Brooklyn Yates

**Brooklyn Yates** • History • Quotes • Gallery

* S7
* 1989
* 1988
* 1987

MJ Baines - best friend

Ellie - best friend

Rose McCarthy - best friend

### Appears In

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

> *"But what if...what if we **weren't** friends? For just one night? [...] Just...what if tonight was **different**? We've both wanted this...at least, I know I have. For a long time. [...] **Just one night**,"*
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> -- Brooklyn to Michael before they sleep together, 1989
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**Brooklyn Yates** is a main protagonist of *The 48th Street Fellowship*. She is the older sister of Anna and the only female original member of the Fellowship. Like Max, she has lived in Dewberry for her entire life. She is often teased by the other girls at Dewberry High for hanging out with the Fellowship.

While investigating a strange signal in St. James Woods, Brooklyn and her friends are caught in a sudden explosion at the secretive St. James Institute. When her body was restored, she discovered she could control the actions of nature, including most animals and the even the trees themselves. As a result, however, she felt incredible pain and sadness when the local area was damaged. Nonetheless, this pain amplified her abilities, arguably making her the most powerful member of the Fellowship.

In 1989, after regaining her powers, Brooklyn felt the pain of the local animals melted down by Air-Walker to begin building The Weapon and decided to investigate on her own. She ended up with Cooper and Joyceln as they investigated a strange group operating in Dewberry, and was reunited with her friends in the final battle at Neverland Mall. After the battle and Air-Walker's imprisonment, she swore a blood oath to one day return to Dewberry to help kill the Dark Lord once and for all.

Another alternate version of Brooklyn lived in the Third Branch. This version of Brooklyn was already in a relationship with Michael by the time that Fellowship reunited in this new timeline.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Brooklyn is an attractive girl with long brown hair and deep blue eyes. In adulthood, her hair has darkened.

Following her fight with Air-Walker, Brooklyn gains a long scar on her left cheek.

During the events of *Season 6*, Brooklyn wears her alternate self's wedding ring on the index finger of her left hand, before wearing it in her adulthood having married Michael in the New Era.

### Personality

Brooklyn is charitable and likeable, demonstrating an unwavering loyalty to her friends, even despite the teasing she receives from other kids, especially other girls. She is resolute and pragmatic and has an interest in several political movements.

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

Following the explosion at the St. James Institute, Brooklyn gained a telepathic link to most living organisms, enabling her to command them. This is also an emotional connection, meaning she feels the pain and fear of animals. This makes her both one of the most powerful yet most compromised members of the Fellowship.

### Superpowers

* **Chlorokinesis:** Brooklyn is telepathically linked to most, if not all, life on Earth, from trees to birds and beyond. She is able to summon roots from the under the ground, ad form armour and weapons out of bark, among other abilities. She is also able to repair vast environment damage at will. Brooklyn also has demonstrated some control over wereworms, due to them being made from plant material. This gives her the unique capability of being the only member of the Fellowship to be able to control a creature of the Dark Dimension.
	+ **Pain Amplification:** Like all superpowered members of the Fellowship, Brooklyn's powers are amplified depending on the level of pain, both emotional and physical, that she experiences.
* **Zoolingualism:** Brooklyn is able to telepathically communicate with animals on an emotional level. For example, she felt the pain of the numerous animals that were melted down to begin building The Weapon. This power also allows her to summon legions of insects and animals from the forest to aid her, among other abilities.
* **Healing:** After honing her abilities for 25 years, and powered by Michael's blood from '89, she gains the power to tap directly into the very life-force of the Earth, giving her limited healing powers.
* **Durability:**Upon gaining his powers and like the rest of the superpowered members of the Fellowship, Brooklyn demonstrates increased durability, able to withstand blows a normal human could not stand. For example, in her battle with Air-Walker she withstood superhuman blows to the head and stomach and being thrown into a tree.

### Weaknesses

* **Hive mind:** As she is connected to nature itself, whenever nearby plant or animal life is destroyed she suffers incredible pain. For example, she felt the pain and fear of every animal that was melted down to begin building The Weapon.

## Relationships

### Anna Yates

Brooklyn and Anna have a typical sister relationship, consisting of a rivalry and intense family loyalty to each other.

### Michael Tomlinson

> *"I love you. I've **always** loved you. I'm sorry that...I haven't said it before,"*
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> -- Michael confesses his love for Brooklyn upon learning of their erased future, New 1989
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Brooklyn and Michael have a good relationship. It is repeatedly shown that the two are attracted to one another but neither want to ruin their good friendship.

In 1989, the two of them have sex after agreeing to only have a one night stand. Nonetheless, the two maintain strong feelings for each other.

In the Third Branch, Brooklyn and Michael were in a relationship, just like their alternate selves.

### Ellie

Brooklyn and Ellie are good friends.

As the two become young adults, Brooklyn encourages Ellie to embrace her feminine side and introduces her to several political causes.

### David Cooper

> *"Evil doesn't just go away,"*
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> -- Brooklyn and Cooper discussing the Dark Lord
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### Samantha

> *"I hang out with them cause they're* ***real people**,"*
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## Trivia

* Brooklyn was invitied to join the Fellowship after MJ discovered that she was a fan of *The Lord of the Rings*.
* She is the only female original member of the Fellowship and one of only four, the others being Ellie, Layla and Rose McCarthy.
* She lost her virginity to Michael Tomlinson. Their relationship forms one of the series' core subplots.
	+ Michael and Brooklyn's relationship is given substantially more attention in the "Adulthood Trilogy" than the "Childhood Trilogy", where the focus is given more to Max and Ellie.
* Brooklyn has demonstrated some control over wereworms, due to them being made from plant material. This gives her the unique capability of being the only member of the Fellowship to be able to control a creature of the Dark Dimension.
* Given Dewberry's fictional location in Arkansas, it is likely that Brooklyn is the representative for Arkansas' 1st congressional district in *Season 4*.
* Her wedding ring has the phrase "To the greatest person in my life, whom I love, trust and treasure the most, forevermore. From M to B", translated into Tengwar, the Elvish alphabet from J.R.R Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*.