Ren Al-Sayeed

Ren Al-Sayeed
Gender	Male
Nicknames
Born	16 June 1906
Died
Family	The Al-Sayeed Family
Bloodtype	Halfblood
Social Class	TBD
Hogwarts House	Slytherin
Graduation Year	Class of 1924
Occupation	Student
Residence	TBD
Wand	TBD
Patronus	TBD
Parents
Siblings
Significant Other	Matilda Nordstrom
Children
Friends	Testing
Status	Alive

Overview

Ren Al-Sayeed is generally cheerful, often lost in his own world of mixtures and experiments. He has a childishly manipulative side, always trying to gauge people's emotional states. No matter how much others reject him, he insists on testing his concoctions, paying no mind to their effects on his "test subjects."

Likes

• Experimenting: Ren loves mixing potions and watching the reactions. The shine and refraction of his mixtures in the sunlight bring him immense joy.

• Herb Gathering: He enjoys picking herbs from the orphanage's dingy but varied herb garden, stocking up for future experiments.

• Interaction through Potions: Ren likes when people seek out his potions, as it makes him feel valued and wanted. He often trades his concoctions for favors rather than money.

Dislikes

• Rejection: While he persists in offering his potions, rejection from others can deeply affect him, though he hides it well.

• Losing Control: Ren dislikes situations where he can't control the outcome, whether in his experiments or interactions with others.

Fears

• Abandonment: Having lost his parents at a young age, Ren fears being left alone again, despite his preference for solitude.

• Failure: He fears his concoctions failing or not being good enough, as they are a significant part of his identity and connection to his parents.

On good days, Ren can be found quietly enjoying the shine and refraction of his mixtures in the sun or picking herbs. He is quite open to selling his drinks to anyone in need, not for money but for favors. He enjoys when people seek out his concoctions, as it means they value his work and want to interact with him.

On bad days, Ren retreats to his private space, becoming easily irritable and trying to keep his calm while stewing in resentment. He isn't above petty revenge, sometimes adding special additives to his target's milk. This serves as a distraction from his obsessive thoughts.

Ren is cheerful by nature, enjoying the simple things and the success of his experiments. He likes it when people want his potions and enjoys the subtle power he has over others through his mixtures. On bad days, he tries to maintain a good poker face, but his usual cheerfulness is absent, and others may perceive this as scorn. His mixtures become more experimental and volatile, and his fuse becomes shorter.

Ren's personality is a blend of cheerful curiosity, manipulative tendencies, and a deep-seated need for validation and connection through his potions and experiments.

History

Ren Al-Sayeed was born on the picturesque Canary Islands, where his parents had moved for their academic pursuits. Both his mother and father were esteemed Forensic Pathologists, deeply engrossed in their work, which included maintaining a chemical lab and a taxidermy shed for their research and book writing. Growing up amidst an array of scientific equipment and stuffed animals, Ren developed a fascination for the mysterious world of chemistry and the ethereal beauty of his parents' work.

Despite the eerie ambiance of their home, filled with taxidermy specimens, Ren found comfort in the controlled chaos of the lab. The mixing of chemicals, the plumes of smoke, and the delicate art of potion-making intrigued him more than anything else. However, his life took a tragic turn when his parents left for an academic conference and never returned. Their plane crashed, leaving five-year-old Ren to grapple with the stark reality of their absence.

Struggling to cope with his loss and the emptiness of their home, Ren decided to leave. With his mother’s taxidermy fox, which he named Kiki, and a selection of shiny liquids from his father’s lab, he ran away from the Canary Islands. Ren’s journey led him across mainland Europe, skillfully avoiding living relatives and any who might take him in. He sought solitude, yearning to be left alone with his thoughts and his makeshift potions.

Ren eventually found himself in a rural orphanage in Ireland. Here, he continued to keep to himself, spending hours experimenting with whatever substances he could find.

His desire to recreate the mixing and reactions he had observed in his parents’ lab was more than just a pastime—it was his way of staying connected to them. Kiki, the taxidermy fox, remained his silent companion through all his trials and experiments.

Ren never realized it, but the other kids always felt he had a sixth sense about things. He would always know when the director, or any of her sketchy boyfriends, would be in a bad mood or were thirsting for their next drink. He knew when to get out of the way or to placate them with a fun concoction. Occasionally, his curiosity would get the best of him, and he would let the children taste his drinks to see if they were sweet enough or too sweet for the adults. There was no sense of right or wrong in who to test out his mixes on. No one ever taught him better.

The orphanage director, an somewhat evil adult in his eyes, inadvertently became part of Ren's experiments. Ren noticed how the director’s mood would improve after consuming her mixed drinks, so he began concocting colorful, shiny mixtures for her at her request. While this earned him a bit of reprieve from her usual berating, it also meant that Ren often had to taste-test his creations, leading to frequent bouts of illness. Despite this, the process of mixing and observing reactions gave Ren a sense of purpose and a fleeting connection to his lost parents.