Kurt Wagner

Kurt is a full-fledged member of the X-Men under the name Nightcrawler, a respected and valued part of the team.

Details

Character Journal: x_bamf

Real Name: Kurt Wagner

Codename: Nightcrawler

Aliases: None.

First Appearance: [February 14, 2003]

Date of Birth: 24 December 1976

Place of Birth: Bavaria, Germany

Citizenship: German

Relatives: Szardos Clan: Margali Szardos (adopted mother), Ivan Szardos (adopted father - deceased), Stefan Szardos (adopted brother), Amanda Sefton (adopted sister), Jimaine Szardos (adopted sister), Meggan Szardos (adopted sister), Mystique (mother).

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Team Affiliation: X-Men

Biography

Childhood

Living At The X-Mansion

Graduation

Angelo graduated Xavier's in 2005, at the age of nineteen, and spent some time coasting while he tried to figure out what he wanted to do next. He was on the verge of leaving the school to find his path elsewhere when Nathan offered him the job with Elpis, which he accepted.

Things have gone from strength to strength since then.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'7

Weight: Unknown, but he's perpetually thinner than he really should be.

Eyes: Brown.

Hair: Black.

Other Features: One earring, numerous scars including a gunshot wound to his torso, burns to his hands and elsewhere, and an old gang insignia cut into his shoulder. Tattoos of elven runes down his spine.

Powers

The average human body is covered by about two square meters of skin. Angelo possesses almost ten square meters of skin that he has a degree of mental control over. His skin cells are more elastic and resilient than a normal human's, allowing them to remain viable despite limited blood flow. This limited blood flow accounts for the grey appearance of his skin in its normal state.

By force of will, Angelo can extend his skin from his body, stretching distances of up to fifteen feet and beyond while still maintaining his sense of touch and a degree of manual dexterity. The tensile strength of his distended skin is sufficient to exert enough force to lift the weight of small objects with little to no effort, and Angelo has been shown to support the weight of another full-grown human with some effort.

When contracted, the thickness of Angelo's skin offers him some protection against blunt force trauma, although other forms of trauma such as burns are often especially traumatic due to the extensive nerve endings in his extra skin.

Equipment

The only thing he'd really call equipment is the elven sword he brought back from Asgard. He keeps up his practice with this and has been known to take it on missions.

Trivia

As students, Angelo and Amanda were known as the Nicotine Twins for the amount of time they spent on the back porch smoking. Until she arrived, he had been trying to give up.