RikaRen

RikaRen is the femslash ship between Rika Ayano and Ren Isuzu from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandom.

Canon
In Ren's side story, it is stated that she has always been very lonely as child and she blames herself because of this loneliness. One day, Ren has a suicide attempt, and before jumping off of a roof Rika notices her and stops her from committing suicide. Because of this event, they have a very special bond.

After this, Rika introduces Ren to her friends, encouraging her to make more friends. Ren ends up harboring feelings for Rika, and writing about it in her diary. And funnily enough, Rika says her type is "Shy and quiet girls", which describes Ren perfectly.

There are many other instances of their relationship being hinted at in Magia Record. For example the event A La Carte Valentine. In this event, Rika wants to give chocolates to Rika and the rest of her friends. But when going out shopping for chocolates, she ends up bumping into a witch. This witch is very strong, and almost ends up defeating her, but another magical girl named Aimi saves her. After this battle, Aimi accompany's Ren on her trip to buy chocolate. The problem is, she is unsure of what type of chocolate to buy, and because of this, it reminds Ren of what Rika got for her as a birthday present.

Ren mentions this gift to (Which was a drawing of flowers) Aimi, and Aimi suggests she draws flowers like Rika did. Ren decides against it chooses to make homemade chocolate instead. In the end she successfully makes the chocolates, however she loses the confidence half way to give out the chocolates on Valentines Day because she is worried that they are not high quality. However, she bumps into Rika. Rika notices the chocolates, asking if they where for herself. Ren denies this, and ends up giving the chocolate to Rika. Much to her surprise Rika says the chocolates are cute and well made. Rika then encourages her to meet up with the rest of their friends, and hand out the rest of the chocolate.

Fanon
The RikaRen ship became popular because of Ren's backstory. This ship is also one of the more popular ships in this small fanbase is because Rika is one of the only confirmed lesbians in the game. On the fanfiction side of things, RikaRen is the third most popular ship on AO3 having 24 fanfics in total. Sure that may not sound like a lot, but the Magia Record fandom is quite small, so this isn't horrible for a more or less dying game. The only ship that is competing with RikaRen, is Yachiyo/Iroha.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * They're many memoria's depicting them in a romantic way
 * Rika picked out a bathing suit for Ren, and does her hair for Ren's Swimsuit outfit
 * Rika and Ren have a Two-Unit Christmas card together
 * You can see them holding hands in one of the manga panels for the Magia Record manga.