D7 :: Enoch Partridge

LEE JONG SUK

Ever since he was a small child, Enoch was odd. It was only when his parents died of a terrible sickness six years ago that he developed his condition. Doctors say his mind might have been damaged by the same bug that took his parents, but the other children prefer to think that he was always this way. Enoch doesn't differentiate between the alive and the dead, the living and the inanimate. The boy is just as likely to be found conversing with a tree as he is a person; he's eager to hear the stories that the furniture tells. Because of this, he's often conflicting Millard on the facts and declaring that the histories recounted by the walls are true. He's friendly, although often tired - a result of staying up into the early hours letting his bedsheets pour out their woes or his floorboards chatter away. The other children in the house like Enoch for his gentle and caring temperament - despite his frequent babbling, he's the best listener to be found within the walls of Partridge House.

Acts as a sort of zen therapist for the other kids... and those poor abused teacups who always seem to have the most literal chips on their shoulders. Always listening, he rarely doles out advice in response, but when he does it tends to seem entirely off-topic and/or utterly cryptic — like life lessons learned from The Karate Kid, but translated into the language of trees. Wax on, wax off, Little Butterfly.