Brian

### Personality

Strong-willed, tough, independent, intelligent, logical, analytical, creative, determined, confident, complicated, loyal, careful, pragmatic, vindictive, humorous, extroverted, emotionless, sarcastic, ambiguous, courageous, unbreakable, empathetic, merciful, unconditionally loving, compassionate, self-sacrificing, heroic, understanding, humble, protective, pure-hearted, accepting, mature, insightful, honest, meticulous, dilligent
**Previously**: arrogant, egotistical, hotheaded, insecure, vulnerable, bitter, resentful, cynical, reclusive, ruthless, virtually solitary, stoic, unhinged, depressed, suicidal, shallow, selective, calculating, disrespectful

### Appearance

Slender, muscular, dirty blonde hair, hazel eyes
**Previously**: bloated belly

### Occupation

Novelist
Illustrator
Actor
Sword Duelist (partially)
Songwriter (partially)
Rapper (unofficially)
Beatboxer (unofficially)
Rides Operator
Restaurant Worker
Daycare Worker (all formerly)

### Affiliations

Arby's
Burger King
Papa Murphy's
123 Great Beginnings
Utah University (all formerly)
California University

### Goal

To graduate college with a Bachelor's Degree
To become a famous writer and actor
To protect the spirits and the Astral Plane from outside threats
To get Laysla De Oliveira to like him
To free and save all so-called non-believers from Katie and Snowy
To become a better person in general (all ultimately succeeded)

### Home

Somewhere in Germany
Several houses in Utah
Utah University campus
California University campus (all formerly)
Somewhere in California

### Relatives

* Katie (mother)
* Atara (younger half brother)
* Cousins

### Allies

Violet Adelpha
Tyson
Leslie
Laysla De Oliveira

### Enemies

Snowy
Katie

### Likes

helping people, being with Laysla, literature, acting, writing, working to enrich and bring joy to others, drawing, meditating, spending time with his friends, sharing his knowledge of storytelling and spirituality with others, being right, freedom, justice, order, cleanliness, social media, sushi, macaroni and cheese, buffalo sauce, Reese's candy, beef, potatoes, Diet Coke, sunsets, vape, cats, dogs, pigs, lions, people with both inner and outer beauty, the Middle-earth saga, *Stranger Things,* *Jessica Jones,* authentic pop celebrities such as Billie Eilish, Lorde, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and P!nk, Celldweller, most classical composers, Marilyn Manson, dubstep artists such as deadmau5, Krewella, Excision, the Prodigy, and Skrillex, Sirah, Tupac

### Dislikes

The Brotherhood, pollution, "hipsters", "talking shit", foolishness, lies, illogical or unreasonable thinking, stupidity, laziness, narcissism, selfishness, pressure, being told what to do, being mistreated, being rejected, being doubted, having to repeat himself, disgusting memes about body parts, prejudice against the spirits and the LGBT+ community, Katie's abuse and tyranny and her cruelty towards his father and both of his stepfathers, Snowy's nonsense in general, evildoers such as Adolf Hitler and Amber Heard, generic pop divas such as Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, the *Wizarding World* franchise

### Powers and abilities

Knowledge of the Astral Plane
Peak-human condition
Master deceiver
Master literarian
Gifted artist
Gifted pilot
Gifted drummer

### Paraphernalia

HP Laptop
Android Cell Phone

### Notable quote(s)

"You call yourself 'esoteric', but I was on the Astral Plane recently and your name didn't ring a bell with anybody."
"Be so busy that you don't have time to be sad."
"I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear what awe-striking sounds can emanate from my lips."
"If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first."
"“I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up."
"Stop praying. Start thinking."
"Must be a pretty weak faith, if they say one artist can destroy it."
"I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a website. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines."
"We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars."
"My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself."
"I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshipers."
"From Luke Skywalker to Tyler Locke, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes."
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself."
"It always seemed so weird to me that you need to have a license to fish. Yet, create enough horniness and every jackass becomes a parent."
"When you’re taught to love everyone, your enemies included, then what value does that place on love?"

"*No rich parents. No assistance. No handouts. No favors. No excuses. Straight hunger. Straight ambition. Straight hustle.*"
―Brian[src]

"*In order to win over a Wonder Woman, we must become a Superman.*"
―Brian talking about Laysla De Oliveira, and his most famous quote.[src]
**Brian** is a college student and the main protagonist in *23*.

## Biography

### Early life

"*Okay. I'm warning you right now, I have terrible articulation. Took me three years longer to talk than all the other babies."
"Well, I'd imagine your brain wanted a headstart in other fields. Not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous."
"Don't be. Mother hated me for it. Her own little baby.*"
―Brian and Leslie[src]
Brian was born in Utah in 2001 as the firstborn child of Katie, making him part of an ambiguous familial line with an undisclosed surname. Some of his ancestors were of Native American ancestors, making him one eighth Native American. Unfortunately, his father divorced Katie because of her abusive behavior when he was only three months old, and he was decreed to live with his problematic mother from that day forth. When he was a toddler, he displayed a natural talent for playing the drums and also became a huge fanboy of the late Ludwig van Beethoven.

While he did not begin speaking in complete sentences until he was four years of age, he could already read fluently at the time. At a young age, Brian quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind. When he was six years old, he eagerly read all seven novels of *The Chronicles of Narnia* back-to-back. When he was almost eleven, he willingly read the Bible and the Book of Mormon cover-to-cover.

Tragedy struck a second time when Katie's second husband, Ted, divorced after a five-year-old Brian had already witnessed her physical abuse towards him firsthand. He remained fearful of his mother, but having heard his stepfather's cries of fear and pain caused him to despise his mother. Throughout elementary school, Brian befriended a lot of girls, but he found them very difficult to trust, both for perceived wrongs to himself and his peers. This resulted in a general distrust for females which would go on to become a genuine problem in his imminent adolescence. In fifth grade, Brian's scooter was stolen by one of his neighbors, even though most of them (teenage girls aside, for obvious reasons) were known to be quite respectable. Upon learning it was a teenage girl, he was prepared to do what was necessary to prevent it, bringing a steak knife as a scare tactic to the teenage girl's house. Things went south fast when his mother stopped him from taking action and took the knife, shoving him to the ground and causing him to hit his head on a boulder, knocking the wind out of him. In an act of malevolent ferocity, his mother proceeded to try and stab him in the head while no one else was around, but Aaron shoved her out of the way.

All three of them were mortified by the afternoon's events, but Brian never received an apology. She proceeded to kick him out of the house and he fled to a city in Utah that was one hundred miles away. Still, being pragmatic by nature, she eventually bought him a new scooter to replace the one the teenage girl stole, but it was around that point that she became an openly abusive parent, often withholding the essentials, demeaning him, and hitting him constantly. This was a result of being wickedly jealous of the young boy's remarkable intelligence and natural charm, which she and her second-born lacked. Whenever Brian would say anything about his awful home situation, Katie would impatiently him of being ungrateful, as she did not understand how he could be so sad when she was giving him everything she thought he could possibly want.

### Beginning his literary career

"*Indeed, everyone could have won, but instead I get some clowns who were inadequate at their jobs making decisions they were unjustly qualified for if at all and as a result my unbelievable potential to be a celebrity teen was cruelly dismantled, which would have been a mid-2010s teen hit had it not been for the constant boneheaded blunders that anyone with any common sense would have known how to avoid.*"
―Brian[src]
Having discovered his passion for writing, Brian made it his life's ambition for his literary works to become published and distributed worldwide, building up an extremely enlightening and intellectual fanbase to make his ultimate dream a reality. Meanwhile, he and his family were moving from Provo to Clearfield and he was introduced to Katie's latest boyfriend, who he did not like in the slightest. The world-weary preteen did not see how Clearfield would be different to any other place he had lived. But to his surprise, Brian found solace when he discovered a nexus of spiritual energy inside a secret cabinet he could only fit in by crawling inside a trap door. Brian was able to enter the Astral Plane and met many of the spirits, many of whom were demonic in nature. Brian was both comforted by the spirits and fascinated by them; he related to how misunderstood they were, deeming them to be "most important of all lifeforms" for how they provided structure for the weak. Around this time, he became a more indirect adherent to the Mormon Church and stopped frequenting churches, admitting he has been doing much better since.

Early in 2015 his career in literature began shooting to new heights when he began working with an introverted girl named Violet Adelpha. Thrilled to realize that the newcomer was every bit as brilliant and ambitious as himself, the two young people took to each other right away and quickly struck up a close friendship. While his spirit friends did their best, Violet was much more efficient in providing him with enough compassionate to stay sane. Despite being separated by entire American states, the two of them spent hours at a time together online, sharing ideas and talking, and building their relationship. They learned a lot about each other and even shared the same inspirations and what they wanted to spend their lives doing. It was implied that Brian never fancied any girls at all until he was sixteen or seventeen years old, at which point he realized he was not asexual or homosexual, but bisexual.

In late August, Brian enrolled in Vista. However, due to a mix of odd structure and teachers whose treatment bordered on abuse, he did not get off to a good start at all. Things improved, albeit slightly, when he began working with a different member of the staff, but he still considered dropping out in January of 2020. Around the time his teachers were switched, his seasonal job at Lagoon came to an end, and he decided not to work there again in the future. Brian also began using Facebook actively. In May, he graduated from high school. He eventually had a bloated belly late in 2019. However, he did not actually frequently gorge himself, with most of his substantial weight gain being caused by his reasonably sedentary lifestyle, yet when he did overeat his stomach would expand out drastically. He also graduated and became part of a parade in May of 2020. He also learned about a woman named Laysla De Oliveira in 2020 and grew to idolize her.

On one occasion where Katie had a psychotic episode and made death threats, Violet comforted him, saying that a mother and son relationship is difficult to maneuver from both sides. While publicly popular and affable, his perverse mother was manipulative and frequently made poor decisions that set Brian back considerably as a child, and his stepfather was a very cruel and despicable man behind closed doors, tormenting him, turning his friends against him, and sexually abusing Katie. This induced a traumatized Brian to gain a militantly misotheistic view of God, believing that if He were omnipotent, then it would be logically impossible for Him to be omnibenevolent and vice versa, although this did not hamper his belief that power can still be innocent outside of the hands of the mainstream.

### Road to college

Brian mostly stayed home throughout November of 2021, partially because he was without his medications for the first time in his life. Despite this, sometimes he worried that Laysla De Oliveira would never like him. He admitted that although he loved her, he added that he couldn't be with her as he didn't have anything to offer to De Oliveira while not wanting to involve her in his often contradictory and unhappy life. In December, Brian began working at Burger King. On November 12, he began at VASA Fitness. He committed to an intense weight loss routine, resulting in him gaining a bit of muscle.

However, Atara was already on board for in-state college, departing on January 9 and resulting in Brian only seeing him on the weekends. Katie had taken him and four of his friends to dinner to celebrate Atara's success, which Brian joined them in a mostly unwanted capacity. He also put in his two-week notice at Arby's due to knowing they would never increase his working hours that he so desperately required. He applied for Cherry Hill and Arctic Circle, to no avail, and proceeded to apply for Papa Murphy's whilst attempting to return to Lagoon for Frightmares, which never happened either. At the beginning of January, Brian applied for the Games Department at Lagoon Amusement Park online. Ultimately, he began working at a daycare called 123 Great Beginnings, as he loved children with a passion. In the meantime, he began seeking a scholarship and learning about different colleges, especially ones in California, a place he secretly idealized due to its proximity with Hollywood and correlations with young, ambitious, and wealthy people finding success there.

He finally got the scholarship he was after. He still worked at a daycare at this point, a job he still enjoyed, as he affectionately took a photo of a small girl napping.

### Utah University

Brian eventually began attending Utah University.

### California University

Brian eventually transferred to California University, as did Tyson Newman and Leslie Levine.

## Physical description

"*As a kid I had eczema and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I keep adapting the way I look. If I think I weigh too much, I'll slim down; if my hair looks stupid, I'll get some scissors. Maybe Tyson's right, maybe I am my own harshest critic. People'll tell you having high standards is bad, Leslie. Don't listen to them.*"
―Brian[src]
Brian is a tall and reasonably handsome man with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He is usually seen wearing T-shirts and jeans, though on some occasions he has worn costumes or fancy attire. His teeth seem to have improved their condition as he removed his braces. Originally, Brian was relatively soft and gained a lot of weight that resulted in him being moderately fat as an adult with a wide waist and bloated gut. This was because he was rarely in action and his appetite was large. Brian had a fairly large gut; his arms and legs were meaty, but still firm and smooth, and his belly was relatively distended and bulbous regardless of what he was doing. However, his stretched, doughy stomach was not so pronounced that his shirt would fail to hide his fat, as it often did. Late in 2022, however, he began vigorously getting in shape again. Subsequently, he was delicate and had considerably more muscular arms and legs, with his stomach still having a soft texture in spite of having contracted noticeably. By 2030, however, he was very fit and muscular with a strong and subtle body befitting his personality. His handsomeness notably caught the attention of Cara Mota.

## Personality and traits

"*I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and… There's only ever been… there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run. I think I'd make for a shitty boyfriend.*"
―Brian[src]
Brian is a strong and intelligent young man who almost always knows his mind. An altruistic humanist, a man of and for the people, Brian had a lot of confidence and was very strong-willed. Even prior to starting college, he was hated by those who didn't understand him, but loved by those who did. He believed strongly in individuality, likening himself as a lion, and in the righteousness of pride. Ever a devil's advocate and egalitarian apologist, Brian has recently developed an affinity over people's beliefs in power, and the conversion of seeking to understand others' power into a desire to gain it, the better to uplift more and more people. Also, when Nemesis told him of the Multiverse, Brian was excited to know that it was all real, but thought it was a lie once he discovered his ruses, much to his immense disappointment. However, when he was young and in love with Laysla De Oliveira during his late adolescence (16-24 range), he became extremely anxious upon rediscovering her at age twenty and had already tried using two different girls to help him move on from what he once called "going after a ghost". On the advice of his friends, he overcame it. It is likely that Brian was popular during his time at the university, and was fancied by numerous girls. His little brother, Atara, often thought that he was too popular for his own good. However, he had admitted that he would never view himself as perfect.

On the other hand, he was also an extremely complicated and prideful person whose life was overwhelmed with many complex emotions that he never fully disclosed. He wisely kept them under control, while also keeping in mind that the future holds brighter experiences. Violet Adelpha, however, notes that Brian has never been skilled at deceiving her, as she has known Brian since the latter was in junior high. Troubled and confused, this made him more vulnerable to the abuse at the hands of his malevolent and controlling mother, Katie Christensen. Indeed, his upbringing seems to be completely and overly sheltered while also revolving around Christian beliefs, causing him to completely re-contemplate his morality when he stopped believing in it. Brian has always deemed powerful creatures to be inherently superior and better than the weak, a perspective reflected in his admiration of demons. Upon discovering a nexus of spiritual energy that allowed him to meditate onto the Astral Plane at the age of twelve, he came to love the spirits, viewing them as the "gods" of the natural kingdom. In his view, the predatory and demonic entities brought balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. Despite being raised in toxicity and emotional abuse, he declared himself independent and strong-willed by remaining kind-hearted and self-loving, unlike his cruel family, not allowing the bitterness surrounding his life to overtake him and morph him into someone as cruel as his family. He initially found it difficult to completely detach from these toxic relationships, and he was grateful to Tyson for helping to give him the strength to recant them entirely.

His grim family life could also explain why he is so pragmatic. This could also explain why he was so unstable, stoic, and moderately egotistical, though he eventually improved on all three traits. He is shown to have a genius intellect (in tactics, deception, criminology, science, literature, and exploitative networking, as well as both inductive and deductive analysis), often dismissing others, including his family he so feared and despised, as stupid or inferior, and expressing disinterest in their personal affairs. He is also shown to be sarcastic, pragmatic, and incredibly prideful. He also exhibits impulsive behavior due to his prideful nature. His rash decisions often resulted in him accidentally insulting others.

Brian was immensely intelligent and creative, as he possessed an IQ of 127. It had been mentioned that his mindset was far more logical and analytical than emotional or reactive. Ironically, one of his greatest weaknesses is that he tends to underestimate the intelligence of the people around him, often leading to small-to-hefty setbacks. Indeed, his remarkable intelligence aroused dangerous jealousy from the passive-aggressive tyrant who had raised him. Because of how complex his mind is and how young the man himself is, Brian has shown to have ticks implying moderate mental imbalance.

Despite having been a quirky, sensitive, and extremely eccentric and introverted child, Brian's personality changed considerably after his freshman year at North Davis Junior High, owing to his taxing experiences in high school with seeds planted in eighth and ninth grade to begin a period of extreme evolution that was fueled, albeit in an extremely twisted way, by the year his family lived with the Price family. Despite this, Brian maintained his eccentric and unshakable personality he'd had since elementary school, continuing to display incredible determination, creativity, intuition, wisdom, and stubbornness. However, midway through 2019, Brian was confirmed to be at a moderate risk for PTSD following his middle and high school experiences. He was already witty and sarcastic, at least when he was alone, and during those moments he would often make quips regarding his family's laziness, lack of talent, and over-dependence on him. He is also unafraid to stand up for himself when he feels he's in the right - or at least attempt to do so. Being ashamed to some degree of his stretched, doughy stomach, Brian often wore shirts that hid his fat. This indicates that he is ruled by his emotions even when he tries to pretend they do not exist. As assumed, Brian's primary goal in life was to escape his family (though his dreams and other goals also seemed to be of romance.) However, as he was under Katie's control since the very beginning, such a feat proved to be difficult, with the emotional abuse and manipulation having been planted in Brian's mind for far too many years, making for an obedient and fearful young man when faced with Katie's wrath; he would typically make attempts to avoid any form of conflict with his mother and brother as a direct result of this.

Brian's very cynical points of view come from him having seen "what promises are worth" many times during his two decades as a human, having seen many seemingly benevolent individuals become malevolently corrupted, to the point that Brian claims that hardly any "good guys" are left anymore. Violet Adelpha explained it as fear and rage being able to gradually render a good man like Brian into a cruel one.

During his talk with Nemesis, Brian began to see his own failings reflected in him and started showing signs of self-improvement, as shown when he expressed a newfound trust in Leslie despite her young age. His role in stopping the Contingency has inspired and given Brian a more optimistic and hopeful outlook, since he says to Leslie that despite their many flaws, humans are still righteous and that they do in fact have the potential in them to rebuild and improve. Brian's temper and rage, once provoked, can border on murderous. He has no qualms intimidating or threatening whoever had offended his friends and loved ones. Brian also shows his ambitious side in the sense that every time he's shown romantic interest in anyone, it's almost always someone who's either popular or well-connected who he'll surely have competition with. While genuinely eager to learn the art for its own sake, Brian even went to college to become learned of acting and writing, as he did not want to be with De Oliveira until she had reason to consider him her equal; this goes to show just how strong his love for others, respect for women, and yearning for knowledge were.

Brian was also surprisingly empathetic, more so than even he was initially willing to admit. In the workplace, helping others who needed help on the job was important, regardless of the cost to him. He was a very adventurous person on the job. He wasn't very reserved and he rarely got upset when he worked. A heroic, enlightening, and altruistic humanist, Brian firmly believes in the importance of bettering humankind to its peak. Much like Mariah Waldroup, he possessed a distinct quality of giving delight or arousing admiration, even subconsciously, when conversing with others.

"*You seem to think I'm so arrogant that I see nothing in it just because of my mother. Yet I've always considered it an interesting concept. I've always viewed Jesus as an idealized paragon of virtue, as a man who gives everything and expects nothing. He does what 99.5 percent of us cannot; he makes benevolence a habit instead of a priority, and for that I applaud him vigorously.*"
―Brian[src]
A very spiritual man, Brian seemed to believe everyone had the potential for enlightenment and thought it was awesome for someone to wear a sign of the Church of Satan in public. Although a baptized Christian, Brian was not a frequent visitor to churches as a teenager and eventually came into the open about being a misotheist late in 2020, believing if there really was a single god in our current reality, then he could only be a despicable being of pure and utter tyrannical malevolence, that if God were omnipotent, then his benevolence logically could not be absolute and vice versa (thus unknowingly abhorring the Sovereign). Because misotheism generally manifested more as an opposition to belief in a god than as prejudice against all deities, Brian seems more associated with anti-religion. He cited that he had Christian ideals imposed on him as an innocent and impressionable little boy and that as it was the first religion he was introduced to as a vulnerable toddler, he never chose it. However, he confirmed he was not Antichrist, as he considered Jesus of Nazareth, while allegedly convoluted by some to be non-fiction, to be a fictional hero and an excellent role model. Still, he also admitted he was not so rigid that anything significant, especially in the fields of science or morality, could happen to change his religious stance. Additionally, he continued to deny his mother Katie's claims that a deity's decisions were right by default. He had eventually become so desperate and conflicted over the duties and pressures of college that he had turned to her for advice on how to deal with the pressures of the mantle, only to be further turned off by her religious fanaticism. Somewhat ironically, Brian has a penchant for constantly implementing allusions to major figures of both pagan and biblical theology. When making these allusions, however, Brian tends to cast these theologies' supreme gods in a not very discreet negative light.

Brian is not heterosexual at all. Initially, he was bisexual bordering on homosexual, as he liked boys more than girls and awkwardly claimed that while boys were different, while he would date a girl and even kiss her, he would never go far enough to sleep with one. Brian's casual attitude towards females and outgoing demeanor around males has led to a wide misconception that he is homosexual. Currently, he is pansexual, being attracted to fictional characters like Qui-Gon Jinn and real people like De Oliveira. While he has subverted being "fatphobic" in his first two college years, he considers skinny people far more attractive than muscular or chubby ones. His dreams show him feeling alone and craving emotional intimacy, but also seems afraid of being able to approach people for it. He is also spiteful to the point of xenophobia when it comes to teenagers in any shape or form, believing that they (and formerly, all female sentients) are all "aesthetically revolting, fragile, bearing an unbreakable addiction to toxicity and a severe allergy to the greater good". Prior to befriending the 16-year-old Adelpha, he was highly condescending and only eased on his actions after recognizing Adelpha's nobility and selflessness, and much later the 30-year-old De Oliveira's as well. Regardless of abandoning any preconceived opinions on older women (with the extremely benevolent and healthy De Oliveira's nature completely disproving his primary reasoning for thinking *all* women solely want misery and destruction for their own sakes), he considered Adelpha as an exception and remains largely hostile against other teenagers, especially female ones. However, it should be noted he never planned on having children, partially because he never wanted to risk bringing another extremely problematic human being into the cosmos and being the culprit for a montage of heinous crimes that he believed could have easily been avoided.

Brian enjoyed the *Twilight* Saga, although he was far more passionate in his regard for the Tolkien Legendarium. Brian was known to despise Amber Heard and listen to songs such as *Sadeness* by Enigma or *Begging for Thread* by Banks. He has loved classical music since infancy and particularly loves *Toccata and Fugue*, *A Night on Bald Mountain*, and *The Firebird Suite* and pretty much anything by Ludwig van Beethoven. His favorite video game is *Kirby's Return to Dreamland*. Brian had a noteworthy appetite and sushi was his favorite food by far. Cheesecake was his favorite dessert. He rarely ate breakfast, although he was almost never without lunch or dinner. On Saturdays, however, he ate a big bowl of sugary cereal first thing in the morning. One thing he ate consistently was potato dishes. He also loved corn-free marshmallows and gluten-free macaroni and cheese. His favorite ice cream flavor is known to be gumball. In particular, he loves anything related to buffalo sauce — it didn't seem to matter to him, if something was buffalo he would be happy to try it.

For Brian, his exploits with California University have been a journey of renewal. The trauma he suffered after his imprisonment by his own parents and his repeatedly abusive experiences in high school have left him entirely grief-stricken and lost to passion. Yet the new family Brian has found has given him more serenity and allowed him to come to terms with these tragedies and attempted to find peace and calm within himself. He finds an adopted family that share similar experiences of loss and hardship and has his happy ending with Laysla De Oliveira in spite of everything.

## Behind the scenes

D. Isaac Thomas based Brian very loosely off his own being, claiming that no character was more taken out of his own life and persona than anyone else.