Brant Before/After the Accident
We only see Brant after he kills Jolie, both the persona he creates and his actual personality. The love letters seem genuine, but we never actually get a memory with him besides the small portion of what Fintan was hiding in his mind break.
The Neverseen knows Brant before he kills Jolie. They know how he was robbed by the system, just like them, of a life of respect and dignity. Perhaps not Ruy because of timing, but Fintan and Gethen see and truly understand him. The two adults see just how much passion he has. Brant wants to change the world, and he manages to find a way to cope with the fact that his love gets to study the Elite levels of Foxfire.
He stays strong, giving Jolie the space to pursue her education while he does the best he can to learn techniques from Fintan.
When Brant is not taking notes in meetings—he writes love letters, you can't convince me otherwise about his constant writing—Brant is thinking of the sappiest lines to write Jolie, daydreaming about their future while washing the laundry. He will wash all the soot covered clothes he can if it means learning more from Fintan and helping the group.
Brant talks about his girlfriend so much that Gethen has to walk out, but Fintan stays, feeling like a proud father whenever he can give advice, however bad it is. Soon, they're planning a meeting with Jolie, because Brant loves her so much and knows that she loves him. Fintan is ready to accept her into the Neverseen family once she can pass a little test to prove her loyalty. Gethen is skeptical but has finally agreed that she could be a valuable asset.
The group meets up, and Brant is ready to run to Jolie and swing her around in his arms.
Gethen is right. Fintan immediately turns on Jolie, realizing that she is not the person Brant thought she was and that Fintan wad foolish enough to entertain the idea.
Brant is crushed—heartbroken, abandoned, betrayed—but most of all, angry.
Her swift departure only increases the burning fire inside him.
When she knocks on his door later, all he has left is unchecked rage, and a new power inside of him that Fintan showed Brant.
As the anger is unleashed, so is the everblaze, and the only thing to bring him out of the haze is the overwhelming pain on his body.
His heart is breaking, and Brant is forced through days of torture where the only person who knows the true pain that he feels stays far away from him, too wrapped up in a final plan that the connection between Brant and Fintan would be too much for the public eye.
The only thing that saves Brant is the voice of Grady telling him that it's not his fault, enough that Brant begins to believe it.
Weeks after the funeral, Fintan shows up at Brant's new stone house, giving him the chance to yell, throw stuff, and break down crying.
Fintan gives Brant a new pathfinder, and he has a task now, to dismantle the Council,the entity he blames.
Whenever a new member ridicules Brant or acts like he is incompetent, Fintan and Gethen lock eyes, and the pyrokinetic speaks up for Brant, because they don't know the real him, person he was before the accident.
Fintan takes an immediate dislike to Gisela for numerous reasons, her disregard for Brant's past included, because what Fintan sees when looking at Brant is the young boy who he should have saved from making the same mistake.
The Neverseen has many dynamics but the one of those who knew Brant before the fire and those who met him afterwards is intriguing because they have very different views of him, making a really interesting dynamic to play with.
