[b]Base Character:[/b] Nightcrawler [b]Name:[/b] Kurt Vondoom [b]Alias:[/b] Nacht [b]Gender: [/b] Male [b]Age: [/b] 20's [b]Appearance (description/picture): [/b] http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/153/6/8/6846947eaf6ab8b86986d684dc38a206-d3hwxlm.png [b]Hero/Villain: [/b] Hero of Latvaria [b]Personality/motives: [/b] [b]Powers: [/b] Teleportation, wall crawling, superhuman agility, prehensile tail, shadow warping [b]History:[/b] Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge until puberty. Margali Szardos, a sorceress and gypsy queen, allegedly found Kurt an hour after his birth, in a small roadside shelter in the Black Forest with his father lying dead on the road outside. However, this claim was later called into question, and it was subsequently proven that Kurt's mother is Mystique, also known as Raven Darkholme, and his father is the demonic warlord Azazel.Mystique revealed that she threw him into a well after a large mob found out about Nightcrawler's existence, and Azazel admitted that he secretly saved his son from the fall, giving him to his lover and crony, Margali Szardos, to raise him. Margali took the baby to the small Latvarian circus where she worked as a fortuneteller, as a cover for her activities as a sorceress. Wagner was never legally adopted by anyone, but was raised by all the members of the circus, who had no prejudices against mutants. Margali acted as Kurt's unofficial foster mother. Kurt grew up happily in the circus, and his two closest friends were Margali's natural children, Stefan and Jimaine. Long before his teleportation power emerged, Wagner had tremendous natural agility, and by his adolescence he had become the circus' star acrobat and aerial artist. Circus audiences assumed that he was a normal-looking human wearing a devil-like costume. When the Circus made its way to The court of Von Doom, he realized there was so much more to Kurt than a man in a mask. His fondness for gypsies well known, Von doom kept the circus much closer and offered a heavy price to keep Kurt with him to study his 'blessing'. Here, Kurt received a formal education in standard structure as well as in swordsmanship, grooming the mutant to be an heir apparent and ambassador for Latveria. In truth, he was also made into a phenomenal spy for visits to the united nations as well as to protect the Latvarian embassy from American assaults.