Brayden Mills

* Season 2
* season 1

**Brayden Mills** is a major antagonist in Raising Dion, serving as supporting character in Season 1 and the central antagonist of Season 2.

He is son of Walter Mills. He is portrayed by Griffin Robert Faulkner.

## Biography

### Pre-series and season 1

Brayden was born some time after his father Walter went to Iceland to witness the Aurora Event. Just like Mark Warren with Dion, Walter passed the powers he got from this event on to his son. But where Walter has the power to grow plants, Braydan developed the power of telepathy.

Brayden's mother died when Brayden was 4. In "ISSUE #104: Welcome to BIONA. Hope You Survive the Experience" he was orphaned when The Crooked Man killed his father. His aunt Joan moved to the farm to take care of him. Later, Charlotte Tuck dropped by in hopes of speaking with Walter, only to learn he had been killed. Brayden showed her his powers and asked her to take him with her, but Charlotte refused. Brayden did not take this rejection well, and telepathically called Charlotte out for the fact that she did help Dion and not him, causing Charlotte to quickly leave the farm.

At the end of "ISSUE #109: Storm Killer", after Dion defeated the Crooked Man, the entity inside the creature that previously possessed Pat Rollins managed to take possession of Brayden. The final scene of the episode showed Brayden's aunt dead, most likely killed by the possessed Brayden, and Brayden himself leaving the farm.

### Season 2

Two years later, Brayden is still living by himself, with only the Crooked Energy for company, who is corrupting the boy by using his feelings of loneliness and rejection. Unlike Pat, the energy is not posessing him all the time. Corrupted by the energy, Brayden uses his powers to make a man named Joe and woman named Cindy give him a ride to Atlanta, where he has them enroll him in McKoy Park Elementary as a new student so he can get close to Dion. To give himself a fighting chance this time, the Crooked Energy and Brayden create a glowing plant in the sinkhole outside the school, which infects people with Parasitic spores that turns them into plant monsters.

Brayden reveals to Dion he has powers and the boys become friends, with Brayden even letting Dion into his mind to show him a memory of his life on the farm. However, Brayden uses this new friendship to try and corrupt Dion and make him use his powers for selfish reasons. Dion picks up on Braydens intentions and breaks off the friendship.

Brayden next follows Dion as he, Tevin Wakefield and Kat Neese go to the Warren family cabin. He uses the crows to spy on them, and tries to mind control Tevin into killing Dion. Tevin is able to resist long enough however for Dion to run, so Brayden moves in to finish Dion himself. He sicks a flock of crows onto him and then physically attacks Dion, but Dion is able repell him by using his powers to forcefully enter Brayden's memory of the farm again, and release the young Brayden that was locked up in there. Brayden flees before Tevin or Dion can stop him. Tevin warns Biona and leads a team of agents to the house where Brayden is staying, but all they find are Joe and Cindy. Brayden is hiding out in the shed behind the house, and after what Dion did in his memory he has become reluctant to help the Crooked Energy any further. The Crooked Energy has grown strong enough by this point however to fully take over Brayden. Dion, whle not present, can sense that Brayden is gone, meaning the Crooked Energy is now in full control.

Using Brayden's body and powers, the Crooked Energy attacks Dion at school, but with help of Jonathan and Esperanza, who is somehow immune to Brayden's mental powers, Dion is able to chase him off again.

On the night of the school musical, the Crooked Energy puts his final plan into motion and has Brayden summon all the plant monsters he created to the school. Dion tries to fight him, helped by Nicole, Tevin and Janelle Carr, but they are overpowered. Nicole however is able to reach out to Brayden by reminding him of his mother, and what she would want from him. Brayden is able to snap out of the Crooked Energy's grip and rejects it. After Dion destroys the plant in the sinkhole and restored all the infected people back to normal, Tevin offers to take care of Brayden, realizing how much the boy has been through.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Telepathy**: Brayden has the power to read minds, and communicate telepathically with others.
	+ **Mind Control**: Since season 2 he has been able to control minds, making people do or think anything he wants them to. This works on both humans and animals. If he wants, he can even completely shut down someone's brain, rendering that person catatonic. However, Esperanza is somehow immune to this, as she pointed out she could hear him, she was just ignoring him.
	+ **Astral projection**: Brayden can appear near people by projecting himself into their minds. He used this to get into Dion's room to talk to him, and later to get into Pat's cell at Biona.
	+ **Zoopathy:** When controling an animal, Brayden can mentally look through their eyes and thus use them as a spy. He used this ability in "ISSUE 205: You vs. Me" to spy on Dion through crows.

### Former powers

* **Electrokinesis:** When fully possessed and under control by the Crooked Energy, Brayden can fire lightning from his hands. Due to the Crooked Energy leaving him, Brayden has lost that power.

Brayden possessed by the Crooked ManBrayden multiplying himself.