Blake Floyd

* Season 3
* Season 1-2

*"What do you want me to say? That it's better somewhere else? If you walk far enough you'll find some paradise where the dead are dead and that's it? That's not how it works. It's the same here as it is everywhere else—I've learned that the hard way. It's how it is. It's how it's gonna be for a long time."*
― Blake to Nat on the state of the world.[src]
**Blake Floyd** is the current protagonist of A Fight For Survival. He is a survivor of the apocalypse and becomes the leader of the school group early in the show. He is the son of Maria and Brian Floyd.

## Appearances

### Season 1

#### "Pilot"

Blake wakes up from a car crash to find his father dead. He later teams up with Charlie Ipkiss to find the rest of their parents. Blake finds his mother and puts her down. Later that night, he and Charlie decide to go to the school. When they reach it, they go to the reception and manage to shut the gates, only to be surrounded by infected. They are eventually saved by Frank and Joely and take to the canteen.

#### "Take it Back"

Joely and Blake go to the nurse's office in order to find medical supplies to heal Charlie's leg. When they get there, they are trapped inside by a group of infected. Joely and Blake talk for a while, seemingly accepting their fate, but are eventually saved by Frank and Claire. Later, Blake convinces the group to stay and clear out the school.

#### "Keep Pushing Forward"

Blake helps take the last building in the school, only to find Maeve hiding in a corner. When she escapes, Blake blames himself, but Joely tries to convince himself that this is not the case.

#### "A Safe Place"

Blake goes on the trip to the supermarket to get supplies, but when they are ambushed by bandits, he and Cain hide. The two argue on what to do before Cain ends up killing one of the bandits. When Cain is later taken hostage by Tony, Blake breaks the glass of a window and causes the infected to kill him. They then free Frank and Joely and rush back to the school.

#### "Trouble Afoot"

When a large herd of infected threaten to break down the gates, he and Joely sneak out and use a car to distract it away. They are soon overwhelmed and abandon the car hiding out in an abandoned house until it passes. The next day, Cain invites Blake to come with him to the supermarket to collect the resources they missed last time. This turns out to be a ruse and Cain stabs him, leaving him for dead.

#### "What You Have To Do"

On the brink of death, Blake is saved by Trevor Cotton, whose wife, Phyllis, nurses him. He awakes two days later, weak, and tries to leave, but Phyllis and Trevor convince him to rest for another day. The next morning. He sets off back to the school. Before he leaves, though, Trevor gives Blake a gun "just in case". He manages to sneak back in and confronts Cain, knocking him out and managing to lock him up.

#### "What We Are"

A few days later, Blake frequently visits Cain in an attempt to understand why he did what he did, only getting cynical responses. The group soon discusses what they should do with him, with Charlie and Chloe even suggesting they kill him. Blake, however, says that they can't kill him, but he doesn't want to throw him out either, for fear of him attacking them once more.

After he visits Cain once again, he confesses to Joely that he is thinking of letting Tim go, but can't decide. He then begins to head out of the school, saying that he has "some unfinished business." Only once it is pointed out by Frank that the rules are to not go anywhere outside alone, does he agree to let Joely go with him. Together, they head to the Cottons' house, where he attempts to convince them to come to the school, to which they refuse, stating that if they die, "it'll be here."

On the way back, Blake confesses to Joely that he is becoming afraid that he might "lose [him]self" if he lost the people he cared about, her included. She then tells him that she's "not going anywhere" before kissing him. When they return to the school, they find Frank bleeding out, Cain escaped, and Maeve missing. Blake attempts to stop the bleeding, but it is too late, and Frank dies in his arms.

#### "What We Become"

Blaming himself for Frank's death and Maeve's abduction, Blake searches the school for the two. When they can't find them, they conclude that Cain must have left the school. Reluctantly, Blake agrees to wait until the next day. They then have an emotional funeral for Frank, with Blake staying behind. When Joely tries to reassure him, he states that "Cain was right" and that he "couldn't do what needed to be done".

The next day, the group go out searching for Cain and Maeve, with Chloe staying behind to watch the school. After Blake and Claire cannot find any sign of them, Charlie and Joely return injured having just fought Cain. They tell him that Cain is in the supermarket and that if he doesn't come, he will kill Maeve. He agrees to come, unknowingly being followed by Joely. When he arrives, Cain confesses his urge to kill Blake since the bandits came, saying that Frank's death was his fault. Blake then pulls his gun and tries to shoot Cain, but it is knocked out of his hand and the two fight. When Blake is almost killed with his own knife, Joely saves him, stabbing Cain in the back and giving him a chance to grab his gun once more. Cain taunts him and tells him he's too "weak" to kill him. Blake then cuts him off, shooting him in the throat.

Later, Blake, Joely, and Maeve return to the school. He asks Joely if he's a "bad person," which she denies, telling him that he's "*better* than him." The two kiss once more and walk back through the gates.

### Season 2

Six months later, Blake decides to lead a run to a local shop, taking Charlie, Tim, and Maeve with him. They end up trackgin the sound of an alarm to a fire-station, finding and rescuing Pepper, Dexter, and Sam, but being unable to stop Simon from being overwhelmed by the dead. Upon returning to the school, Pepper reveals that they come from a larger group nearby. They soon begin to entertain the prospect of making a trade deal for food and the next day, Blake leaves with a few others to go to their base. Upon arriving at the campsite, Blake finally meets Bryce Ansem. The next day, Simon's brother, Clyde, runs from camp, leading to Blake and Pepper going after him. They track him down to the fire-station where Simon was killed and, after Blake manages to convince him, they return to the camp. Once back, Blake asks Bryce how much food they can spare, presumably allowing their trade negotiations to continue.

After leaving Joely at the campsite as 'insurance', Blake returns to the school with Claire and Pepper only to find the place under attack from an unknown group. They fight them off and learn that they belong to a group that have been bothering Bryce's group for a while. Blake remembers Trevor and Phyllis and decides to try once more to convince them to come to the school, stating that they are too "vulnerable". On the way there, he and Pepper find Grace and Clyde, who decide to come with them. However, upon reaching the Cottons' house, Blake cannot find anyone there. That is, until he finds Phyllis' grave.

Desparate, Blake tries to find Trevor with some of Bryce's group, but are ambushed by the Scavs, who kill Tim. They are then saved by Bryce, who believes to have declared war. Bryce returns a few days later with a plan for a preemptive attack. Blake, Chloe, and Charlie go, but are uncomfortable with killing people in their sleep. When they get back, their disgust is visible, and Charlie blames both Bryce's group and Blake for that happening. They fall out, and in his rage, Charlie tells the Scavs where Bryce's group is. When Blake finds out, he convinces the group to come with him to help them. Blake finds Bryce, but is too late and has been bitten. He tells him that this wasn't his fault, inadvertently telling Pepper that Charlie let this happen. He tries to stop Pepper from killing him, even pointing a gun at her until she lets them go.

When they get back to the school they are attacked by the Scavs once more. In their escape, Claire is killed and they lose Chloe, Maeve, and Trevor. Joely is shot in the stomach and bleeds out in front of him, leaving him alone.

## Notable Features

* Stab wound on stomach. Dealt by Cain Fletcher
* Stab wound on right shoulder. Dealt by Cain Fletcher

## Relationships

### Joely

Joely and Blake's relationship doesn't start off too well. Joely initially wanted to leave the school, but when they are trapped in the nurse's office, her opinion of him seems to change for the better and later that day, she changes her mind and sides with him. They soon begin to rely on each other and begin opening up. Their relationship continues to grow throughout the show until they eventually develop feelings for each other. When Blake is supposedly killed, Joely is deeply saddened. He soon returns safely and the two later become closer.

### Cain

Cain initially doesn't like Blake, calling him a "nobody" and immediately arguing about how Blake has "killed us all". Blake is also unable to convince Cain to help them stay at the school, and he only changes his mind because everyone else has agreed to it. Their relationship continues to degrade, despite Blakes best efforts to mend it until he snaps and tells him that he is in charge.

Soon after this, Cain attempts to kill Blake, stabbing him in the stomach and leaving him for dead. Cain's hatred for Blake only seems to grow when he inexplicably survives, turning the whole group against him and locking him up. In his last words, Cain even claims that Blake is "too weak" to kill him, seemingly in a fit of pride before being shot in the throat.

Killing Cain had a profound effect on Blake. Moreso than the bandits he killed in self-defense. He confesses to frequently considering what Cain would have done in his place and whether his method would have been a better one.

### Charlie

Blake and Charlie are best friends, they choose to stick together early on and their friendship is only strengthened after the end of the world. When Blake returns after being "killed" by Cain, the two have a tearful reunion and they embrace. After the six month gap, their relationship appears much the same, though Charlie disagrees with Blake's decision to trust Bryce's group.

### Frank

Frank agreed with Blake's idea to stay at the school and later confirms that he was right. Though they didn't really know each other much prior to the outbreak, they seemed to have formed a good relationship. Throughout the first season, a good amount of trust was formed between the two. After his death, Blake blames himself and demands justice.

### Chloe

Early on, Chloe expresses her frustration with Blake when they are surrounded by infected, but later, her opinion of him seems to change for the better, as she agrees to stay at the school. The two begin to form a trusting friendship, in which she bluntly tells him the truth, regardless of his feelings. Eventually, Blake trusts Chloe enough to leave the school under her control while he is away.

### Claire

Claire initially seems reluctant to leave her fate in Blake's hands, thinking mostly of her sister. However, he seems to prove himself in her eyes after redirecting the herd. She then begins to trust him more and, although they sometimes have conflicting opinions, she is willing to accept his decisions.

### Maeve

Though the two do not interact much, Maeve appears to trust Blake's leadership, stating that she doesn't want to leave when the school is threatened with the herd.

### Pepper

Pepper and Blake seem to have formed a friendly relationship, with the two managing to joke with each other, though questions that are a little too close are shut down.

### Bryce

Initially, Blake does not trust Bryce or the perfect nature of his campsite. He believes that "nobody's hands are clean" and that there must be something he has done to reach where he is. Eventually, though, he seems to trust Bryce enough to be willing to trade.

## Killed Victims

* Maria Floyd (*zombified*)
* Tony (*caused*)
* Cain Fletcher
* Wainwright (caused)
* Multiple Scavs
* Numerous infected

## Trivia

* Blake is the current protagonist, but may not be for the whole run of the series.