Urso Major the Polar Bear (Boom Ref)

Basic Info:

Name: Urso Major

Nicknames: Urs, Great Bear (name is derived from the constellation), Bear Boy (more of an insult)

Age: 21

Height: 4'10

Alignment: Neutral (more of an Anti-Hero, though)

Status: Single

Hobbies: Star-gazing, harnessing his abilities, taking time alone to ponder about stuff, swimming, listening to music.

Likes: Astronomy, being alone to himself, being around those he can actually trust.

Dislikes: People he doesn't know, those who pick on weaker individuals (bullies), people with elitist attitudes (arrogance).

Weaknesses: Light energy (more of a counter-balancing equalizer), strength (he's below-average size for a polar bear, making him weaker than normal bears), putting his trust in new people, psychic energy (somewhat), psychiatrists...he's a very guarded person who hates opening up to people.


Abilities:

Aggressive Energy Orb: his most basic attack.  Urso concentrates his energy into a white ball with a red flame-like aura, and hurls it at opponents.  This does not do a lot of damage, but is designed more or less to slowly chip away at his opponent's health, buying him some time as he waits to power up for a more powerful attack.

Sound Blast: a combination of aggressive energy and sound waves.  This attack travels at the speed of sound, and is used to hurt and knock opponents back in order to create distance, and he can also use the blast to break down stone walls.  When used, the blast creates a loud, bass-like subwoofer sound that can be felt in your body within 15-20 feet.

Bass Jumper: like the sound blast's combination of energies, except this is used more for mobility than an offensive maneuver.  With this technique, Urso jumps once, and then fires a blast of the aforementioned energy, and this propels him to heights that are way out of reach of his vertical leap.  In addition to this, Urso can use the same attack to slow down his descent from a great height, but can only use it once he's close to the ground.

Reflective Energy Orb: very similar to his most basic attack, but with a twist.  This combines his sound abilities with his aggressive energy, and creates an orb that can ricochet off of walls twice before finally disappearing on the third impact.  It takes more energy consumption to fire these, but with more energy consumption means these orbs pack more of a punch than their non-sound counterparts.  However, the orb's energy decreases after each ricochet, along with bouncing aimlessly without any homing abilities.

Aura: this is a visual indicator of himself powering up, tied into his manipulation of aggressive energy.  He first develops a red aura immediately around his body, before a much larger aura forms around him that dances and flickers in a flame-like fashion.  He also has little swirling streaks of energy that circle him as his power reaches optimum level.  When he's powered up, he experiences enhanced physical strength, along with increased levels of aggression and anger; he's ready for a fight.

Werebear: yeah, he's got this form--it's werehog, except he's a bear.  Aside from the physical changes made when a mobian turns into their were form, Urso loses all of his ability to utilize his normal-form attacks since his energy helps fuel this form.  With this, his enhanced physical strength replaces his dark energy abilities, turning him into a gargantuan, rage-induced animal.  However, one feature he gains is an energy shield that he can activate to stop incoming projectiles.  The shield can be turned on and off similar to the Droideka from Star Wars (those rolling droids with the shield deflectors), however it doesn't last very long.  Once the shield is activated, he slows down--as if being a werebear doesn't slow him down enough--and the energy-based barrier lasts for 5 seconds at a time.  Once deactivated, it takes 30 seconds to fully recharge before he can use it again.


Personality:

Very quiet and reserved; he doesn't enjoy interactions with people he doesn't know.  On the surface he may come across as very cold and uncaring, but looking past the surface he's a very depressed, guarded, and hurting individual with a rough childhood, distrustful of strangers as he goes through life with wary eyes.


Attire:

Casual: a red t-shirt with black stripes that connect elastic black cuffs and a collar.  Over his legs are a pair of blue jeans, and covering his feet are black combat boots with a steel plate covering the top of the foot.  Around his waist is just a plain black leather belt, and hung around his neck is a silver cross necklace that rests in the center of his chest.

Fighting: an outfit consisting of leather and metal.  On his arms are pieces of leather-covered armor with a metallic linear design imprinted onto the guards themselves.  He also dons a biker-style leather vest zipped halfway up his torso, along with wearing black gloves, snug leather pants, and black boots.  Covering his shins are leather-covered pieces of armor with iron crosses on each piece, along with accompanying patterns above and below.  Segments of red either fill in black portions of the leather armor, or they outline parts of the vest.  Around his waist is a silver/gray-toned ammunition belt; it's akin to the heavy metal and punk fans, so the bullets themselves are not live ammo.


Background:

Urso was born into an ordinary family; not one of any significance, just your everyday mom and dad with one child.  Growing up was not easy for Urso, as he was relentlessly picked on for being a small bear.  Over time, he went from a cub that loved and cared about everyone, to a bear surrounded by an impenetrable wall to protect himself from the world.  He grew tired of caring for others, since the vast majority of kids only wanted to tease him and make his life absolutely miserable.  At the young age of ten, Urso met up with another social outcast--a boar--who was looking to harness abilities in order to fight back against the bullies at their school.  From the age of ten to sixteen, the two harnessed and perfected their abilities, now able to give anyone looking to pick on them a reason to run away in fear.  When he reached age eighteen, Urso discovered an evil truth about the person who taught him how to harness his powers...and he either had to be fully committed to the group they became part of, or back out; he chose the latter.  Now, Urso just lives a life on his own, still in possession of his abilities as he tries to avoid the man who took him under his wing when he was a child.

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