Board Thread:COMPLETE BULLSHIT Forum/@comment-10280603-20140316035008/@comment-11199591-20140318060506

Hello! Thanks for starting this thread. I'm gonna answer your questions based on how I understood the story (from watching every episode at least 5 times a week). Do tell me if I got something wrong :)

"Let me make this as short and succinct as possible." - Agent McCall

1) How does one become a Kitsune?

One does not BECOME a kitsune.

A kitsune is a spirit that can take human form. Kira is not possessed (she was marked "Self" by the Oni), rather she, herself, is a kitsune. The fact that she was born in flesh may have aided her spirit to NOT have to wait a hundred years to manifest itself physically. On the contrary, the nogitsune is not existing on it's human form yet; thus it had to by possessing Stiles' body (and previously, Rhys').

Simply put: Kira and Noshiko are fox spirits + their own human form, whereas the nogitsune (of TW) is a fox spirit + a possessed human.

2) Is a Nogitsune and a Kitsune the same basic thing minus alignment?

They do fall under the same classification, yes. Infact, a nogitsune is a type of kitsune. For a nogitsune to stop feeding off chaos, strife and pain, means death to it. The TW nogitsune do not have knowledge about the daggers because it has spent 99% of its life caged beneath the Nemeton. There's no way it can get educated on kitsune 101. It may have been informed about the daggers by Kira and Scott while they were on the way to Deaton's clinic, when they thought it was the real Stiles they were speaking to.

3) Exactly how does the aging process work?

I dare say that age is based on how long the spirit has existed, even without a physical form. Note that according to Peter, a fox spirit has to wait a hundred year to appear human.

4) How exactly do the knives work as manifestations of the tails and are there more uses for them than just summoning Oni?

I think that when fox spirits manifest themselves physically, so must their tail(s). And I'm sure there are more to those than summoning Oni. A tail is equal to a hundred years, the limit for a kitsune in most myths is 9 tails which is 900 years. Noshiko is closer to 900 so she has 8 daggers (and perhaps that's why she's aging?)

5) We know that there are 13 types of Kitsune, is it random does it have something to do with the time ones born?

It's still yet to be revealed. Though I think Kira's element, thunder, and the element required to reform the katana (sword) may not have been a coincident. Especially if Noshiko's responsible for both. But like I said, these are all based on the depth of my Teen Wolf understanding. I'm certain TW's gonna clarify these matters on the episodes to come.