Vulpine Bios
Posted 4: Stream and hopped off to take a shower! Hope you all enjoyed this one too. I always like looking at the viewship graph and watching the numbers shoot up for Saturday, haha. Always a little too early to the show, but that's okay.
Big things coming up in the future, it seems! We'll finally get three POVs heading to the same place, which should be good. What happens - namely if anyone makes it out unscathed - remains to be seen (until next Sunday at least).
@Swyfte: Research! I already knew random fox things before I started thinking about Vulpine, but once I decided I really wanted to write a story about foxes, I had to get my facts straight! There's an awful lot to learn about them, it turns out, and even though some of it is trivia, a lot of it still impacts the story (like the noises they make, or what they eat). The climax will give way to my author avatar ranting about fox facts and revealing that the entire story has just been for me to spout off information. Surprise!
@Lynxeye: Thanks! I'm pretty excited for Riven, since he's a main point of view, but an antagonistic one. Kinda like the Northy days - only he's a lot less brainy. We'll see what the mystery test is - but bear in mind it might be just as force-focused as the sparring one. It'll be revealed in time. I like the lady/knight comparison with the vixens; they do wield a bit of influence among the males, at least in the beginning, where who they favor (i.e. who is the most promising/worthy) gets the best food. They're expected to feed everyone later in the training, once they're better at it, but being fed now will give Musk's trainees an edge when it comes to growing and whatnot - something poor Faun would really like to have. This most recent chapter kinda points to why Riven wants to impress Musk, but I'll clarify to make sure: basically training is regarded as an important gauge of a fox's abilities. Coming home is impressive and all, but they really have to flaunt their stuff during training if they want any hope of rising up to a higher rank later in life. It just so happens that both the male trainer and the Reynard are old (they trained in the same year) and will probably retire/die soon, leaving the positions open. Riven has to look impressive so that he has a chance of being the Reynard some day, and he knows if he does well, Musk will report it to the others when they get back, and boost his reputation.
Fleeing during training is a strong possibility (if Sage was even in the Skulk to begin with) but that behavior is usually tightly controlled. If anyone tried it now, Musk would hunt them down almost immediately (probably with Field's help, since she's a very good tracker, as vixens ought to be) and snuff them out. Otherwise, the runts would probably try that trick every year, to avoid being slaughtered - although they wouldn't stand much of a chance on their own, since they don't really know how to hunt.
@Bookworm: Then I'm doing my job well, haha. I doubt anyone's fondness of Riven will be growing over the coming chapters.
I'll update the bios w/ the characters Trick's chapter introduced, but it might be a little while. Sundays are kinda busy for me, because I go back to the dorm and stuff. Also, our wifi sucks.
Until next Sunday!
