User blog:Slug-Drones/Blaze Sonic 2006 conspiracy

There could be a logical explanation as to why Blaze was pushed into an entirely different backstory in Sonic 06.

Blaze - a princess who believes she is burdened with responsiblities because of her flames which she considered a 'curse'. As a result she keeps a calm exterior to hide her emotions because of her burden and curse. Her inner turmoil is cured after meeting Sonic and Cream during the course of Sonic Rush.

Elise - a princess who is cursed by a fire monster sealed inside of her. As a result, she was brought up told not to ever cry otherwise the fire monster inside of her will release and cause chaos. She was burdened with the responsibility of the throne shortly after her father died and therefore keeps her word to not reveal her true emotions. She is later on cured by Sonic the Hedgehog.

Let's overview the similarities


 * Princess
 * Live in a place far away from Sonic
 * A curse of flames
 * Not allowed to show their true emotions becasue of their responsiblitites and their curse
 * Cured by Sonic
 * Face a sad departure with the hero in the end.

During the course of Sonic Rush, Blaze tells herself that opening her emotions is "something I'm not allowed to do" (says this after seeing Amy extremely open about her feelings). Similar to Elise, expressing her emotions is also something she's not allowed to do.

Here is a very uncanny similarity:


 * Blaze guards the SOL Emeralds
 * Elise is the princess of SOLeanna and Iblis is a part of SOLaris


 * Iblis was sealed in Elise
 * And Blaze seals Iblis along with herself in 06


 * Sonic and Elise have a romance in 06
 * Sonic Rush had romantic subext between Sonic and Blaze (I'm talking about, pausing, gazing and holding hands here, its subtexty enough)


 * Release of Sonic Rush - 2005
 * And Sonic 06 - 2006

Meaning the characters were likely in development around the same time. Either characters could have been scrapped if they noticed this huge similarity.

Is it that they didn't see the similarity? I think not. They probably did do something about this similarity. And they did this by changing Blaze's role entirely. Anybody could have used Blaze's role, it looked rushed anyway. They didn't even try introducing a new character for Silver, they just shoved in Blaze the Cat.

Could this be the reason why they pushed Blaze to an entirely different story in Sonic 06? Because she was too much like Elise? Blaze is not even a princess in that game, which further proves my point.

What if Blaze and Elise were supposed to be the same person? But they had to go through some drastic changes, since I did hear that the initial writing team were fired during the development of Sonic 06.