Ren Hojo is a memo in Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water.
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A writer, known for basing his novels on real events. He is very thorough in his research.
He also writes cheap pulp fiction under a pen name in between projects. He acts on intuition, and has a laissez-faire attitude.
He asked Hisoka to find Postmortem Photographs for a new book he's writing. Hisoka has helped him before to find other reference materials, such as old curios and books.
Ren has been haunted by the memory of killing a girl in some kind of ceremony, and by dreams of the girl looking back at him.
For this reason, he's always felt uneasy around women, especially when they look him in the eye.
A relative of Dr. Aso. Amongst the Postmortem Photographs he asked Hisoka to find is a photo of Ose Kurosawa.
The photo awakens within Ren the feelings Dr. Aso had for Ose, and so he gets involved in the events taking place on Mt. Hikami.
As a boy, Ren found a bundle of white hair in his family's storeroom. Upon touching it, he glanced Dr. Aso's memory of killing a young girl.
Tracing Dr. Aso's footsteps to Mt. Hikami, he gets involved in a Ghost Marriage and must choose between two brides.