PEOPLE WANT THE NUMBER LORE (1 greatly appreciated moot allowing me to yap, @alphabootayyyshaker9000) SO I SHALL DROP IT:
*note I made this up when I was like 8 with little to no change in the way I have thought about it since*
1: just a guy tm, he/him
- the most chill guy you’ll ever meet
- stays out of people’s business and amplifies the characteristics of those he’s with by staying quiet most of the time (identity rule)
- not held in super high regard by the others and he’s fine with that
- can be pushed over the edge (imaginary numbers)
2: anxious eldest daughter of divorced parents, she/her
- wants everyone to get along
- WILL sacrifice anything and everything to keep the peace (this is important)
- constantly a nervous wr ça vut hides it with even stability
3: wacky uncle tm, always thought she/her but I’ve caught myself using they/them so she/they ig
- eldest sibling who WILL pull pranks on you but knows when to stop
- likes having fun and enjoys a bit of chaos
- very chill, most like her or have no opinion (besides 8)
4: condescendingly nice guy (he/him)
- four begins to show signs of the higher number supremacy I made up (bro as I’m typing this I’m realizing how batshit insane this is)
- wants to be kind but is just nice
- passive aggressive and talks shit about everyone behind their backs
- associated with autumn brown… for some reason?
- wants to be just like 8
5: sans archetype pre-sans (he/him)
- a chill guy with quietly powerful abilities
- looked down upon by most (except 1 and 3) but doesn’t care
- breaks the universe on a whim (all multiples end with 5 or 0)
6: girlboss arc (she/her)
- BIG inferiority complex at first
- has a FAT crush on 7 and everything she does is for him
- big arc comes after 6x7
-begins to love herself and self-worth explodes
- not rebellious after 6x7 but not as much of a simp
7: the bastard (he/him)
- a magic-wielding trickster (Loki-adjacent ig but I didn’t know about that when I made this up)
- plays tricks to the detriment of others and is full of himself
- puts down anyone for his own gain
- loves chaos
- has a slight crush on 8
8: pretentious girl next door (she/her)
- convinced she’s better than all numbers below her
- talented sorceress, but not as much as those above her or 5
- admires 9 as a mentor and does everything to get his attention (she fails)
- constantly trying to improve herself
- highly intelligent
9: emo wizard (he/him)
- he doesn’t care for any numbers beneath him, including 8
- dislikes most everything and everyone
-fully thrown himself into magical studies and is now a prodigy, close to but not exactly on-level of the double-digits
10: The master (they/him)
- almost god-like from the magical power he has attained at this point
- benevolent by convenience
- not fond of any other numbers, not pretentious just highly introspective and antisocial
- teaches some tricks to those below them
- I imagined he was so busy with his studies he rarely interacted with any other number (that’s why his multiples are so simple)
11: wacky uncle (he/him)
- THE guy
- 3 but like Hawaiian shirt on the beach with flip flops kinda way
- always though of him as adjacent to Doc Brown from BTTF but with more zany sound effects
- 10,11, and 12 are equally powerful but 11 uses his to just make sandwiches and shit
12: the reluctant mom (she/her)
- caring but won’t admit it
- usually the one to teach lower numbers magic
- ends up helping the numbers more than one may think
- pretentious as a coping mechanism
OKAY OKAY OKAY LET ME EXPLAIN WITH THE MULTIPLES:
- products of these characters are basically the embodiment of their relationship in numeric form, but are also physical and comparable kinda? It’s hard to explain, but I think it makes sense???
- since I didn’t need pneumonic devices to remember things like 3x3 and 4x3, multiples of numbers that are characters aren’t counted
- generally, even numbers are considered ‘stable’ (as in, representative of a relatively healthy/normal relationship) and odd numbers are ‘unstable’ (meaning generally chaotic but with various embodiments)
- multiples of 2, since she’s so accommodating, are considered the ‘ideal relationship’ or ‘best form’ of the number she’s multiplying by
- numbers within the multiple are similar but not necessarily the characters talked about prior
I won’t go through all the products but here are some keystone ones I use:
3x7=21: two relatively chaotic numbers that like playing jokes create a number beginning with an even number and ending with an odd number because it’s unexpected and funny and shows their chaotic but not unsustainable relationship. 7 grows bored easily, however, and even 3 is to stable for him…
4x4=16: since 16 is the product of 2 and 8, considered to be the perfection of 8 and 4 wants to be like 8, his interaction with himself leads to a product that embodies his unhealthy idolization of 8 and his grandiose ideals of himself (thinking he himself is 16, not just 8, which is his perfect form)
6 arc:
6x9= 54: 6 tries to get along with bigger numbers in an attempt to impress 7 regardless of how 9 is not interested in getting to know her. 9 contribute the first digit of 5 as an odd number like him, conveying his vanity, and 6’s need to be liked by 7 is embodied by 4, the last digit of 7’s perfect form of 14
6x8=48: 6 befriends 8 in an attempt to get to 7 who’s been ghosting her, and 8 (despite herself) forms a relatively close bond with her and advises 6 to seek joy from herself before seeking joy from 7, which 6 says she takes to heart but doesn’t really, a fact 8 doesn’t notice because she’s too wrapped up in congratulating herself on how good of a number she’s being. The last digit represents 8’s vanity permeating her and 6’s relationship while the beginning digit represents 6’s persistent thoughts of getting close to 7, now becoming more focal in her mind as it takes the first number here as opposed to taking the second number with 9.
6x7=42: finally 6 gets 7’s attention and they date, which is apparently stable, which makes 7 uncomfortable and causes him to distance himself from 6. The beginning digit represents the persistent idolization of 7 by 6 as previously discussed, and the final digit is even as well to represent how ‘stable’ the relationship is by 6’s own design. 7 hates this stability, though, used to chaos and being frankly cruel, leading to…
6x6=36: after 6 realizes how toxic 7 is and that he doesn’t really want her like she wants him, she finally steps back and breaks up with him. She goes on a journey of repairing her relationship with herself, culminating in a happy identity number with the first being a factor of herself and the second being herself. This shows her growth as a person to finding value within herself instead of in the arms of another.
I probably sound insane and this definitely doesn’t make sense but it’s how I learned my multiplication tables lmao
