Character Name: Katherine Pryde
Nicknames: Kitty, Kat, Katya
Codename: Shadowcat
Gender: Female
Age: Low Twenties
Character Type: Mutant
Allegiance: Former X-Man

Physical Description:

Social Description: Adventurer, freedom fighter, teacher
Personality Description:

Power Level: Alpha-class mutant
Mutant Abilities:
Phasing: Shadowcat possesses the ability to pass through solid matter by passing her atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which she is moving. In this way she and the object through which she is passing can temporarily merge without interacting, and each is unharmed when Shadowcat has finished passing through the object. This process is called "phasing." When Shadowcat is phasing, she is, for all intents ad purposes, intangible. Hence, when attacked, she can shift into a "phasing" state (even if she is not at the time passing through an object) so as to allow oncoming projectiles or energy blasts to pass through her harmlessly. Shadowcat passes through objects at the same rate of speed at which she is moving before she "enters" it. She has trained herself to go automatically, by reflex, into a phasing state at any indication of danger, such as a loud noise like a gunshot, in order to protect herself.

- Air Walking: Using her phasing ability, Shadowcat can walk on air. In fact, she can use her ability to walk on the air from the ground to the upper stories of a building as if she were climbing a staircase.

- Phasing Extension: From the first use of her phasing power, Shadowcat has been able to phase her clothing along with herself. Through practice she has learned to phase other objects along with herself without harm to them. She can also enable someone as big as Colossus to "walk on air" along with her. However, she must maintain physical contact with the people or objects she phases along with herself for the effect to work with this other person or object.

- Electrical Disruption: can phase through any material object, even living people. When she phases through an object with an electrical system, the process disrupts the systems workings.

- Telepathic Resistance: her thoughts are highly erratic when phased as if there was no mind to telepathically affect.
Power Limitations: Is vulnerable to mystic attacks even while phasing

Character History:
Katherine Pryde lived in the suburbs of Illinois and kept her mutant abilities a secret. When Apocalypse began gathering mutants, Kitty's parents were surprised to find a team of Infinites at their front door ready to take their daughter away. Her parents protested and were murdered. Kitty phased out of the house and ran.

Kitty was captured by Sabretooth, discovered during a mutant sweep in the ruins of Chicago. But before he could take her back to Apocalypse, the X-Men's Colossus freed her.

Kitty became the youngest member of the X-Men. Magneto left her training to Weapon X, who was secretly preparing her to become the X-Men's ghost assassin. Given metallic claws similar to Logan's, Shadowcat took to her training readily. When Logan and Jean Grey left the X-Men, Kitty lost her mentor and began to question her role on the team. Searching for someone to bond with, Kitty turned to Colossus. The two developed a strong relationship and eventually married.