Vanessa Ferguson was the middle child of Colin and Louise Ferguson. She figured she knew it all and so dropped out of university during her junior year and worked a series of jobs ever since. Part of the reason was that she had strong feelings and readily expressed them and so quickly found each position unacceptable and moved on. She had lived with Bryce Miller for a while but dropped him three weeks after her mother left her father. She then began a relationship with Hagop Nersessyan, a man her father's age.