Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler

Name:	Kurt Wagner
Gender:	Male
Place of Birth:	Germany
Age:	38
Aliases:	N/A
Origin:	Metahuman
Present Location:	New York City
Occupation:	Metahuman Activist
Team:	None
Alignment:	Hero
Significant Other(s):	None
Powers and Abilities:	Teleportation
Portrayed by:	Actor Name

Born in 1976 to a wealthy man, descended from Bavarian nobility, Kurt lost his father at an early age and yet inherited a good amount of wealth thanks to his heritage. His mother had left when he was born for reasons unknown and Kurt Wagner was raised by the castle staff, left their positions in his father’s will as well and decreed to raise him as a ward of the estate.

While not realizing it at the time, Kurt is born with deformities arising from his natural state as a meta (or mutant by certain geneticist standards). He is one of the few that exhibit signs of slipping through the cracks of the Spectre’s curse though these aren’t known as this at the time of his birth. Kurt exhibits signs of vestigial tail and ears. Likwise, he has fused toes, and fused fingers. Nothing is removed or altered, his father believing this as God’s fate and that he must overcome any obstacles that arise from this. The toes and tail can be hidden, the fingers he learns to deal with any questions or curiosity by completely accepting it himself and even excelling with his dexterity and displaying that it is no hindrance and merely a difference in his person. His ears, though only a hint towards pointed, are more noticeable as vestigial in that he can move them, this only helps the young boy become something of a jokester by being able to make extra funny faces beyond most ordinary people. That its seen as amusing only encourages him to make light by use of his slightly mobile ears.

As a young boy living in an old castle and with vast amounts of access to movies, he eventually settles on some old Errol Flynn pictures as they have some semblance to his familial home. When not set about to be educated, inclined to free time, young Kurt has many adventures in the castle with a stick sword. It isn’t long before the stick sword is replaced with a real sword from the walls and the staff decides he should learn how to use it before he cuts himself, or worse, one of them.

Coming of Age

Given to this disposition, he was naturally inclined to the life of a young aristocrat and playboy; enjoying his status and other amenities is seemed to provide for him that include popularity and an easier time with those he felt inclined to get to know as he grew into adolescence. Still, he maintained an interest in his school and adhered to religious obligations, his family long time supporters of the local catholic church. Keeping to the family philosophy of a strong body and mind, he also excels in Gymnastics and competes briefly at the university level before giving in to his graduate level studies.

He did well in school, graduating prep school on the honor roll and eventually graduating from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences with a doctorate level degree. He specialized in political sciences as relevant to international law. Groomed in part to succeed his father in the family global enterprise/business, he returned home to Germany. He would end up taking a teaching role at Heidelberg University as well as preparing for his role with the board of directors to come. Not being far from his family’s home and the center of his inherited wealth, it was great opportunity for the young man in 2004 following his graduation. By 2010, he was a full professor at the university and a board member with his father’s international enterprises, holding the COO position as well, and being groomed for presidency to fulfill his fathers will and dying wishes.

The Curse of Lifting the Curse

The year 2010 is, however, the year the Spectre’s curse was lifted and it was revealed that Kurt Wagner was a metahuman. The sort of the mutant variety, altered and with his genes allowed to take their natural course, he became a fuzzy blue elf like entity. Sprouting a spade-like tail, wile both hands and feet became three-digit appendages. His ears become pointed and he is prone to squatting more in a natural rest position. The earlier signs and deformities seem to make more sense given this turn of events. In addition to the elf/imp/demon like appearance, he early on discovers he has micro suction discs and can also wall walk, as well as having a flexible bone structure and enhanced agility making him far better as a gymnast, actually able to do things he couldn’t before and even things that normal human can’t quite do. Coupled with increased reflexes, his abilities are nothing shy of Amazing, even if his appearance isn’t. But to him, despite any looks, concerns, and otherwise contrary opinions, blue and fuzzy in his mind is rock star.

Despite any changes in University Policy since the curse was left, allowing meta human students and faculty with more open policies, Kurt is first and most apparent at the time. This did not fare well for Kurt Wagner. His contract was not renewed as a professor and he was asked to leave mid-term during his courses, as well as not being allowed to continue with his few graduate students that he was mentoring. Though policy was quickly updated, Kurt felt put out enough that he wasn’t inclined to pursue returning and helping with that policy, he still had his position on the board of directors and his role as COO. Though working close with family friends on the board, he would step down from COO while continuing a directorship from his remote board position instead of brining his face to potential deals. He would agree himself it was in best interests of the company to not add complexity to the bargaining and negotiation tables with his blue fuzzy face.

Thus, even with his role as a board member of his father’s business and company, he retreated to the castle and handled this remotely until eventually there was an accident in the town and he had it necessary to flee from the family castle home more for the protection of the remaining servants, some still from the time of his childhood and the days of his father. Kurt went mobile but was always in touch with the global enterprise and the caretakers of his familial home, just on the ‘run’ to hide his appearance. In looking for places to lay low, he eventually retires to the back woods of Germany and starts to move to other locations in Europe.

Adapt and Overcome

Nearing Romania, he meets up with Gypsies that take him in and accept him for what he is. They not only into their family but into their traveling circus and they give him the name Nightcrawler to help with his dark image, seeing how adept he is at acrobatics and performing feats of daring. They mask it as a ‘costume’ and allow him to perform as a death defying aerial acrobat. While he doesn’t fall, one ability he learns that would save him and perhaps boosts his confidence is the ability to teleport instantaneously at will. Reveling in this new persona, he feels like the hero from the old movies he has come to love. But he can’t stay forever, even though managing his end as a member of the board of directors, he feels it necessary to help where he can as a meta with a strong knowledge and interest in political sciences and international laws.

Thus by 2014 and the news of metahuman slavery and Genosha, Kurt goes to the Island to help his fellow metahumans. Playing his part in helping with the skill set he has, he makes a good impression on Charles Xavier. Following the rise of Magneto and the island as a safe haven for metahumans with its own political agenda, Kurt quickly becomes a friend to Charles agreeing with his more peaceful stance on metahuman interaction with the world – an open handed trusting approach to potentially negative reactions to ease into a conjoined world community.

Knowing that Kurt was a teacher, a well respected one at that, who is apprised of global situations, international law, and quite familiar with politics, Charles becomes insistent that Kurt consider going stateside his school where he could help out with the Children. Charles sends word to Emma that she highly consider Kurt for a staff position and thus, following Genosha and the summer of 2014, Kurt goes to New York to seek out Emma and inquire about a staff position at Xavier’s School for Gifted Use. While Kurt knows this is a school with a special interest in young metahumans to offer them a supportive and constructive environment to learn to control their abilities, he is as of yet unaware of Project: Rebirth and the new stance at the school in taking a more active approach in protecting young metahumans. He is in for a world of surprises.

Adventurous
Between the days of his youth acting out adventures and his coming of age as a fuzzy blue elf, Kurt has a revitalized spirit of adventure. Everything is worth doing once and if it’s fun, it’s worth doing again and again. If there is a level of thrill or excitement, the fun factor goes up just a little for Kurt. While he practices responsibility as an adult and doesn’t encourage anyone else into danger, he’s always willing to push his limits and an acrobat, an adventurer, and a thrill seeker.

Light Hearted
While everything around him is serious in life, from adult hood, to his father’s company to being a metahuman, this is taken with a grain of salt. A good spirit is a good soul to him, thus keeping in good spirits and doing his best to lift the spirits of the people around him is a priority in his life. He is quick with an empathetic ear, willing to be the butt of a good joke, free with his hugs, and generally doing his best to be supportive of the people around him. Bad stuff happens, it can’t be changed, but dealing with it with a positive spin and an attitude contributive of a thriving person is at the fundament of his core.

Good In All
Kurt believes in the fundamental ideal that everyone is good at heart. Even when they seem to do something mean, he believes in some way they are only adhering to their own sense of right and wrong, justice and injustice. He believes everyone that does something wrong has only done so for the wrong reason, or misunderstanding. If they don’t know better, then can certainly be educated on what is morally right and wrong, or helped in that direction. Least of all, even if they can’t come to understand that, they can still be forgiven for any inability to realize what is good.

Charming
In conjunction with his light hearted nature and belief in good nature in all people, he tends not to hold back with compliments when compliments may be do. This can be seen as a bit flirty sometimes while perhaps even as sucking up in other situations. Nothing is over the top and if unwanted he is certainly quick to change his ways in order to make other people feel more comfortable with him. What he might lack in normal appearance, he tries to make up in being a good people person. Both to make others comfortable with him and to make communicating with him easier for others.

Faith
While he doesn’t outwardly promote the idea of Catholicism or try to convert others to his faith, he is an adherent follower of his faith. He attends services regularly and contributes routinely to the church near his family’s home. This faith of his only furthers most of his other personality traits. While he doesn’t push Catholicism itself, he does sometimes push the idea of persons finding their individual faith – whether another pantheon of dieties, agnosticism or even faith in one’s self, he believes having that establishment of faith is good for any person’s soul.

Goals
Kurt’s primary goal at the start is to make good with Emma and Xavier’s school, to contribute to its growth and the promise of peaceful outcomes between metahuman and human kind. Specifically he is seeking to avoid the travesties that have happened, like Genosha, from happening again. He is also of the mindset that some human fear is rightly justified given the changing nature of the world and the unleashed potential that comes from the return and growth of metahumans in a human world. Rather than closed fist approach, he believes in the open hand and the sharing of knowledge and understanding as key to any jeopardized relations between metahumans and humans.

Motivation
Kurt’s motivation is to uphold his father’s name, maintain his father’s business to the best of his abilities and, lately, to show that he is the same person he always has been despite the changes in his appearance. He wants to be successful in his endeavors as well as make those around him just as successful in their intentions. He tries to be an example of the ideas he embodies to show others rather than simply tell them what he believes.

Teleportation
Nightcrawler's primary mutant ability allows him to teleport. His power actually lets him travel instantaneously through another dimension. Disappearing, because of his power, is accompanied with a 'bamf' sound and there is a slight deviation to the atmosphere where he appears (but is only detectable by the super sensitive such as Daredevil). Because of this travel through the other dimension, disappearing is accompanied by wisps of smoke and the smell of brimstone as elements of the other dimension seep through the portals he creates. His teleportation is limited to a range of about 3 miles, but it requires that he have actually been to a place before or be able to physically see the location. His power is accompanied by a certain spatial awareness that he doesn't teleport into objects, which is partially why he needs to be familiar with an area or able to see it before he can teleport to it.
There is some alignment of his power to earth's magnetic field - he can travel up to 3 miles north and south along the magnetic lines, but east/west and vertical travel is limited to within 2 miles. He retains his momentum while teleporting, thus falling and teleporting further into the air would probably increase his falling momentum. He can teleport others with him, but this leaves the other people feeling nauseated and weak, limiting how many times he can teleport others with himself. As well, it seems he is more accustomed to teleportation than physical travel, though he too is affected by this weakening.
He cannot keep teleporting indefinitely himself, though through constant training he has raised his tolerance. Up to 3 miles is optimal and he has shown himself capable of teleporting farther in dire circumstance, this is really the extreme of his teleportation limit and he becomes severely fatigued when teleporting multiple times at distances including miles.
However, personal and close range is something he has mastered. Not limited to having to open portals, create elements to use the portals, or disc, or any such other necessity, he is perhaps one of the fastest teleports known. He is able to easily port with any given second and is rather capable of making numerous ports in the span of a minute. He can easily attack someone this way in the time it might take them to throw a punch or kick a leg. If he ports someone this way, it often weakens and disorients them, if not out-right nauseating them; this can work on some of the most durable individuals (including the likes of Juggernaut).

Micro-Suction Discs
His hands and feet are covered in micro suction discs, too small to detect by the naked eye. This discs allow his hands and feet to stick to any surface or object, including slick surfaces such as glass. He can as easily walk on the ceiling as he would on the ground and is quite comfortable living upside down, growing use to and disorientation effects this might have after practice and utilization of his primary ability to teleport and its disorienting side-effect.

Indigo Fur
His natural fur coupled with his association with the dimension he can teleport through tends to render Kurt invisible in shadows and the dark. Because of his relation to the shadows and the dimension, he tends to always seem to be in shadows, with longer shadows cast over his body and face even while in direct sunlight.

Flexibility and Reflexes
Kurt’s bone structure gives him the ability to easily perform contortionist feats without even risking damage to his spine. He can easily conform to positions along with some of the world’s best trained contortionists. Because of this, his agility, balance and coordination are at a level beyond normal human limits, allowing him to easily perform acrobatics at a level beyond top level Olympians. Likewise, his natural reaction time supersedes the quickest human reactions. While he is perhaps one of the most agile and acrobatic metahumans, his reaction is only above human capacity, this doesn’t compare to other individuals such as daredevil and is certainly below the majority of speedsters and their lightning quick reflexes.

Infravision
Part of his new appearance are yellow eyes that almost seem to glow, they have given him heightened night vision, allowing him to see at near total dark as good as a normal human would see in daylight. This helps him greatly when sticking to the shadows for camoflouge.

Prehensile Tail
Kurt’s tail is as agile as he is, capable of acting like a third hand and just as dexterous as he is with his own hand and fingers. It is strong, not only capable of holding himself, but able to lift most adult men completely off the ground. He can easily pick up others and, should they be light enough, he can suspend himself and another by his tail if needed.

Wealthy
His family is descended from Bavarian nobility and has maintained a lot of their wealth and resources even with the dissolving of the official German nobility itself. Not only has he inherited his family’s personal fortune, being the sole survivor of his father, but he maintains income from his father’s global enterprises on top of being an active member of the board of directories with salary and amenities associated there with. He has no want for money and his limited role leaves him the leisure to pursue most of his own interests, which is presently working with Charles Xavier and heading stateside to work with the school.

Global Enterprise
As a board member of the enterprise his father started, he has access to things associated with this. This includes being able to find contacts that at least know of him or the company nearly anywhere in the world as well as access to personal company things, such as any research and development associated with the enterprise, data bases and servers, individuals currently or recently employed with the enterprise. While he could even draw monetary resources from this organization, he has no need to on account of his own inheritance and estates.

Gypsies
No matter what anyone might say, gypsies are a valuable resource. Not only as a means for him to go into hidden and be protected at large by his gypsy family but as well through their connection with the mystical realms. Should any such need arise for mystical and magical help, assistance, or need for knowledge, he has his adopted gypsy family to call upon to help him in such crisis.

Charles Xavier
Going to Genosha and personal contributing helpfully in such a manner to earn the respect of Charles has made these two friends. Believing in the peaceful approach to the global theatre in the wake of the rise of metahumans, they tend to see eye to eye. With Kurt’s very nature being a peaceful approach, it is natural that they get along. Having an ally like Charles is a very significant advantage.

Acrobat
Coupled with his gymnastic training and his natural ability as a metahuman, Kurt is an Olympic-class acrobat, capable of performing beyond human levels with his acrobatic feats. Along with his sense of adventure, he’s on the level of mythical ninja, with his acrobatics at least.

Swordsmanship
Having trained in fencing, even if not competitive, Kurt is an excellent swords men, again enhanced to top human condition by his abilities as a metahuman to the point that he is a world class swordsman by default of training and ability. He could still be better, he is above the level of most metahumans as it is, but there are a number that are certainly better with a sword.

Languages
Being a world travel, Kurt is familiar with a few languages, such as French or Latin even. He is also well versed in a couple that include, aside form his native German, English, Austro-Bavarian dialect, and the Romani gypsy/trade language. His knowledge of Latin also helps him at least get some basic gist of other Romanian languages such as Italian and Spanish.

Leadership
Kurt is a natural leader, not simply being able to give instructions (which anyone could do). Kurt is the sort of man that values anyone willing to work with him and will do his best to see they get anything they need to succeed in what they would do for him. Including training, education, and resources. His trust in individuals coupled with his willingness to motivate and encourage makes him a natural leader.

Tactician
Able to conceive broader picture in most given situations, he is a good tactician as well. Especially in the field, his ability as a leader coupled with his battlefield awareness makes it easier for him to look outside the box when dealing with real world changing scenarios. The spatial awareness needed to use his teleportation ability also helps him easily consider locations for tactical soundness and weaknesses

Pilot
As a man with leisure time, learning to fly was something he had started. There is a lot of work needed to become good, and more to become a fighter pilot, he has the groundwork for knowing how to fly a plane. Able to take off/land and get around by plane in general.

Freakish Appearance
Despite the fact that Kurt considers fuzzy blue to be cool, and some ladies (more so mutant ladies) seem to find some attraction to this, the common person finds this repulsive, or at least disturbing. In fact, due to demonic concepts, he is and has been many times mistaken and accused of being a devil.

Noticeable Teleportation
As noted in the teleportation power, when Kurt 'disappears', this is accompanied by a bamf sound and left behind is a trail of smoke and the smell of brimstone. Because of his limited range, acute smelling (and enhances smelling) can certainly be used to track him, even with his ability to blend into shadows. While stealthy, his teleportation certainly doesn't help his stealth but rather hinders this ability of his.

Power Drain
As noted, his power is physically draining. This affacts himself and anyone he teleports along with himself. While he has trained himself to endure this, the powerdrain is still limiting. The greater the distance the more draining it is to him and at the range of 2-3 miles, this can be fatiguing to him while anything beyond that is literally exhausting to himself - and worse for any other person/being he pulls along. Even while he can endure this for a time at close range, he has no special endurance beyond normal human and he cannot keep teleporting for extended durations. This includes making several teleportations ever minute or mutli-porting repeatedly even over the length of a minute; these are both taxing on him if he tries to sustain/repeately keep teleporting.

Good Nature
Kurt will not kill, he will do his best not to harm anyone, including an enemy. In fact, he might be bold enough to stop a friend from harming an enemy if he thinks they are treating the enemy inhumanely. This hasn’t been called into question yet, but he believe in human (and metahuman) rights and equality to the point that on one should injury or hurt another. This will come up, warfare happens, he doesn’t stand opposed as a conscious objector, he only believe this should be a very last resort with other options pursued prior to resorting to violence.

Known Identity
It is known who he is, he doesn’t hide this fact. While he doesn’t have a lot of enemies presently, should he gain some his identity makes others vulnerable. From the servants at his family home, to former university colleagues, to the global enterprise his father started. There are lots of people could would take personal interest in protecting – or that could be used against him.

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IC Relationships

Domino
A merc I've had the unfortunate of meeting a few random times. I've made a deal with her to get some training in what she does.

Mystique
A chance encounter, Kurt hopes to meet up with her again, she seems elusive.

The Boss
Agreed to consider teaching at Charles school, him becoming a new old friend quickly. She is in charge of the place. Might not of started on the right foot, but hopefully we'll get there.

Agent Barton
SHIELD agent, stalking me I think.

Agent Romanov
She was friendly, but come to realize … SHIELD. Cute, scary, I can't trust these SHIELD people.

Agent Blackout
Another teleporter, with SHIELD - warning, do not teleport inside of his portals, unless you want to open a whole can of fun.

Ms. Baumgartner
A student in his history class at Xavier's, trouble maker or unguided rebel, he's yet to know

Julie
A new student at the school who speaks German, friendly but perhaps too friendly for the relationship of teacher and student.

The Digs

Kurt finds himself a home in New York befitting his life style. The Penthouse at 60 Warren St,

The Sub Floor is the 6th Floor of the warren street building, including several bedrooms it has a kitchen area as well and access to the lowest, south terrace.

Aside from the kitchen, public areas on this level include a dark room, a gallery, and two restrooms. One restroom is attached to the main bedroom on this floor, which has openings onto the terrace itself. The two other bedrooms on this floor share a small study between them and a large walk through closet.

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The Digs