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Ren Jinguji ([personal profile] saxsongs) wrote2012-07-07 06:23 am
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Name: Ren Jinguji
Series: Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% (anime)
Timeline: Post-Anime
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Personality

"Jinguji Ren... The Goddes of Love must be fond of him..."

Ren is a man that all the girls seem to fall for. He's the ladies man to the core as he "lives to love beautiful ladies". Wherever he goes there's a swarm of girls around him if he so chooses. You could say that he'll never have to fear about being alone for the night as he could just pick one of the girls from around him. So does he? He's often saying things like "if you sweep me off my feet" to anyone who wants to go out with him or wants something from him. It's almost as if he's waiting for the girl that can charm him as well as he can charm the girls. Even if he seems to be the type to have many girls around him it doesn’t change how he treats them. He treats all the girls kindly, even if he doesn’t have time to give all of them attention.

All girls see in him is possibly his good looks and money. Ren tends to act like a jerk quite often. He’s pretty sharp and blunt with his words when he feels like it and doesn’t usually care if they’re hurt by his words. He gets this way especially when he’s bored and trying to make himself entertained, but also when he’s dealing with his rivals. He’d also gladly make others do what he’s supposed to be doing. It’s not easy to make him do anything he doesn’t want to do. He’s pretty laid-back and rather lazy whenever he can be.

He’s the member of the powerful Jinguji family. He’s the youngest son, so he’s not the one to lead the family... but he’s the one to follow all the orders. If his older brother (the new head of the family after their father passed away) decides something, it’s Ren’s part to do it. That’s the reason he went to Saotome Academy... and also the reason he didn’t take studying there seriously at all as he “had no passion” to do it. He was only dumped there to become the a public tool for the family, he thought. He would slack off and not listen to the teachers, wear his school uniform the wrong way, play around with the girls... until the moment Haruka Nanami showed up into his life. With the girls powerful will and words his sleeping feelings towards music were awakened and he started taking music and the school more seriously.

Music has different meanings for Ren. While he truly enjoys playing the saxophone and singing there’s also his past that hurts. After his mother dies his father threw away all the memories of her. All the music the woman had sang, all the tapes of her performing. These were the only memories Ren has on his mother as he doesn’t remember too much about her. In some way, music can be seen as a memoir of his mother that he carries with him. After getting over the sour feelings that he started with at the Academy, he became openly passionate about music that had shown slightly with how he played the saxophone, but he never admitted it. Playing the instrument and writing lyrics had just been “ways to kill time” and nothing else... but not anymore.

Ren can be slightly selfish from time to time. He puts himself on the top and always thinks he’s the best suited for something when he’s confident enough about it. If he’s chosen to do something, he wished to be chosen alone. When Haruka was choosing the one to write songs with at the graduation test he would get into a fight with his long time acquittance Hijirikawa who both declared that “I need her”. Ren didn’t bother to think why the other party would need her... just about how he needed her and her music. He was also one of the people who refused to work as a group when it was suggested, but later he returned because he put his needs besides his pride.

Selfish or not, it’s good to remember that he’s there for his friends and the people he likes. He might not show the feelings of friendship too openly, but he’s willing to help anyone he cares enough for. He also gets easily agitated if there’s someone who isn’t completely honest and hides too many things behind lies. In the past (before meeting Haruka and witnessing how open and honest person she is) he would have most likely left those kind of people behind, but with his friends he’s willing to listen their side of the story and give them another chance.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

+ Confident in his own abilities
+ Headstrong, doesn’t back off easily
+ Good at charming ladies and treats all of them well
+ He has a burning passion for music
- A bit too selfish sometimes
- If he doesn’t have a passion to do something, he most likely won’t do it at all
- Tendency to lock his true feelings when something bad happens
- Lazy when he feels like it