Michael Bryant

Officer Michael Bryant is a recent recruit and player character to the Prince Division.

Personality
Officer Bryant is a difficult person to like at first: he has a need to keep people at a distance, putting up a front as a confrontational, aggressive, and arrogant man, who is at best only ever attempting to be polite and professional when interacting with strangers, complaining to himself about the interaction afterward. However, deep inside, he has a strong sense of right and wrong, a clear need to protect those in harm's way, and an insatiable need to get to the bottom of any unusual secret that he believes to be covered up.

He also has a warped perception of what kind of work the police actually do and the limits of police budgets, as his obsession with cop shows on TV can attest. He also has some interest in video games and local sports.

Michael isn't a fan of the more fantastical elements of Rampoon City, but he especially despises the undead, and is extremely hostile towards Lycanthropy, to the point that he considers it a disease.

Background
Michael Bryant's apartment was summarized as "crappy" in the first episode. Relatively little is known about Bryant's background prior to joining the department, but much later on, it was revealed that Bryant is somewhat distantly related to "The Fifteen", a group of individuals who helped the Lich Kazmodius escape the forces of death, something he did not care to think about. As a result of his distant relation, he can see disembodied spirits wherever they manifest, but cannot also hear them speak.

Tyler
Officer Bryant jumped at the chance to spar with Tyler and his friends, ignoring Officers Tanis and Zouren as they expressed surprise at "orientation" being so physically-oriented. He brought out the trash-talk early and kept it up throughout the "training exercise."

Khel Zouren
Officer Bryant gets along best with Officer Zouren. Enough so that Bryant calls Zouren "Rex," and Zouren either liking it or being too nice to ask him to stop allows it. Khel acts mostly as a moral compass for Bryant, attempting to get him to open up with limited success. He also asked Zouren to help him deal with his apartment's haunting, which he was otherwise unsuccessful with, but he appreciated the attempt.

Trivia

 * Officer Bryant is biracial: half African-American and half Caucasian, to use the terminology of our world.
 * Michael claimed not to read comics when a purple fairy dragon attempted to sell him a newspaper. He, of course, is lying.
 * Michael despises paperwork, to the point of being bored out of the waking world whenever doing it.
 * Michael's badge number and name are allusions to Basketball players Kobe Bryant (who wore the number 8) and Michael Jordan (who wore the number 23).
 * Michael was briefly stricken with Lycanthropy on the job, but was prescribed medication to counteract it.