Talk:Kuki Urie/@comment-213.66.199.45-20151020041210/@comment-25047329-20151020044018

I think there's a bit of confusion about how the frames work. Each frame is a layer of quinque steel encasing the kakuhou, limiting how much of it integrates with the body and how much of the kakuhou's power a Quinx can use. All the Qs start out at F2, but when Urie had his frame release surgery, he had two removed and is currently at F4.

Like any kagune, the way a Q's kagune looks, how strong it is, and how well they can use them depends on the Qs themselves. In this case, the "stages" refer to notable points in the kagune development. Urie's "stage two and three kagune" are two different forms that he reached while he was on F4. Stage two was sort of the transitional form between one and three since that's when he was actively trying to harness his kagune's full power for the first time since the surgery. Although, I feel that first stage three image is sort of its own unique state since that's when he was going mad. The way his kagune looks now looks like a beefed up version from when he was on F2.