Material-D

"Lord" Dearche
Dearche, as she appears in TGoD Dearche, as she appears in TGoD
Character profile
Other names	Material-D Dearche Dark Hayate / Yami (fans)
Gender	Female
Species	Material
Family	Purple Sky family
Background
Affiliation	Unbreakable Dark system
Magic
Color	White (BoA) Black (GoD)
System	Ancient Belka
Device	Yersinia Kreuz Tome of the Purple Sky
Production
Japanese name	マテリアルD (Materiaru D)
First app.	The Battle of Aces
Voiced by	Kana Ueda
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Material-D (マテリアルD Materiaru D) is one of the chief antagonists in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces, along with Material-S and Material-L.

She appears again in the sequel A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny, with her new full name, new magic color, and new spells, which are then different from Hayate's.

Name and Origins

Material-D is a Material, part of the system Unbreakable Dark materialized as a clone of Hayate Yagami during the Dark Fragment Incident. She is thus known among fans as Dark Hayate (闇のはやて Yami no Hayate).

Her name is first introduced in The Battle of Aces in English Material-D and in Japanese "Lord Ruler of Darkness" (闇統べる王 Yami Suberu Ō) without specific ruby-kanas. The "D" in her name is believed to stand for "Darkness", which is associated with Hayate and the Book of Darkness.

In The Gears of Destiny, it is revealed her rubied name is "Load" Dearche (闇統べる王(ロード・ディアーチェ) Rōdo Diāche), which may be shortened as Dearche (闇王(ディアーチェ)/ディアーチェ Diāche). It is most likely a misplant of "Lord" Dearche. She is later properly spelled as Lord Dearche (without quotation marks) in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT (game).

Appearance

Material-D looks like her original, Hayate, except that her Knight Armor does not include a hat. Her Devices are named Yersinia Kreuz and Tome of the Purple Sky. Unlike Hayate, Material-D is very vain, arrogant, brash, and hot-headed, addressing herself with majestic plural and viewing others as servants.

Alternate continuities

Portable

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

Brave Duel

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Granz Observatory team in INNOCENT

Dearche Kings Claudia (ディアーチェ・K(キングス)・クローディア Diāche Kinguzu Kurōdia), along Stern, Levi and Yuri, is student studying abroad in Uminari City. Her main outfit consists of a regular gakuran, a dark purple jacket over a cream school sweatshirt and a white shirt with a pale purple tie. She wears a purple greyish miniskirt, and she wears middle-length white socks and the required brown shoes.

Owning the title "Lord Dearche", she is an Industry-style duelist of Granz Observatory shop (Dark Materials team) and her primary avatar is Lord Of Glory (LOG) type, with limited jacket Diabolique. Her Brave Duel Device is Tome of the Purple Sky.

Powers

Material-D is one of the most powerful characters in The Battle of Aces, combining Hayate and Reinforce's enormous mana output with Shamal's healing and restoration skills.

Knight Armor

As revealed in The Gears of Destiny Material Girls., Dearche's protective clothing, presumably an Ancient-Belkan Knight Armor, is known as Diabolique (暗黒甲冑(デアボリカ) Deaborika, lit. Darkness Armor).

Spells

Spells in The Battle of Aces
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Yersinia Dagger (エルシニアダガー Erushinia Dagā)
△	Block/High	Pain Maker	Doom Bringer
◯	Catch/Attack	Uninstall	Arondight (アロンダイト Arondaito)
L	FDB	Excalibur (エクスカリバー Ekusukaribā)	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

Spells in The Gears of Destiny
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Yersinia Dagger	Inferno (インフェルノ Inferuno)
△	Block/High	Majesty of the Lord (王の威光 Ō no Ikō)	Doom Bringer	Majesty of the Lord
◯	Catch/Attack	Uninstall	Arondight
△△	EX Attack	[Doom Bringer variation]	---
L	FDB	Juggernaut (ジャガーノート Jagānōto)	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

The names of some of DeArche's spells are references to famous historical artifacts:

• Excalibur was the sword of the legendary King Arthur.
• Arondight was the sword of Sir Lancelot, one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table.
• Juggernaut is regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable.