Blake Kishell

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## Biographical information

### Marital status

Present: singleFuture: in a relationship with Tasneem Hafiz

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Blake Kishell is a character in *QIA*.

## Biography

### Early Life

Blake was born on 12th November 1985 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. ("And All That Could Have Been")

### The Academy

Blake trained at the Academy in the spring/summer of 2011, alongside eight other cadets. During his time there, he showed great promise to even his toughest instructor, Andrew Wesker, but unfortunately he fell in love with one of his fellow cadets, Tasneem Hafiz. When Blake found out that Wesker was only going to offer an agency post to one of them, he quit the Academy so that it would be Hafiz, even though he knew all along she would get the post anyway. However, his resignation caused the other cadets to alienate Hafiz after he had gone. ("Hafiz")

### Washington

Blake evidently later re-applied and graduated from the Academy, taking up a post in the Washington Field Team, where he served as the team's historian (ironically in a mirror role to Hafiz).

An otherwise usually private individual, during the Atlanta mission, he nonetheless confided in his colleagues about still being in love with Hafiz, whom he didn't name, but instead referred to as "the one".

During the Newfoundland mission in which Blake and the other surviving members of the team attempted to arrest traitor Will Bradley for the murders of their colleagues Jennifer Ross and Sammy DiGangi, Blake was shot in the shoulder by Eryn Gray ("The Rise and Fall of Will Bradley").

In June 2020, Blake was part of a task force investigating the Academy bombing, as the sole representative of the Washington Hub. During the investigation, he was reunited with Hafiz, and revealed that he had been carrying a torch for her all this time. While he was initially shocked to discover that she was engaged, the two eventually set aside their differences and rebuilt their friendship. He also learned, while on this mission, that at some point in the future he will recruit Steve Mariner, who will ultimately Jump back to 2020 and be murdered by Gaby Marshall. ("Academy")

After the funeral for Wesker in April 2023, Blake still seemed to express an interest in Hafiz, but was calmly shut down by Ted Lambert ("York").

### Steve Mariner

Armed with the foreknowledge of what he had to do from the Academy bombing investigation, in 2026 Blake recruited Steve Mariner into the QIA. Later that year, he took a bullet for Mariner during a mission in Canada after Gaby Marshall, whom they had come to prevent killing Benedict Carter, shot at him, reasoning that Mariner could not die yet as he had to die at the Academy. A few months afterwards, the team were alerted to the infraction of Gaby murdering Ida Trent at the Academy in 2020; however, with everyone else having known Andrew Wesker, Mariner was selected to go undercover to investigate. When Mariner's cover was blown by Hafiz, Blake stopped Josh Hannigan from intervening, since he already knew it was Mariner's fate to die that day. ("And All That Could Have Been")

### Potential Future

Some time before 2029, the QIA had dissolved following an incident known as the Blinding, and the tyrannical force of Novus had taken over most of the world. Also around this time, Blake and Hafiz - now in a relationship - formed a resistance group called the Freedom Movement along with Iulya Dalca and Sam Lucas. In July 2029, Blake was alerted to a quantum infraction - a very rare occurrence with the QIA now gone - where he and Hafiz discovered that Gaby Marshall had surfaced. Together they spent the next three years planning a way to undo all the damage done by Novus, while Gaby rose in the ranks of Novus. Finally, in 2033, Blake deliberately allowed himself to be caught by Novus and demanded that he be interrogated by Gaby, allowing him the opportunity to show her the truth about how Novus had murdered her parents. Convinced, Gaby went with him to meet Hafiz and the others, and together she, Blake, Hafiz and Iulya went to London in an effort to send Gaby back in time, to prevent this future. Despite an attack by Pariahs, Blake was able to enter the co-ordinates to send Gaby back, just as he was killed by a Pariah. ("And All That Could Have Been")

## Appearances

### Season One

"Hafiz" *(uncredited)*, "The Rise and Fall of Will Bradley"

### Season Two

"Academy", "And All That Could Have Been"