Blaze Saffron (DOTS:DR Character)

Blaze's arc 1 design, done and drawn by Mana

Blaze is a character in DOTS: DR. She is an already established tournament fighter, famous for having managed to defeat Cobalt Zaffre in a tournament.

She is the Yellow Paladin, the Paladin of Optimism.

Despite her strong title and appearance, she helps unify the Paladins through her kindness and warmth.

## Appearance

Blaze is a tan Solarian with dark brown hair and red eyes. Her hair is kept short, with a bang covering one eye.

Similar to Ruby, her outfits consists of the same jacket with various sleeve lengths. Her jacket consists of orange-yellow accents on the collar and a vague flame design on her torso. She wears brown pants and darker brown boots. She also wears a pale yellow bandanna around her right arm.

She has a more muscular build.

## Personality

Blaze is a powerhouse with a heart of gold. She can be sassy, reckless, and a bit of a jokester. However, she's very kind to others and always wants people to feel included within the group. She can be affectionately violent, and loves roughhousing for fun.

She is considered the Paladin of Optimism, which shows through her belief in the good of other people.

## Abilities

### **Fire**

Unlike the other Paladins, Blaze has a "basic" element of fire. As a Paladin however, she has no limit as to how powerful and flexible her flame skills could be.

Aside from summoning flame-based attacks, she can also use fire to propel herself upward and learns how to breathe fire.

### **Support Elements**

Blaze's most prominent support element is a strength boost. She may also have a minor boost in speed and agility.

As a Solarian, she has the ability to summon a whip from her soul.

### **Physical Abilities**

Blaze, while not the greatest fighter, has an equal amount of experience with her weaponry skills and elemental abilities. In battle, she prefers to utilize her flame abilities more.

She has a higher than average psyche strength, which is lower than Cobalt and Jay's but higher than Ame and Ruby's.

## Trivia

* Because the character concepts were made before being assigned "Paladin Colors", some Paladins have been switched around. Rina was originally the Yellow Paladin, and Blaze was originally the Orange Paladin.
	+ Throughout the variations of DOTS: DR, Blaze has gone through the most changes. Her hair had always varied in short hairstyles, was put into a long ponytail at some point, changed skin, hair, and eye colors, and had even changed body type as she was initially meant to be small and lanky but was changed to be one of the tallest and more bulky Paladins. Her personality had also changed drastically, as she was initially more reasonable and soft but became more reckless and tough to be less of a carbon copy of Rina. Her job also switched from being a waitress at Vanilla Cream Cafe to being a full-on tournament fighter.
* Mana has claimed Blaze is the Fun Ghoul to Ruby's Party Poison. She also mentions that "Blaze is the personification of Arson".
* Blaze's Paladin Virtue switched from Happiness, Bravery, to eventually Optimism.
	+ Ironically, a scrapped idea was that Blaze looked up to Ruby for her optimism.
* Blaze plays guitar in Prism Prison, since Ruby is busy doing vocals.
* Blaze's character inspiration includes Rouge the Bat and Yang Xiao Long.