Donovan Riviera

Arbiter of the Invictus
"Sure I can do it. What you're asking isn't hard. The question is, are you willing to pay what it's worth?"

Donovan is a new addition to New Babylon, as in, brand new. He's a nomad, ostensibly sent here to help stabilize the region, but the truth is more that Prince Thorne requested assistance, and Donovan could be sent and kill two birds with one stone. It would get him out of danger in LA, and it would earn his sire a favor from Prince Thorne at a later date. He's seen as absolutely insane for traveling between domains, but he's got respectable invictus status, and for him being less than a year as a vampire, that means he must be good at what he does, or the Invictus are desperate. Maybe a little of both.

OOC:

Donovan was born in L.A. at the turn of the millennium, and he didn't exactly grow up in a nice neighborhood. He was the kind of guy that would keep his head down, not get involved with the rougher elements of the neighborhood, and stayed indoors, but he needed hobbies. He had taken a fascination with taking things apart, but where his brother was more of a fan of cars, Donovan had an interest in technology, and his parents got together enough money to get him a computer. This is where he shined, and when it became a thing, he started modding for Reddit, and still does, making it part of what it is today.

As he aged, he had to find a way to make money, and he turned to hacking in his teens. He was good enough to not get caught, and is responsible for doxxing some Klan members, pedophiles, and others. He swore to use his skills for good, but good is mutable, and all of that pales behind money. He started taking work from shiftier clients, and it wasn't long before the law caught up. Nothing stuck and he was never charged, but he decided that maybe it was time to turn his skills legitimate, and he used some money to look into be private investigator. He set up a firm with his ill gotten gains and became pretty well known in the So-Cal area. He wasn't supernaturally good at the game, but he had a reputation for professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality, which isn't something you find in Investigators that are more chummy with the law than he was.

During this time, he ended up taking a case to find a missing husband. The client's name was Camilla, and she was paying well, so he did the job, finding said husband. He wasn't in good shape, living in a sewer and only venturing out at night. Donovan did his job and told Camilla, and then the next day saw on the news that there was an eviscerated homeless man in the sewers, and Donovan knew him. He had planned to just keep his head down about the whole thing, but he showed up to his office and Camilla was there, and embraced him as a thank you, noting that he would make a much better childe than the man he found.

Donovan didn't make a vary good Invictus. He was a bit more flexible than they liked, but he was good at spying, and once again, turned his computer skills to his advantage. He brought up an idea with his sire. He would go into elder's homes as a favor from his sire, fix the tech, and install key-loggers and remote accesses, of course, then sell their information to their enemies. It worked spectacularly, and Donovan gained status quickly, but when you rise fast, you make enemies, and pretty soon, he had to leave L.A. unless those enemies caught up with him, so his sire gifted him a pistol, a car, and sent him to New Babylon to help Prince Thorne restore order and do what he did best.

Character Hooks:


 * Rumor has it he's looking for someone and is willing to do what he has to to find that person.
 * If you're from some of the nastier parts of LA, it's possible you crossed paths.
 * Though young as a vampire, he accrued Invictus status quickly with his computer skills.
 * Devout Independent Catholic. This is very different than Roman
 * Has worked on behalf of the Lancea et Sanctum and The Ordo Dracul before, though it was at the behest of the Invictus.
 * He's a hacker for vampires. It's likely that he has hacked you or someone you know to gain political blackmail that he then sold.
 * Donovan doesn't like Carthians too much. He calls them children raging about bedtime, and it's possible he's clashed with someone you know.
 * Sometimes you need something, and no one is as connected as the Invictus. Donovan can get you whatever you may be looking for. The only question is, how are you going to pay for it? He does accept IOUs.
 * Donovan does sell his services as a computer expert, and is willing to work on computers, and he'll even not bug your computer if you ask. It's bad to offend your customers, and he's not in a position to do so.
 * Donovan is a licensed PI and if you can't find him about town, you can usually find him working on a small mountain of cases in his office with his partner. He does take vampire's cases, and is known to be confidential with that particular thing. He runs an honest business.