Dr. Brahman (Dr. ブレフマン Dr. Burefuman) was a character in Another Story - Raven's Choice and eventual antagonist in Gravity Rush 2. He was the brilliant scientist who had froze Hekseville (Raven's Choice) and maintained the Defense System in the city (Gravity Rush 2). Thanks partly to his daughter Kali Angel's efforts, he had strong support from the citizens of Hekseville and was regarded as the Savior of the city.
History[]
Before Gravity Rush 2[]
Dr. Brahman was once a brilliant aspiring scientist in Hekseville, and the creator of many useful inventions, with a family he loved dearly. When free from his work, he would often spend time with his daughter, particularly in Pleajeune, where they would eat crêpes and watch the air boats pass by together. Brahman's daughter also had aspirations of one day attending Arquebus Academy. At some point, she tragically contracted an unknown terminal disease.
Over the process of losing his own parents and his wife under unknown circumstances, and the terminal illness of his daughter, Brahman steadily lost his mind. In the pursuit of finding a cure for his daughter's affliction, he was able to slow down time for her alone, so he could find a cure before she succumbed. To his horror, he found he could not reverse her frozen state, with one second for her being equivalent to 1,000 years to the rest of the world. In his grief he went insane, and devoted himself thereafter to a plan to freeze the world's flow of time so he and his daughter might be reunited together forever.
Brahman first came onto the scene sometime after the end of Gravity Rush, and first appeared chronologically in the Raven's Choice DLC for Gravity Rush 2, where he was about to conduct an experiment to open the Ark and awaken the sleeping children inside, despite warnings from a boy in tattered robes.
*The experiment was erased from history after Raven altered past events.
Gravity Rush - Overture[]
Brahman abducted and conducted genetic experiments on homeless orphaned children to artificially synthesize the star genome and create two "angels", which would possess the ability to freeze the world's flow of time. He brainwashed and implanted them with what was known as the "angel egg". Most of the subjects were not compatible and did not survive however, except for two sisters named Kali and Durga. Two other subjects who did survive, but were failed prototypes, Brahman made into battle cyborgs, who possessed superhuman strength and agility, and he used to further his plans.
Brahman was not able to fully complete the star genome however, and it was still imperfect. The final component needed to perfect the star genome appeared connected to the gravity engine at Neu Hiraleon. Brahman had the children taken here and placed into what was known as the "cradle", while the gravity engine was set to an increasingly critical state in an attempt to awaken the star genome, but was unsuccessful. The two cyborgs fought Kat and Raven here before eventually self-destructing themselves. In the process, a massive Gravity Storm emerged, pulling in Neu Hiraleon, the cradle, aswell as Kat, Raven, and Syd. While a setback, the robot Brahman programmed to overlook the process deduced that there were still other alternatives, and pleaded for the "angels" to find their way back to Hekseville again.
At some point following the accident, Kali's star genome was perfected and she was able to return to Hekseville. Her aforementioned brainwashing led her to view Brahman as her beloved father, and followed his orders dutifully. With Brahman's creation of the City Defense System, and Kali acting as the city's new guardian, Brahman became beloved by the citizens as their savior, leading his way to becoming mayor.
Gravity Rush 2[]
Kat first meets Dr. Brahman when he is trying to visit the locations his daughter once enjoyed. Kat takes him around to these places and gets the impression that he is a kind-hearted but lonely man.
However, later, Brahman attempts to tell Kat the truth about his end goal - to trap all of Hekseville in frozen time. When he was attempting to cure his biological daughter's deadly illness, he accidentally slowed down time for her so much that she appeared frozen to the outside world. He felt such regret from inflicting it on her that he desired to slow down everyone else as well so that they would be together. He asks Kat to be his replacement Angel for Durga in his plans, as he needs two Angels to enact them.
Kat refuses, saying such a plan would be insanity, and leaves, but Brahman attempts to stop her from revealing his plans, declaring her a traitor and enemy of the state. This attempt ends in failure when Chaz reveals Grigo footage of Brahman freezing Adicca, one of his aides, in time after they also disagreed with his plans. This revelation causes the general public to turn against Brahman, but Brahman uses his control of the Grigos to kidnap Cecie.
It is later revealed that he was behind the Missing Orphans incident from three years ago. He took in Kali and her sister Durga and subjected them to horrific experiments. These experiments gave Kali and Durga great strength and the ability to generate and manipulate crystalline structures.
Brahman dies impaled on a piece of rebar from his crashed air boat after Kali and Durga are defeated, elucidating that time exists for a reason, and that his fate was inevitable.
Personality[]
Dr. Brahman is soft-spoken and polite, but can change his personality on a dime into something much more ruthless and manipulative. According to Chaz, he was willing to kill a number of orphans in order to successfully create the Angels, suggesting that he is downright sociopathic and his supposed kindness is just a facade. He also psychologically manipulated Durga and Kali into believing he is their loving father, giving them something like Stockholm Syndrome. He is also not above murdering anyone who doesn't share the vision he himself has, even if said individual has worked closely with him.
Abilities[]
He has the ability to freeze people in time, though it's unclear if this is through the use of some kind of portable machine, as the method he uses is never shown. Once someone is frozen, it cannot be reversed, effectively killing the victim.
Relationships[]
Kat[]
Dr. Brahman at first sees Kat as kind and sympathetic, as she was willing to help him and lend an ear to his stories. As he tells his stories about his daughter, Kat's initial view of him is that he is a lonely man with a big heart. As thanks for taking him down memory lane, he rewards Kat by registering her (to her old home) and giving her a free bed to replace the flea-infested one she had, though act of kindness may be a front to soften Kat up to help him carry out his plans. However, when he reveals his plans to freeze time to Kat, she is horrified at the idea, and quickly sees him as the monster that Yunica made him out to be.
In response to her refusal to join his cause, Brahman frames Kat for murdering Adicca, who was his personal aide. His plan ultimately backfires when Chaz broadcasts discarded footage of the murder, which exposes the doctor's plans, and Kali for attempting to kill Kat.
Appearances[]
Gravity Rush 2[]
- Episode 14 - Carefree Gentleman
- Episode 15 - Swallow in the Mirror
- Episode 16: Words, Words
- Episode 17 - Road to Lonely
- Episode 20 - How to Say Goodbye (he dies during credits)
Another Story: The Ark of Time - Raven's Choice[]
Dr. Brahman makes a very brief appearance in a cutscene at the beginning of the DLC.
- Episode 1 - Red and Black
- Episode 3 - Trapped in Peace (Trapped in time himself)
Trivia[]
- The doctor shares his name with the Hindu principle of Brahman, the complex concept of ultimate reality and universal truth that acts as one of the religion's major foundations. Additionally, his name may also be a reference to Brahma, the creator god of the Hindu Trimurti who is often said to have created the universe.
- It is unknown about the name of Brahman's daughter and what happened to her after episode 20, but it is possible that she died.
- Despite attending Dr Brahman's Ark experiment during Raven's Choice, Kat doesn't recognise him in spite of his very distinct appearance when they eventually meet again in Gravity Rush 2.
- This is because the changes made to the timeline at the end of Raven's Choice resulted in history being rewritten to where Sachya would no longer exist, causing the bus crash, the lost tribe, and the Ark to be written out of the lore, which in turn means the experiment would never take place, meaning that Kat would not actually meet him until Gravity Rush 2.