Lewis Dandridge

Lewis Dandridge is a seventeen year old Egyptian demigod son of Neith and Sofía Dandridge. He came to camp at 13 years old

## Basic Stuff

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Captain Cook, Hawaii (Formerly)

## Family

### Adoptive/Step Family

Sebastian Rodriguez (Step-father/legal guardian)

### Biological Family

* Neith (Immortal Mother)
* Sofía (Mortal mother)
* Sobek, Tutu, Serket (Half-siblings)
* Heryshaf, Apep, Ra, Atum, Thoth, Heh, Kek, Qerh, Amun, Khnum (Uncles and Aunts)
* Sonny Sol (Cousin)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Normally light colors
* Dark purple sweater
* White shirt with stars on it
* Jeans
* Black sneakers

**TW: Talks of abuse**

## History

### Early Life

Lewis Dandrige was born to Neith, the goddess of the cosmos, fate, wisdom, water, rivers, mothers, childbirth, hunting, weaving, and war and Sofia Dandridge, a clear sighted mortal on May 10, 2004 in Captain Cook, Hawaii. Sofia Dandridge was a beautiful and talented weaver who lived in Hawaii. Many of her creations had pictures of Hawaiian myths and her own Puerto Rican culture. She owned a shop a little ways from her own house. Sofia's talent and beauty soon caught the eye of the goddess Neith. One night, Sofia had gone down to her local bar to get a few drinks after a stressful day at work, when she met a beautiful woman. The woman had short black hair and blue eyes. The woman sat by Sofia and introduced herself as Naomi and they began to chat. The two women had fun that night and, Sofia suggested that they go back to her house to which Naomi agreed. The two went back to Sofia's house and they spent some of their time talking about Sofia's weaving talent and getting drunk. During the night, the two women found themselves in bed with each other.

The next morning, Sofia found Naomi gone, and was heart broken, seeing as there was a real connection between them. She became bitter until 9 months later on May 10, when Naomi came back holding a bundle of blankets in her arms. Naomi sat Sofía down and explained who she was and that the baby, a boy, was their child. Neith also told Sofía about camp Olympia and gave Sofia star necklace that would turn into a golden sword. Neith instructed Sofia to take their child to Camp Olympia when he comes of age. When Neith was done explaining, she promised that she would be watching over both of them and left. Sofia would name this baby Lewis Andreas, but she began to grow bitter and sad. At Neith for leaving her with a baby she didn't even want. Because of this, she would begin to drink her sorrows away.

### Childhood

Lewis was a quite kid. He never spoke out of turn, and many people assumed that he was just shy, but in actuality, he was a scared child. At home, behind closed doors, since he was around six years old, his mother was an alcoholic and even when she was drinking she was still abusive. Lewis would often hide in his room, hoping his mother would pass out or forget about him. When he was around nine years old, her mother took another lover (his mother was Bi) in the form of a man named Sebastian Rodriguez. Lewis was a bit afraid of Sebastian, but he was actually a pretty nice dude looking for a family. Lewis was afraid that Sebastian would hurt him like his mother did, so he tried to avoid him

Sebastian just assumed that Lewis was shy and awkward around him, so he tried to get to know his new step-son. Usually by offering to play video games or take him shopping, but Lewis would always hide in his room. Sebastian was also oblivious to the abuse his new wife was giving to his step-son as Sofia, who had stopped selling her tapestries and was now a stay at home mom, would abuse her son while Sebastian was at work. One weekend, while Sofia was out, Sebastian decided to check on Lewis, who had been in his room all day. He brought over a sandwich and went in his step-sons room. The two were awkward around each other as Lewis had done everything to avoid his step-father and Sebastian wasn't *that* good with kids. Lewis, after learning that his step-father was a pretty cool dude, began to open up to him more, but Sebastian wouldn't learn about the abuse until a year later

### Finding Out

The first instance where Sebastian suspected something was happening to Lewis was a few weeks after Lewis' tenth birthday. Like most father-son people, the two were playing catch. When Lewis was shown to be pretty pretty good with throwing a ball, he went over to high five him. When Lewis saw Sebastian raise his hand, he flinched. Sebastian paused, feeling really horrible. He began to realized that something was going on to make Lewis think this away. So, he began to investigate. He went to Lewis' school, to ask if there was any bullying going on at the school but the teacher said that Lewis was mostly on good terms with everyone. In the back of Sebastian's mind, something said that it Lewis' fear was going on at home...

A week later, after getting home from work, Sebastian found a sight he would never want to see again. His wife yelling at Lewis, over some spilled food that could've *easily* been cleaned. Lewis was on the floor, crying, saying he would never do it again. Sofia began to raise her hand, but Sebastian jumped in the away. Lewis was pretty shocked to see his step-father protecting in him. Sebastian sent Lewis to his room, and the two adults had a shouting match, Sofia mad at her husband for protecting "that brat" and Sebastian mad at Sofia for abusing his step-son for years. The week later, Sebastian would file for divorce, but not before taking Lewis with him. It was a bit of messy divorce, with Sofia trying to spin the story around and say that Sebastian was abusing *her*, but the court ruled that Sebastian would get full custody over Lewis and Sofia would be going to jail for child abuse. A month after that, Sebastian would take Lewis and they would move to Los Angeles, California

### Life Afterwards

After moving, Lewis and his step-father became much closer. Sebastian treated Lewis as if her were his own son. When he started school again, Lewis was a bit shy at first, but became much more open as the year went own. At the age of eleven, Lewis was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia, a diagnoses he should have gotten sooner, but again Sofia didn't care about her soon all that much. Sebastian got a job working at a local book store and for a while, things seemed great, until he was twelve years old

### First Monster attack/Coming to Camp

When Lewis was thirteen years old, he had been playing in the streets with a friend he made named Austin. Unbeknownst to Lewis, Austin was a satyr. During that time, the two had been drawing with chalk on the side walk, when a hell hound appeared out of the bushes and began to attack them. Austin acted quickly and Lewis was frozen in fear. Austin shouted at him to take of the necklace his mother gave to him when he was four. Lewis did so and the necklace turned into a golden sword. The two managed to kill the monster and Austin grabbed Lewis, taking him to his step-dad. Austin explained what happened and who Lewis might be. Now Sebastian is on the in between of being clear sighted and being a non-clear sighted mortal. Sebastian was a bit slow to believe Austin, but after thinking decided it would be best to send him to this camp. After an hour drive to Big Bear, Lewis said good bye to his step-father and Austin lead him through the borders. A few weeks later, Lewis was claimed by his immortal mother

## Personality

Lewis is described to be an intelligent seventeen year old boy. He’s brave hearted but quite at the same time, but this is because of his mortal mother’s abuse, and usually fears most of his mortal family, except his step-father, Sebastian. When he gets comfortable with people he likes, he can become argumentative. He’s loyal and creative and at times he’s sarcastic. Lewis, true to any Dandrige, is intense in his own way. He likes literature, he likes drama, and wants to invoke within himself the same emotions stories invoke in him. Mostly, he just wants to live life - fall in love, see the world, talk to people and hear their varied stories, but feels a lot of pressure in living up to his role, and feels like he should instead busy himself with the paperwork that was expected of him by the other authors. That said, Lewis is very much a pushover and reliant on other people's opinions. Often, he says a few sentences, waits to assess someone's response, before continuing his thoughts. He is very sensitive to rejection, but nevertheless still makes an effort to express his feelings to people and suffer rejection, since it'd fuel his writing! And further his demigod-ness! Ultimately, Lewis wants to feel important to the world, and that people like his company. Because of this, his role is very precious to him and he would not give it up for the world. Lewis is shy to make friends but when getting to know him, he can get very crazy. In school, he pays attention but when at exams, everything blacks out. He genuinely cares about his schoolwork but cares about having fun as much as school. Lewis is curious. He loves to ask questions and in all honesty his favorite word has to be "why". When he wants to find something out he never stops until he asks every single question about the subject he can think of. Then he either repeats some of the questions because he doesn't remember what they said any more, or he starts asking questions about a totally unrelated topic and the cycle starts up again. Lewis is sweet and innocent. It's those two aspects that make a lot of people want to make sure he stays that way and will do anything to do it. Randomly someone will cup their hands over his ears and leave them there until the conversation that they didn't want him to overhear is finished. He never notices people's attempts to keep him uncorrupted. Lewis is not afraid of dying if it would only affect himself. He knows when his number's up, it's up, and therefore he tries to make the most out of every day. But he knows that dying at a young age affects a lot of people he cares about, and he doesn't want them to shed any tears over him. In some ways, Lewis is very mature. Like how he responds to the idea of dying, or how he responds to being hurt. He sprained his ankle once and while everyone was apologetic, he just shrugged and said "Pain is a passing feeling." At most, Lewis can often come across as sarcastic, a bit cold and "grumpy". He does care about his friends, but he was weird of way of showing it. Mainly, his love language is cooking (usually to Gianna and Jasper) along with giving playful punches. He very rarely ever hugs his friends, but when he does, it's a way to show he *really* care about them.

### Fatal flaw

Lewis' fatal flaw is his Secretiveness. He tends to let his own secrets (such as his past abuse) stay inside, never telling anyone out of fear. He is still learning that it's okay to talk about things that upset him

## Appearance

Lewis is often described as a seventeen year old boy of Hawaiian and Puerto Rican descent. He has tanned skin, wavy light brown hair, and brown eyes. On his body there are a few scars on his body due to his mortal mother’s abuse. He often wears a dark purple sweater, a white shirt with stars on it, jeans, and sneakers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Neith Kid Powers

* He can master a weapon within a week of practicing it.
* He can plan complex battle plans and strategies as his mother is the goddess of warfare.
* He can see the future.
* He can manipulate water and breathe underwater.
* He can conjure weapons. He can summon weapons like offspring's of Ares too. He can curse weapons
* He can create, shape and manipulate threads and string
* He can manipulate anything and everything -- be it physical (matter, energy, the space-time fabric, etc.); or metaphysical (soul, mind, life, death, logic, aspects of reality, and even concepts).
* He can produce something out of nothing, either as finished objects or simply unfinished elements and substances.
* He can manipulate feelings of war and rage
* As Neith is the goddess of the cosmos, Lewis has the ability to control, summon, and make stars from thin air.
* He can create, shape and manipulate threads and string
* He can absorb all light in an area to disorient enemies in the pitch black.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, Lewis possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent
* Dyslexia: His brain is hard-wired for ancient Egyptian Runes
* Weapon proficiency: He can instinctively know how to use any weapon
* Weaving skills: As the son of a weaving goddess, Lewis is instinctively good at weaving
* Creativity: Lewis is very creative and is very good at making beautiful tapestries
* Combat skills: Lewis, as the son of a war deity, is good at all forms of combat
* Swimming skills: Lewis is a very skilled swimmer
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Lewis' possessed physical strength greater than an average human's
* Superhuman durability: As a demigod, Lewis is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman agility: As a demigod, Lewis is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman reflexes: As a demigod, Lewis' reflexes are greater than the average mortal
* Intelligence: As the son of the wisdom goddess, Lewis is very smart
* Baking and Cooking: Growing up in an abusive household, taught Lewis to be self reliant. At a young age, he taught himself how to cook and it soon became his talent and his favorite hobby. He finds baking and cooking his stress reliever and often cooks for his friends (mainly Jasper and Gianna), it's how he shows his love since "food is better than words"

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Gianna Washington

Lewis and Gianna are pretty good friends. Since they both their mother's are goddess of wisdom and war, they often train together. Gianna can be seen as the more loud and bolder of the duo while Lewis mostly leads with his mind

### Family

#### Neith (Immortal mother)

Lewis has a close relationship with his mother despite meeting her very little, perhaps attributed to his distant relationships with his mortal mother. Lewis holds his mother in very high regard, often trying to follow her example.

#### Sofia (Mortal mother)

Lewis has a very negative relationship with his mortal mother. Sofia used to abuse her son and was an alcoholic. Lewis hates talking about his mother, and is currently happy that she is in jail

#### Sebastian (step-father)

Unlike his mortal mother, Lewis is a lot closer with his step-father. Sebastian was a bit awkward around his step-son, but when he figured out Lewis was being abused by Sofia, he made it his mission to get him and his step-son away from harm. Sebastian treats Lewis as if he was his own son and they are very close

## Etymology

Lewis is of German origin and means "**Renowned warrior**." It has many variations in Latin, French, and Gaelic languages that all point to the same sentiment of “strength” and “**courage**”.

This surname of DANDRIDGE was of the locational group of surnames meaning '**one who came from TANDRIDGE**' a parish in the diocese of Winchester, and there is also a place of the name in County Surrey. The name was originally derived from the Old English word DENNRYGG, literally meaning the dweller at the swine-pasture.

## Trivia

1. Lewis is of Hawaiian and Puerto Rican descent
2. He, Gianna and Andrew call themselves the "Wisdom Trio"
3. Lewis' middle name is Andreas
4. He is very good at weaving
5. He and Sonny are related through their immortal parents
6. Lewis was going to be called Luis
7. Lewis has a fear of the sea
8. Lewis is 5'7