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Reynard the Fox (NSFW)

There has been no better defined fairy tale character among the surviving fairy tail characters after Cataclysm than Reynard the Fox himself. But who is he and what is he in real life? Reynard the Fox is mostly a French fairy tale character. His origins mostly come from France and the center of Europe and he is often the first remembered true fairy tale character among the stories. The crafty fox was known as far back as the 12th century and was remembered through poems and recorded stories that were passed continually as time progressed to today. The story became so popular that the word renard is now the word for fox in the French language. His stories were often used as a way to help promote the church during the time but his stories are still there for others to read. Standing at 4 feet in height much like many of the Fairy Tale characters, Reynard the Fox or as he preferred to be just called Reynard, has had a long history of being crafty. He would occasionally play tricks on his rival a wolf named Ysengrim, that in turn would do everything in his power to get rid of the tricky fox. It would be a continuous struggle in which Reynard would usually come out as the victor. In some of the final tales of him, Reynard had faked his own death to escape persecution in the kingdom. Even his wife Hermeline the Fox, had given up hope on her husband and ultimately remarried upon finding that he supposedly died. But what happens beyond that? After all the stories and poems what happens to the well known fox? In Tales of Heroes the answer is amazing and expansive as history itself. Reynard the Fox after discovering his wife had remarried, left the kingdom to live among the humans. Upon finding other deities and fairy tale characters around him, he would gain access to the Crystal of Ve that would grant him the power to turn back and forth to human form to disguise his true form among the humans. He would travel through Europe and participate in human history. He was seen in the Hundred Years' War in France in the fight for their liberation in the long struggle against Britain. He even talked and worked with Joan of Arc before her regretful loss. Cataclysm was a changing event on all the characters. Reynard it was no different. Most of the fairy tale characters were wiped out save but a few. He never gave up hope though and knew his place. Summoning the surviving fairy tale characters, Reynard was selected to be their representative among the Coalition of Deities. He would become one of the prominent leaders that would create the Union of Non Deities. The goal was to ensure that those that were not god like still had fair treatment and rights as the gods themselves. Reynard would help the gods in their teams to keep balance on Earth, search for other missing characters, search for any magical items, and of course survive. In a mission in the 1830s to search for a Lintarsha Shard, Reynard would discover a woman named Trisha, an African slave to be sold to a slave owner in the Southern United States. A teenager at the time, Trisha was displaying the signs that she had magical powers. Even though weak, Reynard upon studying her would find that she is possibly a long lost distant relative of an African goddess named Oya, the Goddess of Storms. Inclined to protect her, he would have an adventure trying to save her from the men who would want to see her in shackles. Trisha felt happy being by his side. She knew who he really was and cared for him deeply even seeing him as a hero for liberating her from slavery. A father at first, Reynard made the steps to raise her trough her teenage years and even instructing her on how to use magic to protect herself and the others. By the 1840s, Trisha would surprise Reynard by telling him that she wanted to be with him for the rest of their lives or at least as long as she could live. She did not view him as a fatherly figure but as a deep romantic interest. After some consideration Reynard agreed to marry her since the marriage with Hermeline (wherever she vanished to) had long been over. Of course for Fairy Tale characters, a happy ending is always the preferred story even if it is for a fleeting time. Pregnancy is not an easy thing in the story. Fox and human generally doesn't work in the process of having children and Reynard himself knew that having a child without magic or assistance was simply impossible no matter how hard you tried. Of course though there is always a solution to the problem of two different species and that was fertility magic. Calling upon the Coalition of Deities help, Taweret the hippo goddess and her desire in always wanting to help others in their strive to have children, gladly used her fertility magic to ensure that Trisha would become pregnant. With a night of fun shared between Reynard and Trisha and a little bit of magic, pregnancy was sure to happen. For Trisha she was happy as both Reynard and Trisha became proud parents. Things that were not available over hundreds of years ago were now more easily available for two characters of different species to get together. If anything with the mythics in such short supply nowadays even pairings such as these are gladly embraced as children born would mean more mythics to help one another out in times of dire crisis. Children born from pairings like these sometimes exhibited the abilities of both parents. Within the next several months Trisha would give birth to a girl fox named Fenicia. This fox as she took up her human form would look a mix of both African and European like the parents she came from. There are rumors that Fenicia has access to magic as well. Only time will tell on what happens next. For now, Reynard and Trisha are proud parents and one of many couples in a world that barely even know they exist.