Re: tjalorak
It's possible that her family would have had more influence over her development than that did, but, before any other skills she'd have picked up from them, they'd have trained her to think like a spy - shinobi, remember, not samurai.
As for the TSAB in general, well, they've got better equipment than the gray men, but don't work on a large scale very often and usually deal with situations where it's smarter to talk first.
Re: CattyN
As to what she's doing there... The flash-forward also showed that she's been spending at least enough time on Earth to hold down a respectable academic career, as well as saying that she sometimes did field work as an investigator. I suspect that either A, the TSAB has a low enough turnover rate that they don't need to do the class every year, or B, Nanoha's too influenced by her personal experience, and her lessons aren't really practical for, oh, about the lower seventy-five percent of the power range, which'd have about the same effect - either way, she doesn't need to teach it until there are enough applicants built up to make a full course worth doing.
The real reason, though, is that this whole fight scene is happening on Earth - essentially, she's point woman on this because she was already on scene when it started.
Speaking of which, I'd like to float a theory - from the way Lindy and the others reacted to them, Lost Logia are not all that common - but there were still two, apparently unconnected incidents on Earth within a year of each other. Likewise, it seems like magically-based technology is more common in the greater universe than the purely physical type that developed on Earth.
So, what I think is happening is that Earth was the nearest world to the destroyed dimension that the Lost Logia originally came from, and that much of its, er, magisphere, was basically burned away by the backlash. Being closest, it'd also be in for the greatest frequency of artifacts, whether ones that survived the cataclysm or self-directing ones trying to find their way to a home that doesn't exist any more.
Ja, -n
(ETA: The gray men are carrying weapons based off of nagamaki.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Quote:Not really. 'Time and Space Administration Bureau' sounds like the name of a police organization to me, and their behavior seems to bear that out (although the nature of their work produces a lot of similarities to the world's various Coast Guards). They'll have given Fate and Hayate a considerable amount of training and evaluation before turning them loose as full field agents, and given how closely she's connected to them - and given her personality and views in general - I'd be shocked if Nanoha hadn't gone through the same course.
So the whole warrior v. soldier concept (like what David Weber set up in the March to the Stars trilogy)?
It's possible that her family would have had more influence over her development than that did, but, before any other skills she'd have picked up from them, they'd have trained her to think like a spy - shinobi, remember, not samurai.
As for the TSAB in general, well, they've got better equipment than the gray men, but don't work on a large scale very often and usually deal with situations where it's smarter to talk first.
Re: CattyN
Quote:Fear, if I were you. Triangle Hearts may be AU from this, but it still suggests that she can be surprisingly scary when she wants to.
There are lots of things I'm wondering abot though, for one this is clearly set after the series and Nanoha became a combat instructor in Canon, so how did she wind up on the front lines? Or didn't she become a drill sergant in this timeline?(Drill Sargent Nanoha. I'm not sure if I'm shivering in fear or suppressed laughter)
As to what she's doing there... The flash-forward also showed that she's been spending at least enough time on Earth to hold down a respectable academic career, as well as saying that she sometimes did field work as an investigator. I suspect that either A, the TSAB has a low enough turnover rate that they don't need to do the class every year, or B, Nanoha's too influenced by her personal experience, and her lessons aren't really practical for, oh, about the lower seventy-five percent of the power range, which'd have about the same effect - either way, she doesn't need to teach it until there are enough applicants built up to make a full course worth doing.
The real reason, though, is that this whole fight scene is happening on Earth - essentially, she's point woman on this because she was already on scene when it started.
Speaking of which, I'd like to float a theory - from the way Lindy and the others reacted to them, Lost Logia are not all that common - but there were still two, apparently unconnected incidents on Earth within a year of each other. Likewise, it seems like magically-based technology is more common in the greater universe than the purely physical type that developed on Earth.
So, what I think is happening is that Earth was the nearest world to the destroyed dimension that the Lost Logia originally came from, and that much of its, er, magisphere, was basically burned away by the backlash. Being closest, it'd also be in for the greatest frequency of artifacts, whether ones that survived the cataclysm or self-directing ones trying to find their way to a home that doesn't exist any more.
Ja, -n
(ETA: The gray men are carrying weapons based off of nagamaki.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."