Michael Blake

* Casual Clothes
* Police Uniform

> [...]if you dare get involved in business that's not yours, be sure I'll make you pay. I may be a cop to you and everybody but don't ever forget that everyone has a past and you really don't want to know mine.
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> **Michael Blake** to Roméo Grriatz, Debt (Ch.3), Arc 1

Michael Blake is one of the main characters of Gun Wounds. He is one of the coldest characters and the most mysterious one of the story.

## Appearance

Michael is a very tall and imposing man. He is part of the most brawny characters of Gun Wounds. He has dark and short hair, it ends at his neck, they're smooth and and hides a part of his face. His eyes are sharp and moderately large, their irises a deep dark brown that fades to a lighter brawn, and are framed by thick eyebrows. He has an unshaven beard, his hairs grow randomly on his cheeks.

He often wears the Boston Police Department uniform and is rarely seen wearing spruce outfits, he generally wears white, black, brown, dull yellow or gray t-shirts with random pants such as tracksuits or cargo pants. He is not interested in fashion nor his looks, he tend to wear simple outfits.

## Personality

Michael is a very cold and rude man. He is always in a bad mood, hostile and especially aggressive towards the people he judges unworthy of trust, like Stella Johnson. However, Michael may appear possessive and very jealous towards the ones who dare lay eyes on what he claimed his. He is naturally a loner and not talkative but when his mind is set on someone, Michael would go out of his way and change his way of acting to please this special someone, even if he has to dirty his hands in the process.

## Story

**Early Life**

His backstory is still unknown but in the Bonus Chapter (No.1) was revealed that he apparently met Alexander Quinn before they entered the Police Station, they became friends when they were still cadets in the Police Academy. It is unknown when they officially became best friends.

In Chapter 5: Unwanted Ceremony, Michael's parents appeared for the first time in the story. His father is blind and his mother seems to hate him to the utmost for an unknwown reason. Michael's relationship with his parents is really tense and agressive as he threatens them in a very brutal way.

**Love Life**

Since their encounter, it is clear that Michael and Roméo Grriatz were developing strong feelings towards each other. They finally formalized their relationship in Chapter 28: Delacra's Special Club while having car sex. It was Michael who asked Roméo to be his boyfriend. Another thing about their relationship is that Roméo was Michael's first kiss (it was revealed later when he came to Quinn for advice) in Chapter 21: Crossroads, something that he is somehow ashamed of.

**Friendship with Quinn**

Due to Michael's natural coldness when it comes to relationships, some may think that Quinn doesn't matter to him which not right at all. He holds him in very high esteem and even shares with him a lot of his private life, that is what makes them best friends. However, Michael is not always completely honest with him. He is caught various times lying openly to him on important topics and doesn't look like he wants him to find out the truth. But despite that, he cares a lot about Quinn and his well-being, losing him would be a fatal blow.

## Prologue

Michael is shown in the firsts scenes of the **Chapter 1: Encounter** as an unknown character bringing his unnamed friend (whose name was revealed later on as Owen Patland) home. On their way back from Billy's Leaving party after 30 years of seniority, Patland, who's completely drunk, advises him to find himself a girlfriend however Michael disagrees.

Then, Patland tells him he found a "very charming girl" online and got them a date on Tuesday 16th. Next day, Michael finds new discoveries on Nick Carter's case and calls Alexander Quinn through the Police Station to go interrogate him in his cell. During Quinn and Michael's conversation after interrogating Carter, Quinn implies Michael's issues, saying he "relapsed" (unknown reason) some months ago. In the Police Station's cafeteria, after his small talk with Quinn, Michael (unfortunately) bumps into Maddie Wilson, she sits next to him and teases him, Michael remains cold and ignores her.

Michael bumps into Captain Firelet in the hallways, he reminds him Friday is his "big day", it's Michael's ceremony, his passage to the next grade. However, Michael thinks of this ceremony as a pain; he'll have to see his parents after years of separation.

On Tuesday 16th, Patland drags Michael to an Asian restaurant to meet Ally Spellman, his date. Michael manages to get away from the situation and meets Roméo Grriatz, the second main character of the story, in the restaurant's toilets. After hearing Danny Fidga's voice, a known and dangerous criminal, Michael drags Roméo in a toilet cabin and hides until Danny and his armed men walk away.

Michael and Roméo find themselves stuck in the restaurant's toilets in **Chapter 2: Hold Up** while Danny Fidga and his gang are making a hold up in the restaurant. Thanks to Michael's strategy, they manage to mislead Danny and capture him before reinforcement arrived.

In order to avoid Ally and her invasive way of flirting with him, Michael misled her and told her he had to walk Roméo home, a total stranger. In the end, Michael, Patland and Roméo walk to Michael's place and after Patland's departure, Michael invites Roméo to sleep at his place for one night. The next morning, Roméo was missing.

## Arc 1: Welcome to DrugCity

When Michael arrived at the Police Station in the beginning **Chapter 3: Debt**, Quinn informed him of what happened last night when Patland, Roméo, Ally and he was at the Asian restaurant; all the criminals kept in the station's cells escaped, including Carter. Captain Firelet calls all the policemen present on the scene to designate a team who's mission is to find all the prisoners, this team is composed of Michael, Maddie, Quinn and Patland.

Then, Roméo bumps into Michael at the police station later that day and shyly, asks him if he can stay at his place for a few days. Michael accepted his request and threw him his keys as he walked away to the inside of the station. When, at night, Roméo stares at the sky through Michael's living room's window, Michael appears behind him and Roméo asks him why he allowed him to stay, Michael didn't answer.

In a police car, Michael and his crew are searching for the escaped criminals in **Chapter 4: Comrade**. However, all the discussions they're having are mostly about Michael and Maddie's relationship. Michael remains cold towards her and freely expresses what he thinks of her. Back to the station, Maddie confronts Michael and tells him he's wrong about her, that she is better than what he thinks.

At the end of the day, Michael walks back home and finds Roméo on the couch, hungry. They both walk to a market nearby and buy some groceries, during their shopping, Roméo gets interested by a specific American cake brand, Michael buys it for him and shows his first smile of the story. After going back home, Roméo asks Michael about his personal life while he's cooking, Michael tells Roméo about his upcoming graduation and invites him to the ceremony.

In a moment of inattention, Michael manages to read the text notification of Roméo's phone without him knowing, Michael notices he's been texting a certain "S" that appears to be Stella Johnson, his comrade.

Michael wakes up early but all of his thoughts are directed to his upcoming ceremony in the **Chapter 5: Unwanted Ceremony**. He wishes for something to happen today so he can avoid this event but unfortunately, it's not the case. When he arrived at the Police Station, peevish as ever, he finds Patland in his office, happily greeting him. In the afternoon, the ceremony begins.

Michael, Quinn and Patland wear official clothes for the ceremony yet Michael is pissed to see so much people at the gathering. During their conversation, Quinn tells Patland about Michael and Maddie's encounter about one year ago. Not long after, Michael notices Roméo lost in the crowd and makes signs to tell him to come with them. During the whole ceremony when Michael was on the stage, he could only stare at Roméo and Roméo could only see Michael. When he had to step off the stage, he walked in his parents, his mother tried to harm him while his father was too scared (and blind) to do something.

At the after party, Michael drinks with Roméo and on their way back home after the party, Roméo asks him to hold his hand, Michael quietly executes his wish.

**Chapter 6: First Fight**

## Relationships

* Roméo Grriatz - At the beginning, Michael was acting cold and authoritarian towards Roméo (Chapter 2: Hold Up) but over time, his heart soften and he started behaving more nicely with him. There is still a limit between them set by Michael but slowly, he opens the doors of his heart and starts a more romantic relationship than a regular friendship. His attraction towards Roméo is getting stronger day by day without him knowing why.

* Alexander Quinn - As proved in the ninth chapter (Chapter 9: Explanations), Quinn is Michael's closest friend. Even if Michael doesn't show it, he is deeply attached to Quinn (in a friendly way). The reason behind their close and deep friendship is still unknown, we don't know how they met but we can suppose they know each other from the Police Station. Quinn is a friend highly worthy of trust and loyal to Michael.

* Owen Patland - Michael is close to Patland but not as close as Quinn. Patland plays the comical friend with Michael and despite being annoyed by his childish and expressive behavior, he still believes Patland is a good and loyal friend. Patland seems to be the only one of his kind that Michael allows to be friend with, other than him, Michael would have never agreed to be friend with someone so different than him.

* Maddie Wilson - Michael remains hostile and clear with his feelings towards Maddie; he's not in love with her. He seems to stand her presence around him but as soon as the conversation is about more personal and intimate matters, he becomes rude and mean. Michael still hasn't told why he's not interested in Maddie though, he said out loud to her what he thinks of her in the Police Station and his opinion is not positive at all. He believes she's a coward, this job is not suited for her.

* Carl Horton - Michael feels obligated to keep an eye on him because of his issues with his ex-girlfriend Stacy, though it's not said if he and Carl are friends or not. Michael shows a hasty and impulsive behavior to Carl (Chapter 8: Second Round) when he enters his office to talk about how he got abused by David Martinez's men and his girlfriend. Yet, Michael feels a need to protect Carl or at least help him in some way.

* Captain Firelet - Michael's relationship with his captain is purely formal. Yet Captain Firelet (Chapter 1: Encounter) acts quite friendly with Michael, we can suppose they know each other for years.

* Nick Carter - Since Carter is a criminal, Michael naturally despises him. He only saw Carter as how he acts; a delinquent. However, his opinion changed (Chapter 12: Excuses) when Carter revealed information on Roméo and Théo that could grant him serious problems if known. This proof of courage shown to Michael that Carter might be on his side after all. His relationship with him is changing slowly but for now, they remain enemies until an event can make them fight in the same team.

* Danny Fidga - Michael seemed to know Danny well (Chapter 2: Hold Up) but as expected, they are enemies. We don't really know yet what's the history between them but we can suppose that Danny was once (or even twice or more) arrested by Michael in the past and that's why they know each other.

* Stella Johnson - Michael seems to beware of Stella. He does not trust her in any way and it's reciprocal. He must act "friendly" around Roméo to feign a good relationship but when he's away, Michael don't hesitate to harm Stella (Chapter 11: Dangerous Woman pt.2) by grabbing her neck and threatening her. He still believes she's bad to Roméo and she's only going to bring him in awful situations but he can't keep her away from Roméo.

* Ally Spellman - Michael looked disgusted by her personality and clearly showed she wasn't his type despite her efforts to flirt with him. He almost forgot about her.

## Attempts of killing/harming

**Failed**

* Stella Johnson (strangulation)
* Nick Carter (pointed gun at)

**Succeeded**

## Trivia

* Michael was the first character created of the story by Bleakeas (Author).

* At first, Michael was meant to be the center and main character of the story. However, because Roméo Grriatz is the one that arrived in Boston and lives his adventure through this American city, even without noticing, he became the main subject of Gun Wounds due to his importance in the plot.

* Two of Michael's main inspiration are Rick Grimes from *The Walking Dead* and Dieter from *Kansai Jin to Hukumen Satsujinki*.

* Michael Blake is physically and mentally inspired of Asami Ryuuichi from *You're my loveprize in the viewfinder* and Chigasaki Kazuma from *Zombie Hide Sex*.

* He is also inspired by Sugimura from *Kirei ni Shiteyo*. Another of Michael's inspirations is Carter Blake from *Heavy Rain*.

* Michael's favorite food is meat in general and he tends to smoke cigarettes from time to time though very discreetly.

## Doujinshi

Michael appears and has a role in the first doujinshi released by the authors, Doujinshi: Chill Day alongside Roméo Grriatz. This is a couple doujinshi.

## Poems

'War of Hearts' Poem:

"That day

He fell

Master of Arts

Master of Lies

He fell

That day

'Inner Creatures' Poem:

"To you

Emerging from my darkest places,

I cannot look at myself without thinking of you

But I crave for your strength

I see you in my mirors

I see you in reflections

I forged you unconsciously

I can't get you out of my head

Thank you."

## Gallery

Official Chara Design Casual StyleFirst Digital Drawing of Michael (and first of the story)Official Chara Design Police Uniform of MichaelOfficial Headshot of MichaelOfficial Chara Design of Michael for Arc 1Illustration of Chapter 21 (First Kiss MiMéo)Michael Dark Aura ModeBustshot of MichaelShot from below of Michael4 Squares Drawing (Down Right)Winter Official DrawingFirst Couple drawing (by Bleakeas)Illustration of Chapter 3Plan of the house of MichaelIllustration of Chapter 1MichaelBlake-HalloweenWolf.jpg