# Time — The Blue Bird character guide

> Time in The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Time

**First appearance:** 0004-v-the-kingdom-of-the-future

## Snapshot

The aged gatekeeper of the Kingdom of the Future, who counts the hours of unborn children and will not let a single soul arrive before its appointed dawn.

## Who they are

Mr. Time rules the Kingdom of the Future, where children wait to be born and every departure is measured to the second. He is stern, exacting, and unsentimental about his work, yet his authority rests on a tenderness he never shows: he guards the order that lets life unfold without chaos. When Tyltyl and Mytyl reach his domain, his ticking patience becomes the story's most quietly devastating test of whether wonder can survive a deadline.

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