A supporting antagonist who develops into a protagonist, Blazing Phoenix, also known as Blaze or Blazy Boo/Blazy Blue, is the ignis-drake steed of Luco. Dangerously loyal to her insane rider, Blaze starts off as one of the most powerful ignis-drakes ever made by man. With her dangerous firepower and upbringing by an insane lunatic, there are few lines Blaze will cross to appease her beloved rider, though she does come to question this loyalty and take steps towards achieving independence.
Appearance
As an ignis-drake, Blaze resembles a raptor with wings, with powerful back legs, leathery wings, a long, lashing tail, and a reptilian face. However, her arms are distinctly humanoid, and can form fists for punching or grabbing things with her talons.
To distinguish herself from other ignis-drakes, she has bright yellow scales, which are usually bursting with flames. She has a particular pattern of flames burning on her head and down her back, giving her a ‘mane of flames’ of sorts.
Due to a possible story choice I’ll make for her later, she may also have flame patterned spots of red on her hands, feet, and around her eyes. Her eyes are normally a light shade of pink, but when she’s emotionally riled up, they turn red, fitting with the red flame spots around her eye sockets.
In the fanfiction forum (which her OSAF counterpart is beginning to replicate events from), she eventually goes through a ‘depowerment’ phase. Here, her scales are reduced from bright yellow to lemon yellow, and riddled with scars. She covers the worst scars with red and gold armor, and later on learns to summon a pure fire spirit of her original form.
Backstory
Blaze was one of the first dragons created, being custom made by Luco to serve as his mount. Luco claims he was able to make her by breeding a dragon with a phoenix, but due to his insane state of mind, it could be believed that he was making it up.
Raised on the belief that humans had to be protected, and that fighting was her life, Blaze went on to be a powerful foe to the demi-wolves and their leader Myst.
In the fanfiction forum (which has events that OSAF will replicate), Blaze discovers the limits to her powers when she enters a fight that she loses, brutally. Stripped of her powers and rendered helpless, Blaze begins a long trek back up to being one of the best, part of which involved separating herself from Luco, whom she has a very complicated relationship with.
Abilities
- Control over Fire – as a dragon, Blaze is already a natural wielder of flames. However, due to being custom made by Luco, her abilities far surpass any other dragons, allowing her to shrug off most energy based attacks and even increase her power to super nova levels if needed. In the fanfiction forums, she still retains this ability even after being stripped of her main powers, with her mainly being able to summon a fire spirit of her past self, and emit a fiery aura that hurts anyone around her.
- Flight – By blasting jets of flames from her feet and using her wings for guidance, she can fly around like a jet.
- Hand-to-hand combatant – while more reliant on her flames, Blaze is still a proficient hand-to-hand fighter, and anything that isn’t burned up by her flames will be quickly beaten down by her punches, kicks and head butts.
- Crafting skill – In the Fanfiction forums, Blaze develops a small interesting in tinkering and black-smithing, due to her friendship with Diamondback and her loss of power causing her to reflect on her life. While not as capable as Diamondback or other craftsman, she still manages to fashion durable suits of armor and can be rather clever in her own way.
Personality
Blaze, despite her flames, is surprisingly quiet and rather reserved. This is due in part to her having so much flames, that she can’t even speak without risking burning someone. Due to the resulting isolation this brings about, she’s very loyal to her rider Luco, who is the only one able to understand her.
Though Luco’s eccentric personality can aggravate her from time to time, she still never lets it get in the way of serving her rider or fighting good fights. And despite her quiet attitude, she does have a distinct love of fighting, ingrained into her along with a desire to protect humans. Unable to understand a life outside of protecting humans by punching anything that looks at them wrong, Blaze will be able to get by as a minion for now, but later times will test her loyalty and show her that perhaps there is more to life beyond fights.
In the fanfictions, her loyalty is truly tested after an incident takes away her powers and leaves her useless to Luco. Ashamed and disgraced, Blaze became far more ponderous and cautious in her older age, less eager to fight and more determined to not repeat the mistakes of her past. Only time will tell how good she can be at that.
Stories Involving Her
- Logan and Carol – the Wolves of Equestria (She makes her debut in Chapter 25)
- The Displaced Tournament – Presented by Hetap (Appears in Side-Chapter, Maximum)
- The Friendship is Awesome Forum and Storyboards Forum
- Of Scales and Fur – Shiva
- Of Scales and Fur – Rocket
- Of Scales and Fur – Celine
- Of Scales and Fur – Wing (Mentioned, but plays no part)
- Of Scales and Fur – Phoenix (Will be main protagonist)
- Of Scales and Fur – Jackknife (Will be a sympathetic antagonist, trying to find Jackknife and capture him so that his antics will not further the divide between humans and dragons, all while trying to handle her own conflicted feelings about Jack)
- Blaze Plays Mass Effect (A Promotional Playthrough similar to Wing Plays Baldur’s Gate 3, where a human version of Blaze assumes the role of Commander Shepard in Bioware’s Mass Effect Trilogy.)
Trivia
- Blazing Phoenix is inspired by Peril from Wing’s of Fire.
- In the fanfictions, Blaze comes to wear a suit inspired by Tali’Zorah Vas Normandy from Mass Effect, which she may end up wearing in ‘Of Scales and Fur,’ as well.
- Her situation is an ironic inverse to Tali’s, as where Tali requires the suit to survive due to a weak immune system, Blaze requires a suit to ensure others aren’t harmed by her her fiery aura.
- Her situation has become doubly ironic since her depiction in ‘Blaze Plays Mass Effect’, as she is now able to interact with her inspiration Tali and form a friendship with her.
- Though her situation became a parallel to Tali’s in ‘Of Scales and Fur’, as the suit she wears helps keep her alive in combat, as opposed to making sure she doesn’t hurt others as was originally planned.