RenEur

RenEur is the het ship between Renton Thurston and Eureka from the Eureka Seven fandom.

Canon
Renton and Eureka's relationship is the most complex throughout the story, starting out as a one-sided love on Renton's part due to Eureka not understanding human emotions, to co-pilots, to love interests, to husband and wife.

Prior to their meeting, Eureka is sent by Holland (leader of the Gekkostate) to retrieve the Amita Drive from Thurston Garage; it’s creator, Adroc Thurston, had long since been presumed dead and it was in the hands of his father. When she accidentally crashes Nirvash into the garage and upon seeing her for the first time, Adroc’s 14-year-old son, Renton, is immediately speechless and entranced by her beauty. He tries to make a conversation with her as he repairs Nirvash but she is not interested in chatting with him as she is just waiting for the repairs to be completed so she can return to the Gekkostate. However he amuses her when she sets the remains of his room on fire after having destroyed it from the crash and she laughs as he tries to put out the flames. Some members of the Gekkostate, watching from afar, note this is the first time Eureka has ever smiled. After hastily leaving due to a military intervention, he risks his life to reach her and give her the Amita Drive, and clumsily confesses that he loves her, but this confuses her as she doesn’t understand what ‘love’ means. After implanting the Amita Drive into Nirvash and activating the Seven Swells, Eureka finds herself interested in having Renton around Nirvash because his help made her need him to continue helping her. Renton reluctantly agrees to join Gekkostate but is disappointed when he realizes that Eureka sees him as a child, she is confused by his advances, and has three adopted children herself.

Unlike how most of the Gekkostate treated her with respect as the pilot of the Nirvash, Renton instead sought to help her overcome her struggles as much as he could after she confided in him about her past misdeeds and desire to atone them, and he often told her that she can become a better person through the change in her. Overtime, as Renton begins to understand how his role affects Eureka and that of the Nirvash Type ZERO, he vows to protect her. Because of this, Renton's admiration and infatuation towards Eureka later grows into genuine care and affection, allowing him to truly fall in love with her.

However, Eureka was oblivious about what "love" meant and did not reciprocate his feelings. Despite this, she appreciated his companionship and admitted to him on more than one occasion that she found him to be the most interesting person she'd ever met. Originally the two of them were partnered to pilot the Nirvash, with Renton guarding the Amita Drive, but Eureka found herself intrigued by Renton's good nature and shyness. Eureka credits his presence on the Gekko for allowing everyone to have fun and be more open with one another. When Eureka starts to become depressed as she feels her partnership with Nirvash declining, she thought that Renton was somehow responsible for this due to him being to pilot it with more ease, and she became jealous and little bit angry at him. Being too young to understand and lack of communication between the two, Renton failed to see this and and made things worse by exhibiting frustration at her lack of appreciation for him helping her pilot Nirvash.

Their relationship is almost destroyed when Eureka attempts to let the Scrubs absorb her in order for her to end her pain and misery but then decides she wants to live. Renton saves her in time but he is kept away from her by the crew as Holland blames him for the incident. When Eureka rejects him after he tries to explain his feelings, he decides to leave for good. As Eureka recovers, she later reveals that she never held any negative opinions towards him and wanted to tell him about her confusing feelings for him. After learning of his abandonment, she bursts into tears, casted all the blame on herself, and became desperate to see him again. This leads her to realize that she had indeed fallen in love with Renton, and for the first time, she even lashed out at Holland after he said that Renton was not important. She decides to go searching for him, unaware he is returning to protect the Gekkostate from a military attack. After he saves her from being killed, the two reconcile, Eureka declares Renton as her partner and puts all her faith in Renton, and tells him that she can overcome anything as long as she is with him. When Renton learns Eureka is a Coralian, she admits she didn’t tell him sooner because she was afraid he would reject her but he assures her that he wouldn’t reject her because she has always been special to him. She is further amazed when she notices how similar they are, as they tend to understand Nirvash’s feelings, which only Eureka had seemed able to do until them.

After entering into a relationship, she becomes very devoted to him and takes most things Renton says to heart, and looks to him for help. She becomes determined to make Renton happy with her, seen when she tried to use makeup for the first time to look pretty for him (as she thought her scars made her unattractive to him) and when he assured her that he would never leave her after she asked him to stay with him forever. Her love for him has also grown so strong to the point where she can't bear being apart from him. Upon learning she is able to bear children like a normal human can, she quickly envisions herself marrying him and having a family with him, which Renton reciprocates. Renton takes on a father role to her adopted children and they come to view themselves as a family. It was because of Renton and Eureka's deep love for each other that they are selected (as a Coralian and a human) to cross the Great Wall and reach the Promised Land which is Earth, save world from the Limit of Questions, and unite the two species via their union. Although both briefly spare over Eureka’s insecurity for not being human and Renton’s frustration that she knew his father a long time ago, they always patch things up.

After successfully passing the Great Wall and reaching Earth, they begin quarreling over how to complete their mission and Eureka withdraws from Renton as her body starts to change. Eureka had doubts over how Renton would react to the changes on her body, but after he discovers the changes, he self-harms to prove he doesn’t care about the changes and Eureka later tends to him as he has a fever. After she transforms further, he later tells her that she was still beautiful. Eureka was overcome with happiness and tells him that she loves him. Later, when Eureka was about to become the next Command Cluster, she apologized to Renton that she can't be with him after all. However, Renton vowed to give up his humanity if it meant being with her and rescued her on his own, promising to be with her forever and they shared their first kiss, allowing them to activate the Second Summer of Live, and save the planet. In the process of the Second Summer of Love activating, the couple’s names and a heart are carved into the moon. After Nirvash's departure, Renton and Eureka decided to return to Bellforest and raise the children together as a family. A year later, shortly after Renton turned 16, they got married and formally adopted the children.

Shortly after, Renton and Eureka had two children together: a daughter named Iris and a son named Ao. Ao is very close to his mother while having a complicated relationship with his father but loves him nonetheless. When talking about how she met her husband to their son, Eureka described Renton as immature, a crybaby, and a bit hopeless when they first met, but ended the comment by saying she loved everything about him. Eureka later tells Ao that despite everything they went through, she has no regrets falling in love with Renton and having children with him.

Iris Thurston
Iris is Renton and Eureka’s daughter and first child. In the anime, she died at three months of age due to high concentrations of trapar in the atmosphere whereas in the movies, she is unrelated to them but develops a kinship with Eureka.

Ao Thurston
Ao is Renton and Eureka’s son and second child. He strongly resembles Renton in hair color and facial features but has Eureka’s eyes, and is just as stubborn and bold as his father. Like both of his parents, he is a skilled pilot.

Maurice, Maeter and Linck
Eureka’s adopted children, whom Renton later adopts after their marriage. They love Eureka very much and didn’t trust Renton at first. However, they grew to accept him as their adopted father.

Fanon
This ship was immediately popular when the series was released in 2005. Fans compliment the relationship as a string example of true love, where Renton and Eureka benefited each other and made many impossible events occur together. Others consider it unhealthy because of how fast he fell in love with her and how she treated him poorly in the beginning.

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Trivia

 * Although Eureka was found the same year Renton was born, as a Coralian, she ages more slowly than a human, and thus will outlive Renton.
 * According to the first light novel book, Renton had dated one girl but never liked any girls other than Eureka.
 * The date of their marriage is April 2, 12006.
 * Their daughter’s name, Iris, is the Roman name for the goddess of the rainbow (possibly after the Seven Swell or the song Niji featured in the anime), whereas their son’s name, Ao, means deep blue and can be contributed to the sky or ocean.
 * In the 2009 movie, Renton and Eureka live in an alternate universe and are childhood friends whose goal is to find their own ‘Neverland’, where they can live together in peace.
 * The Hi Evolution trilogy films portray their relationship differently as the storyline disregards the original anime storyline.
 * In the first film, Eureka was frequently shown pictures of an infant Renton while under the care of his father. Several years later, similar to the anime version, they two are separated due to an argument; though in contrast to the anime, Renton learned Eureka wasn’t human after saving her from being absorbed by the Scrubs and had difficulty dealing with the realization, leading to him running away from the Gekkostate and Renton wonders around, debating whether or not to go back to see her again. Ultimately he decides to go see her again.
 * In the second movie, Renton and Eureka are separated once again. It’s eventually revealed that Eureka accidentally killed Renton when she touched the Silver Box, which caused her to consume him as he tried to save her. This left Eureka overcome with guilt and grief, and she has been using her power to create thousands of alternate worlds where he is alive and she can be with him. However, after she fails and her power disappears due to overuse, she briefly mourns him before Nirvash helps her realize that Renton from another alternate world is waiting for her.
 * In the third film, Eureka continues to mourn Renton after 10 years, causing her to become serious and depressed, and spends all her time doing missions and drinking to distract her from her grief. She also takes on his last name. At the end, she is able to use the Compac Drive in Nirvash to save the world and reunite with Renton (who had been waiting for her in another alternate world). Wedding rings also appear on their left ring fingers and they share their first kiss as they embrace and disappear into the alternate world, free to live a normal life together.
 * Their daughter, Iris, is unrelated to both of them in the Hi Evolution movies but develops a kinship with Eureka. She also mentions her brother, whom she hasn’t met.
 * In the manga, their relationship develops faster and Eureka’s dies in Renton’s arms after they save the planet from the Coralians, though Renton believes she will return to him.
 * The anime was supposed to have a similar ending where Eureka disappears after she and Renton stop the Limit of Questions from occurring after she recovers her seven memories but the staff changed the ending to a happier one.