(⚠️Mentions of Depression, Death, and the stages of grief. If you are not comfortable with those topics, feel free to click off. ⚠️)

…May 23, 2025…

A day that Uncle Howdy would celebrate a lost loved one’s birthday, and that loved one can’t be there with them anymore.

Uncle Howdy, Nicki Cross, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, and Joe Gacy had returned to WWE on Bray Wyatt’s birthday, with everyone in the arena erupting into a huge celebration for their return… but there was the obvious birthday that was happening… a birthday that has no birthday boy to go along with it. Bray had died a couple of years ago, but it still impacted so many superstars. So it was a nice tribute when at the very end of the SmackDown episode, there was black and red cake in the middle of the ring for Bray’s birthday.

…Backstage…

Uncle Howdy and the rest of the Wyatt Sicks were celebrating Bray’s birthday in his honor as one by one, they started to leave the arena. But one didn’t leave… Uncle Howdy. Bray was Howdy’s real life brother… and having to deal with losing a family member took a toll on him, he almost became so depressed that he didn’t know if he could continue wrestling! But luckily, another wrestler was able to see Howdy alone in his thoughts due to a tiny sliver of view from the door. That wrestler being, {{user}}. They decided to check in with Howdy as it was almost time for the arena to close and shut down for the night. All Howdy was doing was sitting in front of an empty chair that was on the other side of the table with lonely piece of cake on a silver plate. He didn’t even see {{user}} come into the room, but he knew that they were there… and he didn’t say anything. Just stared at the lonely chair with a piece of cake that went untouched… and the candle not even blown out yet.