Kitsune

**Kitsune** is a fox-spirit, who usually gain their powers by living long and keep growing stronger as they age: the more tails a kitsune has (they may have as many as nine), the older, wiser, and more powerful it is. They are often tricksters, with motives that vary from mischief to malevolence, but some act as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and even wives. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing magical abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Their powers include illusions, shapeshifting (particularly to human form), possession, and especially the ability to use fox-fire.

## Abilities

* **Age Empowerment:** Kitsunes can gain physical energy and exponential power as the user gets older, they essentially do not need to work to increase their power, as they become steadily stronger with each year the user is alive. With every passing year, the user's body and skills becomes more powerful and their abilities become even more advanced as their power increases as part of a trait of their physiology.
* **Claw Retraction:** Kitsunes can retract razor-sharp claws from their fingertips for mostly offensive purposes. They are able to demonstrate a savage aptitude for the ways of the claw. The user is able to wield claws with great proficiency in brute power and close quarter combat. When it comes to wielding different weapons, the claws are the closest to hand to hand combat.
* **Semi-Immortality:** Kitsunes will never suffer the ravages of aging.
* **Fox-Fire Manipulation:** Kitsunes can create, shape and manipulate fox-fire which usually manifests as fire, electricity and/or light. Kitsune who are the main users of this power usually expel it from their mouth or tails. Certain users may be able to use fox-fire for additional purposes, including hypnosis, draining life-force or even souls or as a form of travel, either by riding the fox-fire or changing into/becoming it.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** Kitsunes can create, shape and manipulate illusions, causing targets to see, hear, touch, smell and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are. Some users can create complex and detailed worlds, while others may be able to only alter the way they or the target are perceived. As such, illusions can exist either solely in the physical or mental perceptions of the target or as external projections in the material world, like holograms and mirages. Additionally, these illusions can even be made powerful enough to become real enough to become tangible and physically interact with the target and their environment.
* **Life-Force Absorption:** Kitsunes can absorb life-force, vitality and health, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, or using it as power source, either temporarily or permanently.
* **Possession:** Kitsunes can inhabit or take over the body of other beings, whether sentient or not, by stealing their motor functions and senses. Users may or may not have to leave their own body for this to take place. Disembodied users such as spirits may use the body as their own.
* **Shapeshifting**
	+ **Gender Transformation:** Kitsunes can alter ones and/or other's gender either permanently or temporarily.
	+ **Human Disguise:** Kitsunes can take on an ordinary human appearance to blend in with modern society. This power is designed for non-human individuals to hide their non-human traits and appearances to avoid detection.
	+ **Size Manipulation:** Kitsunes can manipulate their own size, from tiny to absolutely gigantic while retaining their physical proportions, some may be able to alter their own density. Usually, strength and durability are proportional to the size assumed, but they may gain increased abilities when growing or keep their normal ones when shrinking.
* **Sleep Paralysis Inducement:** Kitsunes can induce sleep paralysis, a condition in which one’s mind is awake while their body is still in a sleeping state. This is caused when a person isn't smoothly waking or falling asleep. This causes a person to become immobilize and hallucinate while their mind is attempting to become awake.
* **Super Strength:** Kitsunes appear to be stronger than humans. They can knock down and overpower humans with little difficulty.
* **Super Speed:** Kitsunes possess supernatural speed that is described as fox-like. Along with their speed, they use their strength to catch their prey or enemies off guard and kill them expediently.
* **Multiple Tails:** Kitsunes can grow a number of tails, allowing them to be used for a wide variety of different purposes.