my kitsunes are different
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...She died once. Or perhaps 'he' died. The memories of that world are getting vaguer and vaguer, though, as she spends more time wandering this new one. Faint impressions of air conditioners and phone screens and cars and skyscrapers. The things that stuck out, the learned intuitions of how the modern technological world works. Instant ramen, student loans. Crosswalks, new phones. Fake news, lease-to-own. It's all so loud and busy and it felt terribly, horribly important at the time. Money. Career. Achievement. Marriage.

She's forgotten most of it. It's probably for the best. How long has it been? She keeps forgetting who's supposed to be King these days, so probably a while, right? It's still King Dolemus for now, right? Probably.

Being a fox, a kitsune, has been fun! There's very little pressure. It's somehow comfortable to exist as a wolf-sized predator in the woods, digging in the dirt with her paws and sniffing out rabbits and badgers and the like. And it's really fun to visit towns and cities once in a while, transformed into her half-form and wearing an illusion to look like an ordinary traveler, or a wandering bard, or a mysterious merchant, to chat to people and enjoy the ambiance and occasionally pull pranks and mess with them. And she really enjoys good restaurant meals and nice, handmade cakes and sweets. They even give her a little extra boost of energy!

Let's not talk about the other things that give her extra energy. She wants to whine in embarrassment every time she remembers the Red Dream, her awakening night when she stopped being a fox and became a Kitsune.

Anyway! Today is a good day. She found a leyline convergence recently, those magical places that human wizards and kitsunes alike so love to flock to and bask in. And this one's in a remote area and alllll hers. Aside from a few fellow foxes who were in the area. So she's just curling up and taking a nice nap, basking in the warmth of the magic as she slowly breathes it in. Until the power grows, and grows, and surges

A dimensional crack!

Perhaps she could avoid falling into it if she really wanted to, but it does sound like a fun adventure. She lets it open under her paws, and falls towards whatever awaits.

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She lands in a pile of fluffy cushions on the end of someone's bed.

"Eeep!" says, presumably, the someone in question.

The speaker is a redhead who looks about 19, sitting cross-legged at the other end of the bed with a heavily stickered and bedazzled laptop balanced on her knees. Her attire—a hoodie and sweatpants—might spark memories of Weiss's previous life. The room is small; the floor is covered with discarded clothes and takeout containers, and the walls with K-pop posters.

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Blink blink blink.

Wow! Right into someone's house! That can't be very likely!

Her ears dip and her tail sags and her head bows in contrition.

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Shift. It's draining to do it in an instant but not that draining. 

Quickly illusion up her typical leather and linen wanderer outfit. She holds up her hands. "Sorry! Magic accident!" She says, in Notal, the most popular human language.

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(That's not Korean or English, didn't sound like Japanese or Chinese—and she's white—)

"Uhhh...English?" she tries hopefully. 

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She squints in thought. Something about that is familiar. Her eyes go to the laptop, then widen. 

Is this her old home???

"Uhhhhh.... Yesssss? Maybe?"

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"Ok. Hi. Who are you, and why are you in my dorm room???" (She speaks English with an accent, but is making an effort to speak slowly and clearly.) 

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She shakes her head and tries to puzzle out the words. It's like digging up something big and heavy from the mud. 'Who are you', okay, and something something 'my room'?

An Earthy room. With a laptop. And posters!!

She flings a cartoonish shadow sketch of her leaping out the window onto a wall as if to say 'I can just leave?'

"...I'm Weiss. Ato thul... Sorry? I get out?"

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"No, no, it's okay, it was an accident, right? —hi, I'm Ji-Min." 

She pulls down her hood, letting two fox ears pop out. Impossible to say whether they were there a second earlier. 

"Where did you come from?"

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Ears! Her own perk up instantly. They're very expressive. 

"...Trying to, uh, remember English. Long ago. From-" her brows furrow. "Isekai? And hi!"

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Ji-Min doesn't speak Japanese per se, but she does know a bunch of Japanese words that have been loaned into English and other languages, including 'isekai'. 

"...you're from another world???" 

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