#i forgot to mention this but miko and ayato would probably have silent competitions over who's the better older sibling

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more kitsune ik headcanons?

(from the ik is yae's sister ask)

i'd be lying if i hadn't had more thoughts about it, so sure thing!!

according to the wikipedia page, the number of tails a kitsune has depends on their age and wisdom - so ik, being pretty young (by yokai standards) only has three

she probably has an electro vision too, and she has a similar pink aesthetic to her big sister because i'm just a sucker for pastel pink palettes

(though it'd also be funny if she ended up with like, a geo vision, but kept the pink aesthetic anyway)

like miko, she has a fox form and it's TINY, she could fit into a single palm of your hand

she was born either during or just before the cataclysm, so she was super young during it - and miko was extremely insistent on keeping her away from the battles at all times, so ik doesn't actually know much about everything that happened

she did meet makoto once, but spent most of her time with miko and ei

though there was one time that ik accidentally got caught up in the filth that the cataclysm was contaminating inazuma with

one of her ears is all still tattered because of it

she was born with miko's purple eyes and pink hair, but now her hair is more black-into-pink, and the eye on the same side of her tattered ear is now brown (also as a result of the filth thing)

(this is basically my in-universe reasoning to be able to keep kitsune ik resembling original ik)

her fox form has the tattered ear too, and where her fur used to fade into white, it fades into black instead

ik doesn't mind it, she thinks her colours look cool as hell in fox form

she also loves snuggling with anyone she's familiar with and getting scritches behind the ears in fox form

(you've got to be careful you don't squish her though)

she's a lot more friendly than miko, and since she doesn't share the same liking of 'watching people squirm', she's seen as the safer sister to be around

she's generally well-respected, but oftentimes people (mostly older men) don't take her seriously because she's 'just a little girl' - even though she's almost certainly older than them

i imagine she'd be best friends with ayaka - she'd be seen as someone with status befitting a friend of the shirasagi himigemi, so it wouldn't look too weird to the public, and also her personality means that she can help ayaka have fun in private!

miko doesn't mind this, but she's not too happy about the fact that ik has also befriended ayato through his sister

ik's 'thing' would be that she's super quick and agile - like, as a playable, her kit would contain stuff that boosts movement/atk speed, and she'd probably have an alternate sprint

maybe for her burst she'd go tiny fox form and like, run electro loops around the enemy, which immobilises and debuffs them for a period

she's always climbing trees and stuff, and she knows all the best hiding places around inazuma city (which she tells sayu about so that she can find somewhere to sleep in peace)

she has a lot of friends who all think she's pretty swell across all the islands

she's often on the move between them to oversee the various shrines, and (in seirai and tsurumi's cases) to observe the storms/mists and make sure things are relatively under control

because she's so well-acquainted and generally liked, she actually serves a pretty important role in the peace talks following the abolishment of the vision hunt decree

it would've be around then that she befriended gorou

gorou thinks of himself as the older brother figure since ik looks younger and he's more sensible, but ik, who often defends him form miko, thinks he's her little brother, actually

after the peace talks, ik starts visiting watatsumi, usually to visit gorou - the islanders are cautious, since they all worship orobashi and she's a well-known follower of the raiden shogun

but ik's very polite and listens enthusiastically when gorou and some other watatsumi shrine maidens explain their worship rituals to her

after she participates in some shrine-cleaning and ceremonies with commendable accuracy and respect, everyone decides she's alright

while ei was in the plane of euthymia, ik would pray to her every night before she went to bed

it always followed a pattern: recounting her day, telling her what the effects of the vision hunt and sakoku decrees are, telling her what she'd left at her shrines that day, and asking her to come visit miko soon because 'please miss ei she misses you lots'

ei never replied, but she did hear some of the prayers, and it was actually kind of comforting

miko loves her baby sister to pieces so she spoils ik a lot

she can tolerate being insulted herself, because she can very easily turn the tables and embarrass the insulter - but sometimes the insulter decides to go for her perceived weak spot and insult her little sister instead

if they wanted a reaction, they got it. they also just got fried by a giant lightning bolt but to be honest, if they were dumb enough to insult ik in front of miko, they kind of had it coming

ik's also fully capable of frying you herself because she's very well-trained in combat, both by her sister and by the allies back during the battles of the cataclysm

anyway, in summary: kitsune ik is Baby

but then again, all iks are