Blair Dame

""Huh! Its already over?""

- Blair (Street Fighter EX)

Blair Dame (ブレア・デイム) is a video game character from the Street Fighter EX series, first appearing in Street Fighter EX as a secret character. The daughter of a wealthy European family, she has taken up martial arts as a way to defend herself and those she cares about.

Appearance
Blair is a Monegasque woman with blue hair, with single fringes in each side, tied in a bun with a white clip at the back and green eyes. She has a muscular build in her Shadaloo C.R.I. profile art.

Blair's primary appearance is a white sleeveless leotard which shows her cleavage and black thigh-high boots. She wears black gloves, matching armbands with a buckle at the center and a matching choker. Her alternate appearance is a high-neck pink leotard with short sleeves in each sides. She wears black thigh-high socks, brown knee-high boots and short red gloves. Her eyes from her in-game is aqua blue.

In Fighting EX Layer, Blair's hair is dark blue and tied in tangles instead of a bun. Blair now wears a pale blue and black high-neck sleeveless leotard with a pale blue extra cloth to cover both of her shoulders, beneath her leotard is black cycling shorts, blue garter thigh-high socks and pale blue short boots that reach through her knees. She wears blue long fingerless gloves, has a yellow bola tie, similar to Karin's in Street Fighter V, and wears a blue choker.

Concept
During the development of the original Street Fighter EX game, she was named Brise Dame and had smaller blue eyes, with one of them being covered by her hair.

Street Fighter EX
The daughter of a wealthy multi-millionaire family in Europe, Blair was gifted with a specialized education when she was young, in which she was taught a variety of formal etiquette and studies. However, in spite of her luxury Blair also applied herself to a rigorous muscle training, feeling that one day she might need not only to protect herself, but also her loved ones. One day, Blair was invited by an acquaintance to travel the world. Blair's mother gave her permission to travel the world, under the condition that she would be accompanied by her bodyguard, so she hired Cracker Jack to watch over Blair.

Blair was mentioned in Cracker Jack's ending in Street Fighter EX3, where she was called by her butler, Sebastian until she noticed a sound from behind her butler revealing to be Jack as he says: "Hey. Blair! Why don't you let me stay here for a while...?". This implies that Jack decides to hide in her mansion to avoid being pursued by the organization.

Street Fighter EX
(Japanese version) ''Blair, the mistress of a strong gentle heart, was encouraged today by her martial arts practice. "How will I be able to protect everyone if I don't become strong myself? But I can alright myself, as long as I can find a future husband who can defend me. ♥" It seems she will follow the same destiny as Chun-Li.''

Street Fighter EX Plus α
(Japansese version) ''"Huh! Its already over?" After Blair finishes her Savate training, her personal guards came bringing her tea. "Does it bother you all that I'm not sufficiently muscular enough?" ...sufficiently? Blair did not notice that her guards' eyes were brightened. "Its such a nice day. Maybe Pullum will come out to play"''

Shadaloo C.R.I. profile
In the official Street Fighter continiuity, Blair is the only daughter of the well known Dame family, a rich European family with a large foundation. She was given a special education for gifted children, where she learned many different martial arts. She loves genuine fights, is a member of the "Worldwide Young Ladies Club" along with Pullum, and owns various luxurious villas all around the world. Her mother worries constantly about her when she travels, as such she forces a butler and a bodyguard, Cracker Jack, to follow her around.

Fighting EX Layer
Blair Dame appears as one of the playable characters in Fighting EX Layer.

Blair continues to live on her affluent family, she became interested in finding her former bodyguard, Cracker Jack after his disappearance. After hearing that Jack left for America due to being search by the Organization led by Vulcano Rosso his junior lieutenant and acquaintance, Blair has no choice but to find him on her own. She employs a well known detective to assist her and both head to America to find Jack.

Fighting style
In Fighting Layer, her fighting style is refered as "Shoot Boxing based martial arts". Although her actual fighting style is possibly based on Krav Maga or self-taught which involves on knee, punches and kicks as well as breaking the opponent's leg. But from her ending in EX plus some of her kicks are also based on Savate.

Moveset
Blair's moves are more focused on knee and kicks as well as breaking throws on her arsenal and she can do a reverse somersault when she executes one of her super combos and performing one of her win animations similar to Elena's Rhino Horn. Blair also more focuses on kicking her opponent when she utilizes her Shoot Kick and her Lightning Knee is to smash her opponent with her knee two times. Her Spin Upper involves her to use two uppercuts on her opponent. Her most unique ability is her Sliding Arrow as she can make a slide kick towards her opponent and can utilizes her stealth attacks, to deceive her opponent from behind to make an ambush and breaking the opponent's leg once her kick was connected to a command throw.

Her moves are possibly based on Krav Maga or self-taught. In Fighting EX Layer, Blair retains all of her moves from Street Fighter EX and her Lightning Knee gains additional damage where she can somersault her opponent similar to Elena's Scratch Wheel and Pullum's Purim Kick.

Super Combos
Blair's Super Combo utilizes both her punches and kicks as well as breaking the opponent's leg if it connects from her kicks. Her first Super Combo is the Mirage Combo Kick where Blair unleashes a series of punches followed by a launching kick and her second Super Combo is the Spin Side Shoot as she combo her opponent by doing a reverse somersault followed by two kicks and breaking the opponent's leg with a snap as the last blow deals additional damage.

In Fighting Layer, she has a new move called Fairy Gift is a juggling attack by pressing the punch button repeatedly to gain more hits.

In Fighting EX Layer, Blair gains a new Super Combo which she can make a drill kick on her airborne opponent similar to Cammy's Cannon Strike but is embedded with tornado identical to Rashid's.

Other appearences
Blair also appeared in the Arika-developed non-Capcom fighting game Fighting Layer along with Allen Snider.

Trivia

 * Like her old friend, Pullum, she has a bodyguard. Cracker Jack is Blair's bodyguard and Pullum's is Darun. However in Fighting EX Layer, both of their bodyguards made their separate ways due to conflict reasons. Cracker Jack is currently hiding in America during his pursuit by the organization while Darun resigns his post as Pullum's bodyguard to face off Garuda in Japan.


 * Blair shares some similarities with Karin, being a rich woman who hates to lose anything, even some of their moves work the same way.


 * She was originally stated to be European in Street Fighter EX, but which part specifically was unknown. In Fighting Layer, she was said to be from the United Kingdom. Her Street Fighter V profile lists her nationality as Monaco.


 * In the arcade mode in EX Plus while facing her opponents, her name became Brair instead of Blair. Her name is later corrected in both Fighting Layer and Fighting EX Layer.


 * Though Blair does not return in later games, Ace has access to her moves in Street Fighter EX3.
 * Her voice actress in Street Fighter EX Hikari Tachibana is known for voicing Ayame from the Power Stone series another game from Capcom.

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