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[felis_umbra]

CHARACTER
Codename: Shadowcat
Full name: Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde
Aliases: Sprite, Ariel, Punk'in, Kitten, Kätzchen, Cat, Katya, Half-Pint. Kitty collects nicknames.
Power source: Mutation
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Species: Mutant
Nationality: American
Occuppation: Computer Science Teacher

Likes:

• Computers
• Fantasy and sci-fi novels
• Star Wars
• Martial Arts
• Baseball (Go Cubs!)
• Ballet
• Guys named Peter
• Dazzler's music
• Every pastry at her favourite kosher bakery.
• Ice skating
• Most sushi
• Being able to touch things
• Winning arguments
• Hacking, not that she does any of that illegal stuff. It totally wasn't her that redirected godhatesmutants.com's URL to a mutant fetish porn site. At least, it can't be proven that it was her.
• Anime, but only in the original Japanese. She doesn't even need the subtitles.
• Cats, though she doesn't have one because Lockheed would get jealous, even if he totally isn't a pet.
• Coffee
• Tea, be it green, black, red, white or herbal.
• Energy drinks
• Okay, anything with caffeine
• Canadian beer - possibly a sign that she's spent way too much time with Logan
• New York style cheesecake. Or any cheesecake.

Dislikes:

• Bigots
• Bullies
• Emma Frost, even if she does respect the woman, she's never going to be a friend.
• The Aliens movies. They just bring back bad memories of the Brood, even if Ripley is totally bad-ass.
• Adamantium. It hurts.
• Rats (thanks, Marrow)
• Her fashion choices as an early teen. She still cringes looking back on that rollerskate costume.
• British cuisine.
• Being treated like a child (especially when she was still a child)
• Uni, the only sushi dish she can't stand.
• Being proven wrong
• Gefelte fish. Not even Bubbe Prydeman could make boiled fish taste good.
• Wearing her glasses. Long live the contact lense.
• Demon ninjas
• Cigarette and cigar smoke
• Warm beer

APPEARANCE

Kitty is a petite young woman with an athletic build, possessing only the most meagre of curves. Her long brown hair is naturally curly, though she's discovered the magic of the straightening iron in recent years. She's pretty, in that girl-next-door sort of way, though she doesn't quite realize. Her posture and mannerisms are confident, but humble.

POWER
Kitty "phases" by creating an electro-magnetic repulsion field that allows her to pass through solid matter by passing the atoms of her body through the spaces between the atoms of whatever she's walking through.
While phased, she can "airwalk," allowing her to ascend or to slow down a descent- though the latter is not always fun, depending on how much momentum she has. Falling to Earth from near-orbit was particularly unpleasant.
She is capable of extending her state of intangibility to anything or anyone she touches, but must remain in physical contact with them to maintain it. Extending her phasing to too much matter, or too many people can fatigue her, or if she pushes herself too far, overload her powers leaving her stuck in an intangible state.
Due to the electromagnetic nature of her powers, she causes electronics to short out when passing through them. Xavier has had to replace the microwave in the school's kitchen more than once when Kitty was younger and had less control of her powers.

While phased, she is still vulnerable to magic attack. She also cannot breathe when passing through solid matter, so she must hold her breath while doing so. However, when her powers have been overextended, her body goes in to something of a waking stasis, allowing her survive without air, water or food.

PERSONALITY

Cheerful without being hyper, Kitty is a friendly, pleasant person. Usually. She's prone to sarcasm and snarkiness, especially around people she doesn't like (*cough*Emma*cough*). Her quips and wry comments are also often directed at her friends and team mates, though in a less hostile, more playful and friendly way, more of a sign of affection than anger.
Speaking of anger, Kitty may not have a short fuse, but once she is set off, she is set off, without the excuse of beserker rage that feral mutants have. Kitty's also very stubborn, and can really hold a grudge when someone has wronged her, or worse, wronged her friends.

HISTORY
The only child of Carmen and Theresa Pryde, Kitty had a very normal, mundane upper-middle-class existence for the first thirteen years of her life in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. She performed well in school, took ballet and karate lessons and went to Synagogue services with her parents every week. It was in and around the time of her thirteenth birthday that things became very strange.

It started with headaches that soon grew in to terrible migraines, which often caused her to black out- she would go to sleep in her bed room, and wake up in another room in the house with no memory of getting up to go there. It was thought that this was simply her body's reaction to the stress of her parents' constant fighting and impending separation. This theory was proven wrong when the Prydes were contacted by the headmasters of two different schools, both of which wanted to offer their daughter a place at their "special" acadamies.

Kitty, they were told, was a mutant; her "blackouts" were the result of her power, the ability to pass through solid matter, manifesting. Both Emma Frost and Charles Xavier claimed to have her best interests at heart, and that their schools would be the best place for Kitty. Of course, at the time, Ms. Frost was the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, and was aiming to make the young Miss Pryde one of her Hellions (and capture and kill the X-Men while she was in town, she was a multitasker like that). Luckily for Kitty, they were convinced by Charles Xavier and Jean Grey to send her to Xaver's School for Gifted Youngsters.

What the Prydes didn't know was that they were sending their daughter to live with a team of superheroes. Superheroes that Kitty would come to idolize and want to emulate in any way possible- even if that meant designing her own (horrible) costumes and stowing away on missions in attempts to prove herself to her teachers. The fact that Kitty managed to stay in the good graces of her soon-to-be team mates instead of being expelled was a small miracle. Perhaps they recognized the gifts that the young woman possessed, predicting that she would be useful to the team as she grew older; or maybe they just figured that it would be safter to keep her around where they could watch her and keep her out of trouble.

It was on one of these missions that she befriended a small, alien dragon-like creature with whom she developed a very close bond. Lockheed, as she soon named him, followed her back to the school, and the two have spent very little time apart since.

Kitty also developed close bonds with several of her team mates. Logan became something of a mentor to her, teaching her self-defense and other life lessons he thought to be important. Like don't hide a man's cigars just because they stink. Storm became something of a surrogate mother or big sister to her, and she definitely had a bit of hero worship for her. She grew to be very close with Nightcrawler as well, and thought of him as an older brother of sorts, and she still thinks of him as one of her dearest friends.

Then, there was Colossus. Kitty's crush on Piotr was more than a little obvious. She was much, much too young for him at the time, however. Still, she carried a torch for him for years.

Like many young mutants, Kitty proved to be something of a magnet for trouble, even when she wasn't serving as an X-Man. For instance, thanks to her father's well-intentioned but ill-informed dealings with a yakuza mob boss, she had a run in with a telepathic demon by the name of Ogun, who brainwashed the young mutant into his protege, implanting an entire lifetime of training and skill into her mind.

With the help of Wolverine, she was able to overcome Ogun's influence, but the skills and knowedge remained. After this life-changing event, she took on the codename Shadowcat.

When the X-Men "died," Kitty and Nightcrawler were on Muir Island. The two of them stayed in Great Britain, becomming founding members of the English super-team known as Excalibur. It was here that Kitty truly grew up- and not just because she could legally drink after a couple years there, either. In the space of just a few years, she went from an awkward, kind of bratty teenager to a confident and capable woman.

She was 21 when she met an extremely cranky secret agent by the name of Pete Wisdom, whom she soon became romanticall involved with. Pete joined Excalibur, though he often likely wished he hadn't. Like when Colossus, then back from the dead with the rest of the X-Men, saw him kissing Kitty and went into a violent rage and attacking him. This put something of a strain on her friendship with the Russian, but she came to understand his mental health at the time was questionable at best, due to the death of his sister and confusing and conflicting involvement with the Acolytes.

Her relationship with Pete Wisdom came to an end after about a year, and Excalibur disbanded shortly afterwards. She returned to the US with Nightcrawler and Colossus.

When Piotr sacrificed himself to cure the Legacy Virus, Kitty was heartbroken. She mourned for a long time, even performing the yahrzeit, a Jewish mourning ritiual usually performed only for family members, a year after his death. She also travelled to Russia to release his ashes to the wind.

After Piotr's death, she decided to leave the X-Men. She enrolled in university in Chicago, pursuing, and earning a degree in computer engineering.

Some time after graduating, she was asked to return to the team by Cyclops, and she hesitantly accepted. While on a mission investigating a so-called Mutant "cure," she discovered a very much alive Collosus, who actually hadn't died, but was secretly taken and revived shortly after his "death" and kept captive and used as a lab rat for five years.

While Piotr adjusted to being home, he and Kitty finally became romantically involved. And then reality was rewritten. And then un-rewritten, and torn apart a bit.

SAMPLE POST

From Second City RPG, a multifandom game based in the Dresden Files universe. Kitty's canon point was some time after the space bullet incident:

She came to cursing the sun and it's obnoxious brightness. Really, it wasn't all that bright, she'd just been in complete darkness for-

Wait, rewind.

Sun. Fresh air (well, relatively fresh), ground beneath her feet that was not made of weird alien metal. She was no longer trapped inside that projectile coffin!

There was, however, something very shiny and reflective and distinctly alien-esque above her. Great, she thought as she got to her feet, finding she had to keep focused on staying tangible. Finally on solid ground, and and it's probably another 'oh hey, humans- let's eat 'em!' world.

Her vision cleared a little as she walked out from under the structure so shiny it reminded her of Piotr. That skyline looked familiar.

Wait. Metal bean. Skyline. Wind.

She was home. How exactly she had gone from hurtling through space to being sprawled out under a sculpture in her home town was a total mystery, but she wasn't going to look a gift-teleportation in the mouth. She needed to get in touch with the X-Men! Which meant... she, uh, needed to find a phone. They'd been keeping in contact via Emma's brain on her last mission, so she had no comm link on her.

She had just started to leave in search of a payphone when the little black device on the ground near where she'd woken up caught her eye. She picked it up... she'd totally find whoever it belonged to after she made the call to-

Oh. Hell. She groaned a little again as she read over the "welcome" screen. She was so not in the mood for another alternate universe.

And she was really, really hungry.

Player: Kristen

EST | felisumbra | 27 | Female