Blaze the Cat and Friends at the Olympic Games! (Story)

(This article is about the story written by Connor Banjoper. For the videogame, see Blaze the Cat and Friends at the Olympic Games! (Videogame). For the actual event, see Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.)

## Blaze the Cat and Friends at the Olympic Games!

### Author

Connor Banjoper

"Blaze the Cat and Friends at the Olympic Games!" is a story about the titular group of characters competing in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. It was written in 2019 and edited in 2020. It takes about two hours to read completely (assuming the reader doesn't stop).

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Blaze the Cat
* Colette the Mouse
* 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
* Chocolate the Rabbit

### Antagonists

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower the Fox
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Amy Rose the Hedgehog
* Cream the Rabbit
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Rouge the Bat
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Mina the Mongoose
* Vector the Crocodile
* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy the Bee
* Big the Cat
* Jet the Hawk
* Wave the Swallow
* Storm the Albatross
* Sticks the Badger
* Dr. Eggman
* Manager of SEGA

### Supporting Characters

* Annika the Cat
* Marzo the Cat
* Vasco the Cat
* Florentina the Cat
* Fresa the Cat
* Glanville the Cat
* Nic the Cat
* Aynabat the Cat

### Minor Characters

(In order of appearance) (Characters with abstracts only make cameos.)

* The Announcer
* The Audience
* Mario Mario\*
* Luigi Mario\*
* The Bremen Avenue Experience\*
	+ Barrett the Donkey
	+ Jessica the Cat
	+ Simon the Dog
	+ Tanner the Rooster
* Shinzo Abe
* The Olympic Torch Bearer\*
* A man who somehow caught fire and ran into the Olympic Torch\*
* Many Olympic Athletes\*
* The Tokyo 2021 Olympic Referees
	+ Pete Tozer
	+ Red Green
	+ Dakpa Wangchuk
	+ Hilly Burford
	+ Tomy Drissi
* Jill Martin
* A-Life DJ
* A-Life Bartender
* Tokyo Hospital Doctors
* Princess Peach\*
* Princess Daisy\*
* Princess Rosalina\*
* Birdo\*
* German Volleyball Coach\*
* A Japanese man who was outside of the women's shower room for some reason.\*
* Waluigi\*
* Olympic Cafeteria Staff Members\*
* Skinnydog Bamfield\*
* Luna Bamfield (also known as Luna Loud)\*
* Emmanuel Macron\*
* Wildfire the Wolf\*
* Gumball Watterson\* (On TV)
* Darwin Watterson\* (On TV)

### Characters That Did Not Appear, But Were Mentioned

* Connor Banjoper
* God - Briefly mentioned 4 times throughout the story.
* Constantino Spinechiller (Connor Banjoper's gothic counterpart)

## Featured Songs

* "This Is Tokyo!" - from Disney's "Tokyo Mater". - Heard during Blaze and her friends' first visit to A-Life.
* "Who Let The Dogs Out?" - Baha Men - Played during Blaze and her friends' party within their hotel room.
* "Whoomp! There It Is!" - Tag Team - Played during the dance-off between Team Blaze and Team Sonic.
* "Rockit" - Herbie Hancock - Played during the party on the second-to-last night of the Olympiad.
* "Copernicus" - Afghan Whigs - Played for the first performance in the rhythmic gymnastics tournament (Afghanistan).
* "If It's Lovin' That You Want" - Rihanna - Played for the Barbadian performance in the rhythmic gymnastics tournament.
* "Blaze the Cat" - Connor Banjoper - Played for Blaze's performance in the rhythmic gymnastics.

## Trivia

- Although this story may be considered fanfiction, it actually tells a (mostly) true story about Blaze the Cat and her friends at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic games.

-- However, due to an unforeseen predicament that occurred on March 25, 2021 AD, the parts where Blaze the Cat and Sonic the Hedgehog become sworn enemies have been rendered partially incorrect, as the aforementioned predicament caused Connor Banjoper to voluntarily forfeit Banjoper Studios' responsibility of creating the Blaze the Cat franchise, and Blaze the Cat and her friends were forced to work for SEGA in order to make the Blaze the Cat franchise happen at all.

--- Despite this, Blaze the Cat is still closer friends with the characters in her own franchise than the Sonic Characters.

- According to Connor Banjoper, this story apparently takes place in an alternate timeline where the aforementioned predicament never happened, and thus Banjoper wouldn't have a reason to stop working on the Blaze the Cat franchise himself and let SEGA handle it, and therefore, Sonic and his friends would have enough disdain towards Blaze the Cat to unfriend her.

- Interestingly, Connor Banjoper does not appear at all in this story (though he is mentioned).

- Only 16 of the 22 sports featured in the originally planned videogame were featured in the story.

-- Infact, there are many sports in the Olympics that weren't featured in the videogame or the story. (Karate and skateboarding are among these sports, despite being two of the newest sports.)

- This story reveals that hurting Blaze's external abdomen will make her furious and brutally attack the person responsible.

- This story has several instances that touch on the fact that Blaze did not want to be in Team Sonic Racing (due to the fact that it was after 2016, and she wanted to start her own franchise), but SEGA refused to listen to her and put her in it anyway.

- Like the videogame, this story is pretty much a giant middle finger towards SEGA.

- Some of the athletes featured in this story are fictional, while others actually exist in real life.

-- The fictional athletes featured include: Zelda Aberdeen, Helen Simmons, Gerhart Scheerbart, Vladek Dumbrowski, Oscar Margalef, Onepis Alu, Ekin Aczél, Kaung Kyaw Tun, Salvador Saelices, Michel Welter, Michelle Harry, Jagdish Naulakha, Sinbad Herat, Jayden Deveaux, Lambert Mohamed, Kelvin Emmanuel, Christopher Chen, Malak Abdullah, Nessie DeRocher, Elisabeth Paloma, Pedrya Gaither (the fictional sister of Tynia Gaither), and Kierre Jones.

-- The real-life athletes featured include: Jenna Laukkanen, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Greg Van Avermaet, Saul Farah, Tetyana Kob, Ajmal Faisal, Movladdin Arthur Biyarslanov, Abel Aferalign, Dennis Ceylan, Vladimir Nikitin, Anna Laurell Nash, Héctor García, Igor Jakubowski, Bakhodir Jalolov, Paul Omba-Biongolo, Nikol Merizaj, Christian Taylor, Nelson Évora, Obada Al-Kasbeh, Izmir Smajlaj, André Matias, Mary Opeloge, Kamia Yousufi, Luiza Gega, Marina Durunda (who actually retired in 2017), Maria Kadobina, Anastasia Tatareva, and Sandra Aguilar.

- In the normal version of this story, the beach's name was partially censored because it had a bad English word in it. The beach's name is completely explicit in the uncensored version.

- Even though the Sonic Characters in the Olympics are all on the "good guys" side (except Dr. Eggman, who is the main villain of the franchise), they act more villainous throughout this story (especially when they try to sabotage Blaze's team in two events).

-- Also, Dr. Eggman appears to be allies with Sonic and his friends during the Olympiad (which he normally isn't).

- This story takes place entirely in Japan (not including the epilogue).

## References

- This story mentions the fact that the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 (hence why they are now the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, instead of 2020).

- When, Strawberry and Vector are dissing each other, the insults they used are plays on words combining each other's species with insult words.

-- Strawberry calls Vector a "croc-sucker" (which is a play on "crocodile" and "cocksucker"), and Vector calls Strawberry a "fox-wad" (a play on "fox" and "f\*\*\*wad").

- The part where Sonic crashes his bicycle at the last second during the road cycling race was inspired by the DatPags video, "Celebrity Dogfight Tournament". It was based on the part where Ryan Dincher was about to win the first round against Randy Baxendale, but Dincher crashed his plane at (literally) the last second, which allowed Randy to win.

- The part of the story where the badminton stadium explosion could be seen from a satellite view of the entire country is a reference to the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both in Japan) at the end of World War 2.

- The part where the German volleyball coach is scolding his team for losing the volleyball tournament is a reference to the movie named "Dodgeball", where another German coach is scolding his team for losing the dodgeball tournament.

-- Infact, the German volleyball coach uses the exact same line as the German dodgeball coach.

- The group dances during the dance battle between Team Blaze and Team Sonic are references to those of popular songs.

-- Team Blaze's group dance is that of Michael Jackson's "Bad", while Team Sonic's group dance is that of DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide".

- When Team Blaze and Team Sonic are arguing on the last Olympic dinner of the 2021 Olympiad, one of the Olympic cafeteria staff members says "Check it out! Public fight!", and another one says "Man! Working at the Olympic cafeteria sure has its perks!" afterwards. This is a reference to the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Stuck In The Wringer", when two carnival workers notice Spongebob yelling at Patrick for his stupidity.

- Speaking of Spongebob Squarepants, during one of the Olympic cafeteria parties (the last one), Amy's dance moves resemble the "bring it around town" move from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Bubblestand".

-- Also, Espio does a moonwalk like that of Michael Jackson.

- The song Blaze dances to in the rhymthmic gymnastics event is a parody of "Flashbeagle" by Joey Scarbury and Desiree Goyette. Instead of focusing on Snoopy from "Peanuts", the parody focuses on Blaze.

- When Blaze and her friends are visiting Bronze in the hospital, he is watching the Japanese dub of "The Amazing World Of Gumball". The episode he is watching is "The Words".

## Differences Between Story & Reality

This story has many occurrences that are actually quite different than the real event.

* In the story, SEGA was forced to remove Blaze from "Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games" after they were (falsely) informed about Blaze's tonsil removal appointment. In reality, SEGA put Blaze in the game on Team Sonic despite her objections.
* In the story, there is only one announcer for the Olympic Games. In the real world, there are actually multiple announcers.
* In the story, several events involve every single nation (or independent team) competing in it. This is not how it works for the real Olympics.
* In the story, Russia is among the nations participating in the Olympics. However, on December 9, 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport events for four years (yes, including 2021), after it was discovered that data provided by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency had been manipulated by Russian authorities with a goal of protecting athletes involved in its state-sponsored doping scheme.
* In the story, Peru won the rugby sevens championship, and Germany was the runner-up. The actual winner was Fiji, and the actual runner-up was New Zealand.
	+ Infact, neither Peru nor Germany actually competed in the rugby sevens tournament at all.
* According to the story, Canada and Jamaica's archers competed in the championship, and Jamaica defeated Canada. The actual top two nations in the archery tournament were South Korea and Turkey, with the winner being South Korea.
	+ Canada didn't even make the Top 10 nations in the tournament, and Jamaica didn't compete at all.
* In the story, the equestrian event is portrayed as a horse race between every nation (or independent team) all at once. Obviously, that's not how it works in reality.
* According to the story, the objective for the surfing event is to stand on the surfboard for as long as possible before wiping out. This is how it *really* works:
	+ The event involves 20 male and 20 female athletes competing in three rounds, and three finals comprised of 30-minute heats.
	+ Round 1 features four athletes per heat while round two will have five. From round three onwards the competition turns to a one-on-one format.
	+ During the heats, each surfer has 30 minutes to catch as many waves as they can and receive a score from 0-10 for every wave surfed. However, only the top two waves from each surfer get calculated into their final score.
	+ Due to the nature of the sport, surfers are judged on slightly different criteria than other athletes. Waves are scored by a panel of experienced judges using a five-point system.
* In the story, when Calla used her butterfly wings to fly across the landing pit and get the maximum score in the triple jump, she is not disqualified or penalized for it, due to the fact that she actually jumped from each of the required marks and only flew *after the third one*. In reality, this probably *would* get her either disqualified or penalized, even if she only flew after the third jump.
* In the story, there was additional time for the second half of the soccer championship (even though it was canceled due to Bronze's injury delaying the game by 10 minutes.) We're not actually sure if there would be additional time in real life (probably if it was a tied score).
* According to one of the doctors in the story, it would take about a week for Bronze's testicular injury to heal completely. In the real world, it is unknown how long it would take for such an injury to heal.
* According to the story, now that Sonic and his friends hated Blaze for her actions, the manager of SEGA decided to remove Blaze from her position in the Sonic franchise, as well as to remove her from any Sonic game made after 2016. In reality, SEGA would not actually do this, as they do not seem to care about their characters' wishes and desires.
* According to the epilogue, Barhamsville's participation in the Olympics, as well as earning 10 medals, with seven of them being gold, earned Barhamsville recognition as independent from the United States, from 165 different countries. In reality, this probably would not happen, as Barhamsville is no more than a city.
	+ Even if it did happen, Barhamsville's global recognition as an independent nation would most likely take years to fully unfurl, and it would most likely be classified as an autonomous administrative division, rather than an independent country.

## See Also

Blaze the Cat and Friends at the Olympic Games! (Videogame)

## Citations

https://olympics.com/en/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-olympic-surfing-at-tokyo-2020