#captain pryde

While the canon of Midnight Suns still has the X-Men be based out of Xaiver’s Academy, I’m taking inspiration from the Krakoa era for Pryde’s appearance and demeanour for two reasons. Firstly, Magik is explicitly in her 20s in Midnight Suns and so Kate should be too - and her now going by Kate is pretty obviously meant to be her moving into a more adult phase of her life. Secondly, and more importantly, Midnight Suns’ plot already has a lot of discussions of trust and depictions of awkward reunions, so I think it’d be appropriate to have Pryde’s arrival in the Abbey be after she’s spent some time away from the X-Men working with a reformed Emma Frost. Storm's all like “Awwww, we’ll be working with kitten again!” only for Pryde to show up holding a cutlass and asking to be called Kate instead of Kitty.

Pryde’s moveset would focus on... well, phasing, unsurprisingly. She can move people around, trap enemies in the ground making them unable to attack but also immune to knockback, and can dodge attacks entirely by phasing out of them. For her Legendary Heroic, she summons her dragon Lockheed to burn her foes.

In terms of Abbey conversations, Pryde would be fascinated by Hunter’s out-of-time perspective on the world and would pick their brain about a variety of social issues. She would also joke about why she was given her own room when she and Magik can share. 🙂

Captain Pryde

Kitty Pryde