A boy who, while traveling in search of clues about the people who destroyed his home town, finds a girl named Lily in a research lab. He rescues her, gaining a powerful device and becoming a fugitive from the TSAB in the process.
Informed Ability: During his fight with Nanoha, the latter notes that his fighting style is unlike anything she's seen before. The artwork of the chapter this is brought up in depicts him...slashing with his sword, hardly anything a veteran combat trainer would be surprised by in this setting.
Like Brother and Sister: With Subaru. Chapter four confirms that she's the "Su-chan" he's previously described as being like an older sister to him, and was planning on making him part of her family.
Marked Change: When he uses the Divider, markings appear and one remains on his arm after his fight with Veyron.
Meaningful Name: His Divider is numbered 996. Like the Dividers used by Cypha (944) and Veyron (928), each is named after a different model of Porsche. In Tohma's case, 996 refers to the 996-series Porsche 911, the first series of 911s to use water-cooled engines rather than air-cooled engines, just as Tohma is the first male main character in a possible heterosexual relationship within the entire series.
Poisonous Person: Thanks to the Book of the Silver Cross treating anything alive around him as a threat. In chapter ten, just him walking near Isis is enough to make her cough up a huge torrent of blood. Poor guy doesn't even want to fight anybody.
Robot Buddy: Steed, whom he uses for functions like photography and navigation.
Cute Mute: Communicates entirely via telepathy. This makes her unable to communicate with Steed since he lacks the ability to receive telepathic signals.
Poisonous Person: Before she met Tohma, The Virus inside her killed anyone who touched her almost immediately. Due to the scientists' desire to collect more data, that number was at least 70 people, probably a lot more. And they all died by mutating into blobs of flesh. No wonder she repressed those memories.
Crazy-Prepared: Have pockets and a bag with various useful stuff as also a wide variety of perfume spells for various situations including one specifically designed to scramble the direction system of any guided projectile which proven to be very effective against ArnageofHuckebein.
Hidden Depths: She seems like a carefree Genki Girl traveller. However, there are hints that she's hiding something - she secretly worries about being deported by the TSAB, she can fly, she has a barrier jacket and a pair of devices, and can break steel manacles with her bare hands, not to mention still fight after getting her neck broken with an axe.
Jumped at the Call: Quite willing to help Tohma after hearing that he's on the run from the TSAB. She later has second thoughts after considering what Huckebein and the TSAB would do to them, but decides that it's worth it to be with friends her age.
The antagonists of Force. A group of infamous killers that are known for slaughtering whole settlements, leaving no one alive. They are not actually related, but are all infected with the Eclipse virus. Widely believed to be invincible, they are now after Tohma in the hope that he will join their family.
Tropes common to the Huckebein:
Anti-Magic: They take this Up to Eleven, especially in reacted form, where conventional devices shatter upon contact with their bodies.
Beware the Superman/Smug Super: All of them know exactly how invincible they are, and won't hesitate to tell you how futile it is to try and fight them.
Super Mode: When they "react" they acquire new Divider forms and in some cases new armor and physical features. They also become more invincible.
Too Powerful to Live: Type 1 - They are overpowered as hell and are easily the most dangerous characters around, but they didn't disappear quickly and as a consequence they're dominating the story for now.
Weak, but Skilled: He can't React, but that hasn't stopped him from holding his own against RF 6 or defeating a Reacted enemy Eclipse infectee in direct combat.
Not So Harmless: He's only weaker in comparission with his fellow Huckebein comrades. He still have very high endurance(as showed when he withstand a direct shot from a Strike Cannon and continue the fight despite bleeding) and his Claw Grab equipement has easily put him on par with other reacted EC-Drivers, also showed to be even stronger than Subaru. Coupled with his Determinator qualities and cool head makes him quite the dangerous opponent.
Cypha of Huckebein
Tropes related to Cypha:
The Ace: She likes to describe herself as this. How true that is, however, is yet to be confirmed.
Blood Knight: Her previous stoicism is replaced by bloodthirsty enthusiasm once Signum starts putting up a good fight. And, as the following events show, she will do anything to win.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: It took her a few minutes to remember exactly which colony Signum was accusing her of slaughtering, in spite of the fact that she personally murdered every single one of the nearly eighty inhabitants.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Against Quinn Garland of the Grendel Family. Cypha overpowers her at first, then Quinn reveals she was only using the basic form of her divider and promptly reacts. Cypha quickly trashes her anyway.
Kick Them While They Are Down: Seems to be fond of this as she did that to Signum and attempted to do the same to Quinn.
Oh Crap: She... underestimated Signum, to put it lightly.
Psychotic Smirk: This seems to be her default expression when not interacting with other Hückebein members and being afraid of Signum.
Smug Snake: Several examples since her introduction but special mention goes to Ch. 24. When Signum finally returns with an AEC-Equipement and challenge Cypha to a re-match, Cypha's reaction was to fight Signum with a divider taken from an enemy she just trashed shortly before (see Curb-Stomp Battle above for details) instead of using her own, furtherly mocking Signum's low-level threat to her eye.
Creepy Child: When piloting the Huckebein's base/ship.
Cute Mute: She typically communicates solely through facial expressions and pantomime that the other Huckebeins translate into complete sentences... somehow. She becomes capable of speech only after merging with the Huckebein's ship.
Moral Myopia: Refers to the TSAB Forces intruding on their ship as "bugs" and argues that the TSAB shouldn't be coming after them for their killings since they do them on non-administrated worlds.
Spaceship Girl: She seems to have the power to control the Huckebein Family's spaceship fortress by merging her consciousness with it. She can even enhance the ship's powers and repair damage it's taken.
Evil Genius: Mentioned to be the brains of the group in his Force Analyzer profile.
Informed Ability: The only things he's done so far in the story are exposit information and stand in the bridge doing absolutely nothing in the middle of an attack. It seems like this intelligence doesn't extend to actual fighting, ironically.
It Gets Easier: His attitude on killing, which is necessary for him to survive.
Too Dumb to Live/Villain Ball: Yep, tell the guy you want to recruit that you'd have killed him without batting an eye if you had met him before this. That will definitely make him want to join you.
Curren Huckebein
Tropes related to Curren:
Badass: As smug as she is, one can't deny that she demonstrated the legitimacy of her badass credentials by curbstomp three of the most powerful current characters without even using her Eclipse powers.
Big Bad: The official leader of the Huckebein Family.
Big Damn Heroes: Another villainous example. When Hayate is casting the Heimdall spell to bring an iceberg on the Huck-ship, it looks like Cypha can't carve it up in time until Curren shanks the former, causing the iceberg to break.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Defeats Vita and Erio with ease despite both being armed with Strike Cannons, she even managed to destroy both AEC weapons with a sword that wasn't even a Divider.
