Ren Sugawara

## Ren Sugawara (菅原レン)

Ren is one of the announced characters for Shangri-La Stories, who is a middle school student. He was born without any diseases, but was diagnosed with leukemia which he is still gradually recovering from since childhood and he has an obsession with the color blue and making paper planes.

## Profile

* Name: Ren Sugawara (菅原レン)
* Nickname: Ren
* Gender: Male
* Race: Human
* Birthday: November 15
* Age: 15
* Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Ox
* Appearance: Light blue hair, blue eyes
* Height: 154.5 cm (5 ft 0 in) (without hat) 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) (with hat)
* Weight: 40 kg (88 lbs)
* Personality: Quiet, happy, cheerful, friendly, generous
* Likes: Blue, paper planes, books, poetry, singing, art
* Dislikes: Lies, air pollution, saltwater, hidden cameras, being alone
* Weakness: When his paper planes get burned

## Biography

### Prologue

Prior to his two children's birth, their father Akio Sugawara always had an obsession of making paper planes since when he was young and living with his grandparents in Okayama since his parents were working overseas at the time. Later, once he grew up to be 24 years old, and began having a part-time job at an restaurant, he met a mysterious woman through a singles party with his friends and introduced himself to her.

Upon getting to know about him, the woman introduced herself to him as the 22-year-old famous actress Honoka Takagi. 6 month after their first encounter, Akio and Honoka started to have feelings for each other and they started their relationship with his request to be his girlfriend, in which she accepted and they went on several dates throughout the past 10 months, until 3 months later, Honoka started to change as a person compared to the past year.

During their 2nd anniversary as a couple, 26-year-old Akio proposed to 24-year-old Honoka and 2 years after his proposal, they got married and while on their wedding night, he slept with her and 3 weeks later, now at the age of 26, she got pregnant with his eldest daughter Aimi and took a maternity leave to take care of her full-time. A year later, even after Aimi was born, 27-year-old Honoka started to change and apparently, according to her 31-year-old older brother, she was cheating on her 29-year-old husband with several men and only married him for his money, which led to their relationship declining and them not getting well along, so they divorced and Honoka got custody of Aimi before taking her to live in Aomori with her parents.

Only a year after his and Honoka's divorce, Akio, now in his early 30s, met his 28-year-old colleague who would later be Ren's mother, whom he was working with part-time at an restaurant in Tokyo. Sadly, the employer behind the restaurant in question had a negative reputation for engaging in shady business practices and their manager would sexually harass their younger female colleagues, who then told them the truth from former employees about that employer, which led to them quitting their jobs at the restaurant because of the company's reputation as a shady business.

A day after they quit that shady company, Akio and his former colleague both developed an interest for paper planes and they played with them at the beach, with them making origami cranes for each other in a way to make themselves fall in love with each other and thought about love and marriage for the first time ever since they quit their company, before they went to his house to sleep with him in his bed while on the top with their origami cranes.

2 weeks later, she started to have signs of pregnancy, but unfortunately, she suffered a miscarriage and 6 months later, she was found to be pregnant with Ren and his father Akio was really happy to see him, before thinking about marriage since they were afraid that they will not fit in society, so when they went to the city hall and register their marriage, the staff said that Megumi was married to an old man much to Akio's frustration that he went to see Akiho and his father about the situation and explained about how his fiancée was already married in the first place. The latter suggested that they should get divorced, so together with him, Akio helped with the divorce.

Soon after her divorce, Megumi and Akio were able to get married and 8 months later, Ren was born ahead of time from the due date of November 1. However, by the time he was a baby, he started to have symptoms of leukemia, and soon was diagnosed with acute leukemia he inherited from his mother and had to be treated with chemotherapy as a result at 1 year old. When he began recovering from leukemia, he was able to go to school at only 2 years old but however, his grandmother died of cancer a year after he attended elementary school.

Since then, Ren has been doing well in middle school and learned how to make paper planes from his father. Suddenly, while his father took him on a vacation to Nijiiro Island to study at an summer school, he ran to his cousin Himari and her friend Yichen and ended up in Shangri-La with them at the same time.

## Relatives

### Family

* Sugawara - Grandfather
* Akio Sugawara - Father
* Megumi Honda - Mother
* Aimi Sugawara - Older half-sister
* Atsushi Honda - Uncle
* Akiko Honda - Cousin
* Sayaka Honda - Aunt
* Himari Saito - Cousin