Allies of the Superwomen of EVA #2: Indigo

"During the early reemergence of superhumans in the midst of the Angel War, the Earth was visited by the Coluan cybernetically-enhanced scientist known as Brainiac, who tried to add Tokyo-3 to his 'collection' of preserved intelligent civilizations. It took the combined forces of U.N. special agency NERV and the superheroes Power Girl and Wonder Girl (both secretly NERV Evangelion pilots Asuka Langley Sohryu and Rei Ayanami, respectively) to thwart Brainiac's scheme and destroy the invader in the process.

Months later, following the conclusion of the Angel War (due in part to the presence of more superheroes who arose in the wake of Power Girl (now Supergirl) and Wonder Girl), while NERV was in the midst of being decommissioned, among the tasks to be taken care of was the study and eventual disposal of the technological wreckage collected from Brainiac's ship.

While sifting through one particularly large pile of debris, a human-sized capsule was discovered, and once opened, the occupant was revealed to be a humanoid-looking girl with dark pink hair and blue skin. The girl awakened after a couple of minutes and immediately sought out any cybernetic or mechanical organism to assist in repairing her. She broke free from the scientists studying her and tried to install her self-repair routines into the MAGI (the three-part supercomputer that ran all of NERV HQ if not all of Tokyo-3), only for Steel (Mana Kirishima), Zatanna (Maya Ibuki), and Blue Beetle (Ritsuko Akagi) to shut the MAGI down to prevent the girl from gaining full control. The girl then nearly tried to use Steel's armor, only to be stopped by the Flash (Mari Makinami). As other superhumans in the area joined their friends on the scene, the girl retreated and switched into her offensive mode. While Blue Beetle repaired the damage to Steel, Zatanna and the Atom (Aoi Mogami) searched through the data logs in the capsule the girl was in, only to activate a message left behind by the girl's creator-Brainiac.

Brainiac's message not only confirmed that the Coluan was still alive (the destruction of his previous self having triggered a back-up program on another of his ships out in a far corner of the universe), but also revealed the girl's origin as a techno-organic being created to act as a sleeper agent to take out any who would attempt to study her, gather and assimilate any and all knowledge of the planet they were on, and await retrieval from their creator.

Figuring out a way to draw her out, the heroes left the MAGI unattended and laid in wait for the girl to return and attempt another extraction. When the girl did return, they ambushed her, with Steel and Zatanna ultimately subduing her with a concentrated, magically-enhanced EMP burst to wipe her memory and programming.

Not wanting to leave the girl in a vegetative state, or at worst disassembled, Blue Beetle and Zatanna (after convincing their friends) lead an effort to repair her and purge her of any remaining programming or sub-programming from Brainiac and bring her fully back online. Once done, and knowing of the horrible things she'd originally been programmed to do, the girl wished to atone by helping others. The girl took the codename 'Indigo' and began her repentance by assisting in the study and reverse-engineering of the Brainiac tech. When the superwomen of Tokyo-3 joined forces as the Justice League, Indigo became one of the inaugural members of their support team, even developing the Oracle network for their main computer in their HQ of Metro Tower.

In her life outside the League, Indigo learned to act more human, finding an affinity with Wonder Girl/Rei due to the latter's own journey of self-discovery and artificial origins. She developed her own personality traits, opinions, and passions (the last being best exemplified by her growing collection of elephant plushies). She also became the ward for Blue Beetle/Ritsuko and Zatanna/Maya when the two moved in together, and eventually their adoptive daughter, taking the name Ami Akagi; according to Indigo, after Sailor Mercury. (Maya, in particular, felt touched due to that character being her favorite of the Sailor Senshi.)"

*Author's Note(s)*

For today, we have here a SWOE take on the gynoid member of the mid-2000's Outsiders sometimes known as Brainiac-8. As for the visual basis (for the Deviation), the idea came to me after I began watching Lupin the 3rd Part V: Misadventures in France, which introduced a new supporting character in the form of highly-skilled teenage hacker Ami Enan (a fitting basis for Indigo if I do say so myself). Pairing her with two of the biggest computer experts in EVA seemed like a good combination, and further diverting her from her comics fate was one of my main concerns (along with simplifying her continuity; comics Indigo's is a bit more complex). Crafting the image was simple enough: all it took was some mere color alterations, and presto, SWOE Indigo. And while I made her the developer of the Oracle system, don't think I haven't forgotten about having a Barbara Gordon equivalent around-that'll be for 'Superwomen of EVA Tribute Presents: Birds of Prey'.