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Do you think about anybody else but yourself for once in your fucking life? I was out of this shit and I doubled back to save your ass and I lost my fucking family over it. My life is falling apart and I can't even talk about it because it never trumps the latest Tariq crisis! Everything going on in your life is always fucking more important than mine. Maybe this... maybe this right here is my fucking outlet.
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| ― Brayden to Tariq |
Brayden Weston is a major character in the Power Universe, serving as a supporting character in Power and one of the three main deuteragonists in Power Book II: Ghost. He was Tariq's roommate at Choate shortly after Raina’s death and becomes best friends where they sell drugs and meet Effie until she betrays them by having Tariq expelled. He isn’t seen again until the aftermath of Ghost’s murder meeting up with Tariq and continue their friendship at college. He helped sell drugs in the University of Stansfield and he's his partner.
In Power, Brayden appeared as a central character in Season 5-6.
He returns in Power Book II: Ghost, serving as one of the deuteragonists in season 1-3 and the deuteragonist of season 4.
Description[]
Official character description from 
Power Book II: Ghost[]
Season 3[]
Following his expulsion from Stansfield, Brayden is forced to work at his family’s hedge fund, Weston Holdings. The boys are back in business when Brayden brings Tariq into Weston Holdings, and they quickly intertwine their corporate lives with the drug game. But things are different this time around: finally pressured to get his own hands dirty, Brayden learns the hard way that drug dealing isn’t all fun and games.
Season 4[]
At the conclusion of Season Three, with the fortune, protection, and false legitimacy of the Weston name gone. Brayden Weston finally and spectacularly ended his one-foot-in-one-foot-out commitment to the game when he burst into Noma's warehouse spraying bullets to rescue Tariq. In Season Four, we explore Brayden's journey from a thrill-seeking son of privilege to becoming a more pragmatic man who deals drugs for necessity, not pleasure, and ultimately embraces the violence he'll need to survive in this new life.
Power[]
Season 5[]
Brayden first appears as Tariq’s roommate at Choate where he ask Tariq for some pills but Tariq not wanting to look suspicious tells him no. However after Tariq starts his career as a drug dealer on campus, he sold them to Brayden.
Season 6[]
He begins selling drugs on campus with Tariq and tells him that Effie wants to meet him otherwise she will snitch on both of them. Brayden and Effie begin selling drugs for Tariq until Effie snitches on Tariq to get rid of the competition. Off-screen, Brayden graduates from High school and gets into Stansfield University.
Power Book II: Ghost[]
Season 1[]
He meets Tariq in his room and is happy to reunite with him again and tells him he’s happy to sell drugs with him again and tells him that what Effie did was messed up. He tells Tariq that Effie got into Yale and gives Tariq her number.
Season 2[]
After getting kidnapped overseas and beaten up by Tariq, receiving countless death threats from Cane, letting Monet rob his family, oh, and killing his Uncle Lucas, Brayden throws in the towel and tells Tariq he wants to quit the drug game.
Season 3[]
Brayden challenged himself and the privileged life he's lived as a Weston while maneuvering the drug game. Though he took the rap for Tariq. When their drug business on Stansfield's campus was exposed, he failed to do his job of killing Lauren. This left Effie with that responsibility, which she failed at as well. When called to kill Russian drug plug by Cane earlier in the season to kill, Brayden failed again before Tariq intervened. Brayden is forced to commit his first murder.
Season 4[]
Tariq and Brayden Weston forming new alliances and finding a way back into the game. When Brayden starts flirting with a new, reckless lifestyle, Tariq wonders if there really is room for two at the top.
Murders[]
Committed by Brayden[]
- Lucas Weston: Pushed over a balcony for threatening to snitch on him, Tariq, Kiki, and Robert.
- British Mob Member: Shot to death to save Tariq.
- Six British Mafia Members: Shot to death in attempts to kidnap Anya but failed. (w/Tariq)
- Steve: Shot him twice in the head for dealing bad drugs to Elle.
Connected to Brayden[]
- Danilo Ramirez: Shot to death by Cane. Brayden helped dig up the body to help Zeke be Exonerated.
- Jabari Reynolds: Shot in the head by Tariq, after Cane shot him in the stomach. Tariq told the truth to Brayden, he agrees to help cover up the truth getting Tariq exonerated from the murder.
- Mahoney: Shot to death by Cane, w/Brayden being the get away driver, both escaped.
- Bash Kumal-Stern: Helped dispose of the body after being killed by Tariq. (w/Cane)
- Nick: Brayden and Tariq ordered Dru to kill Nick to take out the competition on Wall Street, with Dru pushing him in front of a truck
- Artyom: Shot to death by Tariq. Brayden was tasked with killing the Gangster by Cane with failed attempt in turn for Dru killing Nick, later saved by Tariq.
- Francesco Lombardi: Saved by Noma from being killed along with Tariq and Effie while in Italy.
- Junior Valdez: Brayden knocking him down from behind, Tariq shooting him in the head.
- Zion: Helping Tariq to kill him on behalf of Diana.
Goals[]
- Be rich (ongoing)
- Become a Drug Kingpin along with Tariq at Stansfield (succeeded)
- Repay his debt to Cane (succeeded)
- Become a Street Hustler working with Cane (ongoing/formerly)
- Take down Cane for brainwashing him and setting up Tariq (failed)
- Kill Lauren for catching him and Cane on the wire (failed/not really/forced to)
- Save Lauren by helping her escape without letting Effie or Cane know (failed/indirectly Succeeded)
- Keep his involvement in Lauren’s death a secret from Tariq (Failed)
- Kill Bash to prevent him from snitching on him and Tariq (succeeded through Tariq)
- Kill Nick to take out the competition (Succeeded through Dru)
- Getting his first murder (succeeded)
- Kill Lucas (Succeeded)
- Saved Tariq from being killed (succeeded)
- Keeping his family safe from Noma and the Tejada's (succeeded)
- Kill Cane, Effie, Diana and Dru (failed/formerly)
- Stay Loyal and find a new connect (succeeded)
- Kept his Sister(Becca) safe (succeeded)
- Disowned by family (succeeded)
- Catching more bodies (ongoing/possibly)
- Make Elle is Girlfriend (succeeded)
- Becoming more violent, reckless, ruthless and vengeful (succeeded)
- Kill Steve (succeeded)
- Stay with Elle (failed)
- Partners with Tariq in running the business (failed)
- Runs the fight club (succeeded)
Trivia[]
- He is often compared to Tommy Egan, due to being the "crazy white partner" of Tariq St. Patrick, who is often compared to his father, Ghost.
- The auditorium and the swimming pool of the University of Stansfield had the last name of Brayden.
- This fact made him and his brother untouchable in the University.
- When Brayden and the rest of his Family were mentioned in the Ponzi scheme at Weston holdings started by his Uncle Lucas, tarnished the family's name.
- In this current time Brayden's family disowns him, while leaving New York.
Appearances[]
| Power, Season 5 | |||||
| #01 | "Everyone Is Implicated" | #05 | "Happy Birthday" | #09 | "There's a Snitch Among Us" |
| #02 | "Damage Control" | #06 | "A Changed Man?" | #10 | "When This Is Over" |
| #03 | "Are We On the Same Team?" | #07 | "The Devil Inside" | ||
| #04 | "Second Chances" | #08 | "A Friend of the Family" | ||
| Power, Season 6 | |||||
| #01 | "Murderers" | #06 | "Inside Man" | #11 | "Still DRE" |
| #02 | "Whose Side Are You On?" | #07 | "Like Father, Like Son" | #12 | "He Always Wins" |
| #03 | "Forgot About Dre" | #08 | "Deal with the Devil" | #13 | "It's All Your Fault" |
| #04 | "Why Is Tommy Still Alive?" | #09 | "Scorched Earth" | #14 | "Reversal of Fortune" |
| #05 | "King's Gambit" | #10 | "No One Can Stop Me" | #15 | "Exactly How We Planned" |
| Seasons | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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| Season 1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Season 2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Season 3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Season 4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Notes[]
a.^ Referring to cocaine.