Drake (Blade character)
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Drake is a fictional character in the film Blade: Trinity.
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[edit] History
Drake was born in ancient Sumer. The Sumerians worshipped him as Dagon and now he is known as Drake. After suffering a fatal wound in battle, Drake underwent a satanic ritual to become immortal. After the ritual took place, he was transformed into Dracula, Lord of All Vampires. After several thousand years of wandering the world "siring" other humans to his cause, he grew restless and built a temple, where it is said he went to sleep from a world he´d become disgusted with. Nobody knows the specifics of his origin, but he was the first of his kind, according to Hannibal King, and he was born perfect, with no direct weakness, as other vampires have. He is like Blade, in that he can walk in daylight and is not vulnerable to silver or garlic, though he does not age like a human as Blade does.
[edit] Role in Blade: Trinity
Drake was "resurrected" by a cadre of vampire followers to help them in their plan to kill Blade.
[edit] Powers
Given Drake's age and origin, he, more than any other Vampire that followed, can harness a much greater and more dynamic range of abilities. He possesses unnatural strength, much greater than that of Blade, and also incredible speed. Like those he sired he is capable of leaping great distances and seems to be knowledgeable of sword fighting techniques, even rivaling Blade himself.
Drake's true power though is derived from his origin as the first of his species, The manipulation of energies which lead to his first resurrection left Drake with two forms; human, and a demonic alter ego.
In this form Drake is much stronger, resilient to all forms of damage and much taller than his human self. He also possesses very keen senses, allowing him to catch an arrow mid-flight.
[edit] Trivia
- Drake can see in total darkness, whereas it appears pure bloods can see with minimal (below the perception of the human eye) light, and turned vampires cannot (requiring as much light as humans to see).
- Drake's demonic alter ego has three-way jaws and a leech-like sucker similar to those seen possessed by the Reapers in Blade II.
- The resurrected Drake (in his human form) has taken to wearing the sort of jewelry (silver, nonetheless) commonly worn by Chavs.
