Indra (The 100)

Indra is a recurring protagonist in season two to seven of the CW show, .
She is portrayed by .
==Biography==
===Past===
When she was a child, the Trikru territory where Indra lived was invaded by Sheidheda, the Dark Commander. Indra's father was killed in the battle and her mother eventually kneeled before Sheidheda, something that Indra considered her a fool for. It's suggested that Indra's mother had actually knelt in exchange for the Dark Commander sparing her daughter's life, but Indra appears to have been unaware of this.
Indra later became the war chief of the Grounder village of TonDC, in reality the ruins of Washington, DC. Indra raised her daughter Gaia to become a warrior, but Gaia chose to become a Flamekeeper instead, creating friction between mother and daughter.
===The 100===
Octavia Blake visits TonDC in search of her Grounder boyfriend Lincoln who has been imprisoned for helping the Sky People. Octavia meets and negotiates with Indra who agrees to release Lincoln in exchange for her captured healer Nyko. Octavia impresses Indra who quickly becomes a mentor and a mother-figure to the young woman. Indra trains Octavia and eventually makes Octavia her second-in-command.
Following the massacre of 18 civilians by Finn Collins in TonDC, Indra opposes an alliance with the Sky People, desiring revenge for the deaths that Finn had caused and feeling cheated by Clarke Griffin's mercy killing of him. Nevertheless, Indra acts as one of the Grounder leaders in the alliance. After Lincoln is saved from being a Reaper, Indra remains distant and distrustful of him. She is badly injured in the missile strike on TonDC, but ultimately survives. During the assault on Mount Weather, Commander Lexa strikes a deal with the Mountain Men in order to protect the Grounders, forcing them to abandon the Sky People. After Octavia refuses to leave, Indra scars her face and terminates Octavia as her second-in-command. Nevertheless, concerned for her friend's safety, Indra secretly helps Lincoln to escape in order to help Octavia if he so wishes despite it meaning that he will get a death warrant for his actions.
Over the next three months, Indra remains in contact with Marcus Kane and continues to train Octavia. When Charles Pike takes over, he leads a massacre of a Grounder army near Arkadia. Although Indra is a part of it, Bellamy Blake spares her life due to how much Indra means to his sister. She later takes Pike for punishment, but is forced to work with him and John Murphy against the threat of A.L.I.E. Indra is eventually captured and crucified by the AI's brainwashed followers.
Following A.L.I.E.'s destruction at Clarke's hands, a still-alive Indra is rescued from her predicament. Tensions between Trikru and Azgeda leads to a war between the two with the Sky People caught between the two due to their alliances with both. Indra's daughter Gaia resurfaces as the new Flamekeeper, but Octavia helps to save her life out of loyalty to Indra despite Octavia working for Azgeda's King Roan at the time. After Thelonious Jaha learns of the Second Dawn Bunker, Indra and Gaia help to find it and hold the location against Azgeda. A Final Conclave is declared to determine which clan will control the bunker and Octavia wins, but decides that the clans will share the bunker equally.
Over the next six years trapped in the bunker, Indra remains one of Octavia's closest allies and advisors, even as she turns into the tyrannical Blodreina. Murphy and Emori later note that during this time, it was actually Indra who was the true power in the bunker, keeping Wonkru together. When the bunker is reopened, Indra initially continues to support Octavia's heavy-handed actions in the war for Shallow Valley, but is convinced by Clarke and Bellamy to help them avert Octavia's plan to use parasitic worms on the Eligius Prisoners. After a failed attempt by Bellamy to keep Octavia in a coma, Indra turns on her, stating that she was loyal to the Octavia who was once her second-in-command, not the current Blodreina. Indra joins the march on Shallow Valley and is one of the few survivors of the gorge massacre alongside Octavia, Bellamy and the badly-injured Gaia. Rescued by Murphy, Echo, Emori and Madi, Indra survives the destruction of the valley and enters cryo on the Eligius IV spaceship.
125 years later, Indra is awakened by Kane and Raven Reyes to help them against the threat of the Primes and their manipulation of Abby Griffin in order to create Nightblood. Indra points out their own immoral actions, but agrees to help. At Kane's request, Indra reluctantly floats him, blowing Kane and the new Nightblood serum into outer space. Visibly in tears, Indra recites both the Sky People Traveler's Blessing and the traditional Grounder "your fight is over" in honor of her lost friend. Indra then remains onboard Eligius IV, commanding the Wonkru forces onboard the ship. When Clarke, Raven and Gaia return with the Primes who hijack the ship, Indra is shocked to learn that Madi is possessed through the Flame by Sheidheda. Indra recounts to her daughter seeing the Dark Commander as a child and warns that they must stop Sheidheda at any cost. Although the Primes are defeated and Madi saved, the Flame is destroyed and Sheidheda's consciousness manages to upload itself elsewhere, escaping destruction.
With Madi no longer the Commander, Indra attempts to lead Wonkru alongside Clarke in her place until Gaia reveals the Flame's destruction, causing Wonkru to shatter. After Clarke leads a group in search of their missing friends, Indra works with Murphy and Emori to keep peace on Sanctum with those few who are still loyal to the cause, mainly Trikru warriors. While defusing a dangerous situation, Indra is shocked to realize that Sheidheda has been resurrected in the body of Russell Lightbourne. Unable to kill the Dark Commander outright due to Russell's surviving fanatical followers, Indra has Eric Jackson surgically remove Russell's Mind Drive in order to ensure that when she does kill him, Sheidheda will never come back.
With the Dark Commander gaining more and more power and influence, Indra reveals the truth to Murphy and Emori and at their encouragement, assumes leadership over Wonkru herself, reuniting the fractured clan. Shortly thereafter, the Children of Gabriel and the surviving Eligius Prisoners take hostages, forcing Indra, Murphy and Emori to work with the Dark Commander in order to stop them. In the process, Russell's death is revealed to his followers and, after stopping the hostage situation, Indra locks the Dark Commander in with the angry fanatics, expecting them to kill him. Instead, Sheidheda slaughters the Faithful and his resurrection is revealed to Wonkru. With the Dark Commander consolidating his power, Indra challenges him to combat for control over the clan, but loses and is nearly killed. Madi manages to blind Sheidheda in one eye and Indra bows to the Dark Commander in exchange for him sparing Madi's life. Madi is able to take the chance to escape and goes into hiding along with the survivors of the massacre.
Indra begins serving Sheidheda, but as he notes, keeps a watchful eye on things and is not truly loyal to the Dark Commander. In the aftermath of a second massacre, Indra helps to remove the bodies and respectfully closes the eyes of Nelson, the Children of Gabriel leader whom she had clashed with several times over their differing priorities. Noticing that Luca is still alive, Indra rescues the teenager and brings him to Murphy and Emori for safety. Shortly thereafter, Clarke, Raven and Gabriel Santiago return with the Disciples and Indra and Clarke learn that Gaia is actually missing, both having wrongly believed her to be with the other. Tied up with the severely wounded Sheidheda, Indra reluctantly forms a temporary alliance with her mortal enemy in order to escape the Disciples guarding them. Indra is able to escape and kill the Disciples with the Dark Commander saving her life at one point by shouting a warning to her. Under the influence of a Red Sun Eclipse, Indra experiences hallucinations of her mother bowing before Sheidheda and discovers that her mother did so in order to save Indra's life, something that she didn't previously appear to know. Indra chooses not to kill Sheidheda as repayment for him saving her life, instead condemning him to die of his wounds and ordering Jackson and Gabriel not to treat him which they are only too happy to agree to.
When the Disciples return, Indra confronts Bill Cadogan over Gaia's disappearance, only to learn that even the Disciples have no idea what has happened to her daughter. Indra joins the rescue mission for their missing friends which takes the group back to the Second Dawn Bunker on a regenerated Earth. Indra is reunited with Gaia who had been brought back to Earth by the Disciple who had kidnapped her and she makes amends with both Gaia and the repentant Octavia. Sheidheda, now working with Cadogan, attacks in order to capture Madi. Fighting side-by-side with her daughter, Indra finally manages to defeat the Dark Commander, but he escapes before Indra can kill him. Trapped by a bomb sent by Cadogan, Indra clashes with Gaia over Indra's desire to kill Cadogan and Gaia arguing that it will not stop the Disciples due to their enduring faith. After Clarke and Octavia manage to teleport to Bardo using Disciple technology with the help of Octavia's boyfriend Levitt, Indra, apparently inspired by their words before leaving, tells a pleased Gaia that they will now have faith.
Shortly thereafter, the group is rescued from the bunker by Raven and the Eligius Prisoners. Indra leads Wonkru and the prisoners to Bardo in order to distract the Disciples to buy Clarke time to stop Cadogan. Although the move is meant only to act as a distraction, Sheidheda provokes a battle between both sides. Although Indra tries to get her forces to stand down, the Dark Commander countermands her orders. With Sheidheda leading a charge on the Disciple position, Indra confronts him, armed with a sonic cannon. Declaring it to be "for my mother," Indra blows the Dark Commander up with the cannon, killing him. With the Flame destroyed and his Mind Drive removed, Sheidheda's consciousness is destroyed as well, rendering his death at Indra's hands permanent. Indra killing the Dark Commander shocks both sides into stopping fighting and Octavia makes a speech talking both sides down. Indra is the first to disarm herself, leading both sides in standing down. As a result, the Judge decides that the human race is worthy of Transcendence and Transcends everyone except for Clarke.
Alongside Gaia, Raven, Murphy, Emori, Octavia, Levitt, Niylah, Echo, Nathan Miller, Eric Jackson, Jordan Green and Hope Diyoza, Indra chooses to return to human form and live out the rest of her life on Earth. When Clarke finds her friends on the beach near the bunker, Indra, wearing casual clothing for the first time in the series, is working alongside her daughter and smiles at Clarke upon seeing her.
==Trivia==
* Indra was initially written to be one handed.https://twitter.com/AdinaPorter/status/571522253495529472
* Indra has appeared in 53 episodes, making her the third most frequently appearing recurring character and the most appearing Grounder.
* Indra is the one who sent John Murphy back with the virus to the Delinquents' Camp in the episode "I Am Become Death" which occurs during the first season and is before Indra's first physical appearance on the show. This was revealed in the script for "Acceptable Losses" in the scene where Bellamy, Monty and Clarke discuss enlisting Indra's help with the parasite worms.https://the100writers.tumblr.com/post/175084776613/from-script-to-screen-507-acceptable-losses-pt However, the dialogue was cut from the final episode.
* Indra never became a main character due to Adina Porter continuously declining Jason Rothenberg's repeated offers for a promotion to series regular.https://mobile.twitter.com/JRothenbergTV/status/1264213817812115458
* Indra is the final character to kill someone in the series, killing Sheidheda in the series finale just before humanity Transcends.
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