9

Intro This is based on the book 9 by Zach Hines in this world, humans have been given 9 lives after a storm in 1801, when you die you are remade in a Lake where you must swim to a medium-sized building where you are given a tattoo on your neck of your number. Side effects of Extinguishing, the process of going to a nurse for them to kill you, include Wrinkles which can range from never being able to see green again or losing your sense of taste just as examples Retrograde is where you start to deteriorate from repeated death Permadeath when you're just a husk of you once were Scholarships kids, only 3 at Lakeshore Academy, are all poor The Lake Organization are the people in charge of the lake characters Julien Dex, One, whose mom worked for an organization studying the Lake and secretly was in charge of an operation where you kill someone and kill them again before they get their memories back then incorrectly brand them, poor, unaware of what his mom did, older brother of Rocky, Julian has trauma from when his mom went retrograde thus refuses to burn Nicholas, One that everyone thinks is a Five, is in charge of a suicide club that throws crazy parties called Burners, Burners aren't an official club but are very prestigious, Rich, has terrible parents who never are present, father is a man of power at The Lake Organization, control freak, & is obsessed with The Burners Molly, Two, the only friend of Julien, is growing apart from Julien, will eventually leave and retrograde Cody, parents retrograded at a young age, and was forced to go to a care center that was controlled directly by The Lake Organization, eventually left and started a little hideout with all the other kids from the care center, studying the life around the lake, doesn't go to school as that'd make her on the radar