| “ | Lose for the sake of my ambition! | ” |
—Blood Keel | ||
Lord Captain Blood Keel is a character in Zoids Saga. He is one of the antagonists and Athle Arcadia's main rival. He later served as a protagonist in Zoids Saga III: Fuzors.
| Blood Keel | |
 Blood (second from the left) | |
| Appearances | Zoids Saga Zoids VS |
| Debut | Zoids Saga |
| Affiliation | Imperial Phantom Knights |
| Age | 16 |
| Primary Zoids | Geno Saurer Geno Hydra |
| Japanese Name | ブラッド キール (Blood Keel) |
| Voice Actors | Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese) Dan Green (English) |
Overview
Zoids Saga
Blood is known as the leader of the "Emperor's Four Phantom Knights," a group that sought after Athle's family in an effort to retrieve the secrets of time-space fusion in order to rule the world. Blood is a excellent warrior, and battles Athle multiple times throughout the series, however in their climatic battle against Athle, Blood and his Knights were wiped out by an unknown warrior who piloted a silver Blade Liger, which turns out to be Max Rubin of Lion Hunter's Fang.
Zoids: Legacy
In Zoids: Legacy, it was revealed that Blood was working with Gard Krueger, the second main antagonist, he is first fought along with Leviathe Kanon and Vega Obscura. And along with his Phantom Knights once more, but they were also defeated again by Max, Athle, and Zeru.
Zoids Saga III: Fuzors
In Saga III: Fuzors, Blood later served as a protagonist, this time, rather being rivals with Athle and Will, Blood later serves with Athle in order to thwart Emperos' plans of destroying the Arcadia Kingdom. Furthermore, Blood becomes a trusted ally of some of his former adversaries in all the Zoids Saga series. Blood joins Athle with his standard blue Geno Saurer, due to this reason, his Geno Hydra is stolen by Crown; one of Emperos' minions, along with a Victory Rex.
Zoids Saga DS: Legend of Arcadia
And again Blood returns to his life as a villain as same with the first Saga series, but when the Emperor is killed by Orpis, Blood still rejoins with Athle along with his Phantom Knights.
Personality
Blood is very ambitious for the Emperor's will. However, when Orpis killed the Emperor, Blood's life changed forever, and he ended up seeking redemption, joining Athle to overthrow Orpis' plot to destroy the Arcadia Kingdom. In turn, he tends to look down on everyone, with the exception for Flam and the Emperor.
Blood is shown to be a man with common sense, he sometimes say that is "obvious", and he does a good judgment derived from his attitude.
In his own evil way, he can't stand the likes of Athle or Max, whom he had fought for most of the plot, he first fought Athle throughout the game, and was defeated by Max in the epilogue of the game.
In his reformed attitude, he only loathes Orpis, who also killed the Emperor before Max. Blood ends up teaming with Athle and company to capture Orpis.
Ability as a Zoid Pilot
Blood is shown piloting a blue Geno Saurer in the beginning of the game. Later on, he acquires the Geno Hydra, which he upgrades with the "Kill Armor" unit in Legacy. By Saga III: Fuzors, his Geno Hydra is able to fuse with Victory Rex, creating the Geno Hydra VF. He joins Athle's party with his standard blue Geno Saurer, because his Geno Hydra was stolen, along with the Victory Rex.
Quotations
- "Are you trying to use me?!"
- "I like stabbing better than being stabbed on the back!"
- "It's so obvious!"
- "Hah! The party's over!"
Relationships
Blood has unique relationships with the following characters:
Athle: Although Blood and Athle start out as bitter rivals, they would later team up in Saga III: Fuzors and Saga DS in order to defeat Orpis. Blood seeks not only to defeat Athle, but the unknown man who piloted the silver Blade Liger, which later revealed to be Max, the one who had been meddling with his plans.
The Emperor: Blood shows that he is loyal to the Emperor, willing to obey his every command without question. In the other hand, he even disobeys the Emperor's orders in order to pursue Max instead of Athle.
Flam: Flam is a close friend of Blood's. She follows him everywhere, even after he joined Athle.
Gale: Even though they don't interact too much, Blood and Gale are shown to have mutual respect towards another.
Orpis: Blood both loathes, distrusts, and looks down at Orpis, for he was aware that he would use his twisted experiments against the Emperor. Later, Blood betrays Orpis.
Max: Blood hates Max, and even disobeys the Emperor's orders in order to pursue him. On the other hand, Max taunts Blood by defeating all of his comrades, and where in he was defeated with the help of Athle.
Zoids Legacy Database Entry
- "Once fought against Athle as one of the Best Four of the Imperial Force. He was missing for a while but comes back at time-space fusion time. Currently works for Gard but apparently he has an ulterior motive."
Trivia
- In the English version of Zoids VS II (Zoids: Battle Legends), Blood's name is erroneously spelled as "Brad".
- Blood is also addressed as "Lord Captain", which is the same title given to Cecil Harvey, the lead character from Final Fantasy IV.
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