Name: Reno Marrin
Age: 29
Weapon: Nightstick, a unique weapon that he crafted himself. Also uses Sniper CT / and wrist daggers as well.
Job: Turk
Eye Color: Blue
Hair: Red, worn in a ponytail that falls to middle of his back.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 168
Birthdate: July 23
Birthplace: Midgar
Blood-type: B
Appearance: Blue suit, w/white dress shirt (with the top few buttons undone) Black dress shoes and black fingerless gloves.
Background: Reno Marrin was born the only child of Renoah Marrin and Tanke Marrin. While his mother carried his Father’s last name and they called each other Husband and Wife, they weren’t truly married legally and thus Reno was born a bastard.
At the age of 4 years, his mother grew tired with the hardship of raising a child and trying to make a decent living on the plate of Sector One. So one day, not long after he turned 4, she came in to find him sleeping and picked him up and took the train to Sector Two slums. There after walking and finding an alley she set him down and turned and walked away without looking back once even though he carried out for her and tried to follow her. When she disappeared from sight he became frightened and retreated back to the alley hiding.
An older boy who had lived on the streets of the slums his whole life found him and he took Reno under his wing and taught him how to survive on the harsh streets of sector two slums. He also taught him where it was safe to beg for food and where not too. Also he told him how to evade Tony, a pimp with an eye for pretty boys. Which unfortunately meant he would also like to get his hands on Reno since he considered the younger boy exquisite looking with the combination of his scarlet hair and sapphire eyes set in the pale skin of his face.
The other boy though was finally caught and killed in a fight on the streets while protecting Reno and this left him on his own. He lived on his own until he was 10 and he was finally cornered and caught by Tony. The first chance though and Reno escaped the pimp’s house and ran. Alas Tony caught up with him the next morning and proceeded to beat him with fist and knife, slicing his cheeks once on each side under his eyes. It was then Tseng showed up and killed Tony with his own knife. They left the pimp choking on his own blood and went back to the place Reno had called home. There over a course of three years Tseng taught Reno how to defend himself without a weapon and also what the older boy had learned from a man he called “Sensei”.
When Reno was 13, Tseng 15. They we’re discovered by a man calling himself Tyler, He introduced himself as the Head of an Administrative Department, called the Turks. He told them both that he thought they had what it took to be one of these Turks. He took them both to the ShinRa Building and a man called Tazien tested both to see if they were worthy of the honor of wearing the suit and the title of being a Turk. After the test he nodded and said they were and they were both hired then and began their training.
The first paycheck Tseng had he brought Reno the parts he needed to make the weapon he would later use and be known for, his Nightstick, so named because the metal casing was a dark and smoky gray color. When combined with materia it was a weapon that was almost unbeatable. Reno also shown great aptitude for firearms as well, and most often was given a sniper’s role in the missions. He was the best at divorcing himself from his emotions when on a mission. Tseng was the only one better than he was at being a Turk. When Tseng became Leader of the Turks he praised him and worked even harder for his best friend besides the tall bald man they all knew as ‘Rude’.
Later he was given a mission to locate an ancient by the name of Aeris Gainsborough. He found her easily enough inside an old ruined church. His efforts though at catching her were halted when a younger man attacked him and his men. He came back and told both ShinRa and Tseng what had happened and was then ordered to wait as the President was thinking of another mission for him, which later turned out to be the destruction of the Pillar of Sector Seven. He did it and fought three people calling themselves AVALANCHE. One was the same young man from the church before, then the other two a black man with a gun arm and a woman with long black hair. They fought until the helicopter came around and he left inside it to go to the infirmary to recover from the fight.
He was later ordered to stall AVALANCHE while Tseng and Scarlet checked out a nearby Reactor. And so the group he had fought at the pillar and he and Rude fought again, once again leaving when their work had been done. They later were given a couple days off and so went down to an island called Wutai, and to a pub called Turtle’s paradise. There the group minus the black man showed up again. He played them no mind though and told Elena, a new Turk who had been brought in while he had been out of commission, to pay no heed to them either.
Later, when a couple of SOLDIERS came in and began rambling on about the man who had blurted the plans for the destruction of the pillar to AVALANCHE, Don Corneo. They said they wanted the Turks help in catching him while he was in Wutai. Reno declined, as did Rude. But Elena left after them after giving both Reno and Rude a small piece of her mind. After they finished their drinks and went looking for her, they found that the SOLDIERS had messed up once again and the Don had kidnapped Elena. For a brief while they agreed to make a temporary truce with AVALANCHE and find both their missing member and Elena. They found the two women tied to the face of the mountain face with the Don teasing them and sneering at AVALANCHE. After taking care of the Don, which meant basically killing him by knocking him off the face of the mountain and letting him fall to his death. They then untied Elena and ignored the call from Scarlet telling them to find and capture AVALANCHE.
They then went to the Temple to find that it was no longer there and that AVALANCHE had been here before them, and thus Elena jumped to the conclusion that AVALANCHE had killed Tseng and then destroyed the Temple. So they when they met them inside the tunnels of Midgar they were ready to fight, but in Rude and Reno’s case they really didn’t care anymore…since they found out their President was dead and with him all of ShinRa Inc. So when Cloud decided not to fight they agreed and left the trio alone and left Midgar for good. They then made their way to Junon and stayed there taking on odd jobs and very few times holding down normal regular jobs which often ended up failing and with them leaving to once again begin taking odd mercenary jobs in which their skills as Turks could be put to work. Reno was slightly surprised when Rufus ShinRa showed back up on the scene and called them to his side once more.
He was more surprised though when he received a call from an old friend which all of them had thought dead. They went back to the tunnels and there met Tseng again along with Reeve. It turned out both were part of an underground group who called themselves NEW AVALANCHE. They were against the madman that had begun to takeover the power ShinRa once held a year ago. Tseng once again took his place as the Leader of the Turks with Reno, Rude and Elena. They then went along with Rufus and some others in a raid on the Junon ShinRa Building in a coup to take Junon back from Sierra. It succeeded and he met Riya for the first time. Though at first they didn’t get along, he began to see another side of her when Fenris was hurt from fighting with Rufus.
