Shouldn't Ves be able to recruit Design Spirits as Chosen?
Another option for chosen is to use the time portal to jump back and recruit beings like the Evolution King at his time of reincarnation.
Blinky knows that everything comes at a price, following the first law of thermodynamics; energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be converted from one form into another!
Will Ves finally remember about Ketis' use of Lufa's glow on Sharpie?? The statue might still be in the MTA's hands, but he can channel its glow himself, like the Everchanger did.
I suspect "Meditate four hours a day" mission is the perfect path for Binky. Expecially if he meditates in the high concentration of Metal energy in the System menu. It the essence of "cat" and "spiritual manipulation".