Post by jazzlawyer on Feb 26, 2007 19:58:23 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Code Name: Shadowcat
Age: 21
Affiliation: X-Men
Mutant Characteristics:
Mutation: Shadowcat can phase, meaning she can become intangible. She can generate magnetic repulsion within her body to become ephemeral, allowing her to pass through solid objects, walk on thin air, utilize her magnetic distortion to scramble electronic systems, and extend her intangibility to anything she touches. She can only cause something roughly two to three times her own body-weight to become intagible while touching it, thus she could not for example phase the X-Jet through a mountain.
Other limits to her power is that she can not breath while phased in solid matter, since there is no air available. Also her natural state is to be phased and intangible, and it is in fact only through practice and force of will that she remains solid for most of her life.
Manifestations: None
Class: 2
The Character
Personality: Kitty Pryde had been one of the true believers in Xavier's dream of mutant and human coexistence. However to a certain degree she is also sympathetic to Magneto. Her grandmother had known the young mutant during his time as an inmate at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Sharing a Jewish background with Magneto and having seen the hatred that many humans had for mutants and though she does not agree with his methods, she does see that Magneto might be right about how much humans hate mutants.
Kitty tends to be more reserved than the outgoing young teen she was when she joined the group. She often hides her true feelings with sarcasm, and only opens up emotionally to those that she trusts. Despite this she is a very kind girl, always willing to be friendly and welcoming to others.
Physical Description: Kitty Pryde has shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes and looks younger than her true age. She looks like the girl next door, the typical all-American young woman. While her body is in peak physical condition due to years of training in the Danger Room, she tends to downplay her looks.
When not on a mission with the X-Men she tends to dress casually, preferring the comfort of jeans and t-shirts to more flattering or form fitting clothing. She tends not to wear makeup or much jewelry.
Her uniform is the standard black leather X-uniform with yellow accents.
History: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde was a thirteen-and-a-half year old girl living in Deerfield, Illinois who led a normal life but then began suffering headaches of steadily increasing frequency, duration, and intensity. Unknown to her or her parents, the headaches were a result of her mutant power emerging. She sought medical help to control, or stop, the headaches but no doctors were able to help her.
However around this time Professor Charles Xavier was beginning to recruit a new generation of students for his school. Locating the young mutant with Cerebro he arrived at the Pryde's house looking to offer Kitty a place at his school. Glad not only that Xavier promised to be able to help Kitty with her headaches, but also that Kitty would ge the special attention someone with her considerable natural abilities with technology, computers and math had, her parents were only too eager to have her attend the school. Even once they discovered that she was a mutant, and that the Xavier Institute was a school for mutants, they were pleased and proud of their daughter.
It also helped that they were going through a messy divorce, and having Kitty out of the house kept her from needing to be involved. However it meant that during holidays Kitty was eager to remain at the school, not wanting to get involved in the tug-of-war the two were having over their only daughter.
Pryde immediately fit into the Xavier Institute, reaching the top of her class in most courses even ones like English and history in which she was not so naturally gifted. She formed a close friendship with Bobby Drake, otherwise known as Iceman. However Bobby was already dating Rogue, and so Kitty remained single.
Her social life was not the only thing that was worked on. Arriving at the Institute she discovered the X-Men, and became a member of the junior team training alongside Colossus, Rogue and Iceman. That training came in handy when the junior team was forced into action against an enlarged Brotherhood to defend Alcatraz Island and the source of the mutant cure, a young man named Leetch. Kitty was assigned to save the young man, and using her quick wits managed to defeat the powerful mutant Juggernaut.
Following the events at Alcatraz Kitty returned home, and spent a few months with each of her parents before returning to the school and resuming her studies and her role as a full fledged X-Man.
Sample: Taken from a game where I play 616 Kitty.
The taxi pulled to a stop outside of the Xavier estate. Kitty Pryde knew she could have had the car pull up to the front doors which would have saved her the trouble of carrying her bags down the long drive to the front door of the mansion owned by Charles Xavier. She knew the Professor would have already been aware of the presence of both her and the cab driver by now, sensing their approach telepathically, and that clouding the mind of the cab driver to avoid him seeing anything out of the ordinary would have been easy for him.
Still it had been so long, or at least it seemed like it had been, since she had been to the house of Xavier, the mansion that housed the X-Men and the Xavier Institute, that she was not sure if she could deal with seeing it on her own let alone a telepathically doped up cabbie.
She paid him the fare and a tip and watched the yellow car drive out of sight. Once it was gone she picked up her bags and walked through the gate, phasing right through the bars. The drive was long and lined with trees that still held their leaves even though it was late into fall now. That might have something to do with Storm, she conjectured realizing that she had never paid much attention to the trees around the driveway before, or it might mean that they were simply some kind of hologram to keep passers-by on the street from seeing the more fantastic elements of the house.
She reached the front steps and walked up them. She paused briefly considering whether or not to ring the doorbell. It seemed formal, and out of place here at what had for so many years been her home. Yet it was not her home anymore and so it was not her place to simply walk through a wall and into someone else's life. She put down her suitcases and touched the button, hearing the muffled chime from inside the house. She waited for a few minutes and then pressed the button again. After another couple of minutes she left her bags on the front step and walked through the wall.
"Hello," she called out, the first words she had said since giving the cab driver instructions back at JFK, "it's me, Kitty. I'm home."
Name: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Code Name: Shadowcat
Age: 21
Affiliation: X-Men
Mutant Characteristics:
Mutation: Shadowcat can phase, meaning she can become intangible. She can generate magnetic repulsion within her body to become ephemeral, allowing her to pass through solid objects, walk on thin air, utilize her magnetic distortion to scramble electronic systems, and extend her intangibility to anything she touches. She can only cause something roughly two to three times her own body-weight to become intagible while touching it, thus she could not for example phase the X-Jet through a mountain.
Other limits to her power is that she can not breath while phased in solid matter, since there is no air available. Also her natural state is to be phased and intangible, and it is in fact only through practice and force of will that she remains solid for most of her life.
Manifestations: None
Class: 2
The Character
Personality: Kitty Pryde had been one of the true believers in Xavier's dream of mutant and human coexistence. However to a certain degree she is also sympathetic to Magneto. Her grandmother had known the young mutant during his time as an inmate at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Sharing a Jewish background with Magneto and having seen the hatred that many humans had for mutants and though she does not agree with his methods, she does see that Magneto might be right about how much humans hate mutants.
Kitty tends to be more reserved than the outgoing young teen she was when she joined the group. She often hides her true feelings with sarcasm, and only opens up emotionally to those that she trusts. Despite this she is a very kind girl, always willing to be friendly and welcoming to others.
Physical Description: Kitty Pryde has shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes and looks younger than her true age. She looks like the girl next door, the typical all-American young woman. While her body is in peak physical condition due to years of training in the Danger Room, she tends to downplay her looks.
When not on a mission with the X-Men she tends to dress casually, preferring the comfort of jeans and t-shirts to more flattering or form fitting clothing. She tends not to wear makeup or much jewelry.
Her uniform is the standard black leather X-uniform with yellow accents.
History: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde was a thirteen-and-a-half year old girl living in Deerfield, Illinois who led a normal life but then began suffering headaches of steadily increasing frequency, duration, and intensity. Unknown to her or her parents, the headaches were a result of her mutant power emerging. She sought medical help to control, or stop, the headaches but no doctors were able to help her.
However around this time Professor Charles Xavier was beginning to recruit a new generation of students for his school. Locating the young mutant with Cerebro he arrived at the Pryde's house looking to offer Kitty a place at his school. Glad not only that Xavier promised to be able to help Kitty with her headaches, but also that Kitty would ge the special attention someone with her considerable natural abilities with technology, computers and math had, her parents were only too eager to have her attend the school. Even once they discovered that she was a mutant, and that the Xavier Institute was a school for mutants, they were pleased and proud of their daughter.
It also helped that they were going through a messy divorce, and having Kitty out of the house kept her from needing to be involved. However it meant that during holidays Kitty was eager to remain at the school, not wanting to get involved in the tug-of-war the two were having over their only daughter.
Pryde immediately fit into the Xavier Institute, reaching the top of her class in most courses even ones like English and history in which she was not so naturally gifted. She formed a close friendship with Bobby Drake, otherwise known as Iceman. However Bobby was already dating Rogue, and so Kitty remained single.
Her social life was not the only thing that was worked on. Arriving at the Institute she discovered the X-Men, and became a member of the junior team training alongside Colossus, Rogue and Iceman. That training came in handy when the junior team was forced into action against an enlarged Brotherhood to defend Alcatraz Island and the source of the mutant cure, a young man named Leetch. Kitty was assigned to save the young man, and using her quick wits managed to defeat the powerful mutant Juggernaut.
Following the events at Alcatraz Kitty returned home, and spent a few months with each of her parents before returning to the school and resuming her studies and her role as a full fledged X-Man.
Sample: Taken from a game where I play 616 Kitty.
The taxi pulled to a stop outside of the Xavier estate. Kitty Pryde knew she could have had the car pull up to the front doors which would have saved her the trouble of carrying her bags down the long drive to the front door of the mansion owned by Charles Xavier. She knew the Professor would have already been aware of the presence of both her and the cab driver by now, sensing their approach telepathically, and that clouding the mind of the cab driver to avoid him seeing anything out of the ordinary would have been easy for him.
Still it had been so long, or at least it seemed like it had been, since she had been to the house of Xavier, the mansion that housed the X-Men and the Xavier Institute, that she was not sure if she could deal with seeing it on her own let alone a telepathically doped up cabbie.
She paid him the fare and a tip and watched the yellow car drive out of sight. Once it was gone she picked up her bags and walked through the gate, phasing right through the bars. The drive was long and lined with trees that still held their leaves even though it was late into fall now. That might have something to do with Storm, she conjectured realizing that she had never paid much attention to the trees around the driveway before, or it might mean that they were simply some kind of hologram to keep passers-by on the street from seeing the more fantastic elements of the house.
She reached the front steps and walked up them. She paused briefly considering whether or not to ring the doorbell. It seemed formal, and out of place here at what had for so many years been her home. Yet it was not her home anymore and so it was not her place to simply walk through a wall and into someone else's life. She put down her suitcases and touched the button, hearing the muffled chime from inside the house. She waited for a few minutes and then pressed the button again. After another couple of minutes she left her bags on the front step and walked through the wall.
"Hello," she called out, the first words she had said since giving the cab driver instructions back at JFK, "it's me, Kitty. I'm home."
