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I just had a rather silly revelation.

A while ago, I asked my friend sanscouronne how she would see herself if she were to cast herself as a superhero or fantasy character. She chose "a Tolkien elf! Paradoxically old but young, whimsical, very perceptive, with sharp senses, able to flit about soundlessly, adept with a bow and arrow.." So - for the first time ever in forty-seven years - I found myself asking myself how I would cast myself. I came up with a beast-warrior - a fat, lumbering, fierce brown bear.

I wonder if any of you have any idea along these lines.

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Sorry, just can't leave the bears alone

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In EE Knight's Vampire Earth which is actually more like military fantasy on the lines of Glen Cook's Black Company than it is 'vampire fiction' we have the Hunting Bears.

During the first incursion, these enhanced warriors were identified by animal fetishes that appealed to early man's atavistic nature. The Hunting Cats took their enemies by stealth and surprise, usually working alone as scouts, spies and assassins. The Hunting Wolves were pack fighters, whose specialty was stamina, endurance, and covering vast stretches of terrain at a steady, loping run. The most formidable of the Hunters were the Bears, pure killing machines of berserk power.

These are the near-unstoppable shock troops of the Human resistance. When modified by a Lifeweaver to become a Bear, a human soldier becomes "a walking tank", fighting like a berserker of old and possessing tremendous strength and power. Bear physical capabilities are actually on par with the Reapers themselves, able to fight and even kill Reapers in single combat. They also possess an incredible faculty for healing, to the point of regenerating nerve damage and internal organs that have been lost. Lost & Found, a Bear introduced in Valentine's Rising, actually revives from beyond clinical and physical death. Bears induce a trance-like state called "going Red", which seems to induce the berserker rage for which the Bears are famous....

That me - normally placid and even torpid - but watch out when the bear-shirt goes on! And I love that regeneration package.

Re: Sorry, just can't leave the bears alone

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That's Wolverine of the X-men.

Sorry, don't feel much like joking any more. I've just received a letter that means that someone is trying to defraud me.

Wolverine?

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Ah, but my bearish alter ego is no antisocial wiseass. He is mild, reseved, penitent & suffers fools gladly. Imagine the powers of Logan crossed with the personality of Kurt Wagner.

I left off reading X-Men too early to make much acquaintance with Nightcrawler.

He must surely read von Balthasar & cherish special devotions to SS. Edith Stein & Maximilian Kolbe.

I suggest you unleash Mr Wright's Shadow on the defraudering malefactors. Surely he must have a file in them in his secret courtroom. Burbank will check it out.