Eoin Phoenix

**Eoin Phoenix** is a character from the HPRP universe. Unlike most of the other characters in the universe, he is in his sixth year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is only one of two characters in House Hufflepuff. Originally created to be "better Hufflepuff representation" in the universe, he desperately wants his underclassmen to look up to him, but fails to achieve this due to his clumsiness, nervousness, and overall wimpiness.

## Description

Eoin is a relatively understated, pathetic sort of character who does whatever he can to stay out of the spotlight. He's completely mortified by the fact that he's the only person in his family's history to get Sorted into any House besides Gryffindor, but even if he can find the confidence to be a "main character" if he's pushed, his placement in Hufflepuff makes much more sense. Eoin is a person who never wants everyone's attention to be on him, but he wants to be liked and respected for what he does. While his morals aren't always in the right place--he'll be the first person to do the easy thing over the right thing--he tries to be genuine wherever possible and seriously wants to do some good in the world. He's been known to throw himself headlong into situations that are quite obviously too much for him to handle because he wants to prove to everyone around him that he can do it, get overwhelmed, and yet be too proud to admit defeat and throw in the towel. He sometimes tries to make himself seem like he's cooler and more outgoing than he actually is, but since these attempts usually only result in laughter or beratement from his classmates, he tends to keep his mouth shut instead. If you wrong him, then he'll remember your name and face forever and obsess about what you've done to no end--but you'd never be able to tell that he feels this way since he'll only duck his head and walk faster if he sees you in the hallway. He really enjoys spending time with other people and can be a very loyal friend, but he's pretty socially inept (he's bad at small talk, reading the atmosphere, or helping people through their problems). He has a very low tolerance for pain and has remarkably poor hand-eye coordination.

## Relationships

#### Mortimer Bennett

Eoin and Bennett were best friends for their first few years at Hogwarts, having met (and bonded) on the Hogwarts Express as incoming first-years. Even despite being Sorted into two separate houses, you would never see one without the other; in fact, they spent so much time together that their Housemates in the same year started alienating them. This all changed in their third year, when they abruptly stopped speaking to each other and both started talking shit about each other with their Housemates. It was obvious that they got into a fight, but they never told anyone what they were fighting about and now, in the present tense, neither of them remember why the fight happened. Eoin thinks that Bennett is pompous, entitled, and braggadocios, and he constantly complains about any little thing he sees Bennett do (even if it's something banal like eating his steak with a salad fork). This is especially curious because Bennett barely pays him any mind at this point, making Eoin's grudge almost entirely one-sided.

#### Fay Pope

Fay really appears to dislike Eoin, believing him to be pathetic and irritating for how often he tries to give her unsolicited advice. He'll often try to intervene somehow when Fay gets bullied by Alerick, but he always ends up either making things worse for both of them or making a complete fool out of himself.

## History

Eoin was born to Colin and Breanna Phoenix, both of whom are wizards that attended Hogwarts back in the day. Breanna is Irish, hence Eoin's name and the reddish tint to his hair, and he has a sister named Aoife who's three years younger than him. His parents met at Hogwarts and quickly fell in love, marrying shortly after they graduated together. His father is an Auror and his mother used to work for the Wizengamot before she left her job to take care of Eoin and his sister full-time. Both of his parents were sorted into Gryffindor, as were all of the wizard family members that came before them. The family is generally very loud and braggadocios, but Eoin never saw himself as being as outgoing and awesome as either of his parents or his younger sister and it's always made him feel inadequate considering the Phoenix family's reputation and their history of being sorted into Gryffindor (especially since his parents and his sister like to tease him for his awkwardness).

Being that both of his parents were wizards (his mother being pureblooded and his father being Muggle-born), Eoin was acquainted with the Wizarding World from a young age and had a fascination with Potions growing up--he would often read and reread whatever books his parents left lying around about the subject and dream about getting to study it formally at Hogwarts. He liked this subject the best because of the concrete numbers and guides that went along with it, and he always found that his hands would stop shaking so much whenever he would practice at home. When he finally turned eleven and gained the opportunity to attend Hogwarts, his sister was incredibly jealous and constantly tried to put disgusting things into his food so that he would get sick and miss the train. Her attempts were almost successful, but not because she'd tried to poison him--because he's an expert at oversleeping and getting lost, he only just barely made it to the station on time and forgot to pack a lot of important items as a result.

He met his (now former) best friend Mortimer Bennett on the Hogwarts Express that year, and the pair got along so famously that Eoin wanted to ask the Sorting Hat to put him into Slytherin after Bennett was sorted into that House (despite his parents joking that they'd disown him if he were Sorted into Slytherin). However, before the Sorting Hat could fully touch his head, he was sorted into Hufflepuff--an outcome he'd never even considered before then (but ironically makes sense since his desire to get Sorted into the same House as his friend embodied the loyalty required of a Hufflepuff). His family immediately began teasing him through the mail about his House placement and Eoin felt terrible about it for a while, but Bennett helped convince him that he wouldn't have made a good Gryffindor (or a good Slytherin) anyway. He and Bennett spent basically all of their time together for their first two years at Hogwarts, but sometime within their third year (when most of the other HPRP OC's, being in their fourth years, started attending the school), they got into a massive fight about something and refused to make up. Their mutual bitterness towards each other (whether outwardly expressed or not) continues into the present, as Eoin frequently makes a fool out of himself in his attempts to stop Bennett from looking down on him. His sister Aoife began attending Hogwarts in his fifth year and was (unsurprisingly) sorted into Gryffindor, and ever since then, she's taken up bullying him even more brutally than she did on his vacations from school despite the fact that she is an eleven year old girl and he is a grown-ass teenager.

## Appearance

Eoin is somewhat short and his large hazel eyes and round features make him look younger than he actually is (much to his chagrin). His short ruddy brown hair is usually a total mess because he ran out of his room in a hurry to make sure he wasn't late to some appointment or another. He always has Band-Aids all over his arms and legs to cover the many cuts and bumps that he'll pick up over the course of a week owing to his clumsiness, and because he knows that they'll hurt to take off, they'll usually remain there until they fall off naturally. He doesn't have much muscle mass to speak of and his fair skin flushes red in an instant whenever he's embarrassed. The clothes that he wears are generally too big for him because he'll buy them a size larger than he needs because he's "going to get taller one of these days" and he doesn't like going shopping for new clothes.

## Roles in Stories

#### *Christmas Crossover 2016*

Eoin serves a central role in *Christmas Crossover 2016*, in which he overhears Evie's plot to flood the universe with despair and is forced to team up with Katina, Bennett, and (eventually) York in order to thwart Evie's plans.

#### *Christmas Crossover 2017: My Darling Crossover*

Eoin also appears in *Christmas Crossover 2017: My Darling Crossover*, in which the first act depicts him exploding because Evie made him fill the role Bianco filled in *Christmas Crossover 2015*: he had to give gifts to everyone attending the Christmas party or else. Evie says that this was revenge for the events of the previous year's Christmas crossover. Later, when everyone is gathered in the meadow, Eoin speaks to York, Kuwata, Oowada, Matt, Light, Bianco, and Galaco (with the joke being that they all share the same voice). Finally, when all of the characters are shuffled into satellite dimensions at the end of Act 2, Eoin is kidnapped by Junko Enoshima in the "Genderswapped Nations" parody along with Naegi, Ishimaru, Bianco, and Mello and escapes his imprisonment with the rest of the group before getting shot at by Switzerland.

#### *Christmas Crossover 2020: The Re-Reckoning*

Eoin is briefly mentioned here when Harry notices that some people are playing on the Nintendo Wii set up in the Room of Requirement and wonders whether he and Bennett are hashing out their three-year conflict in a round of *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*.

## Trivia

* In 2019, Eoin (along with Bennett, Katina, and Cami) were featured in a one-act play titled "Bennett Has a Boat". In this play, Eoin has a crisis at age 26 after meeting up with his friends for the first time after high school and realizing that he'll never relive those days again, ultimately ending with Eoin accusing Bennett of making up a fake life for himself for the purposes of embarrassing him and leaping off Bennett's eponymous boat into the (shallow) water below.
* He has a cat named Friday, which could be a reference to Tuesday Nolan from the *Exclamationpoint* universe.