Bas Blackwood

Bas Blackwood is one of the supporting characters in the series The Boy from the Bunker and is portrayed by Cody Christian in the books. Bas is one of the 17 people to have been living inside the Bunker (known as Bunker Clan) when it was evacuated by an outside clan named Basilisk.

## Bas Blackwood

### Relatives

Holden Blackwood (father, deceased), Emlyn Blackwood (mother, deceased),

Lyra Blackwood (younger sister, deceased),

Hayzel Blackwood (younger sister, deceased),

Harlow Blackwood (younger brother, guardian of),

Atlantis Beckett (girlfriend, found family),

Henry Blackwood (son),

Haven Blackwood (daughter),

Brody Blackwood (son),

Zara Blackwood (daughter),

Ares Bell (cousin-figure, deceased),

Wynn Bell (cousin-figure),

Quill Bell (cousin-figure),

Elara Bell Zora (cousin-figure),

Isobel Kady Zora (found family, friend),

Azha Green (Uncle-figure),

Valarie Green (Bunker Clan, extended family),

Lilibet Green (Bunker Clan, extended family),

Dreea Taven (best friend, found family),

Kodiak Zora (Protector, found family),

Sol Riverly (sister-in-law, found family),

Chessca Jones (found family),

Courage Taven Jones (family, godchild),

Eden Riverly Bell (family),

Reign Riverly Bell (family),

Veer Bell (family),

Atlas Bell (family),

Theo Bell (family)

Sienna-Valarie Nara-Green (family),

Kiara-Lili Nara-Green (family)

Bunker Clan

### Affiliation

The City of Targo, Bunker Clan,

Basilisk,

Blood Riders (prisoner),

Basilisk,

Neptunum (prisoner),

Basilisk

### Occupation

Tacker, First Line of Defence of Basilisk

## Biographical information

### Status

 *Presumed dead*, missing (as of S7), Alive (as of S8)

## Appearances

### Last appearance

For Always (S10xEpilogue)

Bas is the oldest child of Emlyn Blackwood and Holden Blackwood. His father passed away when they were living in the Bunker, three years before its evacuation. He has a younger sister named Lyra who he is close in age with and moved into the Bunker with. Nine years after they moved inside, his mother gave birth to his younger, twin siblings - Hayzel and Harlow. When their home is evacuated by an outside clan, Bas' mother, and youngest sister, Hayzel, are killed in an explosion when the bus they are being transported on is targeted by an enemy clan. When Lyra later on betrays him and Harlow by putting their lives in danger, Bas ends up cutting her off and returning to Basilisk where the remaining survivors of his Bunker are living. He becomes the guardian and parental figure of his younger brother, Harlow, and dedicates his life to providing for Harlow and helping him to have the safest, brightest future he can give him. In the epilogue of Season 10, Bas is revealed to be in a relationship with Atlantis Beckett with whom he has four children: Henry Blackwood, Haven Blackwood, Brody Blackwood, and Zara Blackwood.

**Season 1**

When his Bunker is evacuated, Bas becomes separated from his family and ends up brought into Basilisk. Whilst his sister, Lyra, and brother, Harlow, are taken captive by Blood Riders, his mother and little sister, Hayzel, are killed when the bus transporting them to Basilisk is targeted by an explosion. When Bas wakes up at Basilisk without his family, he turns to Wynn for help - who is plotting an escape from Basilisk to locate the missing members of their family. When Wynn breaks out of camp and begins his search for their family, Bas joins him and ends up caught in a trap set out by Blood Riders and has to wait on Sovereign Dreea Taven for rescue. By the time he reaches Wynn, their friends have managed to escape from Blood Riders, only to suffer a tragedy at the hands of his sister, Lyra. As betrayed as Bas is at what his sister has done, he becomes aware of an ultimatum made against her life: if Lyra doesn't return to Blood Riders with people from the Bunker, she will be killed. Unable to face the loss of another sister, Bas makes a selfless decision to allow Lyra to take him prisoner to Blood Riders (along with two snitches from Basilisk to make up the numbers and pose as people from his Bunker) and subsequently, he is forced to ask his family from the Bunker to take Harlow back with them and keep him safe as he is unwilling to put Harlow in danger by taking him to Blood Riders.

**Season 2**

Still stuck at Blood Riders, Bas is revealed to be held captive by his sister. His previous attempts to escape from the clan led to a brutal beating on Lyra's command. When she returns to Blood Riders one evening after being sent out on a task by Rogue, Lyra makes the mistake of revealing to Bas that she has learnt Wynn has gone missing. Fuelled by his instincts to protect his family, Bas pleads with Lyra to let him leave camp and return to their brother and the rest of their friends that are waiting for them however, Lyra is still reluctant as she knows that she will be killed by Blood Riders if she allows her people to escape again, but she also isn't willing to join Bas, Harlow and everyone else in the sanctuary of Basilisk. When Lyra eventually agrees to help Bas escape, his relief is short lived when he realises that Lyra isn't joining him at Basilisk, nor is she returning to Blood Riders - because she will be killed if she tries to. Despite his reluctance to lose her, Bas knows that Lyra is capable of making her own choices to protect herself whereas Harlow is not, and he is waiting with the rest of their family, hoping for one of his siblings to show up. In a tearful goodbye, Bas parts from his sister outside the gates of Basilisk - unable to persuade her one final time to come inside - and is welcomed into camp. Later that evening, in celebration of Sol and Wynn having survived their time in the DeadLands and making it home together, Bas, Wynn, and the survivors of Bunker Clan (excluding Lyra) are officially pronounced as members of Basilisk. Most importantly, *Bas is with Harlow again*.

**Fun Trivia:**

He is one of ten people to survive from the first episode (New Life, S1x01) to the last episode/epilogue (For Always, S10x07). The other characters include his brother, Harlow, Wynn, Quill, Elara, Azha, Sol, Dreea, Kodiak, and Aeryn.

His best friends are Harlow Blackwood, Dreea Taven, and Atlantis Beckett.

Bas' birthday is April 15th.

Junius Dalton is his uncle, and MaReya and Fabian are his cousins.

In Season 2, when Bas had to make a choice being in Harlow's life and being his guardian, or protecting Lyra from Blood Riders, he chose to protect Harlow. Bas has never regretted this choice.

Throughout the series, Bas' grief for Lyra is shown to be complex. When he and Harlow visit the headstones for their family outside of the Bunker, Bas is always reluctant to show his feelings for Lyra. He holds a lot of resentment for what she did to him and Harlow, and the other members of Bunker Clan, by putting their lives in danger - as well as forcing Bas to leave Harlow (in the company of the Bunker Clan survivors) for the sake of keeping Lyra alive. He also holds onto immense bitterness at Lyra for seeming indifferent towards their little sister - Hayzel's - death, and refusing to acknowledge the pain it caused him and Harlow. Due to Lyra's death being so sudden, Bas was also robbed of his opportunity to forgive Lyra or make amends with her, and he hates himself for holding that blame on Lyra because she is dead, even though it is her fault. Most of all, Bas resents Lyra for the way their relationship interferes with Bas' ability to best navigate Harlow through his own feelings of grief for Lyra.

Bas also feels an unresolved contempt at Lyra for the part she played in allowing The City of Targo to do so much damage to Elara, Quill, Wynn, and Ares (not to mention that Fabian and MaReya were killed by TCoT).