Hayate Yagami

**Hayate Yagami** (八神はやて *Yagami Hayate*) is one of the main characters of and introduced in *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's*. Notably, 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 Nanoha or Fate, in the fact that the closest thing she has to "familiars" are the Wolkenritter and her "weapon" is the Book of Darkness.

## Appearance

Although an original character, Hayate may have been based on Feng Lianfei (nicknamed "Len") from *Triangle Heart 3*. Both characters have short hair, speak in Kansai dialect, and are good at cooking.

Hayate wears an X-shaped red ornament and a yellow one shaped like two parallel stripes in her hair. Her Knight Armor, however, removes the red one but reconfigures the yellow one into an X shape, just like Reinforce Zwei's hair dec.

## Personality

Hayate is a kind individual who treats those who would otherwise not be considered human well, and who believes that causing harm to others, whatever the reason, is unacceptable. She is cheerful most of the time, but often hides any pain she is feeling from those close to her. It is revealed in the sound stages that she enjoys fondling the breasts of her female friends or subordinates, but only if they would willingly let her.

## Powers and Abilities

Hayate is one of the few modern Rare Skill users, having inherited Use of Collection from Reinforce. Due to Use of Collection, Hayate can said to be using a mix of the Ancient Belkan and Midchildan magic systems, although the latter is mainly used for supportive roles in certain spells. She achieves the mage rank of S (in *A's*) and later SS (one short of the ultimate SSS), which means that her raw power output is truly immense, bordering a tactical nuclear device. This also means that a limiter is put upon her most of the time, lowering her rank to A and thus preventing inadvertent warping of the time-space continuum. Unlike Nanoha's, Hayate's magical power is not natural but is a result of her Linker Core merging with that of the Book of Darkness (that is, Reinforce's). Possibly as a result of this, most of the spells she displays in the series have long casting times and/or require arias.

However, Hayate's enormous power output is not indicative of her performance in actual combat. As she explains, high mana reserves make it hard to process the energy quickly and to multitask, making Hayate a lousy combatant. In fact, she points out that of all the combat mages in the Riot Force 6, the only one she could fight on equal grounds would be Caro Ru Lushe, provided she does not use any of her summons. This is also the reason why Hayate, an aerial mage, maintains a Synthetic rather than Air mage rank.

Additionally, her status as a "Living Lost Logia" gives her exceptional regenerative capacities, which allow her, for example, to quickly recover from a perforating abdominal wound.

## Evolution in Game

Evolves into **Hayate Yagami -Battlesuit-** at level 10.

## Performance in Game

**+** Strong Against Angel and AYB Enemies.