Count Bleck's Father

"Lord Blumiere: Timpani! What did you do with her? I must see her! Blumiere's father: Still your tongue, Blumiere... Can't you see you've been duped by a dirty human? You have brought shame to my name...and to the entire Tribe of Darkness! Lord Blumiere: And so what if I did? That doesn't matter to me! She's my entire world! Blumiere's father: Well, then it will interest you to know...that she no longer resides in this world. Lord Blumiere: What... What do you mean by that?! Blumiere's father: This is the price those who resist their own fate must pay, my son. Lord Blumiere: She... No... It can't be so! Blumiere's father: Someday you will see, Son. Our kind and humans must never mix."

- Count Bleck's father to his son when the latter asked where Timpani had gone.

"Blumiere, my son, don't! Even your ancestors could not handle that dark book... If you open it...there's no telling what might happen!"

- Count Bleck's father when his son stole the Dark Prognosticus.

Count Bleck's father (or Blumiere's father) is a minor but pivotal antagonist in Super Paper Mario. He only appears in the post-chapter flashbacks, and his name is never revealed. He is responsible for Lord Blumiere's transformation into the nihilistic Count Bleck.

History
"Timpani, why? Why do you avoid me? Huh? You're crying! Why? Timpani, you must tell me what has happened! Oh no... Timpani, is my father behind this? Timpani... I..."

- Lord Blumiere to Timpani when the latter rejected him.

Count Bleck's father and his son named Blumiere were members of the Tribe of Darkness, a group that broke from the Tribe of Ancients after stealing the Dark Prognosticus to prevent its powers from being abused. It is implied that when he discovered his son fell in love with a human girl named Timpani, Count Bleck's father demanded by threats that she wouldn't get involved with his tribe. However, his attempt to tear the lovers apart failed, as they planned to marry each other at where they could be together.

When Timpani vanished before the plan could succeed, Blumiere confronted him for this, only for the latter to tell him coldly that he banished Timpani from their home dimension and that he believed it was a fate that his kind must never mix with mankind. Out of despair, Blumiere stole the Dark Prognosticus, which his father begged him not to open it. Renaming himself as Count Bleck, he destroyed his home dimension in revenge for his love, killing his father and wiping out his entire tribe in the process.

It is unclear about what happened to him and his home dimension after that, though Sammer's Kingdom are restored when the Pure Hearts destroy the Chaos Heart.

Personality
Count Bleck's father appears to be a serious, strict and authoritarian man, demanding his son to follow the tradition of his tribe not to marry someone outside of his tribe. His obsession with the blood purity made him uncaring about his son's happiness, as shown when he callously dismissed the love between Blumiere and Timpani as a shame on him and on his entire tribe. He has a deep, irrational contempt for mankind, as shown when he considered Timpani to be a "dirty" human who deceived his son into defecting from his tribe, even though Timpani in truth genuinely loved Blumiere.

In the end, this personality trait is what got himself killed because he ignored how precious Timpani was to his son - thus bringing him to the dark side.

Quotes
"Blumiere… What have you done? (Count Bleck: Silence! The first prophecy beckons. I will erase every inch...of this blasted world!) Blu-Blumiere! Don't do this! Blumiere!"

- Count Bleck's father's last words.