<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Shadowcat</strong></span></div><br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Shadowcat<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Katherine “Kitty” Anne Pryde<br/><strong>PLAYED BY:</strong>Keldia<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>17<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Heterosexual (for all she knows)<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'5” (165cm)<br/><strong>WEIGHT:</strong>120lbs (54kg)<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/da/KittyRLFC.jpg)  (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/ef/KittyCST.jpg)</div><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Lily Collins<br/><br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Phasing: Kitty possesses the ability to <em>phase</em> through solid matter and objects by passing her own atomic structure through the spaces between the atoms of whatever she is trying to move beyond. This leaves both her and the object unharmed and seemingly untouched once she passes her body through it.</li><li>Shared Intangibility: While still trying to fully get a grasp on doing so, she has found that she can extend her phasing to others as long as they are physically touching. This limits how far she along with the other person can phase through objects even further due to the heavier load.</li></ul><br/><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>While inside an object, she is unable to breath so how far she can phase through something solid depends on how long she can hold her breath.</li><li>The denser an object is, the harder it is to phase through and, if compact enough, will reduce her speed at actually doing so, sometimes slowing her down to a crawl. Some materials can also end up being extremely painful while attempting to do so and, thus, be impregnable to her.</li><li>There's a great strain if attempting to phase another along with her, almost like lifting something heavy, and she is forced to go slow and stay concentrating without any distractions in order to do so. While possible, it's something she rarely does, if ever.</li></ul><br/><strong>HISTORY</strong><br/>For the first fifteen or so years of her life, Katherine Anne Pryde lived a quiet life in Deerfield, Illinois. A shy girl with only a handful of friends, she found herself focusing on her studies, devoting most of her time and energy into books rather than her actual social life. The whole world seemed to be on the verge of change...billionaires in metal suits flying around, giant monsters brawling around Harlem, rumors of Gods appearing in New Mexico, and the whole New York incident in general...so the fact that there weren't any spaceships landing near her community was a relief. Everything was normal and she was okay with that.<br/><br/>That was, until the headaches started.<br/><br/>Migraines at first and, those, she could handle and chalked up to just your basic stress that any honors student with AP classes got from time to time. But they only got worse. And worse. Fighting through the only-growing pain, she showed some teenage rebellion against her own body and made the all-so-wise decision to attend school. Things seemed to go alright at first, Katherine managing to follow each lesson despite her worsening condition. Of course, all of that effort ended up for naught while changing after gym class.<br/><br/>Fate decided to rear it's head and put her right in the warpath of one of the school's most vicious cheerleaders. While obviously trying to mind her own business, the bitter girl was easily agitated and what had started as a small stint of school bullying turned into everyone following suit, laughing at the poor girl's slightly undeveloped figure. In tears, still suffering from an immense headache, and just wanting to get out of there, to be away from it all. Disorientation at trying to get out of the small crowd of teenage girls that had cornered her lead her straight into the wall...and, amidst sudden silence before the screaming started,<em>right through it</em>. She found herself unable to breath, not sure which way was up, which way was down, and all she could do was keep pushing forward further and further before emerging to the bright sunlight of what had been a mundane afternoon.<br/><br/>Running home in a towel, hair in disarray, face stained with tears, wasn't the most ideal of situations but Kitty had no idea what else to do and somehow made it back without more than a couple honks from passing cars and sudden yelps as she pushed people in her way aside. The unlucky ones found themselves not nudged away but ran completely straight through, just as she had the wall, leaving them just standing in shock as the lithe girl continued sprinting as fast as possible towards her house. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, she made it back, ignoring the stares of her parents and barricading herself in her room. They finally used force to break through the lock and could only stand and gawk as their tear-stained daughter was standing up straight on the floor, a bed bisecting her in half as she looked up at them in disbelief herself, before walking completely out from it with her form unscathed.<br/><br/>The good news? The headaches were mostly gone. The bad news? Too many things to count. Calls were coming in from the school, her Facebook that was once barren was now riddled with posts, and, worse of all,  Kitty was scared shitless. She had stopped unintentionally going through objects – fine china was not the best idea to give her shaking form a sandwich on – but still had no idea what was going on. All she wanted was to go back to her old life of being that girl that no one really paid much attention to but even the most optimistic of optimists could tell her that that was off the table for now. Her parents were, arguably, even worse, unsure if she was sick or there was something deeper wrong with their daughter.<br/><br/>A knock at the door came only hours later, men in suits arriving in the Pryde household and awkwardly pooling in the small living room. Katherine's mother was so flustered, she even offered them coffee. The one in charge found a scared girl in her room and calmly explained the whole situation to her and her parents standing by the doorway. How there were others like her, others like the ones she saw in New York. That there was a facility established in Montana, nestled in the Rockies where she could learn how to control her gift and use it for good, just like Thor or the Hulk. Being compared to big green monsters wasn't exactly the most settling feeling in the world but, once they mentioned that there would be other kids, all special, just like her, she realized that it was probably the best option, even if she didn't exactly feel like hero material. Hell, she didn't even want to be able to do any of this in the first place. Still, with some convincing from her parents as well, Kitty Pryde gave a solemn nod and was officially going to be enrolled in the newly created A.C.E. Program.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY</strong><br/>Even before she realized how different she really was, Kitty never really felt like she fit in with many of the kids in her school, only having a few friends, if she could even call them that. Mostly quiet and pensive due to this, she never really stood out in a crowd – ironic now that one thinks about it – and preferred the company of books over people. This shyness is hard to break through but, underneath is a sarcastic sense of humor just waiting to be unleashed. Being a teenage girl, there are the usual emotional roller-coasters that she hitches on a ride on sometimes, impulses and hormones being hard to contain, but, most of the time, she keeps calm and in check of herself.<br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong>Whatever S.H.I.E.L.D. decides to hand out.<br/><strong>CHARACTER O/Os:</strong>Kitty has no sexual history of note thus far despite interest.<br/><strong>PLAYER O/Os:</strong>Honestly, it's not much of a big deal. Just ask if curious.<br/><strong>NOTES:</strong>An alternative version based on the original from Earth-616 (http://marvel.wikia.com/Katherine_Pryde_(Earth-616)).