Piper Bentley

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## General Description

Piper Bentley is a realtor for Dynasty 8 Realty.

Piper was previously employed as a law enforcement officer; she also has EMS training and has worked for fire-rescue services. She retired from the police department in February of 2023.

## Background

Piper was born Piper Meghan Lockwood in Las Venturas to parents Jack and Meghan Lockwood, along with her identical twin sister, Amelia Morgan Lockwood. The twins were orphaned at eight years old, and were illegally taken in by their father's business partner, David Miller.

Soon after, Miller added a homeless boy, Dylan, to the household. Dylan was the same age as the twins and was raised as their stepbrother. Dylan's surname is unknown, and he has accumulated a large number of false identities, further obscuring his origins. He was last seen with one of the twins in Los Santos in 2019; his current whereabouts are unknown.

In 2011, when they were 17, the twins ran away from home. Their movements from 2011 through the fall of 2020 are difficult to verify, as the twins were known to borrow each others' identities. To further confuse the issue, there is at least one instance when it is believed that one twin was pretending to be both of them at various times in Los Santos.

## 2011 - July 2019

[Note: Information in this section is tentative and cannot be conclusively verified.]

It is believed that the twins separated in 2011 shortly after leaving home, with Piper disappearing entirely for a time and Amelia seeking work with various criminal organizations. Unable to gain work due to her young age and inability to rely on past acquaintances to vouch for her, Amelia apparently ran afoul of [REDACTED] and was subsequently employed in December of 2011 by Jackson Rose, a known felon who has been repeatedly arrested for theft and burglary.

Between 2013 and 2019, one of the twins was spotted several times in the company of various members of the Liberty City Triads.

Piper resurfaced in April of 2019, allegedly in connection with the infamous Starfish Island heist perpetrated by David Miller's crew. According to rumors picked up by the organized crime task force, Piper may have agreed to assist in order to extract Dylan, who had unsuccessfully attempted to leave Miller's crew numerous times. The heist left six dead after David Miller betrayed his crew and ran off with the [REDACTED] they had stolen; both Dylan and Piper escaped.

Dylan appeared in Los Santos in July; Piper appeared to have joined him shortly thereafter, but intelligence later developed by the FIB appears to confirm that the "Piper" who was residing in Los Santos from 2019 through 2020 was actually Amelia using Piper's identity. Around the same time, rumors surfaced that the real Piper had been killed In July somewhere in the Midwest.

## The Los Santos Years

On July 12, 2019, Piper Lockwood apparently arrived in Los Santos. She was employed by the Los Santos Fire Department as an EMT shortly thereafter. After the events of [REDACTED] in 2020, it was discovered that the individual in question was actually Amelia Lockwood, who had stolen her sister Piper's identity in 2019 in order to set herself up as bait for [REDACTED] after they attempted and nearly succeeded in killing Piper in July.

As best as can be determined, the real Piper didn't arrive in Los Santos until May of 2020. According to various sources, Piper had initially been aware that Amelia was meeting Dylan in Los Santos, but was unaware that Amelia was using her identity during this time. Dylan was extensively questioned about this time period after he was detained following the [REDACTED] incident. According to him, Piper had discovered that Amelia was using her identity sometime around the beginning of 2020 and had agreed to allow the deception to continue so long as Amelia followed certain rules: specifically, Amelia was not to develop any personal relationships, and she was to send thorough reports to Piper on a daily basis. These rules were allegedly in order to make the long-term plan more feasible: it is believed that the twins planned for Piper to switch places with Amelia at some point so that Amelia could disappear. According to Dylan, Piper traveled to Los Santos when she began to suspect that Amelia had violated this agreement.

Assuming that events occurred as stated above, there can be no doubt that Amelia had violated the agreement, as she had married a Los Santos lawyer in 2019, apparently for financial gain. After a messy divorce, she went on to what appeared to be a genuine relationship with Lost president Johnny Holliday, as well as brief attachments to several other individuals after her relationship with Holliday fell apart. Holliday and Amelia briefly reconciled, but the relationship crashed and burned shortly thereafter and appears to have triggered several events that led to Amelia's alleged death.

Piper and Amelia agreed that they were going to prepare for Piper to take Amelia's place in Los Santos, though Piper was extremely unhappy about the personal and professional mess that Amelia had left for her. In preparation to settle in Los Santos, Piper applied to the LSPD in May of 2020 and completed training in June, while simultaneously substituting in for Amelia with the LSFD.

According to hospital records, Amelia Lockwood was pronounced dead on July 23, 2020, after she was kidnapped and shot in the head. Her body disappeared from the morgue later that night, presumably along with the [REDACTED].

Sometime in June of 2020, Piper met Levi Bentley, a former LSPD officer and long-time felon who had recently moved back to the city. Though their initial relationship could best be described as contentious, Levi sought and was eventually granted an expungement of his criminal record, which allowed him to be rehired by the LSPD. Eventually, Piper and Levi began a formal relationship, culminating in a proposal in late 2020 and their marriage on January 30, 2021. The pair rose high within the ranks of the LSPD and ultimately retired on February 1st, 2023. After their retirement party, the two sailed away from Los Santos on an extended trip to the islands.

Piper returned to Los Santos in October of 2023 to serve as maid of honor for Veronica Night's wedding. When the trip lasted longer than she had initially believed it would, she sought temporary employment as a realtor with Dynasty 8 Realty after encountering problems transferring funds back to Los Santos from overseas banks. Levi, meanwhile, is reputedly working outside of the country and is expected to attend the wedding.