Blake Belladonna

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### Affiliation

Team RWBY
Kitsune Tribe

## Biographical information

### Relatives

Ghira Belladonna (Father)
Kali Belladonna (Mother)

## Appearances

### Debut

Telethia (2019, first owner)
Reality Check Chapter 13: Pi / Ode to the Iron Heart (2021, second owner)

**Blake Belladonna** is a minor protagonist in *Telethia*. She is a member of Team RWBY, alongside Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long. She is a Huntress hailing from Beacon Academy, and an ex-member of the White Fang movement. She was the most minor member of Team RWBY on account of her small screentime compared to her allies.

Following the leave of one member of the writing team, Team RWBY would rapidly cease on-screen activity, and as they returned, were swiftly killed off. However, there turned out to be an exception: Awakening from a long period of unconsciousness, Blake had apparently been kept preserved long before the fates that reached her teammates could get to her, brought back into modern day in the tundras of Hemisia alongside Michael with a "restart."

Taking refuge in a village of kitsunes, Blake would pay back the hospitality from Chieftain Eula by serving as a Huntress for them, with aid from the twin retainers Tama and Tamo.

Blake Belladonna, "reborn," serves as the primary side protagonist of *Reality Check* as the main focus back at Epsilon while the heroes traveled across the Greek Chain.

## Profile

### Appearance

Blake is a light-skinned girl, above average in height, with wavy black hair that reaches her hips. As a feline Faunus, she shows physical characteristics from cats, the most obvious being a pair of cat ears atop her head. She has slanted, cat-like amber eyes tipped with purple eye shadow, and less seen are her naturally sharper nails and teeth, particularly her canines.

Blake is usually seen in her first outfit: A black buttoned vest with coattails matched with a white, sleeveless undershirt that exposes her stomach, as well as black ribbons wrapped around her arms with a single black sleeve and a silver band on her left arm. She also wears a black collar-like scarf around her neck, and carries Gambol Shroud in it's sheath on her back using a grey backpack-like brace. Lower down, she wears black boots and stockings that fade from purple to black as they go up, with a white belladonna symbol on the left stocking, and white shirts with zippers on the front. Most prominently is a large black bow used to conceal her cat ears virtually at all times. Notably, despite having long since abandoned this attire both in her origin and during her time within the Greek Chain, when she woke up in Hemisia she had returned to this attire and wears it as normal.

### Personality

Originally, Blake was overall not strongly defined, especially compared to her teammates: a reserved, introverted girl who had a fondness for manga and anime, though generally was the most cool headed and reasonable member besides Yang's more exaggerated "big sister" approach.

Following her return to the story, however, Blake became the most defined of the now defunct team: While she was still all the above, she's gone through mental changes in accordance with her sudden return and how she was made aware of it. She's deeply worried about her allies, feeling lost and alone without those she depended on for years to help shape her up to be a better person, sometimes boiling over into episodes of existential crisis when wondering about her place in the universe as a tool for higher cosmic forces since the beginning if they can supposedly rewrite her like nothing, the closest she comes to describing it being as though she felt "like a fictional character."

In spite of her feelings of mourning and loss, she's substantially more selfless and openly empathetic, owing it to herself to protect those around her to not let the experiences she once knew go to waste, which is part of why she's staunch in her declaration to defend and support the Kitsune Clan while she's present. She's also less prone to bottling her feelings of guilt and viewing them as only things she must handle, being more willing to share some of her thoughts on matters around her or pour her heart out.

#### Nonlinear Memories

In addition to above, despite her supposed state as "starting from fresh," she still vaguely remembers details and events between her arrival in Telethia in the middle of her development from her home prior up to when she blacked out. Additionally, she occasionally subconsciously remembers events that happened to her in her native timeline/franchise origin yet, because of her having left before that, she never personally experienced it herself.

A simpler explanation is: Post-return, Blake's mind, body and personality are closest to the end of Volume 2, yet at one point notices she doesn't have a scar on her abdomen, which was caused by Adam Taurus at the Battle of Beacon in Volume 3, which this Blake now hasn't experienced.

She won't realize until a little afterwards that, by and large, she's having memories of things that never happened, or in the case of her allies, is clinging to more memories and personal developments that she herself never really experienced, such as her growing over her need to hide her Faunus traits especially among fellow animal folk like the Kitsune. Despite this, she values them all the same, trying to see it positively as reminders for herself of what to do right in honor of her allies.

## History

### Pre-Rewrite

Blake had at one point arrived at a camp used by some heroes within Telethia, being the last member of Team RWBY to make their debut. Details from there are ultimately vague and superfluous, being generally relegated to the background and not embarking on any noteworthy events like Weiss or Ruby.

At some point within the relocation to Epsilon, she had joined the others in moving to the base at Terra, though still remained on the sidelines. However, at some point, Team RWBY had mysteriously and collectively vanished: While Ruby would eventually but briefly return, seemingly just having been doing her own activities and some self reflection, and Weiss and Yang reappear much later down the line, Blake was still absent.

At some point, the Makuta found Blake and had her kept preserved in a limbo state, supposedly to eventually "put her back on track." However, she was never initially retrieved as they had more important matters to attend to first. She would remain in this limbo state for two years, which by then the rest of Team RWBY had been killed and the heroes aboard the Cracking Dragon had just traveled from Xi to Pi to stop Aldur and Courier. With most of the Makuta present to monitor the fruits of Courier's plans, one Makuta, Krika, took the time to keep track of Epsilon and, subsequently, retrieve Blake to finish the initial objective with her, where she would be "rewritten."

### Post-Rewrite: Reality Check

Blake would one day wake up from a sudden period of unconsciousness, inside a black void. Upon awakening, Krika would approach her, briefly explaining some details of what had happened, while also implicating himself to be the "design basis" for the Grimm and indirectly reveal he was the one who used to monitor her home universe, answering her initial thought that he looked like a Grimm or a being like Salem. While still confused, she was given supplies to prepare herself for her "new adventure," as Krika would eventually depart - but not without hesitantly answering what his name is when Blake makes one last question regarding who he is. Afterwards, Blake would then be brought to her new destination: the Tundra of Hemisia.

(TBA)

## Relationships

### Team RWBY

Though Blake has on-and-off memories of her team, she nonetheless values the importance they had in her life greatly on top of being true companions for her during her time in Remnant. She is driven by her desire to know what happened of them, and that hopefully they'll reunite some day. Eventually, upon learning Krika had brought them back, she was overjoyed and content enough from an incredibly short reunion that she could find herself pushing forward, even if she knew she had to stay behind while the other three went to the Traveler's Retreat.

Though Blake was heavily implied before to likely be in a bisexual relationship with Yang, it was revealed pre-rewrite here to at most be a one sided crush on the latter's part, according to Ruby while browsing Twitter.

### Eula

Blake sees herself as in Eula's debt for granting her hospitality in the village of Kitsune, but beyond that, she does view her as a good leader figure who has intrigued her in many a topic - and, for that matter, putting her back in the role of "Huntress." She was offended on Eula's behalf when she learned Michael had at one point walked out unannounced despite him being in the same position as her.

### Tama & Tamo

For both of the twins, Blake views them as good friends who helped her stay grounded in reality and not wallow in her shell of despair. Though their bantering can sometimes be a headache to deal with, she does deem it worth it to have trustworthy teammates by her side, even if she herself has to put up with the Kitsunes often teasing her. In particular, Tamo's cooking particularly was a hit with Blake, having grown a noticeable hunger and craving for whatever he serves up.

### Tanjiro Kamado

Tanjiro's in much the same camp as the Kitsune twins: a reliable teammate Blake can put her trust in. In particular she resonated with his position as a Demon Hunter, viewing it as similar to her former role as a Huntress of Grimm. Often, they serve as the voices of reason when Tamo is unavailable and bickering with Tama.

## Abilities and Powers

### Shadow Semblance

Blake's Semblance is that of Shadow, which allows her to create clones and illusions of herself whilst propelling her to a specified direction, primarily used as a utility tool to trick and confuse the enemy. Through use of Dust and Gambol Shroud as a conduit, she can apply different elemental effects and materials to these clones e.g. Fire Dust producing a fiery clone that explodes on contact.

### Gambol Shroud

Her weapon of choice is the Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe named Gambol Shroud, being a multi-part weapon; it's sheath as a cleaver, the handle as a glock capable of using Dust bullets for elemental shots, the blade itself as a sword-like tool to match the cleaver's bluntness, and the ribbon at the hilt to use as a grappling hook. Though not especially powerful compared to other tools, it is a versatile tool that allows Blake to adapt to a situation accordingly while remaining nimble.

### Enhanced Faunus Senses & Reflexes

As a Faunus, Blake naturally has superior night vision than that of humans. However, it's revealed as well most of her senses are enhanced, between her vision in general, smell, and hearing. However, the latter can be a liability as it makes some sounds that much more overwhelming; an additional reason of why she still wears her bow is to lower her hearing enough down, though still better than average. Even so, it isn't perfect, as she was briefly deafened while she was too close to the roar of a Tigrex. Additionally, her reflexes and reaction speed have been shown to be exceptional, even if it gives her the impression of being jumpy.

Though she is not the physically strongest, Blake is exceptionally agile and dexterous, particularly in countering and dodging attacks, and with enough endurance and stamina to keep her in a fight for a noticeable amount of time. Coupled with the above, Blake fills the bill of "weak but skilled," notable feats including using Gambol Shroud to grapple onto a flying Barioth, swinging right around it mid-air to get atop of it, and dive kicking it out of the air.

## Trivia

### Pre-Rewrite

* Her overall number of messages via Tupperbox was 80 in total, by far the lowest of Team RWBY - Ruby herself had over 2,900.

### Post-Rewrite

* In accordance with the above, Blake is implied to have become asexual following her breakup with Adam, but is otherwise heteromantic.
* Blake is credited as the character who hailed the wave of old concepts and characters revisited, particularly those once shamed and resented, as well as the concept of "redemption" for similar things, as following her appearance marked the gradual reappearance and rewrites of characters like Michael, Exekiel/Purity and Tremo.
* Blake is one of the primary data donors for Macha the Temptress, and was initially one of the options as the primary PC of the Phase before it was given to Janice.