Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
“Oh, come on, Kurt, you can’t say that every time you’re the test villain for the new students,” Kitty pointed out as she watched the depressed German stare into his coffee.
He swirled the black liquid around in his mug. “Ja, I can. Because every time it’s true.”
Kitty crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against the refrigerator. “So… You’ve died… Fourteen times now?”
“Twenty-three,” he corrected. He gave her a small smile. “Not that I’m counting or anything.”
“Obviously.” She walked over to the kitchen table and sat down next to him. “Kurt, if you’re so worried, why don’t you just get someone else to do it? I know Logan would love to go head to head with a bunch of new students.”
“Nein. I can’t risk them being torn to ribbons,” he responded. He sighed. “Face it, Kitty. I’m the only one who’s both frightening enough to throw them off-balance and acrobatic enough to dodge without hurting anyone.”
“I could dodge!”
“Ja, but you’re not scary,” he emphasized, sticking out his fangs and waving his tail at her.
Kitty burst out laughing. “Kurt, you look ridiculous,” she chuckled.
He laughed softly as he lowered his tail and hid his fangs behind his lips again. “Alright, maybe to you it isn’t scary… Anymore… But I know those Kinder find it terrifying,” he added, gesturing with his head towards the door. He took another sip of coffee. “Und that’s the point of the exercise, isn’t it? To get them to face fearful creatures like me with panache?”
“Well, maybe not ‘panache,’” she said. “You kind of have the market cornered on that.”
Kurt smiled and stood up, casting his chair aside with a flourish. He bowed deeply and kissed her hand. “I have no idea what you mean, Fraulein,” he teased as he straightened up. His face fell. “If only they could see that side of me rather than…”
Kitty stood up and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Some day, they will,” she said. “Just like I did. But today, you have to be a scary monster for them.”
“Und die,” he added as he straightened out his uniform. He smiled at her. “For the twenty-fourth time.”
A clearer photo would be nice. I can’t tell if that’s a resizing disaster, those grody scarifications [God please NO! Never again! FFS that variant was nothing like the ‘Crawler we know and love] or actual proper velvet FUR like he’s supposed to have, dangit.
(pant pant pant)
In case my dear readers haven’t guessed, I’ve been a Nightcrawler nerd since my tender teens. So that makes it roughly 30+ years of loving the fuzzy blue dude.
The hands and feet look WAY more real than the horrible things they made Mr Cummings wear. Yay. And it looks like his hair is the comics-faithful unruly mop of curls. YAY!
…I can kind of understand why the movies keep giving him claws instead of regular nails. It ‘sells’ the idea of demonic appearance a little harder. BUT… why, O sweet synchronicity, WHY do they constantly have to make it look like he has some kind of fungal infection going on? Can’t have everything, I guess…
And speaking of Can’t Have Everything - Why the everloving FUCK does Kurt’s tail look like it came straight from the catalogues of Bad Dragon? [If you google it - it’s NSFW. Just… look it up in private. What is seen cannot be unseen etc etc] What? Was a normal, serpentine and spaded tail not enough for you? Is it ribbed for her pleasure? [Have read and written fics that went there, folks!] Or is this a cunning plot to have the volumes of Nightcrawler erotica quintuple in size?
Pros:
Australian actor. There’s half a chance he’ll fucking nail a proper germanic accent (Sorry, Alan Cumming, but yours was a teensy bit Hogan’s Heroes)
Look may be more CGI than makeup - more realistic movement and look on screen
Actual glowy-look eyes
Cons:
I want to see the high-wire costume, and so does about 90% of the estrogen-fuelled fandom :D
Poor actor may have those fangs-abounding fucking dentures again (WTF?)
90% chance his interesting storyline will be fucking sidelined for more fucking Wolverine (GFDI!)
