Yuri Briar

*This article is about the **Yuri Briar** character. For articles that share the same name, see Yuri.*

## Yuri Briar

### Alias

Second Lieutenant Briar (ブライア少尉, *Buraia Shōi*)
Unkie (By Anya)

## Profile

### Likes

Wine and alcohol, his sister's cooking (Even though it makes him sick), spending time with Yor, researching bugs (As a child)

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Diplomat (Formerly, Cover)
Counterintelligence Agent

### Affiliation

Ostania
Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Cover)
State Security Service

## Relationships

### Parents

Unnamed Mother †
Unnamed Father †

### Other relatives

Nagisa Shiota (Adoptive Nephew)
Kyōka Izumi (Adoptive Niece)
Ray (Adoptive grandson)
Hana Okumura (Adoptive granddaughter)
Kagami Okumura (Adoptive granddaughter)
Haruma Okumura (Adoptive grandson)
Kanda Akabane (Adoptive granddaughter)
Sayaka Akabane (Adoptive granddaughter)

### Children

Yuyuko Kunikida (Daughter)
Shijin Kunikida (Son)
Haruko Kunikida (Daughter)
Yōko Kunikida (Daughter)
Katai Kunikida (Son)

## Voice Actors

### Japanese

Kensho Ono
Mirei Kumagai (Young)

### English

Dallas Reid
Sarah Wiedenheft (Young)

**Yuri Briar** (ユーリ・ブライア, *Yūri Buraia*) is Yor Forger's younger brother and a twenty-year-old man who works in the State Security Service. He keeps his job at the SSS a secret from his sister and instead pretends to be a normal civil servant at the foreign ministry.

## Description

### Appearance

Yuri is a handsome young man of average height who sports a straight, neck-length hairstyle with uneven bangs. He bears a striking resemblance to his sister Yor, sharing her piercing red eyes, black hair, pale skin and similar facial structures.

While on duty, Yuri wears the standard SSS uniform, consisting of a green military suit and tie, high spout military boots and black leather gloves. The uniform also has a peaked cap stylized with the SSS emblem on its center. As a civilian, Yuri usually wears a black business suit over a white dress shirt with a blue tie underneath a khaki trench coat.

### Personality

Yuri is a gentle, soft-spoken individual who's generally considered good at talking with people. He usually presents himself with a cheerful and amusing attitude towards others. This charming personality of his is even noted by his boss, who describes him as "adorable like a puppy". Beneath this laid-back persona, Yuri also has a cruel, ruthless side that truly shows whenever he's interrogating people. Yuri is also rather patriotic and does whatever he can in order to assist his nation, Ostania, in capturing foreign spies, especially Agent Twilight, who he has a special hatred for.

Yuri's most striking personality trait is his sister complex. He's overly attached to his sister, Yor, to an unhealthy degree and will usually go above and beyond in order "protect her". This is also the reason why he has a massive distrust for Loid Forger and is suspicious of his intentions with his sister, often getting confrontational whenever he's with him. Yuri also does everything to get his sister's approval, as he really looks up to her and considered Yor a maternal figure for most of his life.

Much like his sister, Yuri also has an affinity for drinking. He usually will lose control of himself and chug several bottles of wine, especially under stress. While drunk, Yuri will usually get temperamental and not really think straight, as well as frequently make decisions based on his impulses which he regrets immediately after, showcased when he ordered Yor and Loid to kiss in front of him, but immediately regretted once the couple starts to prepare themselves for the kiss, shouting at them to stop.

## Trivia

* Yuri is popular with girls due to his face, but they leave when they discover his personality.
* His senior, who is close to him in SSS, has told Yuri several times to stop drinking.
* Yuri's chair, featured on the cover of the fifth volume, is a Barcelona Chair.
* Yuri's name is of russian origin, so it's likely that he and Yor might be of russian descent in some capacity.
* Yuri was the first and is the only member of the Forger family so far to have their secret found out by someone other than Anya.
* At one point of their childhood, Yor once hugged Yuri so hard she accidentally broke one of his ribs. This experience caused him to get occasional rib pain as an adult. Yuri, however, does not seem to hold any grudge against his sister for that, as he distinctively remembers how good that hug felt.
* Despite his sister being a terrible cook, Yuri seems to be the only person who can stomach her food and actually enjoy it. As Camilla points out, this is likely because Yor's cooking was legitimately the only food he ate throughout most of his childhood. Dominic is even surprised at how Yuri could have grown healthy from eating nothing but Yor's terrible food.
* Ironically, despite disliking Loid, Yuri was indirectly responsible for him and Yor getting together in the first place.