Name: Ren'ai Koi WakahisaNicknames/Alias: Ren
Birthday: June 19th, 1990
Age: 18
Western Zodiac: Gemini
Chinese Symbol: Metal Horse
Height: 182.88 cm (6' 0")
Weight: ??.? kg (??? lbs)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Appearance: Tousled brown hair, reddish-brown (mahogany?) eyes, and somewhat sun-tanned skin
Class: 3-D
Family Trade: (Black-Market Animal Dealing) Illegal Poaching, Hunting, and Selling of Endangered, Rare, and Protected Animal Species and Related Goods
History: Constantly uprooted due to his family trade, Ren was born in Tokyo, Japan where his father worked in the black market. However, whenever times were hard and pickings slim, the Wakahisa family packed up and moved. They traveled all over the world in search of exotic and rare animals. The fact that they hardly ever stayed in one place for too long also made it easier for his family to get by with their illegal business while going undetected by law enforcement in various countries. In this way, Ren's father (and, by extension, Ren,) came to have many various connections and friends, if a bit on the shady side.
Somewhat immature compared to other seniors, Ren is not burdened by the responsibility of the upper class students due to his family’s position in Class D. As his older brother is expected to take on their trade after their father, Ren has no reason to take his work seriously. Still, for the sake of his personal interest in the family trade, he helps out his father, Sadao (meaning ‘decisive man’), and older brother, Taro (meaning ‘great son’ and only given to the first son), when he can.
It can be tough for him not to hold his brother in contempt, however, as their father enjoys playing favorites and makes it clear that Ren is not his. This is all the more hard on Ren when coupled with the fact that he was very close to his mother and she died when he was young. Though the true nature and specific details regarding her passing have remained a mystery to those not part of the Wakahisa family, the younger son had always blamed his father for her death. As a result, Ren is not on very good terms with either his father or his older brother and is somewhat jealous of his older brother's close relationship with their father. He ends up living alone for months on end while the pair are out on trips together, but given his feelings toward them, he's grown to enjoy the time to himself rather than resent it.
Personality: Casual. Masculine and typical guy. Prone to mocking others and making a spectacle of them in public in order to hide his own insecurities. At the same time, though, he is bluntly honest and truthful when it comes to his opinion on others and will not mince words nor hold back. He highly believes in honesty over politeness and values trust deeply in any relationship. For this reason he makes a very loyal friend and while he considers few people to be his friends, he is extremely over-protective of those few. If anyone betrays his trust, he is not likely to forget it, and as spiteful as he is, he will likely do his best to make them pay for their betrayal.
He is very passionate and feels strongly about certain things, such as his general dislike toward richer students because he stereotypes them as being all snobs. For this reason as well as his own relative poverty compared to the rest of the Ouran students, Ren feels that he can better relate to commoners than to the majority of his schoolmates, particularly when he's traveled the world and seen the way that most people who are less fortunate have to live.
Depending on his mood, Ren can seem like the perfect gentleman (mostly toward girls). When in the best of moods, he’s outwardly calm, patient, polite, and funny. Of course, often when things seem too good to be true, they are, and it doesn't take very long for Ren to show his true colors as a perverted pig with a bad temper. The senior usually seems to have only one thing on his mind when conversing and interacting with female students. However, he also really hates to see girls cry and will do his best to avoid such a senario.
Ren has a horrible temper and he knows it. His anger is triggered easily when under stress or when someone is in his way. He deals with his temper and tries to cool off by drinking (and has become relatively tolerant of alcohol), yelling at others, getting into fights to physically beat people, and driving recklessly fast. It's also suspected that he may have turned to drugs from time to time like cocaine, but he's never been caught at it.
His less destructive hobbies (which he usually participates in when not in a foul mood) include learning and practicing other languages, cooking exotic foods, playing soccer (or football as it's known in other countries), and playing with r caring for his exotic animal 'pets', particularly the black and white ones.
Other:
- Played soccer in the other countries he’s traveled to and is fairly good.
- Can cook exotic foods due to travel and help from his father's friends who buy their exotic animals for delicacies and special dishes. Very much enjoys cooking, especially for people he cares about.
- Can speak many languages (due to travel and for selling/trading in the black market) including:
- Japanese
English
French
- Can’t swim and never bothered to learn due to seasickness
- Hates anthropomorphism people who anthropomorphize animals
- Not good with animals but loves them, thus keeping a number of pets aside from the ones his family captures, trades, and sells
- He loves black & white as a color scheme/theme (especially with animals like pandas, zebras, penguins, etc.)
- Carries around a piercing gun to threaten people who dare to stick out their tongues at him.
- Has a tongue piercing because his older brother had the same policy when he was Ren’s age and had pierced Ren’s tongue on an occasion when he was particularly annoyed with him. Ren’s never quite forgiven him.
- He owns a great deal of hunting and trapping equipment, including various kinds of riles, guns, and snares, and knows how to use every single one of them.
- Among several other pets, owns a panda cub called Keiko whom he saved after her mother was killed by his father. He devotes a corner of his room surrounded by bamboo stalks to her.
