Dawn Brooks/Relationships

## Family

### Mrs. Brooks

Dawn is closer with her mom than with her dad, but not by much. Ever since Ceryn was born, Dawn's been well aware that her mom just sees her as a worker, someone to do errands for her and make her life more convenient. She's past the point of being upset by it. By now, her parents are so absent from her life she can't even hate them.

### Luke Brooks

Luke was, for a long time, the only person who mattered in her life. As a child, she was aware that their relationship was very fragile, and she didn't have much room to ask for things, or else even his meager attention would be lost. Now that she's an adult, she sees him in a much different light and finds herself frustrated with how much her life is defined by him. Despite this, she is very defensive of his image, raising Ceryn to believe Luke is always right and good, and that everything he did in his life was good. She refuses to accept anyone else's criticism of Luke, believing herself to be the only person with a right to dislike him.

### Ceryn Brooks

Ceryn is one of Dawn's Lasting Loises. Her positive emotion to him is protection, which is subconscious, and her negative emotion is jealousy. Ceryn is Dawn's top priority in life, whether she likes it or not. Her entire life is focused around taking care of him, protecting him, and preparing him for the world ahead. This leads to her taking on a not very fun role in his life, and forcing him to do things he doesn't want to many times. However, in Dawn's mind, it's all for his future, so any current unhappiness doesn't matter.

She has trouble being close with him due to her dislike of their circumstances, and very rarely provides any sort of physical comfort. She is embarrassed that her teenage brother still sleeps in her bed sometimes, but will always let him stay the night after something scary. She has the recipes for all his favorite foods memorized so she can make them for him at any time.

## Party

### Lycus Uracil

Lycus is one of Dawn's Lasting Loises. Her positive emotion to him is protection, and her negative emotion is inferiority, which is subconscious. Dawn views Lycus as her responsibility, and finds herself checking in with him quite a bit. Having been entrusted with his life, she is a bit overly eager to be able to fulfill her promise to Seth. However, she's also very protective of him, viewing him as someone she has to take care of, both in and out of battle. Lots of her attacks get attributed to him, something which frustrates her. He also has a habit of easily mastering skills it took her years to hone.

### Piper Carroll

Despite barely interacting with Piper in the present, Dawn finds herself very aware of her. Piper is one of the people Dawn watches the most, and if she could be anyone in the party, it would be Piper. She doesn't know much about her, but is still intensely jealous of the life she imagines her to have. It also doesn't help how close Piper has grown with Masa. Dawn tries to make herself think that it'd be better for Piper and Masa to be together, since he'd be happy, but her heart won't allow it.

### Pia Novissime

Dawn and Pia do not get along, but Dawn kinda wishes they would. She feels that Pia is someone who refuses to meet her halfway and put in her own share of effort to get along with her, although she understands that their personalities are somewhat incompatible. She views Pia as a ditzy dreamer who refuses to understand the way things work for real people. Part of her respects that Pia says whatever is on her mind, but it has definitely caused some problems as well.

### Calista Calhoun

Despite her antagonistic start with Calista, Dawn finds her to be someone she can respect. While in daily life they are on tense terms, to say the least, Dawn agrees with Calista often in serious situations, and is happy for an ally. She's especially curious about her relationship with Aina, but finds it likely she'll have to figure out what's going on there herself.

### Lenore Parish

Dawn respects Lenore as one of the few people in the party who has her priorities in order and is easy to talk to. Even though her and Lenore don't talk often, Dawn feels that she can rely on her. She trusts her to at least not make Ceryn worse, which is more than she can say for a lot of people. She genuinely wants to help Lenore with her quest to find out more about her uncle, and is sad when she runs into dead ends.

### Thrones

Thrones is a fellow Angel Halo in the party, so Dawn talks with them at times about their syndrome. The two have very different ways of going about fighting and life in general. She finds them a bit confusing, and feels that they won't really be able to get along, but doesn't dislike them. She's always glad to help them out with their technological issues when they pop up.

## Other

### Masateru Cytos

Masa is one of Dawn's Lasting Loises. Her positive emotion to him is love, which is subconscious, and her negative emotion is shame. Although she's scared to admit it, she is deeply in love with him, and has been for a long time. However, she isn't sure if he shares her feelings, and fears alienating him and ruining their relationship if she tries to get closer. Thus, she keeps him at a bit of a distance. He annoys her a bit as well, especially when he's doing creepy stuff, but she always finds herself forgiving him. He's someone she can't help trusting, no matter what.

### Aina Murakami

Dawn does not care about Aina as much as Aina cares about Dawn. But she recognizes Aina as a valuable asset she doesn't want to lose. She's watched over her for a bit now, and is willing to assist her in flying under the UGN's radar, so long as Aina continues to provide for her and only her.

### PASTE

Paste is a very new addition to the team, and Dawn isn't sure yet how to feel about it. The idea of caring for anything small makes her feel pretty disgusted, enough to make her reject it altogether. However, it keeps coming back, and she's not that heartless. She's recently realized it's fun to squeeze its paws.

### Seth Miyashita

Dawn's least favorite superior. She suspects he is aware of her unique circumstances, but chooses to ignore them in favor of refusing her promotions. However, her desire to please authorities kicks in strongly with him, and whatever he asks, she will do, especially if it is asked of her specifically.

### Crimson Carnage

Dawn is terrified of the Gjuam who killed her brother. Part of her is struck with the need to kill it and avenge him, but a much larger part of him is desperate to protect Ceryn. She feels an all consuming anxiety when she thinks about it, which leads to her becoming ill.

## Minor Relationships

### Alfred J. Cauldwell

Like many others, Dawn was surprised to see Cauldwell's broadcast. However, as she joined the UGN after his disappearance, it was not as personal to her as it was to others.

### Anastasiya Kline

In her years of researching Luke's life, Dawn has heard about Ana a few times. She has never paid the name much attention before.

### Blade

Blade is Dawn's superior who she respects. She does not often work with them, as they are elusive. She is very strict with herself and others about respecting Blade's humanity, despite their appearance.

### Kiana Martell

Kiana is Dawn's superior who she respects. She prefers working with Kiana best, but as Kiana is often busy, this is seldom the case.

### Lian Thymin

As Ceryn's mentor, Dawn chats with Lian fairly regularly. She is aware Lian dislikes her, but Ceryn comes first.

### Nadja Guanin

While Dawn is aware Nadja likely dislikes her at best, her happiness at Ceryn having a friend overrides that.

### Raul Pastore

Dawn thinks he is a bit sleazy, but sees him as a valuable tool if she can trick him.

### Risa Fujimura

Risa is Dawn's superior, who she respects. Dawn works as hard as Risa does often, and tries to impress her or get a smile from her.

### RLio Adenin

Dawn does not get along with Lio, as he is the most openly hostile towards her. He disproves of her and Dawn interacting, and tells her as much. Dawn doesn't like being around Lio, since he reminds her that he is right.