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Brooke is a main character in the Enemy series, first appearing in The Enemy. A student at a school in Willesden, Brooke was on a school trip to Spain when the disaster first struck, and her coach bus was picked up by Greg Thorne on their way out from Ashford. After Greg turned, she and the rest of the coach kids escaped to the Imperial War Museum, where they resided until the Great Fire. Brooke was left in charge of the Tesco lorry while Ed Carter was gone, and she and the remains of the coach party eventually made it to the Natural History Museum, where they established themselves as a new group.

After the Battle of Hyde Park, Brooke presumably entered a relationship with Ed Carter.

Appearance

Brooke is a teenage Caucasian girl. She had blonde hair in The Dead, but it is revealed in The Fear that she dyed her hair, and her natural color is brown. In The Fallen, she is described as being around the same age and height as Maxie. In The Fear, she was also described as being thin, and her bones could be visible after she left Buckingham Palace in The Enemy. This is further explained in The Hunted when Macca complains about being sat next to Brooke because she was almost a pile of bones. We see this again from Maxie's point of view in The Sacrifice, as she can apparently feel Brooke's ribs through her clothing and fears if she hugged her too tightly she would snap in two.

Her forehead is covered in swellings and bruises, and she has a scar across her forehead where she was cut by the Mother with Sunglasses.

Personality

Brooke is commonly seen as being self-centered and rude, but she does have a softer side. She knows right from wrong, such as when David King shot one of the kids blocking the road, she told Justin to drive on without David or his group. She also has a motherly instinct and takes care of the younger kids at the Natural History Museum.

In The Dead, Brooke wishes that she wasn't so hostile and sarcastic, and revealed that she hated driving people away the way she did. She remarks that she felt "too invincible" while she was with Courtney and Aleisha, and would often say hurtful things that she didn't mean. Losing her mother at a young age also contributed to her attitude, as her death turned Brooke "hard and rude" and she no longer cared what anyone but her best friends thought of her. After her mother's death Brooke resolved to never allow someone to get as close to her as she was to her mother, so she would never feel that same pain when she lost them. Despite this, Brooke desperately longed to have someone love her again, and even cried when she saw Greg and Liam together as it reminded her of what she'd lost.[1]


History

Brooke's mother had her when she was sixteen years old, and Brooke never met her father, only knowing him as "the tosser".[1] Brooke and her mother lived in Willesden, where Brooke attended school with her best friends with Aleisha and Courtney. In her younger years, Brooke's mother would have regular boyfriends, and regularly splurged on new cars. Brooke was very close with her mother, almost like sisters instead of a parent and child, and people would often mistake Brooke as her mother's younger sister. One of her mother's boyfriends tried to come onto her, and when Brooke told her mother about it, she "never saw him again".[1] Some years before the events of The Dead, Brooke's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she died eight months after her diagnosis. This caused Brooke to retreat into herself and become rude and sarcastic as a defense mechanism in order to avoid being hurt like that again.[1] Whether or not Brooke had a caregiver after her mother's passing is unknown.

When the outbreak began, Brooke was on a school trip to Bilbao, Spain. When people started getting sick, the teachers decided to try and drive to Calais to get the ferry back to England. Upon reaching Calais, they discovered that no ferries were running due to the outbreak Eventually, the British government organised for a single boat to pick up the British citizens who were stuck on the continent, and Courtney's group was only able to get on the ferry because it was full of children.[2]

Once back in the United Kingdom, the bus driver got sick in Ashford, and more kids decided to split from the main group. After that, the last remaining teacher, Mr. Betts, drove the countryside before becoming sick himself. With the coach stuck in the countryside, and nobody able to drive it, sickos soon surrounded it to try and get at the kids inside. Greg Thorne and his son Liam found the coach one evening under siege by grown-ups, and Greg killed them before taking charge. In the morning, Greg began driving northwest towards London. That day, Greg picked up Zohra and Froggie before reaching the town of Rowhurst.[2] At that point, Brooke, Aleisha and Courtney were the only three kids left on the coach, as the rest of their classmates had either been killed or had split off in Calais and Ashford. The trio sat at the back of the coach, behind the food supplies.

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Sightings

The Enemy
1. The Enemy: Debut 5. The Sacrifice: Absent
2. The Dead: Appears 6. The Fallen: Appears
3. The Fear: Appears 7. The Hunted: Appears
4. Geeks vs. Zombies: Absent 8. The End: Appears


Trivia

  • In a Tweet by Charlie Higson, it was revealed that Brooke and David were fifteen years old by the events of The End.[3] This would make Brooke around thirteen or fourteen during her first appearance in The Dead.
  • It is possible that Brooke may suffer from an anxiety disorder, as evidenced by possibly-intrusive thoughts in The Dead.
  • Kwanele Nkosi described Brooke and her friends as "an unholy mix of Topshop, Juicy Couture, JD Sports, Accessorize, and Willesden market".[4]

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Notes and References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Dead, Chapter 26 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Dead, Chapter 18 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
  3. Tweet by Charlie Higson. https://twitter.com/monstroso/status/901698829984071680
  4. The Dead, Chapter 24 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
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