Raising Heart just keeps getting bigger and badder in every form. Just watch, sooner or later she's going to sprout golden hair and start screaming whenever she assumes a new form.
Already golden and long hair. Already threatening to destroy planets if her opponent dares to dodge the blast. Her power level is over 127 million, and that's when she was 12.
She's the only one with a frickin' STANAG magazine for her wand, the second best is a revolver, she can just feed the hax cartridges all day.
"Whatever you do, don't aim the gun below the horizon, you'll make lots of people unhappy."
I love that the magi in Nanoha seems to be just as much nanotech/etc as 'magic' Somehow magic circles are vital, but so are nano materials and starships.
Jesus Christ, check out the trio of magazines loaded just behind the pistol grip. She may as well have a freakin' belt feed hooked up. What the hell happened to that bit about cartridges being dangerous to use with Intelligent Devices, eh?
I pity the poor fool who pisses her off while she's got this hidden up her sleeve.
Comartemis said: Now that, my friends, is some serious hardware.
It's a good thing she's a medium/long-range bombardment-type, because every form after excelion mode is horribly unsuited to melee, or even close range, combat...
Comartemis said: What the hell happened to that bit about cartridges being dangerous to use with Intelligent Devices, eh?
I think they hand-waved that one between season 2 and 3. Didn't someone mention the cartridge system was stabilized and updated? I think in conjunction with a mention that the system became mainstream, and the reason so many of the trainees ended up with it in their devices.
The only dangerous thing remaining is the very annoying beam-spam-is-bad-for-long-term-health plot device.
Comartemis said: She may as well have a freakin' belt feed hooked up.
And what's she gonna do with a belt-feed? Blast the entire charge of a cartridge at her target at 200 rounds per second?
That kind of upgrade would push her out of bombardment-type bypass strategic-type and straight to deterrent-type mage, and the only tactic she'd have is the tactic they were thinking of for Caro: send her in alone and prepare a clean-up force.
It sounds awesome, but you know it'll only be a few Axel Shooters to achieve air-superiority. After that, only 10 seconds to Starlight the area or accept a surrender, and then months or years of waiting for someone else to get cocky and stupid and become yet another statistic in the file "Nanoha Assisted Suicides."
"Comartemis said: She may as well have a freakin' belt feed hooked up. And what's she gonna do with a belt-feed? Blast the entire charge of a cartridge at her target at 200 rounds per second?"
In volume 1 of the strikers manga, they have her hooked up to a battleship's engine while discussing testing of the new devices. Just some huge power conduit going into RH (I think?) and you can't even see how big it is, or what she's destroying. She's got headgear on to block the light though.
Got me, but I'm becoming more and more convinced there is some secret contest among Japanese fan artists over who can make the most outlandishly huge version that's still notionally at least "hand held". Since this one is about the size of a large motorcycle I predicate the next contestant will depict something roughly the size of a compact car, with a pistol grip on it somewhere of course...
I watched the first episode of this series and it was about some girl finding a talking racoon or something and taking it to the vet. Now the series turned into "girls wielding impossibly-large handheld weapons?"
The thing that always gets me about these images is how plausible they are. Hell, she's already got friggin' Fin Funnels, a Raising Heart mode the size of a Mercedes makes perfect sense.
