Staff File: White Vampyr

Working Name: White Vampyr
AT Classification: Defender
Primary Powers: Kinetics
Secondary Powers: Dark Blasts
Additional Powers: Fitness; Speed
Epic Powers: None Known
Real Name: Suzi White (christened Suzanne Louisa White)
Alternate Identity: Not currently pursuing any secondary identity outside of hero life.

Suzanne Louisa White was born in Paragon City in 1980. Her father, Martin White, was a professional club singer who never had a record deal. Suzi's mother, Amanda White (nee Johnson), worked mainly in the service industry. Suzi had a single brother, Julian Vernon White, six years her junior, who died of an illness in 1991.

Amanda White suffered severe depression after the death of 4 year old Julian. In 1995 Amanda White was killed in a car crash. She had been drinking, and there were always rumours that her death may not have been entirely accidental.

Teenage Suzi became quite withdrawn at school, and took on extra responsibility at home to help her father cope. The relationship between Suzi and her father was very strong and close. Although Suzi was described as exceptionally bright, and her school grades were excellent, she did not stick at college and dropped out after 1 year.

Suzi regularly went to watch her father perform in clubs around the state. It was not a surprise to anyone that knew the family that she became a singer too.

Suzi's father died in 2001 of lung cancer, which many attribute to a lifetime spent singing in smokey clubs. Suzi, now without any family, threw herself all the harder into her work, becoming a very popular singer in the club circuit, an accomplished songwriter, and forming up with a band thereafter.

Her band, Gothic Overtones, got a record deal early in 2002, and produced 3 albums. Many compare their musical style to Evanescence, mainly for combining strong rock melodies with beautiful and haunting etherial vocals.

Suzi White's contract with label Surgin' Records expired 2 days before her apparent death in the hospital. Contract negotiations had been ongoing for some months prior to this, but there were apparently arguments over the conditions, where Suzi wished to retain artistic control over the material the band would perform, while management at Surgin' Records felt the band would be far more commercially successful if they used a team of writers and produced more mainstream and popular songs.

Suzi was believed to have died on the night of the incident. Medics had taken Ms White from her home after she suffered an extreme overdose of drugs. Her heart had ceased beating in the ambulance on route to hospital. A suicide note left in Suzi's appartment satisfied police that this was a case of depression-related suicide.

((If wanting to learn more about her character than most would know, please feel free to PM me regarding who you want to speak with about Suzi, and how you'll approach them, e.g. tracking down ex-bandmembers, roadies, teachers, or whatever.))