Marblestone 'Inkie' Pie

**Marblestone Inkie Pie**, mostly known as **Inkie Pie**, is a female earth pony and one of the bakers of The Muffins Saga. She is Pinkie Pie's second oldest sister, who grew up and worked on the rock farm with her mother Cloudy Quartz**,** her father Igneous Rock**,** and her younger sister Blinkie Pie. With the latter, she discovered and saved their eldest sister Minkie Pie from a life of imprisonment.

## Appearance

Inkie Pie is a light grey earth pony with a dark slate-colored mane and tail and violet eyes. Her straight mane hangs over one side of her face, slightly obscuring one of her heavy-lidded eyes. She is described as having a low, intimidating voice. Her appearance closely resembles her look in her debut episode "The Cutie Mark Chronicles." Her cutie mark is an open geode with purple crystals inside.

## Personality

Inkie is a calm, level-headed pony who doesn't get easily angered. Even if something does make her mad, she is usually quite good at not letting it show. Thus she often bottles up her negative feelings which may result in sudden outbursts if left unchecked. She releases her feelings by baking with her sisters.

She is a natural-born leader and takes the leadership role when Pinkie is absent. She helps to make the majority of decisions and can get a bit pissy when her opinions get shot down. By growing up as the eldest daughter in her family, Inkie constantly kept her younger sisters in check around their parents to ensure they wouldn't get disciplined. As a result, she is also the most protective and nurturing of the bakers as they are the only ones she cares about. If things don't go the way she plans or somepony hurts her loved ones, she loses it. In "The New Elements of Harmony," she is proclaimed by Pinkie to be the Element of Guidance.

She is a sociopath with narcissistic tendencies. When she walks, she holds her head high and makes eye contact with anypony who passes; she even takes strides with a bit of a strut. It has also been stated that she sees everypony, besides her family, only as objects for amusement.

## Biography

### Backstory

Inkie Pie was born about eight years after Minkie Pie. Minkie was thrown in the cellar a few days after her birth and only had one interaction with her sister, who was too young to remember her, so Inkie grew up thinking that she was the first child of Cloudy Quartz and Igneous Rock.

Inkie and Blinkie Pie couldn't connect with their younger sister Pinkie because they felt they didn't have anything in common. That, however, changed when they discovered her secret recipe for cupcakes and started assisting her with it. Through the new hobby, they all connected by having an outlet for their frustrations caused by their bland, restricted lifestyle and not-so-loving parents.

After Pinkie got her cutie mark and left for Ponyville, Inkie's parents became even more strict by forbidding anything fun in their household. Cloudy Quartz breaking the record player, bought with Inkie and Blinkie's hard-earned bits, that they had hidden caused Inkie to have a meltdown, which she gained her cutie mark from. One of the rocks she threw out of rage broke open to reveal a purple crystal inside. The sisters concluded from the experience that Inkie shouldn't bottle everything up and hide who she is because even though she may be as powerful as a rock, even rocks break

Years later, Inkie and Blinkie found their parents' secret cellar with Minkie inside. After hearing about the horrible truth, the newly reunited sisters devised a plan to get revenge on their parents. After torturing and killing them the next night, the Pie sisters escaped to Ponyville to meet Pinkie.

## Relationships

### Pinkie, Blinkie and Minkie Pie

The Pie sisters have a strong relationship. Inkie always took care of Blinkie and Pinkie and tried to ensure their safety, even before she started fully bonding with them through baking. After Pinkie left for Ponyville and the home life became harsher, Inkie continued looking out for Blinkie, who became a mental support for Inkie. When Minkie was rescued, Inkie started caring for her and taught her how to live and cope in the real world. It often it feels like Inkie is the oldest sister. Inkie's ability to stay calm in stressful situations and leadership skills are admired.

### Apple Bloom, Derpy Hooves, and Babs Seed

Inkie Pie's relationship with other bakers isn't shown as much. Along with Blinkie, Inkie was at first hesitant to have Derpy and Apple Bloom be part of the bakers' team and underestimated them. However, she grew to like them and accept them as a part of the family when they proved tot be resilient. When Babs Seed joins the bakers, Inkie Pie is shown to like her spunk and sass and is impressed by how overtly ruthless Babs is for her age.

## Trivia

* Inkie was originally going to be schizophrenic, but the opportunity to reveal the characteristic never came up, and it later didn't fit the character. Instead, she is a sociopath and a narcissist.
	+ She knows the difference between right and wrong, but she just doesn't care. She likes chaos and disruption.
* One of her quotes "I find beauty in the dissonance" is a reference to a song "Schism" by TOOL, which is Reitanna Seishin's favorite band.
* In editing, Reitanna's Inkie voice is decreased in pitch by 4% in Audacity.
* In future Muffins stories, Reitanna planned to show how Inkie and Babs Seed got along. Their pair up was supposed to be similar to Minkie's and Derpy's or Blinkie's and Apple Bloom's relationship.
* She is Reitanna's third favorite baker, next to Pinkie Pie and Derpy.
* Inkie is bisexual.
	+ A relationship with her wouldn't be healthiest as Inkie wouldn't care for their partner and would only use them for her personal gain.
* Inkie's exact age isn't stated, but there have been inconsistencies with her age range. Inkie is mostly referred to as being in her mid-20s, although her backstory suggests that she should be 21 because Inkie was a newborn foal when 8-year-old Minkie was imprisoned for 20 years.
	+ The bacstory inconsistency may be because the fact that Inkie was already born before Minkie's imprisonment was thought much later, unlike the rest of Minkie's backstory.
* "Inkie" and "Blinkie" were originally fandom-given for Pinkie's sisters before their actual names were revealed. The names are a reference to Pac-Man ghosts who are named Blinky, Pinky , Inky, and Clyde. The names remained as nicknames in Muffins.

## Gallery

### Miscellaneous

Even Rocks BreakInkie's birthdayInkie's Stellar ObsessionPinkie Pie's Success

## References

1. ↑ The Sexual Orientations of the Bakers. Youtube