Bryan

* Default
* Casual
* Employee

**Bryan** is the central protagonist of Bonesaw577's 2023 indie horror game, *Manny's*.

After becoming stranded on a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bryan washes up on the beach of a small deserted island, where he finds Manny's, a restaurant run by Tyler, the sole employee.

## Background

Before the main events of the game, Bryan becomes the sole survivor of a plane crash over the Pacific Ocean while returning home from vacation. Bryan was not the sole survivor initially, having been saved by a woman and taken aboard a life raft. As the days go by, Bryan and the woman slowly run out of food and water on the raft, progressively growing more desperate as rescue becomes less likely. All of this comes to a head one night when Bryan kills the woman with a raft knife over the last bottle of water and throwing her overboard. Due to the trauma of the event, Bryan passes out on the raft and awakens on the beach of a small deserted island.

## Manny's

With the raft punctured and left useless on the beach, Bryan has no choice but to forage for food, finding a few remaining coconuts from the island's palm trees. Bryan collects three but cannot remove a fourth from the palm tree it's connected to. Bryan finds a box, presumably from the plane crash, that has washed ashore the island, which contains a fishing rod. Using the rod, Bryan is able to catch a few fish for little sustenance.

It doesn't take long for Bryan to begin starving to death after many days already spent out at sea. Laying down on the beach to die one night, Bryan notices that an entire fast food restaurant has appeared before him. At the counter is Tyler, who greets him with a strange sense of professionalism, given the circumstances.

Bryan becomes emotional at the sight of another person and asks for a telephone, though the restaurant doesn't have any. The player, at this point, can order one of two choices from the menu; the Double Manny Combo or the Manny Nug Combo, a decision which has absolutely no effect on the story. Bryan remarks that the menu has no prices for any item, but Tyler explains that Bryan has "already paid" for his meal and that the price doesn't matter. To Bryan's surprise, Tyler actually produces the order and Bryan eats it heartily.

The next morning, Bryan awakens on the beach, looking around for the restaurant, which has disappeared. Bryan believes the restaurant to be a dream, until he spots an empty Manny's soda cup that he had been drinking out of the night before. Bryan continues his efforts to be saved, using fallen palm leaves to create a large "SOS" on the beach. He waits all day for sunset until the restaurant appears exactly as it had the night before. Bryan enters to find another customer, Victor Petrovsky, sitting in a booth.

Bryan attempts to order his second meal from the menu, but Tyler stops him, explaining that he hasn't paid for the meal he is trying to order. Bryan is confused and angry at the refusal, but Tyler explains that he has enough for a donation to "Manny's House", a charity run by the franchise. Bryan grabs Tyler by the shirt and threatens him with physical violence. Tyler, unphased by the shift in Bryan's behavior, explains that since he hasn't paid, he gets no food.

Tyler then reveals the truth about Manny's, explaining that Bryan was able to afford a meal because he had murdered someone beforehand. It is revealed to the player in a flashback that Bryan murdered the woman on the raft. Tyler also reveals to Bryan that the woman he killed was pregnant and that he not only killed the woman, but her unborn child as well. Racked with guilt at his actions, Bryan becomes sick and vomits on the restaurant floor. The killing of the unborn baby only gives Bryan the ability to donate the soul to the Manny's House charity, unlike paying with an adult's soul, which is considered to be worth more.

Tyler produces a kitchen knife for Bryan and Petrovsky, explaining that since they both want a meal, one must kill the other. Tyler plays a game with both customers to determine who gets the knife by spinning it on the counter and waiting to see who the knife will be pointing to once it stops. He refers to this game as letting "fate decide" who wins. Tyler gives the knife to Petrovsky after he wins the game, who begins to chase Bryan, hoping to kill him in order to afford a meal. Bryan finds numerous child's drawings scattered around the premises, which, upon interaction, uncover seven previously invisible seals that unlock the Underworld hidden beneath the restaurant.

While Bryan manages to release the seventh and final seal, he is attacked by Petrovsky, who resorts to strangling Bryan under a coconut tree. Bryan notices the stuck coconut in the tree from earlier, and, using his elbow, he hits the tree repeatedly, knocking the coconut free. The coconut lands on Petrovsky's head, severely injuring him. Bryan takes the opportunity to use the coconut to beat the confused and injured Petrovsky to death.

Bryan returns to the restaurant with the knife, intending to exact revenge on Tyler. In an act of defiance after eating his last meal for killing Petrovsky, Bryan writes "Bryan was here" on the donation paper he was offered previously and sticks it on the donation wall. Bryan speaks for the first time in the game, using Tyler's line of "let's let fate decide", spinning the knife on the counter as Tyler did previously. The knife stops on Bryan, but Tyler throws Bryan's drink at the fuse box on the wall, causing a power outage and escaping down a mysterious hatch in the floor of the freezer. The freezer with the hatch also contains two unidentified bodies wrapped in black plastic, as well as the body of the woman Bryan murdered on the life raft. He grabs a lighter left in the freezer by Tyler before descending into the Underworld.

Going into the hatch reveals a cave system filled with Japanese World War II-era equipment, weapons, artillery, and dynamite. While in pursuit of Tyler through the cave, Bryan finds a sacrificial blade and a batch of dynamite with a fuse. Bryan finds the body of Petrovsky and, with the items collected, creates an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) out of his dead body. Bryan then crosses a large bridge into a dense Eldritch-like fog, where he catches a glimpse of a giant demonic creature, known as a Maneater. Waiting at the end of the bridge are several identical faceless employees of Manny's as well as Tyler himself, who ambush Bryan and restrain him. If the player collects all of the materials necessary to make the IED, Bryan will disrupt the ritual, lighting the dynamite in Petrovsky's body and killing everyone except himself and Tyler.

Bryan flees back across the bridge where he is attacked by the Maneater, revealed to be Manny, the same as the character in the restaurant's logos. The bridge is completely destroyed by the creature and Bryan falls into the water below, swimming to safety. Bryan finds Tyler at the end of the cave, who is lamenting about his awful working conditions while he packs his bags into a Mitsubishi A6M Zero airplane. Bryan and Tyler fight, with the latter brandishing a Japanese katana. The two ultimately set aside their differences when, after Tyler contemplates suicide, Bryan stops him from doing so. He suggests to Tyler that he simply call in sick in order to take a few days off from work. Tyler lauds Bryan's genius, having never thought of calling in sick himself. The two form a deep friendship with each other, with Tyler offering Bryan to accompany him to his friend's concert, which Bryan graciously accepts.

Manny then rejects Tyler's Paid Time Off (PTO) request, who, in retaliation, quits his job. Manny attacks Bryan and Tyler, with Tyler saving Bryan's life by pushing him out of harm's way. The two friends come together to destroy the Maneater in order to escape and go to the concert together. Using the Zero combined with a mounted Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun, Bryan and Tyler battle the Maneater, with Tyler sacrificing himself to save Bryan and kill Manny, telling Bryan before dropping him to safety to attend the concert on Tyler's behalf.

Bryan is the sole survivor of Manny's and escapes the restaurant after Manny's death. As Bryan is about to exit the restaurant for the last time, he finds Tyler's nametag as well as a receipt and a comment card asking about Tyler's customer service. Bryan takes the nametag to honor his new friend and writes a good review on the comment card, writing that the "staff went above and beyond." Bryan sees a cruise ship on the horizon and goes outside to flag it down, turning around to see that the restaurant has disappeared with the rising of the morning sun.

In the epilogue of the game, Bryan attends indy.'s concert with his friend, Tom. To Bryan's horror, Manny's manifests itself to him yet again, though without the life-threatening conditions of the island. Bryan is paralyzed at the sight of the restaurant, displaying signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Upon entering, the restaurant appears normal, with several of the same faceless staff members he encountered on the island working in the kitchen. Bryan also finds his written donation on the wall, suggesting that Bryan is either still trapped in Manny's or that he will never be truly free of the restaurant.

## Trivia

* If the player goes outside to examine Petrovsky's body during the power outage, they'll notice that the body has mysteriously disappeared. The rain and ocean surrounding the island has also turned a hideous blood red and strange creatures can be heard out in the open ocean, suggesting that Bryan's releasing of the unholy seals as well as his killing Petrovsky have put him in the Underworld.
* If the player hasn't gathered the necessary items to make the IED, they will get the non-canon ending where the employees will feed Petrovsky's body to Manny. Bryan, seemingly driven insane by the events taking place, will willfully sacrifice himself to the Maneater.
* During the game, Bryan only has one line of dialogue, yet he has an entire conversation in the non-canon ending of the game when he becomes an employee of Manny's. In the ending, a man in snow gear traversing an Arctic landscape happens upon a Manny's restaurant, where Bryan appears to be the sole employee, similar to Tyler. The game ends with Bryan offering a meal to the man and informing him the restaurant has no telephone, the same as Tyler did for him, continuing the demonic events of the restaurant franchise.
* In the beta version of Manny's, Bryan's model was originally seen during gameplay due to the camera being third person instead of first person. The beta version also featured a Bryan that spoke during cutscenes, instead of the silent protagonist that made it into the final version.
* The name of Bryan's face model is unknown, yet the model themself appears to be transgender, as is written in the tags of the model's photographs and as evidenced by later photographs of the model.
* The Type 97 machine gun that Bryan wields is a mounted light machine gun and should be fastened to one side of the aircraft. Bryan, however, can wield the gun freely and point it in any direction.
* The face on Bryan's model is the only face on a character that mirrors the same half of his facial texture. As a result, Bryan's facial texture sheet has double the amount of individual facial expressions than any other character.
* All of the character models in the game, with the exception of Manny, are made from Bryan's finished model. As a result, almost all the human models in the game share Bryan's textures in some way.
* There was originally a way for Bryan to defend himself against Tyler during the Tyler fight. This was cut due to time constraints.