Scruffy Smurf (Empath stories)

Dempsey is a Smurf character who is solely part of Vic George's series of EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf fanfiction stories. According to the story series, he is the father of Painter and Tidy, the former of whom inherited his love for garbage collecting and bad hygiene. Dempsey heavily spoke with a Brooklyn accent, and loves to pride himself in his work, often to the annoyance of his patient wife Fragrance who had to pick up after him and clean his laundry.

About 50 years later, he along with his wife succumbed to the same unknown disease that claimed the lives of all their fellow Smurfs except for Papa Smurf. Sloppy and Tidy were then left in the care of Papa Smurf along with 96 other young Smurfs their age.

Years later, during the events in the story "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", Dempsey supposedly came back from the dead to meet his grown-up sons. However, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and the Smurflings discover and reveal the truth that the "resurrected" Dempsey was just an illusion created by the Auld Lang Syne Spell that the evil witch, Chlorhydris, had cast upon the Smurfs.