Blaise was raised by a pack of Arcanine and Growlithe up to the age of five, when he was found and adopted by a hiker and his wife. He's currently the leader of the Fire Gym in Meteor City, in Velkin. He's also the drummer, main rapper and leader of the locally popular rap punk band "The Hotheads."

The Team

MIKO - Arcanine (♂), brave nature. Playful, protective. He's like a brother to Blaise.

KENNY - Blaziken (♀), adamant nature. Quick-tempered, confident. Big sister type.

ALDRIC - Talonflame (♂), modest nature. Wise, kind. A bit of an awkward loner.

VI - Alolan Marowak (♀), serious nature. Witty, proud. She's introverted and quiet, but overprotective of Blaise. She gets shy around Kenny.

LORENZO - Quilava (♂), calm nature. Arrogant, intelligent. He's hard to get along with, but craves affection. A bit of a tsundere I guess.

ALFIE - Velkian Scraggy (♂), sassy nature. Jokester, charming. He's friends with everyone in the team, and seems to have a crush on Aldric.

ELISE - Vulpix (♀), impish nature. Intense, undisciplined. She's Blaise's companion Pokémon, who adopted herself into the team. She starts trouble with the rest of the team a lot.

Story so far

Although his Blaziken was technically his first pokémon as a trainer, the Arcanine in his team has been with him since childhood. He was originally from the pack he was raised in, and followed the hiker home when he took Blaise. As he traveled the world in his journey, he gained a bit of a reputation, getting called "feral boy" because of his over-aggressiveness and a few incidents where, after all of his pokémon had fainted, he'd run up and punch the trainer that had beaten him.

Having been homeschooled in the mountains by his adoptive parents, he realized he didn't know all that much about the world once he'd set out. When he was fifteen, he joined a gang just because they'd asked. Two years later however, when he found out about how they abused of their pokémons abilities, he beat them all up and left, taking an Alolan Cubone with him.

He was awarded the position of gym leader a little over a year after he first arrived to Meteor City, after he discovered this very same gang was active there and he single-handedly fought them out, freeing hundreds of pokémon in the process. Blaise's gym, the Flaming Rock Concert Venue, is exactly what it sounds: an open air concert venue, where the battleground is the stage where The Hotheads play, and the trainers a challenger has to defeat to get to him are actually Blaise's band members and manager. He's been the gym leader for four years now.

Personality

Blaise is independent, confident, and daring. He's a very loud man with a very loud personality, he's quite the punk. He's petulant, arrogant, and frankly dickish. He's a provocateur, always looking for a fight. He sees every other gym leader as a rival. He wants to reach the top, and sometimes it seems he doesn't care who he steps on to do it.

He is, however, different on camera. He respects his manager a lot, and when they say he shouldn't be so blunt in public or he'll bring the band down with him, he listens. To an average person, although intimidating, Blaise is quiet and reserved, only speaking up to make a fire pun here and there. His fans tend to think he's quite shy! But his friends and co-workers know the truth: sparing a few gentle moments and the care he shows his team, he's an asshole.