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Cece Brewer is a main character in Goosebumps: The Vanishing. She is portrayed by Jayden Bartels.
Gifted in numerous areas, Cece often finds success effortlessly. Her current obsession is debate. She tends to view everything through the lens of her own experiences and her world, occasionally neglecting others. Yet, she remains dependable when truly needed.
History[]
Cece and her brother, Devin, spent time in Gravesend with their father when they were in eighth grade. During this time, Devin became close with Frankie.[1]
A month before Cece and Devin were set to return to their dad's to stay with him for the summer, Cece found out that she didn't get into the debate camp she'd applied to, the first time she had failed something in her life. Not wanting to get looks of pity, Cece lied and told everyone she'd gotten in.[2]
They returned to Gravesend years later when their aunt was having brain surgery to stay with their father for the summer. They were staying in their grandmother's home as she'd recently moved into a nursing home due to progressive dementia. Since Cece said she had to return to the city every day for debate camp, Anthony bought her a stun gun for her protection.
Anthony took Cece and Devin out to eat at Gwendolyn's and as they were leaving, he introduced them to C.J. Lewis, who worked there as his parents owned the restaurant. C.J. invited them to come hang out with some friends in the park the next day.
The following morning, Anthony made the kids pancakes, but Cece said she needed to go to the pharmacy to get some bath products and refused to eat them. Devin decided to go with her.
At the pharmacy, Devin asked which products he should get and Cece realized he was hoping Frankie would be there. They were distracted when Alex Diaz came in and had a conflict with the store manager, who wanted her to leave. While the manager was distracted, Cece stole a lip gloss.
Devin and Cece went to the park, where C.J. greeted them and welcomed them to the group. Cece stepped away from the group to apply some lip gloss and Alex came, took the wand, and put some on her own lips. When Cece said he mom said not to share makeup, Alex replied that hers said not to steal. As Devin and Cece were about to leave, C.J. called Cece and Devin back to the group and asked them about their uncle who mysteriously disappeared. Cece didn't want to tell the story, but Devin explained that he and some friends were going to spend the night at Fort Jerome on a dare when they disappeared. When Frankie asked if he was scared of the place, Devin said no, leading Trey to dare him to prove it.
They drove to Fort Jerome, where Trey cut the gate lock with bolt cutters, then sent Devin inside to take pictures. Trey revealed that he knew a lot of the place's history because his father was interviewed for a 20/20 episode about the disappearance. While Devin was inside, Trey got annoyed by Cece talking to Frankie about Frankie being Devin's first kiss and used the bolt cutters to damage a transformer, cutting the power to the building. Devin finally stumbled out with Cece's help and they rushed to leave.
Back at home the next morning, Devin told Cece he didn't remember anything after going into the tunnel. Devin said he was sorry for not being more like her, but their conversation was interrupted by Anthony saying their grandmother had a rough night, so he had to go see her. He asked them to come with him, but Cece couldn't because she had to go to her camp.[1]
The next morning, Devin told Cece about the flashes he had of being in the sewer. He worried he had dementia, though Cece told him it wasn't that. They went to the coffee shop where Frankie was working, but when she learned they didn't have kombucha, Cece left without ordering, saying she needed to get to camp. On her way to the train, Cece ran into Alex, who was doing community service picking up trash. When Cece explained where she was going, Alex made a quip about her arguing a lot. Cece used the excuse of being late to leave.
Devin later called Cece and told her he'd been reading about dementia and had all the symptoms. Again, she told him it wasn't that. Then he told her he saw their Uncle Matty's face when he closed his eyes. Cece tried to get him to talk to their dad about it, but Devin refused and hung up on Cece when someone knocked on the door.
That night, Cece came home and found a dead goat in the living room. She started to go downstairs to ask her dad about it, but he yelled for her not to come into the basement, so she went back upstairs.[3]
Despite Devin asking her not to tell their dad what had happened to him, Cece told Anthony about Devin's spotty memory of being in the sewer. She was upset when Anthony was more focused on whether or not Devin had been in the basement and left to go to camp. On her way, Alex pulled up alongside her in Trey's car and used a video of Cece stealing the lip gloss to get her into the car. Once she was in the car, Alex explained that she needed to talk to Murph, who was really responsible for the fire Alex spent a year in Juvie over. She couldn't go ask where to find him herself because all Murph's friends knew her and knew Murph didn't want to talk to her. Cece agreed to do it when she heard that and was able to get Murph's work address. They drove to Murph's work, but Murph fled. Alex stated chasing him in the car. When Cece asked her to stop, she tried, but the black goo covered her foot and forced her to accelerate, nearly hitting Murph. They chased him until Cece grabbed the wheel, swerving them into a pole. Cece got out of the car, saying she'd rather get home any other way than get back into the car with Alex. Cece ended up ordering a side of ranch from Gwendolyn's and when C.J. delivered it, she asked him if the delivery could include a ride back to Gravesend. He handed her a helmet and allowed her to come back with him.[4]
The next day, Cece went to the city to meet with Kathryn Bosco, a Brown alumna who could help Cece secure a spot there. On her way, Alex stopped her and tried to explain that it wasn't her fault and that it was the car. Cece didn't believe her, but did take her cup back when Alex offered it to her. Cece took the cup to a coffee shop, where she ordered kombucha. She also saw her friends, Iris, Aisha, and Harper, who were all doing impressive things. She left the interview and drank her kombucha, unaware there was some black goo in the cup. She met with Kathryn and started to tell her store. She was embarrassed when she burped twice. Then Kathryn told her she had a nosebleed and left to get a first aid kit. Cece wiped her nose and saw it was black goo. Then she blacked out and when she came to again, she was at her mom's apartment. She called Devin and told him what had happened and he told her to wait there and he could come to her. Cece went to the bathroom and gargled mouthwash. Then black goo came up through the sink drain and grew as it followed Cece. She left the apartment, but it followed her into the elevator and stopped the elevator. Devin and Frankie arrived just in time to rescue her from the elevator. They got on the subway, but the blob followed Cece onto the subway. After Cece was able to use the third rail to electrocute it, they got a Lyft to Fort Jerome, hoping to find answers there. They were shocked to see Anthony also walking around there and began to suspect he was behind everything.[2]
Devin and Cece went to spend the night at Frankie's. She woke them the next morning so she could go to work. They went with her to the coffee shop. When Devin and Frankie's conversation made Cece realize Alex was telling the truth about Trey's car, they went to see her, but she told them she was lying and she didn't want anything to do with what they were doing. Cece went with Frankie and Trey back to her house, where they found Anthony in the basement, trying to force C.J. to drink black goo. Trey hit him with a bat, knocking his head off. When Anthony said they could join them, they ran upstairs and barricaded the door. C.J. then noticed a tape on the table and said that's what Jen dropped off. Frankie recognized it as a VHS tape and Devin said they could play it at Grandma's. They left to go there and met up with Alex along the way. Just as she joined them, Devin broke off from the group, saying he needed to get back to Hannah because he believe she could help them. They continued on without him.[5]
When they got to Naomi's nursing home, C.J. hooked up the player and played the tape. The watched as Matty and his friends planned their trip. Alex was horrified to watch her mom steal a new student's clothes because she was jealous of the girl talking to Matty. They kept watching as the teens went to Fort Jerome and ended up doing a hole. The camera focused on Hannah, who woke up and found her friends encased in pods. As Hannah tried to escape, a monster dragged her back into the hole right before Anthony and Jen arrived. Anthony saw the clothes and went to call the police while Jen grabbed the camera. While the teens watched, Devin went to Camp Nightmare with Hannah. They connected the name to Hannah from the video and when Devin didn't answer their phone call, they went out to Fort Jerome, where they found Devin standing on the ledge. He believed Hannah was standing there, telling him he needed to go with her to find the others. Cece was able to get through to him and convince him Hannah wasn't real. Then they got him back away from the ledge and decided to go back to Cece and Devin's to talk to whatever was inhabiting their dad. On their way back, Alex talked to Cece about how her mom treated her like a criminal while she was the one who stole and hid evidence. Cece reassured her, saying she wasn't her mom. They agreed to share responsibility for messing things up between them. Then Cece said she didn't know how much time they'd have left with everything going on and wanted to un-mess things up quickly. She leaned in and kissed Alex. When they got to the house, Cece and Devin left the others outside while they went in. After searching the house, they came back and said Anthony wasn't there. Devin pulled up the footage from the doorbell camera and they watched Ramona Pamani come into the house and leave with a suitcase. They wondered where she'd taken him.[6]
The teens met again at Cece and Devin's house. Trey brought the tape of the 20/20 episode his dad participated in, which showed Ramona talking about them getting swept out to sea by fast-moving currents. With her name, they looked her up. They found nothing, but found an Avi Pamani, who had written a book about global risk management. While Frankie, Devin and Trey went to the hospital to see if they could figure out anything about her from there, Alex, Cece, and C.J. went to track down the book. They managed to track it down and learned that Ramona was Avi's daughter. When Trey texted with Ramona's address, they went to her home to meet them there. They got there just as she was leaving and Trey used his bolt cutters to get them inside, where they found a book detailing 55 years of research dedicated to containing the threat at Fort Jerome. Ramona found them and told them to leave. They explained what they knew and she agreed to help them save Anthony, but said they had to leave quickly because they didn't have a lot of time.[7]
Ramona went with the teens to Fort Jerome, where she injected them all with the serum, which she said would last an hour and sent them down the hatch with an extra dose for Anthony. She opened the hatch and said she'd keep it open from outside. However, when they got down, she closed it behind them, trapping them. Despite this, they decided to stick to the plan. They found Anthony and injected his pod with the serum, freeing him and waking him up. Anthony looked at Matty's pod and wanted to take him as well, but the teens told him they only had one dose of the serum and they'd used it on him. They started to think about ways they could get out. Anthony realized that since a power outage had opened the hatch on the night Devin was first there, it would again. They made a plan to do the same again, using Trey's knowledge from his electrical engineering class. Since the serum had worn off for all of them, Anthony put on a protective suit and disabled the ship while they worked. Once it was done, Trey cut the power and they walked back through the room to get out. Anthony had to stay while they escaped because the connection had broken and he had to hold the cord himself. He said he'd come once they were safe. They got out and waited for Anthony. Trey noticed another backup generator was powering up. Just as it was about to power up, Anthony appeared with Sameer, Matty, Nicole, and Hannah, having decided he couldn't leave them behind. They got out just before the hatch closed, then took the teens back to Anthony's place, where Anthony told them to stay put. When the 1994 teens got stir crazy, the 2024 teens decided to let them go out individually with chaperones. Matty agreed to stay behind while the other three went out. Alex and Cece stayed with Matty and they looked through old photo albums until Matty got up to get a drink and coughed up a pod that encased him and turned him into a critter. It went after Alex and Cece and podded them along with the other teens. They were all freed when Jen and Anthony went back to Fort Jerome and let the ship go, which called all the critters back to the ship. The 1994 teens and the scientists who had worked in the facility all went back to space with the aliens. At the end of summer, the teens came together to say goodbye to Devin and Cece, who were going back to the city to meet their mom. While Cece was going to stay, Devin had arranged to come back to Gravesend to live with his dad. Cece and Alex decided to try a long-distance relationship.[8]
General Information[]
Personality[]
Physical appearance[]
Trivia[]
- Cece is based on Margaret Brewer, daughter of Dr. Michael Brewer, in Stay Out of the Basement.
- She was Lincoln-Douglas Debate Champion and Academic Decathlon State Champion in 2023.[2]
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