Is it odd that my Kitsune can 'talk' to regular foxes?

[Naruzeldamaster]

I don't mean talk like, you talk to a wild animal and it "understands" what you're tryina tell it. (What is it lassy, is timmy stuck in a well?)

I mean talk as in the fox and the Kitsune have proper dialogue conversations that the humans can't hear.

I'm debating extending this to dogs, but I dunno, there's always the 'dogs aren't foxes' argument.

To be fair, I generally plan to only have one or two regular fox characters in the story.

To be clear, most of the time the foxes in question are a bit puzzled that the 'human' can understand them at first.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Not odd at all. A fair amount of stories I can think of involving kitsune have them communicating with ordinary foxes without really drawing attention to it.
[Presuming that you mean from an out-of-universe perspective, as whether it's odd in-universe is entirely up to you.]

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Not odd at all. A fair amount of stories I can think of involving kitsune have them communicating with ordinary foxes without really drawing attention to it.
[Presuming that you mean from an out-of-universe perspective, as whether it's odd in-universe is entirely up to you.]

Out of universe I imagine it'd seem odd if it's not implied that they can talk to foxes. But they can talk to eachother while in fox form so I'd wager normal foxes wouldn't be too unhinged. I'm not remembering if I let the reader know this or not, I'll have to check.

The interesting thing is that in this story the few humans who do know about them, either respect them a good amount, or are surprised they still exist to begin with. This setting is in the 'far' future of earth (I haven't written in stone HOW far but, certainly as far 'away' as some sci fi movies were when they came out at minimum) There's one character in the story who 'fears' Kitsune returning because of a legend tied to them. The funny part is that said character's grand daughter is totally unphased. The Main Character returns to the human cities to prevent said legend from happening, well she was planning to anyway before the Counsel decided to banish her to human cities anyhow.

I have all 'ranges' of Kitsune personalities involved in this story too. Two Obviously 'evil/mischievous' ones who just want to cause 'trouble' for humans. (without a care for how much said trouble is because they don't understand) One who's just an agent of 'chaos' but otherwise harmless to those around her. And one who is so 'human' in nature that the Kitsune Counsel decided to banish her to the human cities. (The main character) There's also their leader Himiko who appears a few times too. I'm still settling on her personality.

As for it being odd in universe, most normal (non kitsune ) characters perceive it as talking to a 'pet' though they are surprised when the fox actually 'understands/responds' to them at first.

I should Note that the main character talks to animals in general more commonly than other Kitsune. So animals period are more friendly with her. Though she only has proper dialogue with foxes.

 

[pmmg]

I dont think many will question talking animals, even if they dont sound like words to humans. Animation has done this for a long long time.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I dont think many will question talking animals, even if they dont sound like words to humans. Animation has done this for a long long time.

Fair point, it was popularized by a certain company which shall not be named /silly.
In chapter 1 there's a Scene of the main character (In fox form) talking to other foxes that she had 'trained' to listen to her.
I was wondering if it'd seem odd for her to talk to them in human form as well.

I might do a thing similar to what I'm doing for my Pokemon story.
The Protagonist can 'talk' to pokemon (As in have conversations with them) but how well they understand eachother has two sticking points.
1: How comfortable he is at the moment and 2 (More importantly): how open the pokemon's heart is.

I think this logic could work with the Kitsune in this story and most wild animals.