- ➣ Note: This article is about the comics. For the TV series, see Blaine Abel (TV series).
Blaine Abel was a religious demonologist[1][2] and snowmobile mechanic.[3][4] He looked and studied for proof of the existence of demons and accepted that the war against them would have "casualties."[5]
Biography[]
Early life[]
When Blaine was a child, his mother allowed his uncle to live with them after being imprisoned twice for pedophilia.[6] He had fun with his young uncle[7] until he molested Blaine,[6] and priests did not help him when Blaine sought their help. Blaine accredited his uncle's change to a demon crawling inside his body; he attempted to save his uncle's soul but was unable to change him back.[7] Since then, Blaine looked and studied for proof of the existence of demons.[5]
Hunting demons[]
As an adult, Blaine worked from his garage as a snowmobile repairman in Kronenwetter[4] and described himself as his region's foremost religious demonologist.[1][2] He told his clients that his work was blessed by the Catholic church and he had been trained by Jewish rabbis and Islamic clerics to handle entities from multiple religions. People laughed at him for years until the dead came to life on Revival Day. However, Blaine still got called to cast demons out of teenagers who faked possession for attention. In these cases, he threatened the teenager to feign recuperation and never tell anyone the truth.[1]
After Revival Day, Blaine began hunting glowing creatures he believed to be demons. Blaine approached Mrs. Thang Vang to change her car's flat tire but attacked the elderly woman with a rake in her basement, where Mrs. Vang had built a trap to capture what she called the poj ntxoog.[3] Blaine took the ring Mrs. Vang would use to attract the creature, and he intended to capture the demon with a containment circle. However, he left his cell phone in the basement, where May Tao found the wounded Mrs. Vang and the device with a picture of the creature.[5]
After May went to the police, Blaine kidnapped her to interrogate the journalist in his garage.[5] Before Blaine could begin torturing May, he heard a commotion outside;[8] Martha "Em" Cypress sought May after seeing the picture on the cell phone,[5] and a glowing creature sought the ring because it belonged to a Reviver, Joe Myers. Once in the woods, Blaine saw the creature leaving Em and attacked her with a wrench, but she harmed him with a branch to his leg. Em went on to rescue May and destroyed the creature when it fell on a river, but soon Blaine hunted the two girls with a crossbow. To allow May to escape in a snowmobile, Em jumped to the one Blaine rode to crash it against a truck.[8]
Seeking redemption[]
Blaine was admitted to the same hospital as Mrs. Vang and began recuperating from a coma.[9] Noting that May did not report him to the police, Blaine piqued her curiosity by talking to her about current strange events whenever she visited Mrs. Vang.[10][11] On one of these occasions, Blaine told May about his uncle,[7] and she began to sympathize with him.[12][13]
After Blaine was released from the hospital, May called for Blaine's help with Em, who had discovered herself pregnant while being a Reviver.[14] Em attacked Blaine once he entered May's apartment in his crutches, but May defended him and said he was not evil, just confused and afraid. Blaine said he was trying to fight for soul, but maybe it was too late; he had believed he had a reason for living after Revival Day, but maybe it was just another step on his way into the abyss; finally, he told Em that maybe their paths crossing again meant to redeem them both.[2]
To investigate the disappearance of Em's affair, Professor Aaron Weimar, Blaine and Em invaded his house, and Blaine found clues that identified Aaron's hideout at Silver Creek Gristmill.[2] Once there, Blaine described the place as feeling like forgiveness. He rushed through the stream, and Em rescued him from being drowned by devouring Reviver fishes. They found a living but decomposing Aaron inside a well,[15] and Em stopped Blaine from putting him "out of his misery." Em kissed Aaron to see within his memories and jumped with him into the water when he caught on fire. The fish in the stream began to burn and, escaping the burning mill, Blaine told May it was instead a home of sin and lies. As he observed Em leaving the stream, Blaine recited biblical verses about seeing the mother of abominations.[16]
Back in May's apartment, Blaine spent the night sitting inside a circle of salt. Later, as May called to him to watch the news on the bombing at the courthouse, Blaine accused her of deceiving him into becoming an accomplice to the birth of the anti-Christ, like the demon that had overtaken his uncle. As Blaine threw the cell phone from her hand, May said his uncle wasn't possessed but a convicted pedophile. She pushed Blaine away, knocking him off his crutch, and decided to call the police because she should had never trusted him. Blaine understood that moment as another trial to test his resolve, like his uncle had been; to be ready for the angel of darkness, he needed to face the servant and send back to hell the demon that showed him kindness and forgiveness. With the police occupied with the bombing, May could not reach them, and Blaine killed her with his crutch.[6]
Hunters of the Beast[]
Blaine became a suspect in May's death and joined the religious militia Hunters of the Beast as their general. Meanwhile, the CIA sent John Geiss after Blaine, seeking the evidence he had of the cause of the Revival Day.[4]
In the woods, Blaine faced Em again, and he ran away after seeing her survive rifle shots. She defeated his associates and told Blaine they were destined to cross paths. As Em held Blaine down by his throat, her sister, Officer Dana Cypress, promised justice for May's death if she let the police take him.[17] The threat of Dana shooting her did not stop Em, but Blaine left when Geiss arrived to take him. Sheriff Wayne Cypress accidentally shot Geiss, and Blaine escaped alone. However, when Em found Blaine again, he was dying with a gunshot in his neck. Before succumbing to his wounds, he revealed to Em he told his killer: "She knows what you did. What you made me do."[18]
Dana described Blaine's death as someone "covering their tracks."[19] Once she identified her sister's murderer, Dana understood that Lester Majak had killed Em, Aaron, Blaine, and more to create and hide his responsibility for Revival Day.[20]
Behind the scenes[]
- Steven Ogg portrays Blaine's counterpart in the Revival TV series.
Gallery[]
Cover artwork featuring Blaine Abel.
Appearances[]
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