Vidi "VidiSugar" Sugar

=• Appearance •= Vidi's most obviously striking physical feature is her eyes. Ice blue and fringed by black lashes, they are startling both in the lightness of their color and the candor of their expression. Those who assume the friendly young woman to be shallow or ignorant are usually forced to alter their opinion after one direct look from her.

A long, slender nose and full lips give her the appearance of a woman confined to the limits of a child's features. Her teeth are white and even but for the canines, which are unusually sharp and pointed. Medium-length black hair with white highlights frames her heart-shaped face and provides a pleasing complement to her tanned skin.

Her figure is excellent, with a slender waist, long legs, and naturally generous curves. Physical training keeps her muscles toned without being overly defined.

Red seems to be her preferred color when it comes to cosmetics and clothing, with nearly every outfit accessorized thus.

=• Early Life •= Vidi Sugar was born Lachesis Rae Monroe on a sultry summer night in St. Augustine, Florida. Her parents, David and Shelley Monroe, are both graduates of Flagler College and heavily involved in the St. Augustine artist and psychic communities. David owns and operates Monroe Ghost tours, and Shelley works Tuesday through Sunday at the tour souvenir shop. In their off time, David and Shelley are amateur monster hunters. The fact that they have yet to find any does not deter them in the least. There are three Monroe children, with Lachesis being the youngest by ten years. Her older bothers, Sebastian and Carl, are both drivers for the ghost tours. Lachesis spent many hours in her childhood riding in the front seat of the tour hearses, listening to her father and brothers repeat the local lore and lies as they cruised by St. Augustine's many "haunted" locations.

Because Lachesis was an unexpected addition to the family, neither of her parents felt obligated to alter their free-spirited lifestyles much to accommodate the new Monroe when she arrived. Thus, the dark-haired little girl was left to herself much of the time. When Lachesis reached the age of six, her maternal grandmother began paying for music lessons for the quiet and withdrawn child. When Lachesis wasn't practicing her music, she filled her hours with horror novels and movies, which the family had an abundant supply of given their obsession with unorthodox creatures. By the age of ten she had an impressive grasp on the works of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and past and present horror movie greats.

What David and Shelley Monroe couldn't know was just how different their daughter was from the rest of the family. With each ghost tour, each ride through a cemetery, each visit to a haunted hospital, church, or house, the small girl grew more silent until she hardly spoke at all and then only in whispers. For while her family told yarns of haunting entities and chased storybook fiends, Lachesis heard the wails of wandering ghosts and the footfalls of monstrous beings in the night. She knew the chill that creeps in from unknown regions at the approach of malevolent spirits. She heard their whispers in the pine forests near the Florida shoreline. She heard.

=• Education •= At the age of thirteen Lachesis was invited to attend the Omega Center for Gifted Youth, an institution that specialized in educating and training students who showed above-average potential for subjects such as psychic, telekinetic, and occult abilities. In the disciplined, boarding-school environment Lachesis flourished and gained the measure of confidence that had been so lacking in her life.

She learned that her "hearing" was a form of clairaudience that was almost exclusively attuned to malevolent entities and malicious creatures - the monsters that had had free reign inside her head for much of her life. Through rigorous discipline and training she learned to quiet her mind, to identify the creatures whose very presence pressed upon her mind even in the absence of sight or physical hearing. By the time she graduated she had a 97% success rating, considered exceptional by the experts at whose hands she had endured the stringent training.

=• The Band •= At the Omega Center Lachesis also met two other students who would change the course of her life- a pink-haired punk rocker with substance abuse issues and a beautiful Asian girl with a blue mohawk and a predisposition to finding trouble. The three became inseparable, each an outcast in their own way and drawn together by a love of music. They became known around school as Veni, Vidi, and Vici - nicknames they would hang onto after school and integrate into the formation of their band.

First known as the Post-Apocalypse Punks, the trio enjoyed a smattering of success in the Jacksonville music scene. With Veni and Vici frequently in rehab and jail for substance abuse and minor offenses, it often fell to Vidi to maintain the business end of the band. She took to the job eagerly, determined that the band would succeed.

Soon after the three graduated from the Omega Center they were contacted by the Templars and offered work in London, with the promise of regular gigs and financial support. Having few other options, they accepted the offer and began to play weekly shows at The Crusades and private functions under the name Pickman's Model.