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Some fun facts about Hearts! (Ren/Joker- his nickname is Hearts, that's the first fun fact.)

♡ He still has his black glassed, but more than half the time he wears a pair of round red ones! You can see 'em in the doodles I've done.

♡ He WILL NOT let his hair grow long enough to put it up in any major fashion, but he also won't get it cut too short anymore. Likes it fluffy..

♡ His fuzz is almost like a polychrome in any major light. In some directions he'll look more white/peach and in others the green will be way more visible than usual.

♡ Loves giving kisses. Absolutely loves it. All his friends get kisses when he's around, which is a big part of the reason why Fox took it like he did [Didn't panic run]- but why he DID get mildly flustered is simply because he hadn't done it in so long, especially after the accident.

♡ Continuing off the other one, he won't give kisses out as willy nilly anymore, if at all. It's now become a reserved thing. The others haven't figured that out yet (Akechi doesn't know it at all) shhhh...

♡ Talking too much makes HIM feel physically ill. After a while, he'll short circuit to one or two word answers, and then nothing.

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Update today might be a lil late today so I'll write another lil fun facts sheet, this one for Ryuji.. Y'know, before the accident.

♧ During his last year of highschool, he got super into the emo/goth/punk scene and started dressing as such. Because Ren was dating him at the time, he also got really into it. He STILL wears a lot of the style as sort of an act of remembrance.

♧ He also used to be pretty into pirates. Ren got dragged to several pirate based cons along the coast. They both cosplayed like the nerds they are.

♧ After the metaverse disappeared, he started playing vigilante with Ren- of course- in tow. The two got in a lot of fights together against petty criminals, and when they weren't prowling the streets, they'd be using that time to keep in shape. This went doubly so after the curse manifested for Ryuji. It was almost his life, after a certain point. It was almost an obsession, school starting becoming nothing more than in background.

♧ Not long before the accident, he had proposed to Ren. They were to get married shortly after highschool. Ren still has his engagement ring, though it stays in a box he placed it in after the move for his university. Looking at it hurts too much to wear it around.

♧ He never stopped dyeing his hair blonde.

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Let's talk a little about my characterization for the Akiren of my fanfic real quick.

In chapter 17, his professor calls him 'Ren Kurusu', which is a lil weird. You may be asking yourself 'why did you combine them like that wh-'

Well here's the fun answer: My Akiren's real name is in fact.. Akira. However, after he got sent to Shibuya at what would be the very start of p5, he decided to use a different name when he could. I personally don't see him having a very good connection with his parents- or there would at least be a disconnect between what happened with Shido and his relationship with them. Ultimately, it boils down to 'I want to seperate myself.' What's an easy way to do this? Going by a different name completely.

So, he chose Ren. When asked what his name was by the thieves, he said Ren. It stuck to the point of a first name change later down the line, after he moved back to Shibuya when finished with highschool. (Not really recommended in Japan to change last name).

You gotta imagine it being a big thing. Approached by someone of the legal forces that call him Akira in front of his friends? They still stick to and call him Ren. Sae calling him Akira until after the interrogation where she, too, starts calling him Ren instead. I'm not sure how this itself can be translated into how Japan usually uses surname first, but I'll worry about that one later. Probably..

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This latest chapter is pretty important because it basically goes on to explain to the reader on why there's not that many details. Ren just.. Doesn't notice them, and everything is written very close to his POV. If he doesn't notice it, it doesn't get added.

Oh, I'm sure that was already gleaned by a lot of readers already, but it's one of my favorite things about writing this. We're takin' unreliable narrator a step further. This is unreliable detailing now, baybee.