Kurt Wagner

## Background

### 1974 - 2000: Kurt Wagner

Kurt Wagner was believed to have been born to Baron Christian Wagner & the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in the form of a German noblewoman named Raven Wagner. However, Mystique had an affair with the mysterious Azazel & became pregnant with their child but said nothing of this to anyone. The Baron became suspicious of the baby's paternity but his sudden "accidental" death ensured no one else knew of his suspicions.

However, Kurt was born with visibly mutations of blue fur all over, pointed ears, iridescent eyes & a prehensile tail. Due to the shock & the strain of the boy’s difficult delivery, Mystique lost concentration & accidentally revealed her true form while giving birth. Word spread of her & the baby's condition, leading to the mother & son being chased by a torch-wielding angry mob believing them to be demons. Mystique knew she could not carry on much longer & left a young Kurt floating down a river during her escape.

Kurt survived the ordeal after h was saved by Margali Szardos, a sorceress & Romani fortuneteller at Herr Getmann's Traveling Menagerie. She took the baby back with her to the circus. Wagner was never legally adopted by anyone but was raised within the circus, mostly with people who had no prejudices against "freaks." Wagner grew up in circus & his two closest friends were his "adopted" siblings, Margali's children Stephan & Jimaine Szardos. Kurt & Stephan became the best of friends but Stephan knew that his magical heritage might lure him to evil one day so he had Kurt promise to kill him if he ever killed without reason well.

While in the circus, Wagner gained tremendous natural agility & by his adolescence he had become the circus' star acrobat & aerial artist. The circus audience assumed that he was a normal-looking human being wearing a demon-like costume.

### 2000 - 2002: Kurt Wagner

At some point, Kurt engaged in an affair with an unknown woman that led to the birth of his daughter, Talia Wagner. She had a similar physiology as him, leading to the circus owner wanting to use her. Kurt refused so the owner decided to sell the both of them. As he fled with his daughter, he accidentally knocked over a torch, igniting the circus. The owner & his men chased them through the forest & were about to shoot when he teleported for the first time.

Astonished & pleased with his escape, Kurt wearily made his way to a nearby church. There, he & his daughter were welcomed with open arms & Kurt began trading shelter for labor. After remaining here for a year, the circus owner again found Kurt. He attacked the church & set it ablaze. Kurt almost killed the owner before the priest reminded him of humanity. Before the owner could kill either one of them, Professor Charles Xavier arrived & made the the angry mob believe Kurt to have died in the fire.

To keep the father safe, Wagner went with Professor Xavier & the X-Men back to the States. Because he required no tutoring from Professor X, he mostly spent his time training in the use of their powers when not with his daughter or his drama students.

## Romantic Relationships

* Meggan Puceanu: "Dated" (2005)
* Amanda Sefton: *Unknown*

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology**
	+ ***Teleportation:*** He has the ability to teleport himself & within limits a certain amount of additional mass which is in contact with him. He consciously determines his point of return. Although Nightcrawler controls his teleportation ability with his conscious mind, his power to teleport is not psionic. When he disappears in teleporting, Nightcrawler leaves behind smoke with a stench reminiscent of burning brimstone. His teleportation is invariably accompanied by the muffled sound of imploding air rushing to fill the vacuum left where Nightcrawler's body was, creating his signature "BAMF" sound. As a consequence, Nightcrawler typically teleports only to places he has been to before or knows the layout of. The longer the distance over which Nightcrawler teleports himself, the harder & more exhausting it is for him to make the teleportation "jump." The limits to the mass that Nightcrawler can carry with him while teleporting, and the limits to the distance over which he can teleport himself with additional load is unknown. As part of his power, Nightcrawler has also exhibited a limited ability to sense the teleportation of other beings.
	+ ***Subconscious Spatial Awareness:*** Nightcrawler has a very limited subconscious extrasensory ability that prevents him from teleporting himself so that his feet, for example, would materialize below the surface of the local ground. Because this ability is so limited, Nightcrawler will not teleport into any place that he cannot see or has not seen in the past.
	+ ***Micro-Suction Discs:*** Nightcrawler can stick to objects with the surface of his hands and feet. This enables him to scale surfaces.
	+ ***Flexible Bone Structure:*** Nightcrawler's bone structure allows him great flexibility. He can remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist type feats without causing any damage to his spine.
	+ ***Camouflage:*** He has limited abilities to blend into shadows, both as a result of his indigo fur and his connection to the light-bending attributes of the dimension through which he teleports. This is also the explanation for why he constantly appears in shadow, even in direct light.[61]
	+ ***Prehensile Tail:*** Nightcrawler has a tail allows him to grab onto objects with relative ease. His tail is strong enough to not only support his body weight but also lift an adult man completely off the ground. It is deft enough to fight with like a sword or blunt object.
	+ ***Night Vision:*** His glowing eyes grant him a marked degree of heightened night vision as well.
	+ ***Superhuman Agility:*** Nightcrawler's agility, balance& bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the human body's natural limits.
	+ ***Superhuman Reflexes:*** Nightcrawler's natural reaction time is enhanced to a level beyond the human body's natural limits.
* **Aviation:** He has served as the team's pilot and, with Wolverine, has also been the mechanic of the X-Men's Blackbird jet for a long time.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** He is a skilled combatant & a master at fencing, which he can even perform with his tail, which is strong enough to support his entire body weight. He also has martial arts training.
* **Medicine:** He has been the team medic when there weren't any qualified X-Men around to do so.
* **Multilingualism:** Nightcrawler is fluent in various languages due to traveling around Europe in his youth. He is fluent in his native German, English, French, Spanish & Italian. He was also telepathically taught the team Russian & Japanese by Professor Xavier.
* **Physicality:** Nightcrawler is an Olympic-class acrobat thanks to his flexible spine that allows him to perform contortionist-like feats and to go long periods in a semi-crouching position without injury.

### Weaknesses

* **Angel Blood:** Because he is a Neyaphem, Angel's blood, which heals everyone else, hurts him, normally adding to whatever injury he received.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** Unknown
* **Might:** Unknown
* **Quickness:** Unknown
* **Mysticism:** Unknown
* **Gadgets:** Unknown
* **Projection:** Unknown
* **Tactics:** Unknown
* **Battle:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* He is a devout Roman Catholic.
* He does not have blue skin but a fine coat of blue fur.
* When upset or in heighten emotions, he exclaims in his native language of German.

## Notes

* The original character of Nightcrawler belongs to the Marvel Universe.