- "You see, Ginta... Somewhere in this world, there's Nessie. Ghosts, too. There are aliens as well. And even an entire world that's different from this one. Make sure to hold on to those dreams even when you become an adult."
- ―Danna Toramizu
Danna Toramizu (虎水ダンナ, Toramizu Dan'na) is Ginta's father and the former leader of the Cross Guard during the first great war of MÄR Heaven.
Appearance[]
Personality[]
A passionate romanticist, Danna is both courageous and a role-model, though he is also very stubborn and a bit childish. All of these traits are shared by his son, and it is commented upon several times in the series their remarkable resemblance.
History[]
Danna reading his wife's book to his son.
Danna lived with his wife and their young son Ginta and took to telling his son stories of the magical world of fairy tales.
Arrival in MÄR Heaven Amidst the First Great MÄR Heaven War[]
One day, Danna was summoned to MÄR Heaven by Alan. Initially shocked upon arrival, Alan meets with him and informs him of the world's plight. Danna agreed to help in defeating the Chess Pieces in the war. After acquiring magic power in the Gate of Training, Alan appoints Danna as leader of the Cross Guard, taking on the title of "Boss". Alan would then become his second-in-command and Gaira as third-in-command.
War Games[]
Danna often told stories of his family to his comrades during banquets as the team achieved many victories. During one of their first banquets, a ten year old boy named Alviss asked to join the Cross Guard. Danna took a liking to Alviss due to his pure feelings and asked if he liked MÄR Heaven. When Alviss replied that he did, Danna invited him to join him in pulverizing the Chess, to which Alan lectured him for drafting a child. But Alan and Gaira were impressed with the boy's courageous spirit, and Gaira assured him that they would win the war.
In the final round of the original War Games, Danna managed to defeat Phantom, the leader of the knights, but was fatally wounded in the process. With the match officially ending in a draw, members of the Cross Guard rushed onto the arena to Danna's side while Peta appeared at Phantom's side. As Peta picked up Phantom's body and spoke to the Cross Guard, Caldea's Orb, which had been possessing Phantom's ÄRM Babbo, uploaded itself into Danna's body and had Babbo download Danna's soul into himself. As the Chess departed from Lestava Castle, leaving Babbo behind, Caldea's Orb (while in Danna's body) healed himself but continued to pretend to be dead to fool the Cross Guard. The Cross Guard would then bury Danna, and Alan removed the Magic Stones in Babbo before sealing him away in a cave on Pazurika Island, unaware of what transpired on the arena earlier.
Second Great MÄR Heaven War[]
For six years, Danna's soul slept deep within Babbo, until one day during Team MÄR's trip to Caldia during the War Games of the second war. Caldea's Grand Elder used a magic spell to reawaken Danna, and briefly took control of Babbo's metal body to glace around and see his son, Ginta. Out of shock, he asks him if he was Ginta, but due to the latter not understanding what had just happened retorts with confirmation. Danna immediately retreats back into Babbo's subconscious, but remains awake and continues to watch his son from within Babbo battle against the Chess.
ÄRMs[]
While Danna himself was never shown battling, the ÄRMs Caldea's Orb used while possessing his body are likely to have originally been Danna's. These ÄRMs are:
- Gigant Blade: A giant sword Weapon ÄRM with its handle run into the spine of its heavily spiked blade.
- Rising Wheel: Nature ÄRM, two gyrating wheels of air that Danna launches at his opponents.
- Explode: Nature ÄRM, a semi-circular glass ball that encloses its prey and explodes.
- Phoenix: From within the sacred flame of its cyclical rebirth, this Guardian consumes all in its path in flame.
- Tiamat: A fallen mother goddess with her retained mythological appearance emerges from legend to bring retributions upon all those who rebel against her master.
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