Talk:Youko/@comment-30490964-20160524013918/@comment-26419174-20160524134721

repter got most of it right, but not entirely.

Youko and Inari are both capable of producing Kitsune-bi, which are the same regardless of the species of the fox who created her.(Although most come from youko as they are much worse at handling their power). Kitsune-bi posses human women who become kitsne-tsuki. Kitsune-tsuki can spend their entire lives as kitsune-tsuki,even giving birth to  new kitsune-tsuki, although youko/inari being born is not unheard of, or they can gather a lot of DE. Enough to transform into either youko or inari. The catch is, youko is a default species. Unless an inari(of any level of power/number of tails) is present, who can teach kitsune-tsuki in the ways inari behave and think, the kitsune-tsuki will become a youko. Nothing else matters. She can spend her life next to a youko, she can live among other monsters without ever meeting a fox family one, she can spend her life without ever meeting another monster at all, she can even meet an inari and even chat with her, but unless she is being tutored by an inari for a long time, she will live according to fox's instinct and become a youko.