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Nana Bassler (ナナ=バスーラ Nana Basūra) is a character introduced in Plunderer. She is an owner of a mobile tavern, and one of the 7 Legendary Red Barons, known as the "Insight Baron" (識撃の撃墜王 Shikigeki no Gekitsui-ō, Yen Press: Ace of Conscious Strikes, Funimation: Ace of Knowing).
Appearance
Nana has purple eyes, silver hair and tan skin. As a child, Nana wore her hair in braids and used a bunny and turtle band to tie her hair. The turtle and bunny tie might have something to do with Schmelman's stories as this was one of the recurring stories he told, or it may have something to do with Licht's ability. She liked cute things, which was evident in her room. Nana decorated her room with stuffed animals and dolls of her future comrades.
As she grew older, her tastes in attire matured as well. She now has shorter hair, and wears revealing clothing. She wears a gold bangles at her neck, wrists and ankles. Her shirt is a simple white button down that she leaves open to expose a black strapless bra. A black belt with a gold buckle accentuates her hips before descending into an open skirt that has a slit over one leg. Under one of her knees is a simple black cuff and she boosts her height a bit with black, Mary-Jane style kitten heels. Stuffed into her belt is a pair of shackles to dangle at her hips.
The count 77 can be seen on her left breast, which is fake, as she has the original one on her left cheek, under her eye. In her original count's absence, a beauty mark is more prominent than before.
Personality
Nana is kind, but it is not her defining trait. She is visibly stern and unafraid of holding her own via carrying herself with respect and dignity. She is more well rounded than those around her, making her to appear seemingly ordinary and more relatable.
Her class and knowledgeable attitude is more than what a mobile bar owner leads onto be.
Plots
Past Events
Before the instructors "took" Nana into 13th Special Military Forces School, she was once a street child from a unknown town. After they kidnapped Nana into the school, along with six other street children involved into the "Aerial Ace Project". Out of all seven children, Nana is the only one who survived from the experimental. While the surgery was successful, the operation was still imperfect and thus using her ability will cost Nana her count.
After the surgery, Nana keep staying inside her room on the factory. One day, Nana received a latter from her future self written that she will send people from the future into the past, and that she need her past self to guide them about the stuffs they need to do to change Licht Bach's future.
When Jail is almost caught by Alexandrov Grigorovich from overheard he and other instructor's conversation, Nana saved Jail by told him to hiding in her room. As Jail hiding at her room, Nana told him to stay in her room until 7 minutes and 12 seconds later. Jail was confused and asked her about her identity, Nana revealed that she is the younger version of herself from the future, which also known as the "Test Subject No. 7". After she revealed her identity, she said she can't believe her future self would sent a weirdo like Jail into the past, which annoyed him. She revealed that her future self requested her to help Jail by reveal some information he wants to know. Jail said he wants to know everything about Nana's mystery and the "Aerial Ace Project", Nana then said he's so greedy and keep throwing her dolls at him. For Jail's first question, Nana explained that she is the first Baron created from the project, however, her surgery is incomplete due to the fact her ability has several limitation. She also explained that unlike people from the future, Schmelman Bach and the Barons obtained their abilities without the need of Ballots, as they were able to draw the powers from Althing. For Jail's second question, Nana explained the instructors always went to kidnaps the children and forced them to do the surgery, and they never stop doing so until Nana became a Baron and Schmelman fired other scientists that involved into the project.
Jail and young Nana made a promise
After she answered Jail's questions, Nana is having "fun" with Jail while asking him if he know about the bloodlust genes. Jail answered with yes and asked her about who's the next person to have the surgery, Nana answered that Licht, also known as "Nii-Nii" by her future self is the next person. Nana explained that Licht and other five Baron's surgery were also successful as well. Jail was confused at this as Licht were not able to form the "Non-Killing Army" despite his superhuman powers, Nana doesn't know the reason behind that as she will fell asleep later on until sometimes after the end of Abandonment War, and that when she awoke Licht already killed countless people in the war. After all questions has been answered, Nana asked Jail to stay here longer and play with her, the clock was alarmed as it's about time for Jail to leave safely. Before Jail leave, Nana gave him a memory card which contains the main reason why he and the others was sent into the past. As Jail leave the factory, he asked Nana to leave together but she said she can't as she afraid the future would change too much. Soon, Jail made a promise with Nana that after they returned to the future, he will play together with her as long as she want, which Nana smile and agreed.
After the conversation with Jail, Nana has been recorded countless videos and saved into her memory card, under the suggestion from her future self to keep the history same as original timeline. In those videos, Nana revealed that she has fell in-love with Licht and she wants to marry him, and she also stated that she can't make him happy due to she believed she is one of the "culprit" from the war as well. In one of those video, Nana revealed that she learned about the creation of Althea and how she wanted Hina and the others save Licht from living on despair, as she can no longer see him suffering and cried.
After Nana learned about the creation of Althea, along with Licht, she run away from the Special Service and hiding themselves for 300 years long.
Story Events
Appearance in Other Media
Schmelman's Alternative Tales
Nana appeared in the Drama CD Schmelman's Alternative Tales.
In Cinderella part, Nana portrayed as the Fairy Godmother.
Abilities and Power
300 years ago, Nana's count is 56. Her current count is 2 because she used her ability to send Hina, Pele, Lyne, and Jail back to the past. Nana's count supposedly stands for the number of customers who have said her food is delicious; however, this was stated prior to her true number being revealed and is not confirmed to be true or not.
- Conscious Strike (識撃 Shikigeki): Upon being given the incomplete Baron Surgery as a child and surviving, Nana successfully obtained her own unique supernatural power as a result. However due to her operation only being experimental and incomplete, Nana was noted to not possess the same combat prowess the other Red Barons obtained after their own surgeries and her own ability having the severe limitation of her losing her Count whenever she uses certain powers.
- Time Travel: After going through her psuedo Baron Operation, Nana was noted to have successfully obtained the ability to send either herself or others through time, as seen where she sent Jail, Hina, Pele and Lyne 300 years ago prior to the Abandonment War and again retrieve them and transport them back to the present with little effort. However a major drawback to this power is the fact that every time Nana uses this particular power her count decreases, making multiple trips through the past or future impossible due to her steadily decreasing count.
- Future Vision: The second ability and main ability primarily used by Nana that garnered her title as the "Insight Baron". Unlike her power to Travel through Time, its been shown that Nana can make free use of this particular ability without losing her count, as seen during her childhood where Nana made several incredibly accurate predictions of future events and predict every single detail of what might occur down to particular seconds and minutes of that event, as seen during her first meeting with Jail as a Child. Eventually Nana's ability of "Insight" gave her a position of something akin to a military adviser and her ability to see into future events made her a vital resource during the Abandonment War. Nana has also displayed that she can also have prophetic dreams of future events when she sleeps, as seen where she saw repeated visions of Douan Taketora's attack on Licht and their group.
- Bloodlust: As the Red Baron, Nana is presumed to possess the ability to increase her count by activating Schmelman's bloodlust genes. However, it's not known if Nana really can activate her bloodlust genes like other Barons, as her Baron surgery was done in an incomplete state.
Trivia
- Nana was the first Legendary Red Baron to be created using an incomplete surgery. Due to this Nana was considered the "prototype" for the other six.
- She can hold her liquor more than her comrades.
- At one time, Robert claims Nana's drinking skill is almost comparable to Yi Yan Xialou's.
- Nana has a love interest for Licht, as shown during Jail and the others watching her videos in the computer room.