Marin Reed

“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:  Marin Reed

Age:  35 (at start of “Crescent”)/45 (at time of “Leader of the Pack”)

Seiran Clan:  Wolf Clan (descendant of the Huntress Saundi), has the triggered gene

Gender:  Male

Occupation:Teacher (on Eden)/Bookstore clerk (on Seirar)

Height:  5’8”

Weight:  [approximately] 180lbs

Basic biography:At the start of Marin’s story, “Crescent: The Story of Marin Reed”, Marin is an elementary school teacher on the Terran Sphere colony world of Eden.   He led a life of multiple ways…..he was not just a teacher, but since he had the triggered gene that allowed him to transform into a wolf, he also associated with a native wolf-like species called the Lupin, on Eden.   And due to the pain of losing his parents, he also chose to take on a vigilante identity and fight crime at night.   As the triggered gene was rare for Seiran descendants outside of Seirar, keeping the ability to transform was one of the two secrets Marin was keeping from the world, besides his vigilante identity.When he came to interact, and later to fall desperately in love, with the young journalist, Daniel Hunter………..he was given a name of “Crescent” for his vigilante identity.   Over the long course of the story (about 5 years), Marin had many interactions on Eden as well as off Eden………….meeting his very distant cousin, Matthew Stone, and the universal species that the Terran Sphere held an uneasy alliance with, the Tinirians (who resemble the Velociraptors of the “Jurassic Park” films)—who have sworn that if the Terran Sphere were to ever outright annihilate the Seirans, they’d start a galactic war and destroy the Terran Sphere—as well as having an “uncle” who happens to be a Kitsune (mythical fox creature).   When Daniel died, due to an incident…………..Marin lost all will to live and Matt invited him to come and live on Seirar—where he felt Marin would maybe find more ease in his life.  After a number of years of living alone, but with the friendship of his distant cousin, Marin became attracted to a young Wolf Clan member, Bryce Nakamura……….and began forging a new relationship with him.