#nightcrawlerweek

Nightcrawler didn’t have a cover for last year’s swimsuit special, so here is my contribution to the brand new beach day.

Sometimes Kurt does get insecure about his fangs but in Logan’s hands it melts away instantly 🥺❤️

NIGHTCRAWLER WEEK 2025 NOV. 11 - 17

Welcome Nightcrawlers!

Welcome to Year 2 of Nightcrawler Week! If you have any questions about the prompts or anything else Kurt related then our ask box is open! We hope you'll join in & participate! See you in November!

Nightcrawler Week Prompts

Day 1 - Favorite Era

Day 2 - Faith or Family

Day 3 - Swimsuit Special or Costume Design

Day 4 - Alternate Universe or What If...?

Day 5 - Friends or Foe

Day 6 - Domestic or Danger

Day 7 - Creator's Choice

Alternative Prompts

Heart

Actor/Performer

Adoption

Leadership

Smile

Sorrow

Nightcrawler Week Ao3 Collection - Opens Nov. 11 2025

Creators can use one or both prompts for each day. Alternative Prompts are available for additional inspiration; Creators can swap out a daily prompt for an alternative prompt or use it in combination with a daily prompt or not at all. Creator's Choice can use any prompt in the list or whatever the Creator's heart desires.

Please read all FAQ's & Rules located under the read more. If you have any questions then drop the Mods an Ask. The Amazing Nightcrawler Discord is accepting new members! This is an 18+ Marvel Discord server. Please read & follow all rules upon joining.

Day 3 of Nightcrawler Week: Shadows / Silver Screen

NightcrawlerWeek Day 2 Fangs/Fashion

Smth smth. I love these two. specifically when Peter tries to embarrass Kurt

"I'm Nightcrawler -- super hero extraordinaire!"

Nightcrawler Week 2024 - Day 2 - Fangs or Fashion

For those not in the know, yes Kurt Wagner, also known as the Amazing Nightcrawler is Romani. Being Romani is not necessarily an ethnicity, it’s also a culture. If one is raised by Roma people and leans their culture, traditions, and values, they are Roma. It’s called Romanipen. Kurt was raised by Margali Szardos, a roma woman, in a traveling circus, and because she raised him with her culture, traditions, and values, Kurt is Romani.

But don’t take my word for it, here’s comic examples of characters calling him Roma(sadly using the G slur🫩) one of which is his own daughter.

So you may be thinking what does that actually mean to him as a character…well a lot actually. More than you might think, a lot of what makes Kurt is unequivocally and inarguably the man we know him as because of Margali Szardos.

For starters let’s clear up some misconceptions about Margali cause she may be one of the most disrespected characters in Marvel. Anytime someone says “Kurt had a horrible childhood” they are lying to you. Nearly every flashback we’ve seen has shown Margali raising him lovingly

All the “how did Kurt end up such a good person” jokes you may see have an actual answer. Margali, Margali found an orphan mutant, gave him food off her table, put clothes on his back, and gave him a place where even he could feel loved and safe. His appearance was never a problem to her

It’s from Margali that Kurt learnt many of his morals, he would not be the kind, accepting, and compassionate man he is today if he himself had not received that from her. Proof of that is seen in the AoA universe where Kurt is not raised by Margali and is a much crueler man

She didn’t just shape his morals though, she helped shape his personality, for she didn’t just give him any home. She gave him the circus. Think about some of your favorite Kurt traits, his flamboyance, his showmanship, how he loves to goof around and entertain others, All those traits come from his past as the star of the circus, these inherent traits of his simply can’t exist without his Roma ties. Hell even his love of adventure, ambitions as a romantic, and love of all things pirate and swashbuckler, come from Margali showing him her old Pirate films.

Margali also taught him how to be proud of himself despite how many may feel about his appearance. It would be so easy for Kurt to be bitter or wallow in his self pity about the appearance he was born with, and the treatment he receives for it. But he doesn’t, because Margali wouldn’t let him. Being a Roma woman in Europe, she knows all too well about ostracized and condemned for circumstances beyond her control feels like, and through her lessons, she taught Kurt how to hold his own head high in spite of any who may scorn him.

Thanks to her, Kurt has never given up his desire to make others see him for who he really is and many, Kitty Pryde chief among them, have a lot to thank Margali for.

As the years have passed Kurt’s romani roots and Foster family have been given less and less respect as more and more focus has been put onto his relationship with his Biological mothers. The disrespect foster families receive as opposed to Bio families couple easily be its own much longer and in depth thread, but ignoring that, it just feels wrong for characters of a marginalized community to be tossed to the wayside. Regardless of whether or not you like Mystique and Destiny (and I do) they are not even an iota as important to who Kurt is as character as Margali is. Yet they, who have and always will be murderers and criminals, get to have all their past crimes to their son retconned away, meanwhile Margali is turned into a racist and stereotypical villain bent on power at all costs…Someday I hope that Margali, Mystique, and Destiny can all coexist as figures in Kurt’s life. Cause Kurt is an amazing character who is way more rich and deep than many give him credit for. To close this long post I just hope that when some of you list off Kurt’s core identity traits “German, Blue, Catholic, etc.” you make sure to include “Romani” in there too. Cause it’s true.

Nightcrawler Week 2025 day 7: Creator's Choice

I used the alternative prompt "Sorrow," the full image is below! (If tumblr flags this.... oh well, i guess.)