I got to draw Nyim for ArtFight twice, with characters from @contradicting-paradox and @cockyroaches

There I’ve set the stage

notes: for all those who want to write lantern corps stories and don’t know about all the lanterns, feel free to message me about them! 

black lanterns → death 

blue lanterns → hope 

gold lanterns → happiness 

Inktober 7, 2019 Prompt: Enchanted

The Indigo Tribe is a group of former psychopaths who are powered by compassion. Their indigo rings and staves help them be compassionate to others. They are very enigmatic and speak a language that can’t be translated. Being separated from their rings and staves makes them prone to backsliding, or causes them to revert to evil entirely. They have some healing capability proportional to the amount of compassion they feel towards the injured person. Healing someone causes them to see all of that person’s worst actions

I’ll admit that I’m kinda reaching and extrapolating with a few of these here. There are lessons that have been muddled due to some writers portraying the Indigo Tribe’s compassion as the result of brainwashing rather than genuine redemption. However, just because the portrayal is flawed doesn’t mean there isn’t value in the lessons about redemption that I wish they embodied better

Lessons:

Compassion can be learned, regardless of your natural empathy. You might just need a little more help than most to develop that skill

To the best of your ability, be considerate of the feelings of others

It’s okay to have limits on your ability to sympathize with others

No one is beyond redemption

Needing a little help to achieve redemption is okay

A past of evil does not invalidate the good you’re doing now

Hold tightly to the things that keep you stable

I think there’s a good artugment for most of these. I’m googling the colors nad I think he’d make a good Blue

After all, what’s Batman but the hope of a scared little kid, that someone would come and explain, and be strong?