Blaze the Cat (Archie)

Blaze the Cat is a lavender, female Mobian Cat and a princess. Blaze's first encounter with Sonic the Hedgehog was when he found her in captivity after she was captured by a group of SWATbots outside of Knothole. At first hostile to the "Blue One", Blaze eventually realized Sonic meant her no harm after their brief battle ended and he offered his friendship. Blaze vanished soon after, promising to haunt Sonic's dreams as he'd haunted hers. She later assisted Sonic, Tails and Marine in battling Captain Whiskers, Johnny and Dr. Nega to retrieve a Chaos Emerald. In her next encounter with someone from Mobius Prime, she worked with Shadow and Marine to defeat Metal Sonic.

=History=

Search for the "Blue One"
After being plagued by constant dreams about a mysterious "Blue One" that could save her Sol Emerald from danger, Blaze came to Mobius Prime to seek out Sonic. While exploring just outside of Knothole, Blaze was intercepted by a group of patrolling SWATbots. Although she fought valiantly, Blaze was eventually subdued by the group and taken to one of Dr. Eggman's research bases. The robotic "doctors" found that their scans showed Blaze to not be from this dimension. Blaze awoke soon after and destroyed the bots as well as a part of the facility. There she finally encountered Sonic, who had arrived to rescue her.

Hoping to make sure that the person before her was truly the one from her dreams, Blaze engaged Sonic in combat. While proving her combat skills and proving a challenge for Sonic, she ultimately lost when Sonic created a vortex around her, preventing oxygen from reaching her to put out her flames. When she began to run out of breath, Sonic stopped and offered his help. Blaze then informed him that she had been looking for him, only to vanish in a blaze of fire, saying she would "haunt your dreams the way you have haunted mine!", leaving Sonic confused.

Quest for the Chaos Emerald
Some time later, both Sonic and Tails ended up in Blaze's zone. After the green Chaos Emerald was stolen from Marine by the robot Johnny, the three met up with Blaze and began their pursuit. Following whatever clues they had, the four eventually located Johnny, Captain Whiskers and the mastermind behind the theft, Dr. Nega. After battling them, the four heroes retrieved the green Chaos Emerald. Sonic allowed Blaze to keep it as it would help her to locate the missing Sol Emeralds. Blaze and Marine thanked Sonic and Tails before they used a ship Tails constructed to return to Mobius Prime.

Meeting with Shadow
Some time later, Blaze and Marine discovered the nearly-drowning Shadow in the ocean while onboard Marine's ship, the Ocean Tornado. Bringing him on board, Blaze explained to Shadow her encounters with Sonic, with Marine interrupting and finishing the story. Travelling to Southern Island, Blaze was horrified to see the town under attack by Metal Sonic, which had followed Shadow to their universe. Blaze violently attacked the robot, but her attacks failed to do any damage. Shadow and Marine joined the frey, though still had difficulty fighting the machine. After Shadow failed to convince Metal Sonic to go against Eggman, Blaze used her fire attack and weakened the machine, allowing Shadow to spin dash it into the sky, where Marine used the Ocean Tornado's cannons to destroy Metal Sonic for good. After the fires around the town were put out, Blaze offered Shadow the green Chaos Emerald, saying "thanks to Sonic's generosity, I've found a few of the Sol Emeralds. They'll serve for the rest of my search. Now I can return the favor by helping one of his friends find his way home." She then wished Shadow safe travels home, and the Ultimate Lifeform teleported back to Mobius Prime.

=Personality= Normally cool and collected, Blaze gives the impression that she keeps a tight lid on her emotions, but this may not be her true nature. Despite her calm appearance she can lose her temper easily and, when does, she's quite scary to be around. She dislikes being referred to by her title of "princess" and prefers just being called Blaze. She also feels grateful to those who have helped her and will do what she cans in whatever way to fulfill the debt.

=Background information= Blaze appeared in a backstory in Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 197 as some sort of knight to an evil king, along with Knuckles the Echidna and Shadow the Hedgehog. The story was a comic tie-in to the game Sonic and the Black Knight, and took place in an alternate reality in the comics.

= In The Games =

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Blaze first appeared in Sonic Rush, where her dimension and Sonic's are in flux with one another, allowing the characters to travel from one to the other through a tear in the space-time continuum. Blaze is the only playable character in Sonic Rush aside from Sonic himself.

Blaze appears in the 15th Anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog. In this game, she hails from the future. In the future, she constantly fights Iblis, along with the new character, her life-long friend, Silver. At the game's climax, Sonic and the others destroy Solaris in past, present, and future, which erases the events of the game from history, meaning Blaze still exists.

Blaze returns in the Sonic Rush sequal, Sonic Rush Adventure, once again as the only playable character apart from Sonic. She appears to stop Captain Whiskers, a robotic pirate, from stealing the mystical Jeweled Scepter, which is acclaimed to have the power of the stars. Blaze bumps into Sonic, both of them surprised and slightly excited to see each other. It is later revealed that Sonic has entered Blaze's dimension.

Blaze takes on the persona of Dame Percival in Sonic and the Black Knight. She is the last Knight of the Round Table Sonic will fight. Despite only being Blaze's parallel, she can use fire. Strangely, she is referred to as "Sir Percival" in-game, even though she is clearly female.

Blaze also appears in Sonic Rivals as s collectible card, a party mode character in Sonic and the Secret Rings, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games as a well-balanced character, and a speed type rider in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.