Yuri Briar

"Unlike you, I love my family. I love my sister. And I will do whatever it takes to protect this country that she lives in."

- Yuri Briar to Jim Hayward in Chapter 11

Yuri Briar (ユーリ・ブライア) is Yor Forger's younger brother and a twenty-year-old man who works in the State Security Service. He keeps his job at the SSS a secret from his sister and instead pretends to be a normal civil servant at the foreign ministry.

Appearance
Yuri is a handsome young man in his twenties with a very small cowlick on top of his straight black hair with uneven bangs. He also has red eyes.

When at work, Yuri wears the SSS's standard uniform. When leaving work, he wears a coat over his black suit and tie, along with black gloves.

Personality
Yuri has a sister complex, and even at an early age, would be doing everything he could to get Yor to praise him with affection. Though this could be due to his mother dying at a very early stage in his life, causing him to get very attached to Yor as a mother figure.

When on the job, Yuri is shown to have a very appealing demeanor, calmly extracting information from the people he interrogates. He is very patriotic as, when discussing "Twilight," he swiftly drops his calm façade and becomes colder and irritable, easily losing his patience. He also appears to value his family, as he almost immediately resorts to violence when he learns of a suspect's excuse for his affair. However, idiosyncratically, Yuri loses all his intelligence with his sister, completely believing Yor's excuses of "forgetting" to tell him about her marriage with Loid for a year.

While capturing Franklin Perkin, Franklin poses the question about who the true disgrace is after Yuri states that he "saw no reason for Franklin's family to witness his disgrace." Yuri responds by stating how he would never "cause his sister pain," implying that his sister complex overrides his morals.

Abilities and Skills
Having been a very studious person growing up for the sake of his sister, he has become far more intelligent than her.

Intelligence: Yuri is extremely smart, able to work as a diplomat at a very early age. Despite this, his intel is that of an amateur compared to Loid, as he follows the cover story in the Ostanian Intelligence manual word-for-word during his dinner with Yor and Loid, which allows Loid to quickly deduce his affiliation with the SSS. It is also seen that in the SSS, he managed to locate, surveil, and capture a journalist in a matter of days.

Interrogation: Yuri is said to be very talented for his age, allowing his boss to let Yuri tag in for a senior officer for interrogation.

Endurance: Yuri is very durable, most likely due to his sister inadvertently hurting him in his youth. As an adult, he is durable enough to take two of Yor's drunken hits, albeit sustaining heavy injuries, enough for people to tell him to go to the hospital. He has also been hit by a truck after pulling four all-nighters in a row, sustaining little to no injuries.

Teaching: Yuri has decent teaching skills. When he was a child, he used to help Yor with her studies, and when Anya needed to study for her middle-term exams, Yor asked Yuri to help Anya. Unlike his sister, Yuri is expert with grammatics and logistic problems, making him more reliable when it comes to intellectual subjects.

Weakness
Alcohol: Just like his older sister Yor, Yuri is a lightweight. He is prone to drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time, pouring wine into his glass eagerly, and drinking wine straight out of the bottle. Intoxication renders him temperamental and unable to think properly, as shown when he forces Yor and Loid to kiss in front of him, then quickly regrets this decision.

Yor: His biggest weakness is likely his love for his sister, as whenever she is involved, it derails his otherwise intelligent mind. He becomes prone to extreme overreactions to otherwise minor matters, willing to lie and endure almost anything, primarily his sister's lethal cooking just to make her happy, and becomes heavily biased when it comes to matters pertaining to her.

Yor Forger
After both of their parents died in the war, Yor was the one who raised Yuri during his childhood despite living in poverty. Because of this, he has developed a sister complex and will do anything to keep Yor safe, to the point of suspecting her husband of being an enemy spy. He holds a deep appreciation for Yor, as seeing her work bloody all for his sake in their youth motivated him to become a successful man, and vowed to protect his last living relative.

Loid Forger
Since Yuri is protective of his sister, he acts rudely towards Loid and thinks he is unworthy of his sister.

Anya Forger
Yuri first meets Anya in person when Yor calls him over to tutor the girl for her midterm exams. Neither of them has a good impression of the other due to Yuri's dislike of Loid and his child, while Anya gets creeped out by Yuri's overly obsessive thoughts about his sister. Using Yuri's love for Yor, Anya is able to persuade him into tutoring her seriously, and he eventually shares his motivation for studying when he was younger, teaching her that knowledge is power. Although Yuri later stomps off in frustration when Anya fails to learn anything, the study session makes him realize that he needs more knowledge in order to keep his sister and country safe.

Later, he learns to tolerate her when Yuri (along with Loid and Yor) tells Anya that lying is wrong, despite them all lying about themselves. Also he even risks himself to save Anya from the Red Circus, as he knows that losing a child will break his beloved sister.

SSS Lieutenant
Yuri's senior in the SSS. He looks out for Yuri and urges him to take care of himself more, telling him to stop drinking and be careful after hearing about him overworking. He keeps Yuri in check to stop him from acting hastily. He is also aware of Yuri's sister complex and tells him to get over it. After Yuri collapses while Yor is out on a business trip, the Lieutenant nurses him back to health.

Dominic
He is Yuri's friend and neighbor.

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Trivia

 * Yuri is popular with girls due to his face, but they leave when they discover his personality.
 * His senior, who is close to him in SSS, has told Yuri several times to stop drinking.
 * Yuri's chair, featured on the cover of the fifth volume, is a Barcelona Chair.

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