Figuring out Nightcrawler
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fuzzy_flirtKurt's background will be a mish-mash of canons, since Marvel themselves can't seem to decide on what's true for him and what isn't. Mostly he'll be Evolution-verse based, but as I've not seen the series I'll be relying on Wikipedia for that much.
He was found as a newborn in Bavaria by Margali Szardos, who took him with her to the circus where she worked as a fortune teller. Despite the fact that he already had his blue fur, glowing yellow eyes, pointed ears and a tail, the members of the circus adopted him as their own and brought him up between them, with Margali acting as his unofficial foster mother. Margali's birth children, Stefan and Jimaine, became his closest friends, and in his early teens Kurt developed a crush on his foster-sister Jimaine, but never acquired the courage to do anything about it.
Although he didn't develop the ability to teleport until he was around thirteen, as soon as he could walk Kurt displayed amazing agility and gymnastic talents, and by the age of eleven he was the circus's star acrobat - audiences assumed he was a normal boy wearing a costume and make-up. When he was fourteen the circus was bought by an American millionaire who moved the troupe from Germany to America, and who demanded Kurt be placed in the circus's freak show, drugging him to prevent escape. Margali, who had become the millionaire's lover, did not not interfere, but Jimaine and Stefan helped him to escape. Kurt fled to New York, where he lived on the streets before being attacked by a mob because of his appearance. Before he could be seriously hurt the crowd was telepathically immobilised by Charles Xavier, who brought him to the Institute, where he was given an invention of Tony Stark's, an image inducer, to prevent a repeat of the incident.
A year later, having settled into the school, he accepted a dare to walk through New York without using his image inducer to hide his appearance. Another mob gathered, and this time Kurt was quite seriously hurt. Since Kurt was now thoroughly freaked out by New York, Xavier sends him to a school in the British countryside - as different from New York as possible.
He was found as a newborn in Bavaria by Margali Szardos, who took him with her to the circus where she worked as a fortune teller. Despite the fact that he already had his blue fur, glowing yellow eyes, pointed ears and a tail, the members of the circus adopted him as their own and brought him up between them, with Margali acting as his unofficial foster mother. Margali's birth children, Stefan and Jimaine, became his closest friends, and in his early teens Kurt developed a crush on his foster-sister Jimaine, but never acquired the courage to do anything about it.
Although he didn't develop the ability to teleport until he was around thirteen, as soon as he could walk Kurt displayed amazing agility and gymnastic talents, and by the age of eleven he was the circus's star acrobat - audiences assumed he was a normal boy wearing a costume and make-up. When he was fourteen the circus was bought by an American millionaire who moved the troupe from Germany to America, and who demanded Kurt be placed in the circus's freak show, drugging him to prevent escape. Margali, who had become the millionaire's lover, did not not interfere, but Jimaine and Stefan helped him to escape. Kurt fled to New York, where he lived on the streets before being attacked by a mob because of his appearance. Before he could be seriously hurt the crowd was telepathically immobilised by Charles Xavier, who brought him to the Institute, where he was given an invention of Tony Stark's, an image inducer, to prevent a repeat of the incident.
A year later, having settled into the school, he accepted a dare to walk through New York without using his image inducer to hide his appearance. Another mob gathered, and this time Kurt was quite seriously hurt. Since Kurt was now thoroughly freaked out by New York, Xavier sends him to a school in the British countryside - as different from New York as possible.
