Brian/Relationships

## Family

### Leafa

Brian, as Queen Sakuya, is Leafa's in-game adoptive mother. Not much is known about their relationship, but she seems well versed with Brian's beef with Becky. Sakuya was the one who told her to get engaged to Cazmer, so she seems to be okay with using Leafa as a political tool. When Leafa suggests getting help from Sakuya to Kirito, she says, "she might be cool... for once", implying that she might be strict with her.

Leafa seems adept of dealing with Sakuya's racism regarding the other races, telling her to "read the room" when Kirito was trying to scare the Salamanders off. When Leafa tries to ask for a favor from her, she tries to butter Sakuya up with compliments first, which Sakuya sees right through, implying that Leafa had a history of constantly asking for favors.

## Friends

### Denise

Brian and Denise were friends. Not much is known about their relationship, but the two of them were members of the same roleplay group. However, after Brian and Becky broke up and the Race War started, the Cait Sith, Denise's people, started getting hunted by the Sylphs, under the leadership of Queen Sakuya, who was now under the control of Brian.

To end her people's suffering, Hime agreed to attend a peace conference with Hime, who agreed to stop attacking the Cait Sith if Hime agreed that "Eugene" was in the wrong when "he" wanted to go to the opera on the night "Sakuya" wanted to go to the Lakers game.

When Eugene attacked the peace conference and stated that half of the alliance would eat the other half within a week, Sakuya denied this, stating that while the Cait Sith may be delicious they are "a powerful and succulent ally", much to Hime's horror.

After Brian and Becky's argument and Becky left, Denise told Brian that she can't believe he slept with Becky, to which Brian reminded that Becky is Denise's cousin.

## Allies

### Kirito

Kirito wanted to recruit Sakuya in his quest to rescue storm the World Tree, which was difficult due to Sakuya's hatred of the Spriggan race. Kirito was annoyed to find out that the entire Race War was based on Brian and Becky's breakup. When the time to ask for her help, Sakuya was grateful that Kirito helped fight off the Salamanders, but ultimately decided to not help him due to the wish that awaited atop the World Tree was only available to one race, though Brian couldn't remember if the wish actually exists or not.

## Enemies

### Becky

Becky is Brian's ex-boyfriend. Not much is known about their relationship, but the two of them were members of the same roleplay group. However, things took a sour turn in their relationship, as Brian kept having to apologize on Becky's behalf when she vomited on their neighbor's dog, and Brian felt like Becky never listened to him, like when she bought some opera tickets for the night Brian was planning on attending the Lakers game.

All of this resulted in the two of them breaking up. The fallout of this was messy, as the two could be near each other without breaking out into an argument, mocking each other's interests. It got to the point that Brian stole Becky's character, Sakuya, from her, and started the Race War, which was founded as an excuse to get the other players to pick a side in their fight.

### Ted

Brian and Ted used to be friends. Not much is known about their relationship, but the two of them were members of the same roleplay group. However, after Brian and Becky broke up and the Race War started, Ted tried to get Brian and Becky to talk things out so they could be friends again. Sakuya and Eugene responded to this by having Ted's race, the Spriggans, wiped out, and had Ted's character, Kirito Prime, branded as ALO's "Great Betrayer". All of this resulted in Ted not wanting to play the game anymore.

### Travis

Brian and Travis used to be friends. Not much is known about this time period, but Travis looks back on it fondly. However, when Brian and Becky broke up and started the Race War, with Brian started playing as Sakuya the Queen of the Sylphs, Travis started to judge Brian. This was made worse when Brian and Becky persecuted their friend Ted for trying to get the two exes to talk to each other, after which Travis started conspiring behind Brian's back.

Cazmer initially struck back at him by sparking the Sylph civil war, in an attempt to dethrone Sakuya, but she put an end to this by offering him Leafa's hand in marriage, which he reluctantly accepted. Cazmer then tried to orchestrate a war between the Sylphs and the Salamanders, as this was the only way to get the two exes in the same room and talk things out. However, this was all in vain, as Sakuya eventually found out about Cazmer's "betrayal" and banished him from the game.

### Jonathan

As a Salamander, PantySmasher is one of Sakuya's enemies. However, Jonathan is also one of Brian's enemies by default as he's Becky's new boyfriend. The two have don't interact much, but when Brian first met him, Brian was very judgemental of Becky's new relationship, telling Becky to "keep better control of your man".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Episode 16
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Episode 15
3. ↑ The Spriggan genocide
4. ↑ Cazmer's motivation