A valiant defender of the Congo jungles gazes with horror upon one of the vast cobalt mines that thousands upon thousands of her people have been forced to excavate from their homeland for a pittance each, with many having been evicted from their homes or abducted to toil in the mines. And it’s all to supply the Global North’s consumer electronics industry with the cobalt it craves.
I wanted to do a modern take on the archetypal “jungle girl” from pulp literature and comics with this character design, and I also wanted to represent one of the major human rights violations that is taking place in Central Africa on behalf of neo-colonial greed. I think it would be awesome to see a character like this take on the greedy devils exploiting her people!