Characters of the FAYZ

There are many characters of the FAYZ.

Sam Temple
Sam Temple is the main character of the FAYZ. He is of medium build with tanned skin, dark brown hair with lighter streaks and blue eyes. After the FAYZ it is said that he carries more weight in the shoulders and arms. He is usually a happy-go-lucky surfer, but begins to become increasingly stressed, snappy and responsible as the series continues, although he remains loyal to his friends. When the FAYZ ends he becomes unsure of what to do with his life, after having such a large role in the leadership and combat.

Sam has the power of generating green-white light. He can use this to create Sammy Suns or to shoot it in beams, which will incinerate almost anything in their path. This is a four bar ability. Sam develops very good aim after he gets used to the power, and he can control it without trouble.

Sam is also a good tactician, as seen on multiple occasions when he comes up with winning battle strategies on the spot. He also has the skill and the bravery to pull these off.

Astrid Ellison
Astrid Ellison is a main character and is Sam's Girlfriend. She is described as being beautiful and smart. She has "silky blonde hair and bright blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and pale, translucent skin". She was the one who pushed Sam into leading the group of kids left to live in the FAYZ. She is extremely smart as well as manipulative and impatient. However, she is fierce and loves Sam, and oddly, they are the perfect match for each other.

Astrid can tell how important someone will be in the future of the FAYZ by holding their hand. This later evolves to her being able to see it visually, and she describes it like seeing stars in the sky. Astrid is skilled with a shotgun and, like Hunter, knows many survival skills. She is also intelligent and can use this to her advantage

Edilio Escobar
Edilio is a main character and Sam's right hand man. Edilio is a short Honduran boy with a round face and a black crew cut, described as lean with warm, sad brown eyes. He usually stands up perfectly straight with his hands (which are larger than they are expected to be) curled outwards and his arms slightly apart from the rest of his body.

He is calm, reliable, gentle, considerate and trustworthy, but reveals that he is incredibly irritated with how Sam, Astrid and Dekka don't keep their personal lives personal. Edilio has also proven himself to be bold and reluctantly willing to do what must be done.

Edilio has no power, but he is more than capable of taking care of himself. He carries around a shotgun and is skilled with it. He is incredibly good with machinery and can drive, and has also been shown to have detective skills.

Quinn Gaither
Quinn is a main character and was Sam's best friend before the FAYZ and became Head Fisherman.

Quinn is a laid-back, calm, reliable surfer that jokes a lot. He is tall for his age and has black hair that he lets hang over his eyes. He is tanned and muscular due to rowing a lot so he can fish, which he is very good at. Astrid says that Quinn is a "spineless worm" at the start of the FAYZ and a "pillar of strength" at the end, as Quinn started off as an untrustworthy coward. He often wears sunglasses and fedoras.

Lana Arwen Lazar
Lana is a main character. Lana is described as having dark, lank hair and small eyes. She smokes heavily until the end of Light. She has incredibly strong willpower, but she is traumatized from her time with the Gaiaphage. She is sardonic, restless and wry, and rarely smiles. She owns a dog named Patrick and enjoys solitude.

Lana has the power of Healing. She can heal most wounds, although she is not good with disease. This ability is focused through her hands and takes a lot of time, and it exhausted her until she became better at it. She cannot properly regrow limbs or organs; something unusual will happen, such as a whip hand or strange eyes. It is implied, but not confirmed, that her power only works on mammals.

Caine Soren
Caine Soren is a main character and is the son of Connie Temple and Taegan Smith, and the younger fraternal twin brother of Sam. He has dark brown hair and dark eyes, and has an expensive haircut until he becomes forced to cut his hair himself. He is very good-looking, and his girlfriend Diana describes him as "hot in a cold sort of way". Caine does not look much like his brother, but is the mirror image of his father.

He is incredibly charismatic and manipulative, but cocky, vain, and incredibly greedy. He is obsessed with power. He also shows no sympathy or empathy for anyone until towards the end of his life. He is ruthless but mostly sane, and is intelligent enough to be reasoned with. He is also able to resist the Gaiaphage for short amounts of time. Caine has telekinesis, a four bar power unlike any other that allows him to move objects with his mind. His range is roughly eighty feet, although he can throw objects weighing tons much further. He can also use his power as if it is a giant invisible fist, making him very hard to fight against, and he can make invisible walls with it. It is unknown how many objects Caine can control at a time, but it seems to be in the triple digits. Caine has extremely good control of this power.

Caine is also strategic enough to organize and win battles if the people on his side do as they are told. He has shown himself to be very capable in combat, even holding his own against an army of the Gut-Roaches by himself. However, he is very reliant on his power, and often takes unnecessary risks.

Diana Ladris
Diana is a main character. She is described as a "dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty" by Orsay. She is cruel, mocking, sarcastic, sardonic and manipulative, and has feelings for Caine. However, she does have a moral compass, and often tries to stop Caine, Drake, Penny and Gaia from doing murderous or vicious things. She has also been proven to be brave and selfless

Diana has the power of reading a mutant's power level. She creates a system for judging this, based from phone bars; zero bars means no power, and this continues upwards. Most mutants are one, two or three bars, and Sam and Caine are both fours. Gaia and Little Pete are higher, but Diana does not read them when they are at this power level. She can also read herself, causing her to find that she is a two bar, and babies in the womb

Dekka Jean Talent
Dekka is one of the main protagonists in the Gone series, though at first sights she emulates a very intimidating and forbidding attitude. She is a lesbian, which was why her homophobic parents sent her to Coates.

She is a quiet person, but also very courageous and brave, while also being sensible. She's a natural born fighter, and the members of the FAYZ have a lot of respect for Dekka, even though she can look quite "scary". She has a strong moral compass and is always prepared to fight for what she believes in. While she isn't very expressive, she does care deeply for her friends and would sacrifice herself for them, even if she doesn't always show it. She is also quite secretive and good at hiding her emotions, being able to maintain a perfect poker face most of the time. Dekka is tall and has dark skin. In the FAYZ, Dekka has the three bar ability to cancel gravity, causing everything in a twenty-foot radius near to her to float up from the ground. She can use this to levitate herself or can activate it briefly to cause others to lose their balance. This power does not, however, cancel momentum.

Albert Hillsbourogh
Albert Hillsborough is a fourteen-year-old African-American student in charge of food, water, and work in Perdido Beach.

Albert is considered by many to be the most powerful person in the FAYZ. He is a true "businessman" despite his young age, and is clever and powerful. In addition, he is the inventor of the official currency of the FAYZ, 'Bertos, until they start to become worthless in Fear.

Albert's previous fame in the FAYZ was from being the "owner" of the only McDonald's restaurant in the town. He ran the restaurant, giving out the food free of charge, until there were no more supplies, at which point it was renamed to the McClub, and was turned into a place where kids could dance and enjoy themselves. Albert continued to run the club until the power was turned off.His first idea for a money system for the FAYZ is to use some gold bars he finds in Hermit Jim's Cabin. He melts these into bullets, calling them 'units'. Albert, with help from Howard, renames the currency he invents as the 'Berto. The standard salary in FAYZ as of Lies is about 3-5 'Bertos per day, but some of the people in FAYZ who has got a more important job, like Sam, receive larger sums.

Charles Merriman
Charles Merriman, usually known by his nickname Orc, is a former bully who turns religious.

Before the FAYZ, Orc was a bully. When the barrier came up he found a reason to become more violent and horrible. He sided with Caine when he took over Perdido Beach the first time and was made deputy sheriff to Drake Merwin. Orc kills Bette by accident and becomes unhinged. He then is drunk guilt-ridden for all the books after that until he finds belief in God in Fear. For most of the series, from when he accidentally kills Bette, Orc is loyal to Sam, as long as Howard, Orc's best and only friend, agrees. When Howard is killed by Drake in Fear we see Orc's softer side return again and it resembles the heart-ache he suffered from killing Bette and another unknown kid, but with much stronger sadness.Orc's strong bullying and slight dumbness is due to an unloving abusive father and a mother who cannot do anything to resist Orc's father.[1] On the exterior Orc is a hardcore malicious bully but after Gone he breaks and becomes a very emotionally damaged boy. In the end he dies while fighting the Gaiaphage, accidentally killed by a missile fired by Caine.

After he was nearly killed by a pack of coyotes, his lost tissue was replaced by gravel which made him into a stone man. Orc's rock exterior makes him invulnerable to most physical damage and also gives him superhuman strength, equal to that of Jack.

His power for the replacement of his skin with gravel was even viewed as unusual by Gaia. She cannot use this power, so it is implied that it is not a power, as such, but a mutation.

Jack
Jack, commonly referred to as Computer Jack due to his skill with technology, is a character appearing in all the books set in the FAYZ. Originally allied with Caine and Coates Academy, Jack joins Sam's side and becomes a trusted ally of Perdido Beach. Despite resenting it at first, Jack eventually learns to accept and use his power of enhanced strength for his side until, as he tries to save Sam from Gaia, Jack is killed in friendly fire. Jack is a short, stout, pale boy with messy blond hair and crooked glasses. Sam doubts that Jack "has a single mean bone in his geeky body". He has shown himself to be a nervous, oblivious, pedantic and naive person, and he also has feelings for Brianna. As Jack claims to Astrid and later proves to be true, almost nothing is impossible or even hard for him when it comes to technology. Jack has the two bar power of enhanced strength. This increases his strength largely in all parts of his body, allowing him to lift enormous weights, tense his muscles to resist being choked, and jump large distances at a time. However, Jack is not a fighter, and even with this power he is no match for others such as Drake or Gaia. Jack's power seems to improve as time goes by, as he was shown not to be able to even break one of Drake's ribs when punching him three months after developing his power, but ten months after that, he was shown to have the capability to rip off limbs with no apparent effort.

Brianna Berenson
Brianna Berenson, also known as The Breeze, is a girl appearing in all the books set in the FAYZ. She is rescued from Coates Academy by Sam Temple, and fights for Perdido Beach and Lake Tramonto with her power of enhanced speed. She is killed by Gaia in a superspeed battle, who uses Sam’s light to blast her in the chest, killing her instantly. Brianna has reddish hair, usually tied back in pigtails, stating this is the best way to keep it out of her eyes when she runs. Brianna likes to call herself "The Breeze" due to her super-speed ability. She is also described as skinny, and she is generally brave, selfish, reckless and cocky. However despite her inflated ego, she herself understands her own limits, often stating that she is "the strongest in the FAYZ,apart from Sam and Caine". Brianna's power is Super Speed, a three bar ability focused through the hands that allows her to run so fast she cannot be seen. Her top speed is just under the speed of sound. She runs in an unusual way, turning her palms back as she pumps her arms. It is estimated that her top speed is about 700 miles per hour, just slower than a bullet. This was found out in an experiment done by Computer Jack. Because of this, she is used alongside Taylor as a messenger during emergencies. Since Diana has last read her, her power was at 3 bars. Brianna loves having powers and is very confident about her ability. She calls herself "the Breeze" because of this. She used to only run at this speed but sometime in Lies, that speed translated to the rest of her movements.

Howard Bassem
Howard Bassem was part of Orc's crew and ran a black market, even while being a member of the Town Council. He was killed by Drake in Fear.

Howard is a small, "weaselly", sycophantic, smooth skinny black boy. Although very selfish and cowardly, and despite running what is essentially a black market, Howard is shown to have a moral center when on the Town Council, and often criticizes Astrid and Albert for being heartless, corrupt and hypocritical. Howard is also fairly intelligent, and enjoys mocking those around him if it comes at no cost to him. He is Orc's manager and "Satan", and they both use each other, but he is Orc's only friend and they have been shown to worry about each other.

Drake Merwin
Drake Merwin Jr. is a major antagonist in the Gone Series. He is a sadistic boy working for Caine Soren. His arm is burned off by Sam Temple, causing the Gaiaphage to replace it with a whip-like tentacle. Drake rises up against Caine and is killed, but the Gaiaphage keeps him alive, sharing the form of Brittney. He serves the Gaiaphage until it becomes Gaia Soren-Ladris, and his body falls apart when the FAYZ ends and burns. Drake is a tall, slim and lithe human male. Sam describes him as a "smiling, playful, mean-eyed kid" with shaggy, sandy-blonde hair that later turns to dirty blond or light brown (and is referred to as "dark" in Lies). His eyes are either gray or pale blue, and are often described as steely or icy, and soulless. Astrid states the expression in his eyes is "lizard-like." Drake is often described as having a shark-like smile; a smile that shows "too many teeth" with "too little humor." Orsay thinks his face would be handsome, were it not for his cold eyes, and Penny describes him as "attractive" but "in a dangerous way". He has a tentacle-like appendage that is ten feet in length with a whip-like tip instead of a right arm, and Brittney's head is melded into his chest.

Drake is one of the overreaching antagonists throughout the series. Unlike Caine, who displays complexity and eventually becomes a hero, Drake remains evil all throughout the books, displaying his cruel tendencies even before the start of the FAYZ. He is sadistic, murderous and psychopathic and revels being in a position of power. He has been shown to be overconfident, untrustworthy and treacherous, and many believe he is not completely sane. Unlike Caine, who only kills to achieve a means, Drake kills for the sake of killing, and because he relishes in the pain of others. He also holds no loyalty - causing both allies and enemies to distrust him.

It is implied that Drake is also a misogynist. He has shown an inordinate amount of loathing for strong, independent women like Diana and Astrid, frequently fantasizing about the ways he would torture them. He also expresses disgust for sharing a body with Brittney, and desires revenge on Sam and Caine for hurting him. Even without powers, Drake was considered one of the most lethal characters in the FAYZ. The son of a highway lieutenant, Drake was already skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and was considered an expert wielder of a gun. After the loss of his right arm, his power only increases - his new tentacle hand being capable of strangling grown men and whipping people to death.

Thanks to Lana, Brittney and the Gaiaphage, Drake is almost immortal and can only be killed if every last cell is destroyed; otherwise, he can regenerate from any part of his body. His perception of pain is incredibly numbed due to his immortality. Formerly, he and Brittney shared a form and only one of them could exist at a time, but Drake's consciousness eventually overpowers hers and now she has been reduced to a head growing out of his chest.

Little Pete
Peter Michael Ellison, mostly referred to by the nickname Little Petebut also known as Nemesis, is a severely autistic little boy serving as a main character in the six first books. As he is little aware of what is going on around him, he is an easy target for the Gaiaphage, who gives him half of its power so that Little Pete can show it creation. In a fit of panic, however, Pete creates the FAYZ, unknowing of what he actually is doing. He continues living, tormented by his own mind, until his sister is forced to sacrifice him. His mind finds a way to survive and he lives on, until he confronts the Gaiaphage one last time, dying in the process. Little Pete is four years old, turning five during the series. He is severely autistic which makes life a nightmare for him, as his senses are extremely sensitive. Not understanding what goes on around him (until he is freed from his body, losing his autism in the process), he appears to be insensitive and indifferent to everything going on around him, but in reality he is rarely aware of anything other than his Game Boy. Physically, he looks similar to his sister Astrid, with blond hair and blue eyes. He also has freckles and glazed eyes, and Sam notes that Pete looks more like a girl than a boy. He also has a doll named Nestor. Little Pete is perhaps the most powerful of all beings in the FAYZ, easily rivaling all others, and even making himself a feared rival for the Gaiaphage. His (possibly limitless) powers include being able to teleport any amount of people or things anywhere, telekinesis, possession, creation, destruction, telepathy, and an ability similar to Sam's light, although the light is in every color and comes from every direction at once.

The Gaiaphage
The Gaiaphage, also known as The Darkness, is the main villain of the Gone Series. It was among the most powerful beings in the FAYZ, rivaled only by Little Pete. The Gaiaphage initially appeared as a mass of glowing green crystals which seethed along the ground in the mineshaft. When someone poofs, the Gaiaphage appears before them as a being with green eyes and a fanged mouth. In Hunger, the Gaiaphage attempted to create a new body for itself out of millions of monsters, but was thwarted by Duck. More than a million years ago, a race of life-worshiping aliens infected a dead moon with a carefully structured virus with the ability to affect the fabric of reality. They then exploded the moon, sending thousands of seedlings out into the universe. They hoped that the virus would land on lifeless planets and create life, but on the planet Earth, 1 million years later, one of the seedlings hit a nuclear power plant. The impact killed a human called Taegan Smith, the father of Sam, and dragged his corpse underground, along with a pile of uranium. The uranium, as well as Taegan's DNA, caused the virus to mutate into a radioactive, part-human, part-alien monster, which went insane and called itself the Gaiaphage, or World Eater. Instead of creating life, it started to cause other living things to mutate - for example, human beings began to gain powers, animals began to evolve into bizarre monsters. Some humans were more vulnerable than others - because of the genetic connection, Sam and Caine were the only four-bars, and because of his autism and youth, Little Pete became immeasurably powerful. The Gaiaphage, who later becomes Gaia, is the most powerful force in all of the FAYZ. It doesn't fear anything and does not hesitate to torture its enemies. Little Pete, whom the Gaiaphage calls Nemesis, is slightly less powerful, except in conjunction with Caine Soren. The Gaiaphage has ALL the powers ever discovered in the FAYZ, as long as the person that has the power remains alive. If the owner of a power is killed or for other reasons dies, the power will fade away from the Gaiaphage, which is why Gaia is reluctant to kill powerful humans during Light. However, the only powers that the Gaiaphage actually seems to have itself are Mimicry and Mind Control.