Baz

### **Status**

Undead Alive ("I... I think he is," "He has magic. That's life"- Simon) Implied in Awtwb that when a vampire doesn't drink Human blood than they'll age like any other person

### **Appears In**

*Fangirl
Carry On
Wayward Son* Any Way the Wind Blows”

**Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch**, most commonly known as **Baz**, is a vampire and a wizard whom attends Watford School of Magicks. He comes from an infamously powerful line of wizards. Baz is an academic, a violinist and the “arch-nemesis” of Simon Snow, the protagonist, with whom he is hopelessly in love with.

## Biography

### Childhood

Baz was born on February 24, 1997 to the late Natasha Grimm-Pitch, and Malcolm Grimm. On August 12th, as a young child, he watched his mother get bitten by vampires and subsequently kill herself during a vampire attack on Watford, being bitten and becoming one himself on the same day.

He is Egyptian, Italian, and English on his mother’s side, and English on his father’s.

He began attending Watford in 2008. The Crucible drew him and Simon Snow together as roommates. They hated each other almost immediately. He also became friends with Niall. Dev is his cousin, and they became close.

## Events of *Carry On*

At the beginning of the book, Baz is absent from Watford for the first eight weeks, leaving Simon to assume that Baz is plotting against him. As soon as Baz returns to Watford and is first properly introduced into the story (chapter 29), it is revealed through his perspective in chapter 30 that he was captured by numpties—troll-like creatures that are "big, stupid, and always cold"—and held captive in a coffin for six weeks until being rescued by his aunt Fiona Pitch.

Simon and Baz's friendship begins after Baz's mother returns to Watford as a ghost and tries to tell Baz to avenge her death. Unable to find Baz because of his absence from Watford, his mother tells this to Simon instead. This then prompts Simon to talk to Baz about his mother, prompting a "truce" between the two of them: Simon will help Baz solve his mother's death, and Baz will help Simon defeat the Humdrum in exchange.

After confronting a vampire named Nicodemus Petty about his mother's death, Baz becomes increasingly frustrated after failing to extract information from Nicodemus. Baz later burned down a forest, having full intentions to kill himself in the fire. Simon followed him into the flames and stopped the suicide attempt by kissing Baz. Simon then stayed with Baz at his family's estate for a time.

Simon eventually had to go back to Watford to defeat the Humdrum. He lost all of his magic to defeat The Mage, his father, all the while gaining a tail and wings. Baz comforts Simon as best he can, and reassures his love is still strong, even though Simon isn't the Chosen One.

## Relationships

### Penelope Bunce

Baz and Penelope are shown to get along quite well, both being fairly intellectual. Throughout their time at Watford, they competed with each other for top of the class, though Penny ended up falling behind in her grades a small amount because of the amount of time she devotes to helping Simon’s grades. Baz finds ‘Bunce’ smart, and Penny is suspicious of Baz at first, but later grows to like him.

In Wayward Son, Penelope and Baz are pretty good friends. In the end of the book Baz even heals her with a spell 'Kiss it better' to which she responds; "Basil that's a family spell!" he hushes her. This shows that he sees Penelope as family (a sister or cousin or whatever)

### Simon Snow

Baz began to have romantic feelings towards Simon in his second year but became more aware of it in fifth year when Simon became obsessed with tailing him everywhere out of suspicion of malicious plotting [“He hasn’t been this persistent since our fifth year...” (Rowell 201)]. In chapter 38, Baz’s narration regarding 5th year and Simon includes, “Those were my fifth-year fantasies: kisses and blood and Snow ridding the world of me, (Rowell 201). Simon does not seem to reciprocate the feelings at first, however, in Baz’s view.

Baz is "hopelessly" in love with him. In chapter 32, Baz’s POV tells us this:

“*And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I’m always sure of—*

*Blue eyes.*

*Bronze curls.*

*The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me.*

*That Simon Snow is* alive.

*And I’m hopelessly in love with him”*

(Rowell 176).

The feelings become canonically reciprocated when Simon kisses Baz in chapter 61 of *Carry On.* Afterwards, both Simon and Baz are unsure of their relationship with each other, but stick with each other and continue to work together alongside Penelope Bunce and Agatha Wellbelove. In chapter 83, Baz further proves his immense love for Simon when he casts ***“On love’s light wings!”*** , a spell which has the condition of only working if the caster is “stupidly in love”, presumably with Simon. In chapter 85, Penelope witnesses Baz pull Simon in his arms after the events in the White Chapel, smoothing out Simon’s hair, calling him ‘love’.

Simon and Baz remain close until the end of Carry On. In the Epilogue, they dance together during the Leaver’s Ceremony, where Baz tells Simon that he chooses him, though he was not the Chosen One. Simon moves into a flat with Penelope, Baz visiting often.

The relationship goes through another series of ups and downs throughout the sequel, Wayward Son. in this book, Baz and Simon's relationship is a little rocky. In the beginning of it both of them even thought about breaking up but they never did because Penelope took them to America. There the relationship took turns, sometimes they were so in love and other times Baz didn't even know what to do, if he was allowed to touch Simon or not and mostly it's him just being scared to hurt Simon or make him uncomfortable. In the prologue, Simon tells Baz to stay in America with the Vampires in Las Vegas. Baz tells him no and that he'd never be happy anywhere without Simon. Simon didn't have time to answer but was stunned.

(Hey Tsuki, here i added this, this is just the summary from Wayward son and i might add the summary of Any way the wind blows when i get the book and read it)

### The Mage

The Mage orchestrated the kidnapping of Baz, by the Numpties, that takes place at beginning of the book. Baz is later rescued by his Aunt Fiona. There is no love lost between the Mage and Baz's family. The Pitch family has never liked the mage as they believe he stands against the Old Families with his reforms. He has searched Baz's home and confiscated many dark objects from it. When the Mage is killed, Baz shows no emotion except feeling sorry for Simon. The Mage is also the one who occhestrated the vampire attack against Watford which ended up killing Natasha, Baz's mother and resulted in him being turned into a vampire.

### Malcolm Grimm

Baz's relationship with his father is strained due to Malcolm ignoring his son's vampirism and sexual orientation. Malcolm is seen to care for Baz but ignores any topics that would bring about awkward conversations, leaving Baz to cope with being a vampire by himself. In the third book of the triology, Any Way The Wind Blows, we see a more homely version of Malcolm, as his wife abandons him to join a Chosen One cult and he is left the sole caretaker of his many children. Baz assists him with the children and we are given more insight into their father-son relationship growth.

### Natasha Grimm-Pitch

Baz's mother died protecting him and the rest of the nursery from a vampire attack. She also tried visiting him when the Veil lifted, though she found Simon instead due to Baz being kidnapped at the time. She loves him, and he loves her as well, though there is some doubt on his part wondering if his mother would rather him be dead than be a vampire. This is in part due to Natasha killing herself when she got bitten, and because of her dedication to only letting the best completely human Mages into Watford before her death. Baz's occassional suicidal thoughts come from him wanting to fufill his mother's legacy of killing vampires and killing herself when she became one. He often visits her tomb in the Watford Catacombs. In Any Way The Wind Blows, Simon joins Baz in visiting his mother's burials sight, wherein his own mother, Lucy is also buried. Natasha has been described as powerful and one of a kind. Often being admired by fellow wizards.

### Agatha Wellbelove

Baz and Agatha have nearly no relationship. At the end of their seventh year at Watford, Simon witnesses the two of them holding hands in the woods, and Simon becomes extremely jealous. It is later revealed that this was because Agatha had just witnessed Baz hunting for animal blood, and he was begging her not to share the secret that he is a vampire. Agatha has some semblance of a crush on Baz, but Baz later admits that he only flirted with her to get under Simon’s skin, and pretend that Simon’s jealousy was directed at Agatha and not himself.