Lewis Sheng - Lysenko's Sire

Lewis Sheng was born and raised in LA, — in one of the roughest parts of the city. Since he was a child, he was involved in the local street gang called the “Exiles”, a small-time group of hoodlums who quickly became known troublemakers. When he was eight years old, he learned how to unlock cars without the key, at eleven he was hotwiring said cars, and by the ripe age of thirteen he was driving those cars.

However, one day a carjacking did not go as planned for Lewis and his lookout. They broke in and were getting the car out of the driveway when they were forced to stop by a car pulling in. The man behind the wheel jumped out in a frenzy, phone already to his head calling the police. Lewis’ partner bailed, leaving him to fend for himself. The police arrived and he was charged with motor vehicle theft. He served a five-year sentence in a juvenile detention center due to his young age.

When Lewis was released as an 18-year-old, he went right back to his old neighborhood and saw how little it had changed throughout the years. His time in prison had not changed his troubled mind, only provided him with more contacts and rep. A part of him was ashamed the neighborhood had stagnated in his five-year absence, but this gave him an opportunity finish what he started. If nothing else, the five years in prison earned him respect, especially among the younger gangsters.

This newfound attitude brought him to the interest of the gang-leader going by the name “Diligence”. On that night, he became a ghoul and got his first taste of the Kindred world. He wanted more. He could not get enough. It only took two months for Diligence to Embrace Lewis. One night after his Embrace, Diligence was shot in the head and burned to death by an opposing gang called the Corpse Crooks.

Motivations-

Destroy the Competition: Although Lewis’s drive will never be the same, he yearns to once again feel that spark of life taken away from him with the Embrace. Performing illegal deeds does not give him the same rush it once did but destroying the competition does. He will not let anyone, no matter age, clan, or name, stand in the way of doing his business. His ambition reaches above that of most vampires, at least that is what he thinks, and he wants to climb the social ladder to stand on the top of the criminal underground pyramid in Los Angles and have territory in nearby San Diego. His gang the Exiles and Jewels all female gang have a common hatred for the Corpse Crooks and often work together on the streets. He freed Lysenko from slavery to a Ventrue, recruited him into the Exiles and sent him to San Diego to further the Anarch cause.