Hanabi Takanashi (Chronicles of Eredità)

Hanabi "Hana" Takanashi is a protagonist in Chronicles of Eredità. She is a member of Sector XIII and an acolyte serving in the Maquines Capitol City's cathedral. Despite being raised by the holy order, Hana is both a ruthless swordsman and a merciful healer.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
Hana is a young woman with short black hair reaching to the nape of her neck, cut in a bob cut. She has bright red eyes and a rather feminine and voluptuous frame. 
In Chronicles of Eredità, she wears the standard issued Academia uniform but layers a yellow sweater and plaid grey skirt. A chest harness is attached to her uniform to store her weapon when it is idle. She wears a necklace shaped like a sakura blossom that also serves as her AEGIS unit.
===Personality===
On the surface, Hana is described to be stoic and reserved. She is an introvert who often keeps to herself but is also willing to work with other people when she needs to. She is a hard book to read and people often find it difficult to get close to her. Despite the cold exterior, Hana is very careful with her words and actions and often worries of the possibilities of her hurting the people around her. She is shown to be quick to apologize when she accidentally hurts somebody even if it was just her stepping on their foot.
===Background===
Later in the game, Hana is revealed to be a native of Nagata and the daughter of Jiro Takanashi, one of Nagata's notorious crime lords who has a reputation of running an underground gang of former mercenaries turned criminals that have caused trouble in various parts of Nagata.
As a child, her mother tried to hide the realities of their family but failed as soon as Hana saw her father executing a salaryman who failed to pay a debt to the crime organization. Which in turn, had Hana training in sword combat with her father's hopes of becoming exactly like him when she grows up. Things soon escalated when Hana was suddenly put into an arranged marriage with a rival crime gang by her father, hoping to unite both groups to achieve their goals of taking power on some parts of Nagata and control the businesses to make capital.
Her mother, sick of her husband's antics and his willingness to give away their youngest daughter for money, decided to run away with her daughter to Ordeos, so that they couldn't be found. But life there wasn't simple as they struggled to survive, her mother had no choice but to give Hana to the Capitol City cathedral's priestesses and left, promising to come back for her when she's grown up.
Since that day, Hana was raised and trained by the priestesses and nuns of the cathedral and was granted a scholarship to the Academia from the country's high priestess.
==Abilities==
Hana is a rather unique character, she is both an assassin and a healer. Trained by a swordmaster in Nagata and the priestesses in the cathedral, Hana is shown to be knowledgeable in both the sword and healing arts.
===Weapon===
The Seinaru is Hana's weapon of choice, it is a katana smited from a meteorite hidden in a holy staff stylized like a scabbard. The katana has been an item that has been with her since and the staff scabbard was a gift from the priestesses to conceal the sword. Hana can store the katana and utilize her staff to its fullest potential or pull out the sword and act on the offensive. Though, it is shown that the staff cannot be used to heal when the sword is not stored in it.
===Fighting Style===
Hana is an unorthodox hybrid of both a support and an assassin type of character. She relies on striking her enemies with a single slash or multiple, her attacks with the katana are swift. Her magical artis specialize in healing and buffing. With her katana, Hana uses artis that allow her to slice up her enemies with great speed. Though she cannot use her healing artis when she's using her sword.
==Trivia==
*Hanabi is a Japanese word that means 'fireworks'. While Takanashi is a Japanese surname that means 'tall and high' (taka) and 'pear' (pear).
** Seinaru is a Japanese word that means 'holy'.
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