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xxxxxTeenaged American Jewish genius Cubs-fan Xavier's-School geek, not guaranteed to be in that order. Any comments about the "genius" and "Cubs fan" parts cancelling each other out will probably be met with a pillow to the face.
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| History
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xxxxxKatherine "Kitty" Pryde is the only child of a reasonably well-off couple living in the Chicago area. Her parents realized early on that they had a small terror on their hands, but coped ably enough, balancing putting her into advanced (very) classes on the one hand, and keeping her enthused about dance and skating and sports on the other. As a result, she grew up with at least some points in common with her agemates, instead of being completely isolated in computers and math, physics and engineering.
xxxxxThen came the Incident in which a frightened Kitty, fleeing an apparent would-be mugger and screaming for help, attracted that help in the form of a cop ... in the instant before she plunged through a wall. Straight through it.
xxxxxThankfully, there were no videos. But those inclined to take a story like that seriously picked up the cop's story, and a couple of other witnesses who agreed, and reported up the chain, eventually to Senator Kelly: there was a girl in Illinois who could walk through walls.
xxxxxThat, plus Cerebro, is how Kitty Pryde wound up at Xavier's School, starting in the fall term of 2009, and staying through 2012. Problems at home pulled her back to Illinois for most of the spring of 2013. Whether those problems at home revolved around recent events in New York, Kitty hasn't been saying. But one way or another, she's back -- at least for now.
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| Powers
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xxxxxKitty Pryde is Senator Kelly's "girl who can walk through walls." If pressed, she explains this as a particularly fine-focused and specialized version of telekinesis that allows her to slide the particles that make up her body through the particles that make up other objects without disturbing the bonds between either. In practice, she walks through things, she can take other things and people with her, and a couple of years of regular experiments in trying to telekinetically influence even microscopic amounts of things that *aren't* in contact of her have yielded absolutely no result; she clings stubbornly to the telekinesis theory anyway, at least till somebody can find a better one.
xxxxxThe biggest limiting factor on Kitty's phasing is her air supply; if she's inside a rock, she can't breathe. The second limitation is contact: there has to be a chain of contact between everything she's phasing. Clothes come with her; people she's touching she can drag with her; her hat across the room does not. At full exertion, she can drag about five hundred pounds intangible, but this is likely to exhaust her ability to concentrate and maintain her power in short order. (She does need to be able to concentrate to phase others. Phasing herself requires much less attention, but can still be disrupted unpredictably in either direction by surprise or drugs.) At the other end, Kitty does not have to make all of her body intangible at once; she can, for instance, take notes with one hand and reach through a desk into a drawer with the other. This gets harder the more complicated what she's doing is.
xxxxxSince Kitty generally goes intangible *to everything* when she phases, it's an excellent question why she doesn't fall through the floor unless she wants to. The answer is probably the same as why she phases her clothes with her even when phasing by surprise: it's what she expects. Experimentation with this has led her to be able to phase into the ground and 'push' herself back out of it or 'swim' inside it, but this is difficult and relatively slow. She's pretty sure there are more applications to this, but who has time?
xxxxxKitty's intangibility is a problem when it comes to phasing through electronics. She doesn't *usually* cause power outages by walking through wires in a wall, but walking through electronic equipment will generally cause it to start having a heart attack, and her cellphone is very very far from standard-issue. (... and still malfunctions if she drags it through a wall while turned on. But the panic-button functionality has been hardened enough to keep working.)
xxxxxKitty has never tried solidifying any part of herself inside a solid object, but suspects that would be very, very bad for both the solid object and her.
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Friends
- Dragon: Kitty has one. It is one of those plush toys that three gazillion congoers have balanced on their shoulders. Yes, it is purple. No, it had no grounds to be named Lockheed; Kitty just calls it Dragon. ... yes, she talks to it anyway.
- Megan: New roomie! With CUPCAKES. It may be time to start putting aside more schedule time for running.
- Kris: It is so good to meet somebody who helpfully puts their foot in their mouth more than I do.
- Sophie: I'm very confused, but that's not a bad thing.
Foes
And everything in between
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None
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| Birthdate
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1996-03-05
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Xavier's School
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| Alignment
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Lawful Pirate
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| Powers
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Phasing / intangibility
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Student
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| RP Hooks
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| Xavier's School - Kitty attended from fall 2009 through late 2012, and is now back and desperately scrambling to make up for lost time. Been there a year or so? You probably know her! Arrived more recently? Meetings are awesome!
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| Pirate Movies - Kitty is probably the school's second-biggest swashbuckling fan. Swordfighting is designed to be done hanging off ropes one-handed! Right?
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| Classic SF Geek - If you recognize the phrase "the Ringworld is unstable!", you and Kitty have something to talk about. (Although Kitty's player may not be able to keep up with the math!)
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| Techie - Kitty is one of those people who has an entire folder of "helpful" messages from the school's Mystery Sysadmin. Also? Emergency student tech support (though asking her to fix Photoshop settings gets people laughed at).
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