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 a major recurring character of the SPY x FAMILY series. He 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 and diplomat at the foreign ministry.

Appearance
Yuri is a handsome, slender 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, he 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. Just the thought of Yor hating him or in despair brings him great distress. When Yuri was young, he hated himself for not being able to help her as she provided for them, which is why he began studying everything as much as he could so that he could be of help. Due to his smarts, he eventually landed a job at the Foreign Ministry, and, shortly after, the Secret Police, which gave him the power to protect his sister.

When on the job, Yuri is shown to have a very appealing demeanor, calmly extracting information from the people he interrogates. Yuri truly believes he is protecting his country, though he mostly does it for Yor's benefit, not wanting traitors and scumbags breathing the same air as her. Just as he is passionate for his sister, Yuri is very patriotic, as, when discussing "Twilight," he swiftly drops his cheery façade and becomes colder, irritable, and quick-tempered. Yuri also appears to value his family, almost immediately resorting 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.

Despite his job, Yuri is shown to have a level of empathy. He quickly got angry towards the way Franklin Perkin bullied the children and after understanding the condition of him and his family, he assured that his father will receive financial assistance while arresting the journalist. Franklin posed the question about who the true disgrace is after Yuri stated that he "saw no reason for Franklin's family to witness his disgrace." Yuri responded 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.

Keen Intellect: Despite how he may act, Yuri is extremely smart, able to work as a diplomat at a very early age. However, his intel is that of an amateur compared to Loid, as he followed the cover story in the Ostanian Intelligence manual word-for-word during his dinner with Yor and Loid, which allowed the latter 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. According to Yor, Yuri taught her many things while they were growing up.

Interrogation: Yuri is said to be very talented for his age, allowing his boss to let Yuri tag in for a senior officer for interrogations and counterintelligence. While interrogating Jim Hayward, an informant working with WISE, Yuri easily caught his bluff and immediately exposed the informant with photos of him handing confidential documents to someone. He also has skill in interrogation tactics, being able to beat down suspects with no remorse, especially if he snaps at them.

Surveillance Expert: Yuri's talent as a Secret Police officer despite his age is shown again in his surveillance and investigation skills. He is capable of accurately discerning the body types of people and if they are professionals by observing the way they move, even if he has never seen them before. He can even tell if someone is injured just by noticing a sudden twitch in movement. He has proven to be an expert of witnessing and surveying people from afar and gathering intel. This is demonstrated during his assignment in investigating Franklin Perkin, where he carefully logs his every single move and was able to comprehend the motives behind his slandered journalism.

Immense Durability and Endurance: Yuri is very durable, most likely due to his sister inadvertently harming 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. Having grown up eating Yor's cooking, Yuri is the only person able to eat it without immediately collapsing, though he quickly vomits it the moment he eats it. This has brought about not only physical, but psychological changes within him. Tempered by Yor's cooking, Yuri's organs have grown more resilient than the average person. He also recovers from illnesses quickly. During his fight with Twilight, Yuri persisted in his attempt to capture the spy and continued to get back up after being knocked down several times until he finally collapsed.

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 midterm exams, Yor asked Yuri to help Anya. Unlike his sister, Yuri is an expert with grammatical and logistic problems, making him more reliable when it comes to intellectual subjects.

Marksmanship: As a trained SSS agent, Yuri is a proficient marksman, able to land a sustaining injury on Loid's arm during their confrontation.

Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Yuri is likely well-trained in hand-to-hand combat. He was able to swiftly disable Conrad's gun and pinned him down quite easily. However, he falls short when against Loid, who, for a majority of their fight, had the upper hand as the superior fighter. However, as their fight progressed longer than Loid originally expected, Yuri was able to land a few good hits on him.

Weaknesses
Alcohol: Just like his older sister, 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 big 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.

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Trivia

 * Yuri's chair, featured on the cover of the fifth volume, is a Barcelona Chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
 * During the original sketches, Yuri's design was based on the editorial group's concept for "A pleasant young man." Some of his traits carry over to his current design, such as being a "first-year ace" and "pining for his sister whenever his ribs ache."
 * Yuri is popular with girls due to his face, but they leave when they discover his personality.
 * As a government employee, Yuri is officially only supposed to work 8 or 9 hours a day, plus the occasional stakeout. But when he is on a mission, Yuri sometimes does not take time off at all. It is noted that because Yuri occasionally have time to visit the Forgers, he does not appear to be as overworked as Loid.
 * In terms of combat ability, Yuri has tougher defense than Loid, but his overall combat ability is probably on par with Nightfall.
 * Yuri was not originally intended to be in the SSS, as the aspect of a Secret Police officer pursuing Twilight was a separate character. Due to not wanting to introduce too many characters, Tatsuya Endo combined the two characters when working on Chapter 10.
 * Visually, Yuri's design is that of a male Yor. Endo considered giving him short hair but could not find a design he liked.

Quotes

 * (To himself) "Loid Forger. The day you make my sister cry… It'll be a different story."
 * (To Franklin Perkin) "Unlike you, I would never do anything to cause my sister pain. Ever."
 * (To himself) "I can't let my sweet sister be unhappy. I can't die and leave her all by herself! I'll improve my eating habits. Take better care of myself."

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