Could I humbly put in a request for a certain deadriser we all know and love (or possibly his very fancy boyfriend if you’d rather) 👀
(best character time)
Enoch O'Conner HCs:
-Grew up in a family of undertakers. His father was distant and always working while his mother was more caring and loving. His father would teach him the business while his mother schooled him. He was bullied by other kids for being creepy due to where he grew up, which led him to be angsty and jealous of other children who were well liked, like his more popular cousins. He discovered his peculiarity when he was around 10 after his mother passed away from sickness. His father had left her body on the morgue table with her chest ripped open, revealing her heart. He left her there to get more tools when Enoch wandered in, wanting to see his mother one last time. It was there when he was inspecting his mother's heart that he felt a weird sensation, wanting to touch it. He did, and felt a small shock jolt through his body. Confused and curious, he used his palms and wrapped his hand around the heart, then instinctively channeled the electricity from his body and into the heart. After the brief shock wore off, he realized his dead mother was now sat up, her chest still open with her heart beating again. He watched in horror as his mother locked her glazed blue eyes with his terrified blue eyes, and she gently reached out towards him. He never found out if she was going to hug him or grab him as his father happened to walk in to see the horrific sight. He panicked and rekilled his wife, then put two and two together and realized Enoch was somehow responsible. He accused his son of being a demonic changeling and chased him out of the house with a scalpel. Enoch would live on the streets for a while, starving and cold until he was found by an ymbryne.
-He lived in his first loop for some years but he never fit in. The other children were both scared and disgusted by his ability. He had only one friend who respected and cared for him, but even she was somewhat grossed out by what he did and could not bear to be around him while he used his ability. He soon became depressed and his ymbryne noticed this. She put in a request for him to find a new loop in hopes of improving his mood, but after meeting with several ymbrynes, Enoch's bad attitude put them all off on taking him in. It wasn't until he met Miss Peregrine that she decided to take him. Like with the other ymbrynes he gave her his worst, but she saw something in him the others hadn't and took him in. After spending time and bonding together, Enoch began to see her as a mother and respected her as much and even more as his first ymbryne.
-He was always very sickly and very skinny due to his depression. After living in Miss Peregrine's loop, she encouraged him to take more care of himself and after working on himself he did and finally began to eat properly. He was insecure about his weight gain at first, but began to love himself more after feeling more accepted by others. Horace loves his chubby boyfriend.
-Very bi. Used to crush hard on Francesca but after getting rejected for the 32nd time he gave up. He began to hang out with Horace a lot more (whom he considered to be his best friend around post AMOD) and realized he had a crush. He confided in Noor, also bi, and she explained to him that it was normal and he just happened to like both sexes. He pined after Horace for a while, afraid to tell him how he felt as he feared rejection, but after Horace came out as gay a while later, he confessed almost immediately and they have been dating ever since (post TDODA)
-Surprisingly he sings very well, though almost nobody knows that except for Horace, who he sings to sleep sometimes to help with nightmares. He's embarrassed and bashful of it so he refuses to sing literally anything, he won't even sing along to the Happy Birthday song when they throw a birthday party. Millard also knows because he's invisible and thinks it's really funny, and drops hints to him all the time that he knows without alerting anyone else. It drives Enoch insane but he can't snap at him without it seeming odd so he has to sit there and fume to himself at Millard's cheeky remarks.
-In the pre-Jacob days he had Victor as a best friend. They would do everything together, and despite their different personalities (Enoch being the angsty recluse loner and Victor being the bubbly outgoing beloved jock) they got along perfectly. Enoch would often drag Victor in on his Raid the Village schemes and antics, but would always have him to the dirty work, which Victor never minded. Enoch was always the first person Victor would go to when he began to have panic attacks at the prospect of eternal island days, and Enoch would always have to calm him down and reassure him. When Victor passed, Enoch felt incredibly guilty and it took a long time to get over his death.
-Enoch used to have a small crush on Emma (unfortunately canon) which began his rivalry with Abe. Even after Enoch lost feelings for her, he still hated Abe out of jealousy (everybody seemed to love him but were indifferent to Enoch) and tried to mess with him at every opportunity, which would comically backfire on him every time, only making Abe look cooler.
-Got his license as soon as he could. While he couldn't yet afford a car of his own, he would just steal Jacob's instead. Even after he got older (or appeared older anyway) he still continued to steal Jacob's car just for the fun of it.
-He loathed Jacob towards the beginning and always felt a hint of jealousy towards him for "stealing" his friends and looking like a cool hero in front of everybody. Him being with Emma only certified this more in his mind that he was just Abe Jr. and he couldn't stand him. It wasn't until he left Emma and got with Noor that he began to see him in a different light and started to finally like him (mostly because he is best friends with Noor and anyone who is cool enough to date Noor is fine by him). While he won't ever admit it, he feels grateful towards Jacob for saving him during TDODA and even felt a little guilty for how he had treated him in the past. While now he won't ever hesitate to mess with him, he feels a lot of brotherly affection towards him.
-He became best friends with Noor around TDODA and hangs out with her often whenever he isn't glued to Horace's side. He always liked her since she was the first person he met who wasn't a deadriser and found his peculiarity cool, and their natural instinct to enact chaos bonded them even more.
-Like the others, once he officially became an adult, he led a double life. In the normal world he began his own mortuary clinic named after the one he grew up in once he graduated from mortuary school. In the peculiar world, after the ymbryne council decided to expand to allow peculiars to become council members for more equality across peculairdom, Enoch immediately campaigned for a position, making his main appeal to advocate for deadrisers in getting them easily accessed supplies to practice their craft and their own loops to better practice. He actually won in a landslide and got a position, which Miss Peregrine was exceedingly proud of. Though she has to bicker with him often while in council, she is still proud of what he accomplished.
-The dark circles around his eyes are a mystery. Everyone always figured they were just eye bags from him being eternally tired from using his ability to often, but even after getting to a relationship with Horace who made sure he got a healthy amount of sleep every night, they still remained. Horace has tried everything, every health product and health tip imaginable, and yet they still remain. While they have no photos to prove it, everyone believes he was just born with them as there is no plausible explanation as to why they're still there. Enoch is confused and uncaring at the situation despite his boyfriend and future husband's increasingly exasperated attempts to get rid of them.
-As much as he and Clarie bicker, he always had a soft spot for her and loved her like a petulant little sister. When she grew up into a teen and entered her rebellious gothic punk phase, they grew even closer.
-Enoch and Horace dated for only three years before they both decided to propose. Horace took Enoch to the fanciest restaurant in peculiardom and planned to propose after a grand romantic dinner together. Right as they finished up and Horace was ready to propose, Enoch suggested they go outside for some air and ended up proposing to him. Enoch got worried when Horace simply stared blankly at him instead of reacting in anyway, until Horace got on one knee as well and pulled out another ring. They both said yes. Jacob was the best man and Noor was the maid of honor.
