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[h1]Character[/h1]
[b]Name:[/b] Eric Brooks
[b]Hero Name:[/b] Blade
[b]Known Alias':[/b] Daywalker, Frank Blade, SwitchBlade
[b]Age:[/b] 111
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Powers:[/b] Expert swordsman, gunman, and martial artist; enhanced strength, speed, and senses. Accelerated healing, knowledgeable on occult topics, immune to vampire bites, immune to vampire weaknesses such as sunlight and garlic. 
[b]Equipment:[/b] Blade carries with him an arsenal consisting of his signature sword, multiple throwing knives, and a pistol and a shotgun. This version of Blade has a cybernetic left arm which is resistant to bullets. Also, he has a cybernetic right eye which he can use to scan people and objects and gather information on them which is stored into a database via an implanted chip.
[b]Appearance:[/b] Blade is a tall dark-skinned man of muscular build. His style of dress is macabre with his entire outfit being black, the red interior of his long coat being the only exception. Despite being well over a hundred years old in the timeline from which he hails, Blade looks to be in his mid-thirties at most.
[b]Brief History:[/b] Blade was born in 1929 in London as Eric Brooks. During labor, his mother was attacked by the vampire Deacon Frost. Although she did not survive, Eric did and was raised by friends and his childhood was as ordinary as it could be given the circumstances. That changed when he encountered jazz musician Jamal Afari and rescued him from vampires who were overwhelming him. Then, Eric realized that he was much different from other children and began training under Afari to hunt vampires. As he matured into adulthood Brooks left home to travel the world and bring an end to the vampire threat, particularly that of Deacon Frost who killed his mother. On the side, he worked as hired muscle and became known as Blade by those who encountered him on a professional level due to his effective utilization of a sword.

At some point, a global disaster struck and ruined civilization on Earth. With mankind heavily weakened, fiends such as vampires and demons came out of the woodwork to take advantage and prey on the planet's vulnerable population. It was during this period that Blade formed a group known as the Bloodshadows to fight against the fiends and together the group played a key role in helping humanity survive long enough to rebuild. Unfortunately, the Bloodshadows were wiped out by a powerful vampire named Lamia who Blade barely managed to defeat, losing his left arm and right eye in the fight. With the Bloodshadows defeated the Vampire Houses were able to reorganize and gain power. Blade, scarred by the lost of his entire organization, went into hiding.

[h1]Home Universe[/h1]
[b]Franchise:[/b] Marvel
[b]Known Affiliations:[/b] Blade is the sole survivor of an anti-Vampire resistance known as the Bloodshadows.
[b]Key Differences:[/b] This iteration of Blade comes from a futuristic, cyberpunk version of Earth in which civilization has been concentrated into nine mega cities spread across North America, Europe, and East Asia. In some of these mega cities, the Vampire Houses have established themselves as ruling nobility and have oppressed humans, harvesting them for blood.