so i know this is random, but ive been thinking about the death of Kiba Okami. the kiba that you all new, like the character himself, has already been killed within his FIRST story that me and who you all know as Maverick created together. me and maverick are actually close friends, if not best friends, and we've been creating our stories together in private. and since we both came to an agreement to end their first story due to personal reasons, i thought "well, it would be kinda weird for all that to just abruptly stop with no ending." but then, i remembered Kiba's curse mark. this binding states that he cannot canonically die until he fulfills his destiny, and so if he happens to die when he wasnt supposed to, his timeline resets again and again until he has a flawless streak. so in a way, kiba cannot die in battle. BUT, since his first gen is over, i thought now is the time for him to finally fulfill his destiny. im gonna ctrl + c from me and mav's convos, so this is gonna seem weird but it's the general idea of the art piece:
"i was thinking of some art for kiba gen 1, sort of around the lines of... "I will never surrender, 'till death may take me.". like sort of a last fight sorta art piece. him broken in every way you can imagine, barely able to stand, still standing tall infront of his wife and son. he wont leave them, not until he physically cannot move.im talking the kind of beat up that glitchtale sans went through lmao"
i dont feel like explaining how he was killed, all you guys should know is well, it HAPPENED. but do not fear! his life has started anew, and me and mav started at square one, which is when the two first met. although, things are different, such as mav being replaced with a newer character. but uh yeah. so the kiba you all know has died, but not the character himself. he's just back to the start, like how he was a loner on the edge of Honshu, Japan. we still dont know the route we are gonna take with his newer generation, cause details are still being worked out. and yes, this does mean that Ryu Okami, as of now, does not canonically exist.
TL;DR-Kiba Okami that you know has died, but not the character himself. him story has just restarted.