Blaine

**Blaine** is the Cinnabar Island Gym Leader and a Pokémon researcher. Visually, he appears as he did in the video games. Like all his other incarnations, he still enjoys thinking up riddles.

## History

### The New Timeline (Past)

Blaine started his Pokémon journey prior to the Oak era. On his first attempt at making it to the Indigo League Conference, he got lost in Victory Road for an entire month. He only managed to get out thanks to the help of Moltres, who rescued him after he had passed out from exhaustion. This inspired Blaine to become a Fire-type specialist.

He not only became the first Fire Master, he also researched the Fire-type and was responsible for the current popularity of the type as well as its acceptance as one of the three official starter Pokémon types.

When Blaine first became a Gym Leader, he had his Gym hidden inside Cinnabar's volcano, but after regulations became more stringent he had to relocate to a more easily accessible and safe local.

Years later Blaine lost his child to a fire, so he became the sole guardian of his granddaughter, Alish. She was extremely young at the time so Blaine was the primary person who raised her.

Throughout the years Alish was very close to Blaine's Pokémon, even claiming that she could understand them perfectly. When Alish was six, Blaine was concerned about an incredibly high fever that she came down with. She did not have any other symptoms of being ill, so after looking at her a bit more closely Blaine recognized that she was holding back an Overheat attack and as such that she must be a Fire Heart Bloodliner.

### Battle Dome Tournament Arc

Blaine was challenged for a Badge by Raymond. Blaine's Growlithe was easily able to defeat Raymond's first two Pokémon. To Blaine's surprise Raymond took his defeats so poorly that instead of sending out his final Pokémon, he sent out three more, which was against the gym's rules, in an effort to show his strength. Even this was not enough to phase Blaine or Growlithe and the Puppy Pokémon defeated the opponents effortlessly by himself.

After the match Blaine, decided that he would give Alish her birthday present three months early. After all, the newly hatched Eevee should have that time to bond with his future trainer. Blaine was pleased, that Alish was delighted with her present and ran off to play with Eevee.

The next day, Blaine was doing some research for Professor Oak, when Alish came up to him excitedly. She explained she bought a Fire Stone with all of her savings before bringing out her newly evolved Flareon. Blaine sighed in disappointment, before he explained the importance of training Pokémon that evolve with stones prior to evolving them. Alish was devastated and ran off crying, Blaine decided that she would have to work through this on her own, so he let her go to have some time alone.

After Alish not returning for quite some time, Blaine left for the abandoned Pokémon Mansion, where he knew his granddaughter would go to to be alone. When he got there he found Alish battling a Team Rocket grunt, after losing she launched a Overheat and collapsed. Before the grunt could hurt her, Blaine walked up behind the grunt and punching him with all he had in the jaw. He then had his Magmortor destroy the grunt's Gengar and blast the two through a window, to hopefully never be seen again.

He then took Alish home so that she could rest. After she woke, up he suggested that she train with his Pokémon so that both she and Flareon could become stronger.

### Cinnabar Arc

Alish informed Blaine that he had a challenger lined up for the next day, an Ash Ketchum. When Blaine looked him up, Blaine saw that the youth had somehow survived against Sabrina and earned a badge from her gym.

When it became time for the battle Blaine declared that as he might be the last stop for Ash before the league, he would pull out more of the stops then normal to properly test him. Blaine started the match by bringing out his Magcargo to which Ash responded with a Primeape. Magcargo did not defeat Primeape but it was able to force Ash to switch to his Goodra. The Dragon-type overcame his Lava Pokémon but his Arcanine was able to force Ash to do another swap. Ash brought out a Boldore who defeated Arcanine and Blaine observed that while it won the Rock-type must be newly evolved as it had not become accustomed to its form yet. Blaine brought out his Rapidash to which Ash used Primeape again, who this time was able to overcome Blaine's choice. At this point Blaine noticed that Ash was still having trouble with move limits and suggested that he should focus on that as well as raw power before the league as he was too talented to be shackled by it. Eventually Rapidash fell to Primeape and Blaine brought out his oldest partner, his Houndoom. Blaine had Houndoom Mega Evolve and the canine was able to defeat all of Ash's currently revealed Pokémon in quick succession. With Goodra being the last to fall while flying through the air into Ash who was able to catch the Dragon-type in his arms. Ash then had his Pikachu join the battle, and while the mouse was tired after the battle, Houndoom lost the match. The finale for the battle was Blaine's Magmortor against Ash's Charizard, to which the Fire/Flying-type proved victorious.

After the battle Alish came up to him and asked if he thought the trainer and his friends might also be Bloodliners to which he answer positively. Before she had the chance to ask about if she should go with them, Blaine said not to as they were going through a lot of teen drama and he didn't want that for her at this time.

### Mewtwo Arc

Blaine had a gym battle against Fergus and defeated the trainer while only having two of his own fall. After the match was over he and Alish returned home to make Christmas cookies and set up the Christmas tree.

### Year Two Unspecified Arc

Blaine's friend Moore and his granddaughter Flannery payed him a visit over Christmas holidays and stayed at Blaine's inn keeping the Gym Leader company.

After some time, Blaine lost contact with Alish and filed a missing persons report on her. He was relived when the G-Men located her and made sure she was safe.

## Pokémon

### 4th Gym Badge Challenge Team

* Flamethrower
* Dig

### 7th Gym Badge Challenge Team

* Will-O-Wisp

* Iron Tail
* Headbutt
* Protect

* Flame Wheel
* High Horsepower
* Double Team

* Counter
* Dark Pulse
* Secret Power

* Skull Bash
* Mud Slap
* Thunderbolt
* Screech
* Karate Chop
* Flamethrower

## Family

 Son-In-Law
 Granddaughter

## Links

1. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP058
2. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon\_Red\_and\_Blue\_Versions
3. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP058
4. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP058