| “ | If she shakes her butt any more, she's gonna break something. | ” |
— Zoey Redbird
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Zoey Redbird is the main heroine and one of the many protagonists in the series House of Night.
Early Life
Zoey Redbird was born as Zoey Montgomery to Linda and Paul Montgomery. Her father left Zoey and her family when Zoey was a child. Her mother re-married John Heffer, (Zoey calls him the 'Step Loser'). As a result of that marriage, Zoey was moving further away from her family and the only family member she still considered family was her grandmother, Sylvia Redbird. She spent several years with her on-off boyfriend and childhood friend Heath Luck, and her human ex-best-friend Kayla. According to Zoey, her older sister and younger brother pretended to like their step-father leading her mom to believe that they were happy.
Relationships
Damien Maslin
Damien is Zoey's other best friend and is also a part of her inner circle. He is openly gay and has an affinity for air. Their relationship is shown to be quite close, as after Stevie Rae and occassionally Aphrodite, Zoey is shown to trust Damien the most. They are always there for each other as shown when he comforts her following the death of Heath, and she comforts him following the death of Jack. Nevertheless, the two chat with each other about the randomest things along with the rest of the gang, and whenever Zoey needs help about the Vampyre Society, she turns to Damien as he is the smartest one out of the whole gang.
Jack Twist
Jack is another openly gay character and is Damien's boyfriend. He was the former roomate of Zoey's ex-boyfriend Erik. He became fast friends with Zoey and the gang through Damien. He is also a part of her inner circle as he has an infinity for technology. Whenever the gang has a technical problem or task, they turn to him. However, in the book Awakened, Jack dies, as he was killed by Neferet. In the aftermath of his death, the gang mourn for him, especially Damien and Erik, to which Zoey comforts them.
Erik Night
Erik is the former boyfriend and good friend of Zoey. He was constantly showing support for Zoey as a fledgling since she moved to the House of Night. They liked each other as more than friends and eventually started dating. Erik was Aphrodite's ex-boyfriend, and at the time was Zoey's enemy so that topic was awkward, however they overcame it. He was a good boyfriend to her and although he hated Heath, he was able to tolerate Zoey's relationship with Heath. Zoey, however was unfaithful to Erik and cheated on Erik with Loren Blake, a professor at the House of Night. Their relationship after that was tense as Erik caught Zoey having sex with Loren and broke up with her, right after he completed the change. He wasn't seen until he came back to be a drama professor at the school, and Zoey and him had unresolved feelings for each other. He found out the reason why Zoey cheated on him is because Neferet forced Loren to seduce and try to isolate Zoey from her friends. Even though they weren't together he still trusted her. They eventually got back together in Hunted, but broke it off in Tempted, due to Zoey having put enough frustration of Erik being too controlling and possessive, and not allowing of Stark's Warrior Oath.
Abilities
Zoey is an extremely rare fledgling. She possesses an affinity for the five elements - earth, fire,water,air and spirit. She can not only physically manifest these elements, but can also use them for other purposes spiritually to make herself or another person feel better. She can also become mist/wind/night and has more advance stealth abilities than normal fledglings.
Examples of Manifestation of the Elements
Air
- Call upon air to blow gusts.
- Aerokinesis
- Using air to soften her fall.
- Blasting air powerful enough to throw humans.
- Mini tornado to lift humans.
Fire
- As a light.
- Pyrokinesis
- As a projectile.
- Create a small hand confined flame.
Water
- Summon rainclouds to put out a fire.
- Hydrokinesis
Earth
- Calls Earth to close tunnels.
- Terrakinesis
- Chlorokinesis
Spirit
- Gives herself and others an energy boost of positivity.
- Chikinesis
Marks
Zoey is also blessed with some extraordinary Marks. When she was first Marked, she had just an ordinary sapphire-blue outline of a crescent moon on her forehead, but soon after, when she escaped from her home and travelled to her Grandma Redbird's lavender farm, she had a near-death experience and spoke with Nyx. When she woke up, her mark had been filled in. Later, on Samhain (night before Halloween), she saved Heath from some 'scary-assed vampyre ghosts' Aphrodite had conjured as part of the Dark Daughters' Samhain ritual. This caused her Mark to expand and she gained swirly, lacelike tattoos on her face, neck, shoulders and upper back. The Mark spread to her lower back after she saves Heath from the Red Fledgings, and around her waist to her stomach when she plays her usual key role in the circle that gives Stevie Rae her humanity back, ultimately saving her from Neferet's influence. They then spread across the palms of her hands and her chest/scar after she and her friends escape from Kalona just after he rises and to her chest when she and her Council form an alliance with the Benedictine nuns and Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings to send Kalona away from Tulsa.
There is speculation that Zoey is Nyx Incarnate.