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Bree
First Appearance Last Appearance First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails We Reach Out
Character information
Age	17 (deceased)
Date of Birth	October 26th, 1989
MySpace	lonelygurl15
Forum Posts	lonelygirl15
YouTube	lonelygirl15
Revver	lonelygirl15
Portrayed by	Jessica Lee Rose
List of Bree's blogs Videos with Bree

Bree Avery (October 26, 1989—August 3, 2007) a.k.a. lonelygirl15 is the star of the Lonelygirl15 video series, friend and (past) love interest to Daniel (a.k.a. Danielbeast) and queen of the "Proving Science Wrong" skits. The backstory of this vivacious young homeschooler has been shrouded in much mystery, each episode revealing bits and pieces of her life and the current situations she is facing. Much speculation has been put forth in the viewing community about a religion she is reluctant to speak openly about. Bree's adventures revolved around running from The Order, dismembering The Order and attempting to escape from the Ceremony, a secret and mysterious ritual where certain young girls who have a certain life-saving blood type are disillusioned by a facade of happiness via the false religion The Hymn of One.

Past Travels

In Mysteries of My Past... REVEALED!, Bree gave a little rundown of all her travels. According to Bree, she was born in America, and moved to New Zealand when she was eight years old. While there, her family lived in a commune next to a small town. At age ten, Bree's family visited the Northern Territory of Australia. At the age of twelve, they moved to Nottinghamshire England, and resided there for two years. After England, they finally settled down in their Californian home in the United States.

School

Bree has mentioned many times that she was homeschooled, but she referenced in episodes that she previously attended traditional public schooling at least two times. First in New Zealand, where she was pulled from public schools after her parents witnessed the lack of discipline and again in the United States. In school she made two friends, Cassie and Daniel. Cassie was uncomfortable with Bree's religion and stopped hanging out with her after she left public school. Daniel and Bree stayed best friends.

Bree's parents pulled her out when she became the subject of ridicule, rumors, and hostilities from fellow classmates. In Poor Pluto Bree says that students made fun of her for asking too many astronomy questions in a science class. They started calling her Stargirl and when she continued asking questions they suggested she was having a relationship with the teacher. Daniel later said in I Want to Take Bree to a Party! that he did not think the teasing was that big of a deal. Bree had remarked in comments to her YouTube videos that she'd like to go back to public school.

Bree is interested in astronomy, quantum physics, history, and evolution . Her studies are quite advanced for a secondary education level.

Video Logging

Freeze frames of Bree from her video blogs.

Bree posted her first video on June 16, 2006 on the video sharing site YouTube. With the help of her best friend Daniel, she opened her life to the thousands of users of YouTube. While her first five videos were playful, she was willing to post My Parents Suck..., opening her feelings to several viewers.

Tensions began to run high between Daniel and her when Bree was asked to perform a Ceremony later in the fall. Along with several other fans, Daniel was curious that the Ceremony was nothing good, and began to follow Bree and her Helper, Lucy to see if something was afoot. After posting videos of him following her, Bree got after Daniel for stalking, and she asked him not to do so. Nevertheless, Daniel continued to do so for her own good.

On October 12th, 2006, Daniel followed Bree to a nearby forest where he believed he witnessed her performing the Ceremony. Bree's videos following the event appeared to have confirmed this, until Daniel and fans noticed she still had gauze on her arm, which began to raise questions. These questions were validated when Bree posted the video I Lied To Daniel, where she admitted that the event that took place on October 12th was nothing more than a fake Ceremony to draw Daniel into the open. It was this that began to make Bree question her faith, having come to the conclusion that she couldn't understand why they took pictures of Daniel.

As a result, she went to her parents for help, and they told her she didn't have to perform the Ceremony. While Bree's parents were supportive, the higher ups of her faith - the Deacons - felt that it was unacceptable to back out of the Ceremony so late in the game. As a result, Bree's parents told her to stay at Daniel's for a while why they discussed with the Deacons further.

Little did Bree and Daniel know that the Deacons would actually take her parents with them soon after. With a note hidden in Purple Monkey from her father telling her leave the house with Daniel, Bree began her life on the run from the Order.

Life On the Run

While they originally traveled from motel to motel, both Bree and Daniel became desperate enough to where they began living off the streets. Unsure of what to next, and finally breaking down, the two asked for advice on what to do next. Gemma, Bree's friend from England told them it would be best if they simply went home. A new face, Jonas, suggested they come stay with him, for he had a large empty house to himself and enough money to help them out.

While Bree wanted to go to Jonas immediately, Daniel thought it was best to ask their friends on lonelygirl15.com, who have been following Bree and Daniel via their video logs since the beginning. After coming to a vote, fans suggested that it was best if they both go to Jonas.

X-Mas 2006 - Owen's a great photographer!

As they arrived at the meeting area, Daniel decided that he wasn't willing to go to Jonas, despite what Bree or their online friends had chose. The day ended with Bree going with Jonas and Daniel heading home. However by Christmas morning, Daniel changed his mind and joined Bree and Jonas.

While with Jonas, Bree made contact with her father, who left a coded message, telling her that he had to meet her alone. Soon after Christmas, Bree disappeared to meet him. Daniel and Jonas just managed to crack the code themselves in time to catch up with Bree and her father. They just managed to rescue Bree when her father was shot by members of the Order.

(It has since been revealed that before her father died, Bree's father was trying to get Bree to meet a Dr. Isaac Gilman, who was working with him to change Bree's blood to "trait negative." On the same day Bree's father was killed, Gilman died from a mysterious car crash.)

After that murderous day, the Trio went back to Jonas's house where Bree refused to talk about what happened for several days. Bree also rejected Daniel's attempts to advance their on-and-off relationship, which caused Daniel to go to the local bar, trying to meet the local girls but only getting drunk. On his second trip to Pins & Pints, Daniel was kidnapped by the Order and held ransom to force Bree into doing the Ceremony.

With the help of Tachyon and Brother, Bree and Jonas were able to rescue Daniel. However, the Order soon found the location of Jonas's home, and they were forced to flee to a cabin. While there, Bree began to believe that Jonas was part of the Order. (Indeed he did have a connection to the Order, though it wasn't malicious.) Before she knew the truth, she tied Jonas up and was willing to leave him at the Cabin.

In early March, the Trio decided to investigate further by seeking out Jonas's Aunt Alex. They soon broke into her house and discovered that Alex was actually very much part of the Order. Leaving Alex, the Trio traveled to Las Vegas where they were captured, drugged, and interrogated by members of the Order. After escaping, they decided to follow Alex into Mexico. There, they learned from her that the Order no longer needed Bree.

They soon fled Mexico and into an old Resistance bunker in the second half of April, where Bree began to search out the possibility that the Order had found another girl to perform the Ceremony. Coming to the conclusion that the Order had chosen Julia Anderson to perform the Ceremony, the Trio journeyed to Zavalla, Texas to try and stop her. There, she met up with Taylor and Sarah, who were willing to help Bree save Julia. Unfortunately, Julia contacted the Order and Bree agreed to go with them in Julia's stead.

After her surrender, Bree was apparently brainwashed and filmed promotional videos for the Hymn of One. While Bree was apparently content with fellow members of the Hymn of One, there appeared to be someone on the inside communicating to Daniel and Jonas.

Daniel and Jonas utilized the clues from this mysterious informant to successfully rescue Bree from the Order, against her will. Initially after the rescue, she seemed unresponsive and completely brainwashed, but after a few days, she appeared to regain control over her mind. She briefly began a relationship with Jonas, but then immediately fled and returned to the Hymn of One willingly.

The Ceremony

Her final moments . . . .

After reuniting with the Hymn of One, Bree began making more recruitment videos (which continued to have coded messages). It became clear that she was being prepared for the Ceremony once more, and that there was little time for her friends to save her. In A Week to Remember, Bree claimed that she felt joy, as well as encouragement from her deceased father.

On August 3rd, 2007 (though her friends did everything in their power to rescue her), Bree did the Ceremony. It is revealed, that the Ceremony was nothing but a ploy for the young girl's blood to be administered into an elderly cult leader. Bree's participation resulted in her death as her blood was transfused to an Elder of the Order.

The tragic day ended in a futher revelation as Jonas received a voice message from Bree for him and Daniel. In the message, Bree revealed that she was aware of her actions and that she decided to perform the Ceremony to protect Daniel and Jonas because she loved them both.

Family

The Averys

The Note from Bree's Dad

In How My Parents Met, Bree revealed that her mother and father met in London during the intermission of the play 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'. Apparently the two got into a heated argument about the central theme in the play and (according to Bree) her father, Drew Avery, was "smitten like a kitten". In the same episode, Bree also divulged that her father studied medicine at Oxford.

Her parents were apparently strictly religious. This was one reason that Bree was homeschooled. In the video, Learning To Drive, Bree told Daniel that her parents are not Order of Denderah, presumably a reference to her religion.

Since running away with Daniel, Bree suffered the loss of her father, who was murdered on December 31st, 2006. Before he died however, he provided the Trio with information on why the Order wants Bree to perform the Ceremony. It was also revealed that Bree's father was trying to make Bree undesirable to the Order by giving her injections.

After her father's death, Bree stated that she wouldn't be talking to her mother anytime soon - it was undetermined whether this is because she is upset her parents lied to her, or if she is unable to contact her due to safety concerns, or if perhaps she was a loyal high ranking member of the Order.

She has since reunited with her mother while staying with fellow Hymn of One members. In her final recruitment video, Bree revealed that her mother had a role in preparing her for the Ceremony.

Birth Parents

In My Dad Said..., viewers learned that Bree's parents were not actually her biological parents. This was apparently revealed to Bree soon before her father was shot, and may have been what she and her father were talking about in The Unthinkable Happened. Because she was still mourning for the loss of the man she knew as her father, Bree wasn't very open and didn't really discuss her thoughts on the fact that the people she called her parents weren't her biological parents. Additionally, it is undetermined whether this has anything to do with the Order, or if Bree's parents simply wanted a child.

As of now, we do not know who Bree's biological parents are.

Friends

P. Monkey's her friend, but at one point he was "like a cancer" - Daniel

Traveling around the world at a young age and being homeschooled have essentially denied Bree the chance at having many friends.

As a result of Bree's solitude is the fact that she has befriended many stuffed animals. Bree's stuffed animal friends are P. Monkey, Owen, and Thor, and she utilizes them as puppets or props in various episodes. She also has a hot pink feather boa she is quite fond of. Since being on the road for the past several months, it is clear she has two confident friends, Daniel and Jonas. Her friendship with them (along with the death of her father) has slowly made her lose interest in her stuffed friends.

Besides Daniel and Jonas, she has made few other friends.

While in England, she became good friends with a dog. Bree revealed that the dog was her only friend when living there (The dog's owner, later revealed to be Gemma, had begun communicating with Bree from what was thought to be her home in London, but ended up being in California).

During her venture into high school, she befriended a young woman named Cassie, who was in Daniel's class (although he doesn't recognize the name). Bree says that everyone made fun of Cassie and that they used to walk around the track together. They initially spent time together, but Cassie was uncomfortable with Bree's religion. Cassie and Bree also got into trouble one time for prank calling, a past time that Cassie apparently enjoyed more so than Bree. After Bree returned to homeschooling, she and Cassie stopped spending time together.

During a party in the Summer of 2006, Bree met Daniel's Friends Paul and Andrea. She liked them a lot and the foursome made plans to go bowling together. It is unclear if they ever went bowling.

In preparing for her Ceremony, Bree began spending time with Lucy, her "helper". Lucy is a member of her religion, like a counselor, and had helped Bree prepare for her Ceremony.

Before being taken by the Order Bree befriended Taylor, and perhaps Taylor's sister too.

Notes

Religion

Main Articles: The Order & The Hymn of One

Not much is known for sure about Bree's religion, which was the source of a great deal of debate because of its role in The Ceremony (ritual). Fans initially speculated that it was related to Thelema, but this was disavowed by Gemma in Learning Egyptian, who claimed that it is not a religion at all. Rather, Bree's "religion" is a front for a secret society known as the Order. That said religion has since been revealed to be called The Hymn of One.

• Diet

In order to participate in The Ceremony Bree had to eat a special diet.

• Bree's injections

For a discussion of Bree's injections Bree's injections go here. Bree was also taking Iron pills which are thought to be a compliment to the injections.

Bree's bedroom

Probably the best view of Bree's workstation that we'll ever get.

Most of the early Lonelygirl15 videos took place in Bree's bedroom. Because her camera was on her computer, and her computer faced one side of the room, we normally only saw one side of the room. In the video What Did Daniel and Dad Talk About?, the webcam was carried by Bree as she followed Daniel around the room, helping us see every angle of her room. The only good shot we might ever get of Bree's workstation (her desk and computer) is at the right, a snapshot taken from the video.

Etymology

• Bree is the anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic female name Brígh, which means "power" or "high." As "Brigh" means power/high, fans speculate that Bree's name may refer to her importance to the Order. It may be that her Ceremony was designed as an initiation into a high position entailing power.

• Alternatively, the video What Did Daniel and Dad Talk About? makes an implicit link between the name Bree and Brie cheese.

• Since the confirmation of Bree's last name, fans have noted that Bree's full name (Bree Avery) is a play of the word "bravery."

Theories

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