User blog:Dry63/Character Journeys: Kira Yukimura

Welcome back to another Character Journeys post. A series where we take a look at the development of characters in from Teen Wolf and she how much they changed over this six year journey. If anyone is reading this, please shower your thoughts in the comments below. It helps me out when it comes to making these post better. Now on to today's character, Kira Yukimura.



An interesting character who had plenty of potential that was never used, Kira Yukimura was kitsune with incredible power. What's the problem? She would've overshadowed Teen Wolf's main characters. Her character was only meant for Season 3B, but Jeff Davis decided to keep her around as a love interest for Scott McCall. While she didn't have great development, she had best good moments in the series.


 * NOTE: A rumor I heard years ago stated that she was supposed to get a spinoff after Season 3, but it was turned down. I'm not sure how true it is.

Kira is introduced as a socially awkward new girl who discovers that she has a connection to the supernatural. Her mother, Noshiko, a Celestial Kitsune, reveals that she is a Thunder Kitsune. She could manipulate electricity and, like any other kitsune, weld a katana like it was made for her. With this new information, she decided to help Scott save his best friend, Stiles, from a Nogitsune whom her mother summoned decades ago. With Scott's Alpha bite and her sword, they exorcise the demon and trap it once more.

She began a relationship with Scott that helps him move on from Allison while also trying to learn more about her powers and survive the Benefactor's assassins. Not much development came out of her this season, The writers had her in for ten episodes and seemed to have her only for fight scenes, romantic moments, or comedic moments as they were unsure what to do with her. The only development she got was the finale where she learned how to heal herself and gain her first tail.

Season 5 offered Kira's best development to date in the series. After her powers become out of control due to manipulation from the Dread Doctors, she kills a chimera and goes to Shiprock to have the skinwalkers test her. She fights a visage of an Oni, but the fox inside her destroys it which proves to them that her spirit has too much control and it may take hundreds of years to regain that control. She flees back to Beacon Hills, but her parent dismantle her sword until she learns balance. This proved to difficult as the fox took control during a plan to trap the Beast of Gevaudan. She knew that help was needed her and her friends.

She makes a deal with the Skinwalkers. If they fix her sword, she will would go with them to learn control no matter how long it takes. Kira cared about her friends too much to put them in harms way with her power. The sword is fixed and she sends Theo Raeken to Hell before saying goodbye to Scott and her friends.

In closing, she did have the best development as a character, but she had great sword fighting moments and her awkward moments make one say Aww. She could've stood out on her own if she had better focus. Maybe we could get one more badass moment from her before the end. The writers owe her that much.