Connor Banjoper

Connor Evan McBrayer - preferably known as Connor Evan Banjoper - is a film producer, actor, songwriter, author, cartoonist, animator, entrepreneur, and social media influencer from Barhamsville, Virginia, United States. He is the creator of (or at least the person responsible for) the Blaze the Cat franchise and all of its characters, media, and merchandise.

## Connor Banjoper's History

### Personal Life

Connor Banjoper was born in Barhamsville, Virginia, United States on January 22, 2001 AD. He is the oldest of three children, and had an overall very good relationship with his parents throughout his childhood and adolescence.

At some point in his life (he doesn't know when), Connor Banjoper was diagnosed with autism, and was unaware of it (and even denied it) until at least 5th grade. Despite his autism, he could still speak fluent English at young ages, and even participated in regular elementary school classes. Everyone treated him very well, and vice versa.

Somewhere in the 2nd half of 2012 AD, he decided to change his surname, after taking inspiration from "The Andy Griffith Show", where Andy Griffith's character's surname was Taylor instead of Griffith. Connor's first idea was Testermansion, but in Spring 2013 AD, Connor Banjoper was asked to refrain from using that surname, due to it being based off another student's surname (the student in question being LeeAnn Testerman). In April 2013 AD, Connor Banjoper created another surname using his favorite instrument, the banjo, and a prefix he was kind of interested in ("per"). Once he created that surname, he has stuck with it ever since then.

Throughout his adolescence and early adulthood, Connor Banjoper has created his own fictional universe, the Banjoper Universe, and has conceived hundreds, if not thousands of unique ideas that would later become franchises in this fictional universe. He decided that film production would be his dream career.... with entrepreneurship as his backup plan.

### Relationship with Blaze the Cat

On Christmas Day, 2011 AD, one of Connor Banjoper's brothers received the DS version of "Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games!" as a present. Despite the game not being directly given to him, Connor Banjoper sometimes played the game himself. That's how he learned about the basic 14 Sonic Characters (15, if you include the Chao's) - including Blaze the Cat, due to her being a playable character in the game.

At one point during the Summer of 2012 AD (the summer between Banjoper's 5th and 6th grade), Connor Banjoper was playing a game of "Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games!" on his own DS, and noticed that Blaze the Cat had not appeared at all during that particular gameplay session of that particular day, When Blaze finally did appear during that same session, Connor Banjoper suddenly decided to make Blaze one of his own girlfriends.

The relationship between Connor Banjoper and Blaze the Cat became official on Christmas Morning, 2012 AD (an exact year after M&SATOWG was delivered to the house). It was also the very day Blaze the Cat met Colette the Mouse - who had also become Connor Banjoper's girlfriend that same day - and became the best of friends with her, which they still flawlessly maintain to present day.

Throughout 2013 AD, Connor Banjoper hung out with several female characters he considered to be his girlfriends - including Blaze the Cat. In August 2013 AD, Connor Banjoper used a picture dictionary that was in his family's house to determine which of his girlfriends at the time would be his "bride", and because the letter B had the most words in its section (of the five letters chosen at the time, representing his girlfriends' first initials), Blaze was chosen to be the unofficial wife of Connor Banjoper. (Connor Banjoper even admits his wedding with Blaze was fake, and that they were never married to begin with.)

* At one point in November 2013 AD, Connor Banjoper became suspicious when he noticed that Blaze the Cat had the role of a knight in a Sonic the Hedgehog game titled "Sonic the Black Knight", and had a feeling that the game would require Sonic to defeat Blaze the Cat in a physical combat. His suspicions were confirmed true when he watched a sample of the gameplay, where Sonic had to defeat Blaze in order to beat the challenge. (Of course, Connor Banjoper failed to watch through the rest of the video, and thus overlooked the part where Sonic would actually save Blaze from impending doom and join forces with her.) Connor Banjoper threatened to declare war on Sonic the Hedgehog himself because of this, and it resulted in a cold war between the two individuals that wouldn't end until New Year's Day, 2015 AD.

During the Summer of 2014 AD, Connor Banjoper decided to officially remove Blaze the Cat from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. While Blaze did agree to (unofficially) secede from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise to join Connor Banjoper's own fictional universe, she still intended to maintain her relationships with the other Sonic Characters, despite Connor Banjoper and Sonic being in a cold war at that time. On December 20, 2014 AD, Connor Banjoper used his character designing skills to artificially create a child for Blaze who had the body of a 9-year-old, but the intelligence of an 8th grader. This child became the daughter of both Connor Banjoper and Blaze the Cat, and they named her Annika.

In the first half of 2015 AD, after Connor Banjoper and Sonic the Hedgehog's cold war had ended, Connor Banjoper used his character designing skills to artificially produce four more children for Blaze the Cat: Marzo, Vasco, Florentina, and Fresa. In the Summer of 2015 AD, Connor Banjoper decided to express his opinions about Blaze the Cat by creating a Deviantart account. He created one for himself, and one for Blaze the Cat. He failed to write down the password for his account for himself, so he ended up losing access to it within a few days. Blaze the Cat's account, on the other hand, was easily accessible because Connor Banjoper remembered the password for that one. Connor's account for Blaze lasted well until July 11, 2016 AD, when he had to shut it down due to everyone complaining about him using other people's artwork and erratically expressing his opinions about Blaze the Cat.

In June 2016 AD, Connor Banjoper recruited characters to become Blaze the Cat's friends and join her in the Blaze the Cat franchise, which Connor Banjoper decided to create earlier that year. These friends were Lapis the Vulture, Lunar the Chipmunk, Gloomy the Cat, Bronze the Cat, Orris the Fox, Rust the Alligator, Grigio the Lizard, Calla the Butterfly, Strawberry the Fox, and Chocolate the Rabbit. Colette the Mouse would also join the Blaze the Cat franchise, as she had been Blaze's best friend since Christmas Morning, 2012 AD (as mentioned earlier). In August 2016 AD, Connor Banjoper and Blaze the Cat participated in the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. (In reality, Connor Banjoper just played "Mario & Sonic At The Rio 2016 Olympic Games!" on the Wii U. Only in the fictional universe now known as the Banjoper Universe did they actually go to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.) After the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Olympics, Blaze the Cat decided she was officially leaving the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise to hang out with her then-recently introduced friends. (Of course, SEGA had other plans.)

During 2017 AD, Connor Banjoper created what would be the last three children of Blaze the Cat: Glanville, Nic, and Aynabat. Just two days after Aynabat was born, Connor Banjoper was forced to break up with Blaze the Cat due to his parents deciding that enough was enough. Because of this, both Connor Banjoper and Blaze the Cat were disappointed about this, and had to wonder what the latter's future was going to be like. Fortunately, they ultimately decided that they would still work on the Blaze the Cat franchise, regardless of their breakup.

In 2019 AD (we skipped 2018 AD because we couldn't think of anything to note about it), SEGA announced that Blaze the Cat was going to be a playable character in their new game, "Team Sonic Racing" with Silver the Hedgehog and Vector the Crocodile as her teammates. However, since Blaze the Cat had already decided to leave the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise after the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Olympics, she and her franchise friends objected to her being in a post-2016 Sonic game, and protested her spot on the game's roster. Connor Banjoper helped by creating newspapers, sending e-mails, and writing letters to SEGA on Blaze's behalf in hopes of stopping SEGA from putting Blaze in the game. Unfortunately for Blaze and her friends (including Connor Banjoper), the protest failed, and Blaze remained a character in Team Sonic Racing against her will.

Also, in the Summer of 2019 AD, Connor Banjoper introduced Lester Plesko, a male cat who was put in the universe solely to be Blaze the Cat's husband. Blaze agreed to be in a relationship with Lester, and the two cats eventually wound up getting married on Thanksgiving Day, 2020 AD.

In March 2021 AD, after getting scammed by a Steam Community user who convinced him they were Blaze the Cat, Connor Banjoper eventually decided that the Blaze the Cat franchise was not going to be an official Banjoper Universe franchise, and that he would have no choice but to give Blaze the Cat back to SEGA. He decided to let SEGA make Blaze the Cat's franchise, but he also wanted them to respect her relationships with the characters he introduced her to between Christmas Morning, 2012 AD and Summer 2019 AD. Blaze the Cat and her friends, husband, and children agreed to follow through with the transfer to SEGA and let them make the franchise.

In May 2022 AD, Banjoper Studios posted a poll to encourage Blaze the Cat's fans to help her gain independence from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and convince SEGA to make Blaze her own franchise completely independent from Sonic the Hedgehog. This poll can be found here. Connor Banjoper strongly encourages the fans to help Blaze the Cat earn her independent franchise.

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