- "Make friends? Well, guess what, rookie? We're here to make demons die and make them beg for mercy. Go do your fucking job and clean the horses... Or I'll gut you from ass to nose."
- — Blade to Ebony.
Blade is a one-time character in Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light.
She was an aggressive, prideful, and unintelligent Exorcist put on a marked-for-death "scouting mission" with Ebony and Sable, among others.
Biography[]
Events of Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light[]
Chapter 5[]
Blade and a unit of Exterminators are sent on a black-ops mission to the Pride Ring to recover a cache of angelic weapons stolen by a group of demons. The squadron, misled into believing it was a routine "scouting mission," is unaware that they have been sent on a suicide mission. Lute had specifically chosen Exterminators he considered liabilities or expendable. During a brief introduction by Sable, Blade meets Ebony, a rookie Exorcist, but she hisses and snaps her jaws at both of them before resuming the sharpening of her weapons.
Later, as they prepare to land in Hell Ebony tries to break the ice with Blade, entering her tent and making light-hearted jokes about her name, and trying to bond over their shared mission. Blade, however, remains grim and uninterested, focusing on sharpening her knives and trying to ignore Ebony. Ebony's continued attempts at humor irritate Blade, who ultimately confronts the rookie Exorcist, accusing her of not taking the mission seriously. Blade backs Ebony into a corner, holding a knife to her chin, and angrily asserts the seriousness of their task. She then throws Ebony to the ground, warning her to focus on her duties and threatening to disembowel her.
Later, the team travels to Hell on horseback, using the cover of night to elude any prying demon eyes. However, the sun begins rising so they waiting for nightfall inside of a cave. There, Ebony confronts Blade about her harsh treatment of Snowy, Blade's mount, noting the whip marks and Snowy's skittish behavior. Blade pretends that she doesn't know Ebony, questioning her authority to comment. Ebony insists that Snowy, being a living creature with emotions, deserves better treatment. Blade sarcastically pretends to consider Ebony's point before rudely dismissing it with a loud burp. Frustrated, Ebony questions why Blade can't be nicer. Blade then aggressively backs Ebony into a corner, emphasizing the seriousness of their mission and threatening to cut her lips, face, and breasts off if she doesn't stop talking. Ebony, unfazed by Blade's oddly specific theats, asks if Blade is flirting, which Blade vehemently denies.
The Exorcists later crowd around a fire, sharing stories about their kills. Blade, recounts a past battle, bragging about disemboweling thirty demons in one night. She describes in graphic detail how she hunted them down, removed their eyes, and strangled them with their optic nerves. Her tale spirals and becomes increasingly frenzied as she laughs maniacally, relishing the gruesome extent of her actions. The other Exorcists, visibly disturbed, have distanced themselves to the far side of the campfire. Noticing the team's discomfort, Sable suggests that Blade go hunt Hell animals. Blade complies excitedly, high on and bloodlusted from the graphic details of her story. She grabs a spear and sprinting out of the cave. As the Exorcists resume discussing their respective histories, Blade can be faintly heard taunting, slaughtering, and wrestling Hellbeasts while screaming wildly.
As night falls, Blade and the Exorcists fly to the location of the stashed holy weapons. Sable, while assigning positions, tries to convince Blade to keep the mission stealthy by promising her a butterfly knife. However, an unseen sniper takes down one of the Exterminators, sending the squadron into a panicked dive for cover. Sable orders the team to continue, and they reach their destination: a factory overtaken by the Insurgency after they killed the previous owners. Blade and the rest of the squad—except for Ebony—prepare to move in.
Overwhelmed, Ebony halts the team when they begin moving and nervously admits she doesn't like killing, frustrating nearly everyone. Blade is furious that Lute assigned an Exterminator who can't exterminate, but Sable compromises by telling Ebony to stay back with the horses. Before advancing with the team, Blade warns Ebony that she should have "[stayed] in her lane", flashing a sinister grin on her face.
Blade and the others stealthily approach the factory. Their cover is blown when Blade kills a sniper with her kunais, causing his body to fall noisily from the tower. The mission escalates into a full-on battle. Blade and the Exorcists hold their ground initially, with Blade taunting and killing several soldiers. However, Blade's arrogance gets the better of her when she catches a holy grenade thrown by a soldier, simply to show off. Blade, laughing maniacally, hovers in the air and flaunts her feat to Sable and Ebony below, shouting about her triumph. Ebony and Sable urgently warn her to throw the grenade before it explodes, but Blade ignores them and taunts the enemy demons. In the middle of her taunting, the grenade explodes, graphically killing Blade and splattering Ebony and Sable with her blood.
Personality[]
Blade was a violent, tomboy-ish, and slightly unintelligent Exorcist who essentially encompasses and represents the most unhinged and bloodlusted of the Exorcists. She has a penchant and love for violence and a near-total disregard for the well-being of others, only seeming to care about increasing her kill count and killing her targets in over-the-top, excessive ways. She was a collector of various blades, collecting daggers, swords, and kunais. According to Sable, one way to keep Blade under control is to offer to give her antique, bladed weapons after an expedition on the condition that she stuck to the Exorcists' plans.
Blade had a generally unpleasant, conventionally unlikable personality and presents no onscreen redeeming qualities, though her lack of intelligence and sheer unhinged behavior could lead to amusing dialogue and situations. She was sadistic and took great pride in her kill count, collecting the heads and eyeballs of her demon prey. Blade also abused and mistreated her mount, Snowy, as shown by the whip marks on the horse's side, as well as their skittish behavior when Ebony tried to pet them. She is focused solely on missions and increasing her kill count, showing little interest in bonding or camaraderie with her teammates, particularly with Ebony, whom she treats with disdain and hostility simply because she values life.
Above all, Blade was incredibly aggressive, often insulting others or even stirring up brawls for no intelligible reason. In fact, her tendency to rush into battle with no forethought and aggressive behavior was what made Lute put her on the marked-for-death "scouting mission", as well as the fact that her bloodthirsty tendencies scared Azrael.
During the heat of battle, Blade was reckless and full of show-boaty bravado, with a penchant for extremely, overly crude language. She was fearless and unrelenting attitude in combat, taunting her enemies with vulgar insults and relishing in her own, perceived victories. She often showed a lack of caution, fought with hardly any defense, and had a tendency to act impulsively, as shown when she caught a holy grenade but failed to recognize that it was holy, or before throwing it in time due to mocking both her targets and teammates, resulting in her demise and the beginning of the end for her unit.
Despite her bravado, Blade isn't fearless. She is openly terrified of Lute, even saying that she would prefer killing herself over going back to Lute empty-handed.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Ebony[]
- "Ebony: (as they are around a campfire, Ebony holds out an apple to Blade) Could ya peel this apple for me, Blade?
Blade: (Blade stops sharpening her kunais and gives Ebony a squinted glare) Do I look like a fucking servant to you? You can't peel a fucking apple yourself? (she goes back to sharpening her blades, aggressively scraping them against a whetstone)
Ebony: Oh, c'moooon! Hell apples probably have a million diseases on them. And, uh... I'm not really good with knives (mocking Blade) "rookie stable girl", (normal) remember? (while watching Blade, the expression on Ebony's LED mask morphs into a sly, cat grin, literally a squinted ":3") Whaaat, Blade? YOU can't peel an apple? (Blade looks at Ebony, incredulous) What kinda knife nut are you if you can't even peel a damn apple? You can flay twelve Chernabogs in a row, but God help you if you try to peel a tiny little apple!
Blade: (Blade's eye twitches) Gimme the stupid fuckin' thing.
Ebony: (Ebony smirks and tosses the apple to Blade) Have at it, Stabby Gurl.
Blade: (Blade goes to town aggressively peeling the apple, muttering and swearing about Ebony and the apple under her breath; after a moment, she tosses the peeled apple back at Ebony) There you fucking go, dumbass.
Ebony: (cheerfully) Thank youuuu!!!" - — Ebony and Blade.
While on their missions together, Ebony and Blade were shown to be a highly contrasting, but oddly fun duo. The two had very different personalities, with Ebony being cheerful and empathetic while Blade was uncaring and ruthless. Ebony tried to befriend Blade, while the latter constantly rejected these efforts and countered with aggression and threats. Blade's attitude surprisingly bounced off well with Ebony's, especially when the former misinterprets or brushes off Blade's threats with surprising nonchalance or witty remark, not taking Blade very seriously. Blade also expresses her desire to murder Ebony once their mission was over, several times.
Ebony tried to befriend Blade using humor and lighthearted banter, attempting to win Blade over with a series of knife-related jokes. Blade reacted with intense hostility, seeing Ebony as an insult to what the Exorcists stand for and a trivialization of their work. Blade threatened to mutilate Ebony, making it clear that she does not welcome the rookie’s friendliness.
Ebony later approached Blade about the treatment of her mount, Snowy, criticizing Blade's harsh and abusive methods. Blade responded by pretending as if she didn't know who Ebony was despite meeting her an hour ago. Ebony tried to appeal to whatever empathy Blade might have, suggesting that her horse has feelings and should be treated with kindness. Blade, for no intelligible reason, responded by threatening to cut Ebony's "pretty" lips, "pretty" face, and breasts off if she kept speaking with her. Humorously, Ebony misinterpreted Blade’s violent and weirdly specific threats as flirting, which Blade strongly denied.
Quotes[]
Chapter 5[]
- "Ebony: (Ebony approaches Blade, crossing her arms) You need to be nicer to Snowy, Blade. I saw those whip marks and the way she stumbles back when I try to pet her. Not cool.
Blade: (she doesn't break eye contact with her kunai) Who are you again?
Ebony: (she blinks) I'm... Ebony? The 'rookie stable girl'? We met earlier.
Blade: 'Stable girl'. Yeah, cool. And, uh, what exactly makes you think you're in any fucking place to tell me how to treat my mount?
Ebony: (she rubs her arm, still frowning) I just... Um... Don't you think you are being, like, really harsh on Snowy? Don't you think she gets upset when you're hurting her like that? She's not like not those ugly, metal, polluting things that humans ride around on. She's a living, thinking creature who has, y'know, emotions and feelings...? Like us. Aren't you supposed to, like, care for them the way they care for you? You know... Be considerate?
Blade: (Blade looks at Ebony, as if she is coming to a profound realization... until she burps loudly and continues sharpening her kunai) I dunno what that is.
Ebony: Okay, I get it. Like, you're this (deep voice) 'tough, badass, scary Exterminator'... (she sighs in frustration at Blade's behavior, making air quotation signs with her fingers; normal voice) It's just like... What's wrong with being nice?
Blade: (she suddenly leaps up from her seat, backing Ebony into a corner) What's fucking 'wrong' is that this isn't some goddamned playground. This isn't a fucking petting zoo. I'm here to kill demons. Got it? (she gets face-to-face with Ebony) And if you don't shut your fucking mouth, I'll cut your pretty little lips off, and then your pretty face. And if that doesn't shut you up... (she grabs Ebony by the collar) I'LL CUT YOUR FUCKING TITS OFF!!!
Ebony: (her mask swaps to a "ಠ_ಠ" expression; She doesn't look especially scared) Are... are you flirting with me?
Blade: NO!!!!" - — Blade and Ebony.
- "To the Exorcists around the campfire) I disemboweled THIRTY demon fucks that night! FUCKING THIRTY! (Zoom in on Blade...) They tried to run... (Her left eye on her mask crackles, as if twitching) They tried to hide... (She smiles ear-to-ear and makes frantic stabbing gestures) And, yet, I TORE their little looking marbles outta their fucking sockets and fuckin' strangled 'em with their optic nerves!!! Hehe! And- And- And then I shoved my hand into one of their chest cavity and pulled their asses out of their- their- ffffffuckin' CHEST CAVITY! Hehehe-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! (More disturbing, high-pitched laughter; cut to the other Exorcists, who are revealed to be crowded on the other side of the campfire, far away from Blade)"
- — Blade telling "fun" stories to the other Exorcists.
- "Can you believe this bullshit, girls? Lute stuck us with an Exterminator who CAN'T FUCKING EXTERMINATE!!!"
- — Blade chastising Ebony.
- "Sable: Okay, Blade... (she sighs) If you keep this quiet and discreet, I'll... Give you some antique butterfly knives from my gallery.
Blade: Butterfly knives... (she looks excited as an insane smile creeps onto her face) Now you're speakin' my language... Okay... I'll try to lay low... (she grins widely, licking her lips as the eye on her LED mask crackles, as if it's twitching)" - — Sable and Blade.
- "Ebony: (she is on her smartphone, livestreaming on Divinegram as she and her fellow Exorcists prepare to head out) Hey, guys! Mounts are ready so figured I'd give ya'll a quick update! I'm in Hell!!! (with a "(˵>ᗜ<˵) !!" expression) Aaaah, crazy shit, right? Ya gurl is doin' field work! Moving up in the ranks! Me and the girls are about to fuck so much shit up-
Sable: (passing by, amused) Scouting mission, soldier. No fucking shit up.
Ebony: (looking at Sable) Oh, right- (she looks back at her phone camera with a "T_T" expression) She's right, (back to a "^_^" face) but it's still gonna be so kickass, I promise! Speaking of cool... (she pulls Blade into frame and touches cheeks with her, who looks like she wants to die) Stabby Gurl herself! Say 'hi' to the people, Blade! (she stays silent with a ":D" expression, awaiting Blade's response)
Blade: You say 'hi' to the twelve porn bots that you're pretending are real?
Ebony: (with a "('⸝⸝𓏗 - 𓏗⸝⸝)" expression) Oh, is that what they are? Forget we're using Hell's internet now, hehe... (she keeps her cheek pressed against Blade's, awkward pause) ...Wanna follow each other?
Blade: I am LITERALLY going to murder you when this is over." - — Ebony livestreaming before the Exorcists ride out.
- "SUCK MY DICK, HELLSPAWN SCUM!!!"
- — Blade's war cry while throwing her kunais at enemy demons.
- "Blade: (she laughs maniacally after catching a holy grenade, hovering in the air) AHAHAHAHAAA!!! I FUCKING GOT IT! (still flying in the air, she shows the grenade to Sable and Ebony below) LOOK AT ME NOW, BITCHES!!! YA GURL IS MOVIN' UP! HA HA HA HA!!!
Ebony: B- Blade! Th- That's-
Sable: BLADE! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?! THROW IT! THAT'S AN ORDER!
Blade: (she completely ignores Sable, turning to show the grenade off to the enemy demons halfway through her order) LOOK AT ME!!!!! YOUR ASSES ARE MINE!!! I CAUGHT YOUR STUPID FUCKING G-" - — Blade's final words before she is blown apart by a blessed grenade.
Trivia[]
- Her character design was provided by Avi0301.
- As Ebony noted, it is unknown if "Blade" is her actual name or a code name.
- Her overall kill count is 764.
- The reasons she was put on the marked-for-death mission was because of her apparent tendency to compromise the corps missions, and because Azrael was scared of her.
- She claimed that she doesn't know what the word "considerate" means.
- She is 100% a child killer.
- She has auburn-colored hair.
- According to Ebony, during one Extermination, Blade got crushed by one of Stolas' sentient trees after cutting it down to kill an imp hiding in the leaves, rather than simply flying up and hunting them down. It took Ebony and Sable an "hour" to get said tree off of her.
- Superjamturtle, of the series' authors, has stated that they think Blade and Ebony could have been fun "frenemies" in another life.