Peter Maderno
- Character: Peter Maderno
- Alias: Malcolm Grigori
- Clan: Daeva
- Covenant: Unaligned
- Apparent Age: 28
- Embraced: 1965
- Sire: Belinda Howard
- Player: Mac Thompson-Brown
- Player Email: macthompsonbrown@gmail.com
- VST: Joel Hooper
- VST Email: vst.requiem@armidale.beyondthesunset.com
Peter Maderno's Bio
Peter was an aspiring artist in his mortal days, but also one of the rare few mortals who's talent actually matched his aspirations. Upon finishing his childhood schooling, at 18 years old he entered art school, coming out at the top of his class years later and becoming a freelance artist.
His nightmare began one night years later when he was lured back to the home of a beautiful woman in a red dress, where she Embraced him against his will. Forty years of torture and captivity followed, with his Sire Belinda using a combination of severely brutal beatings, torture, mind games, lovebombing and psychological manipulation to take out her sick pleasure upon him.
After that forty years, he escaped his Sire whom he left staked for the sun, but it had left him so broken that when he discovered the internet and the wonders of digital art, he strove to learn how to use various digital art and image manipulation software so that he could create his artworks without having to face the people he sold them to. He found that with his quality of work and the internet savvy of Veronica, the only person he trusted, he could make quite the handsome living off the sale of his various artworks through a variety of websites which featured various artworks of different genres he created.
Peter avoided the Kindred for the ten years between his escape and the end of 2015, however, for he did not trust them... especially not the Daeva, whose proclivities for mental manipulation and psychological abuse through the Discipline of Dominate reminded him of his Sire. He would avoid other Daeva, and when they paid too much attention to him he would leave town instead of becoming a prisoner and a victim yet again.
Personality and Appearance
Peter is a twitchy suspicious figure who regards everybody around him as a potential agent for his Sire, for he believes that somehow she survived the sunrise that he left her staked to meet. Thanks to his broken mind, he cannot deal with praise or affection, believing that anybody who shows these toward him is trying to manipulate him and exact some sort of cruelty upon him. The exception is when these are expressed through the internet, for the separation between himself and others and the safety that the internet and computers provide make him feel comfortable enough to accept praise and affection.
Peter is a medium-build caucasian with an unshaven face, blue eyes and brown hair. He dresses in long pants and a hooded jumper, clothing which allows him to get around without many people paying attention to him due to his unremarkable attire and the knowledge that people will subconsciously regard his appearance as impoverished and as a result turn their attention away from him (after all, almost nobody cares for the poor).
Peter's Websites
OOC Note: these websites have not been created by the player, and are fictional for the purpose of this wiki page. Any real-world websites by the name names or URLs are not associated with the player, and their listing here is purely coincidental.
IC Note: all websites listed in this section have their webmaster and owner listed as Malcolm Grigori.
- A Splash of Red: horror artworks featuring ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters, magic-users, Fae and other fictional monsters. Artworks of horror-themed locations are also found here.
- Stone and Steel: architectural artworks displaying depictions of man-made locations both real and fictional, including mansions, castles, historical sites and other importance places.
- Visage of Humanity: portraits that feature both real and fictional individuals. Fictional individuals include kings, clergymen, actors and so on for the purpose of a conjured scene. Portraits of real people are only displayed should the subject who commissioned the portrait give legal permission for them to be shown on Visage of Humanity.