Indykota thoughts bc I do actually want to yap. Or at least get through a starting point
these characters make me unbelievably emotional you don't even know
this is all about Dakota’s life and how its affecting the people around them despite how hard they try to prevent their curse from impacting anyone else. when they were young, they found this old witch jar— full of who knows what nasty ingredients— and removed the seal. an innocent mistake. how could they have possibly known any better. but soon after, they start experiencing really dangerous near-miss accidents and general misfortune. coincidences. they just become a very very unlucky kid
Theres no real pattern aside from just. hurting them or deeply inconveniencing their life but it can always be written off; someone hurt them. or it was an accident. or actually this time it was their fault. even if it WASN'T their fault and they KNOW it! Theres just a general sense of foreboding that blankets over their life..... and they just. get this feeling. they will die. Sooner than they should.
so naturally that doesn't do great things for a kids social life.. and Dakota is so SWEET AND KIND they're a DARLING. but they get labeled as a ‘Weird Kid’ and are mostly othered until they meet Indy. still young, they're probably no older than 12 when they meet one another, but Indy's the one that actually talks to them and interacts with them. over time they become inseparable bound at the hip in every other way but romantically really… it means so much to Dakota that there’s someone that doesn’t get weirded out by their strange disposition. No matter what happens, Indy refuses to run off. Anything that affects them both just makes Indy latch on harder.
Dakota needs Indy because they're someone stable among everything else that's constantly out to get them… and Indy is one of the few people that actually BELIEVES them bc they've paid close enough attention to not be able to call every accident just a coincidence. Just having SOMEONE believe them is enough for them to want to keep defending their life, even if they know it’s just kicking the can down the road.
Indy needs Dakota because they need to feel wanted and needed. protecting kota becomes the biggest part of life and probably would have become the Only Thing if Dakota would have let it. he absolutely adores her, and he thinks that if he keeps protecting Dakota that he can do it Forever
