Ren Zotto’s Ben Loses a Dating Show, Visits the North Pole and Flees Police in District V

NIJISANJI — Ren Zotto’s character, Ben Boto, entered a dating show on the second day of the #DistrictV2 roleplay server in Grand Theft Auto, was cut in the final rounds, and was then whisked off to a North Pole scene in a stream that ran more than five hours. Ren opened by saying they were feeling under the weather and apologized for the previous day’s stream, which ended abruptly because of connection trouble.

Ben, who works as a catboy at a cat cafe and is deep in debt after a hit song got him sued for sounding too much like another, was invited to the show as an admirer competing for a contestant, the EMS doctor Dr. Grace Anatomy. He delivered a pickup line coached by Luca Santos, “Hey daddy, it’s your boy Sexy Truck,” and when Dr. Grace asked each admirer for a green flag and a red flag, he offered boba every day for the rest of her life, and admitted he was broke. His ideal date, a rooftop dinner followed by a bill she would have to cover, cost him the round. Ben took it in stride and invited her to the cat cafe for a free boba. The winner, a delivery driver, split a $100,000 prize with the doctor. Ren later said Ben “tripped right at the finish line.”

“Ben Boto, you guys, he’s a yes man. He says yes to literally everything that is asked of him.” — Ren Zotto, on their character Ben Boto

Moments after the elimination, Ben appeared at the North Pole, where an elf asked him to help save Christmas again, then woke up beside wrecked police cars and insisted he was innocent. Ren later said they had been “abducted by aliens and taken to the North Pole” and suggested Ben might have blacked out and dreamed it. After Ben texted the host, Flynn, about his payment, he received a $10,000 participation payout and said he planned to buy a bike. Other characters also gave him money.

After a server restart and a break, Ren returned and showed off a new, stronger whistle that they said had come to them suddenly after years of trying. Ben was then recruited by Beef Jos, who introduced himself as the CEO of Money and Wealth, into a church-based group called Legion, which presented its work as Santa’s workshop. He learned to grow, dry and process a product the group called snow, and was sworn in after promising to keep its secrets. Ren called him a “yes man” with no boundaries and worried he would slide into crime.

That worry came true when Ben joined other members on an ATM job. His hack failed on the last step, the ATM exploded, and a chase followed in which Ben was hurt but escaped. Ren said the night went “from the ATM exploding to just like five cop cars on us.” With the server crashing again, Ren ended the stream, said they would try to return the next day, and suggested keeping sessions to about three hours. The next stream, they said, would go back to the cat cafe. The stream drew seven Super Chats.