#harlaown fate

[bloodraven55]

happy 20th anniversary to the best enemies to friends to lovers to domestic wives in all of anime history

[soymilkwithyuri]

LATE BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DEAREST MOTHER, CAPTAIN, INSTRUCTOR, ARIAL MAGE, ACE OF ACES TAKAMACHI NANOHA 🫶🫶🫶❤️❤️❤️🫡🫡🫡

[thunderlina]

Finding refs for specific Nanoha designs is a nightmare so here are lineups of Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate's barrier jacket designs over the years.

(Season 1 -> A's -> StrikerS -> Force -> Movie 1st -> Movie 2nd A's -> Reflections -> Detonation)

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

You can look at Nanoha's first reaction to Vivio being "we need to find this kid's real mom" / "but I'll look after her meanwhile" / "but we still need to find her ACTUAL mom"

compared to Fate's history with Caro and Erio of

"I'm not old enough to adopt them so my adopted mom will sign the paperwork until I can be their legal guardian" and Vvio "legally I'm just Nanoha's friend but I am also the 'fate-mama' to our newly adopted daughter" and then with former enemy Lutecia "so her mother is still out of commission and that means I'll be her guardian until things get better"

you could say, that's just Fate being kind softhearted Fate, and Nanoha being stubborn like usual, but the thing is, it tracks so well with both their experiences AS children WITH their families

Nanoha's childhood was lonely sure, but never because her birth family didn't love her or try their best to care for and support her. She values the way she was raised- repeats it with Vivio later on, giving her freedom and responsibility, focusing on teaching Vivio how to stand up on her own after getting hurt, letting her have the tools and chances to make dangerous mistakes and learn from them. Even (spoilers for Vivid) even when her kid has a completely messed up leg after fighting in a tournament for FUN, Nanoha says she's proud of her for that, for Vivio following through and putting in her all, and helping her new friends and competitors grow as people along the way

All of that Nanoha got from her parents and her family, the ones she was born into.

So when she first meets lost and abandoned Vivio, she thinks, where is this girl's family? It takes a while for Nanoha to sink into the idea of Vivio not being born into a family that cares or can care for her. It takes time for Nanoha to decide, actually, maybe SHE could be Vivio's family now. Maybe she already is

And Fate- it's easy to joke about her running around adopting every kid she sees- but a lot of people I know who WERE happily adopted later in life are like that too. It's not universal. Still for people who know what the difference can be and how GOOD it can be, some of them end up like Fate, they end up repeating what their own adopted family did (Lindy her mother, and Chrono her big brother, looking after Fate while she was still facing trial, asking her very gently if they could all be a family together) and when Fate sees other kids being abandoned or locked away she also repeats what her family taught her by immediately reaching out. She offers to be there for Erio and Caro and deals with figuring out HOW to do that afterwards, accepts making that her job to study up on and get advice about while already knowing that it can work. She's been living proof that a family that's made by choice can be wonderful- just as good or better than the one she lost before.

But she also knows how much a parent can hurt a child, even without whips involved. Fate is soft with her kids, worried about them and for them and how they feel about her, never wanting them to think for a moment that she doesn't care or would be okay with them being hurt, and it's a reaction to her birth mom Precia, sure- (her memories of how a kind mother could be be so cruel to a child she didn't love)-

it's also just as much a repeat of Lindy's gentleness with Fate, too. Lindy who signed that paperwork so her teenage daughter could split time between her new career and two different kids who needed her. Fate wanted to be there for children who had no one, and Lindy made it work.

So when Nanoha finally decides to try being Vivio's mom, even though she wasn't Vivio "real" mother- Fate is already settled into them all being a family. She's there and ready to make this work.

I just always really like the writing in that. How you start off with these nine year old magical girls, and when you check back in with them 10-15 years later, everything they lived through at age nine has shaped them into the people and parents they end up being together today.

It's very sweet. I love that for them, for all of them.

[figurecollection]

[cobalt-canary]

Lesbian Wisdom

Euhpie *between episodes 11 & 12*: I call upon my lesbian ancestors, how do I save Anis from her self destructive tendencies? Nanoha: Blast her in the face with your magic at full power! Euhpie: This works? Fate: *nodding* It's also the reason I fell in love with Nanoha. Euhpie:*furiously taking notes*

[endmeseymour]

@magitober Day 9 - Crossover

[chroniclesmacaque]

Do you even like a series if you don't draw your favs with partnermon?

[Image id 1 (picture on the left): Fully colored digital pastel drawing of Fate Testarossa with a Garurumon (Black) . Garurumon is placed towards the left edge, facing left in 3/4, smirking and looking towards the viewer. It stands behind Fate, who has a serious and morose expression and ashen complexion. She's wearing her battle barrier that consists of her double-sided purple cape with a red inside and black top. The cape fades a little into Garurumon. The background is a desaturated wine color and the lighting looks somber.

Image id 2 (picture on the right): Fully colored digital pastel drawing of Takamachi Nanoha with a Kudamon resting on her shoulders. Nanoha is beaming while holding onto the straps of the blue backpack she's wearing. Kudamon is also smiling with its visible eye closed and curled affectionately around Nanoha's shoulders and touching her cheek with its nose. Nanoha is wearing her orange sports jacket and white ribbons om her ponytails. The background is a soft light pink and the lighting is bright.]

[littlemisspinky]

the takamachi family ❤️

[cutepresea]

XDU will be running the Nanoha Detonation collab again on February 16. Hibiki will also be getting a new card for it (I'll post a pic once they reveal it)

[bloodraven55]

happy father’s day to fate testarossa takamachi harlaown

[soymilkwithyuri]

Flirting at training grounds + 全家福

[muffinrecord]

Here is the card art for Fate T Harlaown!

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

on the topic of classic wlw anime ships, I'm still deceased over Nanoha sharing a room with Fate, including a BED, despite having a dorm of her own. the scene where she wakes up early, tucks their adopted daughter Vivo back under the covers, and is just SO THRILLED when Fate and the kid instinctively snuggle together like the soft implication that she WANTS her best friend forever and her new daughter to be a FAMILY

the way this quietly backs up Fate instantly volunteering herself as mom 2 for Vivio, how they naturally fall into the roles of Slightly Strict / Supports Independence parent (Nanoha, due to her lonely and self-sufficient but otherwise happy childhood) and the This Child Will Always Know They Are Safe And Loved And Can Come Crying To Me Whenever They Want parent (Fate, in reaction to literal child abuse from her mom and lots of research into not repeating that) balancing each other out so Vivo gets the best of both worlds

the moment when Nanoha our plucky lead who is always strong and determined and hopeful and ready to kick butt breaks down crying on Fate's shoulder bc Vivio was kidnapped and Nanoha is SCARED and you realize Fate is the only one she lets hold her like this, the only one she cries in front of, this girl Nanoha couldn't stop thinking about because of how beautiful and sad her eyes were, Fate who she helped save, who let herself be saved by her, who is her best friend, who she wants to build a family with, who promises her they will get Vivio back- And they do, they save their kid go on and get a house together, Vivio has two mothers and gets an amazing childhood with them, Fate is Nanoha's special person they never ever kiss they are COMMITTED TO EACH OTHER AND TO THEIR DAUGHTER

listen. Nanofate is like, anime Xena and Gabrielle in some ways. the word 'gay' will never ever be used for them outside of VA's shipping it and i don't care. they've made a life together. no external excuse or pressure. nothing about boys have cooties or there's no other way. no gimmick. just two grown women, raising their kid, sharing a home, being each other's 'special person' always

i still haven't seen anything else in anime like it

[figurecollection]