- Name: KURT DARKHOLME
- Age: 31
- Race: MUTANT
- Affiliation: EMPIRE (ROYAL GUARD)
TELEPORTATION. SUPERHUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (AGILITY/FLEXIBILITY). WALL CRAWLING. NIGHT VISION. CAMOUFLAGE. PREHENSILE TAIL.
You're a hideous thing inside
If ever there were a lucky kind
It's you, you, you, you
KURT, ABANDONED SON OF RAVEN DARKHOLME AND IRENE ADLER, FOUND HIS PLACE IN A TRAVELING CIRCUS AT AN EARLY AGE. IT WAS HERE THAT HE LEARNED TO BEST UTILIZE HIS UNIQUE PHYSIOLOGY, TRAINING IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES SUCH AS SWORD FIGHTING, MARTIAL ARTS, AND ACROBATICS. WITHOUT A TRUE HOME AND WITH NO POLITICAL CREED TO ADHERE TO, HE FOUND HIS WAY ABOARD A BOAT HEADING TO GENOSHA AS A TEEN. ENTERING INTO ADULTHOOD, HE FOUND HIS PLACE IN THE COMPANY OF AN OLDER COUPLE TAKING RESIDENCE IN AN ALL-BUT-ABANDONED MONASTERY. THEY, ALONG WITH THEIR COMPATRIOTS, WERE ADVOCATES OF INDEPENDENCE AND DID NOT STRICTLY ADHERE TO THE POLICIES OF GENOSHA. IT WAS HERE THAT KURT DISCOVERED A BASTARDIZED FORM OF CHRISTIANITY AND HERE THAT HE FOUND HIS CALLING. WHILE HE HAD TROUBLE GRASPING THE CONCEPT OF A GOD THAT WOULD ALLOW THE WORLD TO EXIST IN SUCH DISARRAY, HE FOUND THAT HE NEVERTHELESS HAD FAITH AND ENDEAVORED TO BECOME A FORCE OF GOOD IN THE WORLD.
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS HE HAS FOUND HIS WAY TO NEO-X. INITIALLY STICKING TO THE SHADOWS AND ISOLATING HIMSELF FROM MUTANT SOCIETY, HE EVENTUALLY EMERGED IN THE MIDST OF GREAT POLITICAL UPHEAVAL. ALIGNING HIMSELF WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY HE SERVED FOR A TIME AS THE PERSONAL GUARD OF THE EMPRESS. HE CONTINUES ON IN THIS CAPACITY, PRACTICING HIS OWN (SOMEWHAT TWISTED) BRAND OF CHRISTIANITY.
