Name Origin: Aeras means “wind” in Greek



Allusion: Firestorm

Age: 19

Color theme: Red and White

Affiliation: Beacon Academy

Height: 186 cm (6'1")

Weight: 50kg (110 lbs)

Complexion: Fair

Hair: Red

Eye Color: Green

Symbol: Burning Fist

Brief Overview

Blaze Aeras is the fourth member of Team GELB and is a Third Year Beacon Academy student. He is responsible for the elimination of a small band of Faunus extremists named The Black Hounds.

Personality

While at times he’s silly and laidback, he is often hard to read as a person. Blaze’s ‘hot-headed’ nature belies his true feelings for his actions. Blaze is a very clever person who masks his attitude with obnoxious behavior as a means to throw his comrades off.

Levant, however, easily see through his deception and is sometimes concerned with what is really going on in his mind. He has a growing fondness of teasing Levant for being ‘too sober’ at work, much to her embarrassment. However, teasing aside, he sincerely enjoys her company the most out of the four. He has always considered Eirlys to be too unstable for her own good and Gelb far too stoic even for a leader.

Blaze has a common ‘go-with-the-flow’ mindset when doing things under his teacher’s name or with his team, hardly ever questioning the leading figures’ decisions unless they go against his plans or own moral code.

While at times he can be hard to predict, other times he is seen to be kind and protective to both Levant and Eirlys, often calling them the “flawed diamonds” of the team. Blaze is especially close to Levant however, slowly seeing her as a potential love interest, while being unsure if she feels the same way.

Blaze also shows very little tolerance to cowardly tactics, especially those that would resort to dirty tricks to take advantage of him or his allies. When faced with such enemies, he would aim to enact his ethos, to “repay twice of what is owed to a person, especially if it’s a nasty deed”.

He is also very sociable with other students and is relatively easy to start a conversation with. The façade of a hot-blooded warrior has let him become friends with a few seniors in the process, including Saphir and Hayasa, who he considers to be an “interesting pair” and has been supporting their relationship since. He and Saphir often spend time together talking about how tough it is to be in a team filled with colorful individuals, constantly exchanging opinions with one another even though they have their own disagreements.

Brief History

Born in Vacuo, Blaze was raised in a simple family. His father was a weapon-smith while his mother is a Dust-shop dealer. His interest in becoming Huntsman stemmed from numerous news articles and magazines. Blaze had decided that one day he will become a hero that all his friends would forever remember. While his father dismissed the idea as that of a teenager’s fantasies, it was supported by his mother. She reasoned that someday, the Dust she’s stocked up will need to be used. If it could be used to aid their son’s pursuit of his dreams, then all the better.

Agreeing to this, both taught him how to fight. His preferred method? The most basic of them all, his fists. His father made him a pair of simple gauntlets to train while his mother taught him the extent of Dust powers through demonstrations.

After 2 years of training, Blaze has learned how to fight properly at the age of 15, and was strong enough to fend for himself on simple Grimm hunts with his father on off-days to gain experience.

Feeling that he was ready for the next step, his father sent him off to Vale, hoping for him to one day return a hero after graduation. His family left him a pair of gauntlet and greaves for him as a gift to start his life as a Huntsman in training.

Blaze’s mission record in GELB is not as spotless as that of its leader. In his second year, he disobeyed Gelb’s orders in an incident involving a small extremist Faunus group known as The Black Hounds. He engaged the group himself, defeating their leader single handedly. Although this act earned him a reprimanding from Gelb and the teachers alike, he was unfazed.

Since that time, he’s vowed to think twice before acting, but no one other than himself is sure how serious this statement is. Thanks to his tendency to act alone, he was often viewed as a “carefree hero”. It is a small reputation which he enjoys having, and is the first step towards leaving his mark at the Academy.

Fighting Style

While being the most laidback, Blaze is actually the most aggressive fighter of the four. His approach on the battlefield is bold and direct. As the team’s front line fighter, his role in the team has evolved to include reconnaissance and marking targets for the team’s ranged attacks. Being extremely agile and with uncompromising strength, Blaze packs a heavy punch at melee range.

Observant and deceptively analytical, Blaze is easily able to exploit the weakness of any opponent he comes across. While he is not overwhelmingly powerful in the grand scheme of things, his agility and acrobatic mastery makes up for the lack of firepower. Blaze is also capable of deflecting firearms with his clawed gauntlets and greaves, and he himself is fast enough to defend his teammates should they get flanked.

Semblance

Consecutive Strikes - Blaze’s Semblance uses his Aura to project multiple strikes from either different directions towards his enemies or one direction in a concentrated spread multi-hit factor. Furthermore, each hit from the Aura projection releases a stream of high temperature, high speed wind as it impacts.

Blaze is also able to chain up multiple complex combos using this Semblance. The consumption of Aura in this Semblance is dependent on how many projections Blaze makes, and with each projection, the Aura consumption increases progressively.



The maximum limit of multiple projection from his attacks are 25 at the moment, which means 4 hits with the Semblance at max power equates the power of 100 attacks total.

Weapon - Searing Winds

Blaze’s weapon of choice is a pair of powerful gauntlets and greaves named Searing Winds. The gauntlets are equipped with sharp metal claws on each finger that is made of Dust crystals of any element he choses. The greaves are equipped with a metal plate at their soles. With a dust crystal empowering the plate, it generates an elemental reaction. He has multiple sets, each with different elements. His personal preferences are the fire or air based loadout.

Blaze can also use his greaves to propel himself into the air from time to time and perform super high jumps, and can use that same blast of Dust energy to deliver super-high energy kicks and punches.

Likes: Ice-Cream, cooking

Dislikes: Tofu





Trivia

1. His initial design and personality is slightly based off Axel from Kingdom Hearts series

2. His gauntlets and greaves are a direct reference to Gilgamesh from Devil May Cry 4

3. Blaze’s name is taken from the same name as the protagonist from Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War.