[Canon is The Prisoner (2009)]

[number1112]

Mun, really? I had enough trouble with one 6. Why would you want me to meet another one?

I'd rather not see anyone that has anything to do with the Village. Any Village.

.... But that won't stop you from being happy to find someone, will it.

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[number1112]

My mun has had me in half a dozen games and I've died a few times... But they always bring me back.

[be_seeing_you]

And what were the answers?

[imhereforschool]

[That doesn't bode well. Hei thought he had it pretty bad being shoved into one game...No sympathy here, though.]

They tend to do that.

[A beat.]

It won't change in Nautilus, either.

[number1112]

That none of it was real. That I didn't really exist.

[number1112]

What's it like there?

[be_seeing_you]

That doesn't make any sense at all. Of course you exist, how else could I be speaking with you now?

[number1112]

It's complicated.

And it's different here. Here, anything is possible.

[imhereforschool]

Chaotic. [He thinks a moment, considering the other man's background.]

Sometimes the city changes you whether you want it to or not. It's usually temporary.

[number1112]

You mean like... it turns you into other things and messes with your mind?

[imhereforschool]

[He nods.]

Among other things. Residents affect the city as much as it affects us.

[number1112]

It can't be worse than what I've already gone through.

[imhereforschool]

Probably not. So, are you being sent here?

[number1112]

Maybe, but not for a couple of months since my mun will be too busy with work.

It's nice to meet you though. What's your name?

[imhereforschool]

Lucky for you, then.

[He waits a beat or two in confused silence. Nice to meet you? He wasn't even pretending to be nice.]

Li. [He's tempted to ask the man's number, but wonders if he feels the same way about the assigned number as 6 does.] Who are you?

[number1112]

I'm 11-12.

[He says the name as Eleven Twelve and doesn't seem bothered by it.]

[imhereforschool]

[That reply answers that with very little doubt. He gives a nod, acknowledging the name, but he's not really one for idle conversation.

But the mun wishes 11-12 mun good luck with work!]

[number1112]

[Thank you. <3]

[be_seeing_you]

[He answers that with a nasal "hmmph." Complicated indeed.]

It sounds very much like my current situation in Nautilus.

[number1112]

But you're out of the Village.

[be_seeing_you]

Out, but never free. My mundane has seen to that.

[number1112]

That's... sad. I'm sorry.

Oh, and I'm 11-12.

[be_seeing_you]

I never asked for your pity.

[He scowls]

My designation , whilst imprisoned, was Number 6. But you already knew that. Tell me, do you like being numbered?

[number1112]

Designation.... I guess that's what it was for all or most of the other people in The Village. They had real names in the real world.

But it's all I knew. 11-12 is my only name and I do like it. It still seems a little strange to me that people have word names, even though I've been out for about four years or so now.

[be_seeing_you]

You were born in The Village?

[To his knowledge, such things were not allowed to happen in his version of The Village.]

[number1112]

Yes. Well, in a way since I wasn't technically born at all.

My father is 2.

I think you know... others named 2.