Color Meanings in Biohazard Part 4
Indigo
“ The color meaning of indigo reflects great devotion, wisdom and justice along with fairness and impartiality. It is a defender of people’s rights to the end.
Structure creates identity and meaning for indigo. In fact an indigo person cannot function without structure - it throws them right off balance. Organization is very important to them and they can be quite inflexible when it comes to order in their lives.
Indigo loves rituals and traditions, religion and the institutional system, conforming to things that have worked in the past while planning for the future.
Service to humanity is one of the strengths of the color indigo. Powerful and dignified, indigo conveys integrity and deep sincerity.
The negative color meaning of indigo relates to fanaticism and addiction. Its addiction encompasses everything from a need for recognized qualifications to a need for illegal drugs, from the workaholic to the religious fanatic.Indigo can be narrow-minded, intolerant and prejudiced.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Indigo is a very seldom used color in RE. Only Billy Coen, Osmund Saddler, and Ramon Salazar.
Billy’s use of indigo relates to the previous description of devotion, wisdom, and fairness through his character of holding a great sense of justice even despite his circumstances. Service to humanity also plays into his background of having been a Marine.
Indigo’s connections to perception also play a part in his character as he’s able to deduce and figure out the depths of Umbrella’s evil through inductive reasoning, faster than Rebecca does. This also aligns with Billy’s introspective nature, which is also a trait of the color.
Integrity and sincerity is a big factor in his story throughout 0, as it’s through his own use of those virtues that convinces Rebecca that he’s actually innocent and ends up giving him his freedom. In an ironic sense, indigo’s attributes of sincerity and fairness are subverted and flipped when it comes to him having been framed and sentenced to death by his own government and military unit.
Saddler and Salazar’s meanings with indigo mean the same thing, emphasis on indigo’s negative aspect, which is fanaticism and addiction.
Saddler has a great focus on order and organisation, wanting to take over the world by subsuming it into the hive minded collective of the Los Illuminados cult.
Playing into their connections to the cult, they both share indigo’s meaning’s of loving tradition and rituals, along with conforming to the past.
Purple
“ The color purple relates to the imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination and inspires high ideals. It is an introspective color, allowing us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts.
Purple or violet assists those who seek the meaning of life and spiritual fulfillment - it expands our awareness, connecting us to a higher consciousness.
For this reason it is associated with transformation of the soul and the philosophers of the world are often attracted to it.
In the meaning of colors, purple and violet represent the future, the imagination and dreams, while spiritually calming the emotions. They inspire and enhance psychic ability and spiritual enlightenment, while, at the same time, keeping us grounded.
The color violet relates to the fantasy world, and a need to escape from the practicalities of life. It is the daydreamer escaping from reality.
From a color psychology perspective, purple and violet promote harmony of the mind and the emotions, contributing to mental balance and stability, peace of mind, a link between the spiritual and the physical worlds, between thought and activity. Violet and purple support the practice of meditation.
Violet encourages creative pursuits and seeks inspiration and originality through its creative endeavors. It likes to be unique, individual and independent, not one of the crowd. Artists, musicians, writers, poets and psychics are all inspired by violet and its magic and mystery.
Violet is the color of the humanitarian, using its better judgment to do good for others. Combining wisdom and power with sensitivity and humility, violet can achieve a lot for those less fortunate.
The color purple is specifically associated with royalty and the nobility, creating an impression of luxury, wealth and extravagance.
Purple has power. It has a richness and quality to it that demands respect. Purple is ambitious and self-assured, the leader.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Purple is an aristocratic color, associated with the elite and prestige. It’s fitting then that the characters who most where purple in the series are villains, with one exception. These characters are Oswell E. Spencer, Alexia Ashford, Jessica Sherawat, and Sheva Alomar.
Spencer definitely ties into the nobility and royalty background of purple, having come from an old aristocratic family of Britain. He had wealth and luxury, and applied this into the many mansions/architecture commissioned and based after his ancestral estate.
He had high aspirations which led him into creating Umbrella and starting an decades long plan to achieve this ambition, fitting the previous statement of purple being the color of creativity and seeking the meaning of life. In the twisted sense, he also can be applied to the “humanitarian” part of purple, viewing the world and state of humanity needing his “help” for improvement and survival.
Purple’s negative aspect is impracticality, causing those who use too much of it to keep their heads in the clouds and viewing the world too much as something they imagine instead of how it actually is. This matches up to Spencer’s downfall and eventual death, having spent too long scheming in the shadows until his age crippled him and his empire of Umbrella crumbled.
Spencer valued power, above all else, fitting into dark purple’s description and meaning.
“ Deep Purple: Dark purple is related to higher spiritual attainment. A powerful color, it can also indicate arrogance and ruthlessness. ” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Alexia, like Spencer, fits the noble and royal connections of purple to a tee. Viewing herself as a queen over everyone else while looking upon others as her slaves and servants. She is connected to the creative aspect of purple in how she was able to create her own virus and come up with a plan to use it so that she could harness its full potential. Alexia fits the cerebral meanings of the color, creativity and imagination, through her use of high intellect.
She also fits the previous negative attributes of pompousness and arrogance associated with purple as well as immaturity. Due to being a little girl in a 20 something body along with viewing everyone and everything as something that should cater to her and only her.
Transformation is a recurring theme with both Alexia and purple. As exemplified by her transformations during the final battle.
Jessica uses the color purple in most of her outfits to her personality symbolizes the individuality aspect of purple, in her brazen attempts at flirting with Chris and her sense of style, despite causing friction in the BSAA. Purple is also associated with mystery, which suits her role as a triple agent for Tricell.
Jessica’s use of purple is lilac. Which indicates;
“ Lilac: Lilac is a pale muted violet color with a slightly pinkish hue. It implies immaturity, superficiality and youthfulness. It is extroverted and enthusiastic, inspiring glamour, romance and vanity.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
This fits completely with how she acts in the story of Revelations, as she puts on a semi superficial mask of being good and a bit of an airhead to get closer to her objectives. Yet she is also extroverted as displayed with her vanity through her impractical outfits emphasizing fashion over use. this also goes with her sense of taste in the finer things in life.
Sheva’s character is emphasized by purple’s humanitarianism, shown by her sense of heroism and justice in joining the BSAA to avenge her parents deaths and prevent anyone else form having to go through what she did. Her unique view on things as well as being able to adapt to situations also ties her into purple’s creative aspects.
Sheva’s colors of purple align with lavender and mauve.
“ Lavender: Lavender is a light purple color with a bluish hue, a light violet color. It is a color that is attracted to beautiful things. It has a fragility, sensitivity and vulnerability to it.”
“ Mauve: Mauve fits somewhere between lavender and lilac. helps us to make the best choices and decisions; it is concerned for justice to be done and always does the right thing. On the other hand it can indicate a degree of commonness, the social climber aspiring to higher ideals.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Lavender relates to Sheva through its sensitivity, relating to her care fro others, especially her teammates and Josh. Mauve aligns with Sheva in her concern for justice and doing the right thing, even when it might be smarter to have retreated and call it quits like at the beginning of the marsh segment of 5. The commonness remark also makes sense in her humble beginnings as a lost, neglected child, before running away to take her own life into her hands.
Indigo
“ The color meaning of indigo reflects great devotion, wisdom and justice along with fairness and impartiality. It is a defender of people’s rights to the end.
Structure creates identity and meaning for indigo. In fact an indigo person cannot function without structure - it throws them right off balance. Organization is very important to them and they can be quite inflexible when it comes to order in their lives.
Indigo loves rituals and traditions, religion and the institutional system, conforming to things that have worked in the past while planning for the future.
Service to humanity is one of the strengths of the color indigo. Powerful and dignified, indigo conveys integrity and deep sincerity.
The negative color meaning of indigo relates to fanaticism and addiction. Its addiction encompasses everything from a need for recognized qualifications to a need for illegal drugs, from the workaholic to the religious fanatic.Indigo can be narrow-minded, intolerant and prejudiced.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Indigo is a very seldom used color in RE. Only Billy Coen, Osmund Saddler, and Ramon Salazar.
Billy’s use of indigo relates to the previous description of devotion, wisdom, and fairness through his character of holding a great sense of justice even despite his circumstances. Service to humanity also plays into his background of having been a Marine.
Indigo’s connections to perception also play a part in his character as he’s able to deduce and figure out the depths of Umbrella’s evil through inductive reasoning, faster than Rebecca does. This also aligns with Billy’s introspective nature, which is also a trait of the color.
Integrity and sincerity is a big factor in his story throughout 0, as it’s through his own use of those virtues that convinces Rebecca that he’s actually innocent and ends up giving him his freedom. In an ironic sense, indigo’s attributes of sincerity and fairness are subverted and flipped when it comes to him having been framed and sentenced to death by his own government and military unit.
Saddler and Salazar’s meanings with indigo mean the same thing, emphasis on indigo’s negative aspect, which is fanaticism and addiction.
Saddler has a great focus on order and organisation, wanting to take over the world by subsuming it into the hive minded collective of the Los Illuminados cult.
Playing into their connections to the cult, they both share indigo’s meaning’s of loving tradition and rituals, along with conforming to the past.
Purple
“ The color purple relates to the imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination and inspires high ideals. It is an introspective color, allowing us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts.
Purple or violet assists those who seek the meaning of life and spiritual fulfillment - it expands our awareness, connecting us to a higher consciousness.
For this reason it is associated with transformation of the soul and the philosophers of the world are often attracted to it.
In the meaning of colors, purple and violet represent the future, the imagination and dreams, while spiritually calming the emotions. They inspire and enhance psychic ability and spiritual enlightenment, while, at the same time, keeping us grounded.
The color violet relates to the fantasy world, and a need to escape from the practicalities of life. It is the daydreamer escaping from reality.
From a color psychology perspective, purple and violet promote harmony of the mind and the emotions, contributing to mental balance and stability, peace of mind, a link between the spiritual and the physical worlds, between thought and activity. Violet and purple support the practice of meditation.
Violet encourages creative pursuits and seeks inspiration and originality through its creative endeavors. It likes to be unique, individual and independent, not one of the crowd. Artists, musicians, writers, poets and psychics are all inspired by violet and its magic and mystery.
Violet is the color of the humanitarian, using its better judgment to do good for others. Combining wisdom and power with sensitivity and humility, violet can achieve a lot for those less fortunate.
The color purple is specifically associated with royalty and the nobility, creating an impression of luxury, wealth and extravagance.
Purple has power. It has a richness and quality to it that demands respect. Purple is ambitious and self-assured, the leader.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Purple is an aristocratic color, associated with the elite and prestige. It’s fitting then that the characters who most where purple in the series are villains, with one exception. These characters are Oswell E. Spencer, Alexia Ashford, Jessica Sherawat, and Sheva Alomar.
Spencer definitely ties into the nobility and royalty background of purple, having come from an old aristocratic family of Britain. He had wealth and luxury, and applied this into the many mansions/architecture commissioned and based after his ancestral estate.
He had high aspirations which led him into creating Umbrella and starting an decades long plan to achieve this ambition, fitting the previous statement of purple being the color of creativity and seeking the meaning of life. In the twisted sense, he also can be applied to the “humanitarian” part of purple, viewing the world and state of humanity needing his “help” for improvement and survival.
Purple’s negative aspect is impracticality, causing those who use too much of it to keep their heads in the clouds and viewing the world too much as something they imagine instead of how it actually is. This matches up to Spencer’s downfall and eventual death, having spent too long scheming in the shadows until his age crippled him and his empire of Umbrella crumbled.
Spencer valued power, above all else, fitting into dark purple’s description and meaning.
“ Deep Purple: Dark purple is related to higher spiritual attainment. A powerful color, it can also indicate arrogance and ruthlessness. ” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Alexia, like Spencer, fits the noble and royal connections of purple to a tee. Viewing herself as a queen over everyone else while looking upon others as her slaves and servants. She is connected to the creative aspect of purple in how she was able to create her own virus and come up with a plan to use it so that she could harness its full potential. Alexia fits the cerebral meanings of the color, creativity and imagination, through her use of high intellect.
She also fits the previous negative attributes of pompousness and arrogance associated with purple as well as immaturity. Due to being a little girl in a 20 something body along with viewing everyone and everything as something that should cater to her and only her.
Transformation is a recurring theme with both Alexia and purple. As exemplified by her transformations during the final battle.
Jessica uses the color purple in most of her outfits to her personality symbolizes the individuality aspect of purple, in her brazen attempts at flirting with Chris and her sense of style, despite causing friction in the BSAA. Purple is also associated with mystery, which suits her role as a triple agent for Tricell.
Jessica’s use of purple is lilac. Which indicates;
“ Lilac: Lilac is a pale muted violet color with a slightly pinkish hue. It implies immaturity, superficiality and youthfulness. It is extroverted and enthusiastic, inspiring glamour, romance and vanity.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
This fits completely with how she acts in the story of Revelations, as she puts on a semi superficial mask of being good and a bit of an airhead to get closer to her objectives. Yet she is also extroverted as displayed with her vanity through her impractical outfits emphasizing fashion over use. this also goes with her sense of taste in the finer things in life.
Sheva’s character is emphasized by purple’s humanitarianism, shown by her sense of heroism and justice in joining the BSAA to avenge her parents deaths and prevent anyone else form having to go through what she did. Her unique view on things as well as being able to adapt to situations also ties her into purple’s creative aspects.
Sheva’s colors of purple align with lavender and mauve.
“ Lavender: Lavender is a light purple color with a bluish hue, a light violet color. It is a color that is attracted to beautiful things. It has a fragility, sensitivity and vulnerability to it.”
“ Mauve: Mauve fits somewhere between lavender and lilac. helps us to make the best choices and decisions; it is concerned for justice to be done and always does the right thing. On the other hand it can indicate a degree of commonness, the social climber aspiring to higher ideals.” - empower-yourself-through-color-psychology.com
Lavender relates to Sheva through its sensitivity, relating to her care fro others, especially her teammates and Josh. Mauve aligns with Sheva in her concern for justice and doing the right thing, even when it might be smarter to have retreated and call it quits like at the beginning of the marsh segment of 5. The commonness remark also makes sense in her humble beginnings as a lost, neglected child, before running away to take her own life into her hands.
