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Carter Blake | Heavy Rain | Reserved
Name: Caddy
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E-mail:motherhitton@gmail.com
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Timezone: US Pacific
Current Characters in Route: None
Character
Name: Carter Blake
Series: Heavy Rain
Timeline: Just after the end of the game, with the endings A New Life, Heroine, and Case Closed.
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality:Beneath Lieutenant Carter Blake's gruff, callous exterior beats the heart of a good old-fashioned bad person. In the dichotomy of good cop and bad cop, he plays the rare third role of batshit insane cop. He is an angry man with a short fuse and no patience for assholes, defined as anybody who tries to keep him from beating the crap out of people.
To be fair, most of the interactions we see with him are in extremely stressful situations and through the viewpoint of his partner Norman Jayden, a guy he can't stand. He was friendly for about five minutes, and things went immediately downhill from there. He's been working on the Origami Killer case for two years, and this stuck-up FBI asshole with fancy sci-fi glasses waltzes in and tries to take over. They clash constantly, usually because Jayden wants to rely on stupid crap like profiling and evidence. However, he does make an effort to work with him and solve the case. He gets along reasonably well with the other police officers (possibly helped along by none of them being real models of the profession either), and he couldn't have made lieutenant if he weren't competent to some degree. He's capable of dialing it back; in the interviews with Ethan and Ethan's ex-wife early on in the game, he's much more calm and professional.
Once things really get going, highlights of Blake's role include beating up a suspect, yelling at a schizophrenic, and beating up another suspect. The schizophrenic, Nathaniel, thinks he's an end times prophet and Blake is the antichrist, and between the beard and the general behavior, it's a pretty reasonable conclusion. Blake shouts at and badgers the guy, accusing him of being the Origami Killer while he grows more and more scared and frantic. Eventually Nathanial pulls a gun. Depending on the player's actions, he can be either shot or arrested, and Blake's reactions change accordingly. I'm using the variant where Jayden doesn't shoot, and Blake is pissed that he could've been killed, but information from the other route is relevant: Blake says that when it comes to shooting people, the first is hard, but it gets easier. Interestingly, it's one of the few times when he shows sympathy.
Another is if Scott Shelby gets arrested. Blake helps him get out and offers to help him with anything else he needs, mentioning a time when Shelby got him out of trouble before. This suggests they worked together before Shelby retired.
The other player character he interacts with is Ethan, who he becomes convinced is the Origami Killer, arrests, and beats the crap out of. As Blake sees it, this is a kid-killing scumbag who knows the location of the latest victim, and asking nicely isn't going to cut it. That Ethan might be innocent doesn't enter into his thought process. He also beats up Ethan's therapist on the way, and if Jayden interferes, goads him to attack him. If Jayden does punch him, he pulls a gun. He doesn't really fight fair.
In the ending I'm working from, he's still working as an officer and dealing with the fallout from the resolution of the Origami Killer case.
Strengths/Weaknesses: - Temper. Just about anything can set him off.
- Impatient. He'll go for the obvious answer even when it's pretty clearly wrong.
-Violent. Maybe not the first resort, but it's high up on the list. He's the kind to punch first and ask questions while punching.
+/- Jaded. As a homicide cop, he's seen it all.
+/- Stubborn. Once he's fixed on something, he doesn't back down. On the other hand:
+ Determined. He doesn't give up, either.
+ Doesn't scare easy. You could call it courage if you're being nice, or bullheadedness if you're not.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Snubbull
Password: Scrambled Eggs
Samples
First Person Sample: [The view shakes up and down]
--the hell does this thing work? Hello?
[When it steadies, the face of a goateed, confused-looking man takes up most of the view.]
Fuckin' sci-fi video cell phones...This working?
[There's beeping as he jabs at buttons at random]
Something weird's going on here. There's some lady calling herself my mom, and she's gotta be ten years younger than me.
If this is some kind of cult, I'm not drinking the Kool-aid. They must've drugged me already, cause there's some kind of pink dog on its hind legs standing there watching me.
[His eyes flick offscreen. His expression becomes disturbed.]
Just...watching.
[There's a muffled, inquisitive "Bull?" Blake's face turns offscreen and he shouts] Leave me alone, goddammit!
Third Person Sample: Blake had to find some answers. Panicking would be a waste of time, so he wasn't going to do it. He'd been in worse places.
Come to think of it, that was the creepiest part. Everybody was cheerful, friendly, and acting like all the bizarre acid-trip animals were supposed to be there. And for once it wasn't raining. Blake was starting to think he'd take rain over quiet, upbeat music coming from nowhere. His gun was gone, all the police he could find were clone ladies who told him the same thing everybody else did about going on a trip. Eventually he went down the road they kept talking about just to get the hell away from them and the lady who said she was his mother. She was real insistent about that, and about him taking this bag along.
As soon as Blake got out of sight of the town, he sat down on a stump by the side of the road and dumped out the bag to look for a tracking device or a bomb. There was a whole bunch of crap: weird clothes (how did they get his size? Shit, he didn't want to know), a deformed cell phone, some rope, a couple little spray bottles of what looked like Windex.... There were some red and white round things that didn't tick or vibrate when he held them up to his ear, and were empty when he opened them up.
Ah, hell. Stopping gave the pink dog muppet thing a chance to catch up.
"What?" Blake grunted at it. It grunted back.
He tried ignoring it. It came over a snuffled at the pile of stuff, then at him. Blake prodded it with his foot. "Get lost, you little mutant."
It ignored him. He tried jabbing it harder. It growled and sank its teeth into his leg.
"Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!"
Blake kicked wildly until it went flying. When it hit the ground, it crouched down and glared at him like this was all his fault.
Swearing under his breath, Blake gathered up all the stuff and crammed it back into the bag. he hefted it on his shoulders and got moving down the road. Now what he needed was answers and a rabies shot.
PENDING
Revised Personality
Blake is single-minded and impatient, and will ignore the law when it suits his purpose. He doesn't give a second thought to breaking down a suspect's door and busting in. Getting a warrant would take time, and when a kid's going to die in a few days, time's what he doesn't have. He'll try talking to people, but if there's resistance, he goes straight to violence. He cares about what works, not what's nice, and that the ends justify the means. If somebody has something he needs to know, he doesn't hesitate to beat it out of them. He sees it as doing his job. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few faces.
He depends a lot on his ego, so he snaps when it's undercut. He believes in the way he does things, so when Jayden comes around in Kick-Off Meeting and starts lecturing about what they should be doing to catch the killer, instead of considering that it could help, he takes it as an insult. Since the killer's been at large for two years, he has to know that his methods aren't working, and it's a huge sore point. Kids are dying on his watch, and this guy waltzes in and acts like he could do better. This is emphasized if Jayden points out specifically that he's failing, and Blake reacts with immediate violent rage, showing that he's hit a nerve. Any threat to his authority is taken very badly, hinting that he's hiding a rich vein of insecurity.
He puts a lot of stock in his intuition, though it unfortunately turns out to be completely wrong. He never doubts himself. Once there's evidence that points at Ethan Mars being the Origami Killer, he believes it wholeheartedly and throws everything into catching him. He takes pride in his years of experience on the streets and believes wholly in the instincts and judgment he's gotten on the job, making him unable to consider that he might be wrong. If Norman helps Ethan escape when he's arrested and is caught on camera, Blake's fury demonstrates how invested he is in stopping the killer, and the way he insists he's had Norman pegged from day one shows his belief in his judgment of people. Killer or asshole, once he's decided what you are, nothing can sway him.
Despite his usual behavior, Blake is capable of empathy and flashes of humanity. When he's not immediately under the pressure of a high-stakes, high-pressure, high-profile case, he can be reasonable and even sympathetic. When Ethan first comes in to report Shaun missing, he's calm and helpful, showing that he's comfortable and in his element in the cop routine. He assures Ethan that Shaun probably just ran off and will turn up soon, but when pressed, says that if it is the Origami Killer they've got four days to find him alive; Blake's dealt with a lot of hard truths and isn't going to sugarcoat it. He helps Scott Shelby when he gets arrested, "for old time's sake," demonstrating a capacity for loyalty to his friends, and a sense that while he sure as hell keeps grudges, he also respects any favors he owes.
Blake takes a "shit happens" approach to people dying, indicating that he's seen it a lot and can't let it bother him anymore. Going by what he says if Jayden shoots Nathaniel, he's killed at least a few people himself, and claims to have gotten used to it. He treats Nathaniel's death as not much of a loss, since he was crazy and stupid enough to grab for something in his jacket when there was a gun pointed at him. Blake copes by filing a lot of things under "suicide by cop." He does what he has to do without wasting time feeling guilty about it, and expects other cops to do the same.
He was absolutely determined to save Shaun Mars, and some of the extents he went to would be heroic if they weren't focused in the completely wrong direction. It's interesting to note that if Heavy Rain were a different kind of game, or a Charles Bronson movie, Blake would be the protagonist. While he is undeniably an unbalanced, psychopathic asshole, to him every part of it is necessary and justified. Just don't ask the guy he's punching.
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