Daniel Hunter

“The Tales of the Clans” has been a life-long story project of mine.   The universe I created is mine and mine alone…………..though it encompasses many of my genre loves throughout the years.  I do, literally, mean life-long……..I began writing the early chapters when I was about 13-14 (middle school), that was about 30 years ago.They began as the stories I would write in my creative writing classes……..and a new era would begin with each “era” I wrote them in, in school.  The beginning, “the primitive era”, was inspired by me reading (at the time), all the pre-history fiction/fantasy novels like “Reindeer Moon” and “The Clan of the Cave Bear”………..with maybe some “ElfQuest” thrown in.  In high school, I wrote the “planet pirate era”……..clearly inspired by my beginning to watch anime like the “Galaxy Railways” films and spin-offs, “Tenchi Muyo!” and the “Project A-Ko vs.” OAVs.  In college I was writing the “space exploration era”………………..which I won’t even hide was influenced by my love of the “Star Trek” franchise.After college I wrote the “Crescent era”……………….which was a romance, at the basis of it, a superhero-science-fantasy-based romance—and was influenced by the fact I was in love and had someone I loved.  And that era (the most recent of the Clan stories) was the one most influenced by my real life………………with Daniel’s death in the story, reflected the loss of the guy I loved most in this world.  And, even to this day, in trying so hard to type everything up……………..I have never even been able to type the final chapter of “Crescent: The Story of Marin Reed”, it’s still handwritten in a notebook.  I always cry when I read the final chapter and Daniel’s death scene and Marin dealing with the loss………because it was based on everything I felt when my soulmate passed away.  It may never be fully typed, unless I can manage to do it without crying…………………..

Name:  Daniel Hunter

Age:  25 (at start of “Crescent”)/deceased

Seiran Clan:  None, he is human and Terran descended

Gender:  Male

Occupation:Journalist

Height:  5’4”

Weight:[approximately] 150lbs

Basic biography:  Daniel is an open and fun-loving young man.  He is openly gay and likes to flirt with men he thinks are handsome, even when he’s in a relationship.   He had a serious relationship when he was younger and his partner took his own life, leaving a hole in Daniel’s heart.  Eventually his interest in chasing the vigilante of Prime City led to him falling in love with Marin Reed.  He was happy and satisfied with his older partner………….until the day he died, due to a terrorist incident at the news station where he worked.