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Sep. 15th, 2018 01:17 pm« « « manipulative » » »
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Name: Brie Age: 25 Contact: mackens @ plurk / replicates#2641 @ discord Timezone: EST |
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Name: Ren Hana Door: Right. Canon: Boyfriend to Death 2: Fresh Blood Canon Point: "Ren Won't Let You Die" ending. Age: 21 Appearance: Looking way too fancy. History: Content Warning for violence, kidnapping, torture, abuse, and captivity. Very little is known about Ren's life prior to canon's beginning, two years previously. He was born to Japanese beast-kin parents and at some point, either had a falling out with them or came to believe they hated him and found himself in what is suggested to be Alberta, Canada all alone. At nineteen, lonely and friendless, Ren arranged to meet a date at a pub. Despite his nervous excitement, he was stood up. Rather than leaving as soon as he realized, Ren chose to remain at the pub, dejected, and it was what happened next that would alter his life irrevocably. He caught the eye of a man named Strade. Strade approached him, coming over with a beer and some "I've seen some shit" stories, serving to cheer Ren up quite easily with his friendliness. The two spent hours chatting, Ren being lulled into a sense of comfort in a way he had not been in quite a while. It was during this an accident occurred: Strade spilled his beer on Ren, bringing their ongoing conversation to an abrupt close. Apologetically, Strade offered to lead Ren to the bathroom so he could clean up. Together the two went. Unfortunately for Ren, the ‘bathroom’ turned out to be a back door leading out of the bar. As it turned out, Ren’s new companion wasn’t just a cheerful bar patron, he was a serial killer. Weekly, Strade would go out to bars and pubs and wait for someone who caught his eye to come along, usually someone looking depressed or uncomfortable. When he’d found someone, he’d approach them under the guise of a friendly face concerned about someone looking down or troubled. Then he’d bring them home, either using force or through deception. Ren had been unlucky enough to be his chosen victim that night, and the young man meekly submitted with promises to be good right off the bat. His ears and tail, which he’d been able to hide until point, also revealed themselves, only intriguing the man more. Decidedly, Strade took him home. It’s not explicitly told how many days Ren spent in Strade’s basement being tortured. It’s likely less than his typical victim, because though Strade had every intention to kill him, Ren proved to be too interesting. He was rather spineless, noisy, and cried often, and Strade continued putting off finishing him off. Finally, he came to the realization that he didn't want to kill Ren. Instead, he gifted the young man with something: A shock collar built especially for him, with a perimeter set up around the house and a remote his captor kept on his person for easy use. He became Strade's 'pet', given anything and everything he wanted in exchange for enduring occasional torture at the hands of his sadistic captor. When he wasn't being hurt, it was almost like the two were simply roommates, Ren given free reign of the second floor of the suburban house they lived in. Ren lived with the knowledge that Strade was still bringing home victim after victim, none ever having the 'luck' he did, to be spared and simply kept instead. Strade would then stream these sessions on the deep web for money. It's implied in extra material that Ren was forced to join in on these sessions of torture at times, and it's confirmed within the game itself that he was forced to watch the videos Strade recorded of them in twisted 'movie nights'. Ren's life continued like this for two years, simple duties such as cooking and keeping the house clean interspersed with an increasing numbers of scars, trauma, and growing stockholm syndrome. And then the unthinkable happened. Strade, who had always delighted in leaving his victims somewhat loosely tied to give them the illusion of the ability to escape him, finally made a fatal mistake. The one who would be his last victim (the MC from the first game) got out of their bindings in the night and got their hands on one of his knives. Patiently, they waited until he let his guard down enough to strike. He struck them down, but not before taking a fatal neck wound of his own. This is how Ren found him when he heard Strade calling for him down in the basement. Strade demanded Ren's help with stopping the bleeding, too weak to do it himself. And Ren did nothing. Strade begged him to help. And Ren did nothing. Unable to stop thinking of all the things Strade had done to him, Ren stood aside and watched in a state of shock as Strade bled out. Two years of a constant switch between being "taken care of" and hurt left Ren with severe trauma and a prominent case of stockholm syndrome. Believing that Strade had done what he did because he loved Ren, Ren chose to keep a piece of his 'owner'. He clawed Strade's heart from his body and devoured it, so that in doing so he'd always have a part of him. Then he stored the body in the meat freezer kept within the basement, stripping Strade's favorite shirt to keep and sleep with. He used the remote to remove his collar but kept it as a twisted memento. Despite being free, he didn't leave the house. At some point very shortly after this, Ren is implied to have experienced a slow mental breakdown. Though he had free reign of the house and access to all of Strade's passwords and money, Ren grew lonely with no one else there. Strade's treatment of him followed by the mental break his death had brought had irrevocably altered how Ren thought, and he adapted the "weak people die, strong people live, and if you're strong you should just take what you want" mentality that Strade pushed. Mental state dangerously warped and no longer seeing the things Strade did as wrong, Ren turned to the internet, seeking out a "new friend" on strange websites where people discussed death as a fascination. It was here he connected with Lawrence Oleander, a reclusive, shy young man with an affinity for plants and a dislike for people due to being treated as frightening and odd his entire life. The two seemed to hit it off, and for the next few weeks they chatted over the internet, eventually culminating in plans to meet up. Ren prepared everything in the house for what was meant to be the result of that night: His old shock collar ready as a hand-me-down gift, and a chain born into the wall of the living room, ready to keep the wearer restricted when need be. He left that night to meet Lawrence at the Jackalope, a pub in one of the nicer areas of the city. It's here where the Boyfriend to Death 2 finally begins. While Ren is in the bathroom right before he intends to leave with Lawrence, Lawrence is approached by the Main Character who is seeking the time. Ren emerged to find them speaking and went through the motions of introducing himself. Sensing the discomfort between the two, MC expressed concern for Ren, their first action that would set his sights on them. Waving their concern off, Ren insisted he get them all one last round of drinks for the night. At some point in doing so, he slipped a drug into Lawrence's drink, intending to take him home as his new "friend". MC stirred things up again, and in a well-intended joke, snatched up Lawrence's drink and drank it instead. But if Ren had learned nothing else from Strade it was that it was better to be adaptable than to have a good plan. He rushed out of the bar with a quickly made excuse of it being late and avoided Lawrence, who rushed out after him. Instead, he hunkered down in the alley beside the pub and waited. Within minutes, MC ducked into the alley, fleeing from an angered Lawrence and weak from the drugs Ren had slipped into Lawrence's drink. Upon being noticed, he offered to help, assuring MC of their safety as they passed out in his arms. As they slept, Ren whisked MC back to his house. Quickly, he put the shock collar on them and attached the chain driven into the wall to their ankle. He then set about waiting hours for them to wake up, cheerfully preparing a meal for when they finally did so. Despite what was no doubt a terrifying situation for MC to awake to, Ren lucked out; they were agreeable and polite for the most part. Ren's somewhat-explanation that he had brought them with intent to become 'best friends' seemed to calm them enough that they didn't attempt to lash out at him. There was a minor hiccup when he freed them from the ankle chain to take them to their room and they attempted to flee, but a quick shock from the collar and some admonishment took care of it without a problem. After a confirmation that MC liked their new room, he left them to rest, planning the next part of his "initiation" excitedly. The next morning he left the house to retrieve Lawrence, presumably under the guide of apologizing for rushing off so quickly the night before. However, Ren's intentions were much less kind, and he dragged Lawrence home bound and gagged, setting him up on a chair in the closet. Once it was ready, he called for MC and invited them to step inside. It was then he revealed what his real plans were: He wanted MC to hurt and kill Lawrence and through his shared pain and death, they would have a bond deeper than anyone could imagine. It was yet another lesson taught to him by Strade, who believed that the only way you could see what someone was truly was like was inflicting pain and reducing them to a frightened, desperate animal. Pain was a way of bonding, something truly special when shared with another. And Ren, lonely and broken, craved a bond. MC couldn't bring themselves to do it, begging Ren to allow them to do anything else. Yes, Lawrence had scared them after they left the bar by attacking and chasing them, but he didn't deserve something like this. Surprisingly, Ren agreed to do it for them, saying that it was "a little much" to be asking so soon. Once handed the knife, Ren began his torture of Lawrence, demanding MC tell him how they are feeling as he drove the knife into Lawrence's arm and then his leg. It's once Ren gutted the man that MC finally blacked out from shock and he finishes Lawrence off. He took MC back to the living room to rest, retreating to get cleaned up. However, alone and adrenaline running out, the gravity of what Ren did hit him. Killing someone, he realized, was not nearly as easy as he thought it'd be. It was different from when Strade forced him to take part. Regretful, Ren returned to the living room to wait for MC to awaken. Both were subdued when they did, Ren admitting that he'd never killed someone before, not really. To Ren's shock, MC called him out on this-- he said he's never really killed anyone, but they'd gone in to the basement while he'd been out and found Strade's body. Ren nervously admitted to them that he had nothing to do with Strade's death, and when they inquired further, told them of Strade's habit of bringing "friends" home. The last one had gotten a knife during the night and they both died. It didn't explain the gaping hole in Strade's chest, but MC apparently realized that asking about that might not be such a good idea. As he continued, they said nothing, offering no criticism or words of comfort. Finally Ren seemed to calm down. It didn't matter, he told MC, because he didn't need to worry about Strade anymore. He had MC now. And MC didn't need to worry about anything either. They'd never leave him, and he'd never let them die. He'd take care of them forever. Personality: Before Strade, Ren was a fairly normal young adult, if isolated and lonely. He, by his own admission, had no friends and his family didn't really like him very much. He was a nervous, timid, and generally didn't do well around other people. Nonetheless, Ren craved both friends and meaningful bonds. He went out of his way to try and meet a date, and was genuinely upset when he was stood up. He was a hopeless romantic, delighting in magical girl anime and romance films. Despite his timidness, Ren was a kind person. He was trusting enough to follow Strade to what he believed was the bar bathroom, even though he really had no idea who the man was. He was nurturing, risking Strade's wrath to provide the victims in the basement a little bit of care. He took care of Strade, kept him from getting too worked up and going too far. However, Ren was nowhere near perfect before he met Strade. Ren was, in the kindest way to put it, spineless. Protecting his own life was important to him and he placed his survival above all else. Yes, he would go into the basement to provide some aid and comfort to Strade's victims, but he would not risk freeing them and endangering himself. It was this spinelessness that caused Strade to become so interested in him in the first place. In the interest of self-protection, Ren obeyed Strade to a T. He must have, because at some point the young man earned (monitored) internet privileges and free reign on the second floor of the house. Eventually it wasn't just the shock collar on Ren's neck but a sense of loyalty that kept him doing as he was told. There is no doubt that Ren developed severe stockholm syndrome during his time in Strade's 'care'. A combination of living in terror of being hurt and domesticity, affection, and being spoiled created a lot of confusion for Ren. At some point, he drew the conclusion that Strade loved him, though the man never actually said it. Strade hurt him, yes, but he took care of Ren too. Strade gave Ren whatever he wanted and in return Ren cooked, cleaned, and generally tended to his captor. The terrible things Strade did: Cutting Ren up, forcing him to take part in murder or watch his live streams, general violence for Strade's amusement...they were just another aspect of the man. His own special brand of love. Ren after Strade is the warping and poisoning of a good person made manifest. No longer is he timid and shy, but now cheerful and confident. He seems to come more into himself after Strade's death, going so far as to reflect this newfound confidence by discarding his glasses and switching to contacts. He knowingly embraced the fact that he was 'cute', and learned to use it to his advantage. Ren is less moral now than he was before. Where he seemed to hold guilt for the thing Strade did to his victims before, now he easily plans a kidnapping and drugs a drink just like Strade did, seeing nothing wrong with doing so. When MC appears and drinks the drugged drink instead of Lawrence, Ren happily changes his plans, dragging an innocent, unrelated person into his plans. Strade had taught him it was better to be flexible than to have a good plan, and he was excited at the chance to put it into action, to improvise on the spot. When MC stumbles into the alley, he easily lies and acts as if he has no idea why they are suddenly so sick, plying them with reassurances before they pass out. Upon MC waking up and panicking at finding themselves chained and collared, Ren deflects their concern, minimizes their worry as something trivial they would get over quickly. Hesitation in killing Lawrence is regarded not as a moral stance but as a personal failing born on not "hav[ing] the stomach for it". If Ren does it himself, he tortures Lawrence without a second thought, eventually disemboweling him. If not, he giddily watches as MC slits Lawrence's throat, praising them when it's done. He's manipulative, using affection and rewards to push MC toward doing what he wants. However, the most prominent of his post-Strade behavior is that Ren developed a craving for control. If MC allows him to go unchallenged for long enough while he feels positively toward them, that desire for control becomes true sadism and a taste for power. He seeks out chances for control and doesn't hesitate to inflict pain to do so. Just getting to shock MC for their first act of disobedience gives him such a power trip he turns around and feeds them from a dog bowl. Inflicting pain and fear is no longer a terrible thing to him, and it's something he has come to enjoy for the sense of control it gives him. But despite that Ren's claims that Strade loved him and that Ren feels empty with him gone, he stills harbors a lot of fear and pain in regards to the man. He holds huge amounts of fear and guilt over allowing Strade to die, though he was frozen by the memory of Strade's torture when he did so. Nightmares of Strade coming alive again for revenge are constant. The truth is that Ren is still a sweet, friendly young man who just wants to find someone to be love and be loved by in return. But, terrified of his past and refusing to face his trauma, he does what he can do deny and escape it. His sadism is imitated, a weak mimicry of Strade was. Ren tries to be like him because he no longer remember what he it was like to be himself. Strade crawled inside of Ren and left pieces of himself to fester and rot; Ren doesn't know how to get them out and so instead he pretends he wants them there. He buries himself in layers of pretend behavior he's fooled himself into believing just to feel better. Truly, Ren isn't naturally very well suited to the cruel tormentor act. If the MC is dominant over him rather than lettin and expresses a desire for love or sex, he happily returns to his place as someone else's 'pet'. The entire reason Ren plans to take Lawrence, even when he ends up taking MC instead, is that he's lonely. He wants someone by his side who cannot leave, who will love him unconditionally even if he has to force them to do so. He doesn't want to experience pain anymore. Powers and Abilities: Ren's own native powers are ones that come with his nature as a beastkin. A Beastkin is a creature born when a human with magical ability or good luck is able to communicate with an animal and form a pact binding them together as one being and one family. The result is a creature that looks almost entirely like a human, save for animal features. Samples: note: each screenshot is from a different scene in the discord RP, though the last two are related! there's also suggestions of sexual content due to it being an ongoing story involving kink on occasion. log sample a (on dreamwidth), b, c + d (discord PSL screenshots). |
