Nogitsune

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## Nogitsune 野狐

* Corporal Rhys
* Stiles Stilinski

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Causing and feeding upon pain, chaos, and strife

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Numerous Camp Oak Creek Employees
* Numerous Camp Oak Creek Internees
* Katashi
* 3 Oni Demons
* 2 Hospital Visitors
* Unknown number of Sheriff's deputies
* Unknown number of BHMH Employees
* Allison Argent  (indirectly) (2nd Time)
* Aiden Steiner  (indirectly)

### Cause Of Death

* Impaled by Werewolf Claws/a Katana  (As a vessel) (1st Time)
* Werewolf Bite/Impaled by a Katana  (As a vessel) (2nd Time)

### Killed By

* Satomi Ito and Athena Beaumont  (As a vessel) (1st Time)
* Adella McCall  (As a vessel) (2nd Time)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Aaron Hendry  (Corporal Rhys' form)
* Dylan O'Brien  (Stiles' form)

### Last Seen

* *The Divine Move*  (in Stiles' form)
* *The Wolves of War  (as the Anuk-ite)*

**The Nogitsune** was a major antagonist in Season 3. He is a Void Kitsune who feeds on chaos, pain, and strife. He was first mentioned by Katashi in *Silverfinger* when Chris Argent, Allison Argent, Adella McCall, 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 Athena Beaumont 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 Athena and her friend Satomi Ito neutralized the Nogitsune by expelling it from Rhys' body with Athena'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, Adella, Lydia Martin, Josie Yukimura, 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 Adella gave him the Bite, weakening him before she stabs 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.