Blaze the Cat

**Blaze the Cat**, also known as **Cat Girl**, **Cat Woman**, **Princess Blaze** and **Your Highness**, is a character from the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series.

A pyrokinetic cat from the Sol Dimension, and guardian of the Sol Emeralds. Blaze initially ended up in Sonic's world due to both of their worlds being on the verge of merging and breaking apart due to her own dimension's equivalent to Dr. Eggman, Eggman Nega. Blaze initially didn't care much for teamwork and preferred to solve her problems without anyone's aid, but thanks to bonding with Cream and Sonic reaching out to her, she eventually grew to embrace her friends and together with Sonic, stopped the two Eggmen. Afterward, she returned to her own dimension, but she does make occasional appearances now and then.

## **Appearance**

Blaze is a lavender-furred, anthropomorphic cat with gold eyes, a small black nose, and a white-furred muzzle. She has triangular ears with peach-colored canals on top of her head, two medium-length eyelashes on each side of her eyes, and a long tail with the end frayed and violet. Her fur is longer on each side of her head and sweeps slightly upwards. She has four plumes of hair with violet tips done up in a high ponytail with a red hair tie. She also has a red oval gem on her forehead, resembling a Bindi.

For attire, Blaze wears a purple tailcoat with rose trim at the bottom, a gold collar, and white leggings. She also wears white gloves with fluffy cuffs and rose, high-heeled shoes with gray soles, white stripes, and fluffy cuffs, like her gloves.

During the Olympic Games, Blaze sports a number of different outfits depending on the event and the environments she faces:

* For regular sporting events in the summer, Blaze wears a purple tracksuit with yellow stripes on the sleeves that leaves some of her belly exposed and rose sports shoes with white stripes and gray soles. The bottom of her shirt and the waist of her pants have rose trim, while the latter has yellow and rose stripes down each side. She also retains her standard gloves.
* For winter and equestrian events, Blaze wears a purple tailcoat with white leggings similar to her normal attire, except the former has shiny golden and rose trims. Her white gloves have magenta fluffy cuffs instead of being white. She also wears purple boots with rose and yellow stripes, rose straps with silver fasteners, and dark gray soles.
* For swimming and gymnastics, Blaze wears a purple, backless, sleeveless minidress with a rose rim on the skirt, a gold necklace, and long black skin-tight shorts. She also wears white gloves with red bracelets for cuffs and rose flats.

For the purpose of Extreme Gear racing, Blaze wears a purple zipped catsuit with yellow stripes over the chest, elbows, and knee areas, and rose boots with white straps and soles. She also wears white gloves that possess visible lining with pointy cuffs (similar to her standard gloves) and a dark gray band around each wrist.

## **Personality**

A noble soul and strong young lady, Blaze is highly devoted to the well-fare of her people, her motto being "*My power is to protect the smiles of my people*." She is normally rather calm and solemn but tends to conceal her true feelings. She is also often described as elegant, which is demonstrated through her body movements and her ballerina-like fighting style. Being royalty, Blaze is quite stoic personality-wise, which is a perfect example of the spirit of the *noblesse oblige*, as she is very frequently doing her official duties, but still tries to do her best for everyone's peace. Because of her lineage and her stoicism, she is sometimes too distant from those around her, but that is also the flip side of her good nature. She likewise always sticks to her personal principles, which means doing the best she can with pride in the position she is in. This may be the source of Blaze's strength, and it may also be what makes her so appealing.

Blaze is mannerly and typically maintains a relatively quiet and formal air among others. She also usually speaks in a polite and ladylike tone. While honored of her heritage as royalty, though, Blaze is down-to-earth and dislikes being called by her title. Blaze is also likewise highly perceptive; due to having people that lie to her daily because of her status as a princess, she has developed a keen intuition, allowing her to sense and see through the lies of others. Also, due to the fact that she is so strong that she does not need her guards' support, one cannot help but wonder if she has that much discretion. Her own uncompromisingly calm judgment and unyielding spirit are also qualities that can be counted on. However, one's impression of her may be that she is a person with differences that can be respected.

While Blaze gives the impression that she keeps her emotions in check, she is inwardly highly emotional. She possesses a fiery temper, and when she loses her composure she is quite aggressive, harsh, and prone to making bad decisions. She is similarly very serious about her position as guardian of the Sol Emeralds, initially suspecting anyone even looking at the Emeralds the wrong way. Also, when dealing with enemies, she never holds back her strength and is not above the idea of using lethal force. She is usually highly disciplined and focused, never allowing herself to lose control, and can be quite stubborn and impatient once she has put her mind to something. Her intensive demeanor, however, is motivated by her own genuine concern for others' safety. In truth, Blaze has a kind heart and always stands up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, Because of her own self-imposed strict discipline though, she is often tense and frequently suffers from great self-pressure.

Initially, Blaze held a personal dislike of her pyrokinesis because it left her to bear her responsibilities alone and it made other children tease her for her inability to control it, which made her view her flames as a curse. She later learns to accept them from Sonic's advice and came to see them as a blessing. Also, when it comes to her duty as guardian of the Sol Emeralds and their relation to the Chaos Emeralds, she is shown to have great faith in the actions both sets of Emeralds take on their own, no matter how vague their reasons may be.

Because of her past and strong sense of responsibility, Blaze has developed a habit of being self-reliant. This has led her to build up walls between her and other people, making her anti-social, withdrawn, and shy. As a result, she would bottle up her secret feelings, leaving herself in inner turmoil. She also lacks in social skills and has a hard time opening up and talking to people. She was also initially wary and curt towards strangers and frequently rejected offers to help, even becoming defensive and angry. This attitude also made her somewhat selfish as she berated Sonic's offers to help and eventually ended up fighting him.

After interacting with Sonic and Cream, Blaze has mellowed out considerably socially wise, making her more amiable, friendly, and gentle towards others. She also came to understand the true meaning of friendship, making her willing to trust and accept help from others. While she still prefers handling things on her own and remains somewhat reclusive, she will accept her friends' help and is genuinely grateful for their aid. Recently, she is seemingly much more sociable, participating in Sonic's birthday party simply for the sake of friendship, and is much quicker to open up and relax in front of her friends.

Blaze is very honest and almost blunt when dealing with annoyances such as Marine. During the Jeweled Scepter incident, she tried to leave Marine behind on missions due to Marine's risky behavior and even went far enough to hurt her feelings by calling her a 'nuisance' to keep her from coming along with her on a dangerous mission to Pirates' Island. This caused Marine to go after the pirates without Sonic, Tails, or Blaze. Sooner rather than later, Marine was captured by them. Blaze also had a rather bad habit of getting over-confident in threatening people to whom she thinks "deserves" it. This was most notably shown during the Jeweled Scepter incident.

Blaze sometimes has a tendency to judge others poorly and see less value in others. Notably, she expected no one to know that their worlds were in great danger during the Sol Emerald incident but was proven wrong when Sonic and Tails were also aware. Her poor judgment of others led her to have a fight with Sonic and misjudge Cream until she realized how helpful she was.

Blaze suffers from acrophobia and just the sight of heights makes her terrified, nervous, and uncomfortable as seen in Sky Babylon. However, she is not much for admitting her fear and will try to hide it.

## **The Multiverse Adventures While Riding On A Bus**

Blaze is a member of the Multiverse Rescuers.

### **History**

In Chapter 20, Blaze, alongside Dark Pit, Jacob Vallory, Laura Gauthier and Ranma Saotome, are seen being chased by a group of Unicorn Warriors at a landscape somewhere in the island of Elsaragozademontelban when Eddy the Scammer, Dan Kusou, Konata Izumi, Amity Blight and Luz Noceda found them.

In Chapter 21, Blaze, alongside Dark Pit, Jacob Vallory, Laura Gauthier and Ranma Saotome, are seen in a landscape somewhere in the island of Elsaragozademontelban where they are being chased by a group of Unicorn-Warriors and decided to fight them off and in the midst of the fight, Amity Blight, Eddy the Scammer, Gingka Hagane, Konata Izumi and Luz Noceda made their presence and aided them in defeating the Unicorn-Warriors. After introducing themselves to each other and an explanation of the current events, everyone were about to make their way back to the bus when Lightning Flash Phosphora, Princess Zelda, Shadow the Hedgehog, Vector the Crocodile and Viridi made their presence.

In Chapter 22, Blaze, alongside Amity Blight, Dark Pit, Eddy the Scammer, Gingka Hagane, Jacob Vallory, Konata Izumi, Laura Gauthier, Luz Noceda and Ranma Saotome, introduced themselves to Lightning Flash Phosphora, Princess Zelda, Shadow the Hedgehog, Vector the Crocodile and Viridi, and after explaining the current situation, she witnessed Eddy and Viridi getting into an argument and then witnessing the former shooting the latter with the DeEvilizer. After being given details about the device, Blaze and the others made their way back to the bus.

## **Abilities**

Being the guardian of the Sol Emeralds, Blaze is a force to be reckoned with. Both strong and powerful, she is able to go about without the need for her guards protecting her due to her sheer strength. She is arguably the strongest female character in the series, being the only female so far who has been able to tie with Sonic in battle, and is as intense in battle as she is graceful.

Blaze's trademark power is her pyrokinetic ability to brandish, create, and control the elemental force of fire with her body at will in any way she pleases. This ability is so deeply rooted in her that even her soul is alit with flames. Though Blaze initially had trouble controlling her flames, she has since become very adept at using them, turning them into an incredible force. Notably, she is able to handle them delicately enough to create small embers in the palm of her hand or defrost frozen creatures without harming them. Her power over fire is so advanced that she is even completely invulnerable to certain kinds of fire and can manipulate foreign flames at will too.

With her pyrokinesis, Blaze can conjure up flames for various offensive effects, the most basic maneuvers of which involve turning herself into a tornado of fire by spinning around. Notably, she can cloak herself in flames with a midair twirl for strikes, trigger high-speed twirls empowered by flames in order to form fiery tornadoes around her that destroy anything they collide with, envelop herself in flames to become an explosive meteor with enough impact power to create a crater in bedrock, or increase the power behind her strikes to such levels that she can send the Egg Mobile and its passenger flying into the horizon with a single, fire-charged kick. She can even create pressurized blasts of fire and have them burst out of the ground from afar. Purely offense usages aside, Blaze can also use her pyrokinesis to propel herself forward or upward with short bursts of fire or obtain limited flight by creating propulsive flames underneath her feet to slow her descent. However, her signature move with her flames lets her turn herself into a burning projectile that not only enhances her running speed but also lets her plow through opponents while running. Also, because Blaze's soul is alight with flame, she can serve as a vessel for Iblis, who would otherwise reject anyone not a member of the royal family of Soleanna, although his power would still leak out of her body.

Like many others, Blaze possesses no small amount of speed, allowing her to run at super speeds almost reaching those of Sonic's. In line with her graceful nature, Blaze is as well incredibly athletic considering her impressive dexterity and nimbleness when executing her various ballerina-like moves. Notably, she has enough skills in the area of athletics, reflexes, and agility to let her execute unique tricks and movements at high speed while in mid-air, pull off various Axel Jump maneuvers at immense speed, and grind on Grind Rails with ease. On the ground she is also able to perform top spins and axel jumps. In addition, she has amazing jumping skills, enough to jump very long distances from rooftop to rooftop on top of tall towers with ease while landing safely.

As the guardian of the Sol Emeralds, Blaze has a deep connection to them. Before she understood the meaning of friendship though, Blaze was unable to harness the Sol Emeralds' power. After embracing the friendships she had forged, however, she gained the ability to tap into the Sol Emeralds' energies and use them to empower herself.

In combat, Blaze makes use of her own type of hand-to-hand combat skills. In fact, many of Blaze's moves focus on graceful and delicate movements similar to ballerina moves to strike precise and hard blows. When attacking, she tends to use her feet when launching physical blows. Also, most of her fighting moves rely heavily on her pyrokinesis. By using her pyrokinesis in conjunction with her attacks, Blaze can create unique and dynamic moves that deal destructive damage to her targets. She can likewise perform an attack similar to the Homing Attack, where she quickly launches herself at an enemy and attacks them.

In some instances, Blaze is shown being able to levitate in midair. Being royalty, Blaze also has much knowledge about the various aspects of her planet, such as its history, ancient languages, and legends; and knows much about the various powers of the Jeweled Scepter. Additionally, she has excellent skills when it comes to driving vehicles like the Royal Chariot.

## **Trivia**

* Despite having the title of "princess", Blaze is sometimes referred to as a queen. She is called "Queen Blaze the Cat" on the official Sega of America *Sonic* mini site, *Sonic Central*, as well as the *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006) game website. However, in Japanese, her title is *Kojo*, which translates as "imperial princess", and is also called princess in *Sonic Rush Adventure*.
* In the character introduction document for *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006) from March 2006, Blaze is described as a "Tsundere type". She wears a "Takarazuka-like costume" under her cape.
* Blaze is implied to have two different backstories for her origin. In *Sonic Rush*, Blaze is depicted as a princess native to another dimension, while in *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006), she appears in a possible future of Sonic's world. At the end of the latter game, Blaze is sealed in another dimension, which led to the assumption that *Sonic the Hedgehog* took place prior to *Sonic Rush*. While the events of the latter game were ultimately erased, *Sonic the Hedgehog*'s official website, guides and later games indicate that the Blaze in *Sonic the Hedgehog* is the same one seen in *Sonic Rush*. There is no attempt in-game to show why and how she is in Silver's time - the game instead writes Blaze as a good friend of Silver's, and whether or not she even truly recognizes Sonic from the previous title is seemingly rendered moot when Sonic himself does not pay any attention to her at all, making many fans question whether Blaze is a native of another dimension or the future. At Sonic Boom 2012, Takashi Iizuka stated that Blaze is in fact a native of the Sol Dimension and not the future. He also stated that the reason no one expressed familiarity with Blaze in *Sonic the Hedgehog* was because everyone had "amnesia." Writer Ian Flynn's explanation is that Blaze and Silver never met however, completely ignoring the events of the game.
	+ Shiro Maekawa has stated that even though it was never officially stated, he wanted to add a sense of connection between *Sonic Rush* and *Sonic the Hedgehog*.
* Like Sonic's specialty in breakdancing, Blaze seems to be able to dance ballet as she is seen spinning on the tip of her toes before striking a victory pose.
* As of *Sonic Runners*, Blaze is the first female Power Type character in the series.
* Although it has never been officially confirmed, Blaze is able to perform Chaos Control with at least two Chaos Emeralds, as she used them to transport herself to another dimension along with Iblis at the end of Silver’s story in *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006).
* It should be noted that In *Sonic Generations*, Blaze will say "*I thought I would never be in Crisis City again*" after clearing Blaze: Piercing the Flames, despite the fact that the events of *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006) were erased from timeline.
* According to Sonic Channel, when asked about her weight, Blaze would respond "*L-Like I'd tell you that.*" unlike the other female characters, which simply says "Secret".
* Blaze is the first female character in any portrayals of the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series to be given a transformation.
* In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version of *Sonic Unleashed*, the loading screen for Empire City's Skyscraper Scamper stage features a sign that reads "Blaze Rd."
* If Blaze is tapped in the bottom screen with the stylus during gameplay in *Sonic Rush*, she jumps like a frightened cat, then she turns at the player angrily and stomps on the ground, before turning her back and tapping her foot. When tapped on the touch screen in *Sonic Rush Adventure*, Blaze hovers in the air.
* In *Sonic Rush Adventure*, Blaze might know more than one language other than English, as she was able to read a book filled with ancient text found in Sky Babylon.
* Blaze is the second feline character introduced in the series in regards to the games. The first is Big the Cat.
	+ However, if one were to include Honey the Cat, who was a scrapped character since *Sonic the Fighters* at the time, it would make Blaze the third feline in the games.
* Blaze's fear of heights is rather ironical, as real-life cats generally prefer to stay on high-up places and almost always safely land on their feet.
* Prior to the release of *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006), an internal document used by Sega was leaked which contained the entire game script as well as extended profiles for the major character. In the Character Introductions section, it is stated for Blaze that "she is bothered by underendowed chest (comments on which will rouse her anger)". It is unknown if this is true to her actual depiction.
* Blaze was going to appear in *Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing* as a playable racer alongside Rouge, Vector, Espio and Silver, but was scrapped from the final product.