Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-190.27.43.13-20140707171251/@comment-74.203.161.69-20140721223440

89.242.212.44 wrote: i kind of have theory about this.

Kira mentions in 'Silverfinger' that a kitsune creates foxfire by rubbing it's tails together. I think i read/heard somewhere that kitsunes get there tails after reaching a certain age. Maybe kira isn't old enough to have tails to rub together and create foxfire yet?

At the hospital and with Barrow, she was absorbing existing electricity, not creating her own. Maybe the electricity she used to reform the kitana came from what she had absorbed previously?

Basically, maybe she can absorb electricity for various uses, but can't create it yet.

...or maybe i'm massively overthinking it and it would just be too expensive budget-wise to show on a regular basis. haha. This would actually fit into the canon very well. Kira's mom is nine hundred years old, and she had ten fox tails originally, which we see when Kira's father mentions in a conversation with her mother that "she already used one"; seeing as she had nine left during that conversation, maybe a kitsune gets a new tail added to the one theyre born with every hundred years? If this is true, then technically, Kira would NOT be able to generate her own foxfire for at least another 83 years. So really it would make sense that she only has a minor degree of control over her still forming powers.