Rena Herring

* Rena (Show)
* Rena (Promo)

## Appearances

### Appears in

Episode 1 (Heroes Rising)Episode 2 (Heroes Rising) Episode 3 (Heroes Rising) Episode 4 (Heroes Rising)

## Origins

Long before Rena became principal, she attended Clover Academy as a student, but the school was quite different back then. The Head Mistress at the time enforced many strict rules that limited the creativity and freedom the students had to study their future careers, and Rena wouldn't stand by that. She started breaking rules to irritate the Head Mistress, and when the Head Mistress tried to expel Rena, she was stopped by her two daughters who adored Rena as they baby-sited her in the past. The Head Mistress reluctantly agreed but swore she would find a way to get rid of Rena eventually. Rena eventually befriends a boy from the student council named Castor who told her if *half of the student population* signed a petition to change a rule, the school would have to adjust it. Like many students, Castor hated how much influence the school had on what career paths they were made to study, and wanted more than anyone to change the rules that restricted them. From there, Rena and Castor were able to get more than the required signatures to change the rules, and when the Head Mistress found out their plan, she was furious. As Castor when to the Head Mistress' office to finalize the petition, she seemed...happy about it. Castor planned on filling the paperwork himself, but the Head Mistress insisted she would do it. *"All you have to do is sign here,"* she said, then motioned Castor out of her office. Castor, overworked by campaigning for change, didn't think twice about how this would end in disaster and just shut the door behind him. In her office however, the Head Mistress grinned as she wrote the paperwork.

The next day, Rena came to school only for her ID card to deny her access to her locker. Rena then goes to the office to sort it out, but instead is greeted by the Head Mistress while she holds a box filled with Rena's locker contents. "I'm I getting a new locker?" Rena asks. "No," the Head Mistress smiles widely, "by the request of the student body, from this day forward you are expelled from Clover Academy. I'm sure your father will be very proud of this." The Head Mistress then escorts Rena into her office to wait for her father, and as Rena tries to explain how this is all just a mistake, she tells Rena to read the petition submission that was given to her. Rena starts to tear up as she reads: *Petition for: Expelling Rena [last name] from Clover Academy* *The following agree with this request* - Castor Sundae - Amanda . . .

Rena and Castor may have had crushes on each other in the past, but after this, Rena is traumatized and never speaks to Castor again for the longest time. No one knows why Rena was expelled, but everyone was too afraid about what the Head Mistress might do if they make another petition, and the rules stay the same until the Head Mistress mysteriously disappears from the school.

## Establishing the new Clover Academy

After attending Clover City University, she begins her mission to become the new principal (she dislikes the term 'Head Mistress') by scouting out professionals who would be willing to teach at the reformed academy. One of the people she meets is a fisherman by with the last name "Herring". Eventually they fall in love, get engaged, but on their wedding day, the late Mr. Herring was run over and killed by a weirdly humanoid-looking truck. Although they were only engaged, Rena takes his last name to always remind her of him.

She successful get accepted as the new principal of Clover Academy with the help of her father shortly after and continues her search for more professionals. Against the odds, she manages to scout the best of the best in a variety of professions. While she's unable to convince Clover Academy fashion designer Ava A. to work with her, she does convince her to establish an apprenticeship program with the school.