It was proper there on the merchandise WWE launched for the group shortly after their debut final month, however Uncle Howdy’s first “interview” with Bo Dallas made it clear that the Wyatt Sicks’ connection to Bray Wyatt would go a lot deeper than their identify.
Throughout two completely different segments on the June 15 episode of Uncooked, it was made equally clear that Bray isn’t the one deceased Wyatt Member of the family the Sicks shall be honoring.
Up thus far within the story, we’ve solely heard from Dallas/Howdy. Final night time, on the videotape that was dropped off at The Pat McAfee Present on Monday afternoon, Rowan turned the second member of the group to share his story. Answering questions from an unseen Howdy, Rowan talked about how exhausting the previous few years have been — referencing not solely the lack of Bray final yr, but in addition Luke Harper/Brodie Lee’s 2020 demise.
“You understand I used to have a household. We have been unstoppable. Inseparable. At all times had one another’s backs. After which in the future simply… the entire world modified. I misplaced a brother. The individual on this world who believed in me greater than anybody else, simply gone.
“It knocked me on my ass, I’m not gonna lie. However in these conditions, you rise up, you wipe the mud off you, and also you simply preserve shifting — trigger that’s what you’ve go to do.
“And simply once I thought I had all the pieces going — My different brother. He was gone too. Which meant I had no extra household, no extra will, nothing.”
Rowan was weeping for a lot of the section, however we might see the consequences of his losses in the best way the digital camera held his gaunt face. He went on to explain how he felt after Bray’s demise, utilizing a metaphor that arrange his rationalization of how he got here to be again in WWE as a member of Howdy’s workforce — and that resonates with these of us who’ve skilled extreme melancholy.
“I fell down a properly, and I couldn’t get out. I didn’t wish to get out. Why? Why would I wish to get out? I felt catatonic, I couldn’t transfer. Numb to all the pieces, numb to the world. And who’s gonna miss me, hm? I’m simply Rowan.”
He was then tossed the previous sheep masks he used to put on as a member of The Wyatt Household earlier than Howdy requested him the way it makes him really feel. Rowan says it offers him hope, like when Howdy reached out to him whereas he was down in that properly.
“Once I noticed your hand, I accepted it. As a result of I knew I wanted it — I knew I wanted assist. And I obtained up, and now I had a goal. A goal in my life, a goal to assist these like myself. This jogs my memory of that beacon of hope.
“And we’re gonna take our damaged hearts, and make some lovely artwork.”
Unsure WWE had any alternative however to include the deaths of Wyatt & Harper/Lee into the Sicks’ backstory, however that doesn’t make it any much less attention-grabbing that they’ve executed so. Rowan is processing the tragedies in another way than Bo, no less than based mostly on what we’ve seen thus far. Dallas was angrier, and extra targeted on preserving and forwarding his brother and his household’s legacy. Rowan had an edge to his voice by the tip of final night time’s interview, however he’s motivated by serving to others they approach Howdy helped him.
It makes him a really sympathetic determine, maybe much more so than Dallas. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the remaining members of the group — Dexter Lumis, Nikki Cross, and Joe Gacy, none of whom had an on-screen connection to Wyatt or Harper — clarify how they got here to be part of the Sicks.
For now, it offers us a gaggle that followers are excited to cheer, even of their horror film masks. We noticed it after they confirmed as much as scare off Chad Gable and his new associates The Creeds on the finish of Uncooked, who have been beating down Bo on the time.
That was additionally the opposite section the place Harper/Lee’s presence was felt. Whereas (no)promoting Gable & The Creeds’ assault, Dallas repeatedly stated, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”. That’s a phrase Luke/Brodie would use as a taunt in his matches which might primarily turn out to be his WWE catchphase, and Bo’s use of it — particularly on the identical night time the Rowan interview aired — was no coincidence.
It actually makes for a chilling addition to Howdy’s, “There you might be”.
We’ll see the place the Wyatt Sicks’ story takes us subsequent. Wherever that’s, the spirits of Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper/Brodie Lee shall be with them.
