Ten

* Faceless
* Author's Version

*"I will fight you as long as I can."*

Ten is the main character of *The Facility*, and the story is told from her point of view. She is a prisoner of the underground Facility and the patient of Yosuke Chisaka, who becomes obsessed with her over time.

Ten meets other victims like her whom she comes to form a strong relationship with, and a variety of doctors who torment her. Throughout the course of the story, more and more information about the facility and those who are affiliated with it is revealed, all while Ten battles with her emotional and mental state given her constant abuse and desperate desire to seek understanding.

## Appearance

Ten's appearance is fairly vague, given that the story uses the second person perspective. Initially, the author intended for others to see Ten as they liked, and so she was drawn as a faceless entity in most art.

Later on, the author started to draw her own version(s) of Ten, often with reddish-brown hair and green or blue eyes. Other followers of the story have sometimes given her blonde or black hair, or given her various ethnicities. But more often than not, the most prominent feature of Ten given both by the author and by fans is a petite or lean physique. Versions of Ten that are chubbier, however, do exist. The author has said that any variation of Ten is welcome.

Ten dons a rose pink gown for most of the story, but there have been some variations to her outfits (see *Alternate Outfits* section).

The author has said that if Ten were to live in the outside world, she would dress effeminately and wear cutesy clothing if she wanted to be “fancy” (things like nice short dresses and flats), or casual comfy clothes like knitted sweaters and leggings.

## Story

Ten's role in the facility, how she got there, who she used to be, and why she gets the attention she does is still a mystery, and one Ten is desperate to solve despite constantly being told she should let it go. Often, she presses for information about her past, her skills, her relationships, etc. and never receives any fulfilling answer. Most of what Ten learns about herself or about the facility is told to her by doctors or Numbers, learned through encounters, or aroused through random things.

### Past

One major contributing factor to Ten's knowledge of the facility comes in the form of her dreams, particularly a recurring dream of a garden. It presents itself very early on in the story, and slowly becomes an important piece, particularly in her memory, that Ten struggles to understand. Through countless dialogues and instances of random, involuntary thought, Ten comes to realize that she must have some association to this garden in her dreams, and it's speculated that it's a memory of hers. This speculation is further strengthened after more and more recurring dreams and auditory hallucinations affect her, but despite trying constantly to, Ten is not fully able to remember the garden on her own, and she feels no real familiarity to it. Even when she becomes aware that her dreams and the things she sees/hears are likely from her past, she cannot really associate them with herself, and often she feels alienated when she's confronted with these situations.
### The Facility

Anything else Ten learns about how the facility works, bits of information about the employees, or even about its prisoners all tends to come by chance. Ten constantly gets involved in affairs by chance, or else because she pushes to be involved. This often leads to her being forced into terrible situations, but ones that often reward her with more information. If not that, she learns information from specific doctors who sympathize with her, and show willingness to answer her questions.
### Identity

Ten struggles also with her identity and sense of self, not necessarily just with her past self. While other Numbers have hobbies they managed to retain, Ten heavily feels alienated and lost. She has no idea who she used to be, and often begs anyone to tell her that information while being denied each time. So far, it's unclear what kind of interests Ten really has. The only instances of her having any kind of fascination or passion have been small things, but nothing Ten is especially good at. There have been some chapters where she notices stitchwork on clothing, admires fashion, and compliments artwork. She has been seen drawing, writing, playing an instrument, reading, and trying to engage in theatrics with her friends, but none of these things offered in the recreational areas are anything she's able to do well the way her friends can.
Only a few things have been of note, namely music, or sound in general. The times Eight has played his violin for her, Ten has felt moved by the music. Early on in the story, there are several instances where music is played, and each time Ten remarks on the beauty of the songs she hears. It instills quiet in her, and she truly enjoys it. Even in moments such as in Chapter 48, when Yosuke played the piano, or in Chapter 52 when Nathaniel played music on his phone, this was something that struck her.
Even more notable is the fact that Eight, who admitted to hearing his father's voice in his post-injection interview feed, is adept at music, and Ten later starts to hear voices as well after forcing herself to try remembering her past.
Lastly, Ten has a tendency to hone in on noises in her dreams. One dream gave her insight on a conversation between Yosuke and Mom, while another dream she had while unconscious for her second shot lead to her hearing the voices of The Overseer and Lucius in her head. Both conversations fed her information she would not have had access to otherwise.
### Speculation

Fans have speculated that Ten was once a dancer, or fascinated by dancing. This theory started to pop up around the time of her visit with Nathaniel in the chapter mentioned above. She danced with him while roleplaying as a guest at a party, and found that the steps and music were "easy to follow along to". Coupled with the fact that Ten is apparently quite flexible in most visits, and Yosuke has referred to her as "light on [her] feet", this theory seems more widely accepted.
## Personality

Ten has a wide array of emotional responses to things throughout the story, but she is overall a very stubborn person who always presses for truth and demands to be taken seriously by those who undermine her. However, she is also very skittish and naive toward the beginning of the story, and it's not until a series of certain chains of events that she lets her more stubborn side really poke through.

Ten starts the story as a more malleable and bendable person, which serves as a detriment to her when she believes what people tell her and falls for a lot of tricks. She struggles to read people easily, and she is an extreme overthinker. She has tended to jump to conclusions or worry excessively over things that, for some, may be trivial. In addition, Ten was initially heavily reliant on others for her emotional support.

As time goes on, Ten's personality shifts from complete timidity to forwardness of some degree. Ten's actions later in the story may be seen as reckless, but she has determination not to let herself fall or be overlooked. Many of the doctors describe her as "persistent" about her desires, particularly that of wanting to know as much about the facility and its employees as possible.

She is nowhere near as headstrong or forward as someone like Nine, however Ten does shift somewhat in that direction both after getting more accustomed to the facility, and after enduring a series of horrible abuses that almost broke her. She finds ways to keep herself up while still letting herself be vulnerable around those who love her, and whom she loves. Unlike Three, she is no longer extremely timid or naive later on in the story, however she still has her moments of panicked thinking, fear, sadness, and misery, given the impression the facility has left on her and the trauma it's caused her.

Some doctors find her tendencies annoying, especially those like Lilah, Micah, Lucius, and The Overseer, all of whom have short tempers or little patience for her. These doctors often try to bring Ten down verbally or with action, with the exception of Micah who seems to want her to get accustomed to her life here for her own sake. and thinks threatening or frightening Ten is a way to do it. Others, however, have praised Ten for standing strong despite the constant beating of the facility against her mind and body. Not only do her friends uplift her this way, but even some doctors like Gale are exceptionally fascinated by Ten's growth and, in their own way, pay compliments to her for it.

## Relationships

### Doctors

#### **Yosuke Chisaka**

Ten has a difficult relationship with her doctor that has morphed and changed with time. Initially, she was stricken by him and taken in, if conflictingly, by his tendency to "take care" of and "protect" her. She notes of Yosuke that he is handsome, and that it is because of this that he seems to be able to get away with what he does. She currently and has always hated his tendency to tease and take advantage of her, but also struggles immensely with the fact that most things he does to her made her feel good.
It's also very easy for Yosuke to get in Ten's head early on, and often the things he's said have bothered her intensely, or shaped her responses to him. He has tended to try getting her to give into him, even using instances of having to rescue her from Mom or comfort her after being abused by Milos as a means to get inside her head and breed dependence in her. Ten only has consented to Yosuke having sex with her once as a result, but has since regretted the instance utterly.
Because Ten is physically weak by comparison, it is often very easy for Yosuke to subdue her, so she often feels weak beneath him. This is something that persists throughout most of the story, though Ten eventually becomes more biting with her doctor and at least makes more of an effort to fight him, even in moments where her efforts fail.
Ten learns to be much more bitter toward Yosuke the more she has to deal with him, and the worse his obsession with her grows. While she almost fell into his traps, she managed to avoid it with the help and support of her friends, as well as with the intense fear of becoming attached to him to a point that she's no longer herself. She became much more talkative against him, asking questions often and refusing to listen to him. Although her curiosity and biting reactions tend to get her in trouble, with Yosuke becoming more aggressive with her, babying her more, and restricting her often, Ten has expressed a refusal to stop fighting the man.
Ten now has expressed her hatred for Yosuke in words, having written a letter to her doctor expressing all her grievances and how frustrated she is that Yosuke does not listen to her pleas. Even so, because of Yosuke's obsession with his Number, Ten must continue to deal with all abuses he doles out. After her confinement, she does start to "give into" him as a means to keep him from acting out again (and upon The Overseer's order), fearing that being separated from Yosuke in any way might lead to her friends being hurt, or her dying.
Ten finds herself afraid of her doctor in some moments, especially when he doses her with Red Valentine. This serves as one of the major turning points in their relationship, as it is the point that Yosuke's obsession with dominating her blossoms further. While he eventually admits he can no longer control her emotions and make her love him, he asserts that he can make her obey him, and expresses a strong desire to conquer the young woman by keeping her under his thumb. While this often comes in the form of him simply sexually abusing her for his enjoyment, he has also expressed an intense want to breed her, stating interest in the idea of having a family. Though, this may or may not be a legitimate interest to mask his true desire to "own" Ten by impregnating her.
Ten is intensely afraid of dying in the facility, and fears that being impregnated by anyone could turn into a literal or a metaphorical death. Either she might actually die, or she will no longer be who she used to, given that another girl who got pregnant returned to the group an entirely different person. She despises Yosuke for constantly forcing her to do what he wants, but after her confinement, she begrudges his unnerving whims if only to keep him at bay, fearing also that if he acts out again, the two will be separated, and she may be in danger because of it. She lets Yosuke baby her, even putting up with a set of rules he eventually sets for her.
Ten struggles with Yosuke's jealous tendencies as well, often having to hide her affection for her friends around him, even if she is not sexually or romantically interested in those people. Yosuke has pried on her fascination with Cyrus and Lav especially, but has even gone so far as to tease her about potentially liking Eight too.
While in the beginning Ten struggled to understand her doctor's thoughts and moods, she finds that after spending so much time with him, it becomes a little bit easier to read him. Additionally, because she knows he cherishes her utterly, she sometimes may use that against him, and act sweetly for him as a distraction or to sway her doctor into giving her things she wants. He has given Ten bits of information that he once refused to, stating that he tells her these things both because he loves her, and because he feels bad for her. After Ten's confinement, the two both come to accept that they must lean against each other on certain things, with Ten admitting she needs to let Yosuke take care of her in some moments even if she'd rather he not. Yosuke, however, starts to let his obsession further afflict his protective tendencies when he states a willingness to protect Ten from The Overseer after she starts to have voices from her past relay in her head, something that Yosuke remains intensely concerned by.
Ten regularly compares Yosuke to other doctors, particularly Mom and the late Richard Lafayette. She often likens Yosuke's obsessive tendencies to Mom's, stating that they seem more fitted to each other than she and Yosuke do. Yosuke, however, regularly denies having any similarity to the woman. As for the latter doctor, who was Jade's, Ten fears that Yosuke is following or will follow in the man's footsteps, as he had tried protecting Jade from The Overseer by hiding her pregnancy from him. Ten regularly fears that Yosuke will get caught and killed because of his actions.
#### **Mom**

Mom tends to go for softer girls (the others being Three and Five), and thus enjoys visiting the usually hesitant Ten. She tends to grow obsessed with the new numbers when they first show up but may have a specific obsession for Ten due to her being linked to Yosuke. Mom takes many opportunities to baby Ten, tease her and treat her like a "princess".
Ten is fairly afraid of Mom to some degree, and she is one of the few doctors Ten will never trifle with after having seen and experienced her more violent and angry tendencies. She dislikes the way Mom babies and treats her, but forces herself to put up with it in worry of offending the woman.
At some point long after Ten's confinement has ended, she finds Mom's attitude has changed, if only slightly. She no longer antagonizes Ten quite so badly, though she says it's only because she wants to earn Yosuke's trust and adoration. Moreover, she is more accepting of Monica to a point that she considers her a friend, though Ten remains uncertain whether she means it. Mom also holds back much more than she used to, something Ten finds odd. When she expresses knowing Monica and Ten are likely to be talking together, Mom does not take the opportunity to ruin it for either of them and opts to stay quiet, not asking any favors in return.
#### **Sven Engelstad & Jude Christian**

Both men enjoy visiting and tormenting her. Jude is someone she dislikes for the way he treats her, but she especially has a hatred toward Sven for how aggressive and degrading he's been. Otherwise, there hasn't been much interaction. Any time Ten is met with either man, she is simply bitter.
#### **Micah Galin**

Ten has a natural dislike for Micah as he is considered one of the rougher doctors. Even when discussing him with the other numbers, they all agree that he is an asshole. She is unconvinced when Mom tells Ten that Micah puts up a mean front while being soft in some moments. Micah enjoys degrading Ten while also liking how she bites back.
When Ten throws up during a visit in Chapter 46, he reluctantly tends to her ailment and advises her to toughen up or else she wouldn't last. He also "comforts" her by telling her that fear is a sign that she's still alive. Though even in his strange ways of comforting her, he says it's so that they can "keep doing what they're doing" and not have to deal with the mess if a number were to lose their will to live. He pushes Ten to accept pleasure in Chapter 73 instead of fighting it - an advice she is still attempting to put into practice.
#### **Gale Smith**

While Gale has no romantic attachments towards Ten, their relationship is most definitely affectionate as Gale tends to have a weakness towards sweeter girls and has often given attention to Ten. Gale tends to show care and fascination towards all the Numbers, but due to special circumstances, they find themselves an integral part of Ten's life in the facility. They both have knowledge about the facility that not even some of the doctors are aware of, and The Overseer has allowed Ten to speak openly to Gale about what she already knows (especially since he anticipates they would go behind his back and do it anyway, though Gale is loyal enough to him not to be a nuisance beyond prying).
Gale is shown as very curious about Ten's train of thought and what happens to her at the facility, admitting that while they enjoy helping her, they also enjoy having the chance to observe her and get into her head. However, they are always willing to nudge Ten in the right direction and comfort her regardless of their questionable intentions.
Ten initially highly distrusts Gale, but her dislike of them shifts around the time of her confinement to The Overseer's room, as Gale is one of the only people aside from Monica who helps protect her and keep her from sinking into a pit of despair. While she still has reservations about Gale knowing their role in the facility, she is more open with them after this incident.
#### **Lilah Valentine**

Lilah has a dislike for the weaker numbers (all numbers,) but openly insults Ten during her first meeting after hearing she was sensitive. Lilah enjoys pecking at Ten and openly dislikes how easily fear takes over her.
In Chapter 41, Ten dreams about Lilah talking down to her and calling her annoying before being pushed down and startled awake.
In Chapter 60, Lilah sees Ten confined in The Overseer's room and grows increasingly upset when she realizes Lucius and him were keeping more secrets from her. In Chapter 81, Lilah tells Ten that she "h*ad a bone to pick with her.*" Perhaps Lilah's interest in Ten may have piqued after calling her insignificant for so long.
#### **Milos Simanek**

While Milos hasn't crossed paths with Ten often (since Yosuke nipped his visits with her in the bud after the first), he has left a lasting and traumatic impression on her. Every time she runs into Milos in the hall or even hears his voice, she instinctively freezes and panics. This reaction was much stronger initially, but later chapters seem to prove a small growth after even more violent traumas left her emotionally expectant of abuse, and pushed her hard enough for her to find her own method of coping through them, thus leaving her slightly better prepared for it.
Nonetheless, it's been shown that the impression he made in choking her and force-feeding her liquor affected Ten negatively. She tends to panic at the feeling of anything surrounding her neck, and she constantly turns down every liquor she is offered, even when the intent is not harmful. Milos enjoys messing around with Ten, but feels indifferent towards her otherwise. He will often tease her over her worst fears, if he knows it'll get a reaction.
Ten has a hatred of him just as intense as her hatred of someone like Sven, and Milos is one of the few doctors she won't fight all too much out of fear.
#### **Nathaniel Miles & Jonathan Giordano**

Ten, like some of the other Numbers, tends to fall for both men's charms while still holding onto the belief that every doctor involved in the facility are evil, no matter how gentle. Regardless, both Nathaniel Jonathan take care of Numbers when they can, and both men show genuine concern over Ten's well being.
Though Ten tends to fight both men, she also admittedly enjoys some of the gentler things they do to her and is more receptive to them later on despite fighting them earlier. Along with a few other doctors, she finds it's easy to deal with them.
#### **Monica Santos**

Ten was wary of Monica at first, but came to somewhat sympathize with and accept her to a degree. While she assumed Monica's kindness was a mere act in the same vein as Mom's pleasant façade, she was eventually proven wrong when Monica was one of the only doctors (the other being Gale) to take care of and guide Ten during her lowest point, when she was confined to The Overseer's room.
Over the course of the story, Ten discovers more about Monica and her past. While Monica's initial hesitance to open up on some things was something Ten mistook as her being generally secretive, she learns in Chapter 77 that Monica has gaps in her memory the same way the prisoners to the facility do. This comes across to Ten as a similarity she can cling to, and it helps her open up to and trust Monica further.
Ten in no way fully accepts Monica as a doctor, but she sees her somewhat in the same light as Gale, where they are someone who she can keep close and be more open with. Though she despises Monica's adoration of her and her behavior during visits, she is able to separate Monica as a visitor from Monica as a person affected by The Overseer.
The other Numbers who learn of Ten's closeness with Monica find it unusual given she has always been against the doctors, but Monica is a doctor Ten has willed herself to defend despite asserting that Monica's kindness doesn't excuse her role in the facility. She is willing to listen to Monica, but also willing to question and speak against her too.
#### **Lucius Marcellus**

Ten has an intense fear of Lucius, both because of his sadistic nature, and because he has been immensely abusive of her physically, emotionally, and sexually.
Her first meeting of the man while at the facility came when she watched him shoot Jay dead. It was one of the first instances of death she ever had to witness, and it severely traumatized her to a point that any time she saw Lucius afterward, such as during her recovery of her second injection, was horrifying to her. Even in later chapters, she fears having to face him again, and expresses displeasure upon hearing his voice.
When Ten sees Lucius again next, he kidnaps her to The Overseers room to be confined indefinitely as punishment toward her and Yosuke, and it's there that Ten faces numerous acts of violence, instances of rape, and various mental abuses from the man. However, while there, she also speaks with Lucius and learns of the nature of Red Valentine, about what happened with Jade and her doctor, and even the post-injection feeds that revealed more about her friends and how they were when first entering the facility.
Lucius constantly toys with Ten, poking at her deepest insecurities, forcing her into feeling helpless beneath him, threatening her, and making her feel worthless. During her confinement, Lucius regularly demeans Ten, sics a drugged-up worker on Ten to rape her, kills said worker in front of her, forces her to perform oral sex in exchange for the "privilege" of talking openly with Gale about the facility and her friends, abuses Nurses in front of her, and even bitterly refuses Ten the ability to masturbate when she starts to use the act as a means to take control of her body and push through what would otherwise have broken her utterly. He has said repeatedly he cares little for the young woman, only that he takes fascination in making her suffer and squirm beneath him. The more she fights The Overseer or tries to overcome her abuses, the angrier at her Lucius gets.
Lucius is someone Ten has brought herself to hate as much, if not even more, than her own doctor. She remains bitter about the trauma he caused her, yet continues to have fear responses invoked in her when he is present or even mentioned. She won't trifle with the man who is so close to The Overseer any more than any of the doctors will, but she refuses to ever forgive him for what he did to her. Regardless, Lucius continues to torment Ten in other ways even long after her confinement.
#### **The Overseer**

The Overseer is someone Ten is immensely afraid of from the moment she meets him in person, despite not really seeing him nearly as often as anyone else. He is an intimidating man she often describes as cold or callous, and his tendency to lash out at her with harsh insults, bitter words, physical force, or even the use of his revolver, has left Ten feeling hopeless against him.
Ten's confinement in The Overseer's room left a horrible impression on her. His tendency to disregard her as a person and constantly lead her on with false hope only to chide her for it left Ten feeling conflicted. She came to hate The Overseer for the way he treated her and for running the underground operation. She vilifies him for choosing to hurt others, seemingly without a care in the world.
The Overseer has made many direct and indirect threats to kill Ten, frightening her to her core each time. Because of how he abused her, a way more direct than how Lucius did, she refuses to cross him blatantly. Though she later does keep prying for information about her past, Ten does much of it away from The Overseer's view when possible (though it's been said by others that he is likely aware of this). After her confinement, Ten is plagued with fears of being hunted by or killed by him, even in her dreams.
While her ordeal with The Overseer proved traumatic for Ten, her experience with him also helped her see things in a new light. She returned to Yosuke miserable, but with tougher skin and capable of taking much more both physically and mentally than she could prior. She still crumbles beneath The Overseer, still fears what he may do to her, but has found it easier to put up with other doctors as a result of her miserable time.
Ten does not know what to make of the man. She knows little of him, and has come to find that this is also the case for many of the other doctors aside from Lucius (although there are things The Overseer keeps even from him). Her only image of The Overseer is that he is a cruel and evil man, though when she eventually finds by eavesdropping that she may have ties to him through a woman named Dahlia, Ten begins to wonder endlessly who The Overseer really is, and why he's established the facility. She is unable to learn anything about him through anyone but the few doctors who willfully break rules for her, or by eavesdropping when the anesthetic does not fully affect her, or wears off early.
### Numbers

#### **Cyrus**

Ten finds Cyrus fairly easy to talk to given how open and calm he tends to be. Early on, they share a few casual conversations in which Ten learns a bit more about how the facility is like. Their relationship is initially quite casual, until Chapter 15, when Cyrus admitted that he wanted to talk to Ten more since she appeared "down to Earth". They discussed a variety of topics such as the concept of "love" and Cyrus' recollection of Jade, a previous love interest. It's from then on that Ten's relationship with Cyrus deepens.
Throughout Ten's interactions with Cyrus, the two of them always try to be empathetic and hear out each other's opinions on any given situation. Additionally, Ten observes Cyrus' troubling relationship with Violet and pushes him to be honest with her about his feelings instead of avoiding conflict.
As Ten starts learning more about the Facility and the doctors, Cyrus is included in the conversation along with Lav and Eight, all who become privy to some additional details of the Facility, the Red Valentine, her abuse from Yosuke, and other things dealt with by Ten.
Cyrus finds himself attracted to Ten, and slowly becomes closer to her on an emotional level as the events of the story unravel. Ten, in turn, becomes much closer with him and comes to trust him deeply. However, in Chapter 28, Cyrus and Ten are forced into a sexual coupling by Mom, though this traumatic event pushed them even closer together while each still mitigated the other's problems. Eventually they have consensual sex in Chapter 57, once they reach a turning point in their relationship wherein they have full trust in one another, and have a thorough understanding of each other's individual traumas.
When Ten is returned from her confinement, Cyrus is clearly distraught over her disappearance and didn't believe she was real at first, instead convinced she was a figment of his imagination that had been constantly presenting itself in nightmares of his. He has a hard time coming to terms to the fact that she was truly back, and for the first time, Ten was the one who had to step in and take emotional charge of the situation.
While initially Ten put Cyrus on a pedestal because of his emotional maturity and ability to reconcile with heavy topics like inevitable death and long-term confinement, she finds herself moreso on equal terms with Cyrus later on, unafraid of taking charge and comforting him the way he always has tended to with her. She has a deep affection for him the way she does with Lav, though neither Number has yet expressed this affection openly because they are both hesitant.
#### **The Twins**

Ten had an initially difficult relationship with Two and Three after learning of their sexual relationship. She morally objects to their casual coupling, but comes to accept each of them individually with time. Two is someone she finds is avoidant of negative things, turning to casual demeanor or upbeat jokes rather than face bad things. Three she finds is the same kind of avoidant, only she has a more rigid aversion and tends to panic or cry in the face of stressful news. Three's clinginess to her brother is something Ten dislikes, however she is patient with the girl and does what she can to keep her happy.
Ten finds a friend in both twins, if in different ways. Despite her reservations about their worst aspects, she does enjoy that Two brings joy into things, and that Three is so softhearted and sweet. Both twins have their own spots of creativity, which Ten also admires.
Later on in the story, the disconnect between the twins leads to Ten struggling to mediate things. She finds the twins' negative traits exasperating, and admits not knowing just how to talk to them correctly. She regularly winds up second-guessing her advice to them, but never backs down from being helpful and supportive even so.
#### **Blue**

Ten initially does not understand the rather eccentric Blue. She is someone who copes with the horrors of the facility in a way Ten cannot quite grasp, since she leans completely into it as opposed to shy away from it. Over time, however, Ten comes to learn there's more to Blue than meets the eye, and that once, she was as miserable and lonely as anyone else before she got fed up with feeling that way. Rather than give up, Blue decided to take back her body for herself by accepting what was done to it and finding pleasure in being used or given attention.
Though Blue is a rather flashy and loud person at times, she has her quieter moments too, and she has given Ten her time and listened to her needs, which Ten is thankful for. Ten finds her a talented artist, and despite being a bit put off by her initially, she comes to accept Blue as a friend. Like Two, she relies on Blue to break up tension with casual jokes. She also admires Blue's ability to speak up about what she wants.
#### **Five & Six**

Ten finds it easy to talk with Five and Six at first, and early on, she learns of the two's romantic relationship. Because of her earlier moments with Lav and how they left her unsure of how to feel, she sought the girls out for advice on relationships, coming to understand more about them as she had with Cyrus when they discussed different types of love.
Later on, Ten talks more to Five and Six about various things, including their musical capabilities (or lack thereof), Jade, and the shots everyone's given. When the girls later ask Eight to help teach them music, they occasionally keep Ten and everyone else up with their progress.
At some point, Ten puts together that Gale had set Five and Six up, and while she initially vilifies them for it, Gale later promises that their coupling was for a reason that was in no way malicious.
Ten values both Five and Six as dear friends. They have both been patient with her, and served as kind guides since the beginning of the story. Five has always been nurturing, while Six, even sometimes as a bit of a wildcard, was still fairly grounded. While other Numbers leave Ten with a lot of energy to deal with, she can be more casual and relaxed with Five and Six.
#### **Violet**

Ten at first finds intense frustration with Violet due to her extremely stubborn and biting nature. She also winds up completely fed up by Violet's jealous tendencies, but still tries her best to support the girl in some moments, except in other moments where she can't help but bark back at the girl.
Despite this, Ten manages to grow closer with Violet later on. While their budding relationship starts off intensely rocky, Ten does not abandon her. In moments, she even feels sorry for Violet, and wants only the best for her. She talks openly to Violet a few times regarding her personality, her affection of Cyrus, and her history with him and Jade. Violet eventually spills a lot about her love of Cyrus to Ten after the two break apart for a while, admitting to Ten that she was jealous of Jade enough for her to initially be glad she'd gone away since it potentially meant Violet had a chance of getting closer to Cyrus, though she admitted the thought was wrong and eventually spoke openly with Cyrus about it later to reconcile with him all her grief.
When Ten returns from her confinement, Violet seems much more adept and open than she once was, being a tinge more expressive and friendly, if still cynical about some things and stubborn as well. She and Ten now are good friends.
#### **Eight**

Ten at first has an adverse reaction to Eight, given that he shares some physical features with her own doctor. He is bitter toward Ten at first, refusing her kindness and being annoyed at her meek nature. He also gets frustrated over her tendency to compare him to Yosuke, having to assert their difference often.
Despite all the crudeness Ten faces from Eight, she still remains adamant on being kind to him and trying to get him to open up. While she struggles a lot with the young man, she eventually gets through to him by complimenting his musical capabilities and listening closely to his playing. She eventually becomes closer to Eight, finding solace in him because he understands fully the terror of being under Yosuke's thumb. Eight also shows instances of sympathy and kindness toward Ten when she faces abuses he never did, and in turn, Ten listens to Eight and treats him as an equal, respecting his interests and his words. The two are much closer now than they used to be, and are relatively good friends.
Eight is part of Ten's inner circle, along with Lav and Cyrus, all who learn more about the facility through her, the way they had through Cyrus prior.
#### **Lav**

Ten first met Lav when she found her playing basketball without her gown at the gym - ever since Ten is drawn to Lav's confidence and her appearing as emotionally strong. At first, Ten doesn't know much how to respond to Lav since her outward tendencies are off-putting to her. But, with time, she comes to know the girl intimately and finds herself questioning her own character as a result, even going so far as to question her sexuality because of her deep fondness for Lav that budded with time.
Lav in turn becomes attracted to Ten early on, as seen in Chapter 18 when she teaches Ten how to self pleasure herself. Due to the abusive nature of the Facility, both prisoners are confused and are slow to come to terms with their feelings for one another. While Lav eventually admits she loves Ten, she does not expect her to make any choices yet and allows Ten to stay her friend for the moment. The two thus share a strong friendship and respect for each other.
Along with Eight and Cyrus, Lav is privy to Ten's conversations regarding the Facility, the Red Valentine, her abuse from Yosuke, among other things.
Lav is considered Ten's driving force for becoming stronger, and she regularly thinks of Lav as someone who she wishes she could be more like, even when she learns what kinds of flaws she actually as. Lav ends up teaching Ten how to take pleasure for herself, shows her consensual advances, and eventually consensual sex. During Ten's confinement, she had Lav (along with Cyrus) in her thoughts to keep herself afloat, even utilizing both their advice to do so.
When Ten returns from her confinement, Lav is the most relieved, running to hug Ten and cry. She was so shaken by Ten's initial disappearance that she was at a loss, and slept with Cyrus out of grief.
#### **Pickle**

Ten meets Pickle at a point where he has already had a bit of time to adjust to the facility. She is taken aback the first time they meet, but tries to be kind for him despite their meeting coming just after her long-term confinement and after she has been generally worn down by her experiences.
Ten shares time with Pickle, learning a bit more about him as he trims her then-overgrowing hair. While she was nervous meeting him, she finds him pleasant and kind. He has the same energy as Two, yet he has some complexity to him that she can admire.
The two have yet to share much time together since Pickle has mostly latched onto Two, a proclaimed best friend. However, the times that they have had a genuine discussion, Ten has found Pickle to be much more articulate and thoughtful than he lets on. He is fairly distant and silly at times, but he is capable of buckling down and taking things seriously too. This trait particularly shines when the two discuss more about the conflict between Two and Three, though it also comes across in other ways, when Pickle refuses to demonize Three who, in effect, is throwing a silent "tantrum" against him because she feels Pickle is taking her brother away from her.
### **Tanner**

Tanner is someone who both frightens Ten utterly and pushes her buttons all at once. Because of his initial violent outbursts and negative behavior, Ten initially found herself completely afraid of interacting with him, as well as frustrated by his stubbornness. She dislikes the constant disruption he creates in the recreational areas, a place she considers a safe area from the doctors, and the one place she can go to be away from the horrors of the facility.
Tanner wound up hurting Ten which led to retaliation both from Mom, and later Yosuke. Despite her hesitance toward Tanner, Ten wound up slightly sympathetic of him, if while admitting the consequences of his actions were his own fault too. She regularly goes between being afraid of confronting him and being angry at him throughout most of the chapters she sees him, until eventually confronting him alongside Eight later on. Only here does she finally get some semblance of closure with Tanner, if in a rocky way. She finally gets some insight on why he acts the way he does, learns of his preferred name (initially he was only being called by his Number), and finally exerts some semblance of power over him by getting him to apologize to the group for destroying the crafts and music rooms.
Ten dislikes Tanner, but is still willing to work with him against her own judgements because she doesn't want to lose a fellow prisoner as she had with Jay. She constantly fights with Tanner to get him to stop being reckless, to little avail. Although she cannot stand him, Ten does tend to admit she agrees with his desire for freedom, but considers his attempts toward it severely misguided. While she had entertained the idea of freedom and escape from the facility, it isn't until Tanner's emergence that she starts to genuinely consider it as a viable option.
### **Jade**

Although she had never met Jade due to arriving after her death, Ten feels connected to her through stories told of her by the other Numbers, and through the parallels they both share. Both Numbers had an obsessive doctor who only saw them, an attachment or association to Cyrus, kindness towards each of the numbers, and a risk of pregnancy.
Ten did have a nightmare about Jade stabbing her despite never having met her (while basing her appearance of how Cyrus described to her earlier in the day), though this is likely due to an accumulation of Ten's fears of her position at the facility early on.
### **Jay**

Although their meeting was very short, Jay's death left a long and lasting impression on Ten. In Chapter 55, Ten makes a doll of Jay in the crafts room in her memory. The death of the Letter marked the first major instance of death in the story, and served as a traumatic point for Ten that she had to overcome and accept with time. When she made the doll of Jay, this was her way of doing so. Her other main reason for making the doll was to immortalize Jay, both for herself and the people she knew in her group. Ten realized that if Jay had family in the outside world, they wouldn't know she perished.
## Alternate Outfits

* **White Gown:** When Ten first woke up in the facility, she wore a simple white patient gown. It's likely that white is a color reserved for general use, before colors are fully assigned. Ten wears this gown again after an instance of confinement in later chapters.
* **Rose Gown:** Standard outfit worn throughout the story
* **Swimsuit:** Worn in some instances where Ten visits the pool
* **Latex Dress**: Worn only once as fetish clothing during her first visit with Micah
* **Slave Girl:** Worn in Chapter 30 during a visit with Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Gale. Her cuffs were chained together
* **Young Mistress:** Worn by Ten in Chapter 40 during a visit with Jonathan. One of the only known instances of Ten wearing a bra or shoes
* **Date Dress:** Worn by Ten in Chapter 48 after Yosuke had her change for a "date"
* **Yosuke's Coat:**: Worn by Ten after her first visit to the pool in Chapter 19
* **Wedding Dress:** A dress worn by Ten in her first dream of the garden. It appeared randomly on her
* **Cocktail Dress:** A rose pink dress worn for Chapter 52 during a visit with Nathaniel
* **Unknown Dress 1:** A dress drawn by Ten in Chapter 78 after missing out on dressing up with her friends in random outfits in the theater during another rest chapter.
* **Unknown Dress 2:** Another dress drawn by Ten

## Trivia

*Most of these are pulled from asks featured on the author’s tumblr*

* When it comes to her kinks, Ten is 100% vanilla. She seemed to respond pretty nicely to some of the latex stuff, being teased, and being tied up a lot, but doesn’t lean for sadism or masochism whatsoever and tends to like romantic or “fluffy” sex rather than hardcore pounding or abuse. Though, she can let herself cut loose a little when she wants to–she’s taken a few incessant poundings before that drove her crazy.
* If there’s anyone kinky in the bunch that would fancy her, it’d be Micah.
* **Fashion aesthetic:** *Ten would dress effeminately and wear cutesy clothing if she wanted to be “fancy” (things like nice short dresses and flats), or casual comfy clothes like knitted sweaters and leggings*

## Gallery

Doctor!Ten, from a roleswapTen and YosukeTen and CyrusTen with Cyrus and LavIn her roomBeing carried by Yosuke in Chapter 1Held by Cyrus in Chapter 28With Lilah in Chapter 33Being saved from Mom in Chapter 35Being patched up by Yosuke in Chapter 36Held by Lav in Chapter 37With Micah in Chapter 46With Violet in Chapter 47Dancing with Nathaniel in Chapter 52Talking with Cyrus in Chapter 56During her interviewTalking with Monica in Chapter 61Being comforted by Gale in Chapter 64Being assaulted by Lucius in Chapter 66