Phex

Phex is the main character in the Tinkered Starsong series. 
==Appearance==
Phex’s has blue hair, black eyes, high cheeks, arched brows, and precision lips. He is a blueprint for human symmetry, an amalgam of crossbreeding for genetic superiority. Phex knew what his face was: the combination of many faces made into a simplistic ideal average, forgettable in its perfection. His brows were heavier than fashionable, and his nose had a bit of hook to it.Divinity 36, Chapter 1
Phex's vocal cords have been triggered to give a wide range.Divinity 36, Chapter 2 His speaking voice has been described as cool. Divinity 36, Chapter 5
==Personality==
Phex is rather stoic. He is quiet and sullen with a lot of walls who doesn't know how to trust. He doesn't like or collect items out of practicality. He doesn't make friends easily, but when he does he's intensely loyal. 
In Demigod 12, Phex is given cosmetic changes by the Dyesi. All his skin, which had originally been a brownish color, was not tinted gunmetal black with silvery blue overtones. They removed the visibility of his blade scars. In addition, they reshaped his ears: pulled out the lobes and pointed the tips so they were slightly larger and more crest-like. The new tips seemed to glitter and shine. His eyebrows and eyelashes had been thickened. He'd been given dark blue and black hair extensions interwoven with his own vibrant blue hair, all the way down to his hips.Demigod 12, Chapter 1 
==History==
Phex was born on The Wheel. Phex’s vocal cords had been altered before birth just like the rest of him modified to give him a wide range. When his body rejected the implant, became a crudrat where he first ran the blades at age 6. It is suspected he family line was armiger - engineered soldiers. When he was lo longer useful as a crudrat, he escaped The Wheel on his own. He became a refugee on Atticon and got work at a cafe while also getting an education. At the beginning of Divinity 36, he's 16 years old. 
At the beginning of Demigod 12, Phex is now an official Dyesi citizen since he's made it as a demigod. 
==In the Books==
===Divinity 36 ===
Phex was living and unremarkable life as a barista on a small moon when he got recruited to join the divinity. It wasn't something that he wanted, but soon found it offered him the one thing he never had. He went through many trials and tribulations in the hopes of becoming a god, but is still only an acolyte. 
=== Demigod 12 ===
Phex and his pantheon are formed and given the name Asterism. They go on tour with Tillam, being rushed to debut. The real reason: Fortew is not doing well and the divinity want to use Phex as an understudy if something were to happen to the god while on tour. He practices with both groups and for the beginning of the tour he doesn't need to fill in with Tillam. Part way through, Fortew's health finally does fail him and Phex has to step up to perform with Tillam, causing a lot of strong feelings among the believers. All the while, Phex and Missit grow closer breaking the rule of not forming romantic connections. They are able to get by with it for a long while because the Dyesi are oblivious to romantic entanglements, but their relationship is eventually revealed by the end of the book to the rest of the pantheons who choose to keep quiet and support them. 
=== Dome 6 ===
At the beginning of Dome 6, Phex and Missit are invited to perform their duet inside the caves of Dyesid Prime. It is an unprecedented invitation and Phex gets to spend a night inside the caves around the Dyesi. After their performance, Tillam and Asterim are off to their first performance on Agatay, which requires the building of a new dome, so they travel via a construction ship. On their journey, Missit and Phex are finally caught by an acolyte and separated for breaking the rules of the divinity only allowed to interact during rehearsal and performances. The performances on Agatay have an unexpected consequence of affecting the population much more strongly than any other species - leading to a civil war. Phex comes up with the plan to create a floating dome in order to affect the rest of the population much more quickly and stop the war. In the end, the acolytes test Phex about his true feelings for Missit and determine it is the third beauty. In a vote of 2 - 1, the agree to let the couple stay together. With the passing of Fortew and Kagee choosing to stay on his homeworld, Phex is saved from having to choose between Missit and his pantheon when Missit joins Asterism. 
==Trivia==
*Phex could be a cantor or a grace and gets training for both, but is being considered for cantor low in Divinity 36.
*Once Phex starts to gain worshipers, they tend to send him ladles and recipes.
*Phex is considered the 'wounded warrior' archetype among worshipers. 
*When first planet-side, Phex starts sneezing a lot. He guesses his over-engineered immune system was so aggressive, it was forcing him to sneeze so it could exist his body and do battle with the pollen outside of it. Demigod 12, Chapter 5 
*Called "little blue" by Quasilun. Demigod 12, Chapter 16 
*The divinity sells specialty ladles marketed for worshipers of Phex. Dome 6, Chapter 3 
*The one planet Phex does not sneeze uncontrollably on is Agatay. Dome 6, Chapter 7 
*Called "precious ducky" by Levin Retmor-Nine.Dome 6, Chapter 9 
*Phex became somewhat infamous for having conceived of a floating dome first. Dome 6, Chapter 16 
==Quotes==
*"Phex never wanted to be a god. But not everyone chooses divinity. Some have divinity foisted upon them by aliens in cafes."Divinity 36, Chapter 1
*"Thank you I’m the product of a long tradition of gene manipulation that failed me in every way but pretty."Divinity 36, Chapter 1
*"True, they looked at him like he was something to be owned. But they also looked at him like he had value. No one had ever wanted Phex before. And these aliens were offering him the chance to become wanted not just by them but by millions. That had to count for something."Divinity 36, Chapter 3
*"Each night when he climbed into bed, exhausted, he could feel the memory of grace in his muscles and godsong in his throat, like he had done something real for the first time in his life."Divinity 36, Chapter 7
*"But Phex was less interested in being a god when he had become, for the first time in his life, a whole person."Divinity 36, Chapter 16
*"Something about the number of people there, watching them in person, had eaten away his energy. Like he had to hand out bits of his reserves to each and every one of those worshipers. It had taken more out of him than all-day performing under a practice dome ever had."Demigod 12, Chapter 6
*"His worth was not in his ability as a cantor or grace or bodyguard or cook or even lover, but in fact that he wanted to do those things even after names like reject and crudrat and refugee and refuse had been thrown at him. That he could still love." Demigod 12, Chapter 16
*"He wondered if home could be a person - a beloved stranger, instead of a strange planet." Dome 6, Chapter 1
==References==
Category:Characters Tinkered Stars
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