Post by Shadowcat on Jun 1, 2006 15:55:18 GMT -5
A quick note: if anything, even a tiny persnickety thing is wrong with her, don't worry too much about being nice if it's not a strong point (I know it's not with me, especially when it comes to substandard writing, because I am an elitist). Bluntness is ALWAYS appreciated, as is opinion from other members of the board.
And a quick note to canon: I've cut her genius IQ and freakish knowledge of martial arts, though I've left dance, just because I think she's that kind of girl. Even canon produces Mary Sues, and I'm kind of terrified of producing one because I hate them so when they come from other people.
Joining Application
Name: Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde
Codename(s): Shadowcat
Affiliation: X-Men
Age: 17
DOB: June 5
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair Color: light brown
Eye Color: hazel
Appearance: (see photo at base) Kitty looks young for her age - she's usually placed at 14, two years below her real age. She's small of stature, with a petite frame, at just 110 lbs to her average height. She tends to slump, which makes her look even smaller and less significant, and she crosses her arms most of the time - gently, so she doesn't look petulant so much as nervous. She'll also sit on the floor rather than a chair given the option; it was a habit as a child, and small places have always been comforting, so she'll usually choose corners or the areas next to couches, even when talking with friends.
Her bone structure is delicate, though not perfect. You couldn't call her beautiful, and she isn't extremely pretty, but she's small-town cute - she'll always be attractive, but she'll probably grow out of any actual prettiness by thirty or so. Her eyebrows are a shade too thick over dark, oval-shaped hazel eyes, and though her eyelashes have always been short and fair compared to the rest of her hair, her eyes are slightly large and are generally the focus of her oval face. She wears mascara, but eyeliner looks wrong on such a childish face. Her forehead is extremely broad, a testament to long-ago Irish roots, and she's self-conscious about it, usually combing her bangs down over at least half of it; she also tends to let her straight brown hair hang in her face to hide The Forehead. Her hair has a loose, unkempt wave when not straightened and blown dry, but it's usually teased into a smooth fall; it's not a very attractive sort of wave. Her nose is a good nose - short and straight, with no bumps and no funniness at the tip. She also has a very well-shaped mouth, which is usually glossed just a bit darker than its natural petal-pale pink.
She has freckles, which she doesn't really mind, but which make it even harder to treat her as an adult - she just looks so young and impressionable. Her skin is very fair and lends itself easily to these freckles, especially when exposed to sunlight, though she'll burn after awhile. She's generally got a good complexion, though she pimples up at That Time Of The Month, but only a little; she obsessively washes her face at least twice a day with a multi-step procession of ointments, creams, and acidic liquids. She hates zits, either on her or other people; they oog her out.
Her smile lights up her face, which is a pity, since she doesn't smile very much anymore, or when she does, it isn't widely. This is more a "quiet kid" thing than it is an "angry kid." Kitty is not an angry kid.
Personality: Kitty isn't shy, exactly. She likes people. She doesn't hide in her room for no reason. She hides in her room for a very good reason, as a matter of fact, and that reason is that when she was at home - after everyone found out, anyway - people didn't take very kindly to her. Kitty didn't have as much time between discovering her power and recruitment as most of the other kids did - in fact, she didn't really have any time at all; the first time she ever phased was just three years ago, after Emma Frost arrived to speak to her parents as a representative of the Massachusetts Academy and just before three X-Men arrived as reps of the Xavier Academy.
For this reason, Kitty tends to be a little wary of those around her - wary of mutants because, even now, she fears them a little, and wary of humans because she's afraid of what she could do or what they'd do to her if they found out. She doesn't trust very easily, but when she does, it's for life.
Kitty is one of those girls who takes naturally to kids and cooking. She's not Betty Crocker, but she's a homebody at heart - when she grows up, if she's not off fighting the mutants' battles still, she'll be the kind of woman who settles down. She's sweet, more than anything - a lot of the time she doesn't understand how people can be cruel, from anything to girls playing politics or even larger cruelties, like Magneto's slaughter of the soldiers on Alcatraz.
Because she doesn't understand why it happens, she tends to expect it out of everyone. This goes back, again, to her being shy of strangers - she views people as health nuts view sushi: whether or not it's got deadly bacteria, they don't know, but it could, and it puts them on their guard as a matter of habit.
When one actually does get to know Kitty, though, she's friendly, talkative, and has a great appreciation for other people's humor, if not much of a talent for it herself. She can be funny, but she isn't witty, exactly, and she isn't one of those naturally clever people with a witty comeback always at hand.
She's not stupid, though. She thinks very logically and can puzzle her way out of most situations with simple linear thinking. Sure, she isn't the absolute brightest bulb in the box - no Xavier or Magneto-type mastermind, to be sure - but she's a good strategist and sees things in black and white, allowing her to cut the proverbial Gordian knot since she can't see niggling details as much as she can see overarching problems. Details can always be solved later. She'll never be a philosopher, but it makes things easier in the Danger Room - and in pool and poker, actually.
She's also one of those people who burst into tears when you shout at her or when she feels any emotion too strongly. Happy tears, angry tears, plain old sad tears - she's a crier. It's very easy to hurt Kitty, but she's very forgiving: probably too forgiving.
Kitty is also Jewish, not that that has a lot to do with anything, but it's something that could come up or could not, depending.
Kitty took ballet, figure-skating and equestrian lessons from the time she was about three (she was one of those kids who Took Lessons) and excelled in all three to varying degrees, with ballet at the absolute top and horsemanship only a bit above average. She also took soccer, but she's awful at it. She still loves her three sports of choice, though, and if she needs to kill some stress, she's either headed to the rink, the stables or a mirrored room in the X-Mansion that she and a few other girls use to practice dance. However, the sight of her pointe shoes, her skates or her jockey's helmet can also make her homesick if she's in the right mood - even if her friends at home drifted, Kitty's parents were always unswervingly devoted to their daughter, and she is one of the few kids at the mansion to get truly homesick.
Powers and Abilities: Kitty's main power, phasing, is her only power, though it expresses itself in different ways at times. Basically what she can do is move through solid matter as easily as the rest of humanity moves through gas. She can't do it through water, oddly - only solid objects or harsh liquids like glass, which move too slowly to really count, or liquids that are also part solid, like Jell-O or people. Most liquids are too reactive and stick too easy to her atoms, bonding with the acids in her stomach or the bases found in her excretory system - poisoning her, essentially, by changing her vital liquids into something else. Solids are less active than liquids and she can move quickly enough that she won't bond, and gases don't bond easily with liquids without a great deal of heat, which allows her to phase through them without harm.
If she's attacked, she can shift to a semi-phased state - only the part of her being attacked will shift, so she won't sink through the floor or through a wall. She'll have to know about the attack in order to phase out that part of her body, thuogh - she's not precognizant, whatever else she may be, and if she's caught off-guard it's as easy to hurt her as it is anyone else. She also obviously can't hit people effectively while she's phased. She can move through matter while phasing at her will; however, staying inside something for too long will give her crippling headaches which can make her lose her focus and potentially resolidify inside something already solid, which would kill her. She can't breathe while inside a solid object - her atoms move through the spaces in the object's, which leaves too little room for the required amount of oxygen to get to her. She can only move through an object as fast as she can run, which means that traveling underground or a similar activity could only last so long.
Thankfully, Kitty can take her clothing with her, and recently she's been able to take objects of increasing size. Soon she'll be able to move other people, though it'll take either a lot of practice or sufficient emotional charge to provide the power for something that complex.
Her power also allows her to walk on air - this is akin to phasing backwards, really, aligning her atoms with the wide-scattered atoms in the air closely enough for them to provide support rather than moving her atoms in such a way that they miss the atoms of solids.
While she passes unharmed through most things, complex or delicate electronical equipment will be disrupted by her presence, and sometimes even after she leaves it won't be the same - a tiny mistake will jar a few atoms aside and leave bad connection.
History: Kitty Pryde was born to a normal family in a normal suburb called Deerfield, Illinois, and lived out an incredibly normal childhood until she was about thirteen, minus the occasional akwardness caused in school because of her religion and the rumor (true, as it turned out) that her paternal grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, had been in a concentration camp, and that his sister-in-law, Chava Rosanoff, had died in one. Come history project day, everyone was wanting Kitty to give them numbers for Mr. Prydeman, and of course there were always the elementary-school questions of "why don't you have a Christmas tree?" and "what's that star on your necklace?".
Kitty passed through the first parts of puberty naturally, her body doing all the things that a normal little girl's body should at the correct times. When she was a few months above thirteen, she began to get headaches of increasing power, pain and regularity. While her parents thought that these were migraines somehow entwined with her burgeoning adolescence (which they essentially were), the headaches didn't have Kitty's new A-cups to thank for their appearance. They were actually caused by her body's attempt to process the manifestation of her new power, her ability to phase. Kitty was picked up by Cerebro at the X-Mansion, her powers not yet realized but their potential strong. She also showed up on the monitors at the Massachusetts Academy, which was run by one Miss Emma Frost, director of the Hellfire Club.
Xavier and Frost both set out to speak to Kitty's parents as the masters of private high schools competing for Kitty's skills - she was fairly intelligent, after all, and she did have her three Girly Sports to fall back on if nothing else, so her parents weren't too terribly shocked. Shortly after Emma Frost, to whom Kitty had taken an instant dislike due to her arrogance and inappropriate clothing, left, Kitty flopped down on her bed in her upstairs room, closing her eyes and wishing her headache would go away - and to her surprise, it did; but when she opened her eyes, she was on the floor of her living room, directly below her bedroom. She'd phased for the first time and fallen through her bed and floor.
Professor Xavier arrived just in time to calm the terrified Kitty, whose parents couldn't understand why it was so strange to be in the living room when she did, after all, live in this house. The Professor took her out to a local malt shop and talked her through the initial freak-out about her powers and convinced her, partially with the school's good points but mostly due to his not being Emma Frost, to come to the Mansion with him and to tell her parents that it was nothing more than a prep school for which she'd won an all-encompassing scholarship online.
However, just before they left, Kitty visited the bathroom and decided to try out her power again, since she was alone. She misjudged which of the walls led to the parking lot and the empty field behind it, though, and ended up phasing into the kitchen. Needless to say, the clerks and mixers in the back didn't take it well.
Xavier took her home and had her pack quickly, while he explained her power to her parents, seeing no way out of the inevitable calls from other children's parents and the people at the malt shop. While shocked and horrified at their daughter's oddity, as they chose to call it, they still supported her, and send her care packages every now and then at her new home. Kitty and her parents remain close, and if she's on her cell phone, it's almost a guarantee that she's talking to them.
A few years passed at the mansion, and Kitty befriended a few of the mutants there, though she was never the most popular girl; too quiet. She made close friends with Iceman towards the beginning of the final battle, which made her shaky nodding acquaintance with Rogue a good deal more strained. She's on fairly good terms with everyone at the mansion: after all, it would be hard for Kitty to really make anyone hate her, though she could conceivably annoy someone through sheer Kitty-ness.
The last battle shook her terribly. Though Kitty herself didn't kill anyone (she's always been purely defensive in battles), watching people die in hordes isn't good for anyone, especially not a gentle soul like Kitty. Even knocking the Juggernaut out, despite her big talk (using the word "dick" even made her a little nervous, since she was afraid she couldn't pull it off), still gives her nightmares - not because of what could've happened, but because she hurt someone, even if it was to save the child, Leech. She was torn up especially about Pyro's - or St. John Allerdyce, as she knew him - death, because she'd actually known him and had, to tell the truth, dated him for about two months when he was still at the Institute. Those two months were the two months previous to his leaving to join up with Magneto, which hurt Kitty more than a little, but mostly just made her depressed. His apparent death was like it happening all over again.
These days, she's just trying to get along. She and Leech, who's been staying at the X-Mansion (I'll cut this bit if it messes with someone else's canon), have become very close friends, despite the age difference. Saving each other will do that to people. She's fairly depressed after Xavier's and John's deaths and finds herself moping more than usual, and a little more homesick than she's ever been before. She's considered going home, but now that she's fought with them, she finds herself bound to the X-Men, however distasteful the fight was to her.
Kitty's birthday is June 5.
Likes:: All-American cuisine, nice people, blondes, ice-skating, ballet, horses, dogs, Illinois, hats, blue jeans.
Dislikes: Reading too much, mean people, sushi, duct tape, her hair, her eyebrows, her forehead.
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Sine: the ordinate of the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative. Cosine: the abscissa at the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative. Tangent: the trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle.
Bleh.
Kitty stretched her legs slightly before curling back in on herself, squeezed in between the edge of a couch and the wall in the Mansion's rec room. Outside the little chamber she'd come to claim as her own (no one else but some of the younger kids burrowed the way she did, so it had been a pretty easy claim), she could see a furious foosball match that shook the entire table claiming the attention of most of the room. It looked like Colossus was going to be beat by a little girl. Again.
Kitty smiled a little to herself and looked down again at her Trig homework, crossing out a misspelling ("adjacent," not "adjacant," she reminded herself) before glacing back at her book, starting afresh on inverse functions. While Kitty couldn't see the point of memorizing Trig functions, it was the assignment, and if she didn't do it she'd - well, she wouldn't fail; she was good at math and she could probably afford to skip a few sections there more easily than she could in English. She'd never really understood poetic analysis. If it said something, it should mean what it said, right? She'd never been good at reading between the lines like some of the kids could, but it balanced itself out in Trig. She was one of the only ones in her class who could keep it all straight. Radians and arcs and triangles and SohCahToa.
That wasn't to say that she enjoyed it, but at least she got it.
"Kitty," said a small voice from above her. Kitty glanced up and saw a small bald head peering up from over the couch. Extremely preferable to her homework, definitely, and wasn't being nice to a kid who'd lived in a cell for the last few months, maybe years, more important than Trig functions she already understood?
"Hey, Leech," she said, and the boy smiled. "What's up?"
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And a quick note to canon: I've cut her genius IQ and freakish knowledge of martial arts, though I've left dance, just because I think she's that kind of girl. Even canon produces Mary Sues, and I'm kind of terrified of producing one because I hate them so when they come from other people.
Joining Application
Name: Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde
Codename(s): Shadowcat
Affiliation: X-Men
Age: 17
DOB: June 5
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair Color: light brown
Eye Color: hazel
Appearance: (see photo at base) Kitty looks young for her age - she's usually placed at 14, two years below her real age. She's small of stature, with a petite frame, at just 110 lbs to her average height. She tends to slump, which makes her look even smaller and less significant, and she crosses her arms most of the time - gently, so she doesn't look petulant so much as nervous. She'll also sit on the floor rather than a chair given the option; it was a habit as a child, and small places have always been comforting, so she'll usually choose corners or the areas next to couches, even when talking with friends.
Her bone structure is delicate, though not perfect. You couldn't call her beautiful, and she isn't extremely pretty, but she's small-town cute - she'll always be attractive, but she'll probably grow out of any actual prettiness by thirty or so. Her eyebrows are a shade too thick over dark, oval-shaped hazel eyes, and though her eyelashes have always been short and fair compared to the rest of her hair, her eyes are slightly large and are generally the focus of her oval face. She wears mascara, but eyeliner looks wrong on such a childish face. Her forehead is extremely broad, a testament to long-ago Irish roots, and she's self-conscious about it, usually combing her bangs down over at least half of it; she also tends to let her straight brown hair hang in her face to hide The Forehead. Her hair has a loose, unkempt wave when not straightened and blown dry, but it's usually teased into a smooth fall; it's not a very attractive sort of wave. Her nose is a good nose - short and straight, with no bumps and no funniness at the tip. She also has a very well-shaped mouth, which is usually glossed just a bit darker than its natural petal-pale pink.
She has freckles, which she doesn't really mind, but which make it even harder to treat her as an adult - she just looks so young and impressionable. Her skin is very fair and lends itself easily to these freckles, especially when exposed to sunlight, though she'll burn after awhile. She's generally got a good complexion, though she pimples up at That Time Of The Month, but only a little; she obsessively washes her face at least twice a day with a multi-step procession of ointments, creams, and acidic liquids. She hates zits, either on her or other people; they oog her out.
Her smile lights up her face, which is a pity, since she doesn't smile very much anymore, or when she does, it isn't widely. This is more a "quiet kid" thing than it is an "angry kid." Kitty is not an angry kid.
Personality: Kitty isn't shy, exactly. She likes people. She doesn't hide in her room for no reason. She hides in her room for a very good reason, as a matter of fact, and that reason is that when she was at home - after everyone found out, anyway - people didn't take very kindly to her. Kitty didn't have as much time between discovering her power and recruitment as most of the other kids did - in fact, she didn't really have any time at all; the first time she ever phased was just three years ago, after Emma Frost arrived to speak to her parents as a representative of the Massachusetts Academy and just before three X-Men arrived as reps of the Xavier Academy.
For this reason, Kitty tends to be a little wary of those around her - wary of mutants because, even now, she fears them a little, and wary of humans because she's afraid of what she could do or what they'd do to her if they found out. She doesn't trust very easily, but when she does, it's for life.
Kitty is one of those girls who takes naturally to kids and cooking. She's not Betty Crocker, but she's a homebody at heart - when she grows up, if she's not off fighting the mutants' battles still, she'll be the kind of woman who settles down. She's sweet, more than anything - a lot of the time she doesn't understand how people can be cruel, from anything to girls playing politics or even larger cruelties, like Magneto's slaughter of the soldiers on Alcatraz.
Because she doesn't understand why it happens, she tends to expect it out of everyone. This goes back, again, to her being shy of strangers - she views people as health nuts view sushi: whether or not it's got deadly bacteria, they don't know, but it could, and it puts them on their guard as a matter of habit.
When one actually does get to know Kitty, though, she's friendly, talkative, and has a great appreciation for other people's humor, if not much of a talent for it herself. She can be funny, but she isn't witty, exactly, and she isn't one of those naturally clever people with a witty comeback always at hand.
She's not stupid, though. She thinks very logically and can puzzle her way out of most situations with simple linear thinking. Sure, she isn't the absolute brightest bulb in the box - no Xavier or Magneto-type mastermind, to be sure - but she's a good strategist and sees things in black and white, allowing her to cut the proverbial Gordian knot since she can't see niggling details as much as she can see overarching problems. Details can always be solved later. She'll never be a philosopher, but it makes things easier in the Danger Room - and in pool and poker, actually.
She's also one of those people who burst into tears when you shout at her or when she feels any emotion too strongly. Happy tears, angry tears, plain old sad tears - she's a crier. It's very easy to hurt Kitty, but she's very forgiving: probably too forgiving.
Kitty is also Jewish, not that that has a lot to do with anything, but it's something that could come up or could not, depending.
Kitty took ballet, figure-skating and equestrian lessons from the time she was about three (she was one of those kids who Took Lessons) and excelled in all three to varying degrees, with ballet at the absolute top and horsemanship only a bit above average. She also took soccer, but she's awful at it. She still loves her three sports of choice, though, and if she needs to kill some stress, she's either headed to the rink, the stables or a mirrored room in the X-Mansion that she and a few other girls use to practice dance. However, the sight of her pointe shoes, her skates or her jockey's helmet can also make her homesick if she's in the right mood - even if her friends at home drifted, Kitty's parents were always unswervingly devoted to their daughter, and she is one of the few kids at the mansion to get truly homesick.
Powers and Abilities: Kitty's main power, phasing, is her only power, though it expresses itself in different ways at times. Basically what she can do is move through solid matter as easily as the rest of humanity moves through gas. She can't do it through water, oddly - only solid objects or harsh liquids like glass, which move too slowly to really count, or liquids that are also part solid, like Jell-O or people. Most liquids are too reactive and stick too easy to her atoms, bonding with the acids in her stomach or the bases found in her excretory system - poisoning her, essentially, by changing her vital liquids into something else. Solids are less active than liquids and she can move quickly enough that she won't bond, and gases don't bond easily with liquids without a great deal of heat, which allows her to phase through them without harm.
If she's attacked, she can shift to a semi-phased state - only the part of her being attacked will shift, so she won't sink through the floor or through a wall. She'll have to know about the attack in order to phase out that part of her body, thuogh - she's not precognizant, whatever else she may be, and if she's caught off-guard it's as easy to hurt her as it is anyone else. She also obviously can't hit people effectively while she's phased. She can move through matter while phasing at her will; however, staying inside something for too long will give her crippling headaches which can make her lose her focus and potentially resolidify inside something already solid, which would kill her. She can't breathe while inside a solid object - her atoms move through the spaces in the object's, which leaves too little room for the required amount of oxygen to get to her. She can only move through an object as fast as she can run, which means that traveling underground or a similar activity could only last so long.
Thankfully, Kitty can take her clothing with her, and recently she's been able to take objects of increasing size. Soon she'll be able to move other people, though it'll take either a lot of practice or sufficient emotional charge to provide the power for something that complex.
Her power also allows her to walk on air - this is akin to phasing backwards, really, aligning her atoms with the wide-scattered atoms in the air closely enough for them to provide support rather than moving her atoms in such a way that they miss the atoms of solids.
While she passes unharmed through most things, complex or delicate electronical equipment will be disrupted by her presence, and sometimes even after she leaves it won't be the same - a tiny mistake will jar a few atoms aside and leave bad connection.
History: Kitty Pryde was born to a normal family in a normal suburb called Deerfield, Illinois, and lived out an incredibly normal childhood until she was about thirteen, minus the occasional akwardness caused in school because of her religion and the rumor (true, as it turned out) that her paternal grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, had been in a concentration camp, and that his sister-in-law, Chava Rosanoff, had died in one. Come history project day, everyone was wanting Kitty to give them numbers for Mr. Prydeman, and of course there were always the elementary-school questions of "why don't you have a Christmas tree?" and "what's that star on your necklace?".
Kitty passed through the first parts of puberty naturally, her body doing all the things that a normal little girl's body should at the correct times. When she was a few months above thirteen, she began to get headaches of increasing power, pain and regularity. While her parents thought that these were migraines somehow entwined with her burgeoning adolescence (which they essentially were), the headaches didn't have Kitty's new A-cups to thank for their appearance. They were actually caused by her body's attempt to process the manifestation of her new power, her ability to phase. Kitty was picked up by Cerebro at the X-Mansion, her powers not yet realized but their potential strong. She also showed up on the monitors at the Massachusetts Academy, which was run by one Miss Emma Frost, director of the Hellfire Club.
Xavier and Frost both set out to speak to Kitty's parents as the masters of private high schools competing for Kitty's skills - she was fairly intelligent, after all, and she did have her three Girly Sports to fall back on if nothing else, so her parents weren't too terribly shocked. Shortly after Emma Frost, to whom Kitty had taken an instant dislike due to her arrogance and inappropriate clothing, left, Kitty flopped down on her bed in her upstairs room, closing her eyes and wishing her headache would go away - and to her surprise, it did; but when she opened her eyes, she was on the floor of her living room, directly below her bedroom. She'd phased for the first time and fallen through her bed and floor.
Professor Xavier arrived just in time to calm the terrified Kitty, whose parents couldn't understand why it was so strange to be in the living room when she did, after all, live in this house. The Professor took her out to a local malt shop and talked her through the initial freak-out about her powers and convinced her, partially with the school's good points but mostly due to his not being Emma Frost, to come to the Mansion with him and to tell her parents that it was nothing more than a prep school for which she'd won an all-encompassing scholarship online.
However, just before they left, Kitty visited the bathroom and decided to try out her power again, since she was alone. She misjudged which of the walls led to the parking lot and the empty field behind it, though, and ended up phasing into the kitchen. Needless to say, the clerks and mixers in the back didn't take it well.
Xavier took her home and had her pack quickly, while he explained her power to her parents, seeing no way out of the inevitable calls from other children's parents and the people at the malt shop. While shocked and horrified at their daughter's oddity, as they chose to call it, they still supported her, and send her care packages every now and then at her new home. Kitty and her parents remain close, and if she's on her cell phone, it's almost a guarantee that she's talking to them.
A few years passed at the mansion, and Kitty befriended a few of the mutants there, though she was never the most popular girl; too quiet. She made close friends with Iceman towards the beginning of the final battle, which made her shaky nodding acquaintance with Rogue a good deal more strained. She's on fairly good terms with everyone at the mansion: after all, it would be hard for Kitty to really make anyone hate her, though she could conceivably annoy someone through sheer Kitty-ness.
The last battle shook her terribly. Though Kitty herself didn't kill anyone (she's always been purely defensive in battles), watching people die in hordes isn't good for anyone, especially not a gentle soul like Kitty. Even knocking the Juggernaut out, despite her big talk (using the word "dick" even made her a little nervous, since she was afraid she couldn't pull it off), still gives her nightmares - not because of what could've happened, but because she hurt someone, even if it was to save the child, Leech. She was torn up especially about Pyro's - or St. John Allerdyce, as she knew him - death, because she'd actually known him and had, to tell the truth, dated him for about two months when he was still at the Institute. Those two months were the two months previous to his leaving to join up with Magneto, which hurt Kitty more than a little, but mostly just made her depressed. His apparent death was like it happening all over again.
These days, she's just trying to get along. She and Leech, who's been staying at the X-Mansion (I'll cut this bit if it messes with someone else's canon), have become very close friends, despite the age difference. Saving each other will do that to people. She's fairly depressed after Xavier's and John's deaths and finds herself moping more than usual, and a little more homesick than she's ever been before. She's considered going home, but now that she's fought with them, she finds herself bound to the X-Men, however distasteful the fight was to her.
Kitty's birthday is June 5.
Likes:: All-American cuisine, nice people, blondes, ice-skating, ballet, horses, dogs, Illinois, hats, blue jeans.
Dislikes: Reading too much, mean people, sushi, duct tape, her hair, her eyebrows, her forehead.
Sample post:
Sine: the ordinate of the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative. Cosine: the abscissa at the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative. Tangent: the trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle.
Bleh.
Kitty stretched her legs slightly before curling back in on herself, squeezed in between the edge of a couch and the wall in the Mansion's rec room. Outside the little chamber she'd come to claim as her own (no one else but some of the younger kids burrowed the way she did, so it had been a pretty easy claim), she could see a furious foosball match that shook the entire table claiming the attention of most of the room. It looked like Colossus was going to be beat by a little girl. Again.
Kitty smiled a little to herself and looked down again at her Trig homework, crossing out a misspelling ("adjacent," not "adjacant," she reminded herself) before glacing back at her book, starting afresh on inverse functions. While Kitty couldn't see the point of memorizing Trig functions, it was the assignment, and if she didn't do it she'd - well, she wouldn't fail; she was good at math and she could probably afford to skip a few sections there more easily than she could in English. She'd never really understood poetic analysis. If it said something, it should mean what it said, right? She'd never been good at reading between the lines like some of the kids could, but it balanced itself out in Trig. She was one of the only ones in her class who could keep it all straight. Radians and arcs and triangles and SohCahToa.
That wasn't to say that she enjoyed it, but at least she got it.
"Kitty," said a small voice from above her. Kitty glanced up and saw a small bald head peering up from over the couch. Extremely preferable to her homework, definitely, and wasn't being nice to a kid who'd lived in a cell for the last few months, maybe years, more important than Trig functions she already understood?
"Hey, Leech," she said, and the boy smiled. "What's up?"
Screenname(s): spammityspam
Email: charlottethesarcasmdragon@gmail.com
IMs: spamisnumba1 (AIM), the_spaminatrix (Yahoo), and I'm usually on both by virtue of Trillian.
RP Experience: My first RP was Midnight College, a high-level RP which I joined at 14 and didn't leave until a few months ago, though I've recently returned; that makes four years of experience there. I also RPed on several smaller boards, all of which were very active for short spurts and then died, such as The Island, Reality Check, a board set in feudal China whose name I can't recall, Cinderella Undercover, and several others. I also currently play and have played for a little over a year on an extremely high-level Harry Potter-based RP called Lachesis, which can be found on ProBoards.
