Vital Stats
- Divine Parent: Sun Wukong aka The Handsome Monkey King aka The Great Sage Equal to Heaven
- Pantheon: The Celestial Bureaucracy (The Chinese Gods)
- Calling: Martial Arts Legend
- Apparent Age: Late 20s
- Height: 5' 6½"
- Place of Origin: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Republic of China
- Player/Type: PC (Keeran)
Background
Longwei Li got in trouble a lot on the streets of Hong Kong. His parents were very poor, and his father drank. Longwei became adept at grabbing fruit, fish and other groceries from market stalls and running and climbing away. First one of the Triads noticed his athletic talent and made a lucrative offer; Longwei was sorely tempted but his mother said she would die of shame if he became a gangster. Fortunately, the next person to notice Longwei’s skill was a casting director who needed extras for a chopsocky flick. Longwei found he was very good at pretending to be a martial arts extra. He was so good that the fighting coach took him to see a real martial arts sifu, who took Longwei to his sifu, who was a xian and recognized Longwei as a Scion of great potential power.
Once word passed up the bureaucratic ladder, Longwei learned that “his Qi was strong” because 20 years before, the Handsome Monkey King took a fancy to his mother and posed as a handsome young actor to enjoy her. Once this came out, Sun Wukong had little choice but to say he meant to father a Scion, Visit his son and tell him to go out, fight the Titans, be a hero, yadda yadda yadda. Longwei was less than thrilled to learn he was the bastard son of a monkey, even if the monkey happened to be one of the most famous heroes in Chinese mythology. Still, his new abilities catapulted him from bit player to major star; and while he didn’t go looking for trouble, it seemed to come looking for him. One thing led to another, and before Longwei knew it he was battling oni in a lost temple to save a fairy princess, and rather enjoying it.
Birthrights
Sun Wukong first gave his son a piece of his own size-changing staff, the Ru Yi Jin Gu Bang, which became a complete staff in turn. Not only does Longwei’s staff function as an indestructible bo staff, it also allows him to channel Sky and War Boons and can grow and shrink up to 100% per dot of its wielder’s Legend (so Longwei can make it four times longer and/or thicker, or one-quarter its normal size). Longwei doesn't actually have access to any War boons, but what the heck, he might want to learn someday!
On a cord around his neck, Longwei wears a shard of the stone egg from which the Handsome Monkey King hatched; this enables him to channel Chaos Boons. Sun Wukong scrounged around the back of his closet and found another couple of minor Relics: a little black ring with a cameo of the Three Little Monkeys (for the Animal Purview); and a pair of cool sunglasses (originally a Dodekatheon relic he "repurposed" - he thinks they won't miss it... much...) that grant access to the Illusion Purview.
Longwei gets no help whatsoever from his agent Denning Quan, whom he hasn’t told about the whole Scion thing; but Longwei’s developed a small Internet fan club that’s willing to try answering whatever strange question he puts to them, and thus functions as a one-dot Guide.
Biography adapted from Joseph Carriker et al, Scion: Companion, White Wolf Game Inc, 2009