Blinx

> "*Ey, sportsy!*"
> ― Blinx in Dark Disney
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Time Sweeper #01712, more commonly known as Blinx, is the main protagonist of the Blinx duology of games, starting from *Blinx: The Time Sweeper*, and one of the Underground members of Dark Disney. His job was to maintain the flow of time and space, notable for stopping the chaotic B1Q64 Incident and aiding in the Big Crystal Incident. In the real world, he was also noteworthy for being one of Xbox's earliest mascots prior to Master Chief being preferred. By the time of the Disney Empire's formation, Blinx was considered by Mickey for a soft reboot or continuation but was ultimately rejected and slated for termination. In spite of the Time Sweepers' efforts, they were overrun by the Enforcers and either killed or scattered across the Disneyverse. Blinx, however, was able to escape the attack and has since been one of Oswald's closest allies, helping him gather enough forces to form The Underground resistance against the new regime. He is both the first game-related and resistance-associated character to encounter Max in the Disneyverse and serves as his and Dust's partner for a majority of the crossover until the end when the timeline is restored. He now resides on Falana with Dust and returns in a starring role in Dust and the Sweeper where the pair travel the land to find the missing Time Sweepers.

## Appearance

Blinx is an anthropomorphic red-orange cat-sith (a Celtic fairy) with white stripes on his fur, a blue jacket, red shorts, white gloves, and white steel toed boots. In the games, his jacket has a high neck piece and his eyes are Xbox green, while in Dark Disney he wears a normal jacket and his eyes are yellow. When he's casual, he has on a white T-shirt.

## Personality

Originally in the games, Blinx was a highly committed worker at the Time Factory, risking his life to save a world despite everyone claiming it to be doomed. He generally has a positive outlook on life, though admits to being easily swoon over by cute girls, hence why he ended up thwarting the Tom Tom Gang in the B1Q64 incident. Blinx was a motivator, and a leader with a laid-back attitude according to his peers; only driven more seriously if the situation becomes dire, such as when he was called away from an invasion in the second game.

By the time of Dark Disney, many of Blinx's traits are still there, but his demeanor had changed drastically, likely due to the circumstances over the years. He now sports a thick New-York accent with what can only be described as "Permanent Sass," while maintaining his confidence from previous titles. He is typically friendly towards most but gets easily annoyed with Barbara or Luz if they ramble for too long (surprisingly going against his love of girls). He is fully aware of how dark much of their missions are, not hesitating to bluntly state it. However, he continues to perform his work diligently. Contrary to his dislike of violence and the cold in the games, Blinx coldly shows no hesitation when it comes to killing the Enforcers, though he does express disappointment when he believes there's no other option.

## Biography

### Blinx the Time Sweeper

Blinx started out as a young, wide-eyed Time Sweeper born at the Time Factory who was part of the Aniki Team, albeit with a low rank. In Dark Disney, Blinx would explain to Max that not much happened around this time to him personally apart from his job and only a handful of activities whenever he had a break. His time to shine came when the B1Q64 Incident occurred in which the Tom Tom Gang, a rival organization to the Time Factory, overtook the planet and held its princess hostage. Infatuated, Blinx immediately warped to the world despite the protest of his superiors and the retreat of other Time Sweepers from that area, leading to him going on a one-man mission to clear the glitches of time and space and defeat the gang. Before he could reach Princess Lena, Blinx had to face the final Time Monster, Chronohorn, which utilized the last of the Time Crystals used to disrupt the flow of history. Defeating it led to the Tom Tom Gang retreating and the Princess and world were saved, clear of all glitches and interference with its history. Although he was still interested in Lena, Blinx stayed committed to his job and returned to the Time Factory after making sure she and her home were safe. He was then met by cheers from the entire facility and ranked up for his heroism.

Sometime later, Blinx would form his own squad and participate in the Big Crystal Incident, albeit in a much smaller role than before. He could first be seen defending the factory against the Tom Tom Gang in their efforts to steal from the facility. He was also approached to enter the Ruins of Time, which was said to be too dangerous for anyone to be in. Opposite of what superiors told him in the first game, he would instead encourage the player on a job well done at the start and tell you not to give up.

### Underground Formation

Unlike the original multiverse introduced in the Toon Wars, Blinx did not go on loop after the second game was completed and kept defending different worlds in the "Gameverse" as he calls it. It was around this period where the Time Sweepers got directly involved with history itself when the new Disney Regime was being formed. Mickey Mouse became aware of Blinx through real-world ties to Microsoft and sought to buy out the Time Factory; potentially rebooting it to meet his standards. But upon second thoughts, he realized they were less known than *Halo* or other titles on any Xbox system, prompting him to task newly christened Grand Admiral Hopps with destroying the factory itself. Even though they were stationed in an area outside of time, Judy managed to find a way to reach them and with her came the largest army both the Sweepers and the Tom Tom Gang had ever seen. Blinx was deployed to Castle Disney before the invasion could happen to try and apprehend Mickey and eventually fix the flow of time. But when he and his squad were overwhelmed by even more forces, the Time Factory was destroyed along with all its inhabitants. Any being who was sent out for the mission were lost on many worlds and likely brainwashed by the Unification Wave, which not only brainwashed entire societies into becoming loyal to the regime, but also prevented beings from using any means of traveling or controlling the flow of time. This meant that Blinx could no longer use his Sweeper properly and would have to rely on a modded firearms version of it in order to survive.

With his squad executed, Blinx was set for termination along with them until the arrival of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who was secretly forming a resistance against Mickey. He falsely told his friends that he'd be taking Blinx to the Prison Yards where he'd be thrown out and enslaved along with all other beings unfit for the Disney Empire. Grateful, Blinx immediately allied with Oswald, intent on ending the regime and destroy Elysian; the engine that locked the flow of time and corrupted each world. His first mission with the Underground was when he was sent out to world E4T65/Falana (the world *Dust: An Elysian Tail* takes place in) to gather any survivors of the Enforcers' invasion. And like him, Dust was the only known survivor but was gruesomely wounded, having lost an eye and suffered major blows to vital parts of his body. Though he was shaken by the events of his game and the regime's grip on reality, Dust quickly got along with Blinx and became close friends with him during and after the repairing procedure. Blinx is also the only other being he'd speak and show his face to from then on (apart from his sword, Ahrah).

### Dark Disney

Blinx first encounters Max at the ruins of Toon City, greeting him when he wanders aimlessly around the abandoned city. He befriends him and introduces him to Oswald, leader of the Underground, and his small group overlooking Disney's capital across the river. Blinx also touches on his duty as a Time Sweeper and explains how the Unification Wave, powered by the Elysian Engine (Elysium for short), prevents him from using his Sweeper to alter history. A demonstration of this prevention causes Max to vomit, which Blinx says is fairly common when a Sweeper device fails.

When the Enforcers began to search the area for the whereabouts of Max, Oswald's crew attempt to escape through a hidden passageway but are intercepted by Thor, Captain America, and a Helicarrier. Max is nearly abducted, forcing Blinx and the others to stage a hasty rescue operation, leading to a huge firefight aboard the cruiser. With the Gumball Soul Retriever obtained by Dead End for Max to access, the boy uses it to even the odds and begin to make their escape proper using one of the Quinjets piloted by Batgirl. However, when Thor attempts to kill both Blinx and Dust with his battleaxe, Max pushes the two out of the way and accidentally kills the Thunder God. Although Max is clearly shaken, Blinx calms him down, making sure he rests on the way to the Underground headquarters.

The next day, Blinx tags alongside Max on his first mission to destroy the Pumping Station in what remains of Bikini Bottom. He and Dust took point against the Stormtroopers while Max remained in the back guarding from the rear to practice using his Soul Retriever. When the mission was a success, in spite of the run ins they had with the practical countermeasures of the station, Blinx was sure to congratulate him and returns again for their second assignment after playing a basketball game with him and Scud. There, he also admits his love of girls and gives Max useful advice. On their next assignment, they disable the Phantom Harvester in the ruins of Amity Park, bringing down the Mad Doctor's operations to free the lost souls of the Disneyverse. But in the process, the mistreated spirits merge into the Necroblot, angrily lashing out at the team sent to save them and killing the Mad Doctor. Blinx along with Carol shoot explosives at the creature to separate the creature and gives Max and Necro King the last dynamite stick to explode it from the inside.

Following several more successful supply runs, Blinx was among those in the attack on Cybertron meant to disable the Enforcers' main shipyard. However, he wouldn't accompany Max until a few days later when Yakko and Oswald assigned much of the Underground's fighters to stage an assault on the Prison Yards centered in Heartforde. Before the mission begins, Max asks Blinx about how he became part of the resistance, giving him the chance to tell his full story. He also admits his love of chicks was only part of his desire to settle down as he rarely had a chance to as a Time Sweeper. Although his job lets him alter and correct points in time, clearing glitches from them, Blinx confesses he can't predict what will happen to everyone besides himself, Max, and Dust as there are so many worlds and continuities with thousands of variables unique to them that could be subject to change should they choose to correct the timeline. During the mission, Blinx and Dust stick close to Max through the housing area of Summer Camp Island, not only recovering an extra jacket but also finding the entrance to Heartforde still hidden in Susie's cabin. While Dust keeps all the Stormtroopers at the Prison Yards focused on him, Blinx and Max head to the cell blocks to free the prisoners, splitting up into two teams to escort them to safety. Though it pains him to see the many neglected characters from all kinds of media in this malnourished state, Blinx continues to have faith that they'll succeed. However, his optimism is cut short when those among him combust from an internal time bomb injected into them, almost killing him and Max. This signals to Judy Hopp's forces that its time to send the full brunt of Disney's empire on the Underground while a majority of them are still in the Prison Yards. Almost half the resistance is either killed or captured in the attack, but Blinx continues to fight back, going on to destroying the signal jammer preventing everyone's escape. This, however, led to an ambush where Commander Cody and his units confronted the Time Sweeper and began to fire upon him. Blinx is almost killed from taking too many hits to the point where he collapses from his injuries only to be rescued by Max, Dust, and Starscream just in time before Cody could finish him. On the way back to base, Blinx begins to lose blood fast, forcing Toriel to intervene to save him with Max's help using energy from the Gumball Soul Retriever. This successfully revives Blinx but leaves him in a state where he is unable to fight for sometime. Seeing him nearly killed in such a gruesome manner and how confused Blinx was after being healed (along with other atrocities by the regime) shocks the Underground's leaders so much that they temporarily pull the plug on the organization until a later time, hoping to gather their strength after a while.

Around this time, Max and a select group of fighters continued their own missions against the regime to even the odds, taking out the Clone Trooper base on Pure Heart and planning to make crucial raids on smaller worlds before locating the last Soul Retriever sat in Etheria. Blinx, still in recovery, continues to look after Max and Dust from the headquarters, giving advice for their missions and explaining more about his past, including the origins of his and Dust's friendship. Eventually, following the defeat of Judy Hopps on Eitheria, Blinx returned to action, now wielding a modified Sweeper. He and Dust are tasked with rescuing Della and the other prisoners in the castle, pretending to be placed in custody by Oswald. When freed, they make their way through the troop filled corridors of the castle, eventually encountering Goofy along with the Keyblade Wielders. At first, both Dust and Blinx are given a run for their money despite their abilities. But when Dust drops Ahrah and Blinx catches him, he uses the sword and his Sweeper to tear apart his opponents, taking out almost everyone in the room while being ultra focused. After the intense battle both outside and within the manor, the duo make it upstairs to the throne room to discover that Mickey was under the influence of Black Hat for decades, and the villain intends on reaching a level of godhood similar to what Bimm was by using Max's data to unlock all the Toonverse's technology. With Blinx's help, Max along with a few others confronted Black Hat at Elysium, unlocking the machine to free Bimm's body and resurrect her. She kills the supervillain, then unlocks time and space to send everyone back to the period before Black Hat could launch to Disney, using Blinx's Sweeper as an engine. While Blinx and Dust disabled his ship's hyperdrive, Max defeated Black Hat aboard his cruiser's bridge, destroying the flagship and preventing the dark future.

Because the Time Factory was destroyed and all the Time Sweepers were scattered across time and space, Blinx decided to settle down on Falana with Dust, having nowhere else to go. This didn't 't bother him too much since he always hoped to live somewhere other than the factory and enjoy life outside without much technology, having been bombarded by advertisements and paywalls one too many times. He thanks Max for his help and says to let him know if he ever needs him.

### Life on Falana

Blinx, like Dust, decided to move to Aurora Village and settled down fairly well after a few days. But his friend's return came with a caveat. Since Gaius' death at Everdawn Basin, remnants of his forces led by Commander Criteous were spreading around Falana in hopes of continuing the war from within. Their biggest target was Dust and by extension, Fidget and anyone else associated with the Mithrarin. However, one such scheme was not met by Dust but instead Blinx, catching a small group of remnant soldiers off guard. They attempted to attack Mudpot and only got so far as the outskirts when the Time Sweeper ambushed them. This defense and more led to the remnant telling stories about a mysterious being from the stars working with Dust, explaining how he was able to survive the siege of Everdawn. Ignoring their many warnings, Criteous continued to send his men out for revenge against the Mithrarin for Gaius' death. But a majority of his attempts were met by him and Blinx to the point where the citizens of Falana started to join them. Around this period, Blinx also became attached to Dust/Jin's sister, Ginger, and started developing a close relationship to her. Soon after meeting each other for the first time, they began dating, fulfilling Blinx's dream of getting with a hot woman.

### Dust and the Sweeper

One morning, Blinx along with Fidget assist Dust to put a final stop to the Gaius Remnant by setting up a trap laid out at the entrance of Aurora Village. With Blinx hiding in the background, he uses his Sweeper to frequently reset Dust each time he's gunned down by Commander Criteous' turbo cannons, letting them waste their ammo on him before the Commander and his guards are drawn out. Once done, Fidget sets off a fuse underneath the bridge to completely dismantle the remnant from below, while Blinx comes in to aid Dust in his duel with Criteous. This marks the first time he's ever seen the Time Sweeper in action, not realizing his capabilities against his sentinel guards before engaging in a three-person brawl. When Dust is downed and Blinx's Sweeper is blown out his hands, Ahrah is wisped over to him, allowing the Cat-Sith to best Criteous and give Fidget enough time to grab the Sweeper and use it to freeze the Commander. All seemed well until the arrival of a massive robot, which after a struggle, was quickly destroyed by Dust and Blinx. Upon investigation, it's revealed the parts originate from an Advanced Region of the world, and that it was built using Time Sweeper technology, implying the Cat-Sith are on-world.

Before they journey to the Advanced Regions, they pay a visit to Mordecai's shop and learn that he's going to close down soon to fund the reconstruction of the many ruined lands from the Gaius War. Ahrah also informs Fale that there could be potential finds for the other Blades of Elysium, which even Blinx is potentially worthy of. Though Dust worries over having Haley and Ginger involved with their mission, Blinx assures him they'll be alright while Fidget goes on a date with Ori. To reach the other regions, Blinx shows Dust the completed Firebat; a modified bomber upgraded by Haley with help from Blinx himself. But before they go, Colleen and Corbin visit them and get updated in the event that anyone asks for their whereabouts. They also inform them that their original caretaker, Gianni, hasn't been seen because he's fled town without a trace around the time of Blinx's arrival on Falana. In addition to the two kids now suddenly being adults, even Elder Gray Eye's memories of certain events of the past have been scrambled in regards to knowledge about the Cat-Sith's arrival, implying there's been tampering with the timeline.

## Abilities

* Sweeper Vacuum
	+ Rewind
	+ Fast Forward
	+ Record - Blinx could originally record himself performing a move to spawn a copy of himself for a few seconds before it fades. However, this ability was lost when his Sweeper had to be modified
	+ Pause
* Cat Reflexes
* Skills in Sports (Soccer, Football, and Basketball)
* Sword-bearing

## Stats

Unlike Max, Dust, or much of the cast of Dark Disney, Blinx is best known not for his strength and cat-like speeds, but his proficiency in Sweeper combat and high endurance. While he's rarely seen throwing a punch or kick, he's able to outmaneuver and outmatch a lot of his foes in extremely crowded situations as seen in Blinx 2 and his fight aboard a helicarrier. But his endurance was most notable when he was shot and nearly killed by a squad of elite Clone Troopers led by Commander Cody. Although he needed immediate healing within an inch of his life, he returned a few chapters later fighting harder than he has before. When he briefly used Ahrah, however, it was the first time his acrobatics and speed were truly put on display as he began to move faster than Dust and outmatch all of his opponents at once.

## Trivia

* Of all characters altered for Dark Disney, Blinx is perhaps the most developed, heavily rescripting him to give him more of an edge in personality that would help him stand out among the rest of the cast.
	+ Inspiration for his Brooklyn accent and speech patterns came from Dave Miller from the fan series, Dayshift at Freddy's, evident by Blinx using the word "Sportsy" or the phrase "Old Sport". Some lines were also inspired by Joey Wheeler from both the *Yu Gi Oh* anime and its abridged parody.
	+ This change was implemented mostly because Frozarburst thought Blinx sounded good with a New York accent and because Max had a similar, mostly innocent and sweet personality. An in-universe explanation was that his accent was carried over from one of his squad members in an earlier mission after the Big Crystal Incident.
* Blinx likes comedy films
* Blinx is good at soccer juggling and football. In Dark Disney, he is also seen playing basketball
* Blinx was based on a Cat-Sith, a type of Celtic Fairy. According to him, it's more masculine than it sounds
* Oddly enough when wielding Ahrah, Blinx's body has no physical changes unlike most versions of Dust or other characters from different fan works who've done it before.
	+ He also explains in Dust and the Sweeper that much of the time, he's letting Ahrah take control since he isn't as proficient at sword-wielding as Dust.
* Most, if not all the information on the Blinx series and character comes from the Blinx the Time Sweeper Fansite created by Nipchipcookies.