Tale of the Nine-Tailed

[Sharpandpointies]

Okay, so I'm working up another 'respect' thread of sorts - capabilities, really - because it may come in use for future Rumbles. This one will be for at least one, perhaps two characters from Tale of the Nine-Tailed and Tail of the Nine-Tailed 1938: Lee Yeon and Lee Rang.

A little background - Lee Yeon is a 1600 year-old nine-tailed Fox who happens to be a former mountain god of ancient Korea. Lee Rang is his 600 year old half-human brother. I'll use this first post to detail what I see from Lee Yeon in the first series and amend it with stuff from the second series as I watch it.

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Strength: Yeon is easily into some level of super-strength. He hits people, they fly 30' or more. He flings people dozens of feet into the air, casually, or ragdolls them. Really, most of his strength feats are against other immortals, but the odd occasion when he's facing humans, he tosses them around like they're pillows. Light ones.

He also jumps over a hundred feet at a time, leaps over three to four-story buildings in a single bound, etc.

Speed: Yeon is easily as fast as a high-end bullet-timer, and more likely into some level of superspeed. There are slo-motion scenes where he explicitly bullet-times, sometimes letting the bullets get to within inches of his face before jerking out of the way (it's clear he sees them coming and is waiting). He crosses distances up to about 100' in a teleporting-like blink. He blitz-shoots a large group of spread-out humans, KOing a dozen of them who all pretty much hit the ground simultaneously (and moving around at super-speed as he does so). He fights with other immortals at superspeed, not just movement or dodging bullets. At need, he crosses the city in short periods, that kind of thing. He and another supernatural being have a chase sequence, and in that sequence there's a moment on the screen where everything around them is shown moving in slow motion while they, themselves, are shown moving faster than humanly possible.

So low-end speedster, really.

There IS PIS, he occasionally doesn't show the speed when he needs it for dramatic purposes, but it's otherwise pretty consistent and explicit.

He is shown, at least once, to be capable of flight, so there's that as well.

Durability: He takes hits from people on his level of strength and shrugs them off - they hurt, but that's all. He eats bullets on occasion, simply choosing not to dodge - they seem to mildly hurt him (they penetrate, draw blood), but that's all. There are wounds, but the wounds do not inconvenience him at all and they disappear in a short time. Same deal with blades. He eats a 1938-technology anti-tank rocket of some kind on his crossed arms; it throws him mostly through a building, and irritates him, nothing more. An explosive goes off with sufficient power to blast a car apart when it's just lying on the ground next to the car (ie, not INSIDE the car) and kill numerous people up to 30' away or so; Yeon is at ground zero and the explosion does somewhere between zip and squat to him.

It takes supernatural weapons wielded by people of a similar level of power to himself to do any kind of lasting damage (no no-limits fallacies, mind - one might presume someone vastly stronger than anything on the show can hurt him just fine).

Ryu Hong-Joo (considering a post for her, as well) is considered to be the physically strongest of the four Mountain Gods, of which Yeon used to be one. She uses swords that wouldn't look out of place in Final Fantasy, they're so large, swinging them around one-handed and throwing them like spears. She's easily capable of leaping...probably close to a quarter mile (possibly more, she wanted to catch a moving train and land right behind it...and did), and stopping a six-car steam train travelling full-out by grabbing the final car and digging her feet in. That takes her about fifteen seconds to slow it to a stop. Yeon takes hits from her in their fight when she's mad as hell at him, throwing him through walls, steel bar doors, etc. The hits hurt, but don't stop him.

Skill: In a show full of highly skilled people, Yeon is one of the best, if not the best. He's a 1600 year-old immortal who has fought for most of his life. As a mountain god, he seems to have often gotten in conflicts with other gods. Post-godhood, he worked directly for the administrators of the afterlife as a hunter, taking out supernatural beings who were causing issues in the human world (this was for about 600 years).

He is clearly more skilled than anyone he fights on the show, be it hand to hand or with weapons (including other Mountain Gods). With modern weapons, he casually shoots eight or nine people at superspeed with pistols, and one-shots people firing a rifle, one-handed, from the back of a galloping horse...while they, themselves, are on galloping horses. His control and precision with hand-to-hand and thrown weapons is utterly ridiculous - he can throw things to knock hurled weapons out of the air, he can stop a sword-strike a hairsbreadth from injuring its target, etc, etc. He's perfectly capable of parrying attacks from someone strong enough to stop a train with their bare hands using a sword probably five times heavier than his own (at least).

Blinded for the first time in his life, he fights by hearing and cuts apart 15 demons in human form in a pitched battle (they're armed as well). Blind, he blocks and dodges arrows loosed by another former Mountain God.

Special Abilities: He has numerous special powers.

- Shapeshifting: Yeon can cast an illusion to change his shape, allowing him to disguise himself as whomever he wishes (he hates doing it, though; dude has an ego and likes his own face).
- Weather control: Yeon can easily call in storms when he desires, and strike with lightning that has literally vaporized a magically enhanced human. He needs the storm to call the lightning, mind; it's takes a few seconds (really, not more than 10-15 seconds) before that seems possible. Edit: Update on this, he calls lightning from a clear sky in the second series. Just 'boom', calls it down. It's strong enough to briefly KO another former Mountain God.
- Sword: Yeon can summon his sword at will; it's some kind of divine weapon that kills supernatural creatures with ease, seeming to bypass any innate 'immortality' or resistance to mortal weapons. The only things it can't kill are undead who literally cannot be killed in the show, and beings who have done the neat trick of...I don't know how to put this, 'hiding their lives somewhere else'.
- Resistance to mental assault/control: There's a being on the show who can casually take control of humans and supernatural creatures. This being can effortlessly just compel all of the humans in a large area - it's a downtown city block area, easily, including humans within the buildings this being cannot see - to kill themselves, and they do it without hesitation. They can implant suggestions within the minds of immortals that just pop up later and must be followed. They cannot do a thing to Yeon.
- Communication with spirits: Pretty much what it says.
- Psychokinesis: At times, he blows stuff up around him seemingly by deciding it blows up. At one point, he detonates a ton of glass display case doors and other such things, and then sends the shards flying towards another immortal. The immortal uses their own powers to resist, and they end up in a little war where Yeon is trying to (mentally) shove the fragments through the magical shield she has put up.
- Senses: Yeon basically has supernatural senses easily on the level of a fox; hardly surprising. He can track by smell, fight by hearing, recognize scents, etc.

That's all for now. I'm sure I'll get more as I go on in the second series. Edit: Already the edits have begun.

[The MunchKING]

Watch out if he gets like half a tail cut off. Then he can start handing out Protection from everything.

[Captain Smith]

Lots of Korean nine tailed fox shows - one constant - they get romantically involved with some gorgeous young woman who has to deal with having a supernatural boy friend.

Also, the black suit - white shirt - business attire is their super suit. The Blue Exorcist anime just took down a nine tail possessing a young girl.