Edulcore Cicciotto, also known as the Eurostar, the White Marvel, and the Ghost, is an Italian metahuman (Alpha Class: superspeed, prophecy, density-alteration, others), Olympic gold medalist and founding member of Vanguard (2001- ).
Cicciotto was born in 1967 and grew up in Bologna, Italy. By the time he was 21 he had discovered that he had the ability to run faster than other people, and at that age he competed in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. In 1990, at age 23 he competed in the European Athletic Championship in Mandelovia, a nation he had often visited and had once kept a sailboat. At the age of 25, he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. At the age of 29, he competed in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States. At each of these games, he won every track competition he entered and would have won all of them if he had been able to compete in them. He had several nicknames, including "The Eurostar" (after the high-speed train between London and Brussels) and the "White Marvel." His main rival was Cuban-born U.S. athlete Eduardo Frederico, who usually won silver medals when Cicciotto won gold.
In 1996, after TriVext Corporation discovered the metagene, Cicciotto was discovered to have an active metagene that granted him superspeed, an unfair advantage over other athletes. Under pressure from the U.S. government, Cicciotto was forced to return his Olympic medals and much of the money he had won. He was no longer allowed to compete in competitive athletic events, and he was forced to retire. Cicciotto used the little money he was able to keep to open up a restaurant in Bologna and reinvented himself as a gourmet chef. He also became addicted to heroin.
In September, 2001, Cicciotto was rescued from an MCCA agent sent to abduct him by Lioness and Agent F7 of the Mandelovian Security and Intelligence Agency (MSIA). They brought him to Malvan-X, where head of research Dr. Henry Quantos told Cicciotto that he possessed an Alpha Class metagene that potentially enabled him to manifest various metahuman powers and not merely one ability like most metas.