Blake Marshall, a character in the First Comes Love book, is a sous chef and Your Character's love interest. He/She is first seen in Chapter 1.
Appearance
Blake's appearance is customizable according to the player's preferences.
Personality
According to Marcelino, Blake is pessimistic about long-term relationships due to his/her parents' divorce. You compare him/her to the hot cynic in any romcom. Blake expresses himself/herself through cooking.
Background
Blake's parent divorced when he/she was about thirteen years old.
Chapters
First Comes Love
First Comes Love
- Chapter 1: The Promise
- Chapter 2: Rebecca
- Chapter 3: Just Around the Riverbend
- Chapter 4: Highs and Lows
- Chapter 5: Missteps
- Chapter 6: TLC
- Chapter 7: The Root of It All
- Chapter 8: Sun and Sky
- Chapter 9: Double Date
- Chapter 10: Tangled Vines
- Chapter 11: Into the Woods
- Chapter 12: The Breakup
- Chapter 13: Situationship
- Chapter 14: May I Have This Dance?
- Chapter 15: A Totally Casual Hike
- Chapter 16: The Morning After
- Chapter 17: Finding Courage
- Chapter 18: The Storm
- Chapter 19: Promised
- Chapter 20: Then Comes...
Relationships
Your Character
You met Blake on your first day at Clark University in 2011, where Marcelino forced your hand up during orientation to partner with him/her in a pair of challenges to get to know your fellow students. You two became best friends, and witnessed each other have other romantic relationships and fail. One time during your university years, you two promised that if you were not married to other people by the age of thirty, you two would marry each other. Although Blake has turned thirty himself/herself and has not brought up the long-ago promise, you are turning thirty soon yourself and have thought about it. Before you can confess your feelings to Blake, he/she introduces Rebecca to you, his/her newest girlfriend, and you stop yourself from blurting out your feelings.
You can either openly flirt with Blake and try to outright derail his/her relationship with Rebecca, or hide your feelings as best as possible and remain neutral. Whichever you choose, Blake still flirts with you and you still have internal thoughts about how you feel about him/her, how you're a better match for him/her, and how Rebecca doesn't know him/her like you do. In Chapter 10, if you decide you'd like to be scaling Machu Picchu when you're 40 years old, Blake mentions that location and the Dead Sea has always been on both of your bucket lists. After Blake has broken up with Rebecca, the two of you go climbing together and once you reach the top, you talk about how beautiful the view is and Blake agrees but doesn't actually look at the landscape but only at you. That's when you take a chance and kiss Blake who kisses you back. However, Blake withdraws immediately afterwards and tells you that you need to go back. The next time you see Blake, you bring up the kiss and Blake tells you that it's too early to define what you have and asks you if you are okay with that. You notice from then on that Blake has never been that flirty with you before as he/she is now.
Marcelino Bautista
Felicia Lawton
Eve Jones
Rebecca Alvarez
Rebecca is Blake's girlfriend at the beginning of the story. They first met at the Foodie Awards. In Chapter 10, after the tour guide at the winery asks about everyone's future 10 years later, Blake and she start to realize they have different plans which can be elaborated in a premium scene. After you and Blake fell asleep watching the meteor shower with you lying on Blake in your sleep, Rebecca gets angry. During a conversation you overhear between them, Rebecca tells Blake that she is is always seeing him/her spending time with you and therefore asks for a sign of commitment to her by suggesting to move in together. However, Blake declines and suggests a breakup instead.
Character Customization
Other Looks
Male
Female
Miscellaneous
Trivia
- A male version of Blake is shown on the cover of First Comes Love.
- He/She shares the same name as Blake Yasuda from the Rules of Engagement series, as well as Your Character (Hot Shot) if the latter's default name is kept.
- He/She shares the same surname as Jane and Noah Marshall from It Lives In The Woods, and Tillie Marshall from The Heist: Monaco.
- If Blake is customized as female, there are several unique lines of dialogue from her and the MC, such as her mentioning the re-legalization of same-sex marriage and her pointing out to MC that they've both dated nearly every eligible queer girl on campus (both during flashback scenes in Chapter 1).
- Blake prefers the Backstreet Boys to N'Sync.
- Blake's first pet's name was Fluffy, and he/she grew up on a street called La Barca.
- Blake hopes to own a stilt house in the hills overlooking the Bay[1] by the age of forty.