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Mail Fox Tales

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Mail Fox Tales	comment	Mail Fox Tales is an Urban Fantasy Webnovel written by Sani 2341, and posted on Spacebattles and Royal Road.It follows the escapades of Eva Mayer, a German exchange student studying in Tokyo for a year, often alongside her fellow Exchange student Kurt Wagner. Which would have been a lot more boring and mundane, if she hadn't tried to save what she thought was a stray animal on her first evening in Japan while drunk.While she failed to save the Kami disguised as a white fox, her honest compassion, with her dying breath she bestows her powers, position and duties on the young woman. Who is luckily guided to her shrine, where she is introduced to an old friend of the late Kami, the Kodama Komaki, as well as two younger Youkai living at the shrine, the orphaned Tanuki Touya and the Yukionna Yukiko.Among the responsibilities she inherited, the most notable one is to deliver mail to and for various supernatural beings living in Tokyo. Many of which turn out to be more exciting than one would assume the daily life of a Mailfox to be.Between trying to understand the new parts of her world she has been dropped into and her part in it, keeping up appearances as a foreigner living at the shrine to immerse herself in the culture, and classes, there is little time left to be bored.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Mail Fox Tales / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity : More or less every supernatural being living in human society.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_16b1fd48	type	What If God Was One of Us?
Mail Fox Tales / int_16b1fd48	comment	What If God Was One of Us? : To not die of boredom, many gods have integrated into human society. Some pretend to be their own priests and priestesses, others become CEOs. There is even a half-god working as a Professor for modern history.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Mail Fox Tales / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal : Ratatoskr, at least when he isn't too drunk to form words. Also Eva and Karasuza when transformed. (into a fox and raven respectively)
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Mail Fox Tales / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Mail Fox Tales / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting : Eva as a Kitsune can freely switch between fox and human, and probably could do even more if she wanted to. Karasuza inherited some of her mother's, a Tanuki, ability to shapeshift, though so far she has only transformed into a raven and back. And of course as a Werewolf Kurt can transform from wolf to human and back freely outside the full moon. Of course, as a Tanuki Touya is capable of this too, though he has yet to be shown doign it, though the results have been.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Mail Fox Tales / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical : Being able to tell the quickest route to take for delivering something sounds awesome at first. That is until you realize whatever magic is plotting this course neither sees a need to point you to your actual destination by any means other than showing you the shortest route, nor has any sense of danger or private property. Also the pocket dimension Eva refers to as the Fox Road, a seemingly endless path lined by countless Torii gates, allowing those able to use it to move between any two Shinto shrines with a short walk. If you have a way to tell which of the Torii leads to the shrine you want to arrive at.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Mail Fox Tales / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: Eva
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Mail Fox Tales / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Mail Fox Tales / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Only present through Kurt's nickname for Eva, "Fuchs" (the german word for Fox). Otherwise averted for the same reason as Gratuitous Japanese, while the characters and the author are capable of communicating in those languages, many readers are not.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Mail Fox Tales / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome : Karasuza running away from home. Which leads to her concerned father dropping in while looking for her.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Mail Fox Tales / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback : After the first chapter starts us off with Eva's new morning routine, the next couple of chapters tell the reader how she got into this situation.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_67eff7	type	Being God Is Hard
Mail Fox Tales / int_67eff7	comment	Being God Is Hard : Having to pretend to keep all promises and repay all debts (even those of your predecessor) is already tough enough. Add the fact that you probably want to keep the locals from finding out the local Inari they pray to has handed her position over to a foreigner, and being a Kami suddenly sounds much more stressful than one would hope.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Mail Fox Tales / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: There is one in place. though the reasons why the supernatural beings keep it up vary. Many of the less powerful ones began to hide when things like the witch hunts began to spread. Gods often got fed up with non-believers treating worship more like a business transaction, or lost their followers to other beliefs. What cemented the agreement for the necessity for a masquerade though, were the World Wars. If humans were capable of doing that to each other, no one wanted to find out what they would get up to when fighting actual non-humans.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Mail Fox Tales / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True : Most, if not all Human Mythology seems to have some truth to them here. For one, Rattatoskr is a recuring background character, and there have been mentions of various Greek gods.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Mail Fox Tales / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life : While it may not be fully mundane, the Story is about the characters day to day live, and at times the problems arising form the fact they are not human.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Mail Fox Tales / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location : The Fox Road as Eva and the narrative refer to it. A pocket dimension consisting of nothing beyond an endless path lined with every Torii gate marking a boundary in or near a Shinto shrine. While an awesome shortcut, if you can't match a gate to the shrine you want to arrive in, navigating it is nearly impossible.(Though of course some exceedingly unique Torii like the one legged Torii of Sanno shrine in Nagasaki are easier to recognise than others.)
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Mail Fox Tales / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mail Fox Tales / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: There are hints that Kurt is a werewolf sprinkled through the chapters before the actual reveal.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Mail Fox Tales / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God : While so far, only Eva, various Inari and Daikiniten were directly shown to be this, the way characters talk about other deities, heavily implies most are actually this.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Mail Fox Tales / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy : Most of the story takes place in modern Tokyo, one of the largest cities on earth.
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Mail Fox Tales / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Mail Fox Tales / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight : A foreigner dressed as a miko peeking through doors she shouldn't? Quite suspicious. That same foreigner sprouting fox ears and a few tails? Shows that there wasn't anything to actually worry about in the first place. Obviously
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Mail Fox Tales / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Mail Fox Tales / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: Magic in this setting is mostly limited by the users' mental crutches in how they learned magic. While it could do anything in a myriad of ways, many beings need to develop a way to envision weaving the magic together. Which often leads to the development of limiting mental crutches and blocks. The most common ways to go about these early steps, is to either clearly structure how you do something with magic (allegedly the prefered way of human mages to go about it) or how to use an innate magical ability to achieve a different result than intended. Though even if you did manage to learn how to cause an eclipse with your mind, there is the fact that gods are real, and if Helios and Amaterasu already get into fights over natural eclipses, do you really want to risk it?
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Mail Fox Tales / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Mail Fox Tales / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo : That raven mentioned near the end of the first story arc? she returns a few chapters later and becomes a recurring background character
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Mail Fox Tales / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Mail Fox Tales / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different : while forced to transform during the full moon, they can freely, if painfully, transform at any other time. They also keep their mind, though with a mild urge to show off.
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