From A Jackass To A Queen: The Blaze The Cat Story

Who'd have ever thought that a royal character would be purple in colour, what are the chances huh? Blaze the Cat is a Princess, or a Queen - Sega don't seem too sure of themselves on this one and crikey if they don't know then what chance do any of the rest of us have?  Well I for one have settled on calling her a Queen and not of the Pearly "God bless ya guv'nor" kind.

She actually rules in another part of the country; and by country I mean entirely different planet in an entirely different universe in the far distant future. She is able to visit thanks to that handiest of things, a cross-universal flux, you know, the kind you find at a second-hand store along with red French headgear.  Being from the far flung future you would expect that she has some kind of crazy power and you'd not be wrong on that point as she's a pyrokinetic - which to you or me means she's a FIRESTARTER, TWISTED FIRESTARTER!

Ahem. Sorry about that.

Now according to SEGA she wears that cape of hers to hide her abilities because, growing up in a world full of psychokinetics - which are people who like to move about to Alfred Hitchcock films - she was mocked a lot and reduced to royal catty tears.  What a load of crock. She wears the cape because when was the last topless royal you saw? (No, forget the squirrel...) I mean maybe she doesn't particularly want to dash around with her bits on display for everyone to see?  I can't see anyone wanting to do that, I mean who would? (Look, FORGET the squirrel okay?) I'm assuming that the cape is made of some kind of asbesdos material, so I doubt if she's been wearing it for so long that she'll see thirty. But hey, twenty-nine for a cat is ancient. As for hiding her abilities, excuse me but are you really telling me children were dumb enough to tease firstly a royal princess and secondly a royal princess with the ability to create and manipulate fire? I've got one word for you - TOASTY!

Anyway whatever the case Blaze grew up feeling alone and as a result did what any person who doesn't want to feel alone and isolated does.  She became the guardian of something: the Sol Emeralds, which are kind of like the Chaos Emeralds but powered by, er, the Sun I... suppose... So basically she was half that universes' Knuckles and half that universes' Sonic and maybe a bit of that universes' Espio as she does have a tendancy to generate whirlwinds when dashing a'la the worlds most famous Chamelion.

After meeting up with Sonic, defeating Eggman and the Eggman from her world (Eggman Nega), getting into a bit of a scuffle with Knuckles, upsetting Amy, realising she was being horrid to everyone by being so gruff, finding out that she had a super form by way of using the Sol Emeralds and after being taught the wonders friendship by Cream the Rabbit (Chao! Chao!). Blaze went back to her own dimension a changed character, for she was not a cat anymore but actually a giant talking seagull.

What? Oh... really? Um.
Okay she was still a cat, I made that up apparently.

She went back and had a series of wonderful adventures with Silver the Hedgehog who had been her only childhood friend as everyone else still mocked her fiery abilities. Geez, what a crabby world, makes you wonder why she bothered saving it when she could have come into ours and stayed... but I suppose all the money and palaces would be difficult to transport. She continued in this vein until the arrival of the Iblis and then things got altogether less comfortable.  Battling them with the aid of Silver and Mephiles, until of course they found out Sonic was somehow the cause of everything and she had to come back to our world.

But that's another story...

In Sonic Wrecks times she's still in her dimension, is still alive, has not sealed a ferocious beast of evil inside her soul, has not passed GO and has not collected £200. Instead she's been minding her own business and getting serving cats to feed her grapes. It's good to be the King Queen.