JIREN TAMANAHA

If you come across Jiren in class, you're probably going to see him with his head on the desk. He's perpetually exhausted, mostly due to his own unfortunate decisions. He could get his energy up if he wanted to, but.. Well, he finds it a little embarrassing, to be honest with you. He finds it important for him to keep a low profile, and something like.. You know, drinking someone's blood? That isn't perceived as very "normal" in day to day life. Because of that, Jiren tends to neglect those sorts of things, even if it's at his own expense. He just finds it easier to be drowsy all the time, instead of being teased or questioned.

Despite the fact that Jiren always seems so out of tune with everything in the day time, he has an immense amount of curiousity. He's in charge of the school paper, and is a journalist at heart. He's often up until 5 AM researching a topic that interests him, or watching a video essay while doing homework. He tends to write things on a whim about anything he's interested in, and has strong opinions about many issues. He's not one to debate openly, but he stays firm on his own thoughts and isn't influenced easily. Jiren is more focused on the truth than those sugar-coated articles people write about topics that easily warp people's minds.

In his early years, Jiren and his family all had a hard time sorting out his eminence. Really, having any eminence as a child is hard to adjust to, but Jiren's was exceptionally difficult. His parents didn't really understand it. Honestly, they just kind of thought Jiren was one of those kids who was prone to.. biting. See, when he was REALLY little, he wasn't really aware of his instincts or his dependency on blood, and he wasn't actively trying to suppress it. Eventually, his parents got pretty exhausted having to deal with their weird, introverted kid who seemed to neglect the sun, have an unsettling taste for blood, and hate the pasta they cooked.

His parents, superstitious as they were, found it would be easier to hand him off to his grandmother to take care of him instead of buckling down and adjusting to his tendencies. It was probably around age 7 or so, so he still wasn't entirely aware of everything. His grandmother was obviously more adept at raising him, and actually understood the process of setting rules and boundaries to keep Jiren's eminence in check. He ended up being very influenced by his grandmother. She's a lawyer, and Jiren ended up hearing various stories from cases she took on, and situations she encountered. This is probably the most note-worthy influence on his interest in journalism.

Jiren, as he grew older, grew more aware of his eminence and it's consequences, at least socially. It's not exactly easy to source blood from anyone in a normal, everyday interaction. So, Jiren simply decided he didn't need to have it! He decided this around middle school, really. As social standing became more important, he adapted to avoiding weird looks or uncomfortable questions by widely covering up a lot of his eminence. This, of course, caused a complete decrease in energy, but he found that to be a worthwhile sacrifice. He's pretty much perpetually exhausted nowadays, and his grandmother has grown concerned of this, but it's ultimately Jiren's own stubbornness that she can't change. It's kind of a trade off, really: it's great that he's strayed from a dependence on blood, but it's also incredibly difficult for him to completely reject it. Who knows, maybe he'll learn how to cope with it better one day.