Bearzerker
Loudmouthed and hot tempered, Ursula Carmichael was a less-than-stellar high school student struggling to maintain her place as the star batter in Westside High's Baseball team against sub-par grades, frequent absences and delinquent behaviour when her life took a turn for the unexpected. Following a near-death experience, her major league dropout father gave his much-vaunted lucky baseball bat, the Bearzerker, to her. Though she had never really taken his stories of having beaten a raging bear to death with it seriously, Ursula accepted the gift and took it to batting practice. When she hit a home run with the Bearzerker, however, she was bewildered to discover that the mystical spirit of the bear avatar slain by her father had been trapped in it, bestowing her with supernatural powers beyond her wildest dreams.
With her father's debts piling up and the power of a reluctant mystical being residing within her sports equipment, Ursula resolved to turn to crime to help support her family. Donning an improvised bear-themed outfit, Ursula became the Bearzerker - a belligerent thug for hire with a strength as dangerous as her attitude and as fearsome as her tongue! However, with her youth and arrogance holding her back, whether or not she manages to succeed is another matter entirely.
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Ursula Carmichael was born under rather unusual circumstances. Her father, a former Major League Baseball player named Bradley Carmichael who had been kicked out of the league for cheating, had taken her heavily pregnant mother, Alana Carmichael, on a camping trip out in the middle of the wilderness on their honeymoon, where they planned to give birth to her in the open expanse of nature in accordance to her spiritualistic mother's beliefs.
After preparing their tent and the appropriate medical equipment for easing the birthing procedure along, Ursula's parents began fully enjoying their unconventional honeymoon out in the tranquility of their wooded campsite, fishing, singing and regularly creating large, smoky campfires. Inevitably, they eventually began attracting the local wildlife - namely one large grizzly bear who had been drawn to their regular fish cookouts and off-key harmonising.
On the fourth day of their honeymoon, Bradley ventured away from the campsite to find a clearing large enough for him to practice his batting in whilst Alana busied herself with meditation. With both of the Carmichaels fully distracted by their daily activities, the bear cautiously ventured into their campsite in search of food. As Bradley made his way back to the campsite with his bat in hand, however, he saw the hefty creature edging closer and closer to his unsuspecting wife and immediately thought the worst.
Loosing a high-pitched squeal, Bradley ran towards the somewhat docile bear and proceeded to wildly beat it to death with his baseball bat as his wife watched. When the ugly deed was done, the 'fearsome' creature lay dead at his feet and the startled Mrs. Carmichael began to go into labour from the shock of watching the gruesome act. Rushing to his wife's aid, Bradley hurriedly began to deliver the baby right in the middle of the forest clearing. After a few hours of grunting, pushing and screaming, their newborn daughter was brought into the world, wailing at the top of her lungs. Inspired by Bradley's act of bravery and the circumstances surrounding it, they named their daughter Ursula - their little bear.
The moment they returned to civilisation in the form of Millennium City, Bradley began to spread stories of his great triumph over the forces of nature to anyone who would listen and became known around the local community as something of a folk hero. Buying into his own hype, he promptly had the bat he had used to fell his grizzly goliath buffed, shined and remodelled, engraving a single word down its length - Bearzerker.
Growing up, Ursula frequently found herself on the receiving end of her father's wildly inaccurate stories about how he saved her pregnant mother from the jaws of a savage monster and, despite never fully believing them past the age of nine, she idolised her father for his other pursuits and achievements, mostly in the world of Major League Baseball. A tomboy through and through, she made it her goal to be a major league star like her father before her, trying out for sports the moment she was able.
Though she eventually succeeded on making it onto her elementary school's Little League team, Ursula's troublemaking anti-social streak began at a relatively early age. A big girl for her age, she would frequently pick on other more conventionally attractive girls to bolster her own self-confidence, pull pranks on her fellow classmates, lose her temper on a frequent basis and frequently get into fights with boys younger and older than her. Bradley and Alana were called to bail her out of the principal's office many a time before she had even hit the age of nine. Though both parents were disappointed in her for her antics, however, neither were traditionally stern disciplinarians and Ursula was usually free to be as much of a brat as possible.
All this changed, however, when Alana became pregnant with twins. Compared to the relative ease of her first pregnancy with Ursula, this one was far more turbulent. Alana had grown ill during her pregnancy and ran into frequent complications. Incapable of doing anything besides comforting her in her hospital bed, Bradley became more and more concerned about the future of his family and the well-being of his wife.
Alana eventually gave birth to male and female fraternal twins, naming one Chris and the other Myra before quickly passing away following serious internal complications. Bradley and Ursula were left crestfallen by the death of Ursula's mother and the burden placed on them by the new additions to their broken family. Bradley quit his job as a manager at the local sporting goods store and began to search for a more stable, more profitable career and a frustrated Ursula began to lash out more and more aggressively at her peers and teachers. Neither of them spent more time around the twins than they needed to for the first few months.
Eventually, after a few months of uncertainty, the family slowly began to get back on its feet. Bradley found a job as a pencilpusher at a local IT company and began to return to his goofier self, Ursula used her success in Little League baseball to secure a place at a decent middle school and they both became more loving towards the infant twins, with Bradley stepping into his role as a single parent and Ursula taking it upon herself to be the 'mother' of the household.
For a while, things remained relatively stable. In the next few years, Ursula became the star hitter of her school's baseball team and was snapped up by Westside High for her skills, despite her continuing delinquent behaviour. In the same vein, Bradley climbed the ranks of his IT company to enter the world of middle management and the twins began attending kindergarten. For the most part, the Carmichaels were happy with their lives together. As is always the case with this type of story, however, the status quo didn't last long.
After getting into a particularly brutal fight with a group of boys who poked fun at her masculinity, Ursula was suspended from school for the day and forced to go home early. As she dragged herself through the front door and passed her father's room, however, she heard a wispy voice calling out to her from within.
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