Reinforce

Reinforce
Device profile
Other names	The will of the Book of Darkness The Blessed Wind Reinforce Eins / Eins
Master	Hayate Yagami
Gender	Female
Language	Japanese
Classification
Magic system	Ancient Belka
Type	Unison
Handling	Auxiliary control
Humanoid Device profile
Magic color	Purplish black White (in A's ep.13)
Production
Japanese name	リインフォース (Riinfōsu)
First app.	A's manga (ch.3, as the Book of Darkness) A's (ep.10, as Reinforce)
Last app.	A's (ep.13)
Voiced by	Sanae Kobayashi
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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. Formerly "the will of the Book of Darkness" (闇の書の意志 Yami no Sho no Ishi), 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 the main inspiration for the much smaller Reinforce Zwei.

Name

Presumably, Reinforce was named after a battleship from Victory Gundam, which was destroyed and rebuilt as the smaller "Reinforce Jr.".

In Reinforce's scenario in The Battle of Aces, she refers to herself for the first time as "Eins" (I(アインス) Ainsu, German for "one"), urging Hayate to reserve the name "Reinforce" for her future Device, foreshadowing the naming of Reinforce Zwei. Since then, Vita and Hayate have also referred to her as Eins (初代(アインス) Ainsu, lit. "first generation") in ViVid ch.ex and Force ch.18 respectively. In the 12th TVCM of The MOVIE 2nd A's, Reinforce introduces herself as "Reinforce Eins".

In A's

The will of the Book of Darkness

Reinforce appears, simply as the "Book of Darkness", in the A's manga. Although she cannot communicate with her master, she can (in her book form) float around her house and interact with Hayate physically in a manner reminiscent of a cat or a dog. Her inner monologue, however, reveals that she is fully aware of herself and their situation but cannot manifest herself in any other way until her pages are filled up.

Hayate, once placed inside a void in the Book's separate dimension, opens her eyes after presumably being asleep, but the Book tells her to go back to sleep and escape the tragic reality. She refuses, and instead absorbs the knowledge of the Book of Darkness, gaining greater control over it and learning of everything that has been going on behind her back, including the innocence of Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa including more of the sadness of the Wolkenritter. Just as the Book has Nanoha cornered, Hayate takes control of her body again so that Nanoha can disable it. During this process, Hayate gives the Book a new name, "Reinforce".

Hayate reprograms the entire Book, but something still remains inside that wants to continue its former programming. She identifies it as a corrupted automated defense program and says that it caused the evil aspect of the Book. Reinforce frees Hayate and becomes her partner. The reprogrammed Unison Device comprises Reinforce the Master Program, the Book and the Staff. See Book of Darkness for more information.

The characters involved in the incident from both the Time-Space Administration Bureau meet up with the Wolkenritter, who had recently been reformed by Hayate. Reinforce and Hayate perform a Unison to enable Hayate to use both Mid-Childan and Belka magic. The group teams up and defeats the viral creature.

In the aftermath of the battle, Reinforce believes that she has to be destroyed for the virus never to return, and convinces Nanoha and Fate to do so. Hayate, however refuses to let her go. After persuading Hayate to her side, Reinforce asks the girl 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 in place of an intelligent device.

Reinforce makes a cameo appearance in a flashback in the final chapter of A's manga, when Nanoha suggests that her personality has melded with Hayate's.

In an epilogue that bridges the gap between A's and StrikerS, Reinforce is revealed to have been the main inspiration for a new type. Known as Reinforce Zwei ("Two" in German). She is much smaller than her predecessor but still allows the normal functions of a is a::Unison Device.

In Force

Reinforce (as the will of the Book of Darkness) appears briefly in the Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force prologue, in a flashback of the Ancient Belkan era.

Alternate continuities

Movie

Reinforce only appears in The MOVIE 2nd A's, albeit she is not referred as the Master Program of the Book of Darkness in it. Instead, she appears as a regular Unison Device. She seems to retain complete consciousness, rather than being driven by the Defense Program and in fact, she wears it, dubbed "NachtWal" in the movie, on her left arm as a weapon. In this appearance, she also does not have small black wings on her head, like she did in the series.

Portable

Reinforce appears as a playable character in both Battle of Aces and Gears of Destiny. In fact, the point of divergence of this continuity is Nanoha and Fate's refusal to seal her (as they did in the primary one), so they instead battle the residue of the Book of Darkness once more to let Reinforce stay with Hayate for a while longer.

INNOCENT

Reinforce Eins Yagami (八神リインフォース・アインス Yagami Ri'infōsu Ainsu) is a shop assistant of Yagamido, along Signum Yagami and Shamal Yagami.

Powers

With the Rare Skill Collect and Use, Reinforce has had access to all spells cast by the Wolkenritter, as well as those who had their Linker Cores drained for the Book of Darkness. As such, she is possibly the single most powerful character seen so far.

Spells Reinforce has copied use their original owner's magic circle but can boast improved power (as with Photon Lancer Genocide Shift and Starlight Breaker). Notably, in the latter case the spell retained Nanoha's magic color and Reinforce added an aria to the spell which its creator has never been seen to use.

Like the Wolkenritter and many other mages, she is capable of flight and telepathy. Her magic color is black with purplish aura and becomes Hayate's white color when performing the self-destruction magic by the end of A’s. However, it does not change but remains purplish black in the game continuity.

Combat Equipment

Reinforce does not cast Knight Armor but Combat Equipment as her protective clothing. It takes the form of a plain black minidress with a gold band around her waist, two more crossing over her chest, and a red belt around her neck. She wears fingerless gloves, and armoured black boots with socks of two different lengths. The same black minidresses were worn by the female Wolkenritter as non-combat attire before they received casual clothes from Hayate.

In combat she adds a navy jacket and duster with gold trim similar to Signum's, along with two pairs of raven-like wings.

While under the influence of her corrupted Defense Program, Reinforce has red lines on her skin, a small pair of wings on her head, and red cords wrapped around her right arm and the exposed skin on her legs. The first two traits are shown by the Defense Program itself when it is separated from Reinforce.

Spells

Spell	System	Category	Type	Rank
Absorption	Ancient Belka	Force field	Circle
Bind Break	Midchilda Ancient Belka	Support	Decline
Black Lance	Ancient Belka	Attack	Area-of-effect
Bloody Dagger	Ancient Belka	Attack	Shooting	AAA
Chain Bind	Midchilda	Capture	Bind
Diabolic Emission	Ancient Belka	Attack	Area-of-effect	S−
Dream of the Book of Darkness	Ancient Belka	Illusion
Gefängnis der Magie	Ancient Belka	Force field	Area
Lightning Bind	Midchilda Special (IS)	Capture	Bind
Panzerschild	Ancient Belka	Defense	Shield
Photon Lancer Genocide Shift	Midchilda	Attack	Shooting
Restrict Lock	Midchilda	Capture	Bind
Scarlet Dragon Summon	Midchilda	Summoning
Schwarze Wirkung	Ancient Belka	Attack	Magic-enhanced attack
Sleipnir	Ancient Belka	Support	Transport
Starlight Breaker	Midchilda	Attack	Bombardment	S
Thunder of the Night Sky	Ancient Belka	Attack	Area-of-effect
Use of Collection	Ancient Belka	Rare Skill

In the games

Spells in The Battle of Aces
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Bloody Dagger
△	Block/High	Dark Weave	Nightmare	Howling Sphere
◯	Catch/Bind	Schwarze Wirkung	Seal Bind
L	FDB	Thunder of the Night Sky	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

Spells in The Gears of Destiny
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Bloody Dagger
△	Block/High	Dark Weave (?)	Nightmare	Howling Sphere
◯	Catch/Bind	Schwarze Wirkung	Seal Bind
△△	EX Attack	[unnamed]	---
L	FDB	Thunder of the Night Sky	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

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