Rebecca "Becky" Benson

Appeared in:
Incident on Gun Mountain, referred to in Boy Wonders

Originated by:
Lindsay Unterlander

What's her deal?:
The second youngest of the Benson siblings, Becky may been the most formidable. A star athlete and top academic student through high school, Becky received a full scholarship to Hudson University upon graduation. She had to decline the scholarship however, as her mother's health was failing, and someone was needed to provide full-time care to her brother Bobby. With the family not able to afford a nurse, and with Betty otherwise busy with her career as a crimefighter, this responsibility fell to Becky.

Becky continued her studies independently, reading voraciously and proctoring university classes at every opportunity. Eventually, she married Wayne Frederick Watters, although she kept her maiden name. The couple moved to Alma, Wisconsin, and had few interactions with her family other than yearly visits from her brother Roger for hunting trips to the Watters' family cabin.

The last hunting trip led to an encounter with creatures that Becky deduced were sasquatches. She advocated strongly for taking the carcass of the creature Wayne shot to the University of Wisconsin, so it could be properly identified and then the species could be known to science. She and Roger argued over this, with Roger making it personal.

The night after the sasquatch attack saw Becky and Wayne having to hike back to the highway. Becky was in the first trimester of her pregnancy at the time, but was able to manage. The following spring she gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy.