Nogitsune

* Corporal Rhys
* Stiles Stilinski
* Malformed Werewolf

**The Nogitsune** was a major antagonist in Season 3 of Teen Wolf and in Teen Wolf: The Movie. He was a Void Kitsune who fed on chaos, pain, and strife. He was first mentioned by Katashi in *Silverfinger* when Chris Argent, Allison Argent, and Isaac Lahey came to him to ask him about the Oni demons who had recently come to Beacon Hills. Katashi explained that the Oni were hunting a Nogitsune, or a Void Kitsune, by examining every supernatural creature they came upon to make sure they hadn't been possessed by the dark Kitsune in question.

It was then revealed at the end of the episode that the Nogitsune had possessed Stiles Stilinski at some point following his death and resurrection as a result of the surrogate sacrifice ritual performed by Allison, Scott and Stiles in *Alpha Pact*. As a Void Kitsune who fed on chaos, strife, and pain, the Nogitsune used Stiles' body to create the very feelings in others that he needed as sustenance to increase his power, and used the Nogitsune flies that he could produce from his body to infect others with anger in order to create more chaos, purposely distracting the McCall Pack to the point where they would be too overwhelmed to interfere with his plans.

In *The Fox and the Wolf*, it was revealed that Noshiko Yukimura was responsible for summoning the Nogitsune in 1943, when the aftermath of the riots at the Oak Creek internment camp (and the government's subsequent cover-up of the deaths of the internees) made her so angry that she prayed to her Kitsune ancestors to allow a powerful Nogitsune to imbue her injured body with power and heal her so she could take revenge on those responsible for the deaths of her fellow internees.

However, instead of possessing her as intended, the Nogitsune actually possessed the body of her recently deceased lover, Corporal Rhys, who then went on and killed the remaining campers and employees at Oak Creek before Noshiko and her friend Satomi Ito neutralized the Nogitsune by expelling it from Rhys' body with Noshiko's magical katana, causing him to revert to his fly form, which was then trapped in a jar and buried in the roots of the Nemeton. The Nogitsune would remain a prisoner in this jar until Stiles Stilinski, Allison Argent, and Scott McCall's surrogate sacrifice ritual, in conjunction with Jennifer Blake's geokinetic abilities causing the Nemeton's root cellar to collapse, unintentionally released the Nogitsune in autumn of 2011.

The Nogitsune then possessed Stiles' weakened body at some point afterward, using his then-limited control over Stiles to commit acts of chaos, strife, and pain that killed multiple people over the span of several weeks. After eventually amassing enough power to leave Stiles' body and create his own human body that was identical to Stiles, he went on to attempt to force Stiles to kill himself, claiming to end the game if he did so. However, when Stiles, Scott, Lydia Martin, and Kira Yukimura finally saw through the illusions he had created around them, they were able to fight back. They eventually defeated the Nogitsune after Scott gave him the Bite, weakening him enough for Kira to stab him with her katana, turning his vessel to dust and once again reverting him back to fly form, which was trapped in a box made of the wood of the Nemeton before it was cut down, where he remains to this day.

In 2026, Liam Dunbar and Hikari were attacked and overpowered by a mysterious hooded figure, who freed the Nogitsune from the Urn so they could seek retribution together against Scott and his packmates. Upon stealing the nine tails of Kitsune Deputy Ishida, the Nogitsune summoned nine Oni demons and manipulated a recently-resurrected Allison Argent into helping him in his revenge plot. The Dark Kitsune had his Oni target and abduct the majority of Scott's packmates and allies before bringing them to his illusionary world, where he hoped Scott would die at Allison's hands. However, Allison's memories of her life were restored by Lydia and she helped her loved ones vanquish the Oni, prompting the Nogitsune to reveal that Scott's Bite nearly twenty years ago allowed him to assume a malformed and monstrous Werewolf appearance. Despite the Nogitsune's best efforts, he was overpowered by Scott, Derek Hale and Derek's son Eli before being incinerated into nothingness by Jordan Parrish along with Derek, who was keeping the creature immobilized.

## Early life

Very little is known about the Nogitsune's early history, though it can be assumed based on his own comments about being one thousand years of age that he was born in the late 10th or early 11th century at the latest. *("The Divine Move")* What he did with his life between then and the 20th century is a mystery, but in 1943, the eight-hundred-year-old Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura, severely wounded in a riot at the Oak Creek internment camp in Beacon Hills, California, prayed to her ancestors for *kitsune-tsuki*, or possession by a fox spirit; specifically, a Nogitsune, also known as a Void Kitsune, which are notable for the fact that they feed on and are empowered by chaos, strife, and pain; since Noshiko wanted to give herself a necessary source of power with which to heal and get revenge on the government officials who were covering up the riot, the Nogitsune's natural personality fit well with her current agenda.

Unfortunately for Noshiko, Kitsune are also notorious for having dark senses of humor, which makes requesting *kitsune-tsuki* a dangerous task. This was soon proven to be the case, when, instead of possessing Noshiko as she had asked, the Nogitsune possessed the body of her deceased human lover, Corporal Rhys, who had died shortly beforehand from complications resulting from being hit with a Molotov cocktail in the riot. After taking control of Rhys' body, the Nogitsune went on a rampage, killing everyone in his path at the camp, regardless of whether they were American soldiers or Japanese-American internees.

Noshiko, horrified by the death and destruction that she had inadvertently wrought by summoning the Nogitsune, grabbed her magic katana from under her bed, and, with help from her friend in the camp, a bitten Werewolf named Satomi Ito, she was able to use her sword to exorcise the Nogitsune from Rhys' body. *("The Fox and the Wolf")* The Nogitsune was then reduced to its fly form, making it easy for Noshiko to capture it in a glass mason jar, which she buried in the roots of the Nemeton, a magical and sacred tree used by the Druids which had yet to be cut down at this time; the power that the ancient tree possessed allowed it to keep the Nogitsune imprisoned within its roots for the next seven decades. *("The Divine Move")* However, during this time, the Nogitsune, deeply offended by the fact that Noshiko had summoned him to Earth only to imprison her for doing what she wanted, made plans for his revenge in the event that he was released from his prison. *("Letharia Vulpina")*

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

### Season 3

The exact time that the Nogitsune was released from his prison within the Nemeton is unknown, but it can be assumed that it was at some point during or after the surrogate sacrifice ritual performed by Scott McCall, Allison Argent, and Stiles Stilinski in *Alpha Pact/Lunar Ellipse*, possibly assisted by the earthquake Jennifer Blake terrakinetically created in hopes of killing Noah Stilinski, Melissa McCall, and Chris Argent as her last trio of Guardian sacrifices. A short time later, he possessed Stiles, but the Nogitsune, having been locked away for nearly seventy years, was presumably too weak to do much but observe Stiles' life and interpersonal interactions, gaining information about his host and his relationships while also trying to build up more power through feeding on the then-small amounts of chaos, strife, and pain around them.

Sometime between his possession of Stiles and *Galvanize*, the Nogitsune managed to release some of his flies and used them to make William Barrow, a well-known mass murderer, his thrall. Under the Nogitsune's influence, Barrow captured the Thunder Kitsune Kira Yukimura, who was then unaware of her supernatural identity, and attempted to electrocute her so that her body would instinctively release foxfire as a defense mechanism. This foxfire was released just as Stiles, unknowingly acting as host for the Nogitsune, was walking into the electric substation with an aluminum baseball bat, leading him to be electrocuted enough that it jump-started the Nogitsune's power, giving him more control over Stiles' actions, the exact outcome the Nogitsune was hoping for when he began controlling Barrow.

In *Illuminated*, the effects of the Nogitsune started to influence Stiles' behavior more and more, starting with confronting Rafael McCall and revealing that he had learned the real reason as to why Rafael left the McCall Family at a young age. Stiles also found a mysterious key on his key-ring that he couldn't initially identify; after figuring out that it was covered in chemicals, Stiles realized that it led to the chemistry closet at Beacon Hills High School and that the code left on the chalkboard that instructed Barrow to go after Kira was in his own handwriting. Horrified, Stiles began to put the pieces together and became certain that he was blacking out.

In *Silverfinger*, Stiles, who was suffering from insomnia and other exhausting side effects from being possessed by the Nogitsune, informed Scott that he believed he was responsible for somehow sending Barrow after Kira, though Scott had difficulty believing Stiles could do such a thing. He suggested Stiles go home and get some sleep, but Stiles instead went to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where he confessed the symptoms he was experiencing to Melissa McCall, which included insomnia, irritability, inability to focus, sleepwalking, having vivid dreams during the day, and difficulty telling the difference between dreams and reality.

Melissa initially assumed his symptoms were a result of sleep deprivation and gave him a sedative to help him get a good night's rest, not knowing that by doing so, she had weakened Stiles' defenses and allowed the Nogitsune to gain even more control over his body. When Stiles woke up a few hours later, he walked through the halls to find Melissa and was eventually confronted by three Oni, which, unbeknownst to anyone else, had been summoned to Beacon Hills by Noshiko Yukimura. However, when the Oni attempted to do their test to determine if he was possessed by the Nogitsune, the Nogitsune took over Stiles' body and killed all three of the Oni by plunging his fist into their chests and removing the firefly that animated them. Afterward, when Scott found him, Stiles/the Nogitsune played dumb and insisted that he was fine before asking him what he had learned that day, leaving Scott none the wiser about what he had done.

In *Riddled*, the effects of the Nogitsune's possession continued to affect Stiles as a result of the fact that they were constantly grappling each other for control over his body. Stiles eventually had such a vivid dream that he sleep-drove to the hospital, where he tampered with the electrical cords to the generator on the roof (while under the Nogitsune's control) before walking all the way to the Beacon Hills Preserve, where he ended up in Malia Tate's former coyote den; it has been implied that, on some unconscious level, Stiles knew what was happening to him and went into the woods on the coldest night of the year in hopes that he would die of hypothermia and prevent his loved ones from being hurt by the dark spirit inside him.

However, in Stiles' dream, he was in the basement of Eichen House (though he was unaware of it at the time), and the Nogitsune, in Corporal Rhys' form, had a conversation with him through his dreams. The Nogitsune was desperately trying to get Stiles to wake up so they could save themselves, since Stiles was beginning to suffer from hypothermia due to being in the woods in only his pajamas. To keep him conscious, the Nogitsune asked Stiles to solve a series of riddles, the last of which being "Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?" However, though Stiles could answer all of the previous riddles, it was the final one that he was unable to solve, and before he could figure it out, Melissa and Rafael McCall found him in the coyote den and woke him up.

Stiles was then brought back to the hospital, where Melissa confessed to Noah Stilinski that Stiles had the same symptoms as his mother, who was eventually diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. This led Stilinski to immediately schedule an MRI for Stiles out, as he was concerned that Stiles had inherited the disease that killed his mother. During the MRI, the Nogitsune used his powers to trick Melissa, Stilinski, and Dr. Vandenburg into thinking that Stiles did indeed have FTD, while at the same time trying to convince Stiles to let him take control by threatening Stiles' loved ones. Eventually, Stiles figured out the answer to the Nogitsune's earlier riddle, "a shadow," just as the Nogitsune, in his bandaged Rhys form, unraveled the gauze from his face to reveal that Stiles was underneath, indicating that the Nogitsune was Stiles' shadow.

Stiles finally acquiesced and gave up control over his body in favor of saving his family and friends, and the Nogitsune (who will be referred to as Void Stiles while he is in full control of Stiles' body) prepared to walk out of the hospital inside of Stiles to continue his plans. However, he was confronted by Noshiko and two of her Oni in the elevator, where she asked him if he remembered her. The Nogitsune acknowledged that he did remember her before insisting that he "wasn't afraid of her little fireflies." Noshiko then told him that she wouldn't be deterred by the fact that he chose an innocent teenage boy to be his host, and that if the Oni couldn't defeat him, she knew someone else who did, implying that it would be her daughter Kira to finish him off.

At some point between *Riddled* and *Letharia Vulpina*, Void Stiles killed Katashi, an elderly member of the Yakuza who had given the Argents information regarding Kitsune and Nogitsune, before then framing Chris Argent and Derek Hale for the murder by planting evidence in the Argent Apartment, hoping that their arrest would prevent them from interfering with his plans.

In *Letharia Vulpina*, the electrical wire that the Void Stiles tampered with ended up electrocuting several people, all of whom died except for Isaac Lahey, who survived due to his Werewolf healing but who still needed to be put in intensive care as a result of his burns. After two days of being missing, the Nogitsune returned to Beacon Hills High School and pretended that Stiles was in control before orchestrated a series of mishaps to gain more power—he set up a fake bomb on a school bus, a real bomb in the Sheriff's station, and a trap that caused Coach Finstock to be shot in the stomach with an arrow.

After feeding on all the chaos the events caused, Void Stiles also manipulated Scott into taking pain from three different people-- Isaac, Coach, and a dying deputy—so that the Nogitsune could absorb and feed on all of the pain and become even more powerful as well. While Void Stiles was torturing Scott with a ninjato, Alan Deaton arrived and injected Stiles/the Nogitsune in the neck with a rare form of lichen known as *letharia vulpina*, which temporarily weakened the Nogitsune and gave Stiles control of his body once again.

In *Echo House*, Stiles decided to take advantage of the Nogitsune being weakened by admitting himself into Eichen House, hoping that by doing so, he would be protecting his family and his pack. However, though the Nogitsune was weakened, Stiles was still suffering from hallucinations of the bandaged version of him from 1943. Additionally, with the Nogitsune weakened, Stiles developed a Lichtenburg figure on his back from when he was electrocuted with Kira's foxfire, since he didn't have the Nogitsune's healing ability working at peak performance. When Marin Morrell, the therapist at Eichen, noticed the Lichtenburg figure, she took Stiles aside and gave him a bottle of amphetamines to stay awake, as sleep would make him vulnerable and allow the weakened Nogitsune to regain control faster. She then informed him that if the McCall Pack hadn't come up with a solution by the time his marks faded, she would come find him and give him an injection of pancuronium bromide, a drug used in lethal injection to induce respiratory arrest that she believed would neutralize the Nogitsune once again by killing Stiles.

However, despite Stiles' best efforts to stay awake, he was caught with the amphetamines by the head orderly, Brunski, who injected him with Haldol and locked him in the "quiet room" to sleep it off. Fortunately for him, Malia Tate found him and rescued him, taking him down to the basement in hopes of finding answers about the Nogitsune. While down there, he and Malia found Corporal Rhys' bandaged body (the same form that the Nogitsune takes while in Stiles' mind) hidden in a wall that had been marked with the *jiko* kanji to indicate that he died as himself. Along with his body, they found Noshiko's broken magic katana and a photograph of Noshiko and Rhys, which led Stiles to realize that the Nogitsune and Noshiko are connected. However, before he could do anything more, a fellow Eichen House patient, Oliver, revealed that he had become one of the Nogitsune's fly-thralls, and used a taser and Haldol to knock both Stiles and Malia out. The Nogitsune then threatened to have Oliver kill Malia by drilling a hole in her head (a procedure known as trephination) if Stiles didn't once again let him have control. Stiles, not wanting her to get hurt, eventually gave the Nogitsune what he wanted, and Void Stiles the used the drill to knock Oliver out before he escaped Eichen House.

In *The Fox and the Wolf*, after Void Stiles left Eichen, he went to the high school, where he found Ken Yukimura preparing for Monday's class in his classroom. The Nogitsune physically threatened him and admitted that he had no idea how Noshiko was able to create physical representations of her tails by making them into black ceramic daggers before demanding to know the location of the sole remaining dagger, which she calls *"kaiken."* When Ken played dumb and refused to answer, Void Stiles summoned one of his flies and had it forcefully fly down Ken's throat, believing that making him a fly-thrall would get him answers. Unfortunately for Void Stiles, Ken resisted the effects of the fly and was eventually cured with reishi mushrooms by Noshiko, Kira, and Scott before he could learn the location of the *kaiken*, which was in Noshiko's jacket pocket.

Scott and Kira then showed Noshiko the photo Stiles and Malia found on Rhys' body before demanding that she tell them the story of the Nogitsune. (see "Early Life" above). Meanwhile, Void Stiles went to the Stilinski House and set up Stiles chessboard with all of the pieces the real him had used to create the board game that helped introduce Sheriff Stilinski to the supernatural. *("The Girl Who Knew Too Much")* Seeing that the king was labeled "Derek Hale," Sheriff, Derek, Chris Argent, and Allison Argent went to Derek's loft, armed with all of the non-lethal weaponry the Argents possessed, to try to take Void Stiles alive until they could figure out how to exorcise him. When Sheriff walked in first, Void Stiles pretended to be the real Stiles when he greeted him.

In *De-Void*, Sheriff attempted to reason with Void Stiles, eventually talking him into allowing himself to be handcuffed so they could take him into the Sheriff's station, which he argued would both protect the innocent civilians from Void Stiles and protect Stiles himself from those who would try to do him harm as well, such as the Oni. However, when Void Stiles broke through the handcuffs with one hard tug, they realized that they were not talking to Stiles and fell to their backup plan. Chris, Allison, and Derek then flooded into the loft after Sheriff to confront Void Stiles with him; however, Void Stiles easily caught the taser bolts shot at him by Allison due to his enhanced reflexes and electrical immunity, the latter of which allowed the electricity to pass harmlessly through him. Realizing Allison was no match for him, Derek wolfed-out, roaring at Void Stiles before lunging at him, but Void Stiles' supernatural strength was superior to that of the Beta werewolf and he threw Derek across the room.

When Chris reflexively pulled out his gun and aimed it at Void Stiles, he and Sheriff argued heatedly about whether or not they should shoot him while Void Stiles eagerly egged Chris on. After a few long moments, Allison realized with horror that the Nogitsune was feeding off of their strife and stopped them, leading Void Stiles to admit that they ultimately weren't going to be there to kill him—they were now there to *protect* him. As Void Stiles predicted, the Oni appeared in the loft to attack him, forcing Sheriff, Chris, Derek, and Allison to reluctantly defend him in order to ensure Stiles' survival. At some point in the fight, Derek was injured by the Oni's *ninjato*, and Void Stiles mysteriously vanished, followed shortly afterward by the Oni.

Void Stiles then went back to Eichen House, where he found Noshiko in the basement, kneeling in front of the wall where she buried Rhys. He asked her why she carved the *jiko* kanji (which means "self") into the wall where his body was interred, and Noshiko replied that it was to signify that he died as himself and not as a monster like the Nogitsune. When Void Stiles asked her what happened to the woman who called out for chaos, strife, and pain in order to get revenge on those who covered up the riot at Camp Oak Creek in 1943, Noshiko insisted that she didn't want that anymore. Unfortunately for her, Void Stiles remarked that he *did* before stealing Noshiko's *kaiken* and using it to stab himself in the stomach, essentially disemboweling himself with the ceramic dagger.

From within the slice wound in his abdomen came a swarm of Nogitsune flies, which then escaped from his body and scattered across the town to create more thralls. One fly possessed Isaac Lahey by crawling through his IV catheter while in the ICU at the hospital; possessed Derek Hale by crawling into the gash on his back that was made by the Oni's sword; possessed Ethan by crawling up his nose while he was washing his face after lacrosse practice; and possessed Aiden by crawling into his ear when he found Void Stiles' unconscious body in a parking lot. All four men then became Void Stiles' thralls, and the Nogitsune flies removed their inhibitions and increased their preexisting anger so that they would attack the objects of their anger and create diversions while Void Stiles, continued to cause more chaos, strife, and pain on which to feed and become more powerful.

Lydia Martin and Aiden were driving together when Lydia suddenly went into a Banshee fugue state and drove to an empty parking lot where Void Stiles had fallen unconscious. They then brought him back to the McCall House, calling Melissa McCall and Alan Deaton to help them deal with him. It was there that they determined that Stiles had gained the Nogitsune's power of accelerated healing, and Deaton gave Void Stiles a dose of Kanima venom to paralyze him while they came up with a better plan on how to best help Stiles. After debating the merits and risks of Scott giving Stiles the Bite in hopes that the Nogitsune would be expelled upon his transformation into a Werewolf, they eventually turned to Peter Hale for help; after Peter declared that Stiles was much too weak to survive the Bite, he instead suggested that he teach Scott to use the Alpha mind manipulation ritual. Scott then put his claws into the back of the neck of both Stiles and Lydia, allowing Lydia to accompany him inside Stiles' mind to try to take control back from the Nogitsune and give it back to its rightful owner.

Inside Stiles' mind, the Nogitsune attempted to distract them by locking them in separate memories or visions, with Lydia believing she was back at the Winter Formal in Season 1's *Formality* the night that she was attacked and bitten by Peter, while Scott was led to believe that he and Allison were still together and making out in her closet during the events of Season 3A's *Currents*. However, both of them managed to break out of this vision, where they found that the Nogitsune had locked Stiles' consciousness in "the White Room;" on the opposite side of the enormous room from where Scott and Lydia were standing, Stiles and the Nogitsune (in the form of his previous vessel, Corporal Rhys') were sitting on the Nemeton's stump, where they were playing the Japanese strategy game *Go.* Despite the Nogitsune's best attempts to keep the two from getting through to Stiles, Scott Alpha-roared at his best friend, alerting him to their presence and allowing Stiles to take control of his body back from the Nogitsune.

In the real world, Scott and Lydia were shoved out of Stiles' mind, and when they came to, they all watched in shock and horror as Stiles began throwing up the bandages that covered the Nogitsune when he used Rhys as a vessel. Once Stiles was done, the bandages materialized into what appeared to be Rhys' form once again, only separate from Stiles, but when Peter and Scott tackled him and tore off the bandages, they found that the real Stiles, who was completely overwhelmed and terrified, was inside. It was then implied that the Nogitsune had used all of the power he had gained from feeding on the exceptional amount of chaos, strife, and pain he created to create a new, completely whole and unblemished body for Stiles, keeping Stiles' original body for himself. The Nogitsune then escaped, still wearing Stiles' visage, and captured Lydia in the process.

In *Insatiable*, the Nogitsune held Lydia hostage in the tunnels at Camp Oak Creek, and seemed amused by the fact that Lydia, as a Banshee and a harbinger of death, was hearing the loud voices of all of the dozens of people who had died there in 1943, both at the Nogitsune's hands and during the riot that caused Noshiko to summon him in the first place. The Nogitsune explained that all of the mythical trickster stories about the coyote, the fox, and the raven were all about food, because tricksters are always hungry. He then stated that, as a fox and a trickster, he was the same, but instead of eating food, he said, "I eat what you feel," indicating that he gained sustenance from chaos, strife, pain, and tragedy, among other negative emotions such as fear and rage.

When Lydia asked why he took her, the Nogitsune confessed that he needed her Banshee powers so that he would know when his own death was getting close. When the Oni arrived and surrounded him, he took out one of Noshiko's last *kaikens*, which was among the oldest, and which he stole in the previous episode. Just as the Oni aimed the tip of their *ninjato* swords at him and prepared to impale him, Stiles broke the *kaiken* in half, using the immense mystical power inside to steal control of the Oni from Noshiko. With the demons now under his command, he ordered them to fight against Noshiko, Kira, Isaac, and Allison, while Scott and Stiles searched for Lydia, eventually finding her locked in a room in the tunnels. The Nogitsune looked shocked when Allison became the first person (aside from himself) to kill an Oni, which she accomplished by shooting it in the chest with a silver arrowhead she had forged herself earlier that day. However, the Nogitsune got his revenge shortly afterward when another Oni stabbed her in the abdomen and killed her.

Allison's death caused the battle to end, as both the Nogitsune and the Oni vanished out of fear that the pack could find ways to kill the rest of them while the pack and Allison's father dealt with immediate aftermath of her loss.

The next day in *The Divine Move*, the rest of the McCall Pack and their parents and allies regrouped to come up with a new plan to take down the Nogitsune once and for all, eventually finding the four remaining silver arrowheads that Allison had made prior to the battle to kill the Oni and discovering that the Hale Family's Triskelion urn was made by Alan Deaton using wood harvested from the Nemeton, making it powerful enough to contain the Nogitsune once again in its fly form. While they were planning their final battle against the killer of their dear friend and loved one, the Nogitsune led the Oni to the Beacon County Sheriff's Station, Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, and Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, where they sliced as many people as they could find with their mystical-poison-coated *ninjatos* that caused their wounds to excrete black smoke; Sheriff Stilinski, Jordan Parrish, Melissa McCall and Alan Deaton were among the dozens who were injured, and many of the others died before the poison's effects could be reversed.

After their plan was in place, the pack then split up, with Aiden, Derek, and Ethan fighting against the Nogitsune (still in Stiles' original body) and his Oni outside the high school while Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and Kira went inside to enact their plan. However, upon entering the front doors, the high school's interior turned into the garden in Japan where a young Chris Argent and a branch of the Yakuza (whose members included Katashi and the Kumicho named Ikeda) were attacked by Oni twenty-four years earlier *("Silverfinger")*, revealing that the Nogitsune had used his considerable powers to create an elaborate illusion.

Scott and Kira fought against the Oni and the Nogitsune (in Rhys' form) after the Nogitsune claimed that the only way to prevent everyone who had been sliced with the Oni's blades from dying was if Stiles performed *sepukku* (a ritual self-disembowelment that was utilized by Japanese samurai) on himself and allowed Scott to perform the killing blow by decapitating him. However, they eventually realized that everything around them was an illusion and were able to break out of it. They then found themselves back in the real world in the high school, just as Derek and the twins, aided by Isaac, Chris, and Allison's silver arrowheads, killed the remaining Oni, though not before the last Oni killed Aiden first, making him the McCall Pack's second casualty in the war against the Nogitsune.

Inside the school, the Nogitsune was furious that he was outsmarted by the pack, insisting that they couldn't beat him at his own game because he was 1,000+ years old and couldn't be killed. However, Stiles and Lydia reminded him that they could *change* him, as they learned from the Shugendo scroll, and before the Nogitsune could react, he was bitten on the shoulder by Scott before being stabbed through the chest from behind by Kira and Noshiko's magic katana. This caused the Nogitsune's vessel (Stiles' original body) to crumble to dust, leaving only a single Nogitsune fly left behind, which Isaac quickly trapped in the Triskelion urn. Afterward, the urn was taken to France by Chris and Isaac, and is presumably in a safe place to prevent the Nogitsune from returning to cause more trouble in the future.

### Teen Wolf: The Movie

The Triskelion urn was revealed to have fallen under the ownership of Scott's Beta Liam Dunbar and Hikari Zhang, who was a Kitsune. The duo was serving Ramen in a restaurant in Japan during a rainy night until they were surprised by the arrival of a man concealing his identity under a hood, who recited a very familiar riddle-- "When is a door not a door?" Though they were confused with this question, Hikari correctly answered that it was when the door was ajar, prompting the man to describe the jar he was looking for and he was certain that it was in Hikari and Liam's hands. Even though they played dumb, the figure was not convinced and began a shootout in the restaurant, causing Liam to wolf-out and fend him off while Hikari grabbed the urn and ran away with it.

Unfortunately, she was unable to make it far away and the figure managed to incapacitate her by shooting her in the back with his handgun, causing Hikari to collapse on the ground and drop the urn. The partially-transformed Liam tried to intervene but the figure incapacitated him with a shot to his gut. Upon picking up the urn, the man listened to the Nogitsune's pleas to set him free and the trickster spirit realized that he and the mysterious man had a common goal-- seek revenge against Scott, his friends and everyone else they loved. The man released the Nogitsune's fly form from the urn and they wasted no time in returning to Beacon Hills to set their plan into motion.

The Nogitsune tracked down and briefly possessed Chris Argent in Los Angeles, convincing Scott to perform a ritual to bring Allison back to life. Not long after, Alan Deaton managed to quickly unmask the dark spirit by telling numerous riddles. When Argent began manifesting the Nogitsune's fangs, Deaton threw Mountain Ash at his ally to exorcise the Nogitsune from Argent's body, causing the Dark Kitsune to fly away. The Nogitsune flew towards the Beacon Hills Nemeton, where hundreds of fireflies combined with one another and restored the Nogitsune's Corporal Rhys body. Holding up an Oni ninjato in the air, the Nogitsune declared, "Chaos... strike... and PAINNN!!!"

After regaining his corporeal appearance, the trickster spirit infiltrated Beacon County Sheriff's Station and lured Deputy Ishida towards the cell where he was in. Though Ishida did not know it himself, the Nogitsune identified him as a fellow Kitsune and explained that Ishida's brother, Ikeida, was also aware of Ishida's supernatural status, only for Ikeida to never tell his brother about it. The Void telekinetically pulled Ishida towards him and stole his power and nine tails, which would allow him to summon nine Oni demons, who would do his bidding. This power theft ultimately killed Ishida. The Nogitsune then retreated to the abandoned Argent Arms International building, where he found a newly-resurrected Allison preparing her weapons. Since Allison did not remember any of her packmates and could only remember her family's mission to eradicate the supernatural, the Nogitsune, under the guise of her deceased mother Victoria, persuaded her to help him in eliminating Scott, promising to clear a passage for her by having his Oni capture his packmates and allies.

The Void sent his Oni to abduct Mason Hewitt, Sheriff Stilinski, Deaton, Liam, Hikari, Derek and the latter's son, Eli. They were all brought to the Nogitsune's illusionary world. Meanwhile, Allison managed to stab Scott with her wolfsbane-coated Chinese ring daggers, though she ultimately saved him when he successfully convinced her that he was a part of her life before she died. Argent, Melissa and Peter were also lured to the Nogitsune's illusion and surrounded by three Oni while Lydia and Jackson Whittemore were also trapped inside with their former chemistry teacher, Adrian Harris, who freed the Nogitsune and irrationally blamed the pack for nearly being killed in one of Jennifer Blake's human sacrifices fifteen years ago. Harris forced Lydia to confess her reasons for breaking up with Stiles, knowing the Nogitsune would love to feed on the Banshee's heartbreak. Outside the stadium where the Nogitsune had his enemies trapped, Malia Tate and Jordan Parrish break through the Mountain Ash barrier Harris created, with Parrish using his pyrokinetic abilities to do so. The Nogitsune lured Allison and Scott into his world, where they engaged in combat against the Oni.

Once she had escaped Harris' grasp, Lydia screamed Allison's name in her Banshee voice, saving her from the Oni and restoring all of her memories. Despite having lost Allison as a weapon, the Nogitsune held Eli hostage and gave Scott an ultimatum-- allow Allison to kill him in exchange for letting the others live. A tearful Allison reluctantly shot three arrows into Scott's chest and he fell in her arms, similar to how she fell in his arms when she was fatally stabbed with an Oni blade nearly twenty years ago. When the Nogitsune asked Scott what sound does a wolf emit when ready to die, a confident Scott declared that he was not ready to die. The Void watched in shock as the arrows were incinerated and Scott's wounds healed themselves, causing him to realize that Hikari had transferred her Kitsune armor to him before the final battle. Once their friends and allies were all freed from their restraints, they eradicated the Oni one by one with silver weaponry, turning the game to their favor.

Having been weakened to the point of falling to his knees, the Dark Kitsune revealed that since Scott had bitten him to free Stiles from his possession, he managed to acquire a monstrous and malformed Werewolf form, which he demonstrated after ripping off the bandages over his face. He placed Derek, Eli and Scott in three separate illusionary rooms and attacked each one of them at a time, though this did not last for long because the three of them found each other by roaring to signal their respective positions, allowing them to break free from the illusion and subdue the Nogitsune. Parrish offered to incinerate the creature with his Hellfire to ensure his permanent destruction, only to find himself unable to restrain him on his own. As much as it pained him to leave his fifteen-year-old son behind when he had just shifted into his wolf form for the first time, Derek asked Scott to take care of Eli and shoved both of them away from him before holding the Nogitsune down and allowing Parrish to finish the job. Both the Nogitsune and Derek were consumed by the flames and ultimately died in a fiery explosion, which put an end to the Nogitsune's reign once and for all.

## Personality

The Nogitsune, as an ancient Dark Kitsune, is a true trickster who relishes in creating chaos, strife, and pain, along with other negative emotions, in order to feed himself and gain more power. He is exceptionally skilled at reading people, and knows exactly how to manipulate others in order to cause the maximum amount of drama and pain. This was evidenced on numerous occasions, including: when he threatened Stiles' loved ones, knowing that Stiles would allow him to take control of his body in order to protect them; when he used the secrets Stiles had overheard as a child in order to emotionally manipulate Melissa and Rafael McCall; and when easily convinced Scott to absorb the pain from Isaac, Coach Finstock, and a dying deputy so that he could then take that pain from Scott and convert it into more power.

Another example of this is how the Nogitsune used William Barrow's obsession with "children with glowing eyes" to manipulate him into capturing Kira, and knew exactly how to trick Kira into activating her foxfire for the first time so that it would shock Stiles and jumpstart the Nogitsune's powers so he could gain greater control over Stiles' body. He was also skilled at setting up multiple distractions to ensure that no one would try to interfere with his plans, and had several contingency plans in case of any unforeseen complications. Like most Kitsune, the Nogitsune is easily offended, and it was implied that part of the reason why he caused so much chaos in 2011 was because he was trying to get revenge on Noshiko for summoning him to Earth, only to imprison him after he did what she wanted.

## Physical Appearance

Since the Nogitsune has only ever been seeing possessing the bodies of others, it is unknown what he truly looks like. However, like all Void Kitsune, he appears to have chrome fangs that he can extend and conceal at will, and he can take on the appearance of a fly.

Following being bitten by Scott McCall to free Stiles Stilinski from his possession, the Nogitsune showed a malformed and monstrous appearance of a Werewolf with a bald head, withered skin, glowing green eyes, malformed Werewolf fangs and pointed ears after ripping off the bandages covering his head.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

The Nogitsune, as a 1,000+ year old dark Kitsune, was an especially powerful Fox spirit who seemed to have a high skill level in his powers. However, it is likely that he has many more powers than those that were shown on the series. The powers he was shown to use on-screen are as follows:

* **Super Strength**: As an ancient Kitsune, the Nogitsune possessed superhuman strength, though unlike many Kitsune, his strength was at least equal to that of an Alpha Werewolf. The Nogitsune could easily break out of handcuffs and other restraints, and was able to throw Derek Hale across the room with little effort. Despite his great strength, The Nogitsune preferred to use his intellect and trickery to destroy his enemies as befitting a trickster spirit.
* **Super Speed, Agility, and Reflexes**: As an ancient Kitsune, the Nogitsune possessed superhuman speed that allowed him to look as though he was a blur when he ran. He is also incredibly agile and had rapid reflexes, allowing him to quickly dodge attacks and catch projectiles. He used this ability to catch the taser darts when Allison Argent shot at him with her stun gun.
* **Accelerated Healing**: The Nogitsune possessed an enhanced regenerative healing ability that gave him immunity to all human diseases and conditions and allowed him to heal from the majority of wounds; mild to moderate wounds healed within minutes, while more serious wounds could take several hours. He was presumably unable to get drunk on alcohol or high on drugs due to the fact that his body healed too quickly.
	+ **Longevity**: Kitsune are very long-lived creatures who can potentially live for centuries, due in part to their advanced healing factor. The Nogitsune claimed that he was over 1,000 years old, and since no one has yet found an effective way to truly kill him, it is quite possible that he's actually immortal—all attempts to kill the Nogitsune have ended in his vessel being destroyed with his spirit living on in the shape of a fly.
* **Electricity Immunity**: As a Kitsune, the Nogitsune is immune to all forms of electricity, as proven when he caught a taser dart and was completely unaffected by the electricity surging through his body. This immunity is usually related to a Kitsune's foxfire ability, but since the Nogitsune was never seen producing electricity of any kind, it is unknown if he has the ability to create, control, and release foxfire.
* **Aura Manipulation**: All Kitsune have flaming auras around their bodies in the shape of a fox that is undetectable by the human eye. With age and wisdom, they can learn to both conceal it from supernatural eyes or make it visible to anyone, regardless of their human or supernatural identity. Given the Nogitsune's immense age and advanced control over his powers, it is likely that he can conceal his aura from many different supernatural creatures, allowing his possession of Stiles Stilinski to go unnoticed for many weeks.
* **Shapeshifting**: Kitsune are often referred to as shapeshifters due to their trickster nature, and it has been said on several occasions that a Kitsune can shapeshift into a human form after they reach 100 years of age. The Nogitsune has been shown to take the form of a fly, which he can then use to possess others, though it is unknown if he has further shapeshifting abilities.
* **Possession**: Also known as *kitsune-tsuki*, the Nogitsune has the ability to possess the bodies of humans (it is unknown if they can possess other supernatural beings as well, though it has been implied that they can possess other Kitsune who are in human form). The Nogitsune used this power to possess both Corporal Rhys and Stiles Stilinski, possibly among many others in his millennium-long life.
* **Pain Absorption**: Like Werewolves and Werecoyotes, the Nogitsune possesses the ability to absorb pain from living beings through tactile contact. This ability manifests in the form of darkening blood vessels that begin at the point of contact and work their way up from the fingers to the arm toward the chest and neck. As a Void Kitsune who feeds on chaos, strife, and pain for sustenance, the Nogitsune's pain absorption power was much more advanced than that of other creatures. However, it is unknown if the Nogitsune can siphon the effects of other negative emotions during his feedings in this manner as well.
* **Illusion Casting**: As a Void Kitsune, the Nogitsune possesses a very powerful ability to create lifelike illusions to confuse and disorient his victims. He has used this ability on numerous occasions, including: influencing Stiles' dreams while he was possessing him; causing Stiles to believe he was playing *Go* with him on the Nemeton in the White Room while inside his mind; causing Scott McCall and Lydia Martin to believe that they were making out with Allison Argent and looking for Jackson Whittemore, respectively; and making Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and Kira Yukimura believe that they were in the snow-covered garden at Ikeda's house in Japan rather than at the high school in Beacon Hills.
* **Zoopathy**: As a Void Kitsune, the Nogitsune had the ability to produce and control swarms of flies from within his body, which he then could use to turn humans and supernatural creatures into his thralls. The flies would enter the body through an orifice (such as the mouth, nose, or ear) or through a wound and would take root in the back of the throat. From there, the Nogitsune could control what the possessed person would do. In some cases, such as with William Barrow and Oliver, they were simply given a task to perform, usually in order for the Nogitsune to gain control of their host or to give him more power. However, in other cases, the Nogitsune would lower the thralls' inhibitions and increase their anger, causing them to act on their rage when they ordinarily wouldn't; for example, Isaac Lahey went after Ethan and Aiden to gain revenge on them for killing Erica Reyes and Vernon Boyd, despite the fact that they were then packmates and had made peace, while Derek Hale attacked Chris Argent in retribution for his sister setting the Hale House Fire that killed his family. There are two known methods to free a person from the control of the Nogitsune fly: the person can either be fed wild purple reishi mushrooms, which will cause them to cough up the fly, or the fly can be physically removed by another person by reaching into the back of their throat and extracting it.
* **Teleportation** (possibly): In *De-Void*, the Nogitsune/Void Stiles completely vanished during a skirmish between the Oni and Sheriff Stilinski, Chris Argent, Derek Hale, and Allison Argent and then appeared at Eichen House so he could confront Noshiko Yukimura. It is unknown if he used teleportation to accomplish this feat, or if he simply had an exceptionally powerful form of super-speed to achieve a similar effect.

### Abilities

* **Cunning/Wisdom**: As a 1,000+ year old Kitsune, the Nogitsune has had over ten centuries to learn an exorbitant amount of knowledge and to gain a mastery over strategy and human psychology/behaviour, making him a formidable opponent and very difficult to outsmart.

## Weaknesses

* **Letharia Vulpina**: Canine supernaturals, such as kitsune, werewolves, and werecoyotes are vulnerable to a specific type of lichen called *letharia vulpina*, also known as "wolf lichen." This lichen has been used for centuries to kill real foxes, coyotes, and wolves by mixing it in with meat and broken glass, but instead of killing supernatural creatures, it simply weakens them considerably, particularly when the lichen has grown from the blood of a nogitsune like the kind that Alan Deaton obtained in Japan. Deaton once injected Void Stiles with an infusion of letharia vulpina, which allowed Stiles to regain control of his body for roughly three days before the Nogitsune became strong enough to take control back from him, though this effect was hastened by the sedatives and antipsychotic medications that he was given by Brunski while in Eichen House.
* **Change to Host**: According to the Shugendo Scroll, the most reliable way to neutralize a Nogitsune is to change its host, such as by having the host bitten by an alpha werewolf. When Scott McCall did this to the Nogitsune, he was weakened enough by the bite that Kira Yukimura was able to easily stab him through the chest with her katana, turning his vessel to dust and reverting the Nogitsune to his fly form. However, this will not kill the Nogitsune—it will only eliminate its host and make it weak enough that it can be put into a strong prison, if such a prison is available.
* **Oni**: Oni are Japanese demons who hunt down and eliminate various Void Kitsune, and the Nogitsune can be killed by the Oni if it is weak enough. However, if the Nogitsune amasses enough power from feeding on exceptional amounts of chaos, strife, and pain, he will be strong enough to kill the Oni, who are otherwise very difficult to kill.
* **Lack of Sustenance**: The Nogitsune survives and empowers itself by feeding on chaos, strife, pain, tragedy, and other powerful negative emotions that are occurring in his presence. When he is sequestered from other beings, he is unable to feed on these emotions and becomes weakened, as is what happened during the nearly seventy years he was trapped in the jar within the roots of the Nemeton; upon his release, he was forced to manipulate his host, Stiles Stilinski, into putting himself in the position to be electrocuted by Thunder Kitsune Kira Yukimura's foxfire, which jump-started his powers within Stiles' body and gave him back a significant portion of his strength.
* **Silver**: While not confirmed, it is thought that the Nogitsune is vulnerable to silver arrows like the Oni, given they are both built of one or more fireflies.

## Trivia

* Despite the Nogitsune being defeated and imprisoned for a second time, his presence continues to linger among the McCall Pack, especially with regards to Stiles Stilinski, who still feels guilt for the things he did while he was possessed and under the Nogitsune's influence.
* Theo Raeken has alluded to the Nogitsune and "Void-Stiles" on several occasions in Season 5, suggesting that Stiles has still retained some of the Nogitsune's personality traits. This also implies that Stiles' antics while possessed by the Nogitsune became well known in the supernatural world, enough for Theo to hear gossip about it from the Dread Doctors.
* Both times the Nogitsune has been shown to be defeated, it has been imprisoned using the Nemeton—the first time, Noshiko put the Nogitsune's fly-self in a jar and buried it within the roots of the Nemeton (though the ancient tree was still whole and healthy at this time), and the second time, the Nogitsune was reverted into its fly form and trapped in an urn made out of the Nemeton's wood.
* Some of the Japanese terms used by the Nogitsune, such as his use of "watakushi" (I) and "ware" (our/we) during his conversation with Stiles in Riddled, are considered to be somewhat formal but also old-fashioned. This speech pattern is likely due to a combination of his extended age and his imprisonment within the roots of the Nemeton.

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