Cleetus Scruggs

## Early Life Era

Cleetus Scruggs, born to mother Janice and father Samuel in what can best be described as the outback. The town has a name but no one in the US would recognize it. Australia is far away after all. Cleetus must have been born with petrol in his veins. This kid was racing around in his baby buggy for pink slips while he was still breastfeeding. The kid was divinity on any number of wheels. He once won a BMX race on a unicycle just to flex for some local girls. Cleetus was quite the showoff in his youth. If it wasn't for his best friend Romero Briggs always keeping Cleetus focused, Cleetus wouldn't have won half the races he did.

#### I think I need a bigger trophy room

Cleetus won literally every race he ever entered. For over a decade of victories. Some hard fought but mostly not. The amount of trophies he had was only closely matched by those of Romero's. The two were the shake and bake of the OZ. Romero always took second if he was in the race with Cleetus but he didn't mind. Cleetus was the superior driver, hands down.

#### Rubbing is racing

It was always good fun racing with Romero. The two of them got along regardless of the outcome and they were always in each other crew. Unfortunately they had made some enemies in the racing world. As all winners eventually do. Well this was mostly inconsequential until the annual big race known as the "Outlast in the Outback". An endurance race from Perth to Sydney spanning five 8 hour days of straight racing.

The first 4 days went as expected, Cleetus in first, Romero in second, and a recent up-and-comer, Ashish Kumar in third. On day 5 the race started as any other but early on in the day Ashish and Romero were locked in a back and forth for second place. Without notice, Ashish would come to pit Romero in one of the camera's blind spots. Romero spun out of control and flew off the upcoming bridge into the ocean. Cleetus caught sight of this in his rearview mirror and turned his car around immediately. He went back to try and find Romero but he never did. He never finished that race. The only loss on his entire race record but it didn't matter. That wasn't the loss he was worried about.

## Vice City Era

Cleetus was crushed. He took to drinking heavily and even started stealing to get by. He stopped racing because he couldn't come to stomach it anymore. One night though he found Ashish's car at a local casino in Sydney. Without thinking, he took up post and waiting for Ashish to come out. The beating was brutal. Cleetus crushed, kicked, stepped on, and utterly destroyed Ashish in that parking lot that day. Long before he got into Ashish's own car and did burnout on the now limp figure. Cleetus then proceeded to cover the whole scene in gas and burn the parking garage to the ground.

On the run, he arranged travel to Vice City for a fresh start. Shortly after arriving, with the weight of Romero's death off his shoulders, he slowly started falling back in love with driving and racing in general. He didn't have a place to stay so he slept in whatever car he had stolen for the night. That is until he met Douglas Finkleton. A local criminal underground representative that helped set Cleetus up with some fake identities and eventually a couch to sleep on. He got along great with Douglas and his other roommate, a Von Anderson that went by the name "Lips". From the jump, the three of them were financially stable to say the least.

Well after some local trouble with the Haitians, the three ended up grouping with two brothers named Aiden John and Hugh Mungus and forming the criminal group known as The Family. Their reputation grew and eventually they decided they should relocate to Diamond City Los Santos. Shortly after arriving in Diamond City, they met up with another group looking to make a name for themselves known as The Long Boys, lead by Dick Long. The two groups overtime would merge and become known as the Los Santos Bloods - with Cleetus as the designated wheelman/get-away driver.

## Los Santos Bloods Era

In the early years of the Los Santos Bloods, Cleetus was the go-to driver when you wanted a pickup or needed to flee the scene. Not a single successful height the Los Santos Bloods did went off without his expert driving. The group was becoming formidable to say the least. Well unfortunately, the love for speed and formalized racing cannot be stopped once its started.

Cleetus was recognized by some of the top representatives in NASCAR for his prowess and they eventually offered him a contract he couldn't refuse. Still a Blood til the day he dies, he found himself having to retire and stepdown from his made man status to allow Jamal Thompson to take over. Even though he isn't in Diamond City anymore, he is still in our hearts and still represents the bloods in whatever city he ends up in.