Briar Daly

Briar Daly, a character in the Desire & Decorum series, is your character’s best friend and lady's maid. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance

Briar has black hair in a high bun, dark blue eyes, tan skin and a baby blue dress that covers her arms.

Personality

Briar is a sweet, kind-hearted person who cares deeply for her friends, as shown when she was willing to leave her home to be with your character in Edgewater Estate. She is also extremely supportive of her friends and is willing to do practically anything to make them happy.

However, despite her sweet nature, Briar has a defensive side. She is not afraid to speak her mind, as shown when she yelled at Mr. Sinclaire for almost running over her in Chapter 1.

Chapters

Desire & Decorum

Book 1

Chapter 1: The Journey Ahead
Chapter 2: Ties That Bind
Chapter 4: Best Foot Forward
Chapter 5: The Road to London
Chapter 6: An Intimate Affair
Chapter 7: Opera St. James
Chapter 8: Ill Repute
Chapter 9: An Indelicate Proposal
Chapter 10: On Your Marks
Chapter 11: The Clock Runs Out
Chapter 13: A Better Place
Chapter 14: Fight or Flight
Chapter 16: Season's End

Book 2

Chapter 1: Betrothal & Betrayal
Chapter 2: A Royal Introduction
Chapter 3: Homeward Bound
Chapter 4: Back to the Beginning
Chapter 5: Celebration
Chapter 6: A New Set of Rules
Chapter 7: Moonlit Deception
Chapter 8: Hunt Or Be Hunted
Chapter 9: Until Dawn
Chapter 10: In the Balance
Chapter 11: A New Horizon
Chapter 12: The Deep End
Chapter 13: Changing Tides
Chapter 14: Before the Bell Tolls
Chapter 15: Eye of the Storm
Chapter 16: The Final Vow

Book 3

Chapter 1: Family Matters
Chapter 3: A Mother's Touch
Chapter 4: Sugar & Spice
Chapter 5: Double Trouble
Chapter 6: Keep Your Enemies Closer
Chapter 7: London Calling
Chapter 8: The Price of the Past
Chapter 9: Fifth Time's the Charm
Chapter 10: By Royal Appointment
Chapter 11: The Game is Afoot
Chapter 12: Tower of Terror
Chapter 13: Love and War
Chapter 15: With This Ring
Chapter 16: A Joyous Union
Chapter 17: Wife or Death
Chapter 18: 1817

Desire & Decorum: First Winter

Chapter 1: Deck the Halls
Chapter 2: All I Want for Christmas
Chapter 3: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Chapter 4: Sleigh Ride

Relationships

Your Character

Briar is your character’s best friend, and is shown to care very deeply about you. Because of this great bond, Briar volunteers to be your Lady’s Maid so that you can spend even more time together. Briar encourages you to come outside of your shell, and is your closest confidant.

When you two were children, everything was a competition. According to Briar, she is still one ahead after the mule racing incident of 1810. This can change depending if you win Harvest Queen in Grovershire.

Edmund Marlcaster

Briar and Mr. Marlcaster have a very flirty relationship, and from the way that Mr. Marlcaster glances longingly at her whenever he sees her, it is obvious he has a crush. Miss Daly claims to have seen a nicer side of him and really believes he is a good person, even going as far as defending his actions when he left Your Character in London, saying that he regrets doing it and that it was all his mother’s fault. However, she constantly says that her relationship with him can never become a reality and that she believes that he doesn’t care about her that much.

Arthur Woods

Briar and Mr. Woods have a flirty relationship as well, and it is obvious from the way Mr. Woods gets flustered around Miss Daly that he has a slight crush on her. However, Briar may not feel the same way, because whenever she is asked about how she feels about him, she never gives a direct answer, instead changing the subject or saying that doesn’t really know how she feels about him. She does care about him, but she also cares about Mr. Marlcaster, so it is hard for her to make her choice on who she loves more.

Pavarti Daly

Pavarti is her mother. Although Briar speaks of her parents and mainly her mother, Pavarti does not appear until Book 2. When Briar and you were younger, she would try to gain access to Pavarti's locked liquor cabinet.

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Miscellaneous

Trivia

On her character card, she is called Miss Daly instead of Briar. In Book 2, Chapter 16, her title card will change to either Mrs. Marlcaster or Mrs. Woods, if you encourage one of her love interests to propose and they marry.
In Book 1 Chapter 14, it is revealed she knows how to pick a lock.
She is the third non-playable character to have two love interests that are not the MC, the first being Madison Eckhart from the The Freshman and The Sophomore series respectively, and the second being Autumn Brooks from the High School Story series.
You can play as Briar in Book 2, Chapter 11, to say farewell to Mr. Woods and Mr. Marlcaster.
The surname Daly is of Irish origin and means "one who is present at assemblies". It's an English version of the surname O'Dalaich (which means child of Dalach).
She shared her first kiss with Mrs. Gibbs' son.
In Book 3, Chapter 18, if she didn't marry Arthur Woods, she will have a child with Mr. Marlcaster, even if they are not married. If you have enough manners to see their future, it will be revealed that she names her daughter after Your Character (default is Clara).