#howard bassem

A bit of a different post, but this is something I’ve always wondered about: when all of the different gone characters have their b days! Some we actually know, some we get a month or time frame, and some we’re not given anything at all. That’s why I want to estimate or ‘guess’ their birthdays, because I’m now going to start having days where I celebrate the character by doing fan art, fun lil fan fics, etc! If you want to join and follow along feel free to, as it’s gonna be really fun! Below I’ll put the dates we know and the dates I’ve selected for our non-info given characters:

Our boys Caine and Sam: We know they were both born on November 22nd! Here we celebrate our favorite twins-that are completely opposite people! And because there are two of them (plus Caine will NEVER be satisfied with sharing the whole day with Sam), he will be celebrated by himself on the 23rd while Sam will be celebrated on the 22nd. 😁

Astrid: Astrid’s birthday is March 14, Pi Day!! Here we will celebrate our Fayzian Genius with pie and some math equations / jk

Diana: No one gave this amazing girly a birthday, smh. But I’ve decided on February 10th, it makes the most sense with the storyline

Brianna: Her birthday is in early December, headcannoned for December 12th!

Drake: We were told his birthday is April 12th! We are definitely gonna have an interesting celebration!

Little Pete: His birthday is close to Christmas, so it’s headcannoned for December 20th! Give it up for the creator of the FAYZ!

Lana: As a headcanon her birthday is August 4th! Lana seems like a summer almost fall girl so celebrating her birthday is gonna be great!

Quinn: March 27th as a headcannon! We love our fisherman, his energy and his character development!

Edilio: Headcannoned for August 18! Our rock of the FAYZ! Howard: June 9th (Headcannoned) Orc: Headcannoned for April 15th! Mary: Not specified but I'd say May 10th, Mother's day, for her dedication and love of the prees! Hunter: Said to be Late February so his birthday is February 24th! Dekka: Headcannoed for October 8th! It seems like October fits our tough, awesome girl! Jack: July 21, he seems like a summer guy!

Taylor: Her birthday is September 2nd (Headcannon)

Brittney: January 10th! (Headcannon)

Penny: We know that Penny's birthday is November 18th!

Bug: April 9th

Sanjit: Seems like an August boy! His birthday is August 23rd.

Duck: January 1, start of the new year!

this song hurts me so bad like ougghhhh 😭😭💔

art by: gone.grouptherapy (ig)

ac: xrefvr (ig)

like when it comes to all my other ships i can imagine a scene or two of how theyd interact in a more romantic light, the same doesnt seem to apply to howard and orc though

this is like the stupidest post ive ever made also disclaimer i know NOTHING about the american school system so i think half of them are probably in the wrong years also i didn't want to put all of them in the same year so ignore how some of their ages dont even match up😭

this is the weakest book in the series imo simply because the antagonist situation wasn’t set up well. the orsay/nerezza/mary problem was not developed enough for it to be the big endgame moment - while the human crew conflict was actually more engaging

astrid was set up badly in this book. i don’t love how she handled everything , but her catching so much blame while sam walks away unscathed reflects such careless writing. i still empathise with her now. i still like her

the timeline is so confusing! how did we get to 7 months into the FAYZ???

it’s heartwarming and so sad at the same time reading the part about dekka, edilio, howard, orc & jack being the only ones to contain the fire. they worked so hard, they deserve the world

leading on from that, howard’s breakdown and edilio supporting him is probably my favorite scene in this book. trauma changes and bonds people. and howard has never been as above it as people think

i love that astrid thinks dekka would be sam’s ideal type if she wasn’t a lesbian

brianna’s age/the age gap between her and dekka is so lost on me. MG was not great with continuity so i assume that when he made brianna 11 years old in book 1, he hadn’t developed either of their characters enough yet to decide that dekka was in love with her. but from then onwards we can only assume they have a roughly 2 year age gap? that brianna is 12 through the rest of the series and dekka is 14? which isn’t so bad, but regardless, it’s all a bit confusing. brianna is made out to be a lot more confident and smart than a freshly 12 year old, it gives me retconned energy. like maybe MG just decided she was a year older after book 1. idk

dekka ending the human crew and saving the kids all while bleeding because she was shot is crazy, she is so wonderful and such a hero. i love that in this book she really starts to be recognised that way

drake/brittney always just bothers me i’ve never liked this plot line

sanjit and his little family just feel to me personally like a nice breather from all the gloom

the minimal amount of caine being awful and evil to diana in this book only being because they are this close to starving to death…. deep sigh

i like that for the first time, diana is recognised for her goodness on the island. everyone in town thinks she is evil and no deeper than that (for fair reasons i guess) but sanjit sees the goodness in her. and she officially decides she cannot go along with caine’s evil anymore. that’s all she really does in this book but it’s important in its own way i guess

mary’s ending is so tragic and there’s not much more to say about that

i love hunter he is so sweet