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SETSUNA THE MOTH DEMON HYBRID

Setsuna and Towa are hybrids, but not in the way Inuyasha is. For Inuyasha, his blood was 50% dog demon and 50% human. For Towa and Setsuna, it’s complicated because not only are they mixed race between human and demon, but their demonic part is a mix between several demonic species due to Kagura’s heritage and Naraku’s nature as an amalgamation type half-demon made out of several different demonic species (mostly insectoid) with a human core. 

Regarding their maternal family, Towa’s powers mostly take after Naraku: energy absorption, energy barriers, shapeshifting. 

Setsuna, on the other hand, takes mostly after her mother Kagura and one of her uncles: Byakuya

Because, aside from their obvious physical resemblance, Byakuya is a moth demon, and Setsuna has inherited almost as many moth demon powers as she has wind powers.

Byakuya uses moths

That look very similar to the effects of Setsuna’s Moon of the Resting Moth

But while Byakuya is a moth demon, he’s also Naraku’s incarnation and inherited many of his powers from Naraku, as well as some unique ones of his own. 

But, we also have a moth demon from the original in whom we can perfectly see Setsuna’s powers: Garamaru

From Garamaru, we learn that moth demons can either feed on blood like Gatenmaru did (something that’s considered uncouth and caused him to be exiled from his tribe, along with leading a group of human bandits), or they can feed on negative emotions and emotional distress. And how do they do the latter? They make their victims FALL ASLEEP and imprison the sleepers in toxic coccoons that cannot be destroyed from the outside. 

Then he makes them have nightmares so he can feed on their emotional distress and on their souls. And what was the effect of Setsuna’s Moon of the Resting Moth? It made people FALL ASLEEP

There is also a clear visual connection between Moon of the Resting Moth and Garamaru’s swarms of moths. Before Garamaru appears, he is announced by a moth swarm

That looks exactly the same as Setsuna’s Moon of the Resting Moth

But it doesn’t stop there. Because another thing Garamaru does is GROW WINGS FROM HIS BACK

Exactly the same way Setsuna does

The only difference is that Setsuna’s wings are made from energy, while Garamaru’s wings are physical. 

Towa and Setsuna’s power often mirror each other, manifesting in opposite ways:

Towa is resistant to miasma, but not to venom. Setsuna is resistant to venom, but not to miasma.

Towa can control her full demon form, but not her human form, as she has uncontrolled and irregular human nights. Setsuna can control her human form, as she doesn’t have human nights, but she can’t control her full demon form, as she goes berserk.

And Towa can create energy blades, but cannot create energy wings, while Setsuna cannot create energy blades, but she can create energy wings.

So, as we can see, Setsuna is clearly showingcasing powers that are not Dog Demon in nature, but Moth Demon: sleep inducement and wings on her back. And there is no way she could have those powers if she was simply 50% dog demon and 50% human. However, it’s perfectly explained if one of her uncles on her mother’s side is a moth demon (or a partial moth demon), and one created by a spider amalgamation half demon using the power of the Shikon Jewel. 

Oh, and talking about Byakuya, his illusion powers are also MOTH DEMON in nature. Because Garamaru’s Forest of Sorrow was actually an illusion inside a barrier

Once the illusion is broken, the dead forest goes back to normal. 

And before anyone argues about the Rainbow Pearls and the Dream Butterfly, if the twins’ Naraku-like powers truly came from the Rainbow Pearls, they would have lost them with the pearls. Instead, Towa not only keeps her energy absorption, but develops another power inherited from Naraku in her full demon form: energy barriers. And Setsuna not only keeps her wind powers, but her contorl over her blood blade, which has a Naraku-like aspect to it of Body Modification (as it stays on her arm after she goes back to her half-demon state, while Inuyasha lost his enhanced claws after going back from a full demon transformation), improves once she loses her pearl.

Because the Rainbow Pearls aren’t giving the twins their powers, they give a power-up to what was already there, and allow them to more easily control a basic version of their powers. However, because the pearls are acting like a crutch, using them stunted the twins’ ability to further tap into their innate powers and their ability to control them, because the pearls acted like a seal and controlled their powers for them. 

Now that the pearls have been removed, we are likely to see even more inherited powers from Naraku’s side of the family, as well as an increase in fine control.