Brett Hand

Unammed cousins

## [source]

**Brett Hand** is the co-team leader at Cognito, Inc., alongside Reagan Ridley. He was hired and microchipped by J.R. Scheimpough to help Reagan because of her intense anger issues and difficulties in social interactions. He is voiced by Clark Duke.

## Biography

Brett was born as the youngest son in a family of nobles. While his siblings are regarded as very successful by his parents, Brett Hand never received any praise from them and spent much of his time alone. This caused him to use the main characters from his favorite series, *The Growing Years*, as some sort of replacement for his actual family. After finishing school, he attended Yale University. His fellow students made him believe that he was the most popular member of his fraternity when in reality, they loathed him. Sometime after successfully graduating, he attended a barbecue party where he met J.R., who decided to have Brett drafted into Cognito Inc..

## Personality

Brett is polite and was never shown to have the intention of harming someone physically or mentally (apart from an incident in "The Brettfast Club", during which he was influenced by a chemical known as Nostalgia Max). He always tries to stay positive and lighten up the mood of his fellow team members. Brett’s positivity and eagerness to please are caused by his family's neglectful treatment growing up. He placed a great deal of importance on people liking him, which often leads to him being manipulated. Due to not having a good family life, he tried to make one out of his friends, pushing labels onto them. Brett tends to give good emotional advice that’s rarely followed by his coworkers, though rarely gets annoyed by that. The one time he was ever really shown disliking someone was Reagan’s father, whom he openly called a “psychopath alcoholic”. Despite being a “yes-man” even Brett didn’t refute Reagan’s claims about her father being an immoral asshole or attempt to suck up to him once the latter was in charge. Over time, he has shown to be more than a simple "Yes, man", willing to take up the leadership role for Reagan, exerting a more domineering authority, even threatening the team members to get them to follow his command.

## Relationships

*This section is a stub. You can help expand this section by adding some information.*

### Reagan Ridley

Like everyone else he met, Brett showed an upbeat, positive attitude towards Reagan, despite her showing resent towards him for sharing her promotion for his charismatic energy and generic appearance. After she was fired and Alpha-Beta went rogue, he immediately called her for help, confessing that he had no idea what to do, and needed her help in solving the problem. After stopping the robot, the two had a developing friendship, even bonding over shared childhood traumas. Even though his basic characteristic is being a people pleaser, he genuinely shows interest in helping Reagan from time to time. Like suggesting she go to Anonymous Anonymous to work through her issues when her father became head of Cognito Inc. And when Reagan was cotemplating leaving Cognito, Brett, after realizing how much work she put into the job at the expense of her personal happiness, was supportive of her decision, even though he'd be losing his BFF. It was stated by Reagan in the episode "Mole Hunt" that Reagan was Brett's emergency contact.

## Trivia

* According to him, the only reason he was hired is his face, which is supposedly too generic to be traced by satellites.
* In "Blue Bloods", Brett mentions that he has social anxiety and that talking to a therapist has helped him cut the number of his panic attacks in half.
* When out in public, Brett’s parents claim that he is someone else’s kid.
* Before working at Cognito, Inc., Brett was a lobbyist because he loves lobbies.
* Brett states that he is a Hufflepuff
* According to series creator Shion Takeuchi, Brett doesn't know what his favorite color is and that keeps him awake at night, fearing he has no personality.
* Despite their different personalities, he gets along really well with Reagan Ridley due to empathizing with most of her childhood traumas (neglectful parents and bullying).
* In "Brettwork", we learn that he wanted to be puppeteer as a child, but he was discouraged and gave up this dream. His treehouse can be seen with numerous puppets from his childhood.
* His favorite song is "Accidentally in Love" by counting Crows from the Shrek 2 soundtrack.