IndiKid

The things he carries — tokens and their connections

Pants, an ankle-length sleeveless hooded coat, glasses, a staff, and heavy wrist shackles give IndiKid a different outline. Small tokens carry traces of the other Hues.

• Red

  • A leather strap that can extend into a whip.

• Orange

  • An orange cloth/leather-like coin pouch carrying damaged or depowered rings from Gaze’s collection. The pouch stays closed; the connection comes from the pouch itself and supplies Gaze’s full terminal interface.

• Yellow

  • A single solid link and spike attached to the cuff. When active, the physical token glows yellow without changing form.

• Green

  • An old chest symbol given to him by Aya: metal through which her Green life energy once passed. It clips at his belt like a badge beneath the coat; someone else may see only the glow when he uses it. It works through that lived connection, not simply because it is green.

• Violet

  • A small Star Sapphire crystal shard, distinct from Specs’ larger quartz point. It can grow crystals into a wall to use as a ladder without a full Slide into StarS. The crystals remain until moved or destroyed, rather than behaving like temporary ordinary constructs.

Token channeling does less than channeling a nearby Lantern ring, but it allows quick combinations. A smaller power with the right property can do the job without turning the whole person into that Hue.

A vial of water from the Blue Central Battery did not work as a Blue token. Blue kept it. With Blue easy to slide into and its fuller powers dependent on active Green, IndiKid does not need to make the vial work.

The large construct, and its cost

In a major effort, IndiKid surrounds himself with a form reflecting the Indigo Entity, especially its tentacular arms. Those arms channel the energies of the tokens. Several colors can be used rapidly, together, and in ways that let one effect support another.

That versatility has a cost. The effort wipes him out; afterward, Specs may need days alone in a dark room. The large construct is not an effortless substitute for learning every other power.

The combination also puts an answer in front of him before he recognizes it. Multiple lights acting together point toward White. Gaze’s eventual fury at missing the clue belongs to the same mind that has already demonstrated it.

Intimacy, service, and words

IndiKid is the most bi-curious of the familiar Hues. His empathy can make another person’s pleasure part of his own experience, including a shared or supporting role rather than being the center of attention.

That is not uncomplicated bliss. Desire, self-dislike, service, and the hurt that can accompany a powerful connection can all be present. “I’m good in charge, but I’m great at serving” describes a preference, not an absence of agency.

Green can help him speak through it. An earpiece connects him to Ring and gives him a reminder to focus and Will himself toward communication. Feeling another person’s experience and telling that person what he means remain different tasks.

The route in, and learning from Halo

A direct Specs-to-IndiKid spell has not been clearly revealed. He reaches Indigo through another Hue, with Blue the easiest starting point. That route also matters to Vi0ut, who emerges through IndiKid rather than simply replacing him at will.

IndiKid can act on Compassion before fully understanding the technique. When Mogo needs help, he gets himself and Walker there instinctively.

Halo later helps him understand and control his own Indigo teleportation. He learns from her without becoming a user of her light. The result is another way to connect people—and a trip to bring Halo and Forager to Aya.

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