Scenario #31+ Ren is going to be learning Shin-Jo. Shin-Jo is an obscure occultish Japanese woman's martial art which emphasizes escape, hit and run, and distance control. The rules are pretty open ended and even training can be brutal because they basically wind up and hit hard but then escape, so you can't wear down your opponent through struggle and grapling as easily like jiu jitsu would.
In this art they have flying kicks and it doesn't allow weapons but in tournaments they kind of cheat with hardened and sharpened nails, including toe nails. The Gi is also kind of like a woman's dress, no pants are officially part of it but they usually wear rash guard shorts or pants. It can get bloody easily, like MMA. There are no tricks here, this is real combat, the match basically by calling for a score which both opponents agree to or one succeeds or is knocked out.
The idea is self-defense and I like it a lot but it's for women so pft. Also there is an advantage for being light and fast but that can be matched if you manage to catch your opponent. Then the grappling aspects usually entail typical submission holds, arm bar etc but the lighter, faster opponent will instead focus on escape instead of counter. They wittle the opponent down through full reach kicks and hits rather than close combat. It can get really bloody. For obvious reasons Ren will train in full or nearly full human form with human ears and no tail though having harder nails will definitely help.
Her first trainer will be Aleshe so I'll be picking up my grimdark book and writing her into it as a complete novice.
To be fair there are male competitors in this art because the style is split like cat and mouse style. Though they also have mouse mouse and cat cat where the cat cat would emphasize more of a jiu jitstu style grappling, like Wong Chung (close) and mouse mouse would be like White Crane (long range). Some say it could be compared to JKA Shotokan Karate, but I don't see the similarity to that as much.
So fun! She needs some sort of skill to defeat my other headmates who are more physically based like Joy and Gwen, though Gwen would clearly be an underdog without her wings, with wings she'll dominate the long game unless Ren can get her down. That's going to be tougher than you think. Remember as the Hub, anyone who wants to train, trains as Ren so they just need to adapt the moves to their own body.
Ren needs to beat all her headmates to move past Scenario 59, which is me. Yes she'll need to somehow defeat me in wonderland as well.
