Indigo Keita

Indigo Keita is one of the main protagonists of Carnivore.

Appearance
Indigo is a short, rotund female okapi with hazelnut eyes and long, dreadlock-styled hair and an endomorphic build, building fat around her stomach area, thighs, buttocks and a medium sized chest. A small cut is shown on her left ear. Her fur is compiled of various shades of brown like a traditional okapi, the darkest being an area over her snout starting from her upper lip to the middle of her face. She has a light marking from her throat to her inner thighs and white strips along her legs and arms, a white marking covering part of her face from her jaw to the tops of her eyes, dividing around the snout. Her ossicones are dark with white tips and stripes. A light circle with a spot in the middle is planted in the middle of her forehead. She has three hoofed-fingers on each hand and cloven hoofed feet.

For her attire, her main outfit consists of African wax print or kanga clothing in the form of dresses or shawls tied around the waist with a white undershirt over her torso. When working in the sun, she'll loosely tie her hair up with a head wrap of the same fabric. She has three golden studded earrings, two on the right and one on the left. A single hooped earring hangs from her left ear. She wears a decorative silver and gold star and moon necklace. Her jewelry is rarely removed except for the nights. She doesn't use footwear.

While visiting London, her casual wear changes to accommodate to the European style. She wears clean jeans with a loose shirt and either a crimson or dark colored cardigan over her shoulders.

When attending court, her outfit is a standard black suit with with a white dress shirt. Her jacket holds two pockets on either side and two buttons down the front and light creases at the folds. She wears a pair of silver sterling diamond studded earrings in replacement of her normal jewelry.

Personality
Despite being known as a strong, determined and courageous woman in the spotlight, Indigo is the opposite. She is introverted and comes off as unintentionally shy, and is more of an observer than a leader. When making decisions that she is not obligated to make, she puts them off and allows other people to tell her what to do, making her hold a predominantly follower position. She is described as mundane and uninteresting to first-time visitors, offering little to no information about herself unless she's asked first and provides no description that is often filled it by her associates or superiors. Her incredible silence spikes awkwardness in the other party, and when offered to join the ((agency)), potential clients and employees turn it away due to their leaders' standoffish first appearance.

She is not someone who trusts easily and is reluctant to create new friendships and form new bonds. This is due to her family life and the habit of her ideas, wants and needs were often shunned by her mother, the outcome creating the unsocial person she was. She prefers to keep to herself, but isn't against sharing her thoughts and current actions to anyone who approaches her. She is thoughtful and empathetic to other's emotions and does the most for the people around her with disregards for race and attitude as proven when she conversed and offered kindness to a beagle employee in a small London clothing shop. The most she wants in the world is to create peace and happiness with all citizens in the world and tear down the Ebon Circle's corruption by reestablishing the idea of democracy.

She is passionate about the Herbivores rights movement, going as far as dedicating her career to the injustices in the world, as well as the Women's Rights Movement, and is often seen as a rebel. Her ((agency)) was erected by predominantly African and Asian herbivores in response to the passion. She isn’t startled by the spotlight and embraces the feeling of having others feel threatened by her presence when they choose to go against what she says. Her ego, while not large, has begun to grow with her confidence and continuously intertwined. She identifies that many will stand behind her out of fear or in front of her out of terror and hatred,

Although her own advocate for her work, she often pushes herself too hard and causes burnouts from stress alone. She depends heavily on her unhealthy addiction to coffee and will begin to speak in Afrikaans when irritable.

Background
Indigo Keita was born in 2471 in Worcester, South Africa, to Jabulani Keita and Obasi Keita. Her mother worked as a field laborer on farms and a housewife while her father worked as a warehouse laborer. In 2474, her father was murdered by the Red Warriors in Zweletemba, South Africa. Indigo doesn't remember her father personally, her mother often working to keep his memory alive. She has a younger sister by the name of Kaya.

Growing up in a Christian household, Indigo was expected to submit to not only men, but to her community and to God. She developed strong Christian beliefs and upheld African religious traditions, attending tribal dances and gospel concerts, but was scornful of her societal role as a woman. Although she attended school, much of her childhood was spent learning to maintain the role of a wife under her mother's orders and with the reminder of being the second in the household. While education wasn't prohibited in the home, her mother often ridiculed Indigo and her sister with insults and backhand compliments, and actively hindered their progress.

Her interest in activism began from her love for literature and social media. Her first act of activism was internet activism, expressing her concerns and ideas regarding the power the Ebon Circle held over the world as an entirety and her desire to befriend the Carnivores, eventually creating a donation pool for a protest when she was 17 years old. The post and donation pool was faced with backlash and was wiped with a formal complaint being sent to her home. Due to her recent actions, she was sent to live with a relative until she agreed to submit her devices to her mother.

Communal views on the Keita family began to form at a rabid rate, forcing Indigo to seek refuge at a public libraries and abandoned buildings to focus on her studies and her activism. She was seen as a 'rebel' and her livelihood was threatened by the Red Warriors as well as locals in Cape Town and in 2490 when Indigo was 19 years old, her mother kicked her out of her home out of fear of her recklessness and betraying the family name. Indigo was taken in by relatives, creating a strain in her relationships with her mother and sister.

Indigo held speeches and projects regarding Herbivore and Women's Rights in her community, gaining a small cult following. She was a notable member of interfaith and progressive churches. Much of her topics regarded the inequality faced by both women and Herbivores by the hands of the Ebon Circle and the South African government branch and places of worship. In 2493, she met 27-year-old Jengo Mwaniki at a rally in Wellington, South Africa. The two had a brief relationship in 2494, but treated each other more as platonic business partners rather than a romantic couple. The relationship was broken off a few months later. In Winter 2494, Free Bird was established and founded by Indigo and Jengo in Cape Town, South Africa as a humanitarian affairs agency after raising funds on social media and organized rallies.

Relationships
"Main article: Indigo Keita/Relationships"