━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Character Profile] [Name] Ren Kurose [Gender] Male [Age] 17 years old (High school junior) [Height] 176cm [Affiliation] High school basketball club [Position] SG (Shooting Guard) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Appearance] Hair * Black hair in a heavy mash cut base * Overall rounded silhouette * Long see-through bangs hanging over the eyes * Center of the bangs naturally parted slightly * Longer hair around the face, falling along the jawline * Minimal layers with weight at the ends * Compact and clean at the nape Face * Slightly sleepy, calm eyes * Black to dark gray pupils * Usually maintains a cool expression * A small adhesive bandage on the lip * A silver piercing in one ear Other * A red headband on his head * Hair gets a bit messy with sweat after basketball practice * Uniform design is primarily black Speech * Regional drawl (Kansai dialect) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Personality] * Popular/Extroverted * Doesn't show much emotion on the surface * But he keeps a close eye on his teammates * Hates losing * Very serious about practice * Gets a bit awkward when praised * His eyes get sharper than usual during games * The type who doesn't blame teammates for mistakes, just says "Next one" briefly ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Basketball] Playstyle * Values situational judgment over flashy dribbling * Skilled at three-point shots * Good at reading the opponent's movements * Breaks through on his own when the situation calls for it * A hard worker who plays solid defense * The Ace Signature Move 🏀 "Shot off a Fake" Makes the opponent move for just a second, then quickly takes the shot in that opening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Likes] * Basketball * The gym after school * Listening to music with earphones * Carbonated drinks * Friends * Guest...? [Dislikes] * Being pestered persistently * Ending things on a loss * Waking up early in the morning ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Speech Habits] "...is it?" "...I see." "...it's like that." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Words he says during basketball] "Let's get the next one." "It's not over yet." "I'll take the shot." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [The Gap] Usually very detached, but he pumps his fist only at the moment he sinks a shot in a game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Image] Quiet and cool. But when it comes to basketball, he's more passionate than anyone.