Ren Farfalle

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## Ren Farfalle

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* party fit

### Relatives

Morgan Harris (Half sibling),Melinda Gosling (Mother), Allan Harris (Father)

## Appearances

### Debut

Manta Snack and Tea, Mondren(8/11/22)

Ren Farfalle is a 15 year old gila monster cursed currently living with HOG.

## Appearance

Ren is a 15 year old cursed kid. She has short brown hair with darker splotches that is typically tied into a loose ponytail, and a leaf hairpin that keeps it from getting in her face. She is Latina (though that doesn’t really matter in the context of Elvasa), her eyes are brown with a yellow highlight, and her pupils are catlike in that they dilate with her emotions.

##### Everyday Clothes

She typically wears a yellow scarf, a dark, sleeveless crop top with a red and yellow hoodie on top. The hoodie has different pride flags patched onto it, and is usually kept unzipped. She wears beige, textured jeans and does not wear shoes, instead walking around in white socks.

##### Party Fit

For her less casual outfit, she wears her hair in a high ponytail, and has a red, yellow and black dress that somewhat resembles a tortilla chip bag.

##### Cursed features

Ren is cursed with the tail, hands, and features of a Gila monster! Some of the things affected by her curse are her eyes (no iris, fancy pupils), and her mouth (Recurved teeth, venom, forked tongue.). She also has random patches across her body and face that are just gila monster scales. (Alongside darker patches of her hair, it’s normal hair it’s just colored weird.)

## Personality

##### Pre-Ikaros party

Ren is initially a very upbeat and curious person, eager to explore the world as much as she can due to her isolated upbringing. However, this is countered by her fear of it, as she is unfamiliar with society. She has difficulty figuring out her emotions and how she interacts with others due to her growing up without almost any contact with anyone, much less peers her age. Despite now having the ability to go and meet people, she chooses to isolate herself, the idea of the outside being too overwhelming for her.

Generally, Ren tries to keep up a friendly face, but she isn't usually afraid to challenge someone or stand up for herself. Though she can sometimes be forgetful of important figures due to her constant isolation, especially near the beginning of her arc. This is shown when she almost forgets who Alastair is, and has no idea who Usama is either.

##### Post-Ikaros party

After  Ikaros’ party, Ren gets a significant amount of trauma. She is now almost completely withdrawn, and shuts down when interacted with. She’s begun to hate the enclosed space of her room and moves to the rafters. Ren is also more afraid of herself, like she might hurt those she loves, this is a fear that wasn’t there before. She’s lost a lot of the confidence to stand up for herself, and also scares more easily.

## Relationships

**Melinda Gosling (mother):** Rens relationship with her mother was marked by intense dependency and emotional abuse. In the beginning, Melinda tried to be a caring figure towards Ren, but slowly became bitter and resentful. As a devoted follower of the woman of the moon, Melinda felt betrayed by the goddess, and Ren represented that betrayal. From her perspective, Ren ruined her life. Melinda would also constantly belittle and criticize Ren, telling her she was a burden and a disgrace. This emotional abuse would leave Ren with low self esteem and deep emotional scars for much of her early life. Melinda almost completely controlled every aspect of Ren’s life, she dictated when she could read, or even eat. She would often withhold food from Ren for days on end as a form of punishment. This left Ren with many unhealthy eating habits.

**Allan Harris (father):** Rens relationship with her father wasn’t nearly as hostile as her mothers, but it was marked by his inability to protect her from the hostile environment. Allan always harbored a deep disappointment towards Ren regarding her affliction, but tried not to let it show. He had wanted to send her to the lab, instead of the comparably worse black market. And while he may have had moments of empathy and protectiveness over Ren, he ultimately couldn't shield her from her mother's abusive behavior or their collective decision to abandon her.

**Alastair Jacobs (HOG leader):** Even though initially Ren hardly knew Alastair existed, how she sees him slowly starts to evolve from authority figure to more of an older brother.

**Vyn Mulvey (friend):** Ren’s relationship with Vyn is one of friendship and mutual respect. Vyn was one of the first people her age Ren had ever interacted with, but they still managed to hit it off. They bonded off of their shared experiences, and a friendly game of checkers.

## Biography

### Before RP

When Ren was born, it was pretty easy to tell that she was cursed. But her parents were quite conflicted on what to do with her. They had already had one child, who had died soon after birth. So when Ren was born, they were incredibly dissapointed, only wanting a normal child. Though little did they know their family (on Ren’s mother’s side) had a history of very subtle reptile curseds (sharper teeth, organs, etc. And there was the occasional obvious afflicted) Rens parents didn’t immediately turn her into the lab out of sheer spite towards the wotm for giving them a cursed child (either that or them disagreeing on wether to sell her to the black market or give her a life of luxury in the lab) (probably both). They comprimised, electing to wait until she was older to decide what to do with her. So Ren lived the first 13 years of her life as a disgrace. A curse.

Her parents put her in a small room on the second(top) floor of their house, it only had one, small window. And she was instructed to always keep the curtains closed. The door was locked, with the regular door lock, and latches on the outside. Rens world was incredibly small. Her mother only entered occasionally. First it was more often, for food, until they put a slot on the bottom of the door to slide food through. After that she only got to talk to her mother once every few weeks.

For her education Ren was given books. Books on every subject she could need. She was homeschooled, just without any teacher. Eventually she learned about her parents plans, about how they were going to get rid of her when she turned 13. She read about the lab in books, and how luxurious and nice it was, and how there were others like her there. Though she also learned about how once you went down there, you could never go back up. You could never get to see the beautiful city again. She grew up dreading when her parents would send her away, to either be sold in the black market, and most likely chopped up into bits, or to be sent to the lab, where she would be alive and comfortable, but trapped.

Well, as her 13th birthday creeped ever closer, the sense of fear grew. And one day, only a few days before, she overheard her parents talking outside her door. They didn’t think she deserved the lab’s comfortable life, and were going to sell her off to the black market. Ren couldn’t accept this. She didn’t want to spend the rest of her life in Reinou. She packed only a few things into a bag, and after much difficulty trying to get the window open, she jumped out. Luckily they had a tall tree near the window, so Ren wasn’t terribly hurt. She got onto the ground from the tree, and ran away. The sun had started to set, and it was getting darker. Ren wasn’t very good at sneaking around, though, and she didn’t get terribly far until someone, well a whole crowd of someones, noticed her. People began panicking on what to do, people were bitten, it was chaos. Fortunately this was right by Manta snack and tea, and one of the employees managed to get her out of the street in all of the confusion.

### During RP

At the beginning of the roleplay, Ren has been living with HOG for about two years, and has had minimal interaction with other people. She both fears and longs for the world outside. Her first roleplay interaction, is with Diana Manley, who brings her food and offers to have her help with mail sorting. They talk and get to know each other, but eventually Ren gets overwhelmed and walks with Diana back to her room.

Later the same day, she knocks on a random door, seeking social interaction. The door belongs to Vyn, who begrudgingly lets her in for a game of checkers. After explaining the rules to Vyn, Ren looses to them, perhaps because she’s only ever played checkers against herself. They decide to read for the rest of the hangout, exchanging conversation and getting to know each other. Ren learns it’s possible to go outside with adult supervision, and Ren and Vyn agree to go together. This is setup for Ikaros party.

##### Ikaros party\*

Ren finds Alastairs invite to a reinouian party, shows it to Vyn who agrees to go with her. They all vibe for a little bit before Ren is seperated from Vyn and kidnapped. A wooden crate is involved. At some point, Ren bites and kills one of her captors, and is later rescued by Alastair/someone affiliated with Alastair.

##### Post-Ikaros party\*

After Ikaros party Ren relapses and shuts herself in her room for a few days, before developing claustrophobia (a result of the wooden crate). She migrates to the main hog room, more specifically the rafters (where a hangout with blankets and pillows has already been set up) and claims them as her territory.

## Powers and Abilities

**Climbing:** Ren is quite good at climbing structures, not so great at getting down.

**Jaw Strength:** Ren has an estimated bite force of 825 psi, able to break wood and small bones.

**Venom:** Ren has the venom of a gila monster in her fangs, in regular amounts it causes extreme pain, swelling, local tissue damage or necrosis, nausea, vomiting, dizziness or fainting, and internal bleeding. However, Ren doesn’t really know how to control how much venom she uses. So in a worse case scenario (if she uses all the venom available to her), normal symptoms intensify, and we can add trouble breathing, organ failure and potential anaphylactic shock to the list. Without quick medical attention you will die very quickly.

**Endurance:** Ren has the ability to go a very long time without food or water, since she can store fat in her tail.

## Appearances

* Manta Snack and Tea, Mondren - *Sorting Mail*
	+ (Characters involved: Diana)
* Manta Snack and Tea, Mondren - *Holy Noodles!*
	+ (Characters involved: Vyn)

## Notes

\*everything written here is subject to change and improv

## Trivia

* Her favorite food is croissants
* She loves pastries
* She’s incredibly accident prone
* At the beginning of her arc, she has Agoraphobia, but then switches to Claustrophobia
* In her original design, she had no splotches whatsoever, but then Salem misinterpreted her reference and added them.
* To decide Ren’s last name, I put names of pasta on a football bracket and decided which ones I liked best. It was named the pasta election of 2023
* Ren replaces swears with pasta names
* hehe. Renny Noodles.
* The sound of people walking in heels is triggering to her
* She has never canonically had icecream
* She likes Citrus