Phoenix

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## Phoenix Kenna

* Artwork
* Afterglow (Skin)
* Immortal (Skin)
* Horizons (Skin)

### Aliases

Phoenix, Fire Chicken, Phoe Phoe, Little Flame, Horny Bird, Baby Bird

## Lore Info

### Deaths

Unknown (3 According to Bronze and Hamilton)

### Kills

3 - Stuck, Iron, and General (However, she blames herself for everyone's death during the Xevarokk fight)

### Relationships

Final (Lover)Bronze, Jekyll, Olive (Best friends)Ronin, Tailoc, Trap, Hamilton, Solar, Snowuh, Choccy, Reef, Natarii, Midas, Manta, Dragon, Zombi (Friends)Iron, Xevarokk, Cosmos (Enemies)

### Residence(s)

Final's Home (Blown up), Puffin's Library (Blown up and rebuilt), "Nest" by the Temple, Final’s House, + Ironwood Village

Phoenix is PhoenixPlays's first and currently only character in the series.

## Physiology

### Appearance

Phoenix is a hybrid harpy standing at 5'8" with large red wings spanning about 12 feet across, along with long grey hair. She is a light-skinned human-looking creature with the only difference being her red large angel-like wings on her back that are solid but seem almost like they are made of flames and slightly larger eyes than the normal human. She is a 5'8" female weighing 150 lbs with wings that add 25 lbs to her overall weight. She is 19 years old, has dark blue eyes, and has the origin of Elytrian.

## Character

Phoenix is a loving and loyal companion. She wants to be friends with everyone she meets and loves working with and caring for people. Phoenix develops quick attachments to people and worries about them almost to an extreme amount. Her closest friends are Final and Bronze but she considers herself friends with most people on the server except for Cosmos, who she despises.

Phoenix loves playing guitar, singing, traveling, cooking, listening to music, and dancing. When entering Immortal she chose the career of an entertainer because she believed that people needed some happiness in their lives despite the worry they may feel.

Phoenix's bubbly personality quickly changes when faced with conflict. As Olive put it, Phoenix's overly optimistic behavior stopped him from having meaningful conversations with her. This is because Phoenix does not take well to anything negative. During her time in Immortal, she faced constant stress as she watched her friends be in pain and die at the hands of others and especially because of the doing of Cosmos. Upon entering AfterGlow, she subconsciously decided that she did not want to have much to do with anything that wasn't positive. Only showing her true understanding of their situation to Final. When faced with negativity, Phoenix either shuts down, reacts in a blind rage, or becomes excessively depressed and worrisome.

## Alignment - Neutral Good

Phoenix's main goal in life is to keep people safe and happy. She believes people are the most important thing in any world or server she’s been in. This can cause her to attach herself to people that aren’t necessarily good in an attempt to protect them and those around her. While she may not always use the same methods to protect people, she will always want to keep people safe, which is inherently good.

## Backstory

**This is a story that only an OOC reader should know. Phoenix doesn't even know the whole story and only few characters know other bits and pieces**

Phoenix was born to the Kenna family of half human-half harpies. Her mother was a human and her father was a harpy. In that society, children leave their parents at age 13 and don't have much connection with their birth families. They tend to make friends and new families with other species easily. She began her world traveling in her first world, Atlas, at the age of 15. There she met and became friends with people like Gouley, Hamilton, Kobold, and her best friend, Bronze. There was a war that happened between those who agreed with Bronze's way of living in anarchy and those who believed there should be some laws and order in place to keep people safe. Phoenix chose neither side and over the course of a couple months, became very close with Bronze, being the only friend he had had in years. She then died three times, returned as a ghost, and disappeared for three years before arriving in Immortal with almost no memories.

Those three years only felt like weeks to Phoenix; she woke up in Immortal remembering that she was 18, but could not remember what had happened during those three years. Shortly after the end of Atlas, she returned to her home world and was taken by a group of scientists who ran experiments on her because of the qualities that came with being a half-species. She was tortured and experimented on for years only to have her wings violently ripped and cut out from her body and the torture combined with a forced hysterectomy left her without the ability to fly or have children. Those scientists then threw her out and left her to die. Phoenix survived but her brain repressed these memories. This is because those memories were so traumatic, especially to happen to a child, that it was her body's way of defending itself.

After arriving in Immortal, she quickly became friends with a scientist by the name of Final. She roomed with him in his underground cave for a couple months. During this time, she would stay for a couple days at a time before going out and exploring the world, claiming that she wanted to see all of it and feeling like she never had enough time because she was without wings. She missed the Choosen-ing and instead was chosen by the fire god while she was out exploring. She returned to see Final's home blown to smitherens and her best friend crippled and mute.

For the next couple months, she went on multiple quests and adventures in an attempt to help her friend. She was targeted by Cosmos, who gave her the nickname "Little Flame", for a reason that she did not know, and went through excessive mental and emotional trauma at his hand. Her best friend Bronze died during the Stargate event and Final continued to be mute, only to speak with a voice that belonged to Cosmos.

After Tokyo sacrificed herself to Cosmos to free Final and the rest of them from his hand, Phoenix continued to live her life in her new home in Puffin's library. She traveled very rarely and spent most of her time visiting Final or hanging out with her new friend Jekyll. Jekyll was a robot suit that Bronze programmed while alive and sent to Phoenix after his death. She spent a couple of weeks creating a blank AI for Jekyll and then months after that teaching him how to be a decent being and a good friend. He became one of her best friends and was two days away from showing him to Final before the worlds collided.

She woke up the next morning on the cold stone floor of the AfterGlow temple.

## AfterGlow Season 1 Summary

After landing in AfterGlow, those from Immortal began to spread out and explore, wanting to better understand the world they were in. Phoenix began fighting with Final as he still had some harbored feelings about her leaving him for so long to see the world back in Immortal, he resented her for not just letting him die. She argued back saying his life was meaningful and that she didn't want him to die. They then read the books everyone else had and Phoenix walked away muttering things to herself and starting to cry, while Final just laughed dryly.

To Be Continued...

## Quotes

> I don’t fight for things that I don’t believe I’ll win. And I’m here next to you, so I think we have a chance.
>
> Phoenix, To Tokyo

> You matter to me. I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe.
>
> Phoenix, To Final

> People matter. Stop putting organizations and governments above people.
>
> Phoenix, To Cringe and others

> DON’T HIT HIM. DON’T YOU DARE HIT HIM ... If you don’t get out of this room in 10 seconds, I will kill you.
>
> Phoenix, To Cringe

> You can’t trust them when you don’t know what good they’ve done in this lifetime.
>
> Phoenix, To Cheech

> Everything I’ve done since you left has been to get you back… has been to protect you and everyone in this world.
>
> Phoenix, Letter to Final

> She does care about you, I'm really certain she cares about you, I hope- I think that she does, but I don't think that she's doing everything right.
>
> Olive, on Phoenix

## Mini Stories

**First Dance In Atlas**

Phoenix walked down the stairs, her wings falling behind her, pep in her step as she went to see him again… They weren’t doing amazing but when were they ever, she was just happy to have a friend that she could talk to… happy that she was able to be his friend, or so she hoped. She entered the bunker in the basement and saw him tinkering with some machinery in the corner of the room.
“What are you up to?”
He seemed a little tense when she spoke but then he calmed down.
“Nothing much”
“Well alright, I’ll just be hanging around if you wanna have lunch sometime soon.”
“Alright… don’t touch anything.”
Phoenix walked around the room, as much as she had been down here, she always noticed how things changed, Bronze would move stuff from place to place and would always be working on some new project or creating some new skeleton or zombie farm… always finding the quickest ways to become stronger than others. After looking around for a little bit, she saw a box sitting on a shelf, it was dusty and had some year written on it that she couldn’t make out. She ignored Bronze’s request and brought the box off of the shelf, it was heavier than she thought it would be. She opened the top and found a record player that seemed decades old.
“Bronze what is this?”
Bronze looked up from his work before shock lit up in his eyes and he rushed over and started putting the box away.
“I told you not to touch anything.”
“Wait do you have any music? Does it still work? I’d love to hear a song.”
Bronze looked at Phoenix for a minute contemplating what to do before sighing and opening the box again.
“Fine, I only have a record or two though.”
“Yay!”
Bronze cleared off a desk on one side of the wall and set the player on it. He then walked into another back room and came out with 3 disks.
“Which would you prefer?”
Phoenix pointed to the one in the middle.
“Fair enough”
Bronze put the disk in the player and slowly adjusted the reader so it could start playing. A beautiful classical melody started playing… one without words that seemed to be from a time period decades ago.
“It sounds beautiful.”
“It really does.”
“Let’s dance.”
Bronze looked at Phoenix like she was a mad woman.
“Absolutely not.”
“Why not?”
“I would never do such a thing, plus, I don’t know how.”
“I could teach you!”
“Yeah no.”
“Dang you’re boring”
Phoenix walked to the center of the room and put her arms out like she had a dance partner. She looked back at Bronze and he shook his head no. She shrugged it off and started dancing by herself, feeling the rhythm of the music and allowing herself to spin, her wings guiding her weight and her feet lighting bouncing off the floor… as the song comes to an end, she looked over at Bronze and saw that he’s mesmerized… even though he’s trying to hide it.
“See? Not that hard.”
Bronze stands and thinks for a moment.
“Fine, but I want a new song.”
He reached for a second disk and gently switches them. \*We’ll meet again starts playing\*
He walked over to Phoenix and stands in front of her… seemingly awkward and bashful.
“First you bow and I curtsy” she said dipping low. “This is ridiculous.” Bronze said as he bowed down. “Then, you put your hands here” she said guiding one hand to her waist and one into her hand, “and I’ll put mine here” she said putting her hand on his shoulder.
“This is weird”
“Hush, you agreed to it. Now I’m going to take a step forward and with that step you take one back, and then I will take one back and you take one forward, and then after that, you just follow my lead.”
“I’m pretty sure this is a lot more complicated then you’ve made it out to be”
“Shh, you’ll be great”
Phoenix began to slowly take steps back and forward guiding Bronze around the room. He seemed confused but followed her to the best of his abilities. He stumbled a couple times but is able to keep up with her as she slows down her pase to his needs. He looked at his feet and his hands mostly, trying to be as gentlemanly as possible, but every once and a while he made eye contact with her before looking away again.
He stumbled over his feet one of the times he looked at her and Phoenix started laughing. A sweet kinda laugh and Bronze smiled. The first smile he has had in months. Phoenix noticed but does not say anything, wanting to savor the moment and worried that if she commented it would bring on another scowl. They spin around the room for a minute more before he spins her and she laughs again.
He smiles again before dipping into a low bow as the song ends.
“Awwww look at you! You were amazing.”
“Yeah I’m never doing that again.”
“Whattt, I don’t believe you. We’re definitely doing that again, you’re a wonderful dancer.”
“Lies, hush or I really won’t again.”
“Fine fine fine, my lips are sealed.”
Bronze smirked before switching to the third disk, a lovely method with ups and downs, but sounds like peace and nature is almost radiating from the player. He walked over and continues to tinker with his machines as Phoenix went into the kitchen to make them lunch.

**Breakfast in AfterGlow**

Final walked down the hallway of his basement towards Phoenix’s room. It was early in the morning and he had been up since 4 am working on his newest project. He opened her door and walked through as he talked. “Hey Phoenix have you maybe moved a… shiny rock anywhere?”
Phoenix sat up in bed.
“I was needing it for what I was working on and I assumed that you— oh my god.”
He looked up and immediately turned around and put his hands over his eyes.
“I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to…”
“Final it’s alright, it doesn’t bother me.”
He turned back around and looked down at the ground, his face flushed a brilliant shade of red. “I’ll just get going then, pardon me.”
“No wait, I’ll come with you.”
“It’s okay, there’s no need—“
Phoenix hopped out of bed and put on a dark green wrap dress, tying it in the front.
“I’m ready, what are you up to today?”
Final looked up at her timidly and cleared his throat before composing himself. “Well… I was working on this one thing \*insert two minute explanation that sounds very intelligent because I am just as dumb as c!Phoenix\* but since you don’t know where that piece was… I guess I’ll need to move on to something else.”
“Perfect, have you eaten breakfast?”
“Not yet, but I can just have an early lunch.”
“No no, we’re having breakfast. Come on.”
She brushed past him and started walking down the hallway and up the stairs, Final glanced at her and the bed again before sighing and reluctantly following her. He followed her up the stairs and into the kitchen on the left side of the house. Phoenix started opening cupboards and getting out ingredients like flour, sugar, and baking powder. “Hey would you grab me the skillet.”
“Where is that?”
“Right bottom drawer, shouldn’t you know where your kitchen wear is?”
“I don’t cook.”
“Today is your lucky day then, we’re making pancakes.”
“Who’s we?”
“I’m teaching you how to make breakfast nerd, unless you think you could do it yourself.” Final stays silent. “That’s what I thought, now get over here.”
Final rolled his eyes before grabbing the skillet and handing it to her. She gave him directions of a couple more things to grab and prepare.
“Pancakes aren’t that hard, it’s just flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Mix it all up, put it on a skillet, and then flip it before it burns.” She mixed the ingredients together while talking and poured out the batter for the first pancake. Phoenix waited a couple minutes before flipping the pancake and then a couple more before taking it off the skillet.
“Like I said, not that difficult.”
“Easy for you to say”
“Well hope you were watching, your turn.”
“But I don’t want to.”
“That sucks doesn’t it, I’m teaching you, I’m in charge, make a pancake.”
“You’re lucky I’m in a good mood.”
Phoenix smirked as she handed the bowl to Final. She started talking as he poured the batter.
“So about this morning…”
“Uh… what about this morning?”
“You know it doesn’t bother me… since we’ve.. y’know..”
“What are you talking about?”
Phoenix looked into Final’s eyes and tilted her head.
“Do you not remember—“
She was cut off by a flicker of something dark… something not quite Final.. flashing across his eyes. She gasped quietly and looked down.
“Are you alright?” Final said gently touching her arm.
“You know what? Forget I said anything. We’re okay.” She smiled at him. “Now you probably should flip that.”
“Shit.” Final flipped the pancake, now a dark brown color, and glared at it like it was going to un-burn itself if he tried hard enough.
Phoenix laughed, and Final looked at her, the flicker of a smile across his lips.
“Now what are you putting on your pancakes?”
“Everything I guess, syrup, chocolate, strawberries, whatever we have.”
“You’re a monster.”
“What do you mean?”
“Why are you putting that much on your pancakes?”
“Leave my pancakes alone. You’re the one who forced me to have breakfast with you.”
“And you’re loving it all the same.” Phoenix told Final to finish that one and make the rest of them while she gathered their toppings and silverware.
After about 20 minutes he turned around with a plate full of slightly burnt pancakes. Phoenix was facing away from him.
“Your wings are beautiful.” Final said as he set the plate down.
“Thank you. They were a gift from my parents.” She said as she chuckled and spread them out. He stared at the wings in awe and noticed the healed slashes along her shoulder blades where the wings connected. He had noticed them before, back in Immortal, but assumed that they would’ve disappeared when her wings returned… he had always wanted to know what had happened to her, but felt like it was not appropriate to ask. He reached a hand out to touch the feathers but stopped right before he made contact and put is hand down quickly.
“You’re always welcome to.” Phoenix said and Final realized she could see him out of the corner of her eye.
“No it’s fine, I was just admiring them was all. We need to eat anyway.”
“Oh yes.” Phoenix said as they both sat down. “I’m ready to see this horror you call “how to decorate pancakes.””
“One more word out of you and I’m taking my pancakes downstairs and eating them by myself.”
“Nope, I’ll shut up.”
Final laughed and Phoenix joined in as they enjoyed breakfast together.

## Journal Entries

Ever since the canonical disapearance of the character, Phoenix has posted small lore reveals of her character on her twitter.

### Entry 1:

(October 4th, 2022) "Well this is interesting… where is everyone? Why is the sky so bright? Spent the morning gathering berries, they remind me of someone… I can’t find my house, it’s okay, I was able to create a new one, I probably got lost exploring. I’ll write again tomorrow."

### Entry 2:

(October 15th, 2022) "Familiar creatures are wandering around, many hybrids, but my wings are go— still here. I scared an Android thinking he was a friend of mine… who did I think he was? Worked on my temporary home again, I hope I can figure out where everyone is soon. But who—"

### Entry 3:

(November 15th, 2022) "I don’t think I am where I thought I was. My best chance is to find the gods. There should be 3, no 4 of them. I saw a very large building in the distance, I was planning on exploring it but every instinct in my body told me not to. I wish they were here…"

### Entry 4:

(December 3rd, 2022) "Why didn’t I remember? It’s all flooding back now… did he have anything to do with it? I don’t think so, he wasn’t in my head then. They are still here, they are still hurting people. This is bullshit… I miss you both."

### Entry 5:

(December 13th, 2022) "I held a knife to her neck… I’ve never done that before. I guess she deserved it since she is working with them. I wasn’t able to get information out of her and I wasn’t going to kill her… would I? I think I’m going to have to journey inside."

### Entry 6:

(December 27th, 2022) "I have to let them capture me. Bad news, I may lose my wings again. Good news, if I still have that power he gave me, I shouldn’t need them to burn this place to the ground. Why does time seem frozen?"

### Entry 7:

(January 8th, 2023) "I’m in. The lady is with me. She looks nervous. They took me to a room with another captive, her name is Alice, she is young and aggressive towards them, but kind to me. I have three days to figure out how to burn it down or this is all for nothing."

### Entry 8:

(January 19th, 2023) "Fuck. Help me. Final. Bronze. Dragon. Ronin. Anyone. Please… you motherfucker… I can feel his laughter… as the bloody stumps that used to be beautiful feathered wings gush blood that stains my back and the ground crimson."

### Entry 9:

(January 30th, 2023) "All I can dream about is them. The warmth of his arms around me. The cold metal against my waist as we dance. The laughter of the barkeep. The quiet humming of the botanist. Soft looks from the demi-god. The worst part is the final seconds before awaking."

### Entry 10:

(February 11th, 2023) "Alice is safe. The other captives are safe. The alarms are going off, trying to alert those around them. It is too late though, everything is destroyed… I can see the fire roaring and smoke still billowing off the building from miles away."

### Entry 11:

(Febuary 27th, 2023) "The townspeople help me wrap my injuries and thank me for freeing them from the scientists’ tyranny. I should be overjoyed… but my soul is in flames like the building itself. I feel the burden of the lost lives. Alice is safe though. That is what matters."

### Entry 12:

(March 6th, 2023) "I whistle to the birds around me as I climb the mountain on the way to where Alice told me the temple was. They surround and tend to me like the injured dove I am. I see flashes of red, blue, green, and grey. I miss them as well, see you soon my loves."

### Entry 13:

(March 15th, 2023) "I yelled at the gods as they told me that they could not work against the will of The All-God. Fuck him. Why am I here? I called out to him for the first time in my life: Bring. Me. Back. You Bastard.

Ah, how you’ve fallen short… enjoy your time back home?"

### Entry 14:

Entry 14 of Phoenix's journal is in the form of an audio recording of a conversation between Phoenix and Cosmos. A full transcription of the video can be viewed here.

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Artwork by Cryptiidditto without fire effectsArtwork by Ronin attached with journal entry 10Artwork by Snowuh for journal entry 14Artwork of **Final**, **Phoenix** and **General** by the same artistAnother interpretation by the same artist**Phoenix** and Final after "The Choosing"**Phoenix** and Final in the snow**Phoenix** and Cheech in ImmortalAppel's depiction of **Phoenix**Another interpretation by the same artistBee's depiction of **Phoenix**Gouley's depiction of **Phoenix**Kobold's depiction of **Phoenix**Natarii's depiction of **Phoenix**Dragon's depiction of **Phoenix**Ronin's depiction of **Phoenix**

**Phoenix'**s character sheet**Phoenix** in the Gender Swap AU