Josie Yukimura

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## Josie Yukimura

* Human
* Fire Kitsune
* Dark Josie

## Biographical Information

### Born

* September 11, 1996  (New York City, New York, Age 16/30)

### Occupation

* High School Student  (Graduated)
* Member of the McCall Pack  (Formerly)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Noshiko Yukimura  (Adoptive Mother)
* Unknown Parents †
* Ken Yukimura  (Adoptive Father)
* Kira Yukimura  (Adoptive Sister)
* Brett Talbot  (Mate/Boyfriend)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Brown  (Human)
* Glowing Red/Orange  (Fire Kitsune)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Kaylee Bryant

**Josette "Josie" Sara Yukimura** is a recurring character in Season 3 and a main character in Season 4 to Season 8 of MTV's *Teen Wolf*. She is the adoptive daughter of the human history teacher Ken Yukimura, 900-year-old Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura, and adoptive sister to Kira Yukimura. Josie's parents moved to Beacon Hills, California in the fall of 2011, where she enrolled at Beacon Hills High School. Unbeknownst to Josie at the time, her adoptive family really moved to Beacon Hills so that Athena Beaumont could kill a powerful Nogitsune that she summoned in 1943, who had been released from its mystical prison.

Josie soon discovers that she, too, is a Kitsune—specifically a Fire Kitsune, one with control over both flames and foxfire—when her supernatural abilities began to manifest just before their move. She also learned of her witch heritage as well. It didn't take long before Josie was thrust into the supernatural world of Beacon Hills, where she helped the McCall Pack defeat the Nogitsune without having to kill her friend Stiles Stilinski. Josie 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 Brett Talbot and is best friends with Adella McCall, Hayley Hale, Malia Tate, Cora Hale, Hope Mikaelson, and Lydia Martin.

**Josie** is a member of the **Yukimura Family** through adoption and is a member of the **McCall Pack**. She has ties to **The Original Family**.

## Personality

Josie is a outspoken, shy, and loyal young woman, which often causes people to forget just how incredibly powerful she is. Before she gets to know someone, she can be nervous and awkward around them, but once she warms up to them, Josie becomes 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.

Josie 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 engage in close-quarters combat. Upon gaining ownership of one of her her mother's magic katanas, Josie became one of the pack's strongest fighters and often fights alongside her friends Scott and Adella.

Josie, being young for her age can control her dark side, able to take full control and not let it get out of hand. Her dark side is shown to prove Adella that you can be strong and take full control.

## Physical Appearance

Josie is a pretty young woman with brown hair and eyes. She also has an athletic build and light skin. Josie often wears her hair up, mostly in a simple, loose ponytail, messy twin buns. Her sense of style is off-beat yet comfortable, often wearing off-the-shoulder tops with skater skirts and leggings or fishnets, paired with a denim or black leather jacket and combat boots. She has a katana that has been modified to turn into a belt when not in use, making it an accessory that she wears frequently in case she needs to fight. She wears very little makeup, aside from black or red nail polish, and occasionally wears rings, earings, or chain necklaces as well.

## Powers and Abilities

As a Kitsune with one tail, Josie possesses many supernatural powers, some of which are common to all Kitsune, and some of which are specific to Fire Kitsune.

* **Super Strength:** As a Kitsune, Josie possesses superhuman-level strength, though she is not equal in raw strength to a typical Beta-level were-creature. Even still, Josie has demonstrated that she is still very physically powerful, such as when she managed to knock an Oni flat on its back by hitting it in the stomach with a lead pipe.
* **Super Speed:** As a Kitsune, Josie 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:** As a Kitsune, Josie is preternaturally agile, and can 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. Like Scott McCall, Derek Hale, and Isaac Lahey, Josie is fond of using her enhanced agility and reflexes to perform high jumps, flips, and spinning kicks to further enhance her fighting in battle or high-intensity situations, such as when she ran on top of a car's hood and roof and performed a backflip off of it so she could more easily grab the live wire that was currently waving around to prevent it from shocking anyone else, or when she performed small front-flips and spinning kicks during both major battles against the Oni and the Nogitsune.
* **Shapeshifting:** As a Kitsune, Josie can make her eyes glow an orange-red color when she is 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, and Kitsune who are not part-human like Josie gain the ability to take a human form upon reaching 100 years of age, which suggests that they are born into a non-human form.
* **Accelerated Healing:** As a Kitsune, Josie is immune to all human illnesses and conditions, and has only been sick once in her life, which was when she was exposed to a modified form of the canine distemper virus that was specifically designed to target supernatural creatures with canine attributes such as Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Kitsune. Josie can also heal minor injuries like cuts and broken bones in moments, though more severe wounds such as stab wounds to vital areas can take up to several hours. 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, which seems to be common in shapeshifters who were born rather than transformed.
	+ **Longevity**: Due to being a spiritual creature as well as a shapeshifter with an enhanced regenerative healing ability that replaces her injured and aging cells at a constant rate, Josie possesses a lifespan that is many times that of a normal human and will retain her youth for most of her extended life. Her adoptive mother Noshiko, who is nearly 900 years old (and who looked like a seventeen-year-old girl as recently as 1943), has implied that Josie will live for centuries, and Josie herself has even hinted that she expects to live at least as long as her mother as well.
* **Intuitive Combat and Weaponry Aptitude:** Josie, as a Kitsune, can be able to engage in combat at a high skill level using only her own intuition and muscle memory, both with and without weapons.
* **Foxfire Production**: As a Kitsune, Josie can produce foxfire; according to legend, this is done by the Kitsune rubbing their tails together.
	+ **Electricity Immunity**: As a Kitsune who can produce foxfire, Josie is immune to the effects of electricity. If exposed to it, it will safely and painlessly pass through her body with no negative effects.
* **Pyrokinesis**: Josie possesses the ability to produce extremely hot flames from within her body, which she can use for many different effects.
	+ **Thermokinesis**: Josie has the ability to generate an minor amount of heat from her body, and can heat their and direct the heat through their hands to melt objects such as metal without having to utilize fire to do so.
		- **Fire Immunity**: Due to her pyrokinetic and thermokinetic abilities, Josie is completely immune to the effects of heat and fire.
* **Intuitive Bilingualism**: Josie has been shown to speak fluent Japanese, in addition to American English, despite never having studied the language.
* **Spell Casting:** Josie's defining characteristics of a witch is her ability to cast spells; a "spell" being a word, a verse or incantation, ritual action, or any combination of these to carry out a magical action. On rare occasions such actions can be performed without the use of a verbal spell.
	+ **Channeling:** The power to invoke extra forms of energy by focusing on external forces.
	+ **Potion Brewing:** The power to brew and concoct potions, remedies, and elixirs that have supernatural properties with varying effects.
	+ **Telekinesis:** The power to move objects and persons through mental influence.
	+ **Pain Infliction:** The power to create excruciating migraines or aneurysms through supernatural means.
	+ **Elemental Control**: The power to control and manipulate the elements of air, earth, fire, and water.
	+ **Divination:** The power to divine future, past, and present events based on extrasensory perception.
		- **Clairvoyance:** The power to divine future, past or present events through instinctive knowledge.
		- **Intuition:** The power to divine future, past or present events through the use of instinctive knowledge.
		- **Premonitions:** The power to divine future, past or present events through the observation and study of dreams.
		- **Psychometry:** The power to divine future, past or present events through contact with or proximity to a certain object or person.
	+ **Projection:** The power to separate from one's body and project the mind to another location or to instantaneously travel from one point to another.
	+ **Transmogrification:** The unique power to alter the physical structure of objects living or dead, changing their form through spells.
	+ **Telepathy:** The power that allows witches to access the minds of others through spells.
	+ **Possession:** The power to jump one's spirit into the body of another, taking control of said host body through spells.
	+ **Illusions:** The power to alter the senses of others to perceive a false reality through spells.
	+ **Dream Manipulation:** The power to control people's dreams through spells.
	+ **Resurrection:** The power to bring someone or one's self back from the dead through spells.
	+ **Siphoning:** Some witches can posses a rare ability to absorb nearly all forms of magic from external sources. As a result of this ability, Adella is able to detect the magic within other beings as well as unravel the most sophisticated of spells. Siphoning can be used to siphon the magic of enchanted objects as well as the magic from supernatural beings such as other witches, werewolves, kitsunes, werejaguars, etc.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane:** As a canine supernatural creature, Josie appears to be vulnerable to wolfsbane, though it doesn't seem to 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 Compound that weakened her enough to be knocked out by the Hunters.
* **Letharia Vulpina:** As a canine supernatural creature, Josie is vulnerable to the lichen known as letharia vulpina, or "wolf lichen." It is toxic to regular foxes, wolves, and coyotes, and as a result, it can temporarily weaken a Kitsune, Werewolf, or Werecoyote if they ingest it in some way, such as eating it or being injected with a solution made of it.
* **Modified Canine Distemper Virus:** As a canine supernatural creature, Josie is vulnerable to the modified canine distemper virus created by The Chemist during the Deadpool. Though it was meant to kill canine werecreatures (specifically Werewolves and Werecoyotes), it also had adverse effects on Josie, who as a Kitsune (a fox spirit, as foxes also belonging to the canine species) suffered neurological deficits and weakness before going blind after she was exposed to it. However, it was later revealed that this virus can be both cured by and inoculated against with wild purple reishi mushrooms.
* **Mountain Ash:** As a supernatural creature, Josie 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.
* **Disbelief:** The act of denying or disbelieving in one's potential could cause a witch to inadvertently suppress their magical power.
* **Distraction:** Denying a witch from concentrating or giving full attention to their spells, may render them ineffective. Since most spells are spoken verbally and take time to take effect, witches are vulnerable to attack before their completion. Additionally, certain spells require items, tools, and or special events during casting, therefore they can't be invoked on a mere whim.
* **Emotions:** A witch's magic is subject to the influence of their emotional state and may fluctuate according to them, especially when untrained. According to Sheila Bennett, strong emotions such as worry and anger can fuel a witch's power while emotions such as fear may prevent a witch from properly accessing them.
* **Herbs:** Ingestion of certain herbs can cause a witch to lose consciousness and prevent them from using magic for an undetermined amount of time. The Lobelia flower prevents concentration and, therefore, the practice of magic and can be used to temporarily weaken a witch.
* **Witchcraft:** Witches are still susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical and dark objects. A siphoner can siphon the magic from a witch and prolonged exposure is said to lead to death.
* **Overexertion:** The excessive use of magic can lead to disorientation, nose bleeds, unconsciousness, and if taken to the extreme, death.
* **Nature:** It is said that Nature will always find a balance when witchcraft is performed, thus spells will always have loopholes. This means, among other things, that no being can be truly immortal.

## Name

* **Josette** is a French girl name. The meaning of the name is '**God Will Increase'**.
* **Sara** is of Hebrew origin and means "princess".
* **Yukimura** is a locational family name stemming from the Japanese words 雪 (*yuki*), meaning "snow" or "happy," and 村 (*mura*), meaning "town" or "village."

## Trivia

* Josie was listed at $8 million on the Deadpool hit-list.
* Josie is Japanese on her biological mother's side (hence her Kitsune heritage).