Chase Blake

## Biography

Chase is the prophet Light Minded, who would balance the new Dark Minded, Shilo Larkin’s ability to control the throne. Chase is a complex person who is often misunderstood by society. Despite facing challenges with his mental illness, he remains kind and selfless towards others. However, due to his struggles, he is often seen as a delinquent by society. Despite this, Chase longs for someone to truly understand him and the difficulties he faces. He also grapples with family dynamics, which only adds to his inner turmoil. Despite his struggles, Chase remains resilient and continues to show compassion towards others.

### Birth

Chase Hunter Blake was born on January 25th, 2005 in Purgatory City, Lunar to his mother Lydia Kalveraz and his father Kieran Blake. Chase was born a cryptic pregnancy, Lydia had no idea she was pregnant with another child. Chase was born due to Astaroth’s prophecy of bringing love to the next Dark Minded. As soon as Chase was born, Lydia realized that Terran would kill him if he found out that Chase was his daughter’s son and that Kieran was the father. Lydia and Kieran decided to have Cryslira take Chase to earth with her.

Cryslira takes Chase away from Lydia and Kieran before Terran can discover that Lydia had two children. Terran was aware that Lydia was pregnant, but he didn’t know who the father was until Adrienne’s egg had hatched thirteen minutes later.

Cryslira ultimately makes the decision to bring Chase to earth with her but she Belvez had mentioned she couldn’t raise both Chase and Shilo. Cryslira was only eighteen when she was pregnant with Shilo, she also didn’t know how to live a normal life on earth. Belvez was aware of the prophecy surrounding Chase Blake knowing Chase would guide Shilo to the Dark Minded throne and ultimately be her lover.

Cryslira had made the decision to give Chase to the Wilson family to raise him. Although her plan changed when Kieran had supposedly escaped Lunar with Adrienne after Terran’s attempt to kill him, after he had killed Lydia.

Kieran meets a woman named Diana who he threatened to kill her unless he married her and pretended to be the mother of his children. Diana agreed only because Kieran had started to real estate. After Kieran attempted to kill Adrienne due to the way her name reminded him of Lydia’s middle name he changed it to Briana. Adrienne and Chase's crystals were never purified so they could not unlock their full powers.

### Growing up

Growing up Chase had always had difficulty making friends and handling his emotions. Kieran and Diana had divorced when the twins were 10 years old. Diana still wanted to be Adrienne’s mother but didn’t want Chase. Kieran didn’t want anything to with Adrienne because he blames her for the death of Lydia.

After the divorce and custody terms were finalized, Kieran became more and more abusive towards Chase. Both Adrienne and Chase were aloud to visit and spend nights at the other parents house, Adrienne did not like going to Kieran’s house. Chase had similar personality and kindness as Lydia did causing him to beat Chase up. While Adrienne displayed personality similar to Kieran. Kieran began turning to drugs and alcohol to cope with his still mourning of Lydia’s death despite it being several years later. Kieran removed his crystal allowing for him to feel the sensation of being high and drunk to distract himself from the pain he felt.

When he became drunk he would take it out on Chase, from digging cigarettes into his skin, to breaking his arm he always used Chase as a way to cope with his anger.

The only person Chase felt could understand him was Adrienne. Despite not living in the same house they chatted every day. He met Colin, at some point in Elementary School, he was Chase’s sense of sanity due to his impulsive behavior and tendencies.

### The First Hospital Visit

Chase began going therapy and psychiatry hospitals due to his high levels of depression and suicidal thoughts. He began cutting himself because of how alone he felt. One night during a stay at Diana’s house, Chase attempted suicide, but stopped due to Adrienne walking into the room.

Realizing his attempt Diana had brought him to Valene Falls’ Pediatric Psychiatric Ward. Where Chase stayed for a couple of weeks and met his first love interest, Tristan Salvatore. Chase had experienced his first kiss with Tristan and ultimately found him attractive but didn’t have any love for him. Until Chase meets Shilo, he struggles with his sexuality and believed he was gay until he had met Shilo. Chase had never had any crushes prior to meeting Tristan, while there is not much known about Tristan, it is unknown if he was linked to Lunar.

### First Day of High School

Chase and Adrienne start high school and both of them wanted to have a fresh start on their lives, as Chase had gotten out of the hospital a month before hand. Chase’s day remained normal until his history class, when a blonde hair goth girl, Shilo Larkin had dropped her necklace on the ground.

Chase picks up the necklace, and handed the item back to her as his eyes locked onto her crystal blue eyes he immediately started crushing on her. Chase finds another chance to talk to Shilo as they both end up in another class together.

### Early Days With Shilo

A couple of days later Chase asks Colin to attempt to get some kind of contact on Shilo so he could talk to her. A couple days after Colin gather Chase’s strength to talk to Shilo again, Chase noticed a girl picking on her. He immediately stepped in and defended Shilo. Chase quickly ran away but left a note. Shilo contacted Chase and the both of them began texting each other.

### First Date

Their first date consisted at Crystal Hill Park.

### Attacking Joseph Gilbert

After a day with Colin at the gym, Chase, accidentally cuts his arm along a piece of equipment. Joe points it out to him, offering him a bandage. Chase thought that Joe was making jokes at Chase being a cutter in the past. Chase becomes so in raged that he smashes Joe’s head against a door handle. As he hears someone calling the police, Chase escapes the gym running into the streets. Chase runs away to his father’s house which is unoccupied due to his father spending time in a psychiatric prison.

He breaks in by smashing a window allowing for him to enter. He’s convinced he’s living in a dream and he wants to wake up. He runs around his house searching for a knife or some kind sharp object. Eventually finding a knife and running it down his legs, his arms and eventually his face. Chase is left with permanent scarring, and uses concealer to hide the scars across his face.

Derek Larkin finds him covered in blood and realizes what he sees in Chase’s eyes. Derek arrests him and sends him to the psychiatric hospital.

Chase spends over a month in the hospital, and is given a diagnosis of an unidentified mental disorder which is not named in the series. While Chase spends his time in the Hospital, Cryslira, Adrienne, Colin and Diana visit him. Chase begs both Derek and Cryslira not to mention anything to Shilo.

## Twins of The Shadows

Chase always knew he was different, Briana (Adrienne) was the only person he truly felt understood him

## Becoming the Light Minded

While Chase was kidnapped, he suffered through massive abuse, trauma and tragedy as a prisoner. After his kidnapping, he woke up in a prison cell across from Lynn Hector who had been a prisoner in the obsidian fortress for over a year. Chase quickly discovered his ability of telekinesis as he is newly formed as an enforcer. Terran questions Chase about Shilo's whereabouts, threatening him with drowning him in water full of hemlock. Chase without hesitation spits at Terran refusing to reveal Shilo's location. Chase is quickly drowned in the toxic water where it burns his face causing it to peel.

Chase is later thrown back into his cell where he continues suffering from the burns that the hemlock water caused. Hours went by and the guards return, dragging him out of his cell and into some kind of surgical room. Terran is also present holding a black raven haired wig, and an unknown thick dark purple substance contained inside of a vial. Chase also notices another enforcer present in the room, who did not match the description of Thalia Kalveraz.

After Chase demanded to know who she was attempting to push her against the wall with his abilities however she counteracted by pushing him against the wall, with the flick of her wrist.

As Chase's body was forced against the wall, he couldn't move any muscle at all. The enforcer, glared at him but slowly loosened her glare once Chase screamed and hollered in pain as the doctors began digging needles into his skin causing him to become unconscious.

### Lobotomy

Terran had ordered that Chase becomes the "New Dark minded". while he poses as Shilo's position. Terran had taken Chase's crystal and drowned it in the nightshade concoction that he used to revive Thalia. As Nightshade represents danger, and Terran had modified nightshade to his DNA, explaining why Thalia is so violent. So Chase's crystal is drowned in the nightshade and his brain is opened up to remove a piece of his frontal lobe in order to add the crystal.

Chase also had a black wig sewn into his head so he could hide his natural hair color from Lunar civilians making him appear a twilight. After waking up from the surgery, Kieran reveals he was helping Terran kidnap him.

### Fake Twilight

As Chase masqueraded around as the next Dark Minded, Chase ultimately was still suffering from torture behind the scenes, constantly whipped, hemlock coated blades, and even forced fed hemlock. As the viroids of Lunar see Chase as the new dark minded, Chase is slowly brainwashed into believing Shilo is trying to kill him instead of Terran. Chase begins to believe Terran is actually the hero of the prophecy and Shilo is the villain.

He begins having hallucinations of Shilo coming to rescue him but shortly killing him after. He continues being tortured however an assassin dresses up like Shilo, while Chase is on the drugs. Chase genuinely believes Shilo is torturing him. As Chase makes public appearances, he is given heavy makeup and drugs to give him a healthy appearance. Chase was given order's by Terran to only speak when spoken to so he could not reveal himself as a hostage.

### Playboy

As soon as Chase was announced, Terran wanted to use Chase as much as possible. Terran began While Chase was unable to escape or even fight back due to the to torture and drugs he was placed under. Terran decided to portray Chase as a party boy, and a heart breaker. Terran’s intentions were to hurt not only Shilo, but Lydia, Kieran, Martin Cryslira and Derek.

Terran began hosting parties for the high class people of Lunar and offering them to spend time with Chase and do anything they wanted to him. Chase under heavy drugs and was aware that Terran could hunt Shilo down and kill her. During these parties Chase would suffer with Lunar “pleasure drugs”, rape, beating and psychological damage. During these parties media would portray him as a party boy.

The rebellion would catch The news of these and Shilo would immediately know that Chase was being forced into this.

### Shilo's appearance

Shilo was determined to find any opportunity to rescue Chase from Terran and Kieran. Shilo appears at the next party without any reinforcements, as Wynter Wallace, neither Terran nor Kieran detected her however another viroid sensed her presence.

Chase notices Shilo wearing her blue wig, and believes her to be fake, until she whispers something to him that only she would know. Chase then realizes that Shilo's eyes still possessed that sparkle he saw the moment he met her. Chase begins fighting off his actions as his mind wanted to kill her where his heart wanted to protect her. Considering escaping with her, Chase realizing the woman from the operating room returned once again, after he was kissing Shilo.

The woman uses force abilities to pull Shilo towards her to kill her, however she hesitates whispering the name "Cryslira," She lets Shilo go and suddenly begins stumbling into walls as Chase attempts to stand in front of Shilo to protect her. After the Orderly regains her sense, she force chokes Shilo. Chase knowing he cannot directly attack her, and in a fit of rage screams and forces the orderly to fling across the room causing her to release Shilo.

Hearing more footsteps Chase knows that neither of them will make it out alive, and believes there is a greater purpose for him staying with Terran. Chase kisses Shilo goodbye and helps her escape before anyone finds her.

### Chase's classification

A day later Chase spends the entire night reviewing what had happened and the fact he has some kind of telekinetic abilities.

## Death

Chase’s death is by far one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire series. Chase sacrifices himself to save Shilo’s life, as a result for filling the prophecy of a prophet child dying.

Despite having killed her before, the prophecy mains active until permanent damage had been done

## Abilities

### Powers

* **Peak Human Regeneration:** Chase's body is able to heal itself easily once he reached his full abilities. When Chase was considered "human" his body was still injured however was injured due to viroid harmful tactics.

## Misconceptions

Chase is a very complex character who has several misconceptions surrounding him as well as his development. Chase is very similar to most adolescents struggling with mental illnesses along side recovering from trauma. The author has mentioned including her own personal mental struggles in the character of Chase Blake hoping to allow for readers to connect with him as a relatable character,

### Chase is a Villain

This is a HUGE misconception, Chase is not a villain, sure he does very questionable things such as laughing when Gavin dies, and applauding Shilo for killing Taylor but he is not a bad guy. When Chase kills, he is either driven by four reasons, survival, protection, brainwashing or psychological breakdown. If anything Chase is an anti-villain, Chase only starts acting out into violence after a period of time where he is fed up with people abusing him and begins taking matters into his own hands.

## Trivia

* Holds the most injuries in the series
* His piercing was done with a safety pin
* Chase’s name was originally a joke after Lydia and Kieran joked about him and Terran.
* Chase is the only prophet that uses their biological name
* Chase foreshadows his fate in Obsidian
* Chase is revealed to be an enforcer in the first book when he picks up Shilo’s necklace
* He is deaf in his right ear
* in a flash back Chase reveals he is ambidextrous