Fictional thought exercise

[chipotle]

In a setting that is an alternate version of feudal Japan, with races of anthropomorphic animals instead of humans but no other (overt) magic and myth, what would it mean for a fox-person to be a kitsune?

Comments

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

This doesn't really answer your question, but in Usagi Yojimbo, anthropomorphic foxes are just people, while kitsune are non-anthropomorphic, unless they're using illusion to look 'human.'

[kereminde.livejournal.com]

I like and endorse this distinction :)
Wait, are you using the telepathy beams again, because I just wrote out half of a short story with a similar mechanic/gimmick in it . . .