Eric Grieve

Eric Grieve is a Lasombra fledgling embraced as a part of a mysterious mass embrace. He was embraced along side Mick Ross, Bianca Giovanni, and Stephen Brice.

History
Born in a poor and negligent family he rarely had anybody watching his back. Instead he was practically left to fend for himself against local bullies, figures of authority who tended to target him, and even at times drunk members of his family. His parents had severely overestimated their abilities to take care of a kid and turned to drinking to deal with the stress, at least that’s what they told him. Either way they pretty much just gave up on him.

Instead of planning some sort of dream life he was making a survival plan, a plan to get out of the shithole life he was born into. This drive made him a bit unapproachable to his peers but it made a couple of the teachers like him. Those teachers were the only source of stability in his life.

As a teenager he decided that joining the army would be his best (and frankly only) option to get a better life. He took to P.E with a passion and taught himself what he could so he’d be able to get out of training quicker. People didn’t really take to him but that was fine in his opinion, he needed nobody anyway.

His application was accepted and he went through training gladly. Then went through SoF training in order to get the pay increase, he wasn’t just gonna to settle for only a little better than his prior life, even if it put him through more pain. He became a sniper thanks to his keen eyesight and methodical temperament.

During his rare time back on US soil he became close to a woman named Maris who was kind, who looked at his scars and the rough edges and loved him anyways. He looked at her scars and rough edges and loved her all the same as well. None of it mattered to either of them, all that mattered was each other. While they couldn’t spend a lot of time with each other in person they’d send letters and have many phone calls. Hell he got the nickname lover boy by the others in his group.

While back at home he proposed to Maris who agreed to marry him. They were both over the moon about it and bought a house together. They’d wed after his next tour. Unfortunately while away from home Maris was seemingly kidnapped from their home in a BnE gone wrong.

It wasn’t long till he was informed of what happened, and near needless to say he completely lost his shit. He was dishonorably discharged from the military after getting in a physical fight with his commanding officer during a freakout after discovering what had happened to Maris.

A life in tatters is what he returned to. A home with a bed too big, with a nursery that will never get used, and a hole in his heart. He begun to drink himself to death, however the news that the case had gone cold snapped him out of it. If any hope of justice was to live he’d have to investigate her death himself.

Not that he had any money to hire a P.I or any connections to the people he’d need to do it. After much deliberation he decided that this justice, it was worth his soul and whatever else it took. In order to raise funds and make connections with the sort of people who’d know about the kidnapping he turned to a life of crime. Starting small as a bodyguard he quickly got the connections to work as a hitman.

At least with the money he was able to hire a P.I to help in the search as his new connections so far had not turned up much information. Despite his best attempts to not grow attached to her he did start to consider her a friend and they started going out for drinks together.

In his line of work he became aware that the Valley seemed to be under new control and so decided to present himself to Victor Temple who appeared to be at the center of this change. He’d make his services available at a discount against anybody but civilians in return for any information about Maris or the break in that led to her disappearance. Victor took him up on the offer, not with impute plans of use but as something practically free to keep in the back pocket in exchange for something that he’d probably end stumbling upon by accident.

Victor did end up turning to him for information more than anything else, to get a better understanding of what was happening on a ground level. It wasn’t a half bad working relationship despite the fact that neither man trusted the other at all.

Personality
A serious and hard to approach man many find him intimidating and few want to piss him off, even before understanding just how dangerous he actually is. Little makes him show emotion and less yet a positive one. The shell around him is a thick one few even bother to consider breaking through let alone try. And that’s just how he likes it, at this point he wants nobody to get caught in the crossfire of his mission and in the past it felt safer to have few that are close. Not to mention he’s not good with people to begin with.

That is married with an ambitious and goal-oriented person gives off the impression of somebody without emotion. That could be further from the truth however as under that shell is a broken man lashing out against a world that’s set up against him and has taken almost everything he’s ever loved.