Martin Riverdale

Just Before the Corner=

 is one of the main characters of the Just Before the Corner series. He's an engineer and a bit of a troublemaker; together with his two best friends David and Angelo, he gets a job at a secret government service... unknowing that the newly elected President has horrible plans involving this "secret service".

Appearance
Martin has red hair, in a duck-tail style; he doesn't have freckles, but has the same navy blue eyes as his son. Martin usually wears a turquoise T-shirt and grey-blueish jeans with grey sneakers underneath. Due to bad eyesight, Martin has always worn square-shaped glasses when he was younger, which became rectangle-shaped glasses as he got older.

Appearance in Now or Never specific
In Now or Never, Martin's appearance doesn't change much, apart from a pair of high, brown boots and a dark blue coat which he wears for work.

Personality
Martin is quite shy; he doesn't like to be around many people. This was probably caused by The Bully Team, who eventually lead him to move in with his mother for three years, who lived outside New York, his home town. Martin's especially awkward when it comes to girls. He has a girlfriend, Cheyenne, with whom he's been together for three years; but it took him a lot of effort to ask her out. He wants to ask her to marry him; if he just wasn't too scared to get rejected, he would've done so already. Luckily for him, his friends help him out; Martin and Cheyenne married at age 24 and 23, about two years before their oldest daughter Samira was born.

His son has obviously inherited some of his traits; like alcohol-intolerance and lots of patience. But once the limit has been reached, Martin explodes in a raging fire of anger; unstoppable and probably holding a grudge for quite some time.


 * -|Friends Around the Corner=

In Friends Around the Corner, which takes place 18 years after the beginning of Now or Never, Martin has died (due to a seemingly "unknown" cause). He does make cameos every once in a while in flashbacks, memories and stories Samira tells her brother and her friends.


 * -|Just Around the Corner=

In Just Around the Corner, Martin appears in two stories. In Fixing the Future and in Bullet Holes. In Fixing the Future, a few years prior to Bullet Holes, something goes wrong when James and Samira manage to travel back in time and "save" their father from dying, causing a dystopian future to be created. This leads the two teens to their "father," who, of course, never had children; yet they still need each other to save the world and restore the timeline.

Bullet holes unveils the mystery surrounding Martin's death, as nineteen-year-old Samira and seventeen-year-old James try and find answers to their questions.