Kurtis Black Smith
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Occupation: Mental Training Co-Teacher
NAME: Kurtis Black Smith
ALIAS: Shadow of Darkness
MUTATION (POWERS):
Shadow Camoflauge: the ability to conceal himself and others in total darkness, the shadows nullifying the sounds they would make, providing flawless stealth
Shadow Porting: the ability to teleport through the shadows of this world. The shadows are gateways and windows to him, he can open them and use them to enter another dimension, moving through that realm to any place in ours.
Shadow Healing: the ability to pull shadows from their location and wrap his body in them, healing any and all wounds on or in his body in mere seconds, the wore the injury, the longer the time to heal.
Shadow Manipulation: the ability to pull a shadow from it's location and transform it into anything his mind can picture. He has used this power to create a rose for Delaney the night of their first date. He also uses this ability to create a sword of unmatchable sharpness. When making the sword he uses his own shadow, condensing it downward until it is entire solidified. The sword can cut through anything, including adamantium. If his sword were to ever be broken, his shadow would be lost and so would his life end.
Paralizing Fear: the ability to read and harness his enemy's worst fear as a weapon. Using his telepathy he canr ead his enemy's mind and comprehend their worst fear, adding it to a shadow manipulation and launching it at them, attacking them physically and mentally at the same time.
Telepathy: When he first came to the School for Gifted Youngsters all he could do was read someone's fears, but as he trained with Professor Xavier he has been able to develope his telepathy to a level powerful enough to be recognized in the Astral Realm. He has been training with Emma Summers while teaching Mental Training class with her at the school, increasing his mental prowess constantly, hoping some day that he will be powerful enough to surprise her.
AGE: 30 (March 4th)
DESCRIPTION OF BODY (BUILD, HEIGHT, UNIQUE FEATURES, ETC.): He stands at 6'1", has a moderate build, six pack abs and visible biceps (nothing special really, just evident that he does work out) light grey (almost white) skin, on his back he bears 2 scars, one on each shoulder blade from his time merged with the Dragon of the Shadow Realm. The scars are from the dragon wings that were ripped away from his body when he relinquished the power of the Dragon, a constant reminder that if he was to ever let his mind slip far enough, that the Dragon could easily take over his body once more.
HAIR COLOR AND STYLE: long black hair, reaching down to his middle back. Pulls it back into a ponytail occasionally but mainly just lets it fall down his back. the hair in the front is kept short so that it doesn't get in his face, he hates that.
EYE COLOR: black with red pupils
RELATIVES:
Delaney Smith - Wife
Elenore Smith - adopted Mother, deceased
Robert Smith - adopted Father, deceased
Kurtis Black - Father, deceased
Angela Rayne Black - Mother, deceased
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
HISTORY: Kurt grew up on the streets of Philadelphia an orphan. Living at an orphanage as a child he'd often concocted stories that The Darknight, a Philadelphia vigilante, was his father. These stories first came about when as a child, the orphanage he'd been living at caught fire from an electrical storm. He'd been the only child unaccounted for and the firemen couldn't find him any where. Where most mutants first exhibit their abilities when they're teenagers, Kurt was seven and had teleported himself to safety several blocks away. That was when he realized he could disappear into shadows, and began experimenting with his powers. That same year he learned that he could create his sword, though it has grown more intricate and powerful as he grows older. He first experienced the fear shadow while living with a foster family some time after the fire. The manifestation inadvertently killed them, forcing him to relocate to another orphanage. He has only ever used the fear shadow when absolutely necessarily. After years of searching for his true birth parents he has been unable to locate them.
Afraid to be near other people for fear that he may accidentally harm them Kurt began living in abandoned buildings. While staying on the third floor of an abandoned apartment building the floor gave way beneath him, crashing to the first level and burying him in rubble. Other vagrants in the area tried to dig him out and found nothing. Kurt had teleported again, this time directly into the shadow realm where the broken leg he had suffered maliciously healed. That was the first time he realized he could recover from physical damage by retreating into his own personal world of shadows.
Arrested for shoplifting food from a gas station Kurt was taken by social services and delivered to another foster home, however these new parents were less loving than his first foster home. Seeing their new
son shy from the light and that direct sunlight burned his skin they saw him as a freak they began keeping Kurt locked in a basement cupboard to try and break the mutant out of him. This treatment caused Kurt to fear confined spaces and translated into full blown claustrophobia
. Desperate to break free without using his fear shadow he began to retreat into his own mind and soon learned that he had a mild form of telepathy. While greatly limited in this gift, Kurt managed to convince them that he was a family cousin who'd only come to stay for the summer and left on his own while they thought he was returning home.
On his own again Kurt matured on the streets of Philly, spending the daylight hours in hiding. Being alone most of the time Kurt began spending more and more time in the shadow realm, this leached the color from his skin and he learned that not only did the shadow realm hide him from others and allowed him to travel great distances, it also granted him the ability to tap into long forgotten memories. While still unable to locate his parents he could remember the instance when his mother died. Only four when it happened he could still remember the pain on his father's face when he realized he could not keep his son safe. He understood that it was out of love, rather than abandonment his father had delivered him to that now burned down orphanage.
Understanding now that all his years of pain and anguish had not been from abandonment Kurt also learned that it was not the sun that burned his skin, but his own mental torment. He learned to live with this new information and sought out a better existence. Though it was exceedingly difficult being homeless he began by volunteering in homeless shelters and with the aid of the staff began seeking a higher education. Mostly in the form of finishing high school. At the shelter he managed to find his feet and began helping people with similar backgrounds. He had been trying to telepathically help a young junkie learn to live without drugs that he was first noticed by Professor Xavier. Xavier approached Kurt and offered him a life of helping others and help him obtain the higher education Kurt had been working for.
(need 10 year gap here)
Just a few years later they were married in the courtyard of the Mansion. He took the possession of Mental training alongside with Emma Summers at the School. He had hated his sessions with Xavier but knew that he had to provide another option, Emma was just as bad.
ANY SERIOUS PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITIONS: still battles with claustrophobia, though over the years he has gotten a handle on it
HOBBIES: composing songs and constantly trying to get a foot in the music industry, the fact that he is a mutant tends to put a hinder on his progress. Finding new ways to surprise his darling wife
PERSONALITY: fiercely loyal and loving to his wife.
ANY PETS: no
OTHER: finally grown comfortable with his name, most of the time actually preferring it now to his alias.
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