I've been going through a lot of Skip Beat! fanfics lately, and I've noticed that people seem to be mixing up a lot of Ren's different personalities. Therefore, I decided to make a quick guide of Ren and all his different personas, with some added help from screencaps and scans from the manga and anime. (All caps/scans are taken from the same incidents for comparision reasons.)

I feel the need to warn Anime!Only watchers that all the personas under the 'spoiler' section haven't been shown in the anime yet. Once they're shown, I'll move them to join the others, but until then you should remain wary if you don't want to know about major events that won't come to pass for a while yet.

Persona #1; Gentlemanly Smile Ren



To the general public, Tsugura Ren is a perfect gentleman. He's polite, patient and charming nature combine with his killer good looks to make him irrisistable to the female population of Japan that are not members of the Love!Me Section. However, those closest to Ren know that he's not always the 'Nice Guy' he appears to be, and that he's capable of some very mean things, such as bullying a certian kouhai of his. The first real sign of Ren's anger or irritation is his gentlemanly smile, which is capable of making many a woman swoon. For those who know Ren best, tohugh, it is the first sure sign of danger, especially to poor Kyouko-chan who knows all too well that lurking just underneath the surface of that smile is...



Persona #2; Demon Lord Ren



When Ren gets well and truly angry with someone (Usually Kyouko ) He dropped the phoney smile and brings out an aspect of his true self, 'affectionately' named the Demon Lord by our favorite Love!Me girl. Demon Lord Ren is hostle and agressive, and is considered highly frightening by the few people who have seen this side of him. It usually takes quite a bit to draw out Ren's Demon Lord side, but unfortunately this seems to be something Kyouko is talented at doing. Ah well, that's love I suppose.



Persona #3; Corn



I debated about posting this one under 'spoilers, but the way I see it, the vast majority of the fans have figured at least part of it out already, so meh. 'Corn' is a mysterious figure from Kyouko's childhood that Ren is heavily connected with, a boy she knew for only a few days, but got very close to. Unfortunately, I can't say much more then that just yet, but we should be getting more information about Corn from the anime soon-ish.





There you have it! I'll be changing this as the story goes on, if more hidden aspects of Ren's personality are introduced to us and as the anime begins to catch up to the manga.

nicely put, the order I mean.... and yeah the white-out part was surely amazing - as in he finally gave in to his feelings....

Ren is an amazing actor.... he mosly got over his trauma...I think
I hope Kyoko is going to give him some support in the future

ooo... about the last one....

Ah, that last one... I thought about putting in the part about Kyouko that you mentioned, but I figured it was better to concentrate on Ren himself instead. Heaven knows the man's complicated enough already without adding in facts like that to confuse people...

hehe!!!well say for all of his faces!!! can i ask something???Actually Ren got So agry with Kyoko (Demon Lord)
because he believed her that she did it for fun acting with Sho or he just saw through her lie???i can't be sure!!!
cause Kyoko talking weird so Ren COULD just saw through her lie!!

He got angry because he thought she was patching things up with Shou, and might get back together with him. That was why it was only after she insisted that the shoot hadn't been for revenge that he really lost it, and why he calmed down a lot after she explained things clearly and verified that she still hadn't forgiven Shou for what he had done. Basically, he was jealous.

this was really helpful...great way of breaking down his personality...i love every part of ren! haha...he's perfect, but has flaws too...i guess that doesn't make sense, but he's so dreamy! haha...absolutely adore him!

its true i agree so very muchhehe lol

ty i was hoping that manager was right

...what about the faces of Ren where he starts realizing he can turn to Kyouko for help and that she will be there for him if he needs it? Like when he is sick? Or when he turns to Bo (Kyouko) for advice??

Ren does have many facets to his personality/character, I think though he is slowly managing to show more and more to Kyouko and he is feeling more comfortable in opening up himself to others and realizing that he is much stronger than he once was (when he was little)...

lol XD true true, but i think he still has somewhat a long way to go XD

kyoko always thinks ren was angry..... and keep saying Sorry......
ren turn his face very easily

I only wanted to put the faces that had labels (Gentlemanly Smile, Demon Lord, ect.) since there seem to be a lot of people who don't fully get which faces are for what mood.

ren's such a complex guy... we'll need a lot of time to 'dissect' him completely... hahaha!

ren is complicated but that's why all the fan girls love him
that and his looks
i don't consider myself a full fan girl
i believe i'm at the borderline of becomin a fan girl
anyways i have to say one of my favorite faces has to be
Night Emperor Ren
Demon Lord Ren
and
Gentlemanly Smile Ren
the last to basically only made it because of kyoko's reaction to them

i like the Gentlemanly smile best cause...well i'll leve it to you imagination