Piers Riot, malkavian

Piers was born to English speaking parents in the South Peninsula area of Cape Town, South Africa, his mother was overbearing, his father physically abusive to his mother and to him and his sister. Finally, his father disappeared one day and never came home so Piers’ mom and sister relied on him for stability, though he was a small child. Several step fathers later and with a hefty drug addiction; his mother remarried a visiting American man who took the family to the United States where his military career would move them all over the country. Fortunately then, Piers no longer had to play his mother’s therapist or dad to his younger sister. So, while his mother sobered, and his sister excelled in early elementary school, Piers had difficulty making friends and was unhappy. He turned to petty crime to cope with his childhood misery, and he was placed in two separate correctional facilities for assault of a peer and animal cruelty. Even at a young age, he had a history of rage and violent tendencies, depression, and mood stability and it only worsened as he grew older. Piers dropped out, half way through high school. Despite all this he was accepted into the air force, where he showed real talent for flying, until a psychological evaluation deemed him unfit for service and he was discharged. He was then committed to a psychiatric inpatient hospital for a year for treatment of severe bipolar and depression. He had recently been to court but was ruled insane and acquitted of the crimes of vandalism and arson. An enterprising Malkavian vampire working there became interested in his derangements and turned him hoping to engage in further study of his mental illnesses. She ultimately tried to prevent Piers’ release by gifting him with more madness. Unfortunately, the plan back fired and that particular mental health worker disappeared mysteriously, killed by Piers.

The ashes of his sire left no evidence to the murder and he was released when stable stable on medication. Piers stopped his meds immediately after getting out, and again, turned to crime. He eventually ran with a group of talented criminals who made a living off of robbery and forgery. Among them was a gangrel named Johnny. Piers found that having a vampire’s skills made him invaluable, but he didn’t like the company of other kindred. Johnny also died suddenly and without explanation. He soon amassed a small fortune and parted ways with the remaining drifters. He moved to the Los Angeles area to be close to his mom and sister after hearing his step dad passed. His mother now is aging and has dementia, his sister doing well in college. Piers lives out in Pinon in the secluded, California desert on 30 acres with his animal companions, which he values more than people. He also crashes with his mom and sister at their townhouse in Los Angeles when in the city. He has his own helicopter and did some work as a pilot for paramedics working in Los Angeles at night before agreeing to be a pilot and driver for a Ventrue named Tristin Amberdrake. He came highly recommended by Tristin’s aide, who’d found Piers by a network of criminal contacts.