Fate Testarossa
Fate Testarossa is a female anime and manga character who features in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.
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Biography
Fate Testarossa (Japanese: フェイト・テスタロッサ, Hepburn: Feito Tesutarossa),
She and her familiar Arf along with her Device materialised in the town in search of Jewel Seeds. With her familiar Alph and her Intelligent Device Bardiche, materializing in the Uminari City in search of Jewel Seeds. It is soon apparent that not even Fate knows why she is looking for these specimens of Lost Logia, but she does not care, stating, "I must get them, because my mother wants them." Fate is not impressed by her young, naïve rival, Nanoha, and tells her that her quest is worthless, but Nanoha's steadfast dedication to reforming Fate gets to her heart, and she begins to wane. However, this does not impress Fate's mother, Presea Testarossa, who tortures the girl for not getting all the Jewel Seeds. Fate remains loyal despite Alph's protests; she remembers a time when Presea was kind and stable, and thinks that the Jewel Seeds will cure her mother's insanity.
Fate teleports to her home from the top of an office building with complicated coordinates and magic. Her home is in a gloomy hideout in the Garden of Time with her mother and Alph, sharing a room with the latter. She appears in the city whenever she senses a Jewel Seed, as she has no school and nothing else to do. This is also the reason why she spends much of this season in her transformed state.
Alph strikes out at Presea, and is thrown out as 'useless' who ends up with Nanoha's friend Alisa Bannings. Fate finally starts to question her mother's motives, as Alph has always been there for her, but still refuses to join Nanoha and fully accepts her challenge to a winner-takes-all battle for the Jewel Seeds. When Fate loses, Presea appears and steals the Jewel Seeds. Fate tentatively joins up with the Administrative Bureau, and it is revealed that her memories of the past were copied, and that she is a clone of Presea's biological daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Fate does not take this news too well and collapses after Presea shows that she truly hates her. She attempts to convince Presea to give up by, saying that she is still her daughter because she created her; the madwoman however laughs in her face, and states that the Jewel Seed collection was an attempt to reach the legendary Al-Hazard and resurrect Alicia, and tells her that ever since Fate's creation, Presea has despised her.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Fate's magical abilities developed at an astonishing rate, according to Rinis. She learned electricity-based attacks faster than other magical types, something that her mother Precia also specialized in. At the age of seven, she had already mastered several abilities to the point of not requiring the incantations. Behind her tutor Rinis' back, she also studied how to create and handle familiars. Her command phrase for her shooting abilities is "Fire!".
Fate specializes in mid-range and melee attacks, preferring speed to power and endurance. This was a result of the training that her mother demanded, which sacrificed the flexibility of a wide range of abilities for raw speed. Fate is also the fastest and strongest character in the Nanoha universe and is able to keep up with anyone without having to use speed enhancing spells, and when she does use them they make her even faster. After the events of the first season, she trained with Chrono to address the gaps in her initial training.
She had an Intelligent Device with hers being Bardiche (バルディッシュ, Baruddishu)
Fate's original Barrier Jacket is mostly black, resembling a swimsuit with an attached pink skirt and a number of maroon belts. It includes a pair of gloves, thick ribbons which hold her hair in pigtails, and laced shoes worn over long stockings. There are gold gems resembling Bardiche's Standby Form on her chest and each of her gloves, and can store Bardiche in one of them when not in use. It also includes a high-collared navy cloak with maroon lining, though she does not wear it while out of combat.
Notes
- Fate Testarossa was created by Ivory and Masaki Tsuzuki where she featured in the setting of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha:
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