Brea

Brea
Brea in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
General Information
Species	Gelfling
Gender	Female
Occupation	Princess of the Vapra Clan
Family	Mayrin (mother) Seladon (sister) Tavra (sister)
Clan	Vapra
Residence	Thra
Puppeteer/Animator	Alice Dinnean
Voice	Anya Taylor-Joy
Appeared in	The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

The most beautiful desert flowers are always the most dangerous.

Rek'yr of Brea

Brea was a Gelfling princess of the Vapra Clan and youngest daughter of All-Maudra Mayrin.

Biography

Joining the resistance

When skekLach the Collector and skekOk the Scroll-Keeper arrived in Ha'rar for the tithing ceremony, Brea's sister Tavra managed to get her included in the ceremony, much to her delight, asking only that Brea not embarrass her or ask the Skeksis questions. Heedless, Brea sought them out anyway, and ended up sprawling in front of their carriage as she pushed through a crowd. SkekOk however was surprisingly merciful, and insisted on her accompanying him in his carriage, where he shared his passion for books with her. Brea later hugged skekOk for interceding with her mother, the All-Maudra Mayrin, but began to question the Skeksis when they manipulated poor farmers into giving up precious heirlooms. When she examined the legal texts of tithing and found it immoral, her Librarian tried to take away her books, so she fought until some magical light began to stream from the book. Although she tried to tell her mother what happened, she became disgusted to see that she wore the farmer's amulet, as the Skeksis gave it to her after taking it, and stubbornly argued with her mother that they should even give all of their wealth and privileges to others.

Brea sought more answers, using the Librarian's reluctantly-given advice to seek out the Sifa for knowledge about the symbol she saw. However, Elder Cadia attempted to give her powdered nulroot, something Brea knew to induce amnesia. Dropping her money as a distraction, Brea swapped the drinks so that Cadia would drink it. Eventually he became enraged when she revealed this, until Onica knocked him out and offered to help Brea if she would get Mayrin's brightest jewel for her. However, Mayrin ordered Brea sent to the Order of Lesser Service in payment for her crime against the Sifans, on Seladon's suggestion.

Consigned to the service, Brea was made to wear a clown's hat and to wash filthy Podlings who resisted all the while, her indenture intended to be an entire trine in length. Although Duadran ordered her to run after a fleeing Podling, she decided to flee the service due to the urgency. Although she was caught by her sister Tavra, Tavra let her go, reassuring her and saying that the "bonds of sisterhood" could not be broken. Brea continued to Ha'rar, through the library, and flew from the top of it to the palace so that she could recover the "brightest jewel" in her mother Mayrin's chambers, hanging from the ceiling. Brea then went to meet Onica, thinking the jewel to be payment, but Onica chastised her and sung to the jewel; it is in fact a chrysalis, a container for an imperial unamoth, which began to move. Brea spoke her desire to know the truth to the moth, which then emerged from the chrysalis and flew toward the Ha'rar throne room. Brea flew behind it, and when they arrived in the throne room, the moth activated a hidden passage through the throne itself into a hidden chamber.

Lore "talking" to Brea

Entering the hidden chamber, Brea discovered a circular room with seven symbols, one for each clan. Given that the inscription above the entrance said "Thra's true balance will be found when natural order is sound", Brea assumed that she must activate each symbol in order according to each clan's social rank. Although initially seeming to succeed, with sound beginning to reverberate with each successful clan chosen, the sound vanished when Brea selected Sifa as the third clan. Brea eventually realizes that the entire puzzle is a farce, that the engineers wanted all clans to be treated as if they were equal, which successfully solved the puzzle and resulted in Lore being constructed out of rocks in the center of the room. Lore explained that it would protect Brea and guide her to the Circle of the Suns, but they were interrupted by the arrival of Seladon, who only heard it speaking heresy about overthrowing the Skeksis.

Brea holding her mother Mayrin's corpse

Berated by Seladon over wiping Elder Cadia's memory, deserting the Order of Lesser Service, and conspiring to overthrow the Skeksis, Brea accused Seladon of only caring for the throne of All-Maudra before the pair were interrupted by the arrival of Mayrin. Although Mayrin accused Brea of insulting her and tradition, Brea asserted that she values truth, convincing her mother to at least see the hidden chamber and listen to Lore. Upon entering, Brea introduced Mayrin to Lore, and Mayrin then dreamfasted with Brea to learn how Brea found the chamber. Rather than dreamfast normally however, Brea suddenly found herself in the Dream Space, shocked to see the Crystal cracked. Aughra hushed Brea, introduced the rest of the Gelfling present, banished Seladon after her outburst and then finally brought Brea before the Crystal where the Skeksis' crimes against the Gelfling were revealed to her. Afterward, Aughra ordered Brea to travel with Deet, Rian, and Lore to the Circle of the Suns and, after issuing further orders, Aughra returned Brea to her body. Brea then followed Mayrin to confront skekVar and skekZok, picking up Deet and Hup along the way, and then watched skekVar slice Mayrin's stomach open with a saber just as she gained her courage. Devastated and standing over Mayrin as she bled to death, Brea became even more distraught when Seladon blamed Brea for Mayrin's demise, sobbing into her corpse and pleading with Seladon to reconsider. Unmoved, Seladon ordered Brea to be imprisoned, and then to be transferred to the Castle of the Crystal with skekVar and skekZok.

Brea was then escorted by paladins to the Skeksis carriage, and although she accused skekVar of murder and openly defied him, she was nonetheless placed in a cage attached to the carriage, which set off toward the Castle. En route, the carriage was ambushed by Rian, and Lore freed Brea from the cage and frightened the Skeksis away. Happy to be free, Brea hugged Rian and sent the other paladins away to spread word, but soon broke down with remorse for her mother Mayrin, distraught that she could not perform ceremonies for her. Deet reassured her that they would perform the ceremonies in the Crystal Desert, singing a dirge for her, which Brea greatly appreciated. When Rek'yr arrived offering help, Brea quickly accepted, asking him to take them to the Circle of the Suns (albeit with coaxing), ignoring Rian's protestations about Rek'yr being Dousan.

Arrival at the Circle of the Suns

After being dropped off by Rek'yr, he once again attempted to dissuade Brea from going to the Circle of the Suns before departing. Brea continued on despite his warnings, and when Lore attempted to carry her to the summit of the Circle when a sandstorm threatened them, Brea insisted that Lore carry everyone.

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External Links

• Brea on the Muppet Wiki