Vulpia

"Awaiting Axel" drawn and a gift from Anri! Thank you for such a wonderful picture! The fox is a stock picture I edited.

-- brief overview --

Vulpia is a shakko-kitsune, or red-fox-spirit, and a trickster at that. Recent events have changed Vulpia's whole outlook on life. She's still discovering things about herself, and gaining confidence in her new-found gifts.

-- appearance --

Vulpia's usually runs around as a standard fox, but often will choose to be a the size of an oversized dog closer to a mastiff. She has the power to change her size. She slinks about with all the wiles and cares of a fox, but she can morph to an anthro form. Her fur is a deep red. Her paws are black, with a slightly lighter shade on her pawpads. She has three very full foxy tails, with snow white flags on their tips. They tend to glow a bit when she's excited.

When in anthro form, she's normally dressed in a simple black tee, with black denim shorts. She stands 4'11", flaming red hair with black highlights. Still completely vulpine, but shaped and proportioned as a human female. Her hands and feet are still paws, and she walks digitgrade. The results are greater mobility and dexterity due her anthropomorphic form. She has a very athletic build, with a fairly modest chest (32B if you have to know), slender waist, and firm rump.

She usually speaks quietly, and is very dainty. One would never guess how ruthless she can be if put to it.

She seems to have an affinity for sweets and her natural prey. She's always hungry!

--History--

Vulpia's past is pretty dark. Her life began as a normal fox, being born to a common american red fox. Left orphaned at three weeks old, she was adopted by a human. He told her that her mother had been hit by a car. What really happened was her mother was taken by a farrier, which she didn't learn until much later.

This human, while loving the company of his new foxy friend, pined for female companionship. Seeing his distress, Vulpia tore something deep within herself, and bound a part of her soul to his. This granted her the ability to shift to her anthro form. He was surprised and pleased, teaching her the ways of humanity, manners, and love.

Time passed, as it must, and she had three years happily with her human Michael. One autumn evening, a group of people came to visit. As was her custom, Vulpia hid in the nearby woods, not being very comfortable around most humans. She heard one of the visitors yelling at her Michael, finally snarling out "Heretic! Now you die!". She then witnessed her benefactor and love shot down in cold blood. Terrified, she bolted into the woods, eventually finding her way to the Park.

She found a friend in KoukujiKiki, and later agreed to joining her family by rebirth into service to the kami Inari. Inarisama granted her the powers of his messengers, the kitsune. Officially, she's a shakko-kitsune, or red-fox-spirit, not being the white of most kitsune. She adopted her new clan's name as her own.

She moved in to the palatial estates of her clan, outside the park and on the side of a nearby mountain. The clan home is ancient, opulent, and very posh.

Through her extensive contacts, Kiki-Okasan was able to find a band of farriers operating in the area where Vulpia was born. Through observation, she found that they were in fact, the ones that took Vulpia's mother. On telling Vulpia about this, there was only one possible outcome...their blood flowed. Vulpia steadfastly refuses to talk about the incident, but will only say, "Never again will they 'take the pelt' of another living creature. That is enough." It is known that she wore more than her normal color of red away from that gruesome scene.

Her past finally sorted and her inner demons laid to rest, Vulpia was able to focus on who she was becoming. It was great having this extra tail, but what good was it to her anyway? She spent some time learning of the gift Inarisama gave to her, and how to apply it to her life. Then, it happened.

One day while bounding around in the park, her eyes were drawn to a flash of black and silver. Sitting off by himself on a cliff overlooking the ocean was a striking anthro fox. His wings were an inky black, and his eyes the crimson of hellfire. Curious, as is her nature, Vulpia approached and had a long talk with this cursed angelfox, Axel. She learned of his past, and of the devil he had bound inside, Zhaar.

Apparently the meeting was more than a coincidence. Fate has a strange way of showing herself. The chains she threw binding these two together were strong, sudden, and very passionate. After a night together, closer than even they thought possible, Vulpia left a charm in the sleeping Axel's grasp. A test to see if his soul truly was linked now to hers.

The next afternoon, he had already figured it out. Vulpia was just stepping into the shower when he activated the charm, drawing her physically to him. After a rather awkward moment, their bonding continued, with its fruition being Axel asking Vulpia to be his mate.

Knowing her oath to her master would not let her mate to one bound as he was, she explained the problem to him and despaired. The demon was bound into his very soul! How could she undo that? Rather than permitting that travesty to happen, fate yet again provided a path. He had a talisman that provided the loophole they needed to trick the demon at his own game.

Vulpia prepared herself to face not only her fears, but the power of a nine-tailed demon lord kitsune. She would have to rely on the one thing a full kitsune didn't have...her background as a pure fox and her wily ways. Taking a potion Axel had prepared to appease the beast within, she made ready to fight to save the one she loved.

In the end, the demon spelled out his own doom. Unfortunately, as Vulpia tore his flesh into bite-sized chunks, the demon visited the pain on Axel's soul nine-fold. The talisman worked, and the demon was purged from Axel, but at a tremendous cost...Vulpia had nearly killed him in the process, tricked by the demon into nearly destroying her own heart.

She despaired and held Axel's purified body to hers, mourning and preparing to follow him into the void. She felt her third tail, which had come to her just before the battle, wither and fall away...and Axel breathed at last. Never wanting to part from him again, she knew at last she was complete.

Vulpia is now the proud mother of four lovely kits, Nikolas, Faya, Kasper, and Yume_. They were born 6/26/09, all healthy and wonderful! They've grown up and moved away, and she hasn't heard from them in a while.

Time and distance grew between the two, and Vulpia and Axel have all but gone their separate ways. She has a very fond spot for him still, but as with the wild fox, she's destined to walk alone, at least most of the time.

--This is an evolving profile, and Vulpia's story is constantly under revision. Please feel free to offer comments! --