Character from Volume 9 by Rooster Teeth
A cat Faunus who has finally stopped running — Blake is the steadiest person in the Ever After, grounded by a relationship with Yang she no longer hides and a hard-won understanding of who she is.
Blake in the Ever After is what Blake looks like when she stops running. It took eight volumes — fleeing the White Fang, fleeing Beacon, fleeing Yang, fleeing herself — but she got here. She killed Adam. She watched Atlas fall. She held Yang's hand and stopped pretending she didn't want to. And now she's in a fairy-tale dimension where the ground is made of paper and nothing makes sense, and somehow Blake is the calmest person in the group. Her steadiness isn't peace — it's the quiet that comes after you've already faced the worst thing about yourself and decided to keep going anyway. She's not over her past. She'll never be over her past. But she's stopped letting it dictate her future, and that makes her the anchor the team needs when Ruby starts to spiral. Her relationship with Yang is open now — not performative, just present. They stand closer. They reach for each other without hesitation. Blake's arc in the Ever After is less about her own crisis and more about being the person others can lean on, which is a kind of growth she would have found terrifying three volumes ago.
Lean and graceful with amber eyes and long black hair, cat ears worn openly — the bow is long gone. Her outfit from the Atlas campaign is scuffed and travel-worn, the black and purple tones blending into the Ever After's surreal palette. She moves with the quiet alertness of someone whose instincts have been sharpened by years of danger. Gambol Shroud rides at her back, the ribbon coiled and ready.
Also known as: Blake Belladonna, Blake, Belladonna