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In my personal headcanon I like to imagine the Lasombra are less "for the evuls lol" than they are depicted.

But that aside, personal take, I say Lasombra are basically Clan: the cycle of abuse. I think one of the major features of them is that they had a both an unusually highly active micromanaging antediluvian who was also extremely callous and terrifying. The clan has reflected this in a chain reaction ever since. You look at your average Lasombra and there might be a theme of "sure I'm an asshole, but you have any idea what I had to survive at home? Then you'd understand. I'm not even that bad compared to what came before me."

Lucita might be kind of edgy, but she's not her sire Moncada. But Moncada himself isn't as bad as some really old vampire elders that are in the Sabbat Black Hand or whatever. Like at least he's sincerely Christian and moral, in a way. So on. Until you get to big grandfather himself, terrorizing everyone to the point where even as a clan that lionizes sociopathy they rightfully plotted regicide to save themselves and the world from his existence.

So they're evil assholes that aren't so evil compared to some worse evil that lives rent free in their head. And everyone else should be thankful for that.