Renee Tanuki

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> *"Just sit back and relax for a little."***— Renee's Character Sheet**
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**Renee Tanuki** (**レネー タヌキ**, **Renē tanuki**) is one of the many animatronics in the cast of *Endless Nights at Freddy's*. Renee is a tanuki animatronic who is an Assorted animatronic built by Fazbear Entertainment Inc. for Fazbear's Ultimate Pizzaplex. Renee works as a hostess for the Pizzaplex's cafe, Renee's Retreat. She is an original character created by CosmiisChillin.

## Appearance

Renee is an anthropomorphic tanuki animatronic with orange eyes and a body consisting of different shades and tints of brown. Her head is a neutral brown shade as well as her arms, hands, lower legs, feet, and stripes of her tail. There are dark brown colors on her around her eyes, ears, section of her jaw, torso, lower body that cuts just at the top of her calves, her toes, stripes on her tail. fingertips, the upper part of her arms, and short frayed hair. The lighter brown is seen outlining her 'mask', her snout, inner ears, and stomach. Her eyelids and lipstick are a similar brown to her base color. There are small freckles on her snout and she is a few of the animatronics who have wrinkles.

Renee wears a warm sage green apron with white on the bottom hemming and patterns of flowers and leaves above the hemming. She has gold-bronze buckles holding the straps and a ribbon sash over her waist. The headscarf over her hair matches the colors and patterns of her apron. She has a rose gold wedding ring with a diamond in the center.

## Personality

As the Ultimate Pizzaplex's designated grandmother, Renee is a caring and loving woman who wants to make sure everyone is taken care of. She does keep to herself in her cafe and is always welcoming.

In *Freddy and Friends: The Adventure Show*, Renee is still as sweet as she is in her animatronic form. She loves her step children and does her best to be a good mother to them. She can be slightly worried about them and how people would treat them as shown when Freddy told her kids asked about the riceballs she made for him. She is aware that as an immigrant, she has to deal with the struggles of it and wants to share it with her step-family.

Though she doesn't seem like a threat or a danger, Renee is protective to those unable to defend themself or those in her family. It is known by human engineers that she reacts to code charlotte very quickly.

## Functions:

Like all animatronics in the series, Renee has some unique functions..

* **Audio Detector:** A built in Audio Detector that is able to hear way more than the usual animatronic (WARNING - Reacts to Code Charlotte VERY fast!!)
* **Conflict and Stress Level Scanner:** A built-in scanner which can scan how much stress and conflict a person has currently.
* **Internal Music Player:** Renee is equipped with a built-in Internal Music Player, which she can use to play any music she likes.
* **Heating Control:** Renee is able to have complete heating control over her animatronic body to prevent overheating.

## Trivia

* Renee's species tanuki, is also known as the Japanese raccoon dog.
	+ This makes both Fredbear and Freddy share the similarity of being in a relationship with a canid animal.
		- The irony is that Misty's original design was of a tanuki before becoming a dog.
	+ Renee has been compared to Tom Nook from Animal Crossing due to being the same species.
* English is Renee's second language as she only spoke Japanese fluently in her backstory and had to learn English.
* Along with Puppet and Springtrap, Renee has one of the fastest Code Charlotte reactions.
* Renee is normally, one of the most docile and passive animatronics as it takes time to make her aggression spike
	+ One way to make her aggressive is if you harm her family members
* According to Fredbear, when Freddy, Goldie, and Lefty were younger, they would occasionally sleep on Renee's tail.
	+ This also the same case with Bree who took naps on Renee's tail when she was younger.
* Renee's name actually came from a mistake Cosmi made. While playing *Animal Crossing*, Cosmi recruited a rhinoceros named Merengue to become the head of the cafe in the island. Cosmi mistakenly thought her name was Renée, which is the name of another rhinoceros in Animal Crossing, and used it for a new tanuki character. She didn't realize the mistake until looking back at the name but the name has stuck since.
* According to Cosmi, Renee was one of the hardest animatronics to design because of her various different patterns tanukis have in fiction as well as finding ways to style the markings and putting it all on Renee being a huge struggle.
* Both Renee and Lefty like classic rock.
* On Renee's character sheet, Bree writes down "おばあちゃん" pronounced "Obaachan" which means "Grandmother" in Japanese.
* When conceptualizing Renee, Cosmi imagined a sensory safe place with books, comfort food, and a cozy vibe led by a sweet old grandma.
	+ This makes sense since Renee is Bree's grandmother.