Okay so—I noticed you have the song Capricorn in your Rensai playlist. Am I correct in assuming you see him as a Capricorn? As a late December baby myself, I would love love love to hear about how you see the traits in him.
Or, if I'm delulu, the song is still a banger and I love the playlist
I will be honest with you, I know very little about astrology. That is our dear friend Evie's realm, lol. A lot of the songs on the playlist came from her (a Secret Chasseurs gift from years past, actually!) but Capricorn was indeed one of mine, and I think there's a world where he's some fire sign for his Sun and maybe Capricorn is his Moon or Rising or something, but I'll give ya a little analysis and maybe you have the astrology knowhow to tell me whether my impressions are right or wrong:
Rensai isn't all talk, and not by a long shot: he absolutely has the intelligence, resources, skills to back up everything he presents, he just happens to present it very loudly and ideally under a very bright spotlight. But when faced with deep, emotional hurt, he goes cold. All passion and fire go out of him and he becomes clinical and calculating, tallying up the ledger to determine which choices deliver the most advantageous outcome regardless of the human cost, including his own. So my impression is that despite the bombastic image, he's actually very grounded and practical. The fire and flamboyance isn't a smokescreen, but rather an embellishment that disappears when under great stress or faced with harsh realities. I think if anything else were the case, we would have seen him actively interrupt Yujin's betrayal or otherwise attempt to punish her directly. His vengeance instead comes in the form of all out war, an act that both personally distances him from the conflict but also explodes it to a scale that matches his emotional intensity. He risks himself on the front lines of battle rather than look the woman he loves in the eye and confront the reason things might have turned out the way they did. That is genuinely the greater risk to him than his own physical health, the latter of which he ends up damaging greatly. He's bold in many ways but deeply cowardly in some of the ones that matter most. He claws a little bit of that back in the finale when he chooses to seek forgiveness and unity, though.
Is that Capricorn? I don't really know tbh. But the lyrics of that song to me evoke Rensai at his best and most purely motivated: committed, determined, passionate, eager to prove, and thirsty for recognition.
If anyone else cares to listen to my deeply self-indulgent Rensai-spiration Spotify playlist, you can find it here. For fun the one I think is most "him" is Oh, Sparrow by Varian.
