Kira Yukimura

“	You did it again! You did something that changed everything, and you don't even realize that you did it, but you did!	”
	— Kira to Scott McCall in A Novel Approach

Kira Yukimura is a main character in Teen Wolf. She is the daughter of human history teacher Ken Yukimura, and 900 year old Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura. Kira's parents moved to Beacon Hills in the fall of 2011, where she enrolled at Beacon Hills High School. Unbeknownst to Kira at the time, her family really moved to Beacon Hills so that Noshiko could kill a powerful Nogitsune that she summoned in 1943.

Kira soon discovers that she, too, is a Kitsune-- specifically a Thunder Kitsune, one with control over both electricity and foxfire-- when her supernatural abilities began to manifest just before their move. It didn't take long before Kira was thrust into the supernatural world of Beacon Hills, where she helped the McCall Pack defeat the Nogitsune without having to kill their best friend Stiles Stilinski. Kira slowly began to learn control over her abilities while continuing to fight both human and supernatural enemies alongside her friends. She is in a romantic relationship with Scott McCall and is best friends with Malia Tate and Lydia Martin.

After helping the pack deal with the Beast of Gevaudan, saving Mason in the process, Kira has returned to Shiprock, New Mexico to train and learn control from the Skinwalkers.

Kira is a member of the McCall Pack and the Yukimura Family.

Early Life

Not much is known about Kira's life prior to moving to Beacon Hills, except that she lived in New York City with her parents while her father taught history at Columbia University. A couple months before Kira and her family moved to Beacon Hills, she noticed that when she took photos of herself with the flash on, a fiery-looking aura would appear around her, something she didn't share with anyone until after she met Scott McCall.

Throughout Teen Wolf

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Personality

Kira is a quiet, shy, loyal, and powerful young woman. Before she gets to know someone, she can be nervous and awkward around them, but once they warm up to each other, Kira can be confident and charming. She is also quite brave, as demonstrated when she immediately joined the McCall Pack upon learning about the supernatural without any disbelief or fear. Ever since she joined the pack, she has been devoted to helping them in any way she can, even putting her own life on the line to protect them. In fact, when the Dread Doctors' experimentation made her Kitsune powers go out of control, she made the hard decision to leave town to figure it out, despite not wanting to leave them without her help, because she refused to put her loved ones in danger with her presence.

Kira is also a very street-smart girl who quickly started to gain proficiency in her recently-manifested Kitsune abilities, particularly her intuitive ability to learn how to master melee weapons and combat. Upon gaining ownership of her mother's magic katana, Kira became one of the pack's strongest fighters and often fights alongside her boyfriend Scott. However, she is prone to insecurity, especially regarding her relationships with the pack, and frustration when she finds herself unable to help protect her loved ones and the pack at large.

Physical Appearance

Kira is a petite young woman with long, wavy black hair, dark brown almond-shaped eyes, and pale skin. Her sense of style is off-beat yet comfortable, often wearing off-the-shoulder tops with skater skirts and leggings with a denim or black leather jacket and boots. She has a katana that has been modified to turn into a belt when not in use, and the belt buckle has a throwing star built into it. She wears little makeup, aside from black or red nail polish, and occasionally wears rings or chain necklaces.

Powers and Abilities

As a Kitsune with one tail, Kira possesses many supernatural powers, some of which are common to all Kitsune, and some of which are specific to Thunder Kitsune. Additionally, her powers have been further enhanced by a mysterious procedure performed on her by the Dread Doctors in August 2012.

Super Strength: As a Kitsune, Kira possesses superhuman-level strength, though she is not equal in raw strength to a typical Beta werecreature. Even still, Kira has demonstrated that she is still very physically powerful when she cut her mother's katana blade in half with her own katana while they were sparring. This ability was augmented by the Dread Doctors' experimentation.
Super Speed: As a Kitsune, Kira can run at speeds faster than even the finest human athlete. They are among the fastest creatures in the Teen Wolf universe; at full speed, they can run faster than most Alpha Werewolves, though they are not as fast as a Demon Wolf or as a Hellhound.
Super Agility/Reflexes: As a Kitsune, Kira is preternaturally agile, and is able to quickly dodge attacks, perform a wide variety of gymnastic and acrobatic feats, and slice arrows in half in mid-air with her katana. This helps her a lot in battle, as it allows her to jump very high and very far and use her heightened strength, speed, and agility together to make her blows more powerful. This also extends to her reflexes, as she was able to catch a stray lacrosse ball just seconds before it made contact with Malia's face, a move that impressed Coach Finstock so much that he asked her to join the lacrosse team.
Shapeshifting: As a Kitsune, Kira has the ability to make her eyes glow an orange-gold color when she's actively accessing her supernatural powers. It is possible that, with time, wisdom, training and/or additional tails, she can learn to change her form even more than this, as Kitsune have been referred to as "shapeshifters" on several occasions.
Accelerated Healing: As a Kitsune, Kira is immune to all human illnesses and conditions. She can also heal minor injuries like cuts and broken bones in minutes, though more severe wounds such as stab wounds to vital areas can take longer. However, despite being born with immunity to human illness, her ability to heal wounds did not manifest for the first time until she consciously activated it by causing herself pain. This ability has since been augmented by the Dread Doctors' experimentation.
- Longevity: As a Kitsune and a supernatural with an enhanced regenerative healing ability and a slowed aging process, Kira is extremely long-lived and could potentially live for centuries like her mother Noshiko, who is at least 900 years old.
Intuitive Combat and Weaponry Aptitude: Kira, as a Kitsune, has the ability to be able to engage in combat at a high skill level using only her own intuition and muscle memory, both with and without weapons. She once managed to steal a sword from an Oni during her first ever supernatural battle and was able to use it well enough to hold her own against them until she and Scott made it inside the animal clinic. She was also able to use Allison's mini-crossbow without any prior training with it. This ability has been augmented by the Dread Doctors' experimentation. According to Kira, her ability to sword-fight "just sort of happened," and though her mother Noshiko has given her some instruction, most of what she can do has been demonstrated intuitively.
Electrokinesis: As a Thunder Kitsune, Kira has the ability to possess, control, manipulate electricity, lightning, and foxfire and use it for a wide variety of effects. Foxfire is typically a special kind of fire or lightning created by all Kitsune by rubbing their tails together, but since Kira is a Thunder Kitsune, she didn't even need tails to produce it. This ability is often used unconsciously by Kira's Kitsune spirit to defend itself against those intending harm, such as when Kira first created foxfire to shock William Barrow when he tried to electrocute her to death (inadvertently causing a city-wide blackout in the process), or when she accidentally shocked a physician from the Centers for Disease Control when she tried to take Kira's blood for testing. Kira has also shown a great versatility when actively using this power, such as when she siphoned the electricity from a live wire at the hospital to prevent anyone else from being electrocuted by it, when she used it to repair her mother's shattered katana blade, when she used it to severely slow Scott's heart to fake his death, and when she transferred electricity from her body into hundreds of light bulbs hung up at Derek's loft.
- Electricity Immunity: Because of Kira's electrokinesis, she is immune to the effects all forms of electricity. If exposed to live electricity or lightning, it will be harmlessly absorbed into her body.
Intuitive Bilingualism: Kira has been shown to speak fluent Japanese, in addition to American English, when her Kitsune spirit is in control, though when Kira was in control over her body, she stated that she had never learned how to speak Japanese, aside from simple greetings. This suggests that the ability to speak Japanese fluently is inherent in all Kitsune, regardless of whether they have studied the language.

Weaknesses

Wolfsbane: A canine supernatural creature, Kira appears to be vulnerable to wolfsbane, though it doesn't weaken her as much as it does werewolves and werecoyotes. This was demonstrated in The Dark Moon, when she was exposed to wolfsbane fog at the Calavera House that weakened her enough to be knocked out by the hunters.
Letharia Vulpina: As a canine supernatural creature, Kira is vulnerable to the lichen known as letharia vulpina, or "wolf lichen." It is toxic to foxes, wolves, and coyotes, and as a result, it can temporarily weaken a kitsune, werewolf, or werecoyote.
Modified Canine Distemper Virus: As a canine supernatural creature, Kira is vulnerable to the modified canine distemper virus created by The Chemist during the Deadpool. Though it was meant to kill canine werecreatures, it also had adverse effects on Kira, who suffered neurological deficits and weakness before going blind. However, this virus can be both cured and inoculated against with wild purple reishi mushrooms.
Mountain Ash: As a supernatural creature, Kira is affected by mountain ash, which is most often used to create boundaries that prevent a supernatural from entering or leaving a specific area. She is unable to touch rowan wood in its whole form or as an ash, and in some places with especially high concentrations like Eichen House, it can cause her to feel weak, as though she's been sedated, just by being near it.
Telluric Currents: As a Thunder Kitsune, Kira's powers can have adverse effects when in the vicinity with certain powerful convergences of telluric currents, such as the one that protects and guards Eichen House. When she is in their range, her abilities will go out of control, causing her electrokinesis to be involuntarily activated and overpower the electrical system. It is unknown if just her being a Kitsune was enough to cause such a reaction, if it is a side effect of the procedure the Dread Doctors performed on her, or if both are the case.
Unstable Kitsune Spirit: Due to experimentation done to her by the Dread Doctors that involved summoning a lightning bolt into a lightning rod placed in her eye, Kira's Kitsune spirit appears to be acting independently Kira's will, causing Kira's body to be wielded by it like a weapon. This has caused Kira to act erratically at times when the Kitsune spirit has taken over, such as when she almost killed Lucas in Condition Terminal and her mother in Strange Frequencies, and it's possible she may have actually killed a Chimera at the McCall House when her fox spirit was in control as well. According to Noshiko, if Kira's inner kitsune becomes too powerful, it will consume her human self completely.

Equipment

Katana belt with detachable throwing star buckle
Magical katana (inherited by Noshiko)
Glowstick nunchakus
Physical representation of her first kitsune tail (in form of obsidian shuriken)
Japanese mythology book
Red Toyota Camry

Trivia

Kira was listed at $6 million on the Deadpool hit-list.
Kira is Japanese on her mother's side (hence her Kitsune heritage) and is Korean on her father's side.
She is the first woman to be shown playing on Beacon Hills High School's otherwise all-male lacrosse team. Her jersey number is 15.
Kira possesses a belt that has been somehow modified (either scientifically or magically) to extend into a katana, which also has a detachable metal throwing star on the buckle, allowing her to be discretely armed at all times. She also has a set of glow-stick nunchakus that she uses when the situation calls for it.
Though the physical representations of her mother's Kitsune tails were in the form of black ceramic daggers called kaikens, Kira's first and only tail so far is made of obsidian and is shaped like a shuriken, an Occidental throwing star.
Unlike most Kitsune, who supposedly cannot take the shape of a human unless they are at least one hundred years old, Kira has always had a human form, most likely due to her half-human heritage on her father's side.
Kira is identical to the way her mother Noshiko looked during her time as an internee at Oak Creek Internment camp throughout World War II, though whether this is just genetics or due to their Kitsune nature is still unknown.
Kira has been shown to speak Japanese when her Kitsune spirit is in control, even though she claims she doesn't know how to speak Japanese or Korean despite being of both ethnicities. This could mean that all Kitsune spirits can communicate in Japanese, and that Kira might need to consciously tap into the ability.
In Creatures of the Night, Kira was experimented on by the Dread Doctors, who inserted a lightning rod into her eyeball and summoned a lightning bolt into it, which overflowed her body with electricity and caused her Kitsune spirit to not only become more powerful, but out of balance with Kira's human self, causing the two spirits to war with each other over control of Kira's body, a war that Kira appears to be losing.
- As of The Sword and the Spirit, Kira has been forbidden to wield her katanas, because according to her father, her swords are a gateway to her Kitsune spirit, and because it is too powerful at the moment, she needs to avoid letting it take control so she can "out-fox" it. This seemed to be confirmed in A Credible Threat, when Kira was seen lapsing into Kitsune-mode while practicing her sword while everyone else was asleep (or, in Scott's case, pretending to be).
- Kira's internal struggle between her human and Kitsune sides have parallels to Jordan Parrish's current war with the Hellhound spirit who is possessing him, as well as the spirit of The Beast of Gevaudan struggling for control against the teenage Chimera who it is possessing.