Hakuryuu Ren

**Hakuryuu Ren** (練白龍, *Ren Hakuryū*?) is the Hero Characters of **Yoh Asakura** to **Shaman king**

## Personality

He has a serious personality and is concerned about small things. He also has a bit of an inferiority complex. Due to this complex, he becomes quite pessimistic whenever people surrounding him notice his weaknesses and takes such criticism personally.

He greatly treasures his sister, Hakuei Ren, who has not only become a mother figure for him but is also the last of his siblings.

It is revealed that he harbors an intense hatred for his mother, due to her secretly murdering half of his family. After he remembers this, Hakuryuu becomes obsessed with seeking revenge against Gyokuen for her deeds. He now mercilessly slaughters his enemies, as seen when he beheads Umm Madaura in front of her "children", and when he kills all of Hakuei's enemies on the Tenzan Plateau. He wishes to tear down the current Kou Empire and replace it with the former one, one that isn't controlled by Al-Thamen. He believes that hatred can never be erased, and the only thing you can do is erase the ones you hate. He eventually fell into depravity and sought to eliminate all that stand in his way. However, after having a talk with his defeated brother, Kouen Ren, regarding Arba's immortality and ability to change bodies, along with words from Aladdin and Morgiana, he came back from depravity after concluding that his justice (which once advocated annihilation) had changed, with Kouen's fake execution and exile being proof of that.

As of the Final Arc, Hakuryuu has fully given up on revenge despite discovering Arba possessing his sister's body and charging in angrily at Arba (the latter being a ruse to get information). With revenge out of his psyche, Hakuryuu is much more sane and in control of himself.

## Character Design

Hakuryuu is a young man of average height and build. He has dark blue hair and blue eyes, the left eye being a paler shade than the right.

He has a large burn scar on the left side of his face, and some by body which he received when he was a child. He also has thin, split-ended eyebrows and a mole on his chin, in the same place as his siblings and their mother, Gyokuen.

He wears traditional clothes typical of the imperial royalty of Kou. He always carries a polearm, which later becomes his Metal Vessel of Zagan.

He used to have a prosthetic wooden arm, attained via Zagan's power, having lost his left arm to Ithnan, and prosthetic wooden legs, due to Alibaba cutting them off during their fight.

However, he got real flesh limbs thanks to his cousin Kouen exchanging them with his by using Phenex' powers when he was exiled.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

Hakuryuu is physically strong and well-trained in many weapons. Firstly, he is an extremely strong and talented spearman. At a very young age, Hakuryuu was trained in **Royal Spearmanship**. He has managed to go "toe-toe" with Alibaba's Swordmanship in the past. Hakuryuu is also shown to have decent skill in swordsmanship. Besides his weapon skills, it is shown he has increased durability. He stands still against many heavily injuring attacks or overusage of his Magoi etc.

### Advanced Intelligence

Hakuryuu was given a high level of education in the Royal Palace of the Kou Empire. He knows difficult languages like Torran Language and possesses high knowledge concerning various matters.

### Magoi Manipulation

He was taught the ability to entrust his Ki into his spear by training with the Yambala Gladiators, thus making it strong enough to pierce something even Morgiana's kicks couldn't damage. He has also learned how to combine his Magoi Manipulation with Zagan's powers, including when using Djinn Equip.

### Wooden Prosthesis

Hakuryuu wooden arm is the arm that he replaced using the power of Zagan after losing his left arm to Ithnan. He uses the artificial arm to fight by turning it into vines and trees he uses it like a tentacle whip projectile. He is also able to create a small wood dragon out of the arm. He can make his arm grow at an exponential rate. He later changes his wooden arm into a prosthesis hand. After his fight against Alibaba, he lost both of his legs. Thus, he replaced them witth wooden extensions by using Zagan's powers. After he gained his limbs back from Kouen, he removed this prothesises.

### Metal Vessels

Hakuryuu is the master of 2 Djinn: Zagan and Belial .

**Zagan** is the Life Djinn that Hakuryuu obtained when he conquered the 61st Dungeon. Zagan is the Djinn of Loyalty and Purity. Hakuryuu uses his Djinn to control earth and life. It awakens the power of plants from any thing the Metal Vessel touches. Hakuryuu's Metal Vessel is his guandao (Chinese derivative of a European glaive, a polearm weapon), which he carries around constantly. After his fight with Alibaba, his original guandao breaks. In the World Exploration Arc, Hakuryuu gets a new Metal Vessel, a spear, that is similar in design to his old guandao. Hakuryuu's Household is made up of creatures that he made into his servants with Zagan’s power. Hakuryuu's Householdare the Left and Right Generals of the Kou Empire,Kokuhyou Shuu and Seiryuu Ri. Kokuhyou Shuu uses Zagan's powers and Seiryuu Ri uses Belial's powers.

**Djinn Weapon Equip**: After compressing Zagan's powers around his spear, he summons a two-sided spear with a pointed tip on each.
* **Combination Move**: It is a combination between Zagan’s powers and Hakuryuu's Magoi Manipulation. Zagan can only manipulate the plants that are in contact with his Metal Vessel, but by sending Zagan’s Magic inside of the plant seeds, thanks to Hakuryuu's Magoi Manipulation, he is able to manipulate the plant as long as the Magoi he sent inside of the seed doesn't run out.

* **Netsumegusa** (ネツメグサ, *Netsumegusa*): It is a kind of grass belonging to the pea family. It has ridiculously long roots that can be used as fragrant herbs. Hakuryuu uses his Djinn, Zagan, to bring out the limit of its special characteristics.
* **Brain Plant**: After brainwashing a person with Belial, Hakuryuu can implant inside the targets brain special plant circuits to stimulate his hatered and exitement. Thanks to that he can muster the maximum strength of his soldiers bodies.

* **Zaug Mobarezo** (*Dragon-Taming Wooden Lotus Shock*): This attack originates from his artificial arm, it releases several wooden projectile dragons able to bite an opponent.
* **Zaug Al-Adhra** (*Manipulated Life Bow*): He can also fire his monsters off by holding his spear like a bow and arrow, firing off multiple monsters at once. After the timeskip, Hakuryuu was able to control the bacteria from the Dark Continent and the flora from Alma Torran to decompose the organic matter of Arba's vessel Hakuei.

**Djinn Equip**: Hakuryuu is able to perform a half body Djinn Equip complete with his weapon. In this form, he is able to equip exactly half of his body, with the right side being normal and the left side being that of his Djinn. Once he has equipped half of his body with Zagan’s power, he can become a being more close to a Djinn and his abilities are not limited only to controlling plants his metal vessel has touched anymore. The Djinn of life, Zagan, not only controls plants, but also several other creatures he can also send his Magoi to like the microscopic fungus that exists in the atmosphere make them grow, turning them into his servants. These monsters are very similar to the ones in the Dungeon Zagan. These monsters come out every time he swings his weapon. These monsters are very acidic and can easily melt Aladdin's Borg. After six months has passed he is now capable of doing a Full Body Djinn Equip. After compressing Zagan's powers around his guan dao, he summons a two-sided spear with a pointed tip on each. He has shown impressive skill at handling this spear and even reinforcing it with Magoi to attack and makes it capable of blocking even Amol Saiqa, which is capable of cutting through anything, as long as he has Magoi.
**Belial** is the Life Djinn that Hakuryuu obtained from conquering the 68th Dungeon. Belial is the Djinn of Truth and Conviction. It seems to have the power to control other people's minds, as he uses it to control the minds of Al-Thamen's members to turn them into his allies. Belial also has the ability to manipulate all 5 senses Hakuryuu's Metal Vessel for Belial is his left shoulder armor pad.

**Djinn Equip**: In Belial's Djinn Equip, Hakuryuu's hair changes including the color and length. Unlike most djinn equips he has not one but two eyes on the forehead. Also he gets black wings and two additional arm's. In this form Hakuryuu is surrounded by a skeleton-like Dragon that he can use to grab the opponent.
* **Belior Zakera** (*Memory Manipulation*): Belial's basic power to create illusions and rewrite memories. By using this magic Hakuryuu can manipulate the minds of his enemies and have them do his bidding. However, this can be blocked with a Borg from a magician or magi, but it still results in a bit of head trauma as seen by Aladdin. The range in which illusions can be used is only 10 meters but it can't be said the same when it is in the djinn equip form because he was shown using it with his metal vessel.
* **Belior Goldoreza** (*Severing Funeral Scythe*): By using Belial's weapon equip Hakuryuu can sever the senses of his opponents. The scythe can't physically hurt people, but all senses in part of the body that is cut by the blade are send to another space. According to Hakuryuu those wounds are impossible to heal.
* **Belior Zauto**(*Severing Funeral Roar)*: When this Extreme Magic is summoned, a huge decaying dragon appears and let's loose a roar. It's a roar that devours and destroys all the 5 senses of any living things caught inside of it's range.

## Story

### Original

Hakuryuu has a very troubled past. When he was six-years-old, he was caught in a large fire during a revolt, and tried to flee with his brothers, Hakuyuu and Hakuren. While they were killing Al-Thamen members left and right, Hakuyuu said that he can neither die nor let them have their way, and Hakuryuu wonders if their mother, Gyokuen, and sister, Hakuei, are alright, and if they should go help them. His brothers look at him then decide to keep going.

Eventually Hakuren died and Hakuryuu was left next to a badly burned Hakuyuu, while crying for his mother. Hakuyuu said that unfortunately it was the end for him and Hakuren, but that Hakuryuu will live and accomplish their mission. Hakuyuu told Hakuryuu to swear to fight to the very last and that he has to strike down the Kou Empire's worst enemy. Hakuryuu asked what he was talking about, and why the soldiers of Kou wanted to kill them, and who would do such a cruel thing. Hakuyuu revealed the name of the perpetrator, but Hakuryuu didn't believe him. To save his brother's life, Hakuyuu stabbed himself, drenching Hakuryuu with his blood, and ordered him to go before the fire reached him. The incident still caused him to receive the burn scar on the left side of his face, and some on his body.

After the revolt, Gyokuen told Hakuryuu and Hakuei that the new Emperor, their uncle, Koutoku Ren, would adopt them and they would still hold the title of prince and princess, although Hakuryuu would rank below Koutoku's sons. Soon after, Hakuryuu, not believing what his brother had said, asked his mother for the truth. She admitted it and said that she will marry the new Emperor. Later, Hakuei asked him what was wrong and he lied, hiding the truth about their mother, believing he had to protect her.

## Relationships

### Original

Family
* Arba
* Hakutoku Ren
* Gyokuen Ren
* Koutoku Ren
* Hakuyuu Ren
* Hakuren Ren
* Hakuei Ren
* Kouen Ren
* Koumei Ren
* Kouha Ren
* Kourin Ren
* Kougyoku Ren

Friends
* Aladdin
* Alibaba Saluja
* Morgiana

Allies
* Aladdin
* Alibaba Saluja
* Morgiana
* Hakuei Ren
* Sinbad
* Spartos
* Judar

### Universal Warriors

* Jennifer Amantea
* Natsu Dragneel
* Gray Fullbuster
* Sonya
* Alibaba Saluja
* Morgiana
* Kougyoku Ren
* Kouha Ren
* Sinbad
* Gingka Hagane
* Kenta Yumiya
* Annie Leonhart
* Hange Zoë
* Hao Asakura
* Rebecca Bluegarden
* Callum Steelford
* Lyra
* Nasseh
* Milani Lucra
* Cyca
* Fabiano
* Back Arrow
* Naotora Takeda
* Cagalli Yula Athha
* Shoko Sashinami
* A-drei
* Lelederik of Ellvaldez
* Torque
* Mora Chester

## Family

* Arba (Ancestor)
* Hakutoku Ren (Father; Deceased)
* Gyokuen Ren (Mother; Deceased)
* Koutoku Ren ((adopted father; Uncle; Deceased)
* Hakuyuu Ren (Brother; Deceased)
* Hakuren Ren (Brother; Deceased)
* Hakuei Ren (Sister)
* Kouen Ren (Stepbrother; Cousin)
* Koumei Ren (Stepbrother; Cousin)
* Kouha Ren (Stepbrother; Cousin)
* Kourin Ren (Stepsister; Cousin)
* Kougyoku Ren (Stepsister; Cousin)

## Trivia

* His name means *White Dragon*.
* "Hakuryuu" is the Japanese pronunciation; in Chinese his name would be Báilóng.
* Hakuryuu is the third person in the world to capture more than one Dungeon, right after Sinbad and Kouen Ren.
* His specialty is spearmanship.[91]
* His hobby is cooking.[92][91]
* Both his favorite and the least favorite food is Hakuei's homemade cooking.[91]
* His favorite type is a brave woman, like his sister,[93] and he doesn't like frivolous people.[91]
* His favorite way to spend days off is training.[91]
* His weakness is jokes.[92]
* According to Seisyun Ri, one of Hakuryuu's legendary childhood weaknesses was mistakenly calling other adults *mother* or *sister*.[94]
* The person Hakuryuu is interested in is Alibaba, but he refuses to say the reason.[2]
* When Hakuryuu was in Sindria, his teacher was Spartos.[2]
* According to Morgiana, he smells of kind and cozy plants.[92]
* In the anime, the color of both of his eyes are still different, but the shades of blue change after each of his appearances.
* In his early design, he was supposed to be Hakuei's older brother. According to Ohtaka the story might have been completely different had their relationship been kept like this. Ohtaka notes how this Hakuryuu looks mentally strong despite his appearance not being too different from the final design and wonders why.[95]
* When he was young he had a nightmare in which his whole family perished because of an enemy nation, and only he and Hakuei were survivors. This ends up coming true later on when his mother kills of most of the family, with only Hakuei and Hakuryuu left alive.[96]
* So far, Hakuryuu is the only Dungeon Capturer with two Djinn, Belial and Zagan, of the same magic, Life.
* Morgiana has stated that if Hakuryuu drinks he "ends up crying all night".[97]

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