Phoenix

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Phoenix Daichi, labeled the Romeo and Juliet Fanatic, is a contestant on Total Drama High School!

Birthday: February 14th

Sexuality: Homosexual

## Appearance

Phoenix is 5’ 4” with an extremely small, petite frame. His body
is frail and otherwise looks like you could break it like a twig. He has sunken
cheeks, dark circles under his eyes, and sunken eyes. His hair is green in the
front with one side framing his face and nearly covering one eye; most of the
time, a single strand will fall over the bridge of his nose. The other side is
just framing his face. The front is long but the back is short (it goes slightly down his neck) and colored black (black is his original hair color). Phoenix has tan skin, olive green eyes, and dyed green eyebrows. He wears a black t-shirt
with a green and black jacket over it. He also has a glove that wraps around in between his index fingers and thumbs. He wears black skinny jeans and extremely old looking tennis shoes (they are yellowing from decay but are a faded green color).

## Personality

Phoenix is a slightly chipper person with a
knack for mistaking common phrases and trying to make up for it by putting in
filler words. Although he spreads a smile across his face, he is secretly
hiding his distress that lingers underneath him from all his past abuse, sexual
experiences, and extreme loss. Since he never had a father figure to guide him,
he grew up learning more about feminine aspects, speaking in a slightly higher
voice than was normal to most and swinging his hips when he walks (he learned
this from one of the women who worked on the streets). His dialect in Japanese
is also much more feminine than would be considered. His main source of
happiness comes from his extreme love for Romeo and Juliet. Whenever he feels
lonely, sad, or just emotional in any aspect, he pulls out his first copy of
Romeo and Juliet and reads it to gain back a sense of peace. He aspires to be
able to find true love like Romeo, be funny like Mercutio, ambitious like
Tybalt, talented like Friar Lawrence, patient like the Nurse and as serious and
calm-minded as Benvolio. Whenever he can, he’ll make a quick comparison to
someone being like a character from Romeo and Juliet, which has made some
people dislike him since they correlate Romeo and Juliet as something to be
avoided in terms of romance (which is justified but Phoenix feels like it’s his
only source of comfort). If someone is compared to Tybalt, then Phoenix will
try to avoid them as he feels like they will try to hurt him like his mother
did. Although Phoenix can appear naïve, he is more likely to stand up for himself
if he feels like someone is trying to take advantage of him and sometimes
Phoenix can be sassy, though it just sounds adorable to some people and they
forget he’s sassing them.

## Back Story

Phoenix was born
into an upper middle class family with a nuclear family up until he was four.
At the age of four, his father passed away from stomach cancer, leaving his
mother, who had always stayed at home with no career backup plan, to take up
several different means to provide for her family. At first, though, they were
just forced to sell off their possessions and moving to a lower class housing
district. Unfortunately, this funds ran out when Phoenix turned six. She
shifted from working nights, to selling drugs, and whoring herself and her son
out to people. This made her bitter and caused her to take on drinking,
spending what few funds they had on her addictive nature, sending them into
deep debt for another year. While drunk, she would beat her son and sometimes
kick him out of the house. Phoenix took up reading after being forced to drop
out of his school due to insufficient funding. He learned English through
reading anything he could find and became quite skilled in the language. Out of
all the books he found in the gutters, he took up loving Romeo and Juliet. The
story of two people facing extreme odds and facing death so valiantly inspired
him to continue pushing forward with a strained smile and sunken cheeks.

After years of
drinking, she finally raised enough money for her family to move out (at least
Phoenix raised the money when he would find random items and sell them to pawn
shops. One item he sold gave him 4000 yen!) At the age of twelve years old, he
and his mother moved to America to start their lives again. Phoenix entered his
mother into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic and took up a part-time
job selling flowers and roses while he finally attended school again after ten
years of absence (Phoenix was fortunately smart enough to be only brought down
one year from what he should be at). Phoenix’s family lived on well-fare until
he was finally old enough to actually obtain his part-time job.

## Friends

Everyone is a friend to Phoenix, honestly, even those who do not wish to be friends with him. Phoenix just adores and loves every last person he meets. He's also easily forgiving of others, even if they hurt him in unforgivable ways.

## Trivia

* Despite having trouble speaking English, Phoenix can read and write at a college level, making Literature his favorite subject in school.
* He is decent at math and science but he finds it more difficult to learn than other subjects in school.
* Phoenix loves to make flower crowns for people.
* He has a fear of alcohol.
* He is allergic to bananas.
* He's read Romeo and Juliet over two thousand times.
* His eyes are naturally green.
* His real name is not 'Phoenix'.