Monday, 10 November 2014

Blink



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Blink also known as Clarice Ferguson.
Clarice Ferguson was a timid, scared child who lived in the fear of her mutant abilities ever since her power first manifested, which caused the hurt of someone close to her.
She decided to never use her powers again since.
However, when the Phalanx attacked Earth, they captured many "neomutants" (later known as the team "Generation X"), including Clarice to experiment on them in order to figure out how they could absorb mutants into their collective existence.
These neomutants were freed from their prison with the help of a rescue team made up of Banshee, Synch, Jubilee, Emma Frost, and Sabretooth.
When thay attacked by a Phalanx intelligence known as Harvest, Clarice decide to defeat him by herself.
Only Clarice and Banshee could stop Harvest, she telepoted away half of the imprisoned ship.
With her space-altering powers, she "distorted" the villain, but the portal swallowed herself as well, killing them both.
Because of her sacrifice, the remaining captives were set free and became the X-Men junior team Generation X.
Recently, Blink was rescued and recruited by Selene, to form the Inner Circle.
An alternate version of Blink was born into the nightmarish reality known as the Age of Apocalypse and became a founding member of the Exiles.


Dark Reign
When Hercules travels to the Underworld, Blink is among the dead characters seen in Erebus gambling for their resurrection.
Unlike the others, Blink just stands there watching them gamble.

Necrosha
Before the Necrosha event, Selene begins to gather her new Inner Circle made up of mutants with death-related powers.
She took a ship to the spot where Blink had fought Harvest and reaching her hand into the air, her hand soon disappeared and Blink was then pulled out of nowhere, still wearing the same clothes that the Phalanx had wrapped her in.
Blink had actually been stranded in another realm after the fight, where she remained in a not-quite-dead state suffering in agony.
After healing her, Selene tells Blink that she's been looking for her for a while and could hear her crying out for help.
Selene also tells her that Emma Frost could hear her as well but she did nothing and left her behind saying she was too dangerous to save.
Selene convinces her to join her by claiming to be able to put an end to her cycle of pain and betrayal.
Selene and Blink go to New Orleans where she kills a man, using her powers to split him into numerous fragments and takes his mansion as a new base, then at her birthplace, then to Rome and New York where they slaughter the New York branch of the Hellfire Club.
She teleports Selene's forces to Utopia where they attack the X-Men before teleporting back to their Queen.
When Selene let her Inner Circle to retrieve the mystical knife to complete her ritual, Blink teleports them onto Utopia.
During the fight, Blink uses her powers to obliterate Archangel's wings.
Then she teleports to Genosha with a captured Warpath after finding the knife.
During the final fight, Blink evades Domino's shots, using her teleporting abilities to out-maneuver her.
But she fails to notice the Vanisher, who plucks Blink back out of her teleports.
He then holds her while Archangel slashes her with his wings, taking revenge for her earlier assault.
During Selene's downfall, Blink flees, taking the heavily wounded Mortis with her.

To Serve and Protect
After the Necrosha event; Emma Frost and a small team of X-Men consisting  of Blindfold, Pixie, Husk, Warpath and former Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange track down Blink in Eastern Europe when she's attempting to resurrect Selene.
After a battle, Blindfold predicts that Blink is going to commit suicide but is stopped by Emma who manages to help her realize Selene's lie.
Doctor Strange steps in and casts a spell which successfully purges her of Selene's  influence.
Blink breaks down because of the remorse feeling and guilt for killing for Selene,  and Emma tries to reassure her it wasn't her fault and offers her a place with the X-Men.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Blink teleports off claiming she can't take this and she is last seen looking out into the sunrise in San Francisco.

Regenesis
During the Schism event Cyclops command Moonstar and the New Mutants to search for Blink and bring her home.
Blink had been seen saving people from many disasters.
The team discover that Blink is after a band who were controlled by part of an extraterrestrial ship that aims to generate chaos energy to call for help.
The team stop the band and throw the ship to space.
Dani Moonstar later tells Cyclops she had offered Blink a choice, to come and join the mutants in Utopia or the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
Blink chooses Wolverine's side and goes to Westchester.
However, she was not seen there until recently.
She joins the New Mutants on a mission related to their first encounter and instead of following her own desire to travel across the world with her powers and the New Mutants team even joined her on vacation to Madripoor after their battle with Birdbrain.

Ancestry
In the Apocalypse Vs Dracula mini series written by Frank Tieri, it is revealed that in London, 1897 Apocalypse's genetic descendants called the Clan Akkaba had a member called Frederick Slade. Slade was characterized with pink hair and eyes that were tinted green, and he had the ability to teleport himself, others, and selected objects with a 'blink' effect. In the hope that the Clan Akkaba would still continue, Apocalypse's servant Ozymandias, made sure that Frederick would sire a child with a woman known as Miss Ferguson. Given the similarity in powers and allusions made within the mini series, it is assumed that Clarice Ferguson/Blink is a descendant of the 19th Century Frederick Slade and Miss Ferguson and therefore a descendant of Apocalypse.
Slade showed up still alive, but elderly in an issue of New Excalibur and leading a new Clan Akkaba along with Ozymandias.

Powers and abilities
Blink has the ability to teleport herself and others at will even large masses, including sizable groups of people.
She can also use her powers by teleporting only parts of objects to destroy it.
She can also open portals that replace projectiles or even in front enemies.
Blink's portals are typically pink and accompanied with a "Blink" sound.
Blink also has lilac skin, dark pink hair, pointed ears and pupil-less green eyes.
This was a change in Exiles: both Ultimate Marvel and Age of Apocalypse Blink has white eyes with a blue sheen.
She has pink marks across her face which are not decorations or tattoos, they were present from birth.

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