Kitty Pryde (Earth-3)

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde is a high school student, adventurer, and close friend of several of the main characters as well as a future member of the Vindicators team of super heroes as "Shadowcat".

## Early Life:

Katherine Anne Pryde was born in Deerfield Illinois to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. Raised in the Jewish faith, Kitty was the apple of her parents' eyes as she showed a natural intelligence and skill at dancing from an early age, however Kitty wasn't the most confident of people and suffered from a couple of related issues in her childhood and early teens, a problem that also included a shared interest in both boys and girls-something that was frowned upon in the Jewish faith.

Shortly before she became a teenager, Kitty's family moved from Deerfield to the college town of Fayetteville Arkansas as her father was offered the presidency of a branch of the bank that he worked for that was located there and hoping to also encourage his daughter's intelligence by living in such a culturally diverse place.

After moving to Fayetteville, Kitty felt like her whole world had been upended-her first day of school at Ramey Junior High was almost like one long panic attack for her until one person stopped and took the time to help her;

Wil Pierce.

Seeing something of a kindred soul in Kitty, Wil took the time to sit with her and talked her through her fears and concerns about being in a new place-interestingly enough he himself suffered something akin to that only a few short years earlier when he first moved there from Astoria. Kitty and Wil would become good friends, but when the young Jewish girl soon started to realize that she had feelings for Wil, she kept talking herself out of telling him how she felt until finally she decided it was time but by then it was too late and he was already dating Josie McCoy and thus Kitty instead became the good friend to Wil, hiding her attraction to her semi-best friend for the next few years.

## High School Years:

Kitty would become an important part of Wil's "Ka-tet" (as called by Ridley Hale) or "Inner Circle" of closest friends which includes Tommy Slayton, Ridley Hale, Curtis Zane, Dylan McEvedy, Brian Cameron, J.A. Lannister, Sally Blevins, Sam Guthrie, Illyana Rasptuina, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Dani Moonstar, Rahne Sinclair, and Kitty herself.

Kitty would date occasionally during her junior high years, but no body would ever make it as far to kiss her because of her beliefs and dedication to school work more than anything and she would graduate from Ramey near the top of her class going into her high school years, being sent to have classes at North Campus along with the rest of her friends, which by the end of her time at Ramey now included her "emotional rival" in Josie McCoy, but something would happen over the summer between the end of her junior high and the start of her high school years that still confuses her in the form of Wil and Josie breaking up.

While it isn't known what happened to them as neither one of them have decided to discuss why they broke up but for the next three years, Wil choose to remain single for personal reasons while Josie chose to simply focus on her studies and her band (Josie and the Pussycats).