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* FramingDevice: The prologue and epilogue of ''The Visitors'' has one with Rolas and Melanie talking to a human anthropology student. The rest of the book consists of the first Lord Rolas' diary and letters to his wife.
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* StunGun: The Red Vixen's crew exclusively use stunners.
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* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: All of the foxen characters where clothes, despite having full coats of fur.

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* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: All of the foxen characters where wear clothes, despite having full coats of fur.

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* CatSuit: In a side story, Salli finds out that the Red Vixen had one made out of [[HellBentForLeather leather]] for Ali, to make her look impressive when they were out in public. It was abandoned after they figured out it was more important Ali have full freedom of movement than to look cool.


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* SpyCatsuit: In a side story, Salli finds out that the Red Vixen had one made out of [[HellBentForLeather leather]] for Ali, to make her look impressive when they were out in public. It was abandoned after they figured out it was more important Ali have full freedom of movement than to look cool.

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* FemaleGroinInvincibility: {{Averted}}. A noblewoman's female bodyguard is teaching her self-defense, and they discover that a knee to the groin is still pretty painful for them.

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* FemaleGroinInvincibility: {{Averted}}. A noblewoman's female bodyguard When Ali is teaching her Sallivera self-defense, and they discover that a knee to the groin is still pretty painful for them.



* RealityEnsues: The plot driver of ''Shadow of Her Sins'' and ''Shadow of Doubt''. Ali has to first face prosecution for the crimes she committed [[CartesianKarma as a slave]], and then Salli must deal with her mother's understandable reluctance to approve of an affair between the Heir of their noble house and a convicted criminal.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The plot driver of ''Shadow of Her Sins'' and ''Shadow of Doubt''. Ali has to first face prosecution for the crimes she committed [[CartesianKarma as a slave]], and then Salli must deal with her mother's understandable reluctance to approve of an affair between the Heir of their noble house and a convicted criminal.
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* FemaleGroinInvincibility: {{Averted}}. A noblewoman's female bodyguard is teaching her self-defense, and they discover that a knee to the groin is still pretty painful for them.
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* EternalProhibition: Tobacco is banned entirely in human and foxen space, to the point of being extinct on Earth/Human Prime.
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* SmokingIsNotCool: Played straight when Marty and Ali go after [[spoiler:a tabacco smuggling ring.]] It's noted that tea or coffee can give a similar high without the risk of cancer.
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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Middle-Vixen-Adventures-Book-ebook/dp/B08X3Z7F25 Stuck in the Middle with You]]'' Three years after the evens of ''I Fought the Claw...'' Ali returns with her new wife Sallivera to find Marty still stuck where she'd left him [[spoiler:indentured to Madame Habebti.]] She and Marty engage in some TeethClenchedTeamwork to take down a criminal conspiracy.
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* CollateralAngst: Rolas' twin Salli is the victim of DomesticAbuse, but the focus of ''Captive of the Red Vixen'' is on his inability to protect her.


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* DrowningMySorrows: After Countess Highglider sabotages their attempted exodus, Rolas copes by getting massively drunk, and judging by the complaints about [[HangoverSensitivity loud noise]] the next day, so did the rest of the Darktail household.


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* UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: Um, yeah...


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* StunGun: The Red Vixen's crew exclusively use stunners.


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* WouldntHitAGirl: At one point Rolas is given the chance to stun his captor and escape. And doesn't take it, stating that he doesn't shoot vixens in the back. ''The Red Vixen at Sea'' proves he's worried about becoming like his brother-in-law.
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* MonsterIsAMommy: Ironically used in ''The Visitors.'' The monster in this case is [[spoiler: Captain Alesha Jackson, a human trapped on the Foxen Homeworld when her exploration mission's shuttle crashed.]] When the soldiers chasing her see her cradling her newborn child, they flatly refuse to attack her.


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* NonActionGuy: Lord Rolas the First in ''The Visitors''. Justified in that he was in sixties at that point, so he has to rely on his more GuileHero skills.

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** The Red Vixen's self-given title of "The Scourge of the Spaceways"(tm) is from Creator/RobertHeinlein's book Literature/TheRollingStones, though there it's referring to a deliberately over the top fictional ''hero'' not a space pirate.

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** The Red Vixen's self-given title of "The Scourge of the Spaceways"(tm) is from Creator/RobertHeinlein's book Literature/TheRollingStones, though there it's referring to a deliberately over the top fictional ''hero'' hero, not a space pirate.


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* StateSec: The Ministry of State Security, which is the main villain in ''Prisoners of War'' and the short story "To Catch The Lightning," is basically the Waffen SS in Gerwart, the Foxen homeworld's equivalent to Nazi Germany.
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* FirstContact: The plot of ''The Visitors'' revolves around Rolas' IdenticalGrandfather discovering that humans have arrived on the Foxen homeworld and have been captured and imprisoned.


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** The plot of ''The Visitors'' is basically the same as Creator/AlanDeanFoster's novel ''Nor Crystal Tears''. To the point that the book is dedicated to him.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted in ''Shadow of the Red Vixen'', where Salli and Ali are visiting Earth and rely on most of the locals and signage being bilingual in [[CommonTongue Galactic Basic]].

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: After she's stunned twice in a row and had her artificial eye yanked out by Bloody Margo, Salli is tied to a chair where she wakes up and promptly throws up over herself.

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After she's stunned twice in a row and had her artificial eye yanked out by Bloody Margo, Salli is tied to a chair where she wakes up and promptly throws up over herself.herself.
** Melanie likewise throws up while on Rolas' boat, though it's because [[spoiler: she's pregnant]] not seasick.
** Commander Jackson also throws up after being rescued by Old Lord Rollie in ''The Visitors'' for the same reason.
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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RTKNG5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 The Visitors']]'' Rolas discovers the trie story behind First Contact between foxen and humanity, and the secrets his ancestor the first Lord Darktail kept hidden.

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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RTKNG5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 The Visitors']]'' Rolas discovers the trie true story behind First Contact between foxen and humanity, and the secrets his ancestor the first Lord Darktail kept hidden.

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* InstitutionalApparel: Rolas initially gets the orange jumpsuit during his imprisonment, before his captor decides to start playing dress-up.

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Rolas initially gets the orange jumpsuit during his imprisonment, before his captor decides to start playing dress-up.dress-up.
** The captive humans in ''The Visitors'' also get orange jumpsuits, and have their shoes confiscated to keep them from running away too quickly.
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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RTKNG5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 The Visitors']]'' Rolas discovers the hidden story behind First Contact between foxen and humanity, and the secrets his ancestor the first Lord Darktail kept hidden.

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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RTKNG5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 The Visitors']]'' Rolas discovers the hidden trie story behind First Contact between foxen and humanity, and the secrets his ancestor the first Lord Darktail kept hidden.
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* HidingInAHijab: Used by Marty and Ali, when they're trying to move unobserved on a space station.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reggie Sharptail in ''The Visitors'', who is perfectly willing to [[spoiler: imprison a stranded crew of human explorers, and potentially launch a foxen astronaut to their death to protect his world.]]

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* VillainousBreakdown: Countess Highglider becomes explosively unhinged towards the end of "Captive" in the end ranting that the Council of Countesses are commoner sympathizers and how she wants her son back, [[spoiler: in front of the entire Council, who unanimously vote to have her committed to the same asylum where her son was incarcerated.]]

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Countess Highglider becomes explosively unhinged towards the end of "Captive" in the end ranting that the Council of Countesses are commoner sympathizers and how she wants her son back, [[spoiler: in front of the entire Council, who unanimously vote to have her committed to the same asylum where her son was incarcerated.]]]]
** In ''The Visitors'' Reggie Sharptail breaks down weeping when his soldiers come close to [[spoiler: shooting Commander Jackson and her newborn son]].
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* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RTKNG5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 The Visitors']]'' Rolas discovers the hidden story behind First Contact between foxen and humanity, and the secrets his ancestor the first Lord Darktail kept hidden.



* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Occasionally used depending on who's point of view the scene is focusing on. When Rolas and the Red Vixen encounter one of her enemies, she's noted as using "A short, very human, curse word." Scenes from Alinadar's perspective just have latter vixen letting out a simple "Fuck" when she curses.

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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Occasionally used depending on who's point of view the scene is focusing on. When Rolas and the Red Vixen encounter one of her enemies, she's noted as using "A short, very human, curse word." Scenes from Alinadar's perspective just have latter vixen letting out a simple "Fuck" when she curses."Fuck".
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* YouMeanXmas: Winter Solstice, which includes gift giving. Though there's a similar Summer Solstice as well.
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--->'''Red Vixen:''' "[It] contains every bit of protein, vitamins and nutrients that a healthy adult needs for one day, and tastes like wet cardboard, or so I'm told."
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--->'''Narration:''' As it turned out, the Red Vixen had been wrong about the prison loaf. Comparing it to wet cardboard was [[InsultToRocks really a deep insult to the disposable packaging industry.]]

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--->'''Red -->'''Red Vixen:''' "[It] contains every bit of protein, vitamins and nutrients that a healthy adult needs for one day, and tastes like wet cardboard, or so I'm told."
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As it turned out, the Red Vixen had been wrong about the prison loaf. Comparing it to wet cardboard was [[InsultToRocks really a deep insult to the disposable packaging industry.]]



* DomesticAbuser: Lady Sallivera's ex-husband, Lord Kev Highglider, who beat her for two years, eventually gouging her eye out. Thanks to his mother's influence Kev was only declared violently insane and committed to an asylum, while Salli was so traumatized that she hid herself away for years before her family found an off-world psychologist (foxen psych is very undeveloped) to help her.

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: Lady Sallivera's ex-husband, Lord Kev Highglider, who beat her for two years, eventually gouging her eye out. Thanks to his mother's influence Kev was only declared violently insane and committed to an asylum, while Salli was so traumatized that she hid herself away for years before her family found an off-world psychologist (foxen psych is very undeveloped) to help her.

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The Red Vixen Adventures are a series of sci-fi romance novellas by Creator/RoyceDay that invoke traditional Age of Sail romances, [[RecycledInSpace in space]], with [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom anthropomorphic fox]] aliens as the main characters. Tying the novellas together is a pirate who calls herself the Red Vixen, and her relationship to members of the noble House of Darktail.

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The Red Vixen Adventures are a series of sci-fi romance novellas by Creator/RoyceDay that invoke traditional Age of Sail romances, [[RecycledInSpace in space]], with [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom [[FoxFolk anthropomorphic fox]] aliens as the main characters. Tying the novellas together is a pirate who calls herself the Red Vixen, and her relationship to members of the noble House of Darktail.



* FoxFolk: Foxen, an alien race that resemble humanoid foxes.



* PettingZooPeople: Foxen, an alien race that resemble humanoid foxes.
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* LionsTigersAndHumansOhMy: The foxen live in the same universe as humanity, and some even date and have relations with each other, though they aren't inter-fertile.

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* LionsTigersAndHumansOhMy: LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The foxen live in the same universe as humanity, and some even date and have relations with each other, though they aren't inter-fertile.
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* FullyDressedCartoonAnimals: All of the foxen characters where clothes, despite having full coats of fur.

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* ActionGirl: Sallivera's bodyguard, Alinadar.



* CuteBruiser: Ali. Her (lack of) height is mentioned frequently, but she is capable of hospitalizing most any other character bare-handed.



* JerkassHero: Marty in ''I Fought the Claw'', given his perfect willingness to betray the Red Vixen.



* SubmissiveBadass: Ali, in the most literal sense of the term, acting as bodyguard and slave to the Red Vixen, and TheChampion to Lady Salli.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ali and Salli both.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rolas and Marty both dish out plenty of snark to the Red Vixen while they're her captives.

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