Life After Hayate - Television Tropes & Idioms

"And if any of you call me master I swear I'll throw myself out an airlock." - Chrono Harlaown

On a cold, snowy day, on an administrated world in AC 0068, a twelve-year-old Nanoha Takamachi was supposed to have been there, where she would be injured by a Type IV Gadget Drone.

She wasn't.

Hayate Yagami was there instead, and wounded far more badly. By the time help reached her, it was already too late. But her children, her Wolkenritter, still new to a life of kindness and relative freedom, would not die with her. She would not allow it. And so with her dying breath, she gave them and the Book of the Night Sky to another.

It's the most precious gift anyone will ever give Chrono Harlaown. Now he has to survive it. Along the way he'll find out things about the organization he serves that he never wanted to know, meet new and interesting people, try to survive with his dignity intact, and avoid doing anything he would regret after gaining two very attractive female servants. If he happens to accidentally bring down the Bureau government seeking justice for Hayate, once it started killing loyal and capable servants it wasn't worth keeping anyways...

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Artificial Human: Wolkenritter are very good copies of humans, even when copying a human this well doesn't make sense for what the Wolkenritter are supposed to do. But they're not actually human.
Big Good: Leti Lowran, mainly. Not actually the first person Chrono goes to with his information, however.
Blue and Orange Morality: It's been implied the the Wolkenritter's Belkan Knight morality and outlook on life may not share very much in common with anyone else currently alive.
- Signum casually threatens to murder Tiida Lanster, because he's hitting on her. She apparently means it.
- Signum and Shamal are required to offer their, ah, services to Chrono, as Knights of the opposite sex from their Master and past puberty.
The Conspiracy: The Bureau Council/Jail Scaligetti/Regius Gaiz team-up that StrikerS only hinted at is in full effect here, though its public face in the story so far is Auris Gaiz, who is haplessly trying to get a look at Hayate's personal possessions.
Contemplate Our Navels: Relatively early in the story, Chrono and Zafira have a conversation about how perfect Hayate was for the Wolkenritter and why Chrono can't be a second Hayate for them.
Creepy Good: Muhammad al-Faddil, Head of Naval Counterintelligence. Chrono describes him as the sort of person who makes people check their closets and under their beds. Zafira goes beyond not turning his back on Muhammad: he refuses to stand "at ease" in Muhammad's presence. That would require Zafira putting his hands behind his back and making himself more vulnerable.
Dream Team: We have the Wolkenritter in their prime to do the heavy lifting, and the series' resident innovative genius Chrono Harlaown to command them. Nobody has picked a direct fight with them yet for a very good reason.
Full Potential Upgrade: Like Hayate's Device woes in the canon, Chrono is well aware that with all his newfound power he'd fry S2U pretty quickly, so he's borrowing Durandel again until S2U can be upgraded to handle what he can do now. It's been hinted he might dual-wield Durandel and a post-upgrade S2U at some point.
Must Make Amends: Zafira states he thinks one of the reasons Hayate gave the Wolkenritter to Chrono was that the Wolkenritter had killed Chrono's father, and any chance to make direct amends (no matter how small) means a great deal to them.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Chrono regards the Wolkenritter's obeying this as a very big problem. He can't trust them to warn him, much less stop him, if he accidentally, thoughtlessly, or deliberately tries to abuse the near-infinite power he has over them.
Not So Stoic: At Hayate's funeral, it's Signum who completely loses it: screaming, crying, and lying face-down in the mud.
Oh My Gods!: Chrono swears by the Sankt Kaiser. That's about all the religion he's got in him.
Revealing Coverup: Altering the mission reports surrounding Hayate Yagami's death turns the incident from merely suspicious into actual proof that something very wrong has happened. Vita even mocks the decision.
"Conspiracy amateur hour."
Properly Paranoid: The Wolkenritter have to actually think about whether it's acceptable for all of them to be asleep at the same time and one of them is always awake from midnight on since it's a classic time for a surprise attack. They will not let Chrono out of their sight in even a semi-public area either. Considering Hayate was probably assassinated, this is not just carryover from their bad old days of the Book of Darkness.
Worthy Opponent: Signum discusses Clyde Harlaown, Chrono's father, with a great deal of affection. Why? He beat the Wolkenritter twice, something no one else had ever done.