Brook

Brook Ripple^[1] is one of the characters in Elemental. She is the widowed mother of Wade Ripple.

Official Description(s)

"Brook Ripple is Wade’s loving and supportive mom. She’s wildly driven and successful with an eye for talent and a guiding hand. An architect with boundless empathy for the plights of others, Brook never passes up an opportunity for a good cry. In fact, her whole family is tender-hearted—sharing feelings and expressing emotion is the name of the game in the Ripple household."

—Elemental Press Kit

“Wade’s family is a really progressive one,” says Elemental director Peter Sohn. “They’re very well off—they live in a pool penthouse, we call it, complete with a doorman. They’re all in the arts, too, which is especially appealing to Ember.”^[2]

Personality

Brook is very supportive of her family. Both she and Wade are very sensitive and tend to cry a lot. She also doesn't have anything against fire elements, as she warmly welcomed Ember in her home as Wade's guest. She also disapproves prejudice or insensitive comments on other elements such as fire where she gave her brother, Harold a glare for making insensitive comment on Ember's native fire language.

A doting mother, she's not above teasing Wade about his feelings for Ember. She also cares about Wade's happiness as she accepted his relationship with Ember whole heartedly, wanted him to travel the world after Ember seemingly rejected him, and encouraged him to leave Elemental City with Ember to experience life outside the city.

As an architect, Brook is very creative, though she wishes to not to receive any credit for her work. She also is capable of recognizing potential in other elements when she saw Ember's capability in making glass sculptures when she fixed the broken pitcher. As a result, Brook sought to give Ember an opportunity to express her talent in glassmaking, believing the fire element had the potential to express her art to the world.

Physical appearance

Brook's body is made of translucent turquoise blue water. She is tall and lean, she has various waves on her head resembling curly hair, she also has blue eyes.

She wears a long light blue dress with some darker streaks that go down the dress, she also wears a dark blue sash tied around her waist, necklace that has dark blue stones, one triangular stone in the middle and drop shaped stones on the right and left sides, and light blue drop shaped earrings.

Trivia

• Her first name comes from the name "brook", a small river or stream of fresh water.
• In an earlier version of the film, Brook was to be the head of the water works in Element City and serve as the antagonist, with her goal being to run a water way through Fire Town. This concept was dropped because the writers felt that it detracted from the love story.^[3]

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