Ren's life is never his. It always belongs to someone else around him, someone else above him. He intends to keep his head down in this new town for the rest of his days, but Fate seems to have a different plan for him /P5R retelling where Ren is broken and not quite sane. Some canon divergence

He's stuck in an endless replay of the year before the Fall – of the best and worst year of his life, of the year that marks the moment he truly lives, and the year that marks his death into its obituary. And he's doomed to relive it all, over and over and over until eternity ends— Or so he's thought. /Time loop, fix it, P3 canon-divergence