6 is one of the supporting characters of the 2009 animated feature 9. He is the sixth stichpunk created by the Scientist.
He is voiced by Crispin Glover.
History[]
When 6 first awakened in the Scientist's workshop on August 28, the Scientist noted him as being peculiar and having different perspectives to the outside world, based on several drawings that 6 made. 6 took more out of the scientist's soul than the other stichpunks did.
6 is first seen in the Sanctuary, lurking in the shadows, and drawing pictures while humming a hymn.
When 9 comes back with 5, he tries to warn him to "Go back to the source" and shows off his drawings. 9 is interested, but 1 interrupts them before 6 could reveal anything else. While being in a numb state of mind for most of the battle, he manages to regain consciousness during the climax and helps 5 activate the plane's propeller in order to kill the Winged Beast.
During the stitchpunks' journey to the Library, 6 nearly gets left behind while he is attempting to catch some ashes falling from the burning Sanctuary, but he gives up when they fall through his hands and tries to catch up with the others. At the Library, he settles on the ground ready to draw another picture of the Source, but is exasperated when 8 purposefully steps on his paper. Later, he matches his new drawing with a picture in one of 3 and 4's books; he tries again to tell 9 about the talisman but is, once again, cut off by 1.
After the Fabrication Machine is presumably destroyed, he plays with 5, laughing and sitting on his shoulders and testing his own echo in the phonograph, much to the amusement of the others. When The Machine reveals itself, it chases after 5 and captures him before proceeding to absorb his soul. 6 becomes stunned at the sight, but sees 5's soul inside the Machine before dissipating. 1 orders the group to run to the bridge. During the chase, the bridge gives way, nearly taking the Machine with it. Seeing an opportunity, all the stitchpunks with the exception of 6 and 1 try to destroy the Machine while they had a chance. 6 stops running and grabs 9 by the shoulders, desperately exclaiming that the souls are trapped inside the Fabrication Machine, and that it mustn't be destroyed. He goes so far as to attempt to stop 7 from prying The Machine off the bridge. As the Machine finally loses its grip, one of its great arms bursts through the wood beams below 6, pulling him with it as it falls back against the opposite side of the pit below. 6 calls to 9, "Go back to the first room. He'll show you. The Source!" for the last time before having his soul taken. His lifeless form is dropped heedlessly from the giant claw and plummets into the chasm below.
Physical Appearance[]
6 appears as a white-and-grey striped stitchpunk. The fastening on his neck, wrists, and ankles appears to be copper wire wrapped around his neck once and three times around his wrists and ankles. He has a tuft of gray and white yarn on his head, though as time and artwork passed, it has become stained with dark ink. One of his eyes is larger than the other, perhaps emphasizing his mental state. 6 wears a large old-fashioned key on a key ring around his neck, which he can be seen clutching at when he is scared or upset. The deleted scene "The Scientist's Legacy" confirms that the key that 6 wears is the key to the scientist's music/jewelry box for 9. Blots and smears of ink can be seen on both his body as well as on his pen-nib hands.
In his original design, he is shown having much longer hair, the key much broader and bigger than him, and his face is nearly emaciated.
Personality[]
6 is the artistic portion of the Scientist's personality. He sees things that the others in the group don't see. 6's fingers are made of ink pen nibs, which he uses to draw. He is white, covered in faded black stripes; his hair is made of yarn and is ink-stained, like much of his body. His right eye is larger than his left, and he wears a key around his neck, which he protects with his life, but no one knows what it truly unlocks (although the original suggestion is seen in the deleted scenes of the DVD). He is the shortest of the group. He repeatedly tells the group to "go back to the source", but the others don't understand him. 6 speaks in a confusing manner, so he is often ignored. He also acts somewhat like a child. 9 is the only one of the creations that believes in 6 and listens to what he says. 6 has prophetic visions of the past and future, channeling his visions through drawings to interpret them, which are accurate in predicting events and help solve mysteries that puzzle 9. The Scientist described him as being peculiar and unable to naturally fit in to his surroundings, judging from his expressive artwork that he sees the world differently from the other creations. He is the fourth to die. It is also suggested that he has been driven mad by the danger of the War of the Machines and the current danger of The Fabrication Machine.
Trivia[]
- In the Russian adaptation, 6 represents a engineer.
- 6's key was originally going to open a box for 9, 7 ,3 and 4, with the words our future carved into metal, and a mirror, but this was changed to the hologram message for 9 instead.
- In his concept art 6 has a ink bottle attached to a rope around his neck.
- In a deleted scene where they go into a abandoned tunnel after a deleted moment, 6's key was taken away and 8 held on to it before throwing it to the ground. 6 soon grabs it and predicts about the seamstress by saying 2 is coming. This might have been the original idea for 6 to predict the future.
- When the other stitchpunks reach the Library inside, 6 can be seen drawing on a sheet of paper as 1 orders 8 to do guard patrol outside. 6 may percase have pulled it out of a book lying about on the floor that has loose empty pages, and there may have been some contained sources of ink left inside the Library which 6 could have found.
- In the 2009 film, 6 is the 4th one to die.
- In the movie where 9 and 5 leaves to go to the watch tower, 6 is heard humming "Dies Irae", a Latin hymn used for the dead.
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