Poisonous Fox

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Description

A girl with regrets is dragged unwillingly into a new realm in a new body; Dropped into the wilderness, she must survive gnolls, bandits, and make her way back to civilization, where discrimination runs rampant, classism divides, and the powerful make hell for the weak.

This fiction features game-lit elements, fantasy, and some characters that might behave like superheroes and villains in an industrial magic society.

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Tags:Kitsune; Isekai; Superheroes; Supervillains; Anti-Hero; Villainous Lead; Female Lead; Fantasy; Science Fiction; Drama; Dark Lesbian

Content Warnings:Graphic Violence; Profanity; Character Death; Grim-Dark Setting

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: bridie

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 476
Views: 371,952

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Community Reviews(10)

ObscureReflection8563Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I’ll start this out by saying that I struggle with being objective about things I like, and I do like this story, but I will try my best.
Style: I like the design of the world and how it is presented. The apocalyptic wasteland feel is well brought about with the desolation and nothingness of the surroundings. In addition, the society depicted is successfully depict primarily through the thoughts and actions of the characters rather than just plain lore dump, which I always enjoy.
Grammar: As good as can be expected from an amateur writer without an editor, simple enough to just read over the relatively few errors.
Characters: Each of the characters introduced are interesting in their own way, primarily in the way in which they are fucked up. The main character in particular feels like she has a some solid potential for interesting decisions based on her heavily traumatized mind, and it also feels like she has some fun development potential.
Story: The concept is interesting, with some greater mysteries paired with immediate issues, both of which have the potential to seriously affect how the story progresses. The concepts tackled feel like they have the narrative weight they deserve, and the story uses them to set up interesting scenarios. The character driven nature allows the story to stay interesting, as even when nothing is actively happening, the character being focused on is experiencing some manner of interesting development, and whether that is an insight into them, or a fascinating way in which they interact with the world, it still feels interesting.
Overall, it is an interesting, dark, character driven fantasy story.
Zodiac36GoldRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As always, let's give the review a funny title. For once, other than being stupid it's also slightly relevant. Only slightly though.
Now, to start with the actual review:
Poisonous Fox is a medium paced story about a girl waking up in a new world with strange abilities. Nothing new here, standard isekai trope.
Ok, that's where the usualness ends. She doesn't remember anything of her past, or rather, she remembers scraps, bits and pieces that slowly resurface as her adventure progresses. She is brought to a world that, for now, seems to be one grand wasteland with nothing but rocks and dust for miles and miles. A hostile world that hunts and hurts her at every turn.
Yet she manages to survive, slowly gaining more power and interesting abilities.
The story is very interesting and, most important of all, unusual. The ascent to power seems fast, but is actually slow, and no matter how much of it is gained, there are always ever greater challenges.
The system, if that's what it can be called, is something completely new you won't be seeing anywhere else, which alone aught to get you people to read.
The grammar can be worked on. There are many mistakes littered around the chapters, but I'm not giving it less than three stars because they don't appear to be typos alone. Some of those appear to be autocorrect going about its infernal duty.
The characters, or rather, character, the only one we're really described in depth, is extremely well developed and, slowly, is getting even more of a backstory that keeps you reading.
All in all, a great story. You should definitely give it a try.
LerousRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is my first real review so bear with me here please.
I fucking love this story, i found it like 5 hours ago, binged it and here we are now.
I don't even quite know how to put this into words. I think the best way to describe it would be a title from another review i read a while ago. "It's like watching a Trainwreck in slowmotion, you just can't look away from it".
Here we have Jackie, thrown into another world with Amnesia, a different body and magic. Right at the beginning the Story sets it's tone, and it is not at all friendly. The System? Magicsystem? whatever seems interesting and set up for a lot of growth. Jackie experiences quite a lot of Bodydysmorphia in the beginning which is quite realistic and up to the point i've read she still deals with it. Her Memories come back as snippets, but there are still habits ingrained in her, which is shown a lot troughout the Story and makes you wonder who she really is.
I would describe the Story as QUITE dark, which is a flavor i don't usually enjoy. But as i already said i just can't look away, i need to know what happens next and how this all will play out in the end. The more you read and think about the Story the darker it gets. There is a lot insinuated and hinted at and if you notice those little tidbits you start to realize how utterly unprepared Jackie is for this World.
If you like dark fictions, with lots of setup, with a plot that doesn't just "happens" but seems to be a least reasonably motivated and a protagonist who seems to have a lot of Issues to work through, i can absolutely recommend this Story to you.
Style: I am unsure what to write here. The Story is wirtten from the Mcs perspective, except fo that on Interlude. I don't have any Issues with it.
Story: Very dark,with an expansive world and it is VERY captivating.
Grammar: I didn't notice any errors, but English isn't my first Language.
Character: Characters have backstories which aren't shoved in your face, but revealed. Motivations seem reason
FastFoodNationRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Isekai. Amnesia. Dramatic beginnings. Realistic. Good system.
Should a slime be a beginner monster? Sure. Should it be easy to kil? Nope, absolutely not. This is the first story, where a slime is actually as horrifying as it should be. Does that catch your interrest?
The system is the best part of the story, something that advances based on your needs, which I really like. The main character's behaviour is realistic to her situation but not overly dramatic. Situation is typical Isekai survival so far, I don't know what it is with people waking up in the woods. Fighting and survial was done proberly. Also, Kitsune are badass!
Re_XyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The book is great!
Sadly, there is a slave Ark, which, as they tend to do, is horrible for every person involved.
But before and after that, the story is a great one. Once I read a few more chapters, I think this will be worth a five star rating.
MSMRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A girl wakes up with no memory besides the knowledge that this body is NOT her own. Thankfully, a smarmy ghoul prevents her from cutting off her own tail.
It's pretty dark, with a lot of themes of body dysphoria and existential terror that is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. But it's well-written, and it already looks like it's going in an interesting direction. I'm sticking around for a while longer.
justsomedragonRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The book's ideas and structures are good, I find the author's worldbuilding and characters to be well written and compelling. But, theres a few things that need changing. the book spends far too long on these massive, multi chapter hunts, both with the gnolls and plant people. these 2 chases, which consist of the MC using the same techniques to escape over and over, take up about the first 40% of the book, and could be shorter.
the part that drags this down from a better review is the way in which the book moves from a SFW, if gritty, survival book, and begins to dance around some NSFW topics in the later half, despite the character being described as physically 15 or so (weird reincarnation things). The abruptness of this change is very off-putting, and it most definitely needs more warning and consistency within the earlier parts of the book, and an MC who is firmly appropriate for the author's intentions of the book's direction (ie, older).
zoru_22Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I gave this 4 stars, mainly because the story managed to get my attention and hold it all the way through, and I pretty much lost an entire weekend to the fic.
The spag and grammar is pretty good. Nothing major stood out to me.
This is probably the bleakest story I've read in terms of how much it punches the protagonist. Sure, if you find some level of suffering quotient, there are probably stories and litrpg where you can sum up the pain of the protagonist more, but this is the first fic I've read in years here they torture the protagonist on-screen as much as this one does.
It adds a level of viscerality to everything that isn't present in other fics.
I can't, unequivocally recommend this story though, even beyond the bleakness. Because there's a few asterisks.
First off, the protag is physically 15 and the fic dances around landmines like a ballerina. If a 15 year old being put into a slave collar or being tortured (and later more) is a dealbreaker, this story isn't for you. I personally think it handles those bits well enough to avoid overtly crossing lines, but it is a thing that's there and sensitive readers might wanna know.
Let's talk about actual plotting though, because that's where the story starts to come apart under its own weight.
There's a number of incredlbly forced plot points that are or were just there to force the main character into certain decisions. The main character is silly in a self-defeating in a number of places that just don't make sense and aren't established well.
She supposedly has body dysmorphia, but it's a very forced delivery of dysmorphia, and the story would be much better without it. Book 2 is really, really weak and either Jackie (the mc's name) is an idiot and certain powerful people around her are just not executing on their already extremely-well-established and constantly-hammered in racism...
Or they are being really really dumb.
With the latest developments of book 2, the story's pacing really slowed, and I'm not super
NoCoreRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Honestly felt like the romance was forced, with the MC falling in love despite the love interest trying to kill her multiple times. Without the romance plot I was enjoying the story quite a bit.
The main character was super interesting, a young girl forced into a bad situation and forced to make the most out of what she has.
At one part she meets character from her current species and was enslaved alongside them. The other characters tried to help her, tried to teach her their culture, then offer to help her escape. Instead of escaping with them, she kills them and goes with the slavers! Which happens to include the love interest.
Similar scenarios happen again in the future, and the Main Character still thinks that the love interest is worth pursuing.
I understand that characters are ment to be flawed and perfect characters are usually poorly written. I just wish that the main characters fascination with the love interest felt more natural instead of feeling like a kid seeking love from an abusive relationship.
I apologize if my review is rough and not very constructive, but the entire reason I could not continue to read the story was because of the forced romance. I would recommend trying to edit the story to expand on the love interest.
I may be remembering things wrong since the last time I read a chapter of this story so I apologize if any of my information is incorrect. I am going off of what I remember of the story and my main issue with the direction the story went. As I said previously, I was enjoying how the story was progressing but the forced romance stopped me from continuing to read.
With that, I think I have said all that I could. I do not want to ramble on about my opinion on the story since people could find the romance interesting. I will admit that I could have read the relationship wrong, missing key context clues and coming to a wrong conclusion. From my perspective my opinion makes sense.
In conclusion, I feel that the story is in need of a rew
DomonRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The story has some very grimdark elements and whilst a very good story they can be a bit intimidating at times and some points can be a bit of a struggle for those sensitive to the emotional state of others and the chapters can be a bit long and some points tend to drag but in the end I enjoy it.