Foxfire, Esq.

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Description

When people with superpowers emerged during the Cold War, world governments treated them like any other weapon: as objects to covet, hoard, and control. Becoming one of these Moonshot was a curse — heralding conscription, incarceration, or worse. Years have passed since Naomi Ziegler's own conscription ended, years spent rebuilding her life — and becoming the first ex-superhero lawyer in the country. But as long-buried troubles return to blur the lines between 'right' and 'just', Naomi must make the choice she's long put off: whether to blindly hold onto the comfortable life she's found, or to reach out for the justice she has long been denied.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: Noa (October)

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 4,434
Views: 721,780

What readers say about Foxfire, Esq.

“Most of what I can say has already been said by Turniper, so I won't repeat our shared opinion. What Turniper hasn't taken from my 'mouth' is that setting this in an original setting instead of the many hundreds of Superhero worlds is the sheer unpredictabi…”
DrWhoFan13Royal Road5.0 / 5
“So I already generally enjoyed the Marvel story Noa had started on spacebattles. I followed here and enjoyed the few chapters already posted. Characters give a good viewpoint of what is going on around them. Naomi feels like a real person with her perspec…”
Dreese5581Royal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

DrWhoFan13Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Most of what I can say has already been said by Turniper, so I won't repeat our shared opinion.
What Turniper hasn't taken from my 'mouth' is that setting this in an original setting instead of the many hundreds of Superhero worlds is the sheer unpredictability inherit. With the author's previous work (Pound the Table), you can vaguely 'predict' how each case will end up even if you don't know how it'll get there based on the conceptions of the source. Here, I don't have the decades of world building PtT cherrypicks, so it's all up in the air. And that resulting unpredictability makes this so much more entertaining than PtT.
Dreese5581Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So I already generally enjoyed the Marvel story Noa had started on spacebattles. I followed here and enjoyed the few chapters already posted.
Characters give a good viewpoint of what is going on around them. Naomi feels like a real person with her perspective. The legal work is interesting, and a professional is very able to tell a story involving working for a law office. This is not your normal Superhero story, but it is a fun read all the same.
I also love slice of life from a good character!
Aaron Sofaer (aka Pastafarian)Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a fantastically written legal drama grounded in the practical and technical realities of law and practice without getting bogged down in them. It's moving without being maudlin, evocative without being purple, and populated with grown-ass adults who are still complex and messy but not childish, and who are trying their best and genuinely care.
Also she's fricken adorable and so is the fox. Scritches~ 💜
CommodoreCaptainRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I like this story! The writing and dialogue are fluid and not stilted. So far characters have nuance and depth to them. My wife is an attorney and I work in a legal office so I appreciate the accurate portrayal of the legal system. I'm a big fan of how the story doesn't overly focus on details, we're being introduced to a lot of information through context instead of inserted over explanation. I'm very excited to read more!
AlsoJohnRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A retired "superhero" fox /human turned lawyer is cynically litigating a civil case . The cynically is what makes the lawyering ring true. I say this as a very experienced defendant. (No really, one of the cases against me, verdict overturned, was taught with a bundle of others at big name law schools) The politics of bringing a case, not the merits rings true as do the self doubts. The super hero mechanics and prejudices add spice to what outherwise be a truly depressing slog through the reality of our "a fix is always in" legal system.
ArcanaVitaeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This really goes to show what a government and legal system with superpowers and superheroes would realistically be like. People with sufficient power are treated like living nukes, it has an effect on how people are treated socially. And most interestingly enough it all feels plausible and like it could actually happen if superpowers became a thing.
BobismeisbobRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great character work wrapped around intriguing legal/social/systemic issues that are explained enough to be clear to non-lawyers but also in entertaining ways.An entirely new superhero world created from that framework with the exposition about it spread out just enough to keep me intrigued and not being exposition dumps or when there need to be dumps there's hinting at it in an organic way that leaves me eager for that exposition dumps when it hits (such as the cape rating codes).
Bronze OwlRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've always loved seeing how fantastic situations would play out among the government, ever since I first saw Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and understood what was happening. How do the existing systems of law and justice react when something totally unprecedented happens? Foxfire, Esq. answers one of those questions in a very satisfying way, and comes from a woman who, herself, loves the subject matters she's writing about (and it shows in the high quality of writing).
Written as of chapter 12
Chemist_ErrantRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story so far is a well written legal drama from the prospective of a lawyer with superpowers. The power system is quite interesting, with powers coming from several different places, but still seeming coherent. The main character is interesting and feels like a real person, which can be quite hard to do right. The legal processes are written well enough that a layman like myself can easily follow along. I would recommend this story to anyone who likes mysteries and complex interactions between people.
Fay BrewerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An overly expressive fox (kitsune?) girl wielding the law in the cause of the righteous; What's not to love? I stayed up way later than I should have turning after page. Reading this was like almost taking pre-law, but taught painlessly. So now I can see why people might find law spell binding.
Hey, I liked it so much I'm actually leaving my first review here!