Chrono Harlaown

Chrono Harlaown
Chrono in The MOVIE 1st
Character profile
Age	14 (Nanoha) 14 (A's manga) 14 (A's) 20 (A's epilogue) 20–25 (StrikerS manga) 24 (StrikerS)
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Homeworld	Midchilda
Date of birth	0051
Family	Harlaown family Amy Limietta (wife)
Background
Affiliation	Sailing Force (Arthra, Claudia)
Rank	Admiral (A's epil.)
Occupation	Executive Officer Spaceship Captain (A's epil.)
Qualification	Executive Officer
Magic
Color	Light blue
System	Mid-Childa
Rank	AAA+ (Air)
Device	S2U Durandal (A's)
Production
Japanese name	クロノ・ハラオウン (Kurono Haraoun)
First app.	Nanoha (ep.7)
Voiced by	Mikako Takahashi (TOS, A's) Tomokazu Sugita (A's epil., StrikerS)
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Chrono Harlaown (クロノ・ハラオウン Kurono Haraoun) is an Executive Officer of the Time-Space Administrative Bureau. Son of two Sailing Force Admirals, Clyde and Lindy Harlaown, Chrono began his military career at a very young age, quickly rising through the ranks despite a low natural mana capacity. The death of his father in 0054 affected his personality, leaving him a very stiff and taciturn person, although he eventually grows out of it. He first encounters Nanoha Takamachi, Fate Testarossa, and Yuuno Scrya during the Jewel Seed Incident of 0065. Over the following decade, Chrono rises to the rank of Admiral himself, commanding several ships, marries his old co-worker Amy Limietta, and has two children with her.

Appearance

Chrono first appeared as an antagonist and rival to Nanoha in Lyrical Toy Box, hence his "evil" black attire with shoulder spikes.

Both of Chrono's seiyuu play as a couple in the Super Robot Wars series; Mikako Takahashi, as the younger Chrono, voices Kusuha Mizuha, while Tomokazu Sugita, the elder Chrono, voices Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield. Masaki Tsuzuki, the creator of the Nanoha series, is also a big fan of the Super Robot Wars series.

In Nanoha

Chrono takes his position as a Bureau officer very seriously, which often puts him in awkward moments with his mother (who happens to be his commanding officer on the Asura), and with Amy Limietta, both of whom are more light-hearted in nature. He is highly disciplined in the art of magic, and his experience and training will often make up for his relative lack of magical power in combat. Because of this, he generally frowns at using more power than necessary to stop an opponent. Nevertheless, he is impressed with both Fate and Nanoha's magical prowess. He does have a rather dry sense of humor, however, as he often comments (in deadpan or harsh sarcasm) on Yūno's ferret guise.

He first appears in the series to halt a fierce battle between Nanoha and Fate, saying that the use of magical force was hazardous. Throughout the rest of the series he takes a sort of back seat to Nanoha in the Lost Logia investigation except in command decisions, where he is second only to Lindy Harlaown. After the incident, he helps Fate with her trial, and later helps hone her combat skills at the Time-Space Administration Bureau.

In A's

Chrono has a more in-depth role in A's, because of his father, Clyde Harlaown. Clyde was an Admiral of the Time-Space Administration Bureau, who died during an earlier Bureau investigation of the Book of Darkness. A's Sound Stage 02 reveals that after Clyde's death, his old friend Gil Graham had his familiars, the Liese twins, train Chrono since the age of 5.

In the course of the series, however, Chrono discovers that Aria and Lotte Liese, his former mentors, and their master Gil Graham, were assisting the Wolkenritter behind the scenes. They believed that the best way to defeat the Book of Darkness was to allow it to become completed, and sealing both the Book and its master in a prison universe indefinitely. He places them under arrest, because such a plan was clearly illegal, the Book of Darkness would most likely find its way out, and if the Book remained in existence, someone out there would want to abuse it.

Later in the battle, he was instrumental in planning and executing the destruction of the Book of Darkness' Defensive Program.

Six years after the events of A's, 20-year-old Chrono is an Admiral, in command of the Arthra after his mother retired the post. He is somewhat more relaxed as the ship's commanding officer than he was as a bureau officer, and is engaged to Amy Limietta. Possible rivalries notwithstanding, he is on friendly terms with Yūno.

In StrikerS

Chrono is now married to Amy, and they have twins, a boy named Karel and a girl named Liera. They appear to be happy together, but Chrono remarks in a CD drama that he had little choice but to marry her, suggesting that either the marriage was arranged by Lindy or that he had gotten Amy pregnant.

Making his first StrikerS appearance in episode 11, Chrono is now the Captain of the XV class warship Claudia and a TSAB Admiral. He is mentioned as one of two people with the authority to lift the Capacity Limiters placed on Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Signum, and Vita (the other being Carim Gracia). He is also revealed to be a good friend of Verossa Acous of the TSAB Internal Affairs Division, one of the few Ancient Belka magic system practitioners in existence and Carim's brother.

Towards the end of the season, he is the one who leads the spaceship fleet in the final assault on The Saint's Cradle.

Alternate continuities

Lyrical Toy Box

Chrono in the primary continuity was highly altered from his original in the Triangle Heart Lyrical Toy Box, named Chrono Harvey (クロノ・ハーヴエイ Kurono Hāvei).

Here, he is Nanoha's rival, who hails from the Dream World. In order to save his world, he steals memories from humans on Earth, which Lindy (not his mother, but a pixie) sees as a crime. Lindy grants Nanoha magical powers to stop Chrono, but much like how Nanoha did with Fate in the primary continuity, this Lyrical Nanoha befriended Chrono and enters a relationship with him in an epilogue much like the one at the end of A's.

Movie

Chrono appears in both The MOVIE 1st and The MOVIE 2nd A's.

Portable

Chrono appears in both Battle of Aces and Gears of Destiny.

Powers

Chrono's Barrier Jacket is always active when he is on duty, and receives no upgrade in A's. As he uses only Storage Devices in the series, there is no complex aria required for Chrono to set up S2U or Durandal.

Chrono is one of the very few major characters in Nanoha with relatively weak natural aptitude for mana (along with Teana Lanster and Vice Granscenic). Nonetheless, Chrono is a very capable combat mage, well-rounded in all aspects of magic. His astounding speed and control with Shooting-type spells, in addition to his ability to attack multiple targets at once, allow him to easily outclass both Yuuno and Nanoha in the first season. He also shows an aptitude for using Binds in combat, as well as temperature manipulation magic.

Thanks to his experience and training, Chrono displays acute tactical acumen and can be surprisingly stealthy, getting the drop on Fate with his Delayed Bind, on Vita with his Stinger Blade Execution Shift, and on the Liese twins with a Struggle Bind.

Chrono's weaknesses seem to include an inability to cast spells that require extreme mana outputs (although in the Portable continuity, he uses Full Drive spells extensively and effectively). He also finds Field-type spells and Barriers to be a "tricky" area of magic^{[citation needed]}, and is very weak in hand-to-hand combat, preferring long-ranged fights instead^{[citation needed]}.

Spells

Spell	System	Category	Type	Rank
Blaze Cannon	Midchilda	Attack	Bombardment	A+
Break Impulse	Midchilda	Attack	Melee
Delayed Bind	Midchilda	Capture	Bind
Eternal Coffin	Midchilda	Attack	Area-of-effect Bombardment	S+
Impact Cannon	Midchilda	Attack	Bombardment
Physical Heal	Midchilda Ancient Belka	Support	Increase
Ring Bind	Midchilda	Capture	Bind
Round Shield	Midchilda	Defense	Shield
Stinger Blade	Midchilda	Attack	Shooting	AAA
Stinger Ray	Midchilda	Attack	Shooting
Stinger Snipe	Midchilda	Attack	Shooting
Struggle Bind	Midchilda	Capture	Bind	A

In the games

Spells in The Battle of Aces
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Stinger Ray	Blaze Cannon
△	Block/Bind	Assault Combination	Delayed Bind
◯	Catch/Bind	Impact Cannon	Struggle Bind
L	FDB	Eternal Coffin	---
R	Guard	Round Shield		---

Spells in The Gears of Destiny
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Stinger Ray	Blaze Cannon
△	Block/Bind	Assault Combination (?)	Delayed Bind	Hound Sphere
◯	Catch/Bind	Impact Cannon (?)	Struggle Bind
△△	EX Attack	[unnamed]	---
L	FDB	Eternal Coffin	---
R	Guard	Round Shield		---

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