Blade's new backstory -- as per Martin Sanchez -- is as follows:
“In 1922, Lucio Cruz was a member of the Cuban division of the Order of Tyrana, a secret society that specializes in Vampires, along with other occult matters. After he got on the wrong side of a high-ranking vampire member of organized crime, who hated Lucio mostly because he was Afro-Cuban, Lucio insisted his pregnant wife, Teresa, flee to Mexico while he dealt with the aftermath.
Once arriving in Mexico, Teresa took on the pseudonym “Vanessa Bracero” and met up with the owner of a brothel, Esmerelda, whom Lucio asked to shelter his wife. She went into labor during her time in Mexico, experiencing complications during the process. She was forced to seek a doctor’s assistance. Unfortunately for her, her doctor was secretly a vampire. He feasted on her as she gave birth, which altered her baby into a Dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire hybrid. Esmerelda was able to chase the vampire away before he could do anything to the child. That child became known as Enrique “Erik” Bracero and was raised at Esmerelda’s brothel.
Now a pre-teen, Erik comes into contact with an American vampire slayer. The American had heard tales of a nest of vampires who own and operate a strip club built on top of a partially buried Aztec temple, and have been luring bikers and truckers in before feasting on them. The vampire slayer found out about Erik’s origins and offered to take him under his wing, which Erik gladly accepted, sensing a way to one day avenge his mother’s murder. Due to being a Dhampir, Erik possessed a superhuman physiology, making him the perfect vampire hunter.
Now, thanks to his prolonged lifespan, he continues the good fight into the modern day, occasionally offering his assistance to other heroes he meets along the way. But his main goals are still the same: avenge his mother’s death and rid the world of all vampires.”
The Latinx delegation has also provided a fancast: Laz Alonso
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