#indigo lanterns

[htub]

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

Thanks for letting me draw your Indigos!! I had a great time making these 💜

[ragingbookdragon]

We should have a discussion on whether Jason would be a Red Lantern, an Indigo Lantern, or a Star Sapphire.

There I’ve set the stage

Discuss

[dont-be-so-shy]

canon lantern corps and their “emotions”

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 

green lanterns → willpower 

grey lanterns → apathy 

indigo lanterns → compassion 

infrared lanterns → no canon emotion* (theoretically self-love)

orange lanterns → greed 

red lanterns → rage 

sinestro lanterns → fear 

star sapphires → love 

ultraviolet lanterns → self hatred 

white lanterns → life 

explanations: black power ring𑁋can only be worn by corpses or people who have been dead. blue power ring𑁋have to have hope to use it, can be hope as shallow as “i hope i get pizza later”. gold power ring𑁋can only be used by those who have only ever experienced happiness or been surrounded by happiness their whole lives. green power ring𑁋can only be worn by those who have overcome great fear. grey power ring𑁋can only be worn by those who only feel apathy. indigo power staff𑁋used as a punishment for heartless criminals, makes people feel nothing but compassion, use staffs instead of rings. infrared power ring tattoos*𑁋no canon emotion, but seeing as ultraviolet lanterns are self-hatred, theoretically infrareds would be self-love. orange power rings𑁋can only be one at a time because everyone who has a ring fights themselves to be the only ones. red power rings𑁋the rings replace your heart so taking them off will kill you. sinestro power rings𑁋can only be worn by those who have experienced great fear or caused great fear. star sapphire power ring𑁋the corps is all women, the rings choose women who have loved and lost their loves or those who have had their love spurned. ultraviolet ring tattoos𑁋chosen for their self-hatred. have ring tattoos instead of rings. white lanterns𑁋as many white lanterns as there are black, used by those who have had a full life. 

non-canon lanterns that should be canon: silver, opposite of gold, for sadness. 

[cosmicbob]

Lie Ren of Remnant, you have the ability to feel great Compassion. Welcome to the Indigo Tribe!

[spellfireserpent]

Inktober 7, 2019 Prompt: Enchanted

Indigo-1 enchanted by the indigo light of compassion

[the-dracologist]

Lessons from Lanterns: Indigo

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

Lessons from Lanterns Materpost

[screamting]

A lot of people keep saying that Batman is a Green Lantern or Yellow Lantern. But I think he would be better as a Violet(or is it Indigo) Lantern. He's always seemed like the most compassionate when I was growing up.

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?

And also it’d piss him off that he needs Hal around to reach full power, which is exactly what his kinda luck would do to him, lol

[docgold13]

Yrra had recently returned in GLC to try and destroy the Corps & John Stewart. She learned that Xanshi was reborn after that whole "John Stewart Lantern God" stuff and has since joined the Indigo Tribe to make up for her crimes.

I see. Wow, the trades and free agency switch-ups is as bad in the Lantern Corps as it is for the National Basketball Association...