Blake

* Blake (Thumbnail)
* The Black Knight
* Blake (Poster)
* Devil's Luck card game

## Stats

**Blake** was one of the Eight Flames. Within the power structure of the organization, he formerly held the position of the 5th Flame. He met the Devil's Luck Pirates for the first time in Episode 18. On the surface Blake seems to be a normal member of the Candles, but actually hates the 8th Flame and loves acting out. In fact, upon finding out that Valentine is dead, he happily joins the coup against the 8th.

Following his adventures with the Devil's Luck Pirates and their allies, him and Hemlock travelled together with Bullet and three former members of the Trojan Pirates. Their objective was to reform the Eight Flames while also helping Bullet find the one who ordered the hit on her brother.

Unfortunately, due to him finding out that his lover, Cleo, was killed by Bullet under orders from William, he has left the Candles. He joined up with Blue Blood, ate the Mera Mera no mi, and took the blue blood drug. He was one of his councilman until he was defeated by the Crew.

## **Appearance**

Blake is a young man with messy jet black and red hair and a dexterous, muscular build. He wears a red ripped sleeveless jacket with a high furry collar along with white jeans and three belts.

After becoming a Councilman, he now wears black armor. Due to taking Blue Blood's fluids, his face has become contorted and his eyes now glow blue.

However, after being defeated he lost his armor and it's unknown what his physical form looks like.

## **Personality**

Blake is a happy go lucky 90's kid, who loves to brag about his strength. No matter what he is doing, he is always seen having fun, and rarely expresses anything except energy and hype. His top three favorite things are food, fighting, and dogs. Although he lashed out at Bullet for killing Cleo, he still left her within an inch of her life. Indicating that he is still somewhat of a kind person.

The fact that he was in love with Cleo suggests that he is a masochist to some extent.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

#### Overview

It is safe to assume that Blake is a capable combatant and assassin, but it seems most of his power came from his hound. Overall he was comparable in strength to Captain Marrow. However, after his transformation he became much stronger in every way.

#### Chain

Blake has a Ghost Rider like chain (although it doesn't light on fire) that he uses to whip and restrain opponents. Enemies hit by the chain must succeed a 16 DC Strength saving throw or be pulled/restrained by the chain. The target can repeat the save at the end of each of their turns. (+8 to hit)

#### Knuckle Dusters

Blake wields Knuckle Duster on his left hand that he uses to punch people. Blake makes a attack roll with his Knuckles Duster, but if his enemy is chained, his attack automatically hits.

#### Blaze

Blake's animal companion is a dog that was able to transform into a massive Hell-hound which could breath fire. After the fight with V, Blaze lost the ability to transform.

### Black Knight Blake

Blake seeking revenge for the death of Cleo became a subordinate of Blue Blood and is fed with his blood, which increases his strength and bulk tremendously. He also ate the Mera Mera no mi giving him the power to manipulate, produce, and turn into fire. They also gave him a black armor. Distinct from the Black Armor worn by Dominius that he found on Planet Duros, and the Black Armor created by Damian and used to terrorize the Tarako Kingdom.

#### **Haki**

As he is the Black Knight, he would have Haki due to being a Yonkou commander

#### Mera Mera no Mi

Blake ate the Mera Mera no Mi after joining up with Blue Blood. This fruit gives him resistance to all non Haki, magma or water related damage he receives. The fruit also allows his to create several types of massive amounts of flame, most of which do around 10d10 damage.

#### Enhanced Chain Attack

After being empowered by Blue Blood, Blake can light his chain on fire adding 10d10 fire damage to the attack. This technique immediately killed Apollo. Enemies hit by the chain must succeed a Strength saving throw or be pulled/restrained by the chain. The target can repeat the save at the end of each of their turns. (+8 to hit)

#### Fire Storm

Up to 7 creatures of Blake's choice within a undetermined range must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 10d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

#### Tornado of Flames

Blake can boost himself with his flames out of the way of the enemies. He disengages to a direction of his choice

#### Flame Rush

Blake throws a wave of fire in direction of his enemies. The ones hit must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 12d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

#### Refutation of Flame

Blake explodes flames to anyone around him. All creatures within 5ft of Blake must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 10d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

#### Flaming Knuckle Dusters

Blake's Knuckle Dusters are enhanced by the Mera Mera no mi fire, doing a extra 8d6 fire damage. He makes 2 attacks against his targets, but if they are chained by him, his attack automatically hits.

#### Legendary Actions

Blake has 3 legendary actions per round, and he regains then at the start of his turn. He can use a legendary action at the end of a opponents turn to either, attack once with his chain, attack twice with his knuckles dusters or use one of his fire abilities.

#### Legendary Resistances

If Blake fails a saving throw he can choose to succeed. Blake has 3 legendary resistances per day.

## **Devil's Luck The Card Game**

Blake is a FIGHTER Might card with 2 power and the following quote:

"*Haha! Just a flesh wound!*"

Blake is part of the FLAME faction.

Artist: Pepetichan

## **Relationships**

### **Allies**

#### **Blue Blood**

He is Blue Blood's most recent councilmen, the members of his crew with the title of commander. Specifically, he is The Black Knight, Lord Marshall. He is in charge of Blue Blood's cavalry. Whether this means he is in charge of all vehicles such as ships, horses, etc. is unknown, as lord high admiral might be rolled into that. The Black Knight was shown to assist Seraph in repossessing Ragnar Island.

Within Blue Blood's territories, Duros' #7 candle was able to detect 2 candles other than Ragnar's. As Gravy is one of the two, that only leaves 5 and lower as candidates. Since Hemlock and Bullet are both at the Oasis, this leaves only the #1 and #5 candles as candidates, hinting of his association.

### The Eight Flames

#### Little Timmy

Blake seemed to pity Timmy after he was forcibly turned into a cyborg.

#### Hemlock

When it comes to assassination, Blake and Hemlock made an effective team. Blake respected Hemlock's power and experience as a Candle member. They have always been hoping for an opportunity to back stab their superiors, but were unable to because of their shared fear of Valentine.

After the deaths of Valentine and V both Hemlock and Blake became determined to reform the Eight Flames in accordance with their own ideals.

When they got back, Blake left the candles after learning about Cleo's death. Due to not beating Hemlock in a similar manner to Bullet, he does not seem to blame her for Cleo's death.

#### Cleo

Blake loved hanging out with Cleo, as they were both energetic and loved drinking. He got really upset about Cleo's death but was holding back his rage against the crew. It has been confirmed that they were dating. After her death, he beat Bullet within an inch of her life and then left the Candles. He said that he left in order to get stronger. The thing he valued the most about her was that she was funny. What he finds funny is unknown. It was revealed that the reason he worked out so much was to protect her.

#### Devil's Luck Pirates

When it comes to the Crew, Blake has only ever fought on the same side with them. Even though the first time they met and fought together was only a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", they quickly found themselves getting along nicely. William, in particular, took an instant liking to Blake's outgoing personality and Blake appreciated his friendly attitude.

The next time Blake and the Crew met each other after escaping the G-4 Base was during the Crew's raid on the Eight Flames' base underneath the Oasis. Blake greeted them happily and soon joined them in their attempt to rescue Gravy and defeat V. Throughout their subsequent adventures Blake and the pirates became genuine friends, finally sharing a group hug at their eventual parting. Although, things soured between them due to their role in killing Cleo. He was now focused on killing them, although he has hesitated a bit. However, he's since been defeated by the Crew and they will try to reform him.

##### William

Blake and William hit it off instantly upon their first meeting. Whenever the two were together, they were always cheerful and energetic, complimenting each other frequently. In fact, they get along so well that William actually asked Blake to join his crew twice. Although Blake dodged the question both times, they still seemed friendly. Although, things have probably soured between them due to his role in killing Cleo. In fact, given that he was the captain, Blake might blame him the most for her death. William groups Blake as one of the two men he has ever loved, although ranking him below Jimmy. It is unknown what exactly the depths of Blake's hatred for William are, but it would probably be comparable to Luffy to Blackbeard; Kyros to Diamante; Carrot to Perospero; Hiyori to Orochi; Momonosuke to Kaido; Law to Doflamingo; Fukurokuju to Raizo; and Nami to Arlong.

##### Duros

Blake loves Duros for killing Valentine. Although, things have probably soured between them due to his role in killing Cleo

##### Ragnar

Blake and Ragnar are both very energetic and simple people who love strength, alcohol and physicality. After the demise of the Trojan Pirates, the two shared a promise to visit the Ocean Gym together someday. Although, things have probably soured between them due to his role in killing Cleo. He told Ragnar that the gym closed as well, although this might be a subtle way of cutting ties with him. After he was apprhened and taken into the care of the Eight Flames, he could sense that Ragnar had Blue Blood on his person.

#### Bullet

Blake and Bullet became allies and friends throughout their shared adventures with the Devil's Luck Pirates. After the defeat of the Trojan Pirates Bullet joined him and Hemlock on their trip back to the Oasis. As such, they travelled together. Then he found out that she killed Cleo. After a ceremony was held, he beat her within an inch of her life. If he were any less kind, she would be dead.

### Enemies

#### Valentine

Blake hates Valentine for always keeping him in line, and generally views him as an annoyance and obstacle to his vengeance with the Eighth Flame. Valentine always keeps an eye on Blake and scares him into submission. But, Blake claims that if Valentine had been out of the picture, betraying the 8th Flame's organization and reforming it would be no problem. So upon hearing the news of Valentine's death; Blake rejoices and mocks Valentine's bizarre accent and laughter style, as if was never afraid of him in the first place.

#### Eighth Flame

Despite working under him, Blake secretly hated the 8th Flame for restricting his freedom, being "uncool" and eventually for killing Little Timmy. When given the chance to fight back, he was quick to betray his leader and join the raid team in their attempt to save Gravy.

## **History**

After Episode 32: Stoney Silence, Blake headed off with Hemlock, Bullet, Malaise, Humphrey and Taurus to help Bullet figure out who put the contract on her brother. They are currently following an Eternal Pose to the Oasis in order to restart their operations, along with carrying a Talkie Walkie. When he found out that Cleo was murdered, he beat Bullet to within an inch of her life. He also got recruited by Jester to be a member of the Cerulean King's court.

#### Adherence to Canon history

He dies at some point before Ace found his fruit on an island and ate it with Masked Deuce, although Ace was the one who gained the power.

## **Trivia**

* Blake is the most RADICAL member of the 8 Flames.
* Blaze is the third pet to be drawn.
* He is in a similar situation to Post-Marineford Luffy in that he was a typical hot-blooded shounen protagonist who had a loved one taken from him and decided to get stronger. This would make Cleo the Ace (loved one who died for petty reasons), Bullet the Akainu (person who killed the loved one and defends the institution of slavery), and the Devil's Luck Pirates the Blackbeard pirates (amoral group of psychopaths who orchestrated the death. Made mostly of devil fruit users; captain is a violent and reckless gambler and member of the D clan with a really weird and powerful fruit that relates to other fruits; they have a brutish guy who likes fighting). The crew also acted friendly with him when they first met, despite the circumstances. Given that he is working for Blue Blood as a commander, he also got the power from a former Roger crew mate. The major difference of course is that, while Luffy was able to deal with the grief by remembering his friends, Blake has abandoned everybody he once thought of as a friend.
* Before the Black Knight's identity was revealed, many fans predicted he would be Blake dubbing him the 'Blake Knight'
* Tekking 101 was the only player that didn't figure out that Blake was the Black Knight before its reveal.
* Blake is the third user of a canon devil fruit in the story at the time of his Black Knight introduction.
* Blake likes Pineapple Juice, The Best Juice, yet Blake is the only character to be seen sadly drinking pineapple juice.
* Blake has the fastest growing character in terms of strength, becoming as strong as he was during the Blue Blood saga from before in the span of only 10 days. Although most of this strength dose came from Blake injecting himself with large amounts of Blue Blood over a very short period of time
* Rustage agreed with this post saying Blake would be West Coast American if he was in real life.

## **Quotes**

* "Haha! Just a flesh wound!"
* "This is for Little Timmy you bastard. Even though it was the other one that killed him."