Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener (グレン?) (born on 2042, and died on 2071), nicknamed Gren,
was a veteran of the Titan War. After the war, he was tried as a spy and imprisoned for three years. He later moved to Callisto and played saxophone in the Blue Crow while also becoming involved in the illegal Red Eye trade. He was killed after confronting Vicious (Gren's war comrade) during a drug trade he had arranged.
Background[]
Little is known about Grencia Mars' past. When he deployed during the Titan War, he was stationed in the same company as Vicious. Gren tried to befriend him, joining him during his usual isolation between battles. Hearing a music box he was playing, Gren asked him about the tune it played to start a conversation. Vicious let him keep the trinket, and stood up to leave, but not before startling him by killing a scorpion near his head. Unknown to Gren, this music box contained a solar transmitter for tracking him. During their time afterwards, Gren grew to admire Vicious as a soldier.
After the war, Gren was tried as a spy by a military court and sent to prison. During that time, he heard of a rumor that Vicious was the one who testified against him. Gren had a lot of trouble with this, so much so that he was given an experimental drug to calm down. Unfortunately, the drug had side effects – it increased his estrogen levels, causing him to grow breasts. In 2068, he escaped from prison.
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Spike Spiegel[]
Lin[]
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- Unnamed Father
- Unnamed Mother
Trivia[]
- Kawamoto Toshihiro, the character designer for the series, has stated that the most challenging character to design was Gren, as Gren was originally modeled after Brad Pitt, but Kawamoto had trouble picturing "Brad Pitt with breasts".
- Gren appears to have gynecomastia (males growing breast tissue), which is not uncommon in men taking steroids and other drugs targeting hormonal influences, after being forced to take experimental drugs while being in prison.
- Gren's style of playing the sax is highly inspired by The Crying Game's sax scene.
- His name in Japanese means ???.
According to the Databook:
- His birthday is ??? and his blood type is ???.
- His star sign is ???.
Voice Actors[]
- Japanese : Kenyu Horiuchi
- English : David A. Thomas
- Played by in (Live Action) : Mason Alexander Park
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