He frequently plays test pilot for devisors and gadgeteers' new inventions. During Fall term 2006, he tested a jetpack for a friend which exploded approximately 200 feet in the air, which has apparently become an infamous event on school. His parents are Martin and Alice Townshend and run the Townshend Publishing House in Nashville, Tennessee. After their publishing house ran into financial trouble due to an embezzling relative and Ayla gave them the required $147,000 in exchange for Peril playing penectomy victim. As a result, they insisted on giving Ayla 35% of the company.