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11-12 || The Prisoner || 1/?
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11-12 || The Prisoner || 2/?
Fandom: The Prisoner
Fair warning: the following is riddled with spoilers for this very twisty show.
Character Notes:
History:
The Prisoner is a sometimes surreal show set in a subconscious world where people come and go and deal with their problems within a place called "The Village". The character of 11-12 is different, however, and he discovers this as the series progresses. 11-12 was born in The Village, only son to the seeming leader. Everyone in The Village is named by a number, so 11-12 is his full name. He is the only character without an alternate in the "real" world, which means he technically can never leave his birthplace.
11-12 has a difficult time remembering his childhood and this is because, technically he never had one. Yes, there are photographs and toys and stories that his father, known as Two (2), has told him but he can't really recall anything himself. He thinks this is just his memory being fuzzy but he finds out the real reason after the arrival of a new person to his hometown of The Village. This person is called Six. The Village is a pleasant, almost fifties style place. Quaint and where everyone's life appears nice and perfect - almost. There are people called Dreamers who have visions of another place - New York. These people are often quickly shut up or disposed of - sent to a place called The Clinic for treatment for their ‘delusions’.
There is extensive surveillance in The Village and Two can watch most anybody at any time. 11-12 is aware of some of this and is actually having a clandestine affair with one of Two's spies - whom Two has out there along with many cameras. This particular spy is named 909 and is about twice 11-12's age.
Six is ranting often about another place and confronting Two. 11-12, who is often by Two's side witnesses these confrontations and ends up questioning first his father then Six. These questions lead back to his mother (M2) - who is in a coma-like sleep. Two warns 11-12 that once he knows the truth he can never go back to the way things were. He still says he wants to know. Meanwhile, Six has discovered that 909 is having an affair with 11-12 and threatens to expose it in exchange for the surveillance to stop on a girl he likes - a doctor named 313. Instead of complying to this request - which neither 909 or 11-12 can really control as Two has all the power - 11-12 decides to kill 909 instead. 909 accepts this and though they are both tearful 11-12 stabs 909 to death.
Afterwards he is very distressed, taking to staring sadly or drinking more often. Back to wondering about his mother, 11-12 steals the three pills that Two is constantly giving to her. He has 313 secretly analyse them, discovering one is a sedative, one is a hallucinogenic and the other is unknown.
Two later asks if 11-12 wants to spend a day with his mother - last and only day. He agrees and a pill is given to wake her up. She reveals that The Village actually exists in her subconscious mind. When she is awake holes appear in the Village which is why she has to be kept in an induced sleep here. The people within all exist simultaneously in the outside world - mostly in New York - but 11-12 is an exception. He was created because herself and Two were a childless couple who dearly wanted to have a child. And so she created him from her mind to be born and live in this world - and he is told he should have everything he wants here and should be content with that. He isn't, however. She also tells him that because he was born in her mind he cannot ever leave The Village.
11-12 || The Prisoner || 3/?
Getting himself drunk to steel himself for what he feels he must do, he goes back to her - now put back in her coma-like state and smothers her. In the real world of New York, she witnesses all of this but doesn't die there - only in The Village does she pass away. Unaware of anything from the real world, 11-12 then hangs himself, to be found later by Two, who gives him a funeral then also kills himself. But then both Two and his wife are free of The Village - and are seen happy in New York, having working out their issues there. The others who inhabit the Village remain - they are other troubled souls but a replacement for Two and his wife M2 are needed - these end up being 313 and Six. Their presence continues the kind of therapy the Village offers (which is individual and not always entirely clear. Nobody realises they are at the Village when they are in the real world).
Personality:
11-12 was born as a kind of wish-fulfilment figment to parents who could not have children in the real world. But he is very much human and is sensitive and has a conscience and real emotions. He is quiet and puts forward the impression of dutiful son and respectable citizen and in most cases in public he will be polite and speak little (though he can hold conversations, he simply isn't a chatterbox). In general he has a sweet, if a bit confused, manner and despite a darker side when he's driven to despair he isn't typically murderous (and so is not generally a danger to anybody - he's not a psychopath but he can be prone to recklessness).
11-12 can appear to be aloof in many circumstances. Mostly it is a kind of mask as he is actually highly sensitive and can get very emotional about things. The mask he often puts on for his father, to maintain the 'perfect family' face that has been set up on the surface. He has a curious personality, wanting always to know more even if it's not in his own best interests to know the truth of things. He questions things - sometimes quite earnestly - which leads his father to call him rebellious. But in most cases he hides any rebelliousness from any authority figures. He will, however, go behind their backs, as evidenced by the homosexual affair he has with an older man and how he gives pills - that his father was feeding his mother in her coma-like sleep - to a doctor for analysis, wanting to know what was really wrong with her. He can tend to take things to extremes - such as murdering his lover when there is danger of his father finding out about the affair. Despite being a two-time murderer he has a strong conscience and very much regrets what he has done - crying even as he killed and miserable afterwards, sinking into severe depression, even seeing a vision of the murdered man. While he starts out as a seemingly upright young man, seen participating calmly with his father in things such as a game of golf, his questioning nature leads to his downfall and his personality becomes increasingly stressed until his discovery of his life being merely a figment of his mother's subconscious mind. This drives him to the desperate measure of smothering her with a pillow and then killing himself.
In a way, he is an extreme case of teenage angst but with perhaps more reason to be so than most.
His attitudes can be a bit prudish, being brought up in a high-class family and to be well-mannered (and old fashioned in some ways; even sounding a little pompous at times). When left alone he can turn very introspective and he often appears to be thinking or observing, more often than speaking. In deleted scenes it is revealed he reads about and has an interest in philosophy. When he's more relaxed he can act more like a teenager - for example: enjoying dancing at a club with his lover, as long as it's someplace he doesn't believe his father will see them. He may react differently depending on who he is around - cautious, relaxed, friendly or wary. These are all traits he has shown.
Despite two murders, he's no villain. He's more like a little boy who's lost his way, very naive and inexperienced.
11-12 || The Prisoner || 4/?
I am planning on taking 11-12 from 'pre-canon' (before 6's arrival and before he finds out any secrets of the Village) so his canon will play out some time during the RP itself.
Note: Parts of the history and personality sections have been taken from a previous application I have done for this character at another RP.
Additional Links:
Official website (http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/)
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(2009_miniseries))
First Person (entry type):
(Sample 1 - set pre-canon)
I hope my father never sees this. I know he has eyes everywhere but this computer is mine and I am going to bury this file so deep within other files that I'm hoping he'll never find it. Writing my thoughts in a notebook would get me into trouble quicker, I'm sure. He'd find that wherever I tried to hide it.
But I have to write something down. Even if I delete this after I do so. I keep thinking. Why do I have to do what he wants? Why do I have to marry and to take over the Village after he has gone? What if I don't want to do that? Any of that.
I don't feel the way he feels about things. I'm... for want of a better word I feel disjointed. As if something is not quite put together properly. I can't even explain what I mean by that. When I try to think about it too much it all becomes jumbled in my head and then I feel I have to lie down. Put on some soothing music and just ... forget. Try to forget... everything. Then there is only music.
I wish I could understand what my own mind was trying to tell me.
(Sample 2 - set later in canon)
He bothers me. 6. He keeps asking questions and saying the strangest things and I cannot get any of his words out of my head. I want to ask my father but what would he say? I hardly expect the truth from him. He would likely laugh as he does when 6 questions him.
6 is delusional, he says. 6 needs treatment. Of course. Anyone straying from certain thoughts needs 'treatment'.
He'd probably think I need treatment if he knew about... No I can't write his name here. Just in case.
Father, if you're reading this... Then I've probably already been sent to The Clinic.
11-12 || The Prisoner || 5/5
(Sample 1 - set pre-canon)
This wasn't the first time he'd snuck into her room when his father was out.
Sometimes 11-12 felt uncomfortable when 2 was around and he needed this; he needed some time spent alone with his mother, even if she was so unresponsive when he took her hand in his.
As he did now. He bit his lip nervously as he watched her face. Sometimes it seemed that she looked more troubled than peaceful. Shouldn't someone sleeping look peaceful? Unless she had nightmares. Maybe that was it. Those small lines on her brow, some tension even though she seemed to be just... not aware of anything.
11-12 gave his mother's hand a squeeze. Her skin was warm and alive. It seemed as if she could sit up at any time.
But she never did.
Wiping at his eyes, 11-12 murmured, "Mum?" He wished for her to give him even a glimmer that she could hear him but there was again nothing. He sighed then jumped, slightly startled as he heard a small clattering sound from downstairs.
It must be his father. Home earlier than he'd expected. It always seemed that way when he wanted some time alone with M2. Hurriedly, 11-12 let go of her hand and exited the room, giving only a brief, longing look back at her before he went outside.
(Sample 2 - set later in canon)
11-12 was on his third drink of the night. His head was feeling a little dizzy but pleasantly so because it stopped other darker thoughts from surfacing so readily. He couldn't stop thinking about 6 though. That determined look on the man's face. The way he had looked when their eyes had met, almost as if 6 was trying to send him some secret telepathic message.
Shivering, 11-12 ordered another beer. Maybe a couple more would numb him enough to even stop thoughts of 6 and all the extra questions that he brought up. As if he needed to question his life even more than he already did. Something didn't make sense but he couldn't quite grasp what it was. Why did others insist that there was another place? One person, sure... but so many. There always seemed to be another Dreamer rambling about somewhere outside of the Village.
It wasn't possible. it couldn't be. The Village was all there was. All there could be.
If that wasn't true then why would the fact be kept from him? Who was hiding what? 6? His own father? He was beginning to wonder who or what to believe.
11-12 downed the rest of his beer and winced. There. That numbing buzz in his head. That might do him well enough so he could sleep tonight.
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