In the wake of World War I, Bonifazio spoke out fiercely against the governments of the world, telling whomever would listen that they had brought the world to the brink of disaster and murdered his generation. He called for the people to rise up and throw down the leaders who sent young men to die for political causes, calling to him others who shared his views. He was active in recruiting for the American Communist Party, although his own views tended more towards anarchism. At the height of his political career, he became victim to another struggle.
When Callough Motley came to New Orleans, during the Civil War, he brought with him three of his progeny. The intensity of the conflict with the Sabbat quickly led to turmoil among the brood and after the destruction of the eldest, the youngest fled the city. The one who remained was finally persuaded to stay, but was also destroyed during the endgame, soon after his sire. During the first decades of the century, the Brujah was forced to recruit whenever he could, mostly ghouls but also the occasional childe, merely to flesh out his ranks and give him more reach. Bonifazio was the first of these and the only one to survive the wars.
Bonifazio was repelled by his new condition, but the persuasiveness of his sire and his apparent sincerity led to him putting these feelings aside in order to address the larger issue, warring against the Lasombra. His sire told hm that the Sabbat was a vast fascist army, led by the autocratic Lasombra and Tzimisce, who manipulated the others like pawns on a chessboard. He portrayed the Camarilla as a brotherhood of kindred, a union looking after the interests of all, kindred and kine alike. With no evidence to the contrary and swayed by the blood bond and his sire's Presence, he accepted this explanation and took his place in the ranks.
His role was much as it had been in life. He moved among the anarchists, communists, and labor leaders and learned to pull their strings to make them serve the battle. It was not long, however, when the hypocrisy of his position struck him. A realization that his sire's portrait of the factions was not fully accurate was not hard to come by, and the Brujah ploy to control the Long machine further convinced him that Callough and his patron in Baton Rouge were little better than those they opposed. Rather than flee, he decided to bide his time and gather influence for himself to use when an opportunity presented itself.
His continued involvement with socialist elements led to him noticing a young Jewish radical by the name of Golda Shiloh. Impressed by her obvious intelligence and her skill at debate, he was informed through his contact of her impending arrest, along with the rest of her circle, for vague conspiracy charges in the wake of the McCarthyist purge. With the permission of his sire, he Embraced her and explained to her the situation, both in truth and what he had been led to believe. He passionately begged her to join him to bring some sense of real justice and egalitarianism to the new world she was now a part of. While it was not easy to convert her, eventually, she agreed.
The defection to the Sabbat validated everything he had suspected, as well as removed the last tie of loyalty between he and his sire. Over the course of the next decade, he made contact with the Setites through their shared union ties and offered to lead the Lasombra forces to his sire's haven. Making sure to secure amnesty for his childe, he committed the betrayal. He was able to convince another of the Brujah to stay with the Sabbat and his pleas allowed him to join his pack while the rest of Callough's brood were either driven from the city or destroyed.
In the years since, Bonifazio has striven to lead his pack in the ideal of Sabbat philosophy of freedom, making allies in the Loyalist sect and using his influence in the unions and other radical organizations to undermine Camarilla attempts to manipulate both kindred and kine affairs and, more quietly, has done the same to whittle at Lasombra influence. He has also gotten some inroads into Mafia affairs over the years, and is careful to keep under wraps the extent of his influence there, lest the Serpents or even the Lasombra deem him a threat.
Like most Brujah, Bonifazio has outgrown the more direct rebellious urges of his youth, but unlike many, He has retained his passionate idealism, despite the ups and downs of the years, and sincerely believes in the things he advocates. While many people are put off by his rather frank sincerity, it has helped him to earn a very loyal following within the more radical circles he travels. While not particularly well educated or sophisticated, he is an outstanding speaker. Over the years, he has come to defer to his childe in the more intellectual matters of their shared interests and acts as more of a mouthpiece and a figurehead.
Personally, he can be difficult to deal with, because of his tendency not to succumb to idle banter or put off saying things or bringing up topics which might disturb those he's dealing with. Pretty much any discussion he gets in will turn to politics and he will pick a fight, regardless of setting, if people disagree with him (particularly if they do so in a less than intelligent manner). This isn't a matter of spite as much as a combination of disdain for those who cannot defend their beliefs and a sort of bravado. It has gotten him in trouble on many occasions and his childe goes to great lengths to mitigate it.
Fiori is very close to his two other pack members, though he is terrified that they will discover his betrayel of his sire, regardless of how correct he feels this action was. He is particularly reliant on Golda for her cool head and keen intellect. He sees much of himself in Oliver and finds the man's company somewhat comforting on that behalf. He is deeply afraid he will, like his sire and grandsire, lose perspective with the passing years and become what he despises.
Of course, he hates the Lasombra, though he is quite adept at not stating such in their presence, a rare instance of self-control in his rhetoric. He is similarly wary of the other two Bishops, though he can relate well to many of the Serpents and has tried, on several occasions, to convert them to his own way of thinking. He feels he has had some progress with Argyle and counts Reggy in his camp, just because of the man's ties to the dock workers' union (which is a bit presumptious of him and inaccurate).
He is utterly disgusted by the Krewe of Rex and would likely get in outright fights with them more often did they not so seldomly cross paths. He is similarly repulsed at the two revenants living in the city and their criminal tastes.
Bonifazio is still trying to recover a great deal of the power his sire weilded before his destruction, but is still a major mover and shaker in New Orleans in his own right. He has extensive ties in the labor unions and among the more liberal elements of the city government. He also has a few strong ties to the local mafia, though in its decline these aren't of much use in themselves, but are good to leverage other corrupt elements of the city.