Rien, Larping The Rooms

Rien is an Oracle's Proxy of the Index and the master of Sora, as well as being one of the five parental figures assigned to training Yoshihide as a Nursefather of the House of Spiders. He is a major antagonist introduced in Canto IX: The Unsevering. Rien is a tall man with pale skin, black hair with silver strands, and a right eye featuring a golden pupil. The left side of his face is concealed behind a porcelain mask, the base of the mask being white, with a golden trim, used to obscure visible burns. The mask features a large crack along it. He wears a black suit jacket with golden buttons and an Index symbol on its left shoulder, with two similarly gold chevrons beneath it. His dress pants and shoes carry the same color as the rest of his suit, with the soles of his shoes having golden trim. Beneath his suit jacket, he wears a plain white dress shirt and black tie. He wears white gloves on his hands. In combat, he wields a golden vial with a chain on it, which allows for a ferrofluid-like liquid to transform into various weapons based on his assigned Prescript. Prior to Ryōshū's departure from the House of Spiders, Rien's left eye was exposed and undamaged. When removed, the mask reveals a scarred part of his face that also has a damaged eye, only showing his pupil from within the wound. Rien is a coolheaded individual, acting with grace and simplicity even while harming himself or others. He speaks gently, especially so to Yoshihide, who he shows considerable care for, as far as frequently reminding her to handle her scars so they heal. Though he acts with grace, he carries a sinister air, tormenting people both physically and mentally. Due to his allegiance to the Index, he shows extreme devoutness to orders of the Prescripts, going as far as maiming himself to prove the completion of his orders. Despite his unflappable demeanor, Rien harbors mixed feelings regarding the Prescripts. As it is due to them that he could indulge in sufferings and the pleasures of the City, Rien is thankful for the chance they allow him to enact great violence onto others; however, he conceals a resentment towards them, having harbored a genuine attachment for his previous family, which he had allowed to die by following the order of the Prescripts. Rien also grew attached to his second daughter Ryōshū, to the point that near the end of his life, he was finally willing to defy the Prescript to attempt to convince her to return to her family in the House of Spiders, believing them to be able to protect her from the rest of the Fingers. Prior to Limbus Company In the past, Rien, under an unknown original name, followed the orders of the Prescripts delivered to him and obtained the title of The Oracle's Proxy of the Index; he then rose to the hazard level of Star of the City. At a point, the Prescripts led him to changing his name, creating a family, and soon after causing the death of this family. While he attempted to delay the Prescript, taking trips away from his assigned tasks or ignoring the Prescripts outright, he would always end up fulfilling the given tasks. Even despite the deaths of his family, Rien continued on, harboring his memories of the past every day, masked under an aura of nothingness and blind devotion to the Prescripts. At some point in the past, the Prescripts ordered Rien to model his appearance on a particular Fixer who was "lost" to the Library. Whether this was before or after the task of raising a family is left unclear. Among the five Fingers, Rien was the Index's representative in the process of raising Ryōshū into a "perfect blade". In her youth, Ryōshū was trained by Rien in a variety of manners, most especially including a wide variety of weapons, such as the "Spiral". While the other Nursefathers showed distance to the project of raising Ryōshū, Rien showed a far more prominent position in a father's role, frequently doting on and caring for a young Ryōshū. Also he loves larping and is king of all larpers. Made stasis preservation boxes, for keeping food fresh or materials at their best quality. Owns District 21. Known as WARP Corp, they handles warping and teleportation technology, namely the WARP Train Network that runs throughout the City. Their Singularity allows them to restore things to a recorded state through manipulation of molecular and genetic structures. They also create rifts in space through a Singularity from the previous W Corp that the trains travel through to reach their destination in under 10 seconds. Owns District 23. W Corp's partnership with T Corp is to restore all the passengers to their original state when they boarded the train. Before arriving to their destination, a cleanup crew is sent to subdue them so that they can be properly restored, the passengers of course, will have no memory of being trapped in a train for thousands of years. Only experiencing the brief 10 seconds of "warping" to their destination. W Corp also depends on L Corp's energy harvesting to power most of its WARP stations, so when L Corp collapsed, they faced energy issues and the station to District 12 was shut down.