Author: Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
Language: Portuguese
The name "Bras" can be seen as a reference to the country Brazil, where Daytripper's creators were born, since this name is composed of the first four letters of the country written in Portuguese, "Brasil".
This name can also be perceived as a reference to one of the most famous characters in Brazilian literature, Brás Cubas. Such character appeared in Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas), by Brazilian author Machado de Assis.
In an interview with A Filanctera, a Brazilian blog about illustrations, Bá and Moon explained that the character "is a homage, a homage that makes sense because Bras's father is a very famous writer. The kind of father that would give his children the name of novel's characters. And also because Bras dies, and Brás Cubas dies as well".
In both stories the characters are narrating the story of their deaths: while Bras Cubas makes it clear to the reader that he is already dead and is telling the story of his life, Bras de Oliva Domingos dies unexpectedly in many different ways at the end of each chapter.
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