TJ Wagner

## **Appearance**

TJ stands out back home, and only slightly less so in Wall. Her body is covered in blue fur, her ears are pointed, her hands have three fingers and her feet two toes, she has fangs, and her eyes are full yellow. She has a tail out, most of the time, and it is prehensile! She wears her long dark hair loose, most of the time, and tends to wear very revealing outfits. She loves leather, and it loves her back.

## **Powers**

As a third generation mutant, TJ has a few things up her sleeves. She shares most of her father's physiological attributes, first off. Her body is covered with blue fuzz (lighter than Kurt's), her eyes are full yellow, no discernable iris or pupil, she has fangs, and her ears are pointy. Her hands have three fingers and her feet have two toes. She has a prehensile tail, which, unlike her dad's, is retractable. She can see in the night and climb walls (thanks to micro suction discs on her hands and feet), and has superhuman reflexes, agility and flexibility.

She can also emit bursts of concussive energy grabbed from the brimstone dimension her father teleports through. She calls them "hex bolts," as an homage to her mother's ability, but they do not affect probability in any way. They simply deal out force damage, and leave behind a slightly sulfurous smell. Yay for rotten eggs.

And last but not least, she can possess people. This is linked to her low-level, mostly latent telepathic ability. She can jump into a person's body and possess them for up to 12 hours. After this, the affected person is either dazed or comatose for sometimes as long as 24 hours.

## **Talents**

Other than kicking ass and taking names, TJ is awesome at workouts, taking pride in her body, partying, acrobatics, contorsion, and hand to hand combat. She is a great shot with her bolts and an amazing jet pilot. She speaks fluent German and used to be the 'singer' of a terrible garage band called the Butt Monkeys (a neo techno trash band), but she actually sings fairly well when she means to. You've gotta, to be able to sound that terrible on purpose.

## **Interests**

Dancing, some drinking, having all the fun in the world, and parties! Also music - especially the type you can dance to, and/or yell to. Boys. Making the world a better place for everyone, because that's what X-Men do! Kicking ass. Video games. Not living in the past, but cherishing it all the same.

## **History**

**TJ was born to the happily married couple of Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, an X-Man, and Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, an Avenger.** Since she was being raised at the X-Mansion, among Professor Xavier, Logan, Jean Grey, Scott Summers and Kate Pryde, she saw much less of her mother, who remained with the Avengers, than her father, but she loves them both.

**She followed classes at Xavier's, learned her X-Man history among other things, first manifested her possession powers, got her codename, then only her hex bolts (named after her mother’s power as an homage, despite having nothing to do with Wanda's powers).** When it was time for high school, she insisted she attend a public school, and went to Kennedy High, while still living at Xavier's school and training there. In typical teenage fashion, her relationship with her father grew tense. He expected her to be so much like him, and she tried her best to make him proud (she even wore his old uniform), but never seemed to quite manage. To only add to that tension, things at the X-Mansion got very messed up.

The Shadow King possessed Wolverine, and had him attack Professor Xavier and fatally wound him. The X-Men managed to defeat the Shadow King, but the event left Wolverine crippled, and not just a little: after that, he needed an exoskeleton to move at all, and was otherwise in a wheelchair. A little while later, Jean died on a mission, leaving only the Phoenix Force to inhabit the empty shell that was Colossus (his death is a long story, involving Illyana and Limbo). **Logan and Kurt took over leadership of the X-Men as Scott left, unable to deal with Jean’s loss on top of Professor Xavier’s.**

Some time later, Apocalypse started giving them trouble. They eventually managed to defeat him thanks to the help of his son Armageddon, but lost their Kate Pryde to the fight, the grown-up who had helped raise TJ. Due to Apocalypse’s chronal disrupter, they got a fifteen-year-old Kitty Pryde in exchange. Fortunately, TJ and the young girl hit it off straight away.

However, it was right after Kitty’s arrival that Scott chose to reappear, after breaking Brotherhood mutants out of prison. Grief had unhinged him, and he blamed everything that had happened on Wolverine - both the Professor’s death and Jean’s, even though Wolverine was not even on the mission that cost her her life. He and his new teammates attacked the X-Mansion. He was holding on to an exoskeleton-free Wolverine and about to blast his head off when TJ managed to possess Armageddon and, thanks to his telekinetic powers, raised Wolverine’s arms so he could extend his claws straight out through Scott’s chest. **Having to kill her uncle? It does something to a girl.**

It was only in the aftermath of that fight that Kurt came to his daughter to tell her that he was proud of her. He promised that from now on he would let her handle things her own way a lot more, and that he would talk to Logan about making her an active X-Man. **For a couple of years, TJ proudly fought on the X-team.**

**But then, suddenly, she got unstuck in time.**

Out of nowhere, TJ found herself dumped in the desert in her pyjamas, and met Clarice Ferguson (from the Age of Apocalypse reality) and the rest of the Exiles (at that time, Morph, Mimic, Thunderbird, and Magnus). A short, black-eyed man calling himself the Timebroker and referring to himself as a construct of time explained to them that they all came from different dimensions and had become unhinged from time in order to help fix timelines that had gone wrong. I**n order to go home, they would have to set the timelines right in various dimensions, thus helping to restore their own.** TJ was told that her own screwed up timeline now involved her father Nightcrawler getting killed by his mother, Mystique. Clarice was given the Tallus, a device she wore as a bracelet on her wrist and that told her what they were supposed to do in each dimension.

Their first mission happened on a world where all mutants had been imprisoned or killed. The Tallus told them they had to free “the one who would lead them”, “their greatest teacher”. Enough of the gang assumed that to be Charles Xavier that they freed him from jail, only to find that he had gone insane and wanted to kill every regular human on the planet. They realised it really was Erik Lensherr they should have freed, and went and did that. However, Exile Magnus had to sacrifice himself to save them all from a nuclear bomb. After his sacrifice, a new Exile arrived to take his place, Sunfire.

The next mission was even harder on them all, especially in the wake of Magnus's sacrifice: it happened at the Trial of the Phoenix, and their mission was to kill Jean Grey. That involved going through the X-Men - including another version of her father - and it took a lot out of TJ. It was during this mission that **she started to grow close to fellow Exile John Proudstar, aka Thunderbird, the alt-brother of her boyfriend back home, James Proudstar.**

**The Exiles then went on quite a few missions in the course of the next few months, missions during which TJ eventually started a relationship with Thunderbird.** The Exiles had to help Doom reclaim his country from the armies of Atlantis. They acted as bodyguards to President Stark. They ended up in a very jurassic world. They fought the Hulk. They prevented the annihilation of a new race of evolved lizards.

And then, one day, they were imprisoned by the Skrulls for weeks and used in their gladiatorial games until the Skrulls all fled when the Herald of Galactus showed up. Then, obviously, they had to defeat his Herald, then Galactus himself. **Thunderbird sacrificed himself to make this happen, after which TJ quickly lost the child she had just learned she was carrying.** Heather Hudson, aka Sasquatch, joined them to replace him. **TJ remained depressed for a while, but she very gradually managed to move on.**

Missions came and went. Blink was sent home after her timeline was restored, and Magik joined them in her place. Things were tense between her and the rest of them from the get-go, but it came to a head when they had to go up against another team of exiled mutants and she betrayed them, forcing the Exiles to kill her. Soon before this, they lost Sunfire when a Brood-infected Mimic turned on them. They managed to kickstart his healing factor but it was too late, and he had killed Sunfire. Blink rejoined them, having become unhinged from time all over again.

There had been one mission to Earth 616 where they had had to fight off Havok, which had allowed TJ to meet the Nightcrawler of this dimension, and bond with him. The Exiles were taken back to this dimension, where their cryptic mission statement was to 'lose their possessions, and earn their wings'. It took Reed Richard's help to figure out that **they were supposed to leave TJ behind,** and take Beak with them.

**After saying goodbye, Blink teleported TJ to the X-Mansion. As she walked up to the gate to ring the bell, she suddenly found herself walking out from a waist-high wall, standing outside what looked like a medieval city.**

Eh. She was getting used to this at this stage.