Five

* Five's Sprite
* Yellow Flowers
* Dress
* Five Reference

> *Five knows that home can be... friends too! Not just place! So... If Aria is happy with friends... then friends are Aria's home!*
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Five is a very young Monster who was rescued by Nino not too long after he woke up in the Forest of Illusions. She was found scared and alone, scratching at herself uncontrollably. She was saved by the power of Nino's Healing Hands. Five claims that her name was "assigned" to her, likely by the scientists in The Lab. Her current goal is to find a way to return home, which she seems to have fond memories of.

## Appearance

Five is a young child with a frail frame, likely due to her background as a sickly child. She displays traits common to monsters, such as bright red eyes, common pointed horn, and little sharp fangs visible whenever she shouts. She has pale skin and dark indigo blue hair styled in a short bob curving around her head. Her bangs fall messy and frame her face, giving her a very youthful appearance. She wore a purple one-piece dress that was ripped and torn around the edges, possibly from damaging herself during her "transformation". She also wore a flower crown made from five purple flowers, which was later replaced by a crown made of three yellow flowers by Nino.

Initially, when Nino found her during her "transformation", she looked grim and more beastly. Her hair looked muddy, and her arms and legs had entirely changed to black claws. She had inflicted many scratches and injuries on herself, which were healed up slowly and then completely by Nino's ability.

During her days in the lab, she wore a green hospital gown with green slippers, and had longer hair that was tied in two low twintails to the sides.

After meeting Aria, she now wears a poofy indigo dress formerly worn by Aria in her youth, along with a pair of purple shoes and the same yellow flower crown that she got from Nino.

In her human disguise while Aria is using Beguile on her she has dark purple eyes with no horn, along with an oversized coat Aria formerly wore in the forest.

## History

### Early Life

Little is known about Five's life before the Lab, save for the fact that she was diagnosed from an early age as unable to awaken an ability, leading to her becoming a sickly child who was confined to a bed or a wheelchair. This eventually led her to be one of many recommended for Prof. Zachery Lumen's joint-races medical research program, funded by both Prince Suvillan III and Princess Ruta.

### The Lab

At the Lab, Five was placed under the care of the young nurse Diana A. Xayasith, whom she often called "Sis" and developed a close relationship with in the years she spent being treated for her condition. During this time, Diana would be in charge of monitoring Five's growth and status, as well as eventually introducing Five to her circle of friends: Solis Ardor, Lune Umbra, and the young prince-to-be Ruit Sapindale (called "Friend", "Guard", and "Prince" by Five respectively). These were generally remembered as happy years, with Five slowly growing stronger with the treatment, eventually becoming the program's most successful patient so far.

Things would take a turn however, some time after Five's fifth birthday. With the advent of the Human-Monster War and the death of Princess Ruta, Prof. Zachery saw it wise to place Five in a cryogenic chamber under a medically-induced coma, in the hopes of preserving his research. When Five finally awoke years later at the end of the War, she found herself alone in the ruined Lab with none of her friends to be seen.

### The Monster World

Unsettled by the dilapidated state of the Lab, Five attempted to leave in search for the others, only to come across a spirit in the guise of Solis. Terrified by the encounter, Five fled and instinctually summoned her claws for the first time, but was so distressed at the change that she began to frantically scratch at the surrounding skin in an attempt to reverse it. This however worsened her anxiety, and caused the transformation to spread further up her arms and into her hair as a result.

It is while in this state that she is found by Nino, an amnesiac human boy who had found himself in the monster world. Healing her with his ability, Nino was able to calm Five and accompany her through the surrounding forest, where they encountered the wolfhound Ludwig and later his owner Aria Elwyn.

## Observations

* Five has extremely pale skin, almost paper white. This is a trait that she shares with Prince Suvillan.
* Five has stated that "When unit is lost... Unit... Go back... To lab!... **Lab... Is home!**" This signifies the possibility of other "units" than Five.
* All other units than 3 and possibly 5 have an X at the end here. This implies that 3 could be a possible factor in the world.
* On the shelf, there are the flowers that were given to Five before she was banished.
* Five has stated "...Prince... Make Friend... Banish... Five..."
* She appears to be the first true breakthrough in the Lab's genetic research, though it is currently unknown what their true goal actually was. Five has commented that "Five... is... a failure... Five...transform... to be useful... Five... doesn't want... ...transformation..."
* She has stated that her friends before Nino were "Big sis...Prince...Friend...And guard!"
* Five likes to do anything fun that involves other people. For her, playing alone is boring.
* Five, along with Ludwig, can only be hugged by friends, in contrast to Nino, who can be hugged by enemies as well.
* The Queen seems to have taken an interest in her, and spared her, though the reasons for that are currently unknown.
* Five thinks xylophones look fun. And cymbals. And triangles. And bells. whatever with ringing.
* Five likes day and night equally.
* Five, likes gardens. Especially ones with many flowers, they remind her of having fun with friends.
* Nino healing Five gave him +1 diplomacy experience.
* She was once ill to the point of needing a wheelchair in the lab flashbacks, Sis took her to a new home with her friends there afterwards, she was happy until after her birthday, she woke up with her home razed, she wandered for a while and found her friend who banished her under the prince's orders. What's interesting about this is that somewhere in between when Sis took her to her new home and when her home was razed, she recovered from needing a wheelchair, because her being able to stand happened before Nino met her and saved her with healing hands. It's implied that Nino's fortification ability helped Five survive in her banished state, as Reed reacted strongly to Nino being able to fix Five's problems despite The Lab not being able to heal her and due to The Lab likely having other people with healing abilities who were unable to heal Five or the other test subjects when in their deteriorating states, due to monsters dying very young if they're unable to awaken an ability.
* She along with Sis are unable to awaken an ability.