Blaire Houston

"Kai: 'We lacked purpose but now—'""Blaire : 'But now we survive. We have to if we want to live in this world.'"Blaire Houston is the teenage misfit daughter of Prime Minster of Eden, Jonathan Houston. She is also the sister of Kade Houston, and the best friend of Dulcinea Garcia. She also a royal from the Scarin En's royal family, as her mother is a princess of.

Ever since her mother disappeared from her life, she lived like drug-fueled party girl who always got into trouble due to her booze addiction. After an accident that nearly killed her, she began to get her life back together but wasn't until she met Amelix and joined the Resistance that she began to feel normal again.

After a few months away from her people, she returned her people, but not becouse wanted to. She returned to save them from Viessa's wrath and to save herself from a group of skilled killers. Currently she is being held captative by Viessa.

Early Life
Within Days of Blaire's birth, an assassin tried to kill her for being Kreibeka's heir, but the assassination attempt was unsuccessful. But due to it, the doors of the Lerdidorn Palace remained closed for two years before Nania and Jonathan returned to Eden with Blaire and her brother. As the years went by, her parents began to drift apart and her mother disappeared from her life due to Jonathan's blackmail. At age of 13, an attack on her family's limo almost left her paralyzed for life, but she still gets neuropathic episodes from time to time, which she has learned to deal with.

When she woke up, she quickly found out that her brother, his best friend and Skye were investigating a secret organization who's leader paid Kade a visit while he was visiting her in the hospital. Amelix inducted them into her Resistance against Jonathan.

She learned useful skills as the years passed.

Dome Deactivation
Amelix tasked Blaire with the honor of shutting down the dome. Kade then told everyone the dome was finally coming down and for a short while people didn't hate Blaire. On Election Day, Blaire gets tackled by Seth, her former mentor at the Resistance and he lets her go as he still believed the dome should be taken down. Blaire then proceeds to shut the dome off which creates havoc among the people of Eden. Amelix gets shot and Blaire and everyone else flees beyond the city limits. Eventually all surviving members of the Resistance finds one another. When they regroup, they shortly discover that they are not alone. Mutants attack the area the Resistance regrouped at and then they are shortly saved by the people who live in the woods

Meeting Elana
Blaire and the Resistance are brought to Akutan, where they rejoin the rest of their people. Blaire is brought to the leader of the people who saved hers during a Gorger attack. Blaire gets the feeling hat she has met Elana before and that she should trust her. Elana then invites Blaire to attend the Accords Meeting in a few days and she accepts becouse her people won't survive without allies.

Blaire sneaks into Eden and returns home, her father is there waiting for her. Jonathan injects Blaire with a serum to kill her over a long period then she passes out. After regaining consciousness, Blaire returns to the Resistance Camp. Elana stops by and takes Blaire, Dulcinea, and Blaire's brother, Kade to the same village to speak with the other tribe leaders about the peace treaty. As they discuss the peace treaty, Blaire begins to the effects of the serum and passes out. They bring her back to the camp, after diagnosing her with a deadly disease that should have killed her instantly, Dulcinea suggests that Blaire may not be entirely human. Blaire slips into a comatose-like state.

Day of the Dead Celebration
Not long after she wakes up, Elana comes by the camp and invites her people to the capital for the Day of the Dead celebration. She and a few of friends go to Barouge with Elana and her people. They stay at the Capitol Building for a two part celebration meant to tell the Gorgers in the world that they aren't afraid of them. Following the ceremony's break, everyone goes to the Throne Room where one of Elana's less devoted subjects, Viessa throws a knife into Blaire's shoulder. Her black blood is revealed, Blaire then pulls out the knife and flees the Throne Room. Dulcinea chases after Blaire, stopping her from running back to the camp at night because she thinks it's dangerous and wishes to keep Blaire from doing something dumb. Blaire sleeps in but is rudely awoken by Kade. Before they depart, Blaire goes to confront Viessa but ends up getting kidnapped by her.

Viessa and the Emanicaya Tribe
Viessa brings Blaire to her jungle capital and chains her up. She drains Blaire of her blood; she believes that her blood will cure the Gorger disease and it does when Viessa brings in someone who has the disease. Meanwhile, everyone else realizes that Blaire didn't return to camp so they go into the jungle to try to rescue Blaire. The rescue team breaks into where Blaire is being held, Kai shoots Viessa's cured boyfriend. Almost immediately, they flee the jungle and return to the Camp.

Living in the Resistance Camp
Tensions increase as the number of dead agents begins to increase, they realize someone is killing people from inside the camp and that it's one of them. Skye attempts to kill Dulcinea due to her jealousy for her, and how close she and Blaire are. They lock her up, Blaire and her friends discuss what to do with Skye. Kai shoots Skye, nearly killing her, Blaire goes to be by her side, she forced to mercy kill Skye because it's the humane thing to do. Engulfed by grief, Blaire goes to bury her cousin.

Gorgers attack the camp, Dulcinea is separated from the group and Kai stirs up a riot, making everyone believe that everything bad that has happened is because of Blaire, she decides to go to the survivor's village to speak with their tribe leader. On the way, Blaire is kidnapped again, but it was ordered by Elana. She discusses the nature of how important the black blood flows through Blaire's, and Elana's veins, and how it's tried to the tradition of choosing the next ruler of the country. Elana arranges for Blaire to stay in the Capitol Building until the acid rainstorm passes. While waiting, ambassadors from the other Tribes try to assassinate Blaire. Elana stops the ambassadors by killing them and saves Blaire. They start to bond and learn about each other.

After the storm passes, Elana and Blaire ride to the Resistance camp to stop Viessa's father from marching his army to kill Blaire's people. Uhtred brings Dulcinea back to camp where Blaire notices that she's not as humble and cowardly as she way when Blaire left. Which makes Blaire curious and suspicious.

The Fall of Eden
Sebastian suggests a plan to stop Jonathan, but they need to sneak into Eden and extract an important mechanic, as he feels that she is important to the cause. They sneak into Eden and find Harmony Salvatore, who also happens to be Sebastian's fiancée as well. On the walk back to the camp, Harmony shares Jonathan's true mission, he wants to achieve immortality through memory uploading and cloning. Blaire becomes more determined to stop him before she dies. To truly stop Jonathan’s plans, they must go into Eden through the abandoned underground tunnels, shut down the central powerplants and blow the memory storage building full of uploaded minds. Blaire demands that she’d be the one to blow the DNA chamber and assassinate Jonathan. The mission to Eden is successful, everyone makes it to their mission locations, Jonathan and Blaire meet in the DNA chamber, he attempts to tell her that he was being manipulated. Before he could finish, he’s shot in the heart by his brother who was manipulating Jonathan for a while. Enraged, Blaire attacks Kellan and kills him, ending her mission. She blows the chamber and nearly doesn’t make out alive. As she walks back to the meeting point for the Resistance, she watches as her city falls and how all of it was because of her. She makes a choice and leaves her people; she believes that her people will be safer without her.

Fleeing the Culling
When the green pyre was lit, Blaire and many other darkbloods left their homes and marched to the capitol to participate in the Culling. When the event proved to be something Blaire wanted nothing to with, she ran from the capitol building and returned to Eden.

Returning to Scarin En
Blaire and Kade returned to Scarin En's capitol together. She was not happy about it becouse she believed that Kade betrayed her by withholding some important information from her. Blaire and her brother reunited with their mother, who then explained everything to them. Nania also told Blaire that she can't escape the Culling, so then Nania began training Blaire for the Culling. But even if she did somehow win the Culling, the people of Karidia may not follow her unless she proved herself. Nania told Blaire of the legend of Katerina's Blade, bring brought Blaire back to Eden to speak with her aunt.

Searching for the Shards
Blaire first went looking for the shards on her own. She was assisted by Dulcinea while getting the shard in Eden. Kai shortly joined her while she went searching for the rest of the shards.

Retrieving Kreibeka's Sword
When Blaire got all the shards, she assembled them and went to the Sacred Chamber to retrieve Katerina's sword. While getting there, an assassin sent by Allah al-Ozar tracked Blaire and Kai down. Blaire and the assassin fought and Blaire told the assassin if Allah wants her dead, he'll have to kill her himself then Blaire let the assassin go. Kai questioned Blaire on the Order of Assassins then Kai left her to retrieve the Valectis Blade alone.

Physical Appearance
Blaire has long dark red hair, which she keeps in a partial high ponytail. She has upturned purple eyes, and mostly pale skin, but due to her genetic damage, half of her body is slightly tanner than most of her body. Due to her training as a sky, she has very athletic build and strong musicals.

Blaire tends to wear anything that fits becouse she's not very picky about clothes. But she tends to wear boots, leggings and tank top.

Due to her time as a seeker, Blaire has the Southside Seeker emblem tattooed on her on right hip. A bullet wound on her lower back, and a circular scar above her left ear, and a star birthmark on her wrist.

Personality
To others, Blaire is an incredibly person due to her lack of self-control, and wide media coverage. Blaire has been known to have a bit of a temper, but she's also fireclay loyal and protective of the people close to her. She will willingly go straight into danger if it meant protecting the ones she loves. It doesn't matter how dangerous or stupid, she's hardly afraid of anything which proved to be a problem in her past becouse she always spoke her mind no matter what. Blaire has proven that she didn't inherit being a natural-born leader, she is often the one who follows the leader. She also be a bit flirty, and violent however this tends to be traits she develops when she's drunk.

She also can be a bit immature, careless, and selfish. She also incapable of making a good decision, which is why Kai thinks of her as a trainwreck.

Skills & Abilities

 * Darkblood Physiology: Due to being born with black blood, Blaire like all darkbloods, has slightly enhanced senses. She can hear heartbeats if she focus, hear footsteps in the distance. She is able to built up her physically strength much faster than others, and she's quicker than most people. Blaire also has a better immunity to radiation than most humans.
 * Gymnastics: Before she joined the Resistance, Blaire was able to perform a variety of acrobatic feats like handsprings, cartwheels and flips, however due to her spinal injury, these skills are limited now.
 * Physical Combat: She is skilled at close-quarters combat she gained at her training as a spy.
 * Marksmanship/Firearms: Learning how to use a gun is one of the skills she learned as a initiate.
 * Swordsmanship: Her mother did her best to try to prepare Blaire for the Culling, and Blaire learned how to properly hold and wield a sword.
 * Bilingual: Katnaituhng was her first language but for the language for 16 years then regained it when Vye started re-teaching it to her.

Possessions

 * Nanites: Due to her haemophilia, Blaire's mother injected her with nanites to keep Blaire from getting a mild wound and dying.
 * Elana's Dagger: Elana gave Blaire her dagger to keep in her boot in case if she needs a blade.
 * Premier Pendant : Before her mother disappeared, Nania gave Blaire a necklace and said it was family heirloom.
 * Valectis Blade : Blaire was able to retrieve her ancestors' sword for the Culling. She needed to find a way to get the Karidian people follow her, and gaining sword would do just that.

Sebastian Godfrey
Blaire believes that Sebastian is the love her life and wanted to get him back so much, she tried to ruin his engagement to Harmony.

Kai Kendall
On several occasions, Kai and Blaire have kissed and have even slept with each other. They were great friends in the past but after she had a miscarriage, she stopped hanging out and causing mischief with him and they became rivals.

Elana Terrick
Elana and Blaire got along and bonded quickly then Elana unexpected kissed Blaire and she felt weird and confused about it.

Kade Houston
Kade is her older brother who she shares a very strong bond with. They care deeply for each other and he's one of the few people Blaire would die for.

Jonathan Houston
Blaire loved her father as a young child but after her mother disappeared, they began to drift away from each other too. No matter how much she tried to impress him, it wasn't enough. One day, she had enough and stopped trying to gain her father's love and approval.

Kellan Houston
Kellan, in a way, was the only father figure she ever knew. He was always in her life and was there for her more times than her real father.

Skye Sinnett
Blaire always stuck with Skye. She remained close with her cousin for years until she died. Skye and Blaire often got into trouble together as kids. They were so much alike, but very different the same time.

Bianca Sinnett
Bianca is the last connection she has to her mother. Blaire values her greatly.

Dulcinea Garcia
Dulcinea is the person Blaire is the most close with. Blaire thinks of Dulcinea as sister and nothing more. They couldn't be more different but they would risk everything for each other.

Winn Lawrence
Winn was her brother's best friend. He was constantly around but they never became good friends.

Seth Kingsly
Seth is Blaire's mentor. He taught her important skills and they bonded as they did so. But they drifted apart when he left the Resistance but they sometimes saw each other as he became a Guard.