This is the best question ever because Indi is Literally The Coolest Character Ever. Like, I love Bellamy, I love him dearly, so much of my personality has been shaped by him in the past 7 years, but I genuinely think Indi is my favourite character from anything ever even if he is an oc lol
OKAY SO FIRST Indi isn’t my oc, I’m kind of like his godfather, Indi belongs to my best friend and housemate @jacobin/Salem!! In our original dnd name, he was Bellamy’s god he was in thrall too, because Bellamy was basically a warlock with a cleric bandaid slapped over his chest hole LOL
(this one drawn by salem) There’s a long story behind how Bellamy ended up in service to him, and it goes kind of something like ‘man who has no idea who the gods are and WHERE they are desperately contacts Anything out there to help try and save his plague-dying daughter,’ but unfortunately, the ritualistic sacrifice he committed ended up summoning The Hidden One... this terrifyingly Other deity of the unknown, the void, the moon, knowledge, snakes, darkness... OOPS. The fun thing about this was that I, as the PLAYER, didn’t know who his god was actually going to be in game until he was able to summon him (with locally sourced hearts and brains and blood :)) Since then we’ve spent the last several years designing and rewriting our own original story and world for them! Indi is an absent god. He has few worshippers, is absent and incredibly mysterious, and is referred to Exclusively as the Hidden One. Only his closest worshippers are able to learn his true name, and... not even the Hidden One himself knows it. He’s still the god of the unknown, and the gods in this universe work much more similarly to cold and rigid AI programs designed to control reality and their shattered floating world than anything even close to human consciousness and personification.
Bellamy, as a revenant in thrall, ends up becoming hatefully close to the Hidden One, and for the first time in 10,000 years........... he realises that this god is broken. The Hidden One is glitched. Something has happened to him, some unknown thing that even this god HIMSELF isn’t aware of, and he’s slowly coming apart at the god-code seams.... because the truth is, Indi was never created as a god, was never born as a god. He was a mortal who achieved horrific apotheosis, and in doing so, went insane, completely unable to partner his emotions and existence and individuality with the rigid incomprehensible program of godhood.
As the god of the unknown but equally the god of knowledge, Indi is a black hole of information. He has the power to make knowledge of something unknowable, to erase it from existence and from the collective memory and timespan of reality itself. When he went insane as a newly birthed but incompatible deity, he was forced, in punishment, to consume the part of himself that was once mortal, ripping out his core identity and mind in the process and leaving behind a barely functional broken program of a god. 🥰 10,000 years later he has an an allconsuming hunger to fill something empty inside him, but as a god, his consciousness is unable to even REGISTER that he could be anything but divinely perfect. Even the concept of him being incomplete and flawed is enough to send him spiraling in a glitch breakdown. Especially if, say, his naughty little ghostman, who refuses to cooperate, appeals to a sick sense of affection or perhaps, even.... love....
So anyway it turns out that when Indi ripped his identity out he created an open bleeding wound, slowly corrupting this shattered planet into a boiling toxic storm of a gas planet, leaking from the black hole tear he created 10,000 years ago that holds the floating broken continents together, a bleeding wound that NOBODY in the entire universe, especially himself, is able to acknowledge or comprehend because the knowledge that he Actually DID That To Himself has ITSELF, BEEN ERASED FROM EXISTENCE.
And it takes Bellamy to figure the truth out, as they slowly, irrecoverably, fall in love.
