Ren Fujii

****Ren Fujii******Tenma Yato**

* Dies Irae
* Uniform
* Pantheon
* Throne

**Ren Fujii** (藤井 蓮, *Fujī Ren*?) is the main protagonist of Dies Irae.

## Appearance

Ren is a tall, young boy with shoulder length blue hair and matching eyes. He is noted to resemble both Mercurius and Lotus. When he starts using Die Ewigkeit, he gain's Mercurius symbol, a caduceus, in each eye. Ren usually wears a scarf and a blue sweater that reaches up to his waist and wears a cross necklace.

## Personality

Ren is sarcastic, perceptive and intelligent, often having fun at Kasumi's expense. He is considered a recluse by many in his school, quiet and enjoying staying with him. He is characteristically crude and straightforward in his dialogues, and even when he tries to be polite, he usually gives raw answers to questions, especially when angry.

Ren is also slightly perverted, and although this side of him is rarely shown, he is not ashamed to show it when he has the opportunity. However, the most striking thing about Ren is his desire for serenity and routine; His greatest desire is to have a repetitive, but safe and good life, a desire that is embodied in his Briah "I want to live this moment forever".

Every since witnessing Shirou kill Kasumi's father, Ren has had a strong aversion to blades of any kind. However, he seemingly gets over this after meeting Marie.

He is also a tsundere, acting somewhat coldly to those he is close to, despite actually caring deeply for them. He is very doting upon Marie.

## Story

### Before Dies Irae

Ren Fujii was created by Karl Ernst Krafft, also known as Mercurius, as his substitute, who would fill seat XIII of the Obsidian Round Table in his place during the battle at the Eastern Shambhala, Suwahara City, which would see the resurrection of Reinhard Heydrich and the erasure of the world of Eternal Recurrence, which the Golden Beast plans to wash away with his own world. As his substitute, Zarathustra (Ren's magic name and identification within the LDO) would serve (capitalizing in the hatred the rest of the Beast's Fangs feel against Mercurius) as the opponent they'd have to face once they arrived to the city, in order to open the eight Swastika scattered over the city, as mere bloodshed won't serve to complete the Transmutation of Gold as needed. Therefore, true battles would be needed and, as long as a majority of the Swastika open due to battling and not one sided massacres, the Longinus Dreizehn Orden's goals will be fulfilled. This role exists alongside another; to be Reinhard's promised opponent, who would truly push him to his limits, so he could fulfill his wish of fighting with his full strength against an adversary that can withstand it, and that opponent that will take the shape of his sworn friend substitute, upon reaching the peak of its powers.

Ren's birth took place at the exact time the Obsidian Round Table's seats were filled. He's the other half of the being that came to be known as Machina, using Lotus Reichhart's soul as the basis for his consciousness, and later fused with Mercurius' blood. This way, not only did Ren have the potential to achieve Godhood, but he also effectively became Mercurius' shadow, his very own Ahnenerbe.

Despite being created so many years prior to the story's start, it still took long for Ren to gain awareness, and more so to reach a point in which he could serve his purpose. For that reason, he was entrusted to a descendant of members of ODESSA in Japan, organization that helped Nazis to escape persecution. The man, named Kouzou Ayase, claimed that Ren's parents had died in an accident and, given they were his dearest friends, he was tasked to be his adoptive father. The infant Ren, despite harboring doubts about having parents at all, believed Mr Ayase. He got into the Ayase family, made of the man, his wife and their daughter, Kasumi, as if he were one of their own. It is during these peaceful years with the Ayase family that he met his best friend, Shirou Yusa.

However, the bliss of a happy family life did not last. One day, in 1995 (back when Ren and Shirou were only 6 years old), Shirou murdered Mr. Ayase, with Ren helping in covering the crime up. Though Mr. Ayase died from being stabbed in the neck, courtesy of Shirou, they managed to hide the corpse for a time and, after that, mask his death as a complete accident, making it seems as if he had fallen upon one of the blades he kept at home. Being children, of course, no one would think they were murderers. Furthermore, the discovery of a torture room in the man's basement further cemented him as not being a completely innocent man. Kasumi and her mother remained, of course, unaware of Ren and Shirou's involvement.

Ren, Kasumi and Shirou moved together to Suwahara City two years prior to the start of the main story. They lived in the same apartment block, Ren's apartment being in between Shirou and Kasumi's. Apparently, Kasumi's mom wouldn't let her move if they didn't live in the same building. Shirou didn't waste a second a brought down the wall between his and Ren's apartment using a hammer, so he could access it quickly. However, in 2006, two months before the story begins, Ren and Shirou have a brutal fistfight in Tsukinosawa High's rooftop. Shirou, claiming that he is tired of their boring, daily life, and wants to play with all variables available to him, plans to tell Kasumi about the truth of her father's murder. Ren, unwilling to let his best friend ruin his daily life, begins with the fight. In the aftermath, they are found lying in the rooftop by their upperclassman, Rea Himuro, whom the group had struck a solid friendship with since they arrived in Suwahara City, who calls an ambulance to take them both to the hospital, as both their bodies have suffered many injuries.

## Powers and Abilities

Ren has a very unique Ahnenerbe, being not only an object, but his own individual having the will of Marie.

When manifested as a weapon, it takes the form of a blade upon his arm, which imposes decapitation upon its victims, much like Marie during her life.

He is capable of wielding any Relic he lays his hands upon, regardless of their owner, as shown by his ability to wield both Thrud Walkure and Longinuslanze Testament, though the latter did still have the effect of eroding his mind and body alike.

* ****Mentifery**** (心的現実改変  (メンティフェリ ) , *Shinteki Genjitsu Kaihen (Mentiferi)*?, lit. "Psychological Reality Alteration"): Ren has the ability to turn fantasy into reality. For example, if he imagines that the bones in someone's arm are made of cookies, this will become true. By imagining that his body is "*more sturdy than the strongest steel,*" he can drastically increase his bodily defense. He can instantly heal any wounds inflicted onto him by imagining them already healed. Even more, using his power, Ren can create elements and substances from his mind, e.g. creating lava, water, or even a gigantic stone platform and steel pillars to use for attack and defense against foes and manipulate them as he sees fit, and he could also restructure the battlefield to his liking, like imagining a big crevice. Ren can also create real weapons around himself, ranging from machine guns to missiles, in order to attack his opponent. He was also capable of making bullets unable to harm him, allowing him to stand in front of a group of soldiers firing at him at point-blank range, as well as bring several bullets fired at him and Sydney to his hand, catching them with ease. Ren's powers possibly have been used subconsciously to cause some of what he imagined or believed to become real enough to affect and interact with the physical world. His knowledge and control of his psychic abilities was limited in his youth and attributed to his mental illness. However, after being off his psychiatric medication for long enough, as well as his training with Melanie, Ren become more capable of utilizing and expanding his potential. Once having escaped imprisonment within his own mind by the Shadow King, Ren grew to become more proficient with his abilities. This allowed him to seamlessly transport himself and others, manipulate objects from vast distances, create drug-producing pig, and manifest multiple versions of himself while resisting the Time Eater’s ability to erase events. His reality warping power provides him with a number of different abilities.
	+ **Energy Generation:** Ren has been shown to generate light and energy from his body that has various affects. When charging at the Shadow King in Kerry's body, a blue and white aura was generated arround him that was strong enough to repel Farouk and excise him from his current host. Additionally, during moments of great danger to his well-being, Ren can become engulfed in a build up of yellow, fiery energy that can burn, disintegrate or vaporize living beings, leaving shadow-like markings in there place similar to the affect of a nuclear explosion. A homeless and deranged incarnation of Ren experienced this twice, first when being attacked by street thugs and then nearly to a group of Division 3 soldiers that were surrounding him, only for him to be killed by a version of Kerry. During the raid of his cult grounds by Division 3 before time was revised by Switch, after being surrounded, he again generated this fiery energy from his body, first attempting to build up a blast from his arm before Kerry severed it, and then radiating it from his entire body to obliterate a stunning device thrown onto his body before it engulfed and vaporized Kerry.
	+ **Matter Manipulation:** Ren has been shown to be able to alter and transform matter in multiple ways. When defusing the conflict at Division 3 Headquarters caused by the insanity creatures, he transmuted Clark's gun into a mop in order, and then again on Division 3's airship to turn his gun into a rubber duck before transporting him into space, when the two had become enemies. Offensively, Ren has been able to turn opponents into dust or ash, as well as fuse people inside solid structures, as Sydney accidentally did to Lenny Busker while inhabiting Ren’s body. The Shadow King would also make use of Ren’s powers to turn people into black smoke and sometimes leaving burned, bloody remains behind. Ren’s power was discreetly used by the Shadow King when a Division 3 soldier grabbed an escaping Ren, with the man’s head to emit black smoke as he collapsed dead with the sound of his bones snapping. Ren's power also allowed him to engulf his opponents in fire to incinerate them as well, as he did to multiple Division 3 soldiers that were attacking him and his cult, with one being left as a charred statue. This power even allowed him to burn and kill a Time Demon, which caused the others to retreat in fear of Ren.
	+ **Inanimation:** Ren was able to cause Clark, Kerry, and Cary to become immobilized, almost as if they were frozen in time, just before removing the delusion creatures from their bodies.
	+ **Force-Field Generation:** Ren is able to create an transparent, telekinetic barrier capable to blocking bullets effortlessly. The incarnation of him as a homeless man deflected several taser cords fired at him, which harmlessly bounced off the barrier. Before escaping with Lenny from Division 3, Ren used his powers to effortlessly shield them both from a hail of gunfire. He would latter use these barriers during the raid on his cult, notably using it as a telekinetic wave to repel multiple soldiers, though these events would latter be revised by Switch's time manipulation. Depending on Ren’s level of awareness and reaction time, his barriers are even able to reduce the force of projectiles as they made contact with his body, increasing his outward resilience. This notably allowed him withstand a gunshot to the shoulder from Clark, though not without a noticeable degree of pain, as bullet bouncing off his shield as it manifested just in time to catch it.
	+ **Teleportation:** Ren can seamlessly transport himself and others from one location to another. He triggered this power whilst panicking during an MRI scan, teleporting the machine outside of the Summerland facility . His sister Amy also recalled as a child, he would often suddenly appear in different places, such as finding him outside after having just left him in a bath. After discovering the truth of his power, Ren learned to have more control over it, allowing him to appear in the hallway that the Shadow King was attempting to escape through using Kerry Loudermilk's body. Eventually, Ren would become cause himself and targets of his choosing to appear and disappear at will, to the point of even being able to relocate or rearrange entire groups of people, vehicles or even structures, such as his cult compound with enough time and effort, with the greater size and number of the target of his teleportation determining how much time it will take for it to be displaced. This ability can also be used in a more destructive manner, first shown during the Clockworks incident when Lenny Busker was teleported from the main lounge and accidentally fused into a wall. Similarly, some Division 3 soldiers defending their headquarters from Ren, who was under the Shadow King's influence, were partially teleported and fused into the ground. While the process is usually near-instantaneous, in some instances, especially while transporting larger and more numerous targets, Ren often generates light and energy of varying colors that surrounds and engulfs said target.      Additionally, Ren's ability to mentally traverse space can seemingly work in tandem with his ability to physically displace himself, as shown when he projected himself and Syd to where Amy was being held before the two of them physically appeared in the lake outside of the Summerland facility. Furthermore, Ren was able to teleport a car to Lenny's location without being physically present, suggesting he had been projecting his mind to where the car was in order to transport it, though the car was damaged in the process.
	+ **Sound Nullification:** Ren, under the influence of the Shadow King, caused the area around his old home to become entirely devoid of sound when holding his sister there to confess the truth of his parentage.
	+ **Time Manipulation:** Ren, while accessing the Astral Plane, was able to stop time when he and Syd were shot at by Walter. As he, Syd, and the Summerland mutants returned to their bodies, Ren was able to position himself between the oncoming bullets and Syd while the bullets were still in mid-air. He was also able to contact future Sydney with the assistance of an isolation chamber built by Cary.
* **Telekinesis**: Ren possesses immeasurably potent telekinetic powers. With it, he is able move, levitate, control, and manipulate people, and multiple inanimate objects with mere thought via his hands or eyes alone. He can use this to various effects. He is able to fly, create small bright green-colored telekinetic shields and barriers, unleash incredibly powerful blasts of bright green telekinetic force and, freely control and manipulate several objects from a huge distance. Since his abilities are mind-based, it means that if he's unable to concentrate or form a thought, he's unable to use his powers. This also means that most of his powers are controlled by his emotions and feelings and can often get out of hand if he gets angry enough, causing nearby objects to telekinetically combust (similar to the ability of **molecular combustion**) or random destructive telekinetic bursts to happen, even sending things flying depending on how passionate he's feeling. The power originally manifests uncontrollably due to anger or stress, as he once accidentally caused all the objects in his kitchen to violently fly around him after an argument with his girlfriend, Philly. After learning more about his power while escaping the Shadow King's mental prison, he became more proficient at controlling it, allowing him to levitate several Division 3 soldiers and keep them suspended against nest each other to form an elaborate tower, while also sustaining the effect effortlessly. It was shown Ren can use his ability to implode the bodies of others, as he did to an insanity creature he brought to the Astral Plane and a police officer within one of his imagined alternate realities. A homeless and deranged version of Ren was shown to be able to send Division 3 agents flying into the skyline of the surrounding buildings in a matter of seconds, a feat comparable to Rudy and his telekinetic abilities. A cruel, billionaire version of Ren was able to cause his version of Amy to have a heavy nose bleed with a harsh stare when he annoyed her. During the attack on his compound by Division 3, Ren reduced Kerry and a few Division 3 soldiers to puddles of blood. His power appeared to be strong enough that he only requires the location of his target relative to himself to be able to effect, as he was able to cause Lenny's cell doors within Division 3 headquarters to open and cause a car to suddenly close its doors and briefly turn on its radio in response to Lenny getting in it, all while he himself was deep within the deserts of Le Desole searching for Farouk's body. It is also possible that he used his telekinesis in conjunction with astral projection, transporting his consciousness and senses to the area of his choosing before being able to physically interact with it using his powers.
	+ **Levitation:** Ren is able to float through the air using his powers, usually through concentration and meditation. While this would first occur when having lost control of his powers, notably during one of the test's performed on him by Cary, after being locked inside and then escaping from the mental prison the Shadow King placed him in, he demonstrated his new found control over his abilities and was able to levitate at will.
	+ **Motor-Skill Manipulation:** Ren is able to control the movements of other individuals with his mind. He notably forced Clark's husband, Daniel to sit down with a verbal command when interrogating him on Switch's location.
	+ **Telekinetically Enhanced Condition:** Ren’s psychic abilities allow him to augment his physical capabilities through sheer focus and will. This allowed him to easily knock Shadow King-controlled Oliver off his chair, drag him across the floor and prop him up onto another chair all with one hand. He was also able to ignore the pain of having his arm cut off by Kerry in an erased timeline and continue fighting against attacking Division 3 agents, as well as being struck with taser cords fired by Daniel Debussy without being rendered unconscious before pulling them off. Ren’s other personalities were able to react to Kerry’s attempt to kill him fast enough to easily catch her sword and break it with his bare hand.
* **Telepathy:** Ren has vast telepathic powers, which grant him numerous different abilities. He is able to detect, manipulate, and enter the minds, thoughts and memories of others, as well as transmit his own thoughts and memories. However, he had trouble controlling it at first, causing him to hear thoughts at random and being led to believe they were part of his insanity. With Melanie's help and discovering the truth of his powers, he was no longer plagued by voices and would learn to read the minds, thoughts, memories of others with greater ease. After Farouk separated from his body, he was able to sense him in Oliver’s body heading south, but was unable to glean further information before being in prisoner by an orb sent by a future Syd for over a year. Once he returned, he demonstrated further skill with his powers, having passively heard the thoughts of various people in Division 3 headquarters and sensed their fear, but didn’t immediately glean the cause of their fear to be of the spreading psychological infection caused by the Mi-Go monk. He would later demonstrated being able to further interact with the minds of others by taking himself and Cary into Ptonomy's mind and seeing into Lenny's mind to discover that Lenny's new body was once his sister Amy's.  He also could implant thoughts and images into the minds of others, as he did to the Loudermilk's, Lenny and Clark to fill them in on his plan by giving the visions of it taking place without having to speak to them. Later on, he invaded the mind of a remotely possessed Oliver Bird to torture him until he nearly killed him and would later demonstrate proficiency for erasing thoughts and memories on Syd and, later, Daniel.
	+ **Astral Manipulation:** Ren has the power to project his consciousness and that of others outside the physical form. Through astral projection, Ren can intangibly observe the physical plane, or he can travel to and interact with the Astral Plane. Through the use of isolation chamber built by Cary, he was able to experience visions of where the Shadow King's body was, as well as experience other possible alternate realities of himself. Even without the apparatus, he was able trap an insanity creature created by the Catalyst in the Astral Plane to prevent it from rampaging, before changing their relative sizes to the point that it fit in a glass jar.
	+ **Astral Projection:** Ren has the power to separate his mind from his body. In doing so he can travel to the Astral Plane or to other parts of the world. Ren used this ability twice to see his sister as well as using it as travel to the Astral Plane. His ability to project his mind to other locations can work in conjunction with his ability to teleport, as he accidentally displaced both himself and Sydney to see where Amy was being held before returning to Summerland, having teleported out of the building area and into the lake. Ren's immense power allowed him to telekinetically interact with the physical world while projecting his consciousness from his body, such as when he was able to not only perceive Lenny inside of her cell while he was out in the desert of Le Desole, but also cause it to open.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation:** Due to his influence on the minds of others and his astral abilities, Ren is able to manifest illusions at will. Upon his return from the Astral Plane co-piloted by Farouk, Ren was able to seamlessly project images of himself whispering in Syd’s ear in a white void while revealing that he created a room for them in the realm. He would later transmit similar images of Syd from his memories to her as an attempt to show his love for her whilst the later was hunting him down, though she soon snapped out of vision and admonished him. Whilst invading Oliver’s mind, he was able to cause the enthralled psychic to scream out in pain by just touching his head. Inside his mind, Oliver was chained to a chair and tortured with a power drill, all while Ren manifested different environments, from cities to deserts. These illusions were so powerful that they nearly killed Oliver in the real world, causing his eyes to bleed.
	+ **Memory Manipulation:** Ren was able to manipulate Syd's memories to make her trust him again when she questioned their relationship and his sanity and tried to kill and prevent his supposed future of destroying the world. His power was so great that he could erase much of Daniel’s memories, including that of his career with Division 3, his family, and of himself, leaving only enough of his mind for him to give him the information he needed regarding Switch's location.
	+ **Multilingual:** Ren was able to understand Farouk when he spoke Farsi and other languages.
	+ **Telepathic Illusion**: Ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
	+ **Telepathic Cloak**: Can mask his presence from being detected by others. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.
	+ **Mind Link**: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
	+ **Telepathic Camouflage**: Ability to mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (Changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more detailed disguising.).
	+ **Mind Control**: Ability to control the minds of others just by trying.
	+ **Mind Possession**: Ability to possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as his own.
	+ **Mind Alteration**: Ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
	+ **Mental Amnesia**: Ability to cause loss of particular memories, and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.
	+ **Psionic Shield**: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of others' minds.
	+ **Psionic Blasts**: Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.
	+ **Mental Detection**: Can sense the presence of other superhuman mutants within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
	+ **Mind Transferal**: Able to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies should his own physical body be somehow killed.
* **Precognitive Dreams:** Precognitive abilities, which manifest themselves in his dreams, enabling him to envision possible future events. Although there are countless possible futures, Ren foresees the most probable future path, and therefore his predictions usually come true. Ren seemingly cannot foresee events more than roughly a few days in the future. Ren's precognitive power developed to the point at which he could see images of future events when conscious.
* **Dream-Self Projection:** Ability to place himself in a trance-like state while remaining fully conscious. While he is in this trance, he can project an intangible, ghost like image of himself to another location, through which he can see and hear what goes on at the location. What Ren has called the “dreams” he has while in this state are not truly dreams, but his conscious awareness of the environment into which he has projected his “dream-self.”
* **Fundamental Forces Manipulation:** Ren has displayed the ability to manipulate the four fundamental forces of the universe on a potentially a cosmic scale. This ability allows him to rearrange matter to create other configurations and can even transmute elements and manipulate space-time to a degree by using gravity to distort them.
* **Energy Constructs:** The ability to create anything he sees in his mind. Ren uses this ability to make anything he can imagine and manipulate it as he sees fit. Ren can channel this energy offensively to create weapons or blasts of energy or defensively to create force fields to protect those he loves.

### Assiah

Ren's Assiah creates a cutting force that can cut an object close to his hand into pieces with ease. We have not shown this used much during the story, and it has little use due to needing to be at a close range to his target for it to function.

### Yetzirah

* Margueritte-Bois de Justice
* Thrúd Walkure
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While Bois de Justice is Ren's personal Holy Relic, because he holds Mercurius's blood, he has the capacity to wield any Holy Relic.

#### Margueritte-Bois de Justice

Ren's primary weapon, gifted to him by Mercurius to connect his soul to Marie's. It manifests as a scythe like extension on his right arm. Due to Marie's curse, as long as he can make contact with the target's neck, Ren can permanently kill anyone through immediate decapitation.

#### Thrúd Walkure

Ren acquires Beatrice's Holy Relic during the events of Kei's Route. With it, Ren can transform his blood into lightning.

### Briah

* Eine Faust Overture
* Eine Faust Scherzo
* Eine Faust Finale
1/3Ren Awakens one of three Briahs depending on what route is played.

#### Eine Faust Overture

**Eine Faust Overture** is Ren's Briah. It is a Gudou-type Briah that accelerates Ren's time when activated, giving him an effect similar to superhuman speed. When activated, Ren can move fast enough that to him, a bolt of lightning appears completely still.

#### Eine Faust Scherzo

**Eine Faust Scherzo** is acquired during Kei's Route. His desire being, "I don't want the dead to live", It allows Ren to kill the living dead, such as member's of the LDO.

#### Eine Faust Finale

**Eine Faust Finale** is Ren's briah in Rea's Route. Ren forcibly draws out the power of every drop of Mercurius' blood in his veins, transforming himself into a monstrous form with black skin, red hair, and the scythes of Bois de Justice coming out of his back. Aside from accelerating his own time like Overture, it also allows him to slow down everything around him, making him even faster.

### Atziluth

#### Res Novae - Also Sprach Zarathustra

    **Res Novae - Also Sprach Zarathustra**, based of Ren's desire, "I want this moment to last for eternity", is Ren's Atziluth & his Law as a Hegemony God. When activated, time is stopped in all realms of existence, even in realms where the concept of time does not usually exist, such as the throne. Ren and his allies are unaffected by the time stop, but anyone else has to be equal to or stronger then Ren to remain unaffected.