ANNABELLE GATO
Age: 11 in
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Birthday: 14th June
Hair colour: silver
Eye colour: brown
Height: 140cm
Weight: 37kg
Affiliation: Time-Space Administration Bureau
Position / Rank in TSAB: Commissioned Officer
Home World: Earth
Device: Miata & Vios
Device Appearance: bracelets
Magic System: Mid-Childa
Magic Element: earth
Partner: Leonidas (beast form: lion)
Magic colour: brown
Personality: Annabelle is a cheerful and happy-go-lucky girl who seems to be insensible of harsh situation around her. Very immature and childish, her naiveté is so troublesome her partner Leonidas is often forced to act as her paternal guard, protecting her from all form of dangers whether she realizes it or not. A peace lover and songstress by nature, she is very easy-going and doesn’t mind being scolded by her superiors.
HISTORY
Annabelle is the granddaughter of General Armstrong, former commander of the TSAB Armed Force and leader of the bureau’s 271st Special Force Unit, The Wind Talkers. She was first discovered to be aptitude with magic when she was only 3 years old: Annabelle cast an earth-based shield that prevented her family’s villa from buried under soil when a landslide struck her village. Despite the newfound power she was unable to protect her village from the landslide that also claimed her parents’ live and was left as the only survivor. After the disaster, she was adopted by her grandfather who was also the master of Leonidas who would play the role as Annabelle’s partner for the next eight years.
Currently she is assigned under Yuuno Scrya.
POWER
Annabelle is a Support-type class. Her magic spells are used for offensive and defensive purposes. She is proficient with speed-casting and often uses this talent for the benefit of her team. Her mage rank is A.
Given by Annabelle’s grandfather as her birthday present, Miata and Vios are categorized as Storage Device. They are constructed to resemble bracelets (Miata is the left bracelet, while Vios is the right bracelet). Each has specific role: Miata’s function is to regulate Annabelle’s magic while Vios act as spell guidance system.
Like every device, both Miata and Vios have female voice and speak only French.
DEFENSIVE ABILITIES- Barrier Jacket: Annabelle’s suit is a Cleric-type uniform, with brown/white trim colour scheme. This suit is not just the flashy costume, but also refers to an invisible defensive field generated by the costume, reducing or eliminating any serious injury from events such as an impact with a building.
- Bastion: Annabelle’s first spell, it is used for defensive purpose whether to protect its caster or target of choice (usually friendly units).
- Round Table: a powerful shield able to absorb physical or magical attacks. It can only protect from one direction, however.
- Bind Break: Annabelle tempts to deactivate a binding or imprisoning spell. The amount of time required to deactivate depends on the complexity of the target magic.
- Megalith: the most powerful Shield-type magic, it creates a wall of stones that either surrounds target or stands between target and oncoming threat.
- Perception: it is not exactly a defensive skill, but a type of support ability that allows its caster or selected target to improve field of vision, therefore increasing line of sight.
OFFENSIVE ABILITIES- Earthquake: Annabelle’s regular offensive spell, she summons an earthquake that delivers moderate to extreme damage to target area (its damage rating is, interestingly, measured on Richter scale). While powerful it is useless against airborne targets.
- Stalagmite: functions the same as Earthquake but Annabelle summons spikes from Earth instead of tremor. This ability is very useful to separate huge group into small skirmishes, and on some occasion the stalagmites can be used as barricades.
- Liquefaction: it transforms granular material from solid to liquid, and may cause structures or people to tilt or sink into the liquefied deposits.
- Meteor: Annabelle summons meteors from up above and sends them crashing onto target area. It can hit both grounded and airborne targets but is less effective against targets with high mobility rate.
- Fissure: it is actually a Richter-9 Earthquake but in reality is a very different form of magic. It is rarely used due to long casting time (even speed spell-casters like Annabelle needs ample time to cast such spell). When unleashed, its destructive power is more than enough to level an area the size of Hong Kong. Its other name is Death Valley.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Like anyone assigned under senior officers, Annabelle admires Yuuno and often calls him ‘big brother’. This puts her on odds against Leonidas (who believes that Yuuno is using her naiveté for his own advantage) and Arf (she thinks Annabelle is too young to have a boyfriend). When not on duty or training, Annabelle often practices singing as her ambition is to become a songstress.
Leonidas is the former leader of the Spartan Clan and once led a group of 300 warriors to defend the Glatisant Gate from the invading Berzian Empire. He and his warriors lost the battle and their feat was frequently retold in legends as “the famous last-stand” (ironically, Berzian Empire would later lose the war they waged against the Spartans for 300 years). His soul is resurrected 300 years later when a group of Mid-Childan archaeologists excavated the site, but instead of taking human form he assumes beast form and becomes Glatisant Gate’s guardian lion. He is tamed by General Armstrong who happens to join the expedition and has since then sworn to serve Armstrong Family. His total devotion toward his master often puts him at odds against other familiars such as Arf, Zafira and the Liese Twins.
Annabelle perceives the three aces of TSAB (Nanoha, Fate and Hayate) as her superiors and respects every decision they make. However unlike other lower-ranked officers she doesn’t over-idolize them and often argues with Subaru regarding her “fan girl” behaviour whenever Nanoha is around.