Ren Amamiya

* Ren
* Joker

RenRen (Nickname By Ryuji and Felicia)

29 (PRGMM)

Iroha Tamaki (Childhood Friend/Girlfriend, Wife in 2029)

Nozomi Tamaki (Daughter)

Souta (Adopted Son)

Tokyo (Previous)

Tokime Village (previous)

Kamihama City, Mikazuki Villa (Currently since 2029)

**Ren Amamiya** is a main protagonist in Persona Record Series. He is Second-year student at Shujin Academy and He is also Leader Of the rebellious Phantom Thieves of Hearts, a group which aims to change society by touching the hearts of people and performing illegal heists.

## Background

Ten years ago, during the summer, Ren lost sight of his parents until he reached an old tree and met Iroha Tamaki, who was crying with a wound on her knee in a hollow under the old tree.The two introduced themselves before Ren volunteered to take Iroha back to her parents. Since then, they have become friends before his family moved out to Mitakihara Town.

Ten years after Ren moved after his parents to Mitakihara, something changed him. That happened when Ren was on his way home and he witnessed a woman being sexually harassed by a man and stopped him. In his drunken stupor, the man accidentally fell without Ren touching him and injured his head. He blamed it on him and forced the woman to testify that it was Ren's fault. It is later revealed that the man was Masayoshi Shido, a corrupt politician who abruptly rose to control virtually all of Japan and commits blatantly treasonous acts for his profit.

As a result of Ren's intervention, the incident went down on his permanent record, and he was subsequently expelled from his school. At the court hearing, he was told to transfer schools with Shujin Academy being the only school that would accept Ren with his current criminal record. Needing a place to stay, Sojiro Sakura was approached to house Ren during his probation, due to being an acquaintance of Ren's parents. However, due to Ren's rumored criminal record, Sojiro does so only begrudgingly.

After he arrives at the Shibuya Crosswalk, a mysterious application starts up, much to the protagonist's confusion. The world around him slows to a halt, and a fiery blue figure manifests before his eyes, followed by a vision of the flames developing a red grin, and himself with yellow eyes. Afterward, as time resumes, Ren seemingly deletes the application, and makes his way to Yongen-Jaya Station, and later to the alleyway, where his new caretaker resides. He arrives to find Sojiro speaking with customers.

Sojiro is surprised that the "punk kid" he was asked to look after is Ren, based on his gentlemanly and timid appearance. He shows Ren his new room; despite its rather large size, Sojiro says he has to be the one to clean it up. He also touches upon the details of the incident for a brief moment before leaving him alone to clean up the room, though he also warns him that if he causes any trouble, he will kick him out.

As Ren prepares for bed, he recalls the incident, thinking to himself that he simply couldn't ignore the woman being harassed. He hears his phone ringing, and to his surprise, he finds that the mysterious application from before is still there, despite having deleted it earlier. He shortly falls asleep afterward. Later, he awakens in the Velvet Room and finds himself in prison garb, even bound in handcuffs with a ball and chain on his leg.

Igor welcomes him to his Velvet Room, and the twins tell him that he is still asleep in the real world. Caroline scolds him to stand up straight as Igor is present. Igor greets him, explaining that the Velvet Room is a place that exists between dream and reality, and is only accessible to those who have, in some form, made a contract. He then further explains that he brought Ren here in order to discuss an important matter that will affect his life. He also expresses surprise at the state of the Velvet Room, mentioning that its form represents the state of the guest's heart. Igor also refers to him as a "Prisoner of Fate," and that destruction awaits him in the future.

Igor informs him that there is a way to avoid that destruction, stating that he must be "rehabilitated into a free man." He also asks Ren if he is ready to fight against the world's corruption. After Ren gives his answer, Igor expresses his delight, saying that he will observe the miracle of his "rehabilitation." He then introduces his newest attendants: Caroline and Justine, his prison guards. Caroline tells him that fighting is pointless, whereas Justine informs him that, as his guard, it is their duty to protect him, but only if he is obedient. Igor states that he will explain the twins' importance another time, as dawn has already approached in the real world.

On his way to school the next day, Ren once again opens the mysterious app in his phone and encounters Ann Takamaki, who was being invited to a ride by Suguru Kamoshida. She reluctantly goes in and meets a delinquent-like boy, Ryuji Sakamoto, who was calling Kamoshida a "perverted teacher," then confronts Ren with a threatening look, in fear of him ratting him out to Kamoshida. However, he accidentally used the word "Castle," causing the Metaverse Navigator to fire up. Despite the landscape around Shujin was mostly normal, when the boys reach the school, they noticed that the school has literally became a castle.

When inside the unknown castle, the duo was instantly intercepted by a horde of armed knights accompanying a scantly clad version of Kamoshida with yellow eyes who wears only a gaudy, red crown, a kingly robe with hearts printed on it, and a speedo. He instantly throws Ren and Ryuji into an underground cell and orders their "execution," starting from Ryuji first based on their past vendetta. Kamoshida's knight-like Shadows immediately knock down Ryuji and apprehend him, holding him defenseless for Kamoshida to repeatedly throw punches at him. Once Ryuji was thoroughly beaten, he collapses to the ground and Kamoshida spits on him. The strange Kamoshida quickly orders his execution only for Ren to fruitlessly interfere. Kamoshida kicks Ren against the wall, his knights ready to kill Ryuji at any moment while holding Ren to the floor.

In this moment, a blue butterfly tells him that he is trapped in an "unjust game" with almost no winning chances, although she can lend him her power. Another voice, (presumably Ren's Shadow Self) questions him if he is just going to keep quiet and reminds him of the incident that led to his probation. Ren recalls the incident, coming to the conclusion that he did not make the wrong choice to save the woman. In response to his determination, the voice awakens and manifests into his Persona, Arsène. Kamoshida is forced to halt trying to kill Ryuji and goes after Ren instead. His knights break into a pair of Jack-o'-Lanterns that Ren effortlessly defeats. The guard drops the jail key and Kamoshida confronts Ren, only for Ryuji to knock him down and run with Ren, locking Shadow Kamoshida in his cell. While escaping, they also encounter a mysterious cat-like creature, Morgana, who was captured and asks to be freed in exchange for showing them the way out and showing them the game's basic controls.

Once Ren and Ryuji escape the palace and return to reality, they confront Kamoshida about his castle, only for them to discover Kamoshida having no connection with his other self. Regardless, he has forced Ren's classmate, Yuuki Mishima, to spread rumors about him regarding the circumstances behind his probation to the whole school. On the next day, the boys enter the castle again to explore Kamoshida Palace's Dungeon area so they may confirm the situation. However, on their way out again, Kamoshida pulls off an ambush, causing the protagonist and Morgana to be overwhelmed by his Shadows.

When his knights are about to execute Ren and Morgana as Ryuji hopelessly watches, he awakens Captain Kidd as well. However, after Kamoshida runs out of Shadows again, he summons a scantly clad version of Ann to spite Ryuji, implying that he didn't consider her anything other than a sex slave. On the next day, the volleyball rally commences and Kamoshida can be blatantly seen purposely spiking Mishima in broad daylight, and it's implied that he was using the rally as an excuse to punish students. Therefore, the students participating in the rally all end up heavily battered, although they are generally enabling his cruelty by avoiding trying to speak him out.

Ren asks Ann, who is rumored to be dating Kamoshida, about this and she confirms that Kamoshida is trying to force himself on her. Since no other students are willing to speak up against Kamoshida, Morgana proposes to make Kamoshida admit his wrongdoings by stealing his Treasure in his castle, calling it a Palace, which represents the source of his distorted desires; in this case, lust. However, Morgana warns that if they kill Shadow Kamoshida, the real Kamoshida will suffer a mental shutdown and may die, prompting Ren and Ryuji to back out and think things over.

Ren and Ryuji confront Kamoshida after witnessing Ann's friend, Shiho Suzui, attempting suicide due to no longer being able to put up with the physical and sexual abuse Kamoshida subjects her to. After being confronted by Ren, Ryuji and Mishima, Kamoshida retaliates by threatening the three with expulsion, forcing them to carry through with Morgana's heist plan. The three of them are then joined by Ann who wants to avenge Shiho. To make Shadow Kamoshida's treasure materialize, Ryuji pins several copies of a calling card on the school board, addressed to Kamoshida under the name "Phantom Thieves of Hearts," enraging Shadow Kamoshida in his Palace. They succeed in stealing Kamoshida's treasure, causing him to have a change of heart and confess all of his crimes in front of the whole school. Afterward, the bad rumors about Ren and Ann are no longer spread and the threat of expulsion is lifted.

After the Phantom Thieves of Hearts was established, there were more members of the group such as Yusuke Kitagawa, Makoto Niijima, Futaba Sakura, Haru Okumura and Goro Akechi, who has now betrayed their group.

One day, Ren and Iroha reunited in Kamihama City. At first he called Iroha by her surname and later he started calling Iroha by her real name.

## Appearance

Ren has wavy unkempt black hair and dark gray eyes. For most of his civilian outfits, he wears a set of black glasses. While wearing his glasses, he has the appearance of an ordinary boy. However, when his glasses are removed, his eyes give off an intense gaze.

### Joker

As Joker, his outfit consists of a black ankle-length tailcoat, a high-necked waistcoat with gold accents, black pants, brown-black winklepickers and a pair of red gloves. His mask is a black and white, birdlike domino mask. His expression and demeanor are also markedly different and there's a strong air of confidence to him compared to his usual self.

## Personality

Ren is quiet and well-mannered, but this behavior is a profound ruse that hides the heart of a rebellious trickster. He is extremely resistant to rigid and dogmatic forms of control-based authority and order. He has received much criticism, insults, opposition and even death threats for his rebellious nature, whether it be his targets, school staff, disapproving comments left on the Phantom Aficionado Website, etc. although he is quiet, he possesses the courage and determination to take action, and has a free heart, despite his social standing and how others view him, and that he never stops choosing his own path.

## Abilities

Ren has Persona Powers. He holds the "Wild Card", an ability that allows him to hold more than one Persona, and fuse together Personas to create new ones. His original Persona is Arsène (based on Arsène Lupin) of the Fool Arcana, and he fights with knives and handguns.

## Relationship

### Iroha Tamaki

Ren's Childhood Friend and Girlfriend. Iroha and Ren were close since childhood before Ren's family moved out. Ren has a romantic feelings for Iroha and becomes extremely upset when other people threatened and hurt her.

### Ui Tamaki

Iroha's little sister. Ren is rather protective of Ui, seeing her as a younger sister.

### Morgana

He is an amnesiac, mysterious cat-like creature and fellow team, using the codename "Mona". He lives with Ren as a normal cat.

### Ryuji Sakamoto

Ren's Best Friend and fellow team, using the codename "Skull"

### Ann Takamaki

Ren's Best Friend and fellow team, using the codename "Panther"

### Makoto Niijima

Ren's Senior and fellow team, using the codename "Queen"

### Yusuke Kitagawa

Ren's Best Friend and fellow team, using the codename "Fox"

### Haru Okumura

Ren's Senior and fellow team, using the codename "Noir"

### Futaba Sakura

Ren's Best friend and fellow team, using the codename "Oracle"

### Goro Akechi

The two used to be teammates together before, but later became enemies because of Akechi's jealousy.

### Sumire Yoshizawa

Ren's Junior, she has a good relationship with Joker and his friends.

## Trivia

* Ren Amamiya (雨宮 蓮): 雨 (Ama) means rain, 宮(Miya) means palace and 蓮 (Ren) means lotus. The double meaning here is that not only is he the leader of the Phantom Thieves come to rain on the palace, but the lotus in Buddhist teachings is symbolic of purity and cleansing.
* His code name, Joker, in card games, can act as either the ultimate trump card, the beneficial Wild Card or harmful unmatched card such as in the Old Maid game.
* Ren Amamiya is Considered The First Persona-User, to Ever Kill a Puella Magi Witch One his Own as seen in (Chapter 8).

## Gallery

Young RenConcept artConcept artConcept artworkCinematic expressions concept artworkRen face concept artRen in his Shujin Academy UniformRen moves to TokyoRen painfully unmasking."Time to button-mash."The cognitive renRen Ryuji and AnnRen and YusukeRen and AkechiRen in Joker FormRen and SatanaelRen in Kyoto's JailJoker (Ren) and Fox (Yusuke)Ren, Morgana and Ryuji encountering Shibuya's JailRen and RyujiRen and SumireRen and MorganaRen celebrating with the Phantom ThievesRen with foggy glassesRen and Morgana attempting to rescue the shaved iceRen drinking at HawaiiRen with RyujiRen with MorganaRen hiding in the bushes with the Phantom ThievesRen in Valentine's daySwimsuit