members (Vita and Signum) to boost them in battle, although because of their incompatibility, their union is not as good as Hayate's. When unifying with them, their clothes change its color to white.

When not in Unison Mode with Hayate or the other Wolkenritter, Reinforce II uses a blue book called the Book of the Azure Sky (蒼天の書, "Sōten no sho?") and appears to specialize in ice-based magic.

Powers

*Knight Armor -

*Flight -

*Gefängnis der Magie -

*Panzerschild -

*Telepathy -

*Barrier -

*Thunder of Destruction -

*Dimensional Transfer -

*Diabolic Emission -

*Sleipnir -

*Bloody Dagger/Blutiger Dolch -

*Schwarze Wirkung -

*Detection Barrier - Once absorbing both Fate's and Nanoha's linker cores, reinforce could use Starlight Breaker too.