Renga

Renga is the slash ship between Reki Kyan and Langa Hasegawa from the Sk8theinfinity fandom.

Canon
Langa is introduced as a Canadian transfer student, attending the same class as Reki. While on the street looking for a part-time job, Langa encounters Reki once more, by stopping his skateboard from rolling down the road. Reki offers Langa a chance to ride his board, Langa agrees, only to stumble and fall off immediately. Reki demonstrates how to ride it, leaving Langa intrigued. Langa is later employed as an assistant, working at the same shop as Reki.

He and Reki are to deliver a skateboard to a buyer, located at “S”, an illegal skateboard racing arena located in an abandoned mineshaft. Reki discovers that he brought the wrong skateboard. The buyer, unsatisfied, claims he will not participate in the race without a proper board, he tells Reki to replace him, but, before Reki can agree, Langa decides to skate for him instead, this worries Reki, as Langa can barley stand on a skateboard, let alone ride it. Langa tapes the board to his feet, and the race begins. Langa is revealed to be a snowboarder, he catches up to his rival, Shadow. This surprises Reki, leaving him in awe.

Now that Langa beat Shadow in the race, he is named “The Rookie” by most members of S. Reki is impressed and proud of Langa, calling him amazing and cool. Langa decides that he wants to continue skateboarding. Reki is happy about this, and proudly becomes his coach / teacher. Langa tries to impress Reki by skating down the street, but Reki soon realizes to his horror, that there is a busy road waiting for him at the bottom. Reki concerned for his friend, screams his name but, it was too late, Langa falls into the street, almost getting run over by a truck, luckily he survives and Reki tends to his wounds.

Fanon
It's a new but popular ship in the Sk8theinfinity fandom. Despite of that, it has a large fanbase on Twitter and Tumblr, and so a few fics on AO3. RekLanga can be portrayed as soulmates because of their hair colors; blue and red (which is a perfect match).

Reki is seen as the “caretaker” and “protector” in the relationship, as he frequently shows concern for Langa’s wellbeing, as well as dressing Langa’s wounds, and making sure Langa doesn’t get into trouble. Reki is believed to have “saved” Langa from a lonely depressed life, as Langa’s father died and he had to give up snowboarding, one of the things that made him happiest in life. Now that Reki introduced Langa to skateboarding, he is much happier, and feels like he has purpose in life. Ranga is the most popular ship of the fandom and the most written ship for both characters.

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