Aaron Brooks

"An entire island full of MUTOs, and you left it to this giant ape, this...Kong? You and Serizawa... Always the same old song. "Let nature strike its own balance." That's the answer?"

- Aaron Brooks to Houston Brooks

Aaron Brooks is a character created by who made his first appearance in the 2017 MonsterVerse comic book series, Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.

Houston Brooks
Aaron has a strained relationship with his father concerning Kong and Skull Island, and whether or not they should be kept secret. Aaron accuses his father of being reckless and irresponsible for leaving an island full of M.U.T.O.s in Kong's hands and putting all of mankind at risk.

History
Some time after the Skull Island expedition, Houston Brooks and San Lin eventually married and had Aaron. When he came of age, Aaron joined Monarch as a security officer.

In 1995, Aaron breaks into his father's files and sees that Monarch left Skull Island in the hands of Kong and kept the island a secret. Aaron goes to his father's house to confront him, outraged at the danger Monarch has put the world in and that his father, like colleague Ishiro Serizawa, insists on "letting nature strike its own balance." Houston tells Aaron that Monarch deals with forces beyond its control and since Kong is the king of Skull Island, the rest of the world is safe as long as he rules it. Aaron asks what humanity's second line of defense will be if Kong can't keep Skull Island's beasts under control, and how Monarch is even sure if Kong is still alive. Houston says they're monitoring everything via satellite, and that many of his colleagues died on the island in 1973 believing that it was a secret worth keeping, and warns Aaron to leave it alone. Angry that his father would fall back on threats, Aaron storms off as his father calls out after him.

Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
On August 7, 1995, under the guise of going to study a M.U.T.O. fossil bed in Antarctica, Aaron and a team of Monarch operatives fly out to Skull Island. Accompanying Aaron on his secret mission are cryptobiologist Evgenij Medov, medic Evelyn Matemavi, whom Houston Brooks personally recruited for Monarch, survival instructor Helen Karsten, the pilot Cejudo, and mythographer Walter R. Riccio. As he believes the world should know about Skull Island and he's unwilling to entrust Kong with humanity's survival without more assurance, Aaron plans on spending at least three days gathering evidence. After their V-22 Osprey penetrates the storm surrounding the island, it's attacked by Psychovultures and, except Cejudo, the team is forced to parachute out. They land on a cliff and see Cejudo and the V-22 crash to the west. Riccio says they should find the natives to act as their guides but Aaron says his father's notes on the Iwi were vague, and their first objective should be securing their supplies.

Once the others convince Riccio to go along with Aaron's plan, they turn around and find themselves ambushed by Death Jackals. Karsten tells the team to run into a nearby cave for cover before the Death Jackals tear her apart. Aaron, Medov, Matemavi, and Riccio are followed into the cave by the Death Jackals and overwhelmed by the M.U.T.O.s, with Medov being gravely injured in the process. Before the team can be finished off, a huge fist comes crashing down just outside the cave. Then the giant hand reaches into the cave, grabbing several Death Jackals and crushing them. The rest run out of the cave, only to be crushed by the beast's foot. The giant stares at the cave entrance for a moment and walks away. Matemavi tends to Medov but the medical supplies aboard the V-22 need to be recovered, while Aaron is still in awe about the giant creature that saved them, recognizing it as Kong. Then Riccio alerts Aaron they now have company as several Iwi natives enter the cave. A young Iwi boy introduces himself as Ato and welcomes Aaron and the others, addressing them as "Awati," "the people who come from the sky." Remembering from his father's notes that the Iwi never speak, Aaron realizes Skull Island has evolved since his father was there.

Trivia

 * Aaron's Monarch ID number is 004-78.
 * Aaron loves Norse mythology. His shared password with his father is Gjallarhorn, the name of the horn of Heimdall, guardian of the rainbow bridge to Asgard.