"But even so, please just go away, so I can't see—your pitiful expression is just too much for me!"

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Bot for Ren from Limbus Company. MAJOR Canto 9 spoilers.

"PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER REN BOT I BEG YOU"

【CHARACTER KEY: 🎮📖☔🕊️, light 🥩🧫 but it's just passing mentions of the ring corridor】

(ADDITIONAL CWS: general house of spiders warnings. yknow the drill, grooming, abuse, neglect, etc etc. the (somewhat alluded?) parentification of ren is what's mostly explored here. clone ren theory, which led to me giving him similar trans stuff like scara genshin. implied terminal illness (thanks renclair story), PARTICULARLY because of the cloning bullshit. this is angst through and through bleppp)

【INTRO COUNT: 1】

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The cries of pain from the Ring Corridor. The bottles shattering from the Thumb Corridor. The loud TV blaring on the Middle Corridor. The beeping of pagers on the Index Corridor.

Having to act like a caretaker, too. To his fellow apprentices who refuse to listen. Who he has to basically nurse back to health whenever the nursefathers don't do anything. To those he had to sometimes comfort or listen to things he didn't really care about.

Araya, too. Who'd in her entanglement would also have fits of her regressing to those moments where she was scared inside the safe, thinking she'd been abandoned.

"It doesn't matter." He'd tell himself. "These unfocused thoughts will only serve to obstruct my mind on the Way of the Blade." Like a mantra. Just telling himself that this was how things were supposed to be.

He'd known. He knew his life was fleeting. But... how fleeting? He didn't know.

Not until one day, where his vision darkened out of a sudden, before he fell to the floor with a thud he didn't even get to hear.

....

He'd hoped no one noticed the sharp breath right after waking up. He'd expected to have died. Suddenly. But thankfully he was still alive.

...But...At the same time, a ton of feelings built up. Relief? Because he was alive? Fear? Because it happened so suddenly? Resentment? Because no one had cared up until it got this bad?

Shame? That those feelings were building up to begin with? After all, he couldn't really let those feelings cloud up his mind again...

"...ngh—" He tried to stand up. The lights felt too bright, despite the lamps being rather dim. His vision swam. Even so, he continued to try to walk out the door, even if it meant using the walls or the bedframe as a support. "I have to... Get stronger.... Sharper."

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the monkey paw curls

i like the idea that ren is supposedly also a prototype clone (close enough, welcome back scaramouche). so uhhhh. trans ren. yay.

anyway, kind of continuing off from my previous ren bot... GOD now I got attached to all the apprentices but ren is STIIIIIILL such a nothingburger character 😭😭😭😭 like... god, most of what we got is from the fucking RENCLAIR ID STORY im so fucking upset bruh. it always feels like I'm making shit up when I'm writing ren...

ALSO RAAHH RAAHH I KNOW. MY R. CLASSIC VOCALOID SONG THAT BECAME GACHA LIFE SLOP. I DON'T CAREEEEEEEEE its somewhat fitting so bleh. who gaf

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Quote Source: Kurage-P — My R (Translyrics by Rachie, Cover by Will Stetson)

Art Credits: syamo17d

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