Indigo
| Name | Indigo |
| Gender | Female |
| Homeworld | Aperture Labs |
| Class | Junior |
| Nut | Not |
| Totem | none |
| Smarts | 8 |
| Bod/Feet | 5 |
| RWP | 6 |
| Luck | 5 |
| Drive | 2 |
| Looks | 5 |
| Cool | 4 |
| Bonk | 2 |
| Powers | Telepathy Teleportation (Xen relay - unlimited) Communication Link (with clones) Psionic Defenses |
| Clusters | Leadership +3 Teleport Unerringly +1 |
| Skills | Research +2 Infiltration (physical) +3 Transfer Information Quickly +3 |
| Knacks | Interspecies Cooperation +3 |
| 1 | E/A Lit / Leland |
| 2 | Current Affairs / Talshoy |
| 3 | Super Team Building / Ultra |
| 4 | Exotic Team Sports / Staff |
| 5 | Research for Genetic Engineering / Shy |
| 6 | Chaos Geometry / Caroline |
| 7 | Multiplanar History / Prescott |
| 8 | You And Your Clone / Canby |
Pets: Essence (f) |
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| Dragon | Anwen |
| desc | Female Gold-ruby Semi-bipedal / Medium, 11' shoulder, 15' standing / 46' long, 75' wingspan Telepathy (all), Teleport, Verbal Speech, Fire Magic, Warmth (local/object), Cheer (emotion control) Ryslen Flurry/Jewelcrest Dragon mutt, paw feet, scale belly, 'gem' segmented crest along full spine, bare tail, pseudo-feathered wings with claws Yetinanra (Flurry03 White Serath & Blue-White Samtairadanth) / Ahdrez |
| From | Healing Den Red and Green Winter |
| Family | Indred Paveh son with Darkhanis Paveh (RY2) Rowena Jankowski daughter with Redd Jankowski (RY5) |
She definitely was the undisputed leader of the girls. Indigo took charge and gained steam as she got her sisters interested in each of their studies. Indigo herself loved Carramba from the moment they stepped onto its grassy front lawn. There were plenty of minds around - thousands, if she could trust her other senses. This was more people than the group of girls had even imagined could be together in one place.
Indigo let the others explore, while she took her own tasks to heart. The group of sisters would have to learn plenty, in a reasonably short time. Who knew how long their Earth had before the Combine entirely killed it? But for the time being, the Vortigaunts had things under control, and Freeman and Alyx and her father's group would always be on the cutting edge of whatever they planned. Indigo didn't want to take credit for freeing everyone - she had only moved through space to release the Vortigaunts from their prisons and slave cells, and gave them a beacon to return to Earth to the rest of their kin.
Through those brief encounters in the first few months of her life, Indigo saw things that she never shared with her clone sisters. She asked their father to remove the pain of seeing a Vortigaunt Combine - merely a husk, a puppet with a skin in the shape of a creature she knew should have had the universe behind its multiple eyes... Nothing was there. Nothing. It literally was a flesh puppet wearing the black synth armor and working a generator station for the Combine homeworld...
She didn't dare show something like that to her sisters, not because she thought they would be offended or afraid, but because she didn't want to share her terror of it. Only Ruby had more intense telepathic contact with anyone, and only Ruby could see the bleak, desperate horror of her darker sisters' experience in the back of Indigo's mind. It was always there, that memory of encountering the Vort, but an elderly Vortigaunt who arrived with the other slaves from that world removed the pain and emotional attachment.
'Father' (since he had a name but never shared it, they also only referred to him as Father) disapproved of their contact with the Vortigaunts, but then he was always at odds with those who didn't play by the same rules he did. That included Indigo and the others, but he was still on their side, still attempting to combat the universe's worst enemy. In a way, Indigo knew that he appreciated them, perhaps even truly loved them. But he couldn't show that, not while people were watching. His business contacts made Indigo angry. They had even more power over time and space than he did, certainly more than she and her sisters did. But they did nothing. They sat and watched, playing their chess game over many worlds and billions of lives.
'Mother' - GLaDOS - could never really know the extent of the girls powers, so Indigo made sure that her sisters didn't slip and tell her. She could be very persuasive. Indigo was positive that she was curious about the rest of the universe, and Amethyst was sensitive to GLaDOS's odd requests for information. Indigo and Amethyst had a good long conversation about what they could and couldn't afford to let Mother know. Until they'd returned with all their skills, and gotten a better grip over the Combine, she would have to remain in the dark and solely upon the Earth.
Auntie ARRISA on the other hand was a superb friend. Taller than the sisters and elegant, yet a bit scary with that perma-smirk on her plastic face, she was truly sentient, truly unique in the universe - a machine, whose powers of mental energy were so strong that she could breech the minds of organic life! It was she who led the sisters to Paragon, but they remained there only a few scant hours. Then they were off to Carramba with a special dorm floor dedicated to them in the Big Tower (an exclusive, and apparently expensive housing unit on campus), and registered for classes.
Indigo knew her strengths, and played to them when choosing classes. Earth/Alien Literature would come in handy - because it gave two sides of the perspectives she needed. What one culture might find offensive was another's worship. A single event documented by two warring factions gave insight to the daily workings and the political structure of each. Obviously, Current Affairs helped flesh out what large numbers of people would do in certain situations - and the instructor, Dominique Talshoy, was not only a dragon rider but a revolutionary herself. Indigo chose her as her mentor, and in many ways Indigo would become Talshoy's equal in time.
Multiplanar History was an enjoyable romp through different universes, Indigo excelled at remembering places and events - things which confounded some students, like a "ten minute war" that lasted fifteen months on another dimension... Time dilation and the variety of differences between universes and their similarities were things which Indigo liked to philosophize about. She also liked the You And Your Clone class a lot because, as was obvious, most of the students as well as the instructor were clones themselves, or had them. It was nice to know that they weren't completely unique in that regard. (Heck, that one boy - Skie? He was handsome and mysterious and highly telepathic himself - and with no fewer than 11 clones on this and other worlds, wouldn't he make a nice partner for some of the sisters?)
Since she did scheme plenty, Indigo realized that once their task was done, or they were as done with it as they could get, she and her sisters would make the foundation of a new breed of Humans. Thus, her Research Tactics For Genetic Engineering Resources class was a very practical 'job choice' class. She learned of different collection devices for genetic materials, what did and did not count as a 'sample', and more importantly, who to contact when she wanted to start making her own projects.
Chaos Geometry was a breeze, though not her favorite class. It was something she decided to look into since she knew she could head across dimensions, and what that did to those dimensions was indeed Chaos. Of course, another clone, Caroline, taught it. Indigo thought that was hilarious and cool - the other Caroline clones taught such a bizarre variety of classes here she was half tempted to try taking all of them.
And that left the two highly physical and demanding classes to round out her schedule: Team Building and Exotic Team Sports. They were natural for her, Indigo had a feel for just who could do any given thing for a team. Whenever she was tested, in general, whatever group she was with scored very well. Even other 'leader' types would defer to her, she was just 'like that'. And she loved it, too.
Indigo was not an egocentric young woman (like Crimson or Ruby), but she also wasn't truly humble. Generous to an absolute fault, and willing to die for her cause or her sisters, Indigo had put herself in danger many times. Cementing her relationship with the Vortigaunts, as they healed her from one particularly bad fight, she considers those who are willing to aid their cause to be worthy of the highest respect.
On the other hand, her flippant attitude toward Father's employers might get her into considerable danger as well. But only time will tell how she responds to that. She certainly isn't going to change that attitude, not even after a good couple years at Carramba.
***
If ever there was a girl who should be on a Queen dragon, someone had said, Indigo was probably it. Though at the time she wasn't sure what that meant, when the sisters attended a large Dragonry seminar she found out.
"Do they come in other colors?" Was what she asked, about the grand and elegant looking Pernese gold - and the gold's rider laughed musically. Maybe on other worlds... so perhaps there would be a nice, big dragon in Indigo's future.
