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Character Name: Dylan Blake
Character Age: 16
Canon: Open Heart
Canon Point: End of 1x3 ( Unknown Soldier ) | End of written history
History: There is a wiki but it's honestly lacking in detail, so here we go:
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Personality:
"My friend was in trouble, so I drove her to the hospital. ... In the car I stole, from the house I broke into."
Note: some of the examples used in this section come from later canon points, but are selected because of their relevance to Dylan's character at any point in the show.
Headstrong, focused, and near-endlessly loyal, Dylan is the kind of girl to act first and ask questions later. Whether that action is good - such as driving Rayna to hospital -, bad - breaking the window on the house instead of letting Teddy override the security codes -, or a little bit selfish and short sighted - setting Mikayla up on a date with Jared without considering Mikayla's feelings. Her stubborn, impulsive nature combined with her dog with a bone tendencies means that when she has something in her sights, all thoughts of what is legal or even sensible goes out of the window for what she believes to be right. She'll break into security rooms while on probation because there might be a clue to her father's disappearance there, or try and help an injured person even though her qualified doctor sister is right next to her.
Speaking of probation, it's clear that Dylan would not have half the luck she does if it wasn't for her family's privilege and prestige or connections. She seems aware of this - stating that "sometimes the Blake name comes in handy" after she gets away with breaking into the security office - and likely acts a lot more recklessly than she would if she were from a less well-connected family as a result. She's always had that safety net around her, although as the series progresses we do see more evidence that her community service sentence and her investigation has brought out a side of Dylan willing to be productive rather than destructive, and her reckless behaviour becomes more contained to her personal idea of what is just and right.
Oddly enough, for someone who spent several months committing break ins and seemed to go with her feelings and gut at any time, Dylan displayed more sensibility than the rest of her old crew - as the others partied, she ate an apple and told Rayna to cool it with the pills (eliciting a "Where would we be without our Dylan looking after us?", implying she was something of a mom friend to the group) - and seemed more interested in causing trouble as a way of expressing that she wasn't alright (which she explains later in the series when clarifying what was between her and Teddy) than having fun, hence the vandalism that never really loses the core of a girl who was brought up in a family full of doctors (eating healthy food while her friends drink and do drugs, immediately responding to an injury in a clear-headed manner).
Driven to obsession by her father's disappearance - seemingly the catalyst for her worst behaviour pre-series, and the alpha plot of the show - Dylan is consistently motivated by the idea that he's still alive and in need of her help, even if she does have her moments of doubt. This drive does send her to go too far - not only in committing crimes and violating her court order to find clues, but also through selfish behaviour such as setting Mikayla up on a date with Jared because Jared had information relevant to her father's disappearance - as Dylan is incredibly feelings driven (like most teenagers, one might argue). She has a view of the world and opinions on it and few problems sharing them, especially if it involves butting heads with her mother. Interestingly, both Dylan and London make reference to her being less than expressive with her feelings ("You'd [...] [demand] my attention and then when I give it to you, you clam up and expect me to read your mind." / "Talk? About feelings? So you don't know me at all."), and it is true that she doesn't always choose the healthiest option for expressing herself - often defaulting to anger - but it's near impossible to say that you don't know exactly how Dylan feels about something or someone, because she's very rarely shy about showing or saying it. Throughout the series, we rarely see Dylan give more than a few seconds thought to an action, but it's most clearly and concisely demonstrated in the opening scene, where she breaks a window rather than wait for Teddy to disable the security alarms, then quickly pretends to be the homeowner and cons the security company when they call.
Because of this action-driven personality, it's an incredibly good job that - at the end of the day - Dylan is a girl with her heart in the right place, although she's not had her head there recently. The people she does care for, she cares for wholeheartedly, and she is incredibly loyal to them up until the point she realises that they've been ruining her life (see: Teddy and Rayna). We can see that in everything from how she refuses to believe that her father would abandon her or London, how she defends London to their mother (even if this was, ultimately, misguided), the fact that she drives Rayna to hospital even though it got her in trouble, that she sticks around to prevent Goodis from catching Teddy (both this and the Rayna example after everyone else bails) even a while after her community service has started. Her mother mentions that "London reads textbooks and patient charts; Dylan reads people", which is a fairly accurate statement: of the sisters, Dylan is definitely more people focused, although not a genius at it by any means. She's still a teenager who makes mistakes and doesn't always understand that the world doesn't revolve around her or that her experiences aren't everyone's (in the later saga of setting Mikayla up with Jared, she seems confused as to why it would be a big deal to go on a date with a guy you don't like and why she didn't know that Mikayla's never dated), but she isn't too proud to apologise when she fucks up or show gratitude to the people who help her and has enough of an EQ to be a supportive presence when Mikayla finally explains that she's in remission for cancer.
It should be stated that - although Dylan is incredibly focused on finding her father (and, being a relatively short series, that's really the majority of her screentime) - she's not all doom and gloom. There's plenty of evidence that she possesses a sense of humour, one that's a little mischevious (asking Mikayla and Wes what underwear they think Jared wears when she gets his pants offlong story) and snarky. As well as the fact that she's just a normal teenage girl at the end of the day - whether that's because she's not all that great at lying ("I was... napping. Big napper."), making Harry Potter references, inviting her sister to watch Buffy and make mini pizzas, being horrified at discussing sex with her mother, or the fact that she conducts a lot of her arguments with others by being a smartass.
Inventory:
Basically everything you'd expect to find on a 16 year old girl: an iphone, the clothes she's wearing, her keys and wallet. And her father's watch.
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Character Name: Dylan Blake
Character Age: 16
Canon: Open Heart
Canon Point: End of 1x3 ( Unknown Soldier ) | End of written history
History: There is a wiki but it's honestly lacking in detail, so here we go:
Characters:
Dylan Blake | our protagonistPre-series (flashbacks):
London Blake | older sister, resident at Open Heart Memorial
Jane Blake | mother, surgeon at Open Heart Memorial
Richard Blake | father, missing
Wes Silver | friend, volunteer at Open Heart Memorial
Mikayla Walker | friend, volunteer at Open Heart Memorial
Detective Goodis | detective who was in charge of investigating Richard Blake's disappearance
Timothy Hudson | resident at Open Heart Memorial who works closely with London
Jared Malik | supervisor for the volunteer program at Open Heart Memorial
Teddy and Rayna | part of the break-in crew.
- Childhood memory of going to a storage locker to play hide and seek; the spare key was given to her dad to use by a friend. He goes there to think from time to time. He tells her that you always need a good place to hide so no one bad can ever find you.Episodes 1 - 3:
- One Christmas, Dylan gifted her father a watch with a hidden compartment underneath the face.
- She sees her father sat on the floor, surrounded by newspaper clippings, looking for patterns and having stayed up all night. He acquiesces to her request for a lift to school and she finds his misplaced car keys.
- Drops phone while dad is rambling to himself in the office. "for his novel." Swipes phone to look at her texts from Teddy. Just met in math class. Dad's concerned about her meeting good people.
- Dylan et al. break into a random house.
- Rayna is injured by falling onto the glass coffee table in the house. The rest of the group bail while she's bleeding out.
- Dylan drives Rayna to the hospital in the homeowner's car. Police notice her running red lights and run checks on the car, catching up to and arresting Dylan at the ER.
- Dylan ends up on community service at her family's hospital thanks to her grandparents' connections and makes friends with Wes Silver and Mikayla Walker.
- Police investigation into Richard Blake's disappearance is declared closed after 6 months.
- While touring the hospital with Mikayla, Dylan sneaks into one of the prep rooms and watches her mother and her sister working in the OR. When her sister panics and runs out of the room, Dylan attempts to comfort her and confronts their mother about being too hard on London.
- At a family dinner, Dylan confronts her mother and paternal grandparents about trying to find her father, only to discover instead that the rest of her family had witnessed security tape footage of Richard meeting another woman and that it was believed he ran away with his mistress.
- Dylan decides she wants to see this footage for herself, to see if she can identify the woman where the rest of her family could not.
- Dylan attempts to obtain the security footage from the hospital, but is stopped by Jared's nearby presence. She returns to Wes and Mikayla to formulate a plan and eventually manages to get Jared out of the way and into the security room, using Wes and Mikayla as distractions and lookouts for the security guard.
- She's eventually caught when she ignores Wes' text warning about the return of the security guard and is arrested (again) and taken to the police station, where her mother manages to pull some strings to have Detective Goodis question her.
- Goodis also elects to provide her with access to the security footage which was on a station USB as evidence.
- Dylan watches the footage she obtained at the hospital, realising that a) she doesn't know who the mysterious woman is and b) that her father took off his watch and passed it on to Dr. Hudson. She decides she needs to speak to Hudson and discover where this watch is.
- Wes and Mikayla "initiate" Dylan to the hospital by making her spend time in one of the morgue drawers, however their game is interrupted by Hudson and one of the other doctors using that space to make out. She's eventually discovered by Hudson but manages to get off without getting into trouble (because he'd also be in trouble for using the morgue as a hook up spot).
- Dylan eventually manages to ask Hudson about the watch, only to find that he handed the watch to her mother, assuming that "make sure she gets this" referred to Jane, rather than anyone else.
- Dylan confronts her mother about hiding the watch and obtains it, opening it to find an origami note from her father which says "I love you Dylan." This also serves as a catalyst for her to learn that Wes lost his parents at five years old and now lives with his uncle.
- Disappointed by this outcome, Dylan begins to doubt her investigation and thinks that perhaps her father just doesn't want to be found.
Personality:
"My friend was in trouble, so I drove her to the hospital. ... In the car I stole, from the house I broke into."
Note: some of the examples used in this section come from later canon points, but are selected because of their relevance to Dylan's character at any point in the show.
Headstrong, focused, and near-endlessly loyal, Dylan is the kind of girl to act first and ask questions later. Whether that action is good - such as driving Rayna to hospital -, bad - breaking the window on the house instead of letting Teddy override the security codes -, or a little bit selfish and short sighted - setting Mikayla up on a date with Jared without considering Mikayla's feelings. Her stubborn, impulsive nature combined with her dog with a bone tendencies means that when she has something in her sights, all thoughts of what is legal or even sensible goes out of the window for what she believes to be right. She'll break into security rooms while on probation because there might be a clue to her father's disappearance there, or try and help an injured person even though her qualified doctor sister is right next to her.
Speaking of probation, it's clear that Dylan would not have half the luck she does if it wasn't for her family's privilege and prestige or connections. She seems aware of this - stating that "sometimes the Blake name comes in handy" after she gets away with breaking into the security office - and likely acts a lot more recklessly than she would if she were from a less well-connected family as a result. She's always had that safety net around her, although as the series progresses we do see more evidence that her community service sentence and her investigation has brought out a side of Dylan willing to be productive rather than destructive, and her reckless behaviour becomes more contained to her personal idea of what is just and right.
Oddly enough, for someone who spent several months committing break ins and seemed to go with her feelings and gut at any time, Dylan displayed more sensibility than the rest of her old crew - as the others partied, she ate an apple and told Rayna to cool it with the pills (eliciting a "Where would we be without our Dylan looking after us?", implying she was something of a mom friend to the group) - and seemed more interested in causing trouble as a way of expressing that she wasn't alright (which she explains later in the series when clarifying what was between her and Teddy) than having fun, hence the vandalism that never really loses the core of a girl who was brought up in a family full of doctors (eating healthy food while her friends drink and do drugs, immediately responding to an injury in a clear-headed manner).
Driven to obsession by her father's disappearance - seemingly the catalyst for her worst behaviour pre-series, and the alpha plot of the show - Dylan is consistently motivated by the idea that he's still alive and in need of her help, even if she does have her moments of doubt. This drive does send her to go too far - not only in committing crimes and violating her court order to find clues, but also through selfish behaviour such as setting Mikayla up on a date with Jared because Jared had information relevant to her father's disappearance - as Dylan is incredibly feelings driven (like most teenagers, one might argue). She has a view of the world and opinions on it and few problems sharing them, especially if it involves butting heads with her mother. Interestingly, both Dylan and London make reference to her being less than expressive with her feelings ("You'd [...] [demand] my attention and then when I give it to you, you clam up and expect me to read your mind." / "Talk? About feelings? So you don't know me at all."), and it is true that she doesn't always choose the healthiest option for expressing herself - often defaulting to anger - but it's near impossible to say that you don't know exactly how Dylan feels about something or someone, because she's very rarely shy about showing or saying it. Throughout the series, we rarely see Dylan give more than a few seconds thought to an action, but it's most clearly and concisely demonstrated in the opening scene, where she breaks a window rather than wait for Teddy to disable the security alarms, then quickly pretends to be the homeowner and cons the security company when they call.
Because of this action-driven personality, it's an incredibly good job that - at the end of the day - Dylan is a girl with her heart in the right place, although she's not had her head there recently. The people she does care for, she cares for wholeheartedly, and she is incredibly loyal to them up until the point she realises that they've been ruining her life (see: Teddy and Rayna). We can see that in everything from how she refuses to believe that her father would abandon her or London, how she defends London to their mother (even if this was, ultimately, misguided), the fact that she drives Rayna to hospital even though it got her in trouble, that she sticks around to prevent Goodis from catching Teddy (both this and the Rayna example after everyone else bails) even a while after her community service has started. Her mother mentions that "London reads textbooks and patient charts; Dylan reads people", which is a fairly accurate statement: of the sisters, Dylan is definitely more people focused, although not a genius at it by any means. She's still a teenager who makes mistakes and doesn't always understand that the world doesn't revolve around her or that her experiences aren't everyone's (in the later saga of setting Mikayla up with Jared, she seems confused as to why it would be a big deal to go on a date with a guy you don't like and why she didn't know that Mikayla's never dated), but she isn't too proud to apologise when she fucks up or show gratitude to the people who help her and has enough of an EQ to be a supportive presence when Mikayla finally explains that she's in remission for cancer.
It should be stated that - although Dylan is incredibly focused on finding her father (and, being a relatively short series, that's really the majority of her screentime) - she's not all doom and gloom. There's plenty of evidence that she possesses a sense of humour, one that's a little mischevious (asking Mikayla and Wes what underwear they think Jared wears when she gets his pants off
Inventory:
Basically everything you'd expect to find on a 16 year old girl: an iphone, the clothes she's wearing, her keys and wallet. And her father's watch.
Abilities:
SMASH & GRABS; She does know how to break a window. And mentions that she had smash & grabs "down to an art form".
QUICK PLANNING / RESOURCEFULNESS; Dylan demonstrates a capacity to pull together workable plans on the fly throughout the series, as well as an aptitude for quick thinking under pressure. Examples include taking conning the security company after they call and figuring out a scheme to distract Jared and the security guard so she can access the hospital's security room.
MISC; Dylan has demonstrated that she knows how to do certain origami folds and how to respond to someone who has a cut artery. That said, there's no further canon information to say whether she's particularly skilled in origami or knowledgeable in first aid (although with the latter, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that she knows some basic first aid, due to being raised in a family of doctors, but aside from her attempt to stem Rayna's bleeding, we don't see Dylan actively demonstrate these skills - most of her responses to medical crises is to get help or to try and talk to the person while her sister is trying to treat them).
Flaws:
Breaking & Entering. Grand Theft Auto. Reckless Driving. Smash & Grabs. Trespassing. Dylan commits all of these crimes pre-series and in the course of her first few episodes.
Reckless, selfish and obsessive. It feels like there's very few things Dylan wouldn't do to achieve her goal of finding her father (Trespassing into the security room, for example).
Anger. Oh, so much anger at the world for taking her father away, at her family for not seeming to care as much as she does, at the police for not finding him.
Rebel without a cause. Dylan does have a good life, coming from an affluent and connected family, and has opportunities that most of us would dream about - such as a trust fund set up for when she goes to university. However, she lashes out at a lot of this good fortune, rebelling against her family and generally being a world class teenage brat. For reasons we can all understand (i.e. the trauma of losing her father, particularly as it seems Dylan was far closer to him than any of the other adult members of her family), but nonetheless.
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Action Log Sample: Dialing it back isn't really my thing.
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