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“ | I love to paint! | ” |
— Seventeen, in his debut |
Seventeen, or 17, is a Numberblock made of 17 blocks. He is voiced by David Holt.
He is an artist with artistic passion for painting 17 of everything.
Appearance[]
Seventeen is made up of ten white blocks with a red border, and seven blocks, that are coloured red, orange, yellow, lime green, cyan, indigo, and violet. His usual block arrangement is a 2x5 ten block with seven rainbow blocks on it shaped like a crank lever, though its claimed as a hat. He has purple eyes, a wide mouth, and purple limbs. He is also seen having paint splatters on him, they are all rainbow coloured.
He is commonly shown to be carrying around a wooden paintbrush and palette, often tucking the paintbrush behind his "ear".
Personality[]
Seventeen has an intense passion and talent for painting, having the ability to paint objects and other portraits in seconds. He is both reckless and ambitious, discarding all sense of rationality in favour of painting, being quick to delve into painting rather than paying attention to the setting around him. As a result, he is shown to be rather heedless, discarding the emotions of others and even his own well-being in order to paint. He doesn't seem to realise when he causes chaotic and messy situations since when he paints, he only concentrates on painting.
When separated from painting, however, Seventeen is shown to be far more considerate and empathetic, focusing more on his own anxieties in particularly distressful situations that is normally discarded for his artistic talent. He is also shown to be frustrated with his own impulsive desires for painting, displaying even hopelessness when he is unable to control his own behaviour. Seventeen, however, is also quick to spring back into his normal, hobby-centric mindset once he receives support and inspiration, further emphasising his head-strong personality.
Seventeen's subjects in his paintings typically vary from living creatures to scenery. He is also shown to be typically restricted to painting seventeen of everything, struggling to paint singular or other numerical amounts of objects in his art. He is also shown to have the ability to bring his own portraits to life, including living creatures and other Numberblocks.
Episode Appearances[]
- Seventeen (debut)
- Eighteen
- Nineteen (doesn’t speak)
- Tall Stories
- Flights of Fancy
- I Can Count to Twenty
- Heist
- Terrible Twosday
- Fifty (cameo)
- The Big One
- More to Explore
- The Many Friends of Twenty
- Ten Vaulting
- Twoland
- Odd Side Story
- The Team Factor
- Hidden Talents
- Making Patterns
- Figure It Out (doesn't speak)
- What If?
- 100 Ways to Leave the Planet
- Making Friends (latest appearance)
- Crossover (icon)
Total number of appearances: 22 + 1 pictured
He has appeared in 14.56% of all Numberblocks episodes, including the crossover specials.
Arrangements[]
Seventeen’s most common arrangement is 1R+4+(3x2)L+(2x3)C.
2D (35/400,795,844)3D (1) |
Trivia[]
- Seventeen makes various references to real artists and famous paintings in his debut, such as Andy Warhol, Van Gogh and Edvard Munch.
- Although he (and all other Numberblocks) lacks visible ears, the "Numberblocks Annual 2021" book quotes his paintbrush is kept behind an ear.
- As shown in his debut episode, Seventeen can create paint to use in his paintings just by rubbing his paintbrush against his blocks, making him his own art supplies.
- He is the third Numberblock numerically that doesn't appear in Series 6 nor Series 7, the first two are Zero and Thirteen.
- Seventeen being a painter is probably because of color picker values going up to 255, which has 17 as its largest prime factor. Either that, or because of his seven colourful rainbow blocks from Seven.
- Seventeen and Thirteen are cousin primes.
- He is the fourth prime number to be male.
- One article incorrectly describes him as an "eccentric one-off who makes all those crazy shapes" when that's actually Nineteen.
- He's the third prime Numberblock whose main arrangement is not a compound, the first being Eleven, the second being Thirteen, and the fourth being Thirty-One.
- He is the first prime to have his last digit be term (n) in the prime sequence (In other words, Seventeen is the 7th prime). The next number in this sequence would be the yet-to-be figured out Eighty-Three (the 23rd prime number).
- 17's numeral means:
- 15 in Octal
- 19 in Dozenal
- 23 in Hexadecimal
- 25 in Octodecimal
- 17's value means:
- 1 0001 in Binary
- 25 in Heximal
- 21 in Octal
- 15 in Dozenal
- 11 in Hexadecimal
- H in Octodecimal