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Player Info:
Name: Maggie
Over 18?: Yes
Contact: PM, roseburst, Maggie#0451

Character Info
Name: Ren Amamiya
Canon: Persona 5 Royal
Canon Point: Post Persona 5 Royal
Age: 17

Background: Here!

Personality:

Like all Persona protagonists, Ren Amamiya is a silent protagonist - for the most part. He has several voiced lines in actuality, and more of a defined personality than some of the earlier protagonists. I'll be writing about him as though he's from the ultimate True ending, which requires him to make certain pivotal choices and reach max confidant links with certain people he knows (which basically means in layman's terms that he unlocks certain tragic backstories to completion). To be fair, "silent" protagonist may not be far off how he is described in universe. He's often noted to be unassuming and soft-spoken by other characters, and even in other installments of the series, such as PQ2 (a mashup game where a bunch of characters from all the Persona games come together, but then they Forget the plot afterwards, because...game logic) where he's noted to be very mature and calm seeming. In his everyday life Ren doesn't tend to rock the boat all that much, despite having the soul of a rebel. Even in his dialogue options, he's rarely if ever given the opportunity to be loud and attract too much attention. His options are always in the range of indifferent and sort of spacey to casually snarky, and the way his friends react to him make it clear this is how they see him.

While he's absolutely the quietest among his friends, Ren isn't boring by any means. Many of the things he can and does say to other lean towards teasing and silly, even in moments when he's meant to be serious. He's also extremely prone to taunting enemies in battle, though not in a particularly malicious way. It is noted that he's very careful and thinks things through, though, which one might expect. He's extremely intelligent and imaginative, and he was one of the first to realize that the traitor was, in fact, a traitor - and sort of carried the team braincells along until Makoto joined up, since the starting Phantom Thieves were - uh, well, they tried. Morgana (his cat/friend) frequently praises him for always doing things diligently and finding new ways to overcome obstacles if he fails the first time, and the original character designer of Persona 5 (Soejima) noted that Ren is "the type who plans things but does not talk about them". It's clear throughout the game that Ren isn't easy to get to know, but unlike others in Persona 5 Royal, it isn't because he's deliberately hiding things...exactly. He does keep many cards close to his chest, but Ren is never shown to keep others at an arms' distance, even when he has ample reason to do so.

Ren's backstory in the game involves being taken to court for "assaulting" the main villain - something he did not do at all. Ren's experiences early on and even before the game starts all have to do with adults treating him badly and betraying his trust, and every single arc of the game introduces a new and worse adult who has used and abused yet more of his friends and allies. Even people his own age treat him poorly, as the earliest arc involves a (very bad) teacher spreading rumors about Ren's delinquent past, and all his schoolmates aside from his friends seem to believe the worst of him for pretty much the entire game. Despite this Ren never seems to shy away from others. He's not loquacious usually, no, but he doesn't push people away and immediately gets involved with Ryuji and several other situations upon starting the game. While Ren has every reason to distrust others, he never leans into that. Instead, he chooses to trust. In the game it's noted that the only other person in P5R who may have the unique "Wild Card" ability (usually Persona users can only use one Persona, which represents their soul, but Ren can use many) only received two Persona because he wasn't able to trust and open up to others, so he received two only: one for his hate, and one for his lies. Ren, by contrast, can contract over 200 persona by virtue of being open and willing to reach out and make bonds of all sorts. He even reaches out to the party member who betrays the team and offers to let them come back after said party member legitimately tries to murder him (and is tricked into thinking he had done so), and later in the third semester accepts said party member back without a hitch. Ren's ability to trust others is frankly ridiculous, even if he is reasonably cautious about it...usually.

In his persona as Joker, Ren is confident to the point of seeming perhaps overconfident, reckless and quietly amused at the world. His entire posture relaxes even further as Joker (his Phantom Thief code name) and his teammates frequently accuse him of "showing off" and he is very reckless and willing to commit to insane schemes in order to "win". No matter what sort of danger he's put in as a Phantom Thief, Ren rarely seems that phased, and he always remains confident and cocky even when he's staring down death in the face. One of his confidants, Hifumi Togo, says he has a "gambler's spirit", and his character profile states that while he appears quiet and well-mannered this hides the heart of a rebellious trickster, and both of these things are true. While the quiet and well-mannered side of Ren isn't a lie, exactly, it definitely can end up masking his core - and he does play up the facade to a degree, frequently trying to appear as a normal student throughout the course of the game so as not to risk discovery of his Phantom Thieves activities.

Part of the "rebellious trickster" piece of his personality is that Ren doesn't have much respect for society's rules and systems due to how he and the other Phantom Thieves have been abused by that same system. Despite this it is noted many times in the game that he's extremely upright and has strong morals: he just doesn't always think that the "right" thing is the "legal" thing, and due to the corruption in the government and adults seen in Persona 5 Royal, he's not incorrect in his canon. He has his own honor code, and one of his confidants (Iwai) even says that if everyone in the world kept to the same honor code Ren uses, guns wouldn't be necessary. He always strives to help others and to do the "right" thing, even if the world may see that thing as wrong, and Ren doesn't usually seem all that interested in personal gain and doesn't seem as invested in the Phantom Thieves' fame as, say, Ryuji. His teammates frequently note that once Ren has made up his mind, there's no changing it, and while he's quiet he's strong, courageous, and determined. At one point Akechi notes he's jealous of Ren's "free heart", where he doesn't let how others view him chain him down - and the world does try to chain Ren down, many times, but he never so much as bends.

His sense of honor and morals is only amplified by his kindness. Many of his teammates and confidants note that Ren has immeasurable kindness (or measurable, if you hit rank 5 "Angelic") and that he's very willing to go to the ends of the earth for his friends. His desire to help people in need was even the catalyst for awakening his Persona, and was why he was at all framed for assault. Before the main story of the game started, Ren tried to help a woman he didn't know who was being forced into a car by a belligerent man, and after the man fell over on his own he chose to sue Ren and force the woman to say Ren had attacked him. Ren has never been able to overlook others in trouble, and his entire goal as the Phantom Thief of Hearts is to save others who cannot save themselves. His bonds with other people are very important to Ren, to the point that in his "ideal" reality (a fake built in dreams) he is able to remain living in Leblanc forever, remaining friends with everyone - including Akechi, the traitor.

Powers:

STUDENT BY DAY: Ren's social stats are maxed at his canon point, which means he has the highest Knowledge/Kindness/Proficiency/Guts/Charm possible, which really just means he's intelligent, fearless, good with his hands, charismatic, and very empathetic. He's also apparently a very good dancer, for whatever that's worth.

PHANTOM THIEF: While he usually dresses up in his Joker persona clothes to do Phantom Thief things, the skills carry over. Ren is extremely acrobatic and capable of jumping around/over/through things as well as scaling pretty much whatever. He's also proficient with guns and daggers.

CONFIDANT SKILLS: One of the main systems of Persona 5 Royal is the Confidant system. It involves "ranking up" social links with other characters, for a maximum of 10 ranks. These ranks give various benefits, but one of the main ones is teaching the protagonist new skills, some of which would have no effect outside of canon but some of which would be useful elsewhere, such as:

FOOL: The Fool confidant teaches Ren to use WILD TALK, which allows him to negotiate with enemies he holds up with a gun (as in "STOP! THIS IS A HOLD UP!), where he can try to convince enemies to lend him their strength, give him a money bribe to let them go, or give him an item. The Fool also allows him to use THIRD EYE, which allows him to see things that can't usually be seen with the naked eye - not like, x-ray vision or ghosts, but it sort of highlights things useful for thieves: entry and exit points, places to climb, and expensive treasure to steal.
MAGICIAN: The Magician confidant teaches Ren how to make ACE TOOLS, which is basically a lot of infiltration/battle tools: Lockpick/Eternal Lockpick (opens chests), Calming Aroma & Convertizer (lowers enemie's detection rate), Goho-M (leave dungeon), Smokescreen (avoids enemy detection for 30 seconds), Hypno Mist (puts surrounding enemies to sleep), Reverse Ammo (restores gun ammo), Treasure trap (increases chance to encounter treasure demon), Vanish Ball (flee from battle), Spotlight & Limelight (draws enemy attention), and various bombs which cause elemental damages. The Magician also allows him to use PICKPOCKET, which lets him steal items when he preforms melee/physical attacks sometimes.
EMPRESS: The Empress confidant teaches Ren to use SHADOW CALCULUS, which allows him to see the skills of enemies as well as their potential item drops, while SHADOW FACTORIZATION allows him to see what sort of damage will work, will be repelled, or will be absorbed when looking at a target in battle.
HIEROPHANT: The Hierophant confidant teaches Ren COFFEE MASTERY, which allows him to make coffee that greatly restores magical energy to one person and/or just tastes good, as well as CURRY MASTERY, which allows him to make curry which does the same but for multiple allies.
CHARIOT: The Chariot confidant teaches Ren STEALTH DASH, which allows him to sprint without being easily noticed by enemies and INSTA-KILL, which occasionally allows him to instantly kill enemies he dashes into.
JUSTICE: The Justice confidant teaches Ren SLEUTHING MASTERY, which has a chance to reveal all of a single enemie's strengths/weaknesses elementally at the start of a battle.
TOWER: The Tower confidant teaches Ren all his gun skills, which include: DOWN SHOT, a special ability that allows him to knock an enemy down to their knees which is upgraded by CHEAP SHOT allowing him to use it more frequently; BULLET HAIL, which allows his party to occasionally enter a gun-based assault on enemies at the start of an ambush and is upgraded by ELECTRIC SLUG for more damage; WARNING SHOT, which just fires a shot to scare enemies during negotiations to make things easier; STAINED COATING, which increases the chance of inflicting status ailments with bullets; and finally ODA SPECIAL which allows Ren's gun attacks to ignore resistances and hit the enemy even if they're strong against guns.
SUN: The Sun confidant teaches Ren various skills that all effect the options for Wild Talk/hold-ups. These are: DIPLOMACY, which allows him to ask for more money and items during negotiation; FUNDRAISING, which allows him to ask for large amounts of money; MANIPULATION, which raises the chances of being given a rare item; MIND CONTROL, which occasionally allows him to automatically win at the negotiation without negotiating; and CHARISMATIC SPEECH, which allows him to even negotiate with enemies of a higher level/power than himself.
COUNCILLOR: The Councillor confidant teaches Ren to use DETOX DX, which sometimes allows Ren to immediately recover from a status ailment (think sleep, rage, etc, usual JRPG things); MINDFULNESS, which sometimes restores Ren's magical power when it's low; and QUICK FLOW, which sometimes ups his physical and magical attacks at the start of a battle.
FAITH: The Faith confidant teaches Ren to use TUMBLING, which allows him to avoid being surrounded by enemies, and CHAINES HOOK, which allows him to attack enemies from a distance with his grappling hook in order to ambush them.

PERSONA USER: Like all party members, Ren can utilize Persona (think summon spirits that allow their users to use 8 unique skills or spells) in battle. They're basically his world's answer to magic. Unlike other party members, Ren has the WILD CARD ability, which allows him to use different personas, rather than just the one initial one. He is able to hold within himself 12 PERSONAS (i.e. 12 combos of 8 spells/skills) maximum, and can only change them out once per "turn" in battle. To clarify, this means he can't use the spells of any persona except the one he has equipped at that moment, and has to cycle through them to access other spells, but can only do so sparingly. Usually he can utilize an in-game location known as the Velvet Room to create and summon even more persona, but for purposes of the application he'd just be locked to his last internal set of spells. I AM NERFING MYSELF FROM 12 TO 4 PERSONA FOR THE MOMENT BECAUSE I'M EXHAUSTED AND DON'T WANT TO WRITE MORE PERSONA, maybe someday he can regain more, look. These are:

SATANAEL (FOOL): Absorbs Curse, blocks Bless, resists Phys, Gun, Fire, Ice, Elec, Wind, Psy, Nuclear.

BLAZING HELL Severe Fire damage to all foes
ICE AGE Severe Ice damage to all foes
WILD THUNDER Severe Electric damage to all foes
VACUUM WAVE Severe Wind damage to all foes
PSYCHO BLAST Severe Psy damage to all foes
COSMIC FLARE Severe Nuclear damage to all foes
MAKOUGAON Heavy Bless damage to all foes
MAEIGAON Heavy Curse damage to all foes

ISHTAR (LOVERS): Blocks Electric, weak to Wind.

PASSIVE: MOTHER BLESSING Reduces cost of recovery skills
MEDIARAHAN Fully restores HP to all allies
HOLY BENEVOLENCE Revive all allies with all HP recovered
SAMARECARM Revives an ally from KO with full health (won't work on DEAD)
DRAIN WIND Absorb Wind Attacks
AMRITA SHOWER Cure all ailments of party except for special status
MAZIODYNE Heavy Electric damage to all foes. Chance of inflicting shock
SPELL MASTER Reduces the SP cost of skills by half
SALVATION Fully restores HP of party and cure all non-special ailments

YOSHITSUNE (STRENGTH): Reflects Elec, Bless; blocks Physical; resists Fire.

PASSIVE: UNDYING FURY Raises damage of Phys skills by 30%
HASSOU TOBI Light Physical damage to all foes 8x
CHARGE Multiply next Physical or Gun attack damage by 2.5
ARMS MASTER Half HP cost for physical skills
DRAIN PSY Absorb Psy attacks
DRAIN NUKE Absorb Nuclear attacks
REPEL CURSE Repel Curse attacks
DRAIN WIND Absorb Wind attacks
DRAIN ICE Absorb Ice attacks

IZANAGI-NO-OKAMI (WORLD): Resists Phys, Gun, Fire, Ice, Elec, Wind, Psy, Nuclear; nullifies Bless & Curse

COUNTRY MAKER increases Attack/Defense based on Inmate registry completion
MYRIAD TRUTHS Deals colossal almighty damage to all enemies
ALMIGHTY BOOST Increases almighty attack power by 25%
ALMIGHTY AMP Strengthen Almighty attacks by 50%
MAGIC ABILITY Strengthen all magical attacks by 25%
VICTORY CRY Fully restores self’s HP and SP after battle
INSTA-HEAL Recover from an ailment in 1 turn
FIRM STANCE Half all incoming damage by sacrificing evasion completely
DRAIN PHYS Absorb Physical attacks

Inventory: Grappling hook, eternal lockpick (it doesn't break), Nataraja R gun, Paradise Lost R dagger, Joker outfit, Persona 5 Dancing outfit.
Samples:
One, two.

Augury
Opt-In Kinks:

• Anal;
• Anonymity;
• Begging;
• Bites, bruises;
• Blades;
• Blindfolds;
• Bloodplay;
• Body worship, fetishization;
• Bondage;
• Branding, burning, scarring;
• Breathplay;
• Clothing;
• Competition;
• Consent play;
• Costumes;
• Cuddling;
• Dirty talk;
• Discipline;
• Domination and submission;
• Edgeplay;
• Endurance;
• Exhibitionism;
• Fighting, wrestling;
• Flexibility, contortionism;
• Flogging, whipping, caning;
• Gags, silence;
• Hair pulling;
• Handcuffs;
• Hands, fingers;
• Humiliation, degradation;
• Kissing;
• Leashes, collars;
• Licking;
• Masturbation;
• Mirrors;
• Multiple orgasms;
• Multiple penetration;
• Oral fixation, oral sex;
• Orgasm control, denial;
• Pain play;
• Phone sex;
• Photography, videotaping;
• Possessive, leaving marks;
• Power play;
• Public;
• Rimming;
• Roleplay;
• Rough sex;
• Rubbing, grinding;
• Scratching;
• Sensation play;
• Sex toys;
• Spanking, paddling;
• Strip tease, exposure;
• Teasing;
• Temperature play;

Opt-Out Kinks:

• Adultery, cuckolding;
• Age difference, ageplay;
• Altered state of consciousness;
• Authority figures;
• Bodily secretions;
• Body alteration, injury;
• Breeding, in heat;
• Cages, confinement;
• Chastity, virginity;
• Coercion, blackmail;
• Crossdressing;
• Drug, alcohol use;
• Electricity;
• Emotion manipulation, altered mood;
• Feathers, fur, velvet, silk;
• Fisting;
• Food;
• Gender play;
• Gore, vore, guro;
• Hurt, comfort;
• Immobilization, mummification;
• Jewelry;
• Latex, rubber, leather;
• Mechanical, technological;
• Medical play;
• Messy;
• Multiple partners;
• Negotiation;
• Obedience;
• Objectification;
• Orgy, decadence;
• Orientation play;
• Pervertibles;
• Piercings, needle play;
• Prostitution;
• Ritual;
• Service;
• Sexual exhaustion;
• Size difference;
• Snuff, necrophilia;
• Sounding;
• Suspension;
• Taboo;
• Tattoos;
• Tickling;
• Vehicles;
• Voyeurism;
• Water;
• Wax;
• Writing;
• Xenophilia