Kira Yukimura

**Notice:** This **article** uses content directly taken from the Kira Yukimura **article** at the Teen Wolf Wiki, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

## Kira Yukimura

* Human
* Kitsune

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

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

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Noshiko Yukimura (Mother)
* Ken Yukimura (Father)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Brown (Human)
* Glowing Orange (Kitsune)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Arden Cho

**Kira Yukimura** is a recurring character in Season 3 and a main character in Seasons 4 and 5 of MTV's *Teen Wolf*. She is the daughter of the human Ken Yukimura, and the 900-year-old Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura. Kira's parents moved the family to Beacon Hills, California in the fall of 2011, where she enrolled at Beacon Hills High School, the same school where her father would begin teaching history. Unbeknownst to Kira at the time, her parents really decided to move them to Beacon Hills so that Noshiko could kill a powerful Nogitsune that she summoned in 1943, who had been released from its mystical prison several weeks before their arrival after three teenagers performed a sacrifice ritual that disrupted it.

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 her friend Stiles Stilinski. Kira then slowly began to learn control over her abilities while continuing to fight both human and supernatural enemies alongside her friends in the pack. She was in a romantic relationship with Scott McCall and is best friends with Hope, Josie, and Lizzie Mikaelson, Malia Tate, Selena Parker, and Lydia Martin.

At the beginning of Season 5, the Dread Doctors performed a procedure on Kira with a lightning rod, causing her Kitsune powers and spirit to become overpowered and putting her Fox side and her Human side out of balance. Her inner Fox spirit then began taking control of Kira periodically, causing Kira to struggle to maintain a grip on the Kitsune spirit inside of her.

This led Noshiko, who was desperate to save her daughter's life, to bring Kira to Shiprock, New Mexico to meet with a trio of Skinwalkers who had experience with these issues. Though Kira initially spurned their help after failing their test, Kira ultimately returned to Shiprock after helping the pack deal with the Beast of Gevaudan so that she can train and finally learn control over her abilities with the Skinwalkers' help, telling Scott that she was willing to stay there as long as it takes for her to master her Kitsune abilities and ensure that she'll never hurt an innocent person again. As of the end of Season 6, Kira is still presumably training with the Skinwalkers in New Mexico.

**Kira** is a member of the **Yukimura Family** and was a member of the **McCall Pack**. She is currently a student of **the Skinwalkers** in **Shiprock, New Mexico** and was formerly a student at **Beacon Hills High School**.

## Early Life

Not much is known about Kira's life before moving to Beacon Hills, except that she lived in New York City (where she was presumably born) with her parents while her father taught history at Columbia University. A couple of 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 several weeks after her family's move to California. According to Kira, she had a lot of friends at her old school in New York, and it wasn't until she moved to Beacon Hills that she found herself having difficulties making new friends. She also apparently has friends and family in New York, as she and her parents returned to their former hometown for the entire summer in 2012.

## Personality

Kira is a quiet, shy, and loyal and outspoken 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, Kira becomes confident and charming with a very dry sense of humor. 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. 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, even though she didn't want to leave them without her supernatural assistance, because she couldn't bear the thought of her violent and uncontrollable inner Fox spirit hurting her loved ones.

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 engage in close-quarters 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; when this insecurity is combined with frustration at being unable to do something, Kira's first instinct is often to simply give up, such as when her first attempt at siphoning electricity from a box at the high school caused her to lose confidence in herself. However, it is this part of her personality that made her such a good romantic match with Scott McCall, because they both have the power to help each other push past their self-doubt and gain the confidence necessary to complete their missions.

## Physical Appearance

Kira is a beautiful, 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 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, and the belt buckle has a throwing star built into it, 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 or chain necklaces as well.

## Powers and Abilities

**Thunder** **Kitsune** **Physiology**: 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, though this has also made them somewhat unstable, as Kira has struggled to regain control over her inner Fox spirit.

* **Super Strength:** As a Kitsune, Kira possesses superhuman-level strength, though she is not equal in raw strength to a typical Beta-level were-creature. Even still, Kira 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, when she punched a solid boulder of obsidian to break off a shard of the stone that she could use to cut herself and trigger her healing ability when she cut her mother's katana blade in half with her own sword while they were sparring, and when she was able to plunge the tip of her sword into a solid cement floor to help the Skinwalkers open up a sinkhole to capture Theo Raeken. Her super strength was further 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. This was evidenced during cross-country season, when Kira, having just begun manifesting her Kitsune abilities, managed to run so fast that she easily lapped Danny Mahealani, the fastest human member of the team.
* **Super Agility:** As a Kitsune, Kira 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. 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. Like Scott McCall, Derek Hale, and Isaac Lahey, Kira 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, Kira can make her eyes glow an orange-gold 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 Kira 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, Kira 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. Kira 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. This ability has since been augmented by the Dread Doctors' experimentation, allowing her to heal from more severe wounds within an hour, as evidenced when she was impaled through the shoulder with a spear by one of the Skinwalkers.
	+ **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, Kira possesses a lifespan that is many times that of a normal human and will retain her youth for most of her extended life. Her mother Noshiko, who is nearly 900 years old (and who looked like a seventeen-year-old girl as recently as 1943), has implied that Kira will live for centuries, and Kira herself has even hinted that she expects to live at least as long as her mother as well.
* **Intuitive Combat and Weaponry Aptitude:** Kira, 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. She once managed to steal a sword from an Oni during her first-ever supernatural battle without any training, 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 during a battle against the Nogitsune-fly possessed Isaac Lahey, Ethan, and Aiden. This ability has been augmented by the Dread Doctors' experimentation, making her an even more formidable opponent in a fight, though she often holds back out of fear of severely harming or killing whomever she is fighting. According to Kira, her ability to sword-fight "just sort of happened," and though her mother Noshiko has given her some instruction on swordplay, most of what she can do has been demonstrated intuitively, suggesting that Kitsune all have innate combat and weaponry skills.
* **Foxfire Production/Electrokinesis:** As a Thunder Kitsune, Kira can create, absorb, control, and manipulate electricity, lightning, and foxfire, which she can use 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; since Kira is a Thunder Kitsune, her foxfire takes the form of lightning or electricity, and she could produce it even before she had tails to rub together. This ability is often used unconsciously by Kira's Kitsune spirit to defend itself against those intending her 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 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 and foxfire production, she is immune to the effects of all forms of electricity. If exposed to live electricity or lightning, it will be harmlessly absorbed into her body, which she can then use to boost her already formidable electrokinetic abilities. It has even been implied in the series that lightning and electricity can make her stronger, although this also causes the fox spirit inside of her to gain more control over her human identity
* **Intuitive Bilingualism**: Kira has been shown to speak fluent Japanese, in addition to American English, despite never having studied the language. However, this ability is not always consistent; when her Kitsune spirit is in control, she can easily speak fluent Japanese, but on one occasion while Kira herself was in control, she admitted that she had never learned anything but simple greetings in the language despite being of Japanese heritage through her mother's side. This suggests that the ability to speak Japanese fluently is inherent in all Kitsune, regardless of whether or not they grew up speaking the language or living in Japan as Noshiko did.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane:** As a canine supernatural creature, Kira 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, Kira 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, Kira 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 Kira, 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, 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 that overcharged her powers, or if both are the case.
* **Unstable Kitsune Spirit:** Due to experimentation that was 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. Because of this vulnerability, Kira has since moved to Shiprock, New Mexico to train with the Skinwalkers and learn control over her inner Fox spirit.