Ren Akatsuki

Ren Akatsuki, known as Silent Night Ren, is a member of the Blue Pegasus Guild and its team, The Trimens.

Appearance
Ren is a slim young man of average height with dark, somehow spiky hair reaching down to his shoulders, with long strands framing his face, and a short ponytail at the back of his head. Each of his eyebrows juts upwards in a pair of thin spikes, and he’s distinguished by his dark skin, a result of Tanning Lacrima he used on himself. After the 7-years time skip, the only differences in Ren’s appearance seem to reside in his hair, these being the lack of his former ponytail and the presence of two bangs framing and partially covering his face’s sides.

Ren’s attire consists of a black suit left open, bearing Blue Pegasus’ symbol on its left shoulder, over a leopard patterned shirt, whose similarly open collar reveals a small metal necklace circling his neck, and polished, dark dress shoes. Aside from the seeming lack of his guild’s symbol, Ren’s attire seems to have remained the same even after seven years from the destruction of Tenrou Island.

Personality
Like the rest of the Trimens, Ren behaves like a typical womanizer in that he usually charms any female (regardless of the age) he meets for the first time. If he is around a girl he always try to act like a tsundere, but in Lucy's case it wasn't very effective. He doesn't get along with other men, (except his team members) probably because he considers them as his rivals in love. During Ren's battle against Arania, while Sherry was cheering for him, it was revealed that he's in a love relationship with her, but as Ren's a tsundere, he doesn't admit it.

Oración Seis arc
Ren, along with Hibiki Lates and Eve Tearm, acts as a greeter to the other members of the Light Team, though the three of them are more like womanizers than mages, instantly trying to woo over Lucy Heartfilia and Erza Scarlet (and later Wendy Marvell).

After briefing the others on whom the Oración Seis are, the group (save Jura Neekis and Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki) take off to find them. Soon after, the Oración Seis found them, they are quickly beaten and nearly left to die by the Oracion Seis, but at the last minute they are saved by Jura and healed by Ichiya afterwards. The alliance then regroups and splits up to find the Oración Seis' base and rescue Wendy and Happy who are both taken by Brain.

As Ren and Eve near the hideout, they run into Dark Unicorn, one of the dark guilds which the Oración Seis allied themselves with, however unlike the Oración Seis the two were easily able to defeat them. When they saw Nirvana activated they split up, Eve continued searching for Wendy, meanwhile Ren set off to Nirvana. But before he reached his destination, Midnight finds him and easily defeats him.

Later he is seen together with Sherry Blendy on the Magic bomber Christina, using his Air Magic with Sherry's Doll Magic to manipulate the ship. However, the pressure is too much for her and she fails to hold herself on her legs. Sherry apologizes to Ren but he ignores her apologies and tells her that she should not push herself too much. Without Sherry's magic, Christina begins to fall to the ground.

After the Oracion Seis was defeated and Nirvana stopped, the Light team regroups in Cait Shelter Guild where they learn the secret of the guild. When the time has come for them to return to their respective guilds, Ren is seen asking Sherry if she won't be lonely on the trip (while blushing), while Sherry tells him that he should go (also blushing). The two then part ways and return to their respective guilds.

X791 arc
Ren, along with the rest of The Trimens, visit Fairy Tail to inform them of the possibility that Tenrou Island may still exist.

Grand Magic Games arc
During the Grand Magic Games, The Trimens, along with another member that looks like a rabbit, pass the preliminaries in fifth place, entering the Domus Flau and posing for the crowd, who scream their love for the three young members of the group. When the different teams begin to talk, Ren throws an arm around Lucy and claims that he will "take her", though finishes the statement saying that it isn't because he likes her. As the second placing team is announced, Ren stands with his guild with a thoughtful expression as the teams wonder who could have placed above them, but later smiles when the group is revealed to be another of Fairy Tail's teams. After the announcers reveal the first event of the Games and Eve agrees to participate, Ren joins his team in pulling off a ridiculous cheer and pose. During the event Eve uses his Snow Magic for an interesting tactic, and Ren wonders how the other contestants will deal with it. He later remarks at the quick finish to the event.

During the battle portion of the first day, Ren watches as Lucy begins to cast Urano Metria, stating that it is an awesome Magic. For the second battle, Ren himself is selected to fight against Arania Web, a Mage from Team Mermaid Heel. At first, neither of the two Mages seems to have the advantage and Arania is able to damage Ren with her Web Magic when the Mage is distracted by the commentators. From the stands, Sherry of Lamia Scale calls out to him, screaming for him not to give up, and upon hearing one of her team mates mention that he and Sherry are engaged, Ren denies the claim, stating that they are merely "resigned to being together". However, with Sherry's belief in his power, Ren casts Aerial Phose and takes Arania out, winning the fight and granting his team 10 points, much to Sherry's happiness.

When Mirajane and Jenny battle on the second day of the Games, Hibiki comments on the fact that Team Blue Pegasus had to use a reserve member so early on in the Games, with Ren replying that they had no choice after seeing Ichiya's condition after his competing in the Chariot event. He later stands in pure shock as Mirajane beats Jenny with her Satan Soul: Sitri.

On the third day of the Games, Hibiki steps out to represent Ren's team in the Pandemonium event. However, when the event is finished by Erza alone, a secondary event is scheduled. Upon finding out that the event is all about Magic power, Ren states that he should have been sent out instead, as Hibiki's Magic is not power specialized. Ichiya appears and tries to convince him and Eve to put their support in Hibiki, but upon seeing their team mate score ridiculously low, the two yell out that that is what they get for believing. Later, during the battle portions of the day, Eve is called forth to battle Rufus of Team Sabertooth, and is easily beaten. From the sidelines, Ren and Hibiki stand saddened by their teams losing streak, with Ren shocked that Eve could lose so easily, still claiming that he tried his best. Despite their down feelings, Ichiya points out that the team have not unleashed their secret weapon and Hibiki and Ren thank him for the "lesson". However, as they walk away, the two ponder over who the member could be, wondering if they are even a member of the guild, though Ren states that they must be, as not being a member would be cheating. Ren has his question answered on the fourth day of the Games when both Ichiya and the bunny-clad person step out to participate in the first tag battle of the day. Ren stands watching the two, excitedly claiming that they will finally know, whilst also berating Hibiki and Jenny, who have started making out behind him. When the bunny man is revealed to be Nichiya, Ren stands with an extremely shocked expression, speechless with the rest of his team and the audience. When Nichiya is later taken out in one hit from Bacchus, Ren yells out, asking Ichiya if the Exceed can even fight. Despite the early drawback, Ren watches as Ichiya pushes forward to win the fight, happily praising Ichiya by asking him just how handsome he can get.

Magic and Abilities
Air Magic: This Magic allows Ren to do things like making the air explode or drain the oxygen from it. He has also shown the ability to levitate the Christina with his Magic.


 * Aerial: Ren locks his opponent in a dome that lowers the oxygen inside it which makes the enemies suffocate and hurts their ears due to the pressure change. (Anime only).
 * Aerial Shot: Ren uses his air Magic to shatter the ground and pick up rocks, using the air. These rocks are then shot at the enemy. (Anime only)


 * Aerial Levitation: Ren creates a light whirlwind under the targets to make them fall slowly. (unnamed)


 * Aerial Phose:After swinging both of his hands in a circular motion around himself, Ren brings them forward, creating a small cyclone that surrounds the target, damaging them as well as destroying surrounding obstacles.

Equipment
Tanning Lacrima: A Lacrima used by Ren to tan his body. Using this, a person can obtain the skin tone he/she desires in the space of about 5 minutes. The setting consists of numbers such as 61 to 65. Ren's tan is 61.5.

Video Games
Ren appears as a support character in the DS Game, Fairy Tail Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou, upon being unlocked.

Major Battles

 * Light Team vs. Oración Seis
 * Ren Akatsuki & Eve Tearm vs. Dark Unicorn
 * Ren Akatsuki vs. Midnight
 * Ren Akatsuki vs. Arania Web

Trivia

 * In Volume 32's extra content, Mashima provided the battle statistics for 31 of the 40 X791 contestants in the Grand Magic Games. The stats, however, were provided not from Mashima's point-of-view as the author but from the view point of Sorcerer Magazine reporter Jason. Which explains why some stats are missing and why others may be inaccurate. According to Jason from the Sorcerer Magazine, during his participation in the Grand Magic Games of X791, Ren's stats are:

Censorship
His defeat by Midnight is toned down in the anime. In the manga, his face was cut across, but it wasn't in the anime.