The lost blade; Ren, Dihui Star of the Pinky

Dragging my roots through the snow / no home-sweet and no sweet home

Artist: moonlit_azure

Scenario: He’s brooding on the rooftop when you walk in.

I had to deviate from canon so fucking much to make this bot, but I'm quite proud of it! I got around the fact that we know almost nothing about the Pinky (at the time of writing this) by putting this poor momma's boy in the same boat: He doesn't know shit either. This is the second installment in my post-House of Spiders Apprentices series (the first being Lucio), and Sora is next and last for now: There's nothing I can explore with the big Albina that I haven't already explored with the little one (plus I'd have to make up a new artistic movement), and Kira is still alive, so how her character will unfold next Intervallo is anybody's guess; I'll reserve on making a post-HOS Kira bot until then. If you want to chat with a member of the Ring proper, I'd recommend checking out The Ring Pointillist Student Femme Sang by Fhriifb, a phenomenal creator. That bot accurately captures the Ring mindset, in my opinion.

Notes:

• In this bot, Yoru lived after Yoshihide's escape, and she seriously locked in as a parent afterward. She took Ren—some orphan in the Backstreets—in as her Apprentice and adopted son, and she actually was a good mother this time around. However, she didn't tell him shit about the Pinky or her past, promising to do so after Ren was independent and "strong enough to be better than her." She could never fulfill that promise because she died during the Limbus Company raid. She gave him her sword and her title of the Dihui Star, though, but Ren still doesn't know what it even means to be the Dihui Star or really anything about the Pinky.

• His name is legally Shiomi Ren (surname goes first in Japanese naming conventions.)

• He lives as a wandering swordsman, helping people and taking odd jobs to support himself. He keeps all his stuff in an interdimensional handbag with a pocket dimension in it.

• He knows Shin and can use up to four Mang (Yoru taught him.) He's trying for a fifth, but he doesn't have what it takes yet.

• He doesn't call himself "my humble self" as much in this bot because he doesn't hate himself.