Overview. All Kitsune seem to possess a multitude of supernatural abilities, such as enhanced strength, speed, and agility/reflexes; a natural aptitude for weaponry and combat, production of Foxfire; and accelerated healing.
Accelerated Healing: Kitsune possess an enhanced regenerative healing ability that gives them immunity from any human illness or condition.
Other supernatural abilities commonly attributed to kitsune include possession, generating fire or lightning, willful manifestation in the dreams of others, flight, invisibility, and the creation of illusions so elaborate as to be almost indistinguishable from reality.
Regenerative Healing Factor: Kitsune can rapidly regenerate. In other words, they recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs, even stopping, aging.
In Japanese mythology, there are said to be 13 types of kitsune, which correspond to different elements—celestial, wind, spirit, darkness, fire, earth, river, ocean, forest, mountain, thunder, sound, and time. Broadly, they can also be broken into two groups—zenko, or good, and nogitsune, or bad.
If a Kitsune loses all of their tails through either giving them away or having them stolen (or in rare cases, destroyed), they will become exceptionally weak and frail, similar to an anemic human, and will lose all of their powers.
In Han iconography, the nine-tailed fox is sometimes depicted at Mount Kunlun and along with Xi Wangmu in her role as the goddess of immortality. According to the first-century Baihutong (Debates in the White Tiger Hall), the fox's nine tails symbolize abundant progeny.
Kaze Kitsune
These kitsune are incredibly rare and are said to bring good luck to those who find them. Kaze Kitsune vary in color, but all of them have some sort of wind marking on their fur.
They may even eat massive amounts of the kitsune's favorite foods, like Japanese tofu dishes, especially fried tofu, and Japanese red bean rice. The only way to remove the demon was at an Inari Shrine, usually with the help of the good foxes.
Kitsune are noted for their paranormal abilities, particularly metamorphosis. As they age, these abilities can become more powerful. Kitsune are said to live for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
If a kitsune has a tail stolen they will grow back naturally in a century. The advantage of separating a tail from their body is a kitsune may use it as a magical focus to increase the potency of their spells. They may also observe the tail's surroundings in places they may not be physically present.
Similar to Fae, Kitsunes have a weakness to Iron, though it can make them weaker, aside from removing their tails, the only way to kill a Kitsune is to drive an Iron rod or spike through their heart.
Upon reaching a mature age, the Kitsune becomes extremely powerful and can take on any appearance. He has the power to read minds, to take possession of minds as well as dreams. Thus, the fantastic creature can manipulate humans and influence their destinies.
Capabilities. Users possess the traits, attributes, characteristics and/or abilities of kitsune (Japanese: fox), 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.
The cruel Japanese foxes target the bad traits of humans, such as pride, greed, and vanity. For their own entertainment, these kitsune can bring down even the most devout priest. They rarely attack women but prefer to possess them instead.
In addition to their use in performing arts, Japanese fox masks are also used in religious ceremonies and festivals. They are believed to have protective powers and are often placed at the entrances of homes to ward off evil spirits.
Kitsune feed on life-force, just as vampires do. However, they do this through stealing memories rather than through drinking blood.
Superhuman Durability - Kitsune are invulnerable to any form of harm. They can only die if they're stabbed in the heart, or starvation.
Things you should NOT feed them are: - Chocolate: this tasty treat for humans is poisonous to canids. They can't digest it.
Shapeshifting: Kitsunes are able to shapeshift themselves into other forms. Kitsunes can either make themselves an older version of themselves or even a younger version as well as changing their height and weight. They can even change their gender to that of the opposite one if they so please.
"There are thirteen different types of Kitsune: Celestial, Wild, Ocean, Thunder... But there is one, a dark Kitsune. They call it Void, or Nogitsune. [...] Nogitsune draw its power from pain and tragedy, strife and chaos."
Kurogitsune [黒狐] or Genko [玄狐]: A black furred fox that incarnated into a Big Dipper. Before becoming a manifestation of a constellation, Genko was an ordinary black fox that served under the Shinto agricultural deity Ukanomitama as it migrated to Northern Japan.
Inari Ōkami (Japanese: 稲荷大神), also called Ō-Inari (大稲荷), is the Japanese kami of foxes, fertility, rice, tea and sake, of agriculture and industry, of general prosperity and worldly success, and one of the principal kami of Shinto.
As the number of tails indicates the level of wisdom and magical prowess, the nine-tailed fox is considered especially powerful. Tamamo-no-Mae is one such nine-tailed fox, or Kyubi no kitsune, of particular note.
The kitsune (fox) recurs throughout stories in Japanese history, usually appearing as an intelligent and/or cunning being with paranormal abilities and often residing at Shinto shrines.