Saeed

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> *"Listen, your mother and I have decided to come back tomorrow. It's all this news about the meteor."*
> —Saeed to Fang and Naser
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**Saeed** is the father of Fang and Naser in *Goodbye Volcano High*. His wife is Sabah.

## Appearance

Saeed is a pale light grey pterodactyl with short white hair and amber eyes. His wings are primarily white but are pale orange at the top. He is seen wearing a business suit with a black-and-lavender striped tie.

## Personality

Saeed is notoriously uncreative; Naser describes Saeed's attempts at trying to play *Pictosaurus* as a "psychological experiment". Saeed is a workaholic and enjoys listening to Pangea Tomorrow. Unfortunately, his and Sabah's style of parenting has resulted in Fang thinking their parents don't take them seriously.

Fang feels their father also does not see music as a worthy future career. He did once try in it in college, but discovered he did not have a talent for it.

Both Saeed and Sabah accidentally misgender Fang and use their deadname sometimes out of habit.

## Background

Although never made explicitly clear, it is hinted that Sabah and Saeed are immigrants from another region on Earth or Pangea, or that they descend from a family of immigrants, as they have faint accents.

It is mentioned Saeed and Sabah worked a lot and as a result, left Fang and Naser alone often as children.

Before the events of the game, Sabah and Saeed went to Isla Nublar.

## *Goodbye Volcano High*

Sabah and Saeed call their children to let them know they are coming back tomorrow due to the news of the asteroid. Saeed also mentions he likes Trish and they should all have supper together. However, he and Sabah are unable to return to the asteroid.

Fang and Naser eventually learn their parents can't come home due to the asteroid shutting down airports. Despite this, the siblings are able to call their parents on the final day so that Sabah and Saeed can watch Worm Drama perform on the roof of Volcano High. Sabah and Saeed look especially moved by the emotional show.

## Trivia

* Saeed is a name of Arabic descent that can mean "blessed", "good luck", joy" or "happy, patient".
* Sabah and Saeed's absence in the game has made a lot of players wonder about the timeline of the game, since it suggests they are gone nearly the entire school year. Director Kyle McKernan mentioned that the developers didn't want parents involved much with the story, and clarified, *"We kept the timeline pretty vague intentionally. There were a lot of narrative bits and bobs that got changed or moved around or combined so things got a bit wonky but overall the whole story is meant to take place over a number of months in the last year of school. That said, the parents thing specifically became a question we had and we opted to keep it vague that they kept getting delayed in order to solidify a bit of “the parents are busy” at the start and also a lot of “the outside world is getting really messy and the parents are continuously struggling to find a way home”.*

## Gallery

Visual referenceSaeed on the video callSaeed and Sabah crying on the final day

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