User:Slug-Drones/Sonaze

Sonic and Blaze being a couple is unofficial. I just like the idea of them being together as friends or maybe something more, but I know the romance is all in my own head. This article just gives out why I like their chemistry.

Blaze
Although being asked my many people to seek Sonic's help, Blaze refuses and even gets annoyed to hear his name. Blaze previously had no interest in Sonic but a friendship between the two was developed later on.


 * After Blaze meets Sonic, she appeared uninterested in meeting him and abruptly leaves. When Sonic and Tails were out of sight, she stops and says, "Sonic... what kind of a person is he?" when Cream replies he's 'like the wind' Blaze smiles and says, "What is that supposed to mean?".


 * After the final battle, Blaze quickly plans to return to her own world. However, after being stopped by Sonic for a moment, instead of leaving she slowly gazes and him and floats towards him slowly.


 * She pauses for a moment and shyly reaches out her hand, offering him a handshake.


 * After the handshake they are seen holding hands in the air. When they are separated, Blaze is seen reaching out her arm towards Sonic.


 * When Blaze is flying towards her dimension, the only person she thinks about is Sonic despite her meeting other people. She imagines him talking to her. In the end of conversation she smiles at the image of Sonic in her head and says "I'll see you again.".

Sonic
In the beginning of Sonic Rush, Sonic first sees Blaze snatching a Sol Emerald from his reach after a battle with Eggman, she thanks him and leaves. Sonic out of curiousity and suspicion searches for her, thinking of a possible connection between Blaze, the tearing of the space-time continuum and Eggman Nega. Sonic finds her and asks her questions, she however refuses to answer, but seeing her with Cream and implying that she is searching for Eggman Nega makes him believe she is fighting for good.


 * Sonic offers help when the two confront Eggman and Eggman Nega. Blaze stubbornly refuses and berates him in the process, causing them to fight. Sonic however says he doesn't want to fight her.


 * When Blaze shouts out her feelings of being burdened with her flames and living alone, Sonic feels for her and helps her stand up after the battle.


 * Sonic allows Blaze to save Cream when she insisted that she should go alone. Tails asks him why he made this decision, Sonic responds "Being able to trust someone... is also a part of friendship, right?".


 * After Sonic's battle against Eggman Nega, Sonic is seen distracted, smiling at Blaze who is hugging Cream. Tails, not knowing where he's distracted asks if there is something wrong, Sonic responds, "Oh... nothing.".


 * After the battle, Sonic tries to draw Blaze to a conversation by asking her, "No words from you?" before she leaves.


 * When Blaze leaves, Sonic asks her to wait. He pauses speechless for a while and says "This is from me... I'll see you again!"


 * Sonic and Blaze, in their transformations are seen gazing and floating towards each other after the final battle.


 * When Sonic and Blaze are holding hands in the air, Sonic places his other hand over her hand even though it was time for her to leave.

Blaze

 * Blaze is seen relying on Sonic in the earthquake scenes by standing behind him.


 * Blaze implies to Sonic that she finds the Ghost Ship "scary" in a rather shy manner.


 * Blaze is seen sitting at the back of Sonic's Wave Typhoon resting her eyes. She then turns at him and the two are staring at each other for a moment.


 * When Blaze is intimidated by a huge height she sees, she shouts out Sonic's name even though Tails and Marine were there as well, "Sonic? L-let's move away from this edge of the cliff, yeah?"


 * After the final battle, the two are seen standing together in the sunset.


 * Blaze reaches out her hand towards Sonic right before he leaves.


 * Before Sonic leaves to his world, Blaze asks him if he was brought to her world for 'a reason'. While what she said wasn't quite romantic, the way Sonic responds to it looks like she was implying something. See the 'subtexty' image.


 * There are huge Sonic monuments unlocked in Blaze's world when the game is beaten. Such respect I must say.

Sonic

 * Sonic is seen giving Blaze a ride on his Wave Cyclone and looks back at her for a long moment until Tails and Marine come.


 * He is seen protecting her by standing infront of her in one of the earthquake scenes.


 * When he and Tails had to return to their world, Tails goes in the Wave Typhoon first, ready to leave, while Sonic is still on the ramp talking to Blaze.


 * Sonic and Blaze take a long time talking until Tails shouts out to Sonic that they have to leave.


 * Sonic is seen waving bye at Blaze while she just turns her head away.


 * See the rather subtexty image above.

Sonic and the Black Knight
Instead of Blaze, this game shows her storybook counterpart named Percival, she however, like the other Knights of the Round Table looks and has the exact personality as Blaze.

Blaze

 * She loses her battle against Sonic and falls from a volcano, Sonic saves her, leaving her speechless as she was expecting him to let her die after her defeat.


 * She is seen staring at Sonic with her eyes wide open until Caliburn says, "Save the hugs and kisses for later" causing her to blush and looks down in embarrassment. Sonaze_picture.png


 * She is more loyal and more willing to help Sonic than the other knights who too have witnessed Sonic's kindness.


 * When Gawain (Knuckles), even though he too was saved by Sonic, finds Sonic suspicious and begins to ask him questions, Percival (Blaze) places her hand infront of him and tells him to wait.


 * She is the first person in the story to follow his orders.


 * She convinces Lancelot (Shadow) and Gawain (Knuckles) to listen to Sonic's orders for the benefit of the kingdom.


 * She is the first to shout out his name, "Sir Sonic! You have done enough!" when she sees him brutally injured by Dark Queen.

Overall, after being rescued by Sonic. She was extremely devoted and loyal to him, similar to how an infatuated heroine would behave to her love interest.

The connection between Blaze and Percival:

The battle between Sonic and Percival is based on the battle between Sonic and Blaze in Sonic Rush. The difference is that Percival seemed infatuated with Sonic. However, considering their personality and looks are exact could mean that Blaze possibly developed the same feelings. In Sonic Rush Adventure she does seem to reply on him and listens to what he says eagerly similar to how Percival listens to his orders.

Sonic VS. Percival : Percival fights Sonic because she is mis-guided/had a misunderstanding. Sonic is forced to fight her. She loses the battle and attempts to fall off (or it could be a mistake). Sonic saves her. She is impressed by his kindness and considers him an ally.

Sonic VS. Blaze: Blaze's selfishness causes the two to fight. Mostly Sonic trying to calm to her down. She loses the battle and accepts Sonic's kindness, considering him an ally.

Sonic

 * Sonic and Percival (Blaze) are seen staring at each other for a long moment when he saves her from the volcano. He is also grabbing her hand so that she doesn't fall.


 * After Caliburn says "Save the hugs and kisses for later." to Percival (Blaze) and Sonic, Sonic looks at him says, "Why? You jealous or something?".

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

 * In the CG opening, Sonic, participating in one of the events, misses a pole. He instead grabs Blaze's feet and swings her around, much to her shock and gets himself ahead of the race.


 * In the DS version of the game, Blaze, Peach, Daisy and Amy are sending invitations to the other players to a party. Amy wants to send hers to Sonic personally, Blaze however stops her and challenges her to a sport.


 * In the Story Mode, at one point Amy starts flirting with Sonic by calling him "darling" on a message system. Blaze responds to this by putting a hand on her face and says to herself, "Oh brother!".


 * In one of the gameplay trailers, Mario and Peach are synchronize swimming with Sonic and Blaze. In most of the trailers, the characters are meant to mirror each other. Peach being Mario's love-interest could reflect Blaze for Sonic. Either that or the two are princesses.

Sonic Generations

 * Blaze appears to be feeling shy after she and the others show Sonic his surprise birthday.


 * A somewhat soft, sweet music called "You're My Hero" is played in the Blaze co-op mission despite the level being Crisis City, the roughest and scariest looking place in the game. This really doesn't mean anything, but it's the most unfitting music played of all co-op missions. This music is also played in the Knuckles co-op, Cream co-op and Rouge co-op however.

Songs

 * In the Sonic vs. Blaze battle, the background music, Vela Nova sounds strangely seductive with growls, whispers and sighs. In Sonic and the Black Knight this theme was considered to be 'Percival's theme' when the song is unlocked.


 * The full version of the song Raisin' Me Up is used as a background music before Sonic and Blaze separate. It is speculated that the song is about Blaze who is supported and encouraged by Sonic as that is what he did to help her before the final battle.

Compatibility
Blaze was initally designed as an alternate Sonic role-wise and personality-wise. Her design to add a new personality to the female cast and a new relationship (non-romatic) to Sonic and a female character. Ironically both are equal, yet opposite. Sonic Rush Adventure comes to play with both of these personalities which shows they are the same but in different ways. Take note that -

Sonic - inwardly the free and adventurous, yet outwardly level-headed and cool one

Blaze - outwardly stoic and cool-headed, yet inwardly emotional one

Maybe fans point out that the two are very opposite. I however see more similarities in them than differences. The difference is how they have their 'take' in things:
 * They have the same exact duty. Many point that her duty is rather more like Knuckles, SRA shows that Blaze doesn't guard the Sol Emeralds like Knuckles does. She keeps guards to protect them just like how Sonic uses his friends help to protect the Chaos Emeralds. The only difference is that Sonic has friends and she doesn't.
 * Both have their own Eggman and are heroes in their own worlds.
 * But here's the difference - Sonic sees his duty as enjoyment, on the other hand, Blaze sees it as a burden even though they have the same job. But Sonic is an influence to her change her perspective.
 * In the ending of Sonic Rush Sonic taught her how to use the Sol Emeralds. In the final ending Blaze credits Sonic for seeing her flames as a gift than a curse. In Sonic Rush Adventure he teaches her how to handle her duties and she credits him for helping her not taking so much burden on herself. Because of Sonic, Blaze begins to realize that her duties are not a burden but an 'honor'.

Concept
The idea of Sonic's love-interest being a tomboyish/strong/action-like cat of royalty is a very old concept. Here are the two characters:

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Her : http://info.sonicretro.org/images/7/71/Mystery3.jpg

Possible Blaze-Elise theory:

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 sadness is cured after meeting Sonic and Cream during the course of Sonic Rush.

Elise - a princess who is cursed by a fire monster locked 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 however 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 curse
 * Cured by Sonic

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.

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 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. I think either characters could have been scrapped if they noticed this huge similarity. Is it that they didn't see the smiliarity? I think not

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 a princess in that game. Or, what if Blaze and Elise were the same person, initially? They have the same concept after all. This might just prove that maybe Blaze is or was supposed to be a love-interest for Sonic as well.

Comparison
The way Blaze is towards Sonic is not something new. Her behaviour towards him is alot like other female characters of different franchises who too behave the same way she does to their love-interest.

An over-view of how Blaze developed her friendship with Sonic

Before: Blaze initially had no interest in Sonic in Sonic Rush and was even annoyed to hear his name. She constantly said how she doesn't want to meet him and she doesn't need his help. When she meets him, she rudely leaves and refuses to answer his questions. She even fought him physically only because she didn't want his help. She didn't take him seriously and just underestimated him.

After: Sonic is now an ally, a trustworthy partner. They are now good friends and get into friendly conversations occasionally in Sonic Rush Adventure. She has developed a high respect for his skills and willingly listens to his 'orders' and 'plans'. She eagerly listens to him in Sonic and the Black Knight and Sonic Rush Adventure. She couldn't let go of his hand in Sonic Rush and imagines herself talking to him in the end of the game. She felt shy after wishing him on his birthday in Sonic Generations and apparently challenged Amy to a sport to prevent Amy from sending a 'personal' letter to Sonic in the 3DS version Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Now, the list of other tough female characters who showed no respect to the hero, but ended up having a high amount of respect to the point where they actually developed a crush on the hero:


 * Tigress to Po in Kung Fu Panda
 * Colette to Linguini in Ratatouille
 * Misty to Ash in Pokemon
 * Astrid to Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon
 * Hilary to Kai in Beyblade
 * Sgt Calhoun to Fix-it Felix in Wreck-It Ralph
 * Lucy to Desmond in Assassin's Creed
 * Rouge the Bat in Knuckles Sonic Adventure 2 [Sonic Central confirmed it (official Sonic site), but that site was dead years ago]
 * Videl to Gohan in DragonBall Z