Number Eight

"No, I am not taking my mask off, unless you fancy a day spent as a drooling zombie."

- Number Eight

Number 8 is the main protagonist of the Parasol School fanfiction series, written by xXKlausismyBaexX on Wattpad. She is introduced in Chapter One: We Only See One Another At Marriages And Deaths, and is the only character that has been in every chapter of the fanfiction, up to Chapter Twenty: The Finish of Certain Items. She is a twenty-year-old superhero who was raised by Reggiano Johnson, presumed to be powerless, but as the series goes on, she learns of her powers and eventually reconciles with her siblings in an attempt to stop the inevitable apocalypse.

January 7th, year undisclosed
An undisclosed woman went to Walmart with her fiance, looking for some shoe polish. On that day, there was a flash sale of condoms at the store, and as they were cheap, they decided to “get it on”, if you will, in the toilets.

October 1st, year undisclosed
The same undisclosed woman, now pregnant (can never trust flash sale condoms, kids!), was at the very same Walmart looking to buy some more shoe polish. Feeling a slight pain, she went to the toilet where she gave birth to a young child. After wrapping it in her Balenciaga scarf, she dropped the baby into a “donate to food bank” basket, along with the shoe polish she no longer needed, and scarpered. An old man noticed, and took in the child, naming her Number 8 because like ORG players, he was really bad with naming things. He brought her to his house, which was repurposed as a school known as the Parasol School.

18 Years Later
Number 8 was chilling out at home, watching Netflix, and she was bored stiff. What was there to watch? She’d finished The Workplace. She’d watched all of The Decent Area. She had binged all of The Way In Which I Came Into Correspondence With Your Female Parent in one night whilst downing Chilli Heatwave Doritos. She was bored. It was at that point she saw a very interesting program titled Raincoat College. As she sat and watched the program, she had a major epiphany. The similarity in school names. The fact that one of her siblings was a guy who had his head sewn onto the body of a gorilla, eerily similar to the TV show’s character who was injected with ape serum. The fact there was a character who didn’t have a name, and just went by a number. It all made sense. The patchy internet. All the plugs being used when she needed to charge her phone. Any cat she met refusing to sit on her lap, and instead walking away from her.

Number 8 didn’t exist. She was just the creation of some cringy child writing a shitty Wattpad knockoff.

As an avid user of sites like reddit.com, tvtropes.org, and [REDACTED], this gave Number 8 An Extremely Large Amount of Power. And she would get a lot more power.

January 7th, 20 years after conception
On this day, Number 8 woke up and suddenly had an urge. Her medium awareness was telling her…..

TO GO TO SOME RANDOM WALMART.

More specifically, one of the stalls in the girl’s bathroom. As she entered the stall, she felt a weird energy bursting inside of her. Rushing out, scared of the power building up inside of her, she stared down the cleaning attendant who just entered the room, and was shocked to see the cleaning attendant turn, catatonic, staring directly at her. As she left, the cleaning attendant followed her all the way to the gates of the Parasol School. She turned, looked at the man, and snapped her fingers in front of him. He jolted, startled, and ran off in a scaredy-cat fashion.

Personality
Number Eight is an introspective, perceptive young woman. When she's in a good mood, she's vivacious and magnetic, and people seem to be instinctually drawn to her sense of humor and charm. When she talks to her love interest, Lenny Peabrain, she's giggly and overly flirtatious, a side of herself that she rarely lets herself show among her siblings.

When she's first introduced, she's withdrawn and reclusive, most likely due to her strained relationship with her siblings, and her unwillingness to feel lesser than them due to her lack of powers (at the time). However, as the series goes on, she opens up to other characters and gains more in-depth inner ruminations, likely due to the writer slowly improving their writing skills over time.

However, Number Eight also has a tendency to lose her temper at times, which leads to mass destruction due to the excessive danger that her powers pose to the world if they aren't controlled. In Chapter 16: A Small Dinner, her anger at being served a pizza without pepperoni on it leads to the entire dining room being ravaged when her persuasion convinces her adoptive brothers to wreck the room for her.

Powers
Number Eight has two main powers: medium awareness (also known as breaking the fourth wall) and persuasion through seduction. Because Number Eight knows that she's in a fan work, she's able to predict the future with some accuracy via common tropes and happenings in other pieces of media similar to the one she's in. For example, she was able to save her siblings from being hurt by Maraca Maraca and Brownie in Chapter 12: The Viper Video, since she knew where they entered the warehouse from due to her obsessive rewatching of Raincoat College on Netflix. She also communicates with the reader in many cases, asking them what she should do at the end of the chapter, and uses the comments from the readers on Wattpad to make her next move.

Her other power is persuasion through seduction, which does not necessarily have to be sexual seduction. In one particularly memorable scene, Number Eight offers Maraca Maraca a fresh donut in exchange for him letting her go, which he does, due to her alluring powers, which convinced him that the donut was the best thing in the world. This combination of powers might not sound extremely dangerous, but it's been proven to be lethal in multiple cases, as Number Eight easily grasps her power and uses it like a scalpel when needed.

Superhero Motive
As a member of the Parasol School, Number 8 is one of many adopted siblings with superpowers. Her medium awareness drives the plot when she foresees an apocalypse, and then tries to take action to prevent it. However, she fails in many cases (while succeeding in others), because she doesn't take into account the fact that this is a fanfiction and the writer always has the final say. Therefore, no matter how hard she tries, she's powerless in the face of the course of the story. Even so, instead of giving up, she continues her futile quest to fight against the author's tyranny, making her a superhero.