Riya Dashti, also known as Blindstrike, is a transfer student at the Academy for Future Leadership. Jake Armstrong's unrequited crush, who becomes a friend of him, Ricardo Perez and Nathan Park. Moonlights as Blindstrike, a ninja who helps Dr. C with her plans to prevent Jonathan Rook from gaining total control of Charter City. She is voiced by Nazneen Contractor.
Physical Appearance[]
School Uniform[]
He wears a white shirt inside and a blue coat on top with a loose tie.
Superhero Costume[]
He wears a green suit with the symbols of the flex fighters in the chest.
Civilian Outfits[]
Personality[]
Riya enjoys skateboarding, zombie movies and bashing on normal "boring" things, like dances and field trips. When Jake asked her to the dance, she said she was initially gonna say no, but agreed to it the next day. But when Jake sent Ricardo to pick her up and buy him some time she ended up spending the evening talking and laughing about zombie movies with Ricardo when Jake couldn't make it.
She seems to tend to keep things to herself, as was evident when she tried, but ultimately failed, to talk to Ricardo, when he said he was busy dealing with his own things she said: "And this is why I don't open up to people..."
As Blindstrike, she's extremely agile and strong and must have a sharp wit about her, as she's seen to be able to handle all three of The Flex Fighters on a regular basis. Calm and quiet, Blindstrike never says a word to her enemies. She prefers to work alone both on and off the battlefield, only accepting help either begrudgingly, or in emergencies.
Abilities & Equipment[]
Blindstrike doesn't seem to have any superpowers, but rather a super-powered suit with large amounts of Flexarium swords and weapons. Topped with her agility and quick thinking, she's nearly unstoppable.
Blindstrike's armor is made of an extremely resistant material and equipped with Flexarium tools what can combine to form different weapons and tools
- Hidden swords: blades in her gauntlets
- Hidden blades in feet
- Hidden talons in feet
- Detachable Escrima sticks - can be combined into a full-sized Bo staff, which has a retractable hook on top, presumably for climbing
- Hacking plug in right gauntlet
- Grappling hook in both gauntlets
- Knockout gas
- Shurikens
- Axes
- Climbing claws: Retractile claws in her shoes (two in the front, one in the heel), help her to maintain stability in unstable soil.
- Flexarium Spray: Used like a glue and seal with high resistance. She uses it in "Endgame" to fix her mask and in "Masters of Order" to seal a air duct.
- Small time bombs: Powerful, focused, able to stick to any surface and have in-built timers which allow her to get out of their small blast range.
Foldable skateboard. Folds in two.
Appearances[]
Notable Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Riya's Hindu first name translates to, "graceful", which aptly describes athletic feats she performs both as herself, and as Blindstrike.
- Riya has claimed partial credit for turning Jake and his friends into the Flex Fighters, when one mission exposed her to the Hyper-Flexarium chemical agent, then she accidentally spread it to her botany classmates, including the trio.
- Riya skateboards. Her skateboard is foldable.
- As Blindstrike, Riya doesn't speak with her mask on.
- Starting with "The Breakout", Blindstrike takes Malcolm Kane's spot in the intro (with Dr. C taking Rook's spot until the season two finale).
- After "The Breakout", Blindstrike caught The Freak Sisters robbing a bank, and one ending also had her catch Smokestack at the disco.
- Riya seems to consider Leadership Class her least favorite subject, judging from when she confessed to Jake that she sent a holographic Riya to attend it in her place.
- Blindstrike's action figure doesn't come with instructions on how to remove her mask, likely to help hide her face from kids who haven't yet finished season one.