KURT WAGNER aka NIGHTCRAWLER from x-men (e-616) , written by ibis (26, he/it). heavily headcanon based, a bit loosey goosey with lore n canons + plots/arcs. low activity. insp sideblog: @freundlichen. spotify. pinterest.
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due to the nature of x-men, & the broader lore & media i've taken inspiration from, there will be untagged themes of blood, war, death, assorted bigotry, drowning & suffocation, body horror & corruption, alcohol, & potentially more that i've yet to add. i will tag visual depictions best as i can, but be aware of the content.
i will be tagging all basic triggers, using the format of #trigger //
i do not acknowledge the storyline of kurt & jimaine being romantically involved at all ; i accept jimaine not immediately letting kurt know she was "amanda" both for spying & just to mess with him for a bit reasons but far as blog-canon's concerned it was kept strictly besties only.
kurt is an adult in all main verses so sexually nsfw content will be present, but always tagged #suggestive // or #nsfw //
memes never have an expiration date & ask replies can always be turned into threads, go nuts 👍
post-krakoa is my main default verse for pretty much all interactions, but earlier-in-the-timeline verses are available per plotting/request <3
@nachtsoklein
squatted on the edge of the shaded patio table, sipping lemonade, hiding from the summer sun. the pitcher beside him is yet plenty full, recently refilled. a pat-pat with the flat spade of his tail on the table, invitation for refreshment & company both. ❛ komm, grab yourself a glass while the ice hasn't melted. ❜
Summers were rough for Ivory, Louisiana weather more so. It's not exactly ideal to have thick fur in those conditions even when it's trimmed. Still, she enjoyed the refreshing breeze and fresh air, it's one of the many things she didn't get to enjoy much growing up. While others take the smaller things like that for granted, she embraces every second of it.
She wasn't sure what her plan was stepping outside, never really did when she realized she had full access to it, with limitations of course. Big ears twitched registering a voice close by as she was leaving the rustic-looking home to turn and see a familiar blue on the patio table calling her over.
Ivory stands there for a moment, then looks at her own tail, mimicking the up and down motion of Kurts'. She never really took her tail into consideration of, well, almost anything that wasn't necessary like balancing or making sure it didn't knock anything over. To be fair, nobody else in her life had one save for the cats so it'd be difficult to think about incorporating it to her own for smaller things such as gesturing. The corner of her mouth tugs upward and her attention returns with a nod.
Though where Kurt decided to perch upon left her a bit confused, shown visually through a curious tilt of her head and the raise of her pink brow,
"Um... not to seem rude, Monsieur Wagner, but there's chairs. Why sit on the table?"
The thought baffled her, she was always expected to sit 'normally' like everyone else despite the discomfort it brought her, so seeing someone so casually not conforming to lessons drilled into her head at a young age made her not help but ask despite how insensitive it potentially sounded.
those with pelts for skin must do what they can to stay cool, particularly if one's fur color is particularly good at absorbing light, & thus heat. ultimately, it's the weather that was one of the biggest obstacles for the bavarian when the professor took him in an eternity ago — after all the adjustments to not - yet - friends & the missions that entailed being an x - man, & general culture shock notwithstanding, — & louisiana is no new york.
the old manor had its sprawling cold floors, krakoa was a living & engineered paradise down to the centigrade, but here ?? here, it is but a glass with the blessings of ice cubes that gives kurt most of his reprieve. & he has never been so selfish as to not share in a good thing with a kindred spirit, let alone one whose fur is thicker than his own.
if one had asked him a dozen years ago what ivory asked a dozen milliseconds ago, the nightcrawler may have shrunk between his shoulders, an odd sense of shame from something so natural being pointed out, another blatant mark of his difference from the norm even among fellow mutants.
now, he only lifts a shoulder & tilts his head just so in small shrug. ❛ ach, too rickety for me, & there is plenty space here. ❜
her question aside, an approaching course is clearly set, so kurt prepares an empty glass for his young company with his free hand. &, as much through second - nature as with intent to show off a little ( he noted the glimmer of " i didn't consider you could use a tail like that " at his gesture ) , he glances aside for proper tail - eye coordination as his tail wraps around the pitcher at his side & pours its icy contents. ❛ there you go, schatzi. ❜
ok friday real in a minute, motu has my brain in a death grip, gnna be mainly on adam, also gnna try to lock in on some important stuff over the weekend
#𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄. PRINCE ADAM OF ETERNOS OF ETERNIA, HE - MAN from HE - MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. mixed canon + heavily headcanon based. as told by ibis.
thinking so so so fondly of what a Capital R Romantic kurt is. so deeply moved by romance(tm) stories, of grand adventures & noble quests & fantastical creatures & daring heroes & nefarious villains & hope & sacrifice & tragedy & love. growing up idolizing & aspiring to being like any number of character from such tales, wishing to be as dashing & beloved as the heroes, as quick & formidable as the villains, as full of heart & kindness as the maidens, as beguiling as the creatures, as respected as the beasts. in joining the x-men, he got part of that wish, got to become a superhero, got to go on these great & terrible adventures he admired on page or theater screen. kurt would be the first to admit that it got very difficult very early on to hold on to his idealistic & romantic view of superherodom, but as the team grew closer & friendlier & more of an actual team, it became easier to once again look at their missions through the lens of adventure. it's one of those things that often helps him cope with just how terrible things can get, though it just as frequently bolsters his enjoyment of the easier parts of his life as an x-man. he's a romantic, for better or worse.
never gonna stop thinking about kurt having a Feel for magic, & anyway i Do need kurt interacting with magic users in a way that acknowledges that. coz like okay illyana once mentioned a thing about kurt Having that affinity & that being why he can use her soulsword & megan's soul dagger, & he's got a bamf-destination anchor in limbo, but the way i'd kill for a bit where a magic user's doing their shenans & somebody treats it as a mutant thing & kurt can point at that & go nuh-uh that's shenans. look me in the eye & tell me at the Very least margali wouldn't have taught kurt how to avoid getting his ass cursed. i just think about kurt & magic.
i have head full of a cotton swab of thought about kurt & his soul & the bamfs & during/post!krakoa &. there's definitely more elaborate ways to word all this but lemme just. toss up stuff on the mystery coark board for me to string together at some other time.
bamfs have full rights on kurt's soul, keep it amidst themselves post!resurrection
maintain contractual rights but give over the soul itself during krakoa era as mutants solve death & hope yoinks souls into new shells
being soulless has the same effect as having a powerful artifact hidden in your essence, supernatural shenanigans come sniffing
during krakoa bamfs spread out beyond kurt, kurt doesn't take particular notice of it for a while, realizes weird supernatural shit hasn't happened to him in a long while, goes to illyana without explaining the soulless resurrection thing just to. check things. coz she has experience rummaging in his soulspace & would notice anything odd (odder than his soul not being there)
soul's back (never left as far as kurt believes that illyana knows)
tries to not look surprised
after the third hellfire gala's partycrash feels around his senses for the bamfs & can't find them anywhere remotely near him, takes it as a good sign they don't think the resurrection protocols have been entirely written off, clings to that theory for his hope & faith in the exiled mutants' survival
a few months after krakoa & millions of mutants remove themselves from the picture, spots a bamf watching him
at first thinks it's the legion fragment that embedded itself into him
the bamf disappears & kurt knows it's not
starts spotting/sensing more n more bamfs around, but still none of the weird shit that came round while he had the soulsword or while soulless
knows they're waiting for him to lose custody of his soul again
ok all that aside i have. stayed thinking about bamf stuff & that's had me thinking about demons & that's had me thinking about magic which has me thinking about kurt's family & it's all a lotta nonsense & vague hand motions about kurt having a weird demonic (hell) aura about him & kind of attracting supernatural bullshit after his pact with the bamfs & also him already naturally having a feel for magic in the air through growing up with witches & the aforementioned demonic bullshit from azazel being a genetic doner (tho not in quite the way az thinks) & just. it's a lot up here ok. i am fighting for my life & yalls dashes here holding back from rbing like 5 things i have for all this.
i think so often about how kurt has gained enough understanding of tech & engineering to have been one of the blackbird's primary mechanics for majority of his time with the xmen (to the point it essentially de facto became his), he regularly helped repair both the danger room & cerebro (& used knowledge from the latter to attempt recreating a cerebro for the original excalibur's purposes with not an insignificant amount of success), he can get told to rewire something (that he acknowledges immediately as being built by a genius) into serving a different function than originally intended (like absorb kinetic force instead of electricity) & just. do it. with his only complaints being a time restraint & his fingers not fitting through some access panels.
& you know the primary reason kurt even got roped into learning anything about electronics & engineering is coz, yes of course the xmen were woefully shorthanded when he first joined but nr2, he had severe inferiority issues in particular early on because, in his own words, he was just a glorified acrobat, & his teleporting has always been heavily limited & was laughably so in the early days, & the only ways he could make up for all that was his agility, not even his fighting skills at first because he. didn't have. like any. he play-sparred with prop swords with anyone that would humor him in the circus but he was very much not a combatant ; even others that were hardly combatants could make up for that with their mutant abilities. anything kurt learned about fighting he learned with the xmen.
so, how can he make himself useful, how can he earn his keep while still not quite believing that xavier would just take someone like him in without massive expectations (especially seeing that all the other recruited were very much capable of passing for regular humans if need be)???? learning everything he could that would make him indispensable or at the very least Usable. it was just fortune that he found genuine enjoyment in the work he tasked himself with.
thinking about kurt's whole "mr emotional support" thing, really do love the whole of kurt's brand of grit-teeth hope in the face of despair & fighting so so so hard for the sake of others above himself in every measure both big & small to the point he gets called out about it by stranger & friend alike. & when he finally does listen to them & does give into selfishness & doesn't try to kill himself helping & saving others people still call him out on that also because, yes he's right in realizing he deserves to rest, deserves to slow down, deserves to have some choice & stability in his life, but also no, he can't have any of that. because he's one of the kindly ones after all, a light in the dark, someone that's always used anger as a fuel for the good of the world, that's helped the unfortunate without any hope for thanks without regret. the universe won't allow him to be selfish in peace. he's not allowed such a thing as giving up.
it needs to be said that combination of years in circus & a whole. thing. about pirates. means kurt is very good with sturdy knots & knows how to toss up a rig that'll hold someone's weight comfortably. so jot that down. he's not really into bondage per-se, not in its plainest form at least, & it definitely takes a lot of trust & comfort on his part to let someone tie him in any restraining fashion with any material (too much bad history with getting tied up like little more than a beast), but it's one of those fantasy things where if he gets lost in a role, if there's a kind of theater involved, that's when he's into it. otherwise it's like just any old day back in jahrmarkt when he was literally learning his ropes & got tangled up in his own mastery or accidentally bound others. it's implicit trust & pirate roleplay that make it sexy for him.
actually bc i recently got yoinked into thinking abt it again coz cinemawins did a two-parter abt dead man's chest & ive been on the bi!kurt roll tonight-- of course kurt is a potc enjoyer, both for the pirates & the bisexual aura of the cast (even if he didn't realize it initially). elizabeth is his favorite character.