Limestone 'Blinkie' Pie

* Current
* Filly

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

## Appearance

Blinkie Pie is a bluish-purple earth pony with a silver grey mane styled into a bob cut. She has an average-length tail and listless brownish-yellow eyes, which she usually has lowered to a glare. Her appearance closely resembles her look in her debut episode "The Cutie Mark Chronicles." Her cutie mark is a gold nugget.

## Personality

Blinkie Pie usually comes off as aggressive and rude, often scowling or growling and being ill-mannered when meeting new ponies. She is blunt and not afraid to say what others don't like or often doesn't think about the consequences of her words, thus seeming insensitive even if she has good intentions. She often bumps heads with her sisters or becomes skeptical of their plans because she wants things to go her way. However, she still follows their lead because she trusts and cares for them. In "The New Elements of Harmony," she is proclaimed by Pinkie to be the Element of Integrity.

Even though she's not vain, her father's lectures about all pretty mares being harlots made her believe she could never be nice-looking and, therefore, must be ugly. She has fully convinced herself so by adulthood and hence refuses to receive any compliments about her appearance. She is prone to jealousy of pretty mares and others' achievements, making her wish that horrible things would happen to them. She wants to think everypony, except for the bakers and herself, is beneath them. In given opportunities, she enjoys belittling other ponies and jeering or taunting them. She wants them to feel inferior to her and tries everything to make them feel terrible about themselves.

## Biography

### Backstory

Blinkie Pie was the third foal born to Cloudy Quartz and Igneous Rock and grew up with her sisters, Inkie and Pinkie, in a very strict and religious household. The sisters were raised to be hard-working, humble ponies of their community who followed traditional values. Their parents believed that children should only respect their parents and that familial love between a parent and a child wasn't necessary. As such, their methods of raising and teaching the sisters weren't always the most nurturing, and they weren't afraid of using physical discipline. Among the sisters, Blinkie internalized her familial beliefs the most and formed a belief that she could never be pretty.

After Pinkie got her cutie mark and started baking her "special" pastries, Blinkie and Inkie quickly discovered her secret but decided to join her in torturing, killing and baking ponies. They invented a number system that chose their next victim, whom they played with in the nearby cave and whose cupcakes they would sell to other townsponies. Out of dissatisfaction with their bland lifestyle, they saw the new hobby as a way to release their frustrations. Life on the rock farm became more bearable as the three sisters immensely bonded through baking, and they started caring for each other.

When Pinkie left for Ponyville, home life became more difficult. Inkie and Blinkie's mother became even stricter than in the past, enforcing more rules and inflicting more abuse. The sisters' favourite things were viciously destroyed, and Blinkie even had her pet lizard Peppo stomped to death right in front of her. During this period, Blinkie found the miser's hidden treasure and earned her cutie mark. Her beloved grandmother Rosie Quartz said it represented Blinkie's strong determination which is as valuable as gold. Unfortunately, the same event resulted in Rosie's passing in her sleep.

In adulthood, Inkie and Blinkie found their mother's secret cellar with a malnourished Minkie Pie inside. Claiming to be their sister, Minkie horrified them by revealing she had been trapped in the cellar for 20 years. The sisters quickly warmed up to her and kept her hidden in the cave, where they also taught Minkie to bake, which she became more than enthusiastic about. When Minkie was ready to reunite with her parents, the trio kidnapped Cloudy Quartz and Igneous Rock from their home and tortured them to death. Having baked new batch of cupcakes out of their parents, the Pie sisters decided to reunite with their youngest sister Pinkie Pie in Ponyville.

## Relationships

### Inkie, Pinkie, 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 the sisters started fully bonding through baking. After Pinkie left for Ponyville, Blinkie and Inkie became closer as Blinkie became emotional support to Inkie, who continued looking out for the other. Because they lived together the longest, they sometimes come across as very in tune with each other by thinking similarly and coming to similar conclusions. Overall, Blinkie respects her sisters - Pinkie for coming up with their baking business, Inkie for her natural leadership skills, and Minkie for having been able to endure so much pain.

Even though Blinkie cares for her sisters, she can still be quite harsh and provocative with them. Sometimes she goes out of her way to deliberately annoy and to get a reaction out of them. If one of them does something wrong, she likes playing Captain Hindsight - criticizes them with the benefit of hindsight although she did nothing to stop them. She can also be quite annoyed with Minkie, who she thinks is too slow of a learner and too goggle-eyed about the world.

### Apple Bloom, Derpy Hooves and Babs Seed

Blinkie Pie's relationship with other bakers isn't shown as much. Along with Inkie in the beginning, Blinkie was apprehensive about having Derpy and Apple Bloom be part of the baker team and underestimated them because of their appearances. However, she grew to accept and appreciate them as both Apple Bloom and the Derpy proved to know how to properly bake. In later stories, she particularly hangs around Apple Bloom, whose company she seems to enjoy the most and who reminds her of her younger self. When Babs Seed joins them, Blinkie is shown to love Babs' wicked and creative torture methods.

## Trivia

* Blinkie is heterosexual.
	+ She would hate any feminine partner who is prettier than her but she also wouldn't want an ugly partner. In a relationship, she would be controlling and would use her partner for selfish reasons.
* "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.
* In one comment, it is said Blinkie was born 9 months after Inkie.

## References

1. ↑ Comment by Reitanna Seishin. DeviantArt
2. ↑ The Sexual Orientations of the Bakers. Youtube
3. ↑ Comment by Reitanna Seishin. DeviantArt