Alfred Brown

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Alfred Brown is the main protagonist of RE: NIGHTMARE.
==Appearance==
===Post-RN===
He is an anthropomorphic Shiba Inu with light brown and cream fur and has metallic ears. He has short brown curly hair swept to the side and a goatee. Alfred is missing his right eye and covers the socket with a bandage, while his remaining eye is a reddish-orange, and his tail is chopped off. Alfred wears a white lab coat and a dark grey shirt underneath with black gloves, pants, and shoes. He is sometimes seen wearing round and rectangular glasses, which are optional to his design.
===Pre-RN===
He wears a long-sleeved polo white shirt with black pants and shoes, his hair is slightly longer, and is seen wearing rectangular glasses. Alfred doesn't have metallic ears and his right eye isn't missing.
=== Child ===
His hair is short and barely curly. Alfred wears a green and yellow striped sweater (in another design, he can be seen with a yellow heart in the webcomic instead). He has blue shorts, along with green and yellow colored sneakers and white socks underneath. He has a band-aid somewhere around his knee. Alfred has a tail that appears to have a mouth.
== Personality==
===Post-RN===
He is described as kind and anxious but rather peaceful. Alfred tends to isolate himself from others and suffers from depression to the point that he deals with suicidal and addictive behavior that often leads to worse situations. He is quiet and isn't open about himself when it comes to expressing his hobbies and talents. Alfred can be bashful and certainly gets flustered. He apologizes a lot to those around him if he makes a minor mistake or does an attempt to defend himself. Alfred always seems to be uncomfortable and replies nervously to hugs.
Alfred doubts himself, as he isn't very confident. He always disregards his talents and skills whenever he is complimented.
===Pre-RN===
Alfred appeared to be content and happy-go-lucky.
===Child ===
He is joyous, easily gets worried, and wants to help others as much as he can. Alfred is quick to blame himself and becomes scared if he isn't in time to do things, he is very obedient.
==History==
===Pre-RN, earlier life===
Alfred was born on April 28th, 1978 to Emily and Gerald. 
He and Mystery met through school during their childhood, they considered each other best friends until the day Mystery decided to murder Alfred's parents in 1986 after he wasn't able to save him in time when Arthur was in the middle of abusing Mystery. Eventually, Alfred decided to run away by leaving a letter to him and live with his uncle, Mike, in another city where he most likely wouldn't see any of his friends. 
Alfred graduated college and became a surgeon years later. He then met Yuki and got married to her. They decided to have two children, Shia in 1996 and Shai in 1998. Alfred found Kao in the corner of a street in 2004 and he was able to join the family by giving him a chance to work at the hospital as a janitor.
===Post-RN===
In 2006, Mystery showed up in Alfred's life again, as he began to torment him and Kao every day at work. The killing of his son gravely affected Alfred, causing Yuki to divorce him when she found out, resulting in him being homeless and losing a genuine connection to his daughter, Shai after she saw Alfred torturing Jessy during the time Mystery was possessing him. He temporarily lived in Howaito's and Kao's house before moving into his own house with Kao.
==Relationships==
=== Mystery Burns===
====Post-RN====
He's shown to hate Mystery a lot, as far as being easily uncomfortable and terrified of him whenever he is near. They rarely get along, but Alfred must do anything Mystery demands since he is his servant. Due to this, Alfred can't connect with others in general, especially with Kao. He has to pretend to be Mystery's best friend. He forces himself to be cold towards people so Mystery won't harm anyone he is close with. Alfred still cares about him despite this.
====Pre-RN====
Regardless of everything that Mystery had done, Alfred managed to care and feel bad about him, hoping to give him a second chance and thinking that he would change.
====Childhood====
Alfred looked after Mystery's well-being as he worried about him. He would be quick to take the fault on himself if he wasn't able to save Mystery in time from Arthur. He used to make flower crowns with him and considered him a childhood best friend.
===Kao Ushi===
====Post-RN====
They are still best friends, but Alfred feels uncomfortable around Kao because he tends to have romantic feelings for him, while he doesn't. Their friendship between them is rather distant nowadays thanks to Mystery. Kao's constant harassment sometimes leads to Alfred unintentionally lashing out at him because of it. Despite that, he thinks Kao is cute and likes his taste in fashion. They continue to bond and may have similar interests, like anime.
====Pre-RN====
He treated him as a son and a best friend.
===Emily Brown & Gerald Brown===
Alfred had a decent relationship with his parents, he didn't want to disobey them and claimed to have 'hated' them, sometimes. It's implied that Emily might've gotten him into anime.
===Mike Brown ===
It is not known what Alfred's relationship was like with his uncle, but it's shown that Mike might be the possible reason why Alfred was exposed to weed at a young age after moving in with him when his parents died.
===Yuki Chairo===
Alfred met her in Japan, but it is not stated when this occurred. They used to be a happy couple before they divorced.
===Shai Brown===
====Post-RN====
Alfred still cares about her despite their distance when the incident with Jessy happened. He tries to reconnect with her by sharing interests, like enjoying anime. But none of these attempts ever work out well for him as Shai once recommended him to watch Boku No Pico. Alfred leaves her some gifts now and then.
====Pre-RN====
They had a sufficient father-and-daughter relationship.
=== Shia Brown===
Not much is specified about Alfred and his son, but he continues to blame himself for the death of Shia and still cares about him, but is rather grateful that he is dead because of how Alfred views himself as a horrible father.
==Trivia== 
*Alfred takes mood stabilizers.
*Anime is his only source of happiness. 
**He enjoys animes that fall into the slice-of-life category, like Lucky Star.
**He likes 'kawaii' anime girls.
**He also watches Sailor Moon and Pokémon.
*In one of Alfred's older reference sheets, he was stated to be a wolf. This was changed earlier on.
* It's implied that he listens to My Chemical Romance. He's seen wearing merch in an illustration.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1218629848248094894/1232461552968269834/alfred.jpg?ex=66298ac4&is=66283944&hm=d0c2b95ef7a9da25750c7d0a58776c8795bda48b1654e579cb3de059ff331897&
**He is probably emo, as mentioned in his bio from one of the 2017 reference sheets.
**He goes to Hot Topic.
*One of his main phobias is Mystery. 
**Alfred thinks he would have a nice voice if he wasn't scared of him.
*His second language is Japanese. 
**Alfred might have relatives from Japan.
**He never has the opportunity to speak in Japanese. 
*He is an omnivore.
*He is lactose intolerant.
*He used to be a therapist, but his occupation was later changed to a surgeon. It is not known why this was changed.
*His favorite color is blue.
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