She was a happy mer-child. Her mother and father doted on her. Until one fateful night they were taken while she was sleeping. She searched for them but only found her mother's haircomb or locket lying on the bottom of the ocean.
She went to live with her aunt. We see her in high school as an overweight, gothic teen. She is shy and keeps to herself, but gets bullied for her look and her weight anyway. Trident and his girlfriend are the most popular and latently cruel.
She makes friends with the shrimps and a few other mer kids, she gets into magic and tarot and starts to find ways to empower herself. she is looking for a pendulum and remembers her mother's locket— The pendulum locket starts moving in a mysterious way, so Ursula follows it. She ends up at her old house, looks through all of her stuff, isn't it neat? And then the finds something in her parent's treasure box, a map.
She follows the map and the pendulum to a great cave. Something grabs her and then goes to black.
Her parents were interested in the great mystery of the ocean. A mystical being that was said to have untold power. Her parents were taken by the henchmen of a powerful merman. He knew they had found the map and the secret and wanted it for himself. Something happened to his treasure seekers and ursulas parents in the depths, meanwhile the powerful merman is still top of the food chain.
Ursula finds herself in a cage of some sort, tinkling around with bottles of odd stuff and other shiny bits of trash. She hears an odd thump. Black tentacles reaching into the cage frighten her.
