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* EvilIsPetty: Bloody Margo, having stripped and bound Salli to a chair, ignores the latter's request for a bucket to throw up in as she gets sick from being stunned twice in a row and having her [[ElectronicEyes cybernetic eye]] pulled out.
* EyeScream: Happens to Salli ''twice''. Once in her back story as the climax of her husband's abuse, the next in ''Shadow of Her Sins'' when Margo pulls out its cybernetic replacement just for the hell of it.
* EyeScream: Happens to Salli ''twice''. Once in her back story as the climax of her husband's abuse, the next in ''Shadow of Her Sins'' when Margo pulls out its cybernetic replacement just for the hell of it.
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* SpacePatrol: Lu's employer.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Melanie's actions in "Captive" look a lot less romantic in the later stories, as she fails to convince her in-laws that [[spoiler: enslaving Ali]] was the right thing to do.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The series as a whole and half the individual titles refer to the Red Vixen, a character with very little actual screen time [[spoiler: and most of it as her AlterEgo Lady Melanie]] and the story is never told from her perspective.
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* HeroicDog: Ali to the core.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: This is Ali's whole problem while working for the [[spoiler: Red Vixen]] and later Salli. Fortunately the latter decides IfItsYouItsOkay.
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* AerithAndBob: Foxen names include Rolas, Sallivera, Alinadar, and Melanie.
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** Technically they're [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/598971.html they're more like platypuses]] but they ''look'' like lizards.
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* HumanityIsInsane: The foxen opinion of humans, and humans do have a higher reported rate of mental illness than foxen. However this means that the foxen are ill-equipped to handle those of their kind who do go crazy.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].Ali]].
* {{Xenofiction}}: Written from the perspective of distinctly non-human, but relatively close, aliens.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Written from the perspective of distinctly non-human, but relatively close, aliens.
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* NonIdenticalTwins: Rolas and Salli.
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** That and the Rolas Darktail in "POW" could easily be an [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor]] of the one in this series.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Alinadar did not like her service to Bloody Margo but she was practically attached to [[spoiler: The Red Vixen, who was much kinder. And leads Melanie to believe that she needs a "mistress" who then sets her up with Sallivera when she plans to retire from piracy.]]
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* HappinessInSlavery: Alinadar did not like her service to Bloody Margo but she was practically attached to [[spoiler: The Red Vixen, who was much kinder. And leads Melanie to believe that she needs a "mistress" who then "mistress", so she sets her up with Sallivera when she plans to retire from piracy.]]
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* LongLostRelative: In "Shadow of Her Sins" Alinadar meets her long-lost older brother, Commander Lu Blacksailor from the Allied Patrol. [[spoiler: But their relationship doesn't stop him from arresting her when he finds out she was a pirate, he does put in a good word for her though.]]
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* LongLostRelative: In "Shadow of Her Sins" Alinadar meets her long-lost older brother, Commander Lu Blacksailor from the Allied Patrol. [[spoiler: But their Their relationship doesn't stop him from arresting her when he finds out she was a pirate, but he does put in a good word for her though.]]
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* SlaveCollar: In SotRV, Alinadar wears a silver choker made of interwoven chains to symbolize her ownership by [[spoiler: the Red Vixen]].
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* SlaveCollar: In SotRV, ''Shadow of the Red Vixen'', Alinadar wears a silver choker made of interwoven chains to symbolize her ownership by [[spoiler: the Red Vixen]].
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* ScarsAreForever: Played with. Salli can hide the white fur that grows over her scars, but eventually chooses not to.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Ali has her entire pelt shaved off after she's captured by Bloody Margo. And then left staked out to die of hypothermia in the cold rain.
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* {{Matriarchy}}: Noble inheritance in Foxen society is matrilineal, though there's nothing stopping males from obtaining titles. And one of the [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1093211.html short excerpts]] on the author's LiveJournal indicates that in the military Noble caste vixens can start as officers while males have to work their way up.
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** On Day's LiveJournal he once posted a short list of [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1178712.html what Ali often carries.]]
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** And in Day's LiveJournal, he's said several times that there is ''no such thing'' as the Foxen Ministry of Assassination
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** That and the Rolas Darktail in "POW" could easily be an [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor]] of the one in this series.
* ChainedToABed: Implied in the epilogue to "Captive".
** Also implied with Marty's antics during his military service: "Drunk, disorderly, and conveniently pre-handcuffed gets you a lot of ribbing when the MP's arrive."
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
** Also implied with Marty's antics during his military service: "Drunk, disorderly, and conveniently pre-handcuffed gets you a lot of ribbing when the MP's arrive."
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
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* ChainedToABed: Implied in the epilogue to "Captive".
** Also implied with Marty's antics during his military service: "Drunk, disorderly, and conveniently pre-handcuffed gets you a lot of ribbing when the MP's arrive."
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
** Also implied with Marty's antics during his military service: "Drunk, disorderly, and conveniently pre-handcuffed gets you a lot of ribbing when the MP's arrive."
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
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* CanonWelding: A minor character in "Shadow of Her Sins" turns out to be from Gerwart, an expy of Germany from Day's earlier novella "Prisoners of War", implying that it was set in Foxen Prime's pre-spaceflight era.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]Ali]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
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* BarefootFunnyAnimals: Foxen typically don't wear shoes, as noted in ''Shadow of the Red Vixen'' when Salli visits South Dakota in winter and has to wear "foot protectors" that she finds highly uncomfortable.
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* NukeEm: Alinadar's suggestion when they spot an encampment of survivor's from Bloody Margo's base in "Shadow of Her Sins". She's dead serious.
** In "Shadow of the Red Vixen" Ali blasts open a docking tube connecting the airlocks of a pirate ship and the liner they were raiding. Sending everyone in the tube, or within close proximity of either airlock, into space.
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* WalkingArmory: Alinadar carries two stunners, weighed gloves, a pair of folding knives, and a third, larger knife, and that's just what the starport's security [[ExtendedDisarming pulled off her]]. When she was a pirate she had at least one plasma pistol too.
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* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In "Shadow of the Red Vixen" Salli has to go through a superluminal transit clinging to the hull of a ship in a spacesuit. At first the jumble of semi-theoretical mathematics is terrifying, but after a few hours it gets boring.
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* CommonTongue: Galactic Basic, a throwaway line in "Shadow of the Red Vixen" makes it clear that it's not English but that English is still spoken by humans.
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* WalkingArmory: Alinadar carries two stunners, weighed gloves, a pair of folding knives, and a third, larger knife, and that's just what the starport's security [[ExtendedDisarming pulled off her]]. When she was a pirate she had at least one plasma pistol too.
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* CartesianKarma: In "Shadow of her Sins" Ali is arrested for the crimes she committed as a slave, [[spoiler: but is acquitted of most, though not all of them.]]
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* ActionGirl: Sallivera's bodyguard, Alinadar.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Salli gets one when she sets out to rescue her own bodyguard after they're attacked by space pirates.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Salli gets one when she sets out to rescue her own bodyguard after they're attacked by space pirates.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Notably the Red Vixen is much more attracted to Rolas than vice-versa. [[spoiler:Until he starts dating her true identity.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Salli combines this with an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when she's finally rescued by [[spoiler: Melanie]].
-->'''Salli:''' One, for interfering in my damned vacation. Two for playing Meddling Auntie with my personal life. Three, for making Rolas wear that ridiculous outfit...
* {{Badass}}: Rolas and the Red Vixen both.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' attempt to harm a vixen in Rolas' presence.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lady Melanie [[spoiler:who is secretly the Red Vixen]], and Sallivera [[spoiler: who beats a pirate to death with an iron bar while rescuing Alinadar]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Salli combines this with an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when she's finally rescued by [[spoiler: Melanie]].
-->'''Salli:''' One, for interfering in my damned vacation. Two for playing Meddling Auntie with my personal life. Three, for making Rolas wear that ridiculous outfit...
* {{Badass}}: Rolas and the Red Vixen both.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' attempt to harm a vixen in Rolas' presence.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lady Melanie [[spoiler:who is secretly the Red Vixen]], and Sallivera [[spoiler: who beats a pirate to death with an iron bar while rescuing Alinadar]].
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* BrokenBird: Salli at the start of ''Captive''. She gets better, though she still suffers from depression and panic attacks when off her meds.
* CantSpitItOut: Alinadar's whole problem while working for [[spoiler: the Red Vixen]], as Marty points out.
* ColdBloodedTorture: What happens to [[spoiler: Alinadar]] (offscreen thankfully) after she's captured.
* CuteBruiser: Ali.
* CantSpitItOut: Alinadar's whole problem while working for [[spoiler: the Red Vixen]], as Marty points out.
* ColdBloodedTorture: What happens to [[spoiler: Alinadar]] (offscreen thankfully) after she's captured.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Why Lu arrested his sister [[spoiler: Ali]] after searching for her for twenty years.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Marty points out to [[spoiler: Alinadar]] that trying to help the pirates who captured him doesn't make much sense.
* JerkassHero: Marty in ''I Fought the Claw'', given his perfect willingness to betray the Red Vixen.
* KarmaHoudini: The fact that the Red Vixen is responsible for the death of one the crew of the ''Sallivera'' is pretty much dropped after she's seen expressing remorse over it[[spoiler: as Melanie]].
* KickTheDog: Bloody Margo, almost committing it literally when she kicks Salli while the latter is already bound to a chair.
* JerkassHero: Marty in ''I Fought the Claw'', given his perfect willingness to betray the Red Vixen.
* KarmaHoudini: The fact that the Red Vixen is responsible for the death of one the crew of the ''Sallivera'' is pretty much dropped after she's seen expressing remorse over it[[spoiler: as Melanie]].
* KickTheDog: Bloody Margo, almost committing it literally when she kicks Salli while the latter is already bound to a chair.
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* MadeASlave: [[spoiler: Alinadar]] after she was rescued by the [[spoiler: Red Vixen]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* NeverFoundTheBody: What keeps Lu searching for [[spoiler: Ali]], after the rest of their family was murdered.
* NeverFoundTheBody: What keeps Lu searching for [[spoiler: Ali]], after the rest of their family was murdered.
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* OneHeadTaller: Salli to Ali
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* SlaveCollar: In SotRV, Alinadar wears a silver choker made of interwoven chains to symbolize her ownership by [[spoiler: the Red Vixen]].
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* WhatTheHellHero: Salli calls out [[spoiler: Melanie]] and punches her in the nose after finding out she'd [[spoiler: enslaved Alinadar in her persona as the Red Vixen]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Bloody Margo and [[spoiler: Ali]].
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* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Red-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B005G0JL36 Captive of the Red Vixen]]'': The first novel. Lord Rolas Darktail finds himself a captive of the infamous Red Vixen, but soon finds himself torn between wishing to stay with her and his duty to his family, who desperately need to escape the cruel countess they serve.
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* LongevityTreatment: Treatments that reverse aging by decades are mentioned to be commonplace among foxen nobles.
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* TheNoseKnows: Foxens place great importance on scent. The Red Vixen wears heavy perfume to prevent identification [[spoiler: and Rolas recognizes Melanie as her by taste]]. And Commander Blacksailor recognizes Alinadar as his long-lost sister by her scent, and the fact that she has living relatives finally breaks through to Ali when he gives her a toy that belonged to his sister which is still saturated with her scent due to being sealed in a plastic bag for twenty years.
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The Red Vixen Adventures are a series of sci-fi romance novellas by Royce Day that invoke tradtional Age of Sail romances, [[RecycledInSpace in space]], with [[FurryFandom anthropomorphic fox]] aliens as the main characters. Tying the novellas together is a pirate who calls herself the Red Vixen, and her relationship to members of the noble House of Darktail.
The current novellas include:
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Red-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B005G0JL36 Captive of the Red Vixen]]'': The first novel. Lord Rolas Darktail finds himself a captive of the infamous Red Vixen, but soon finds himself torn between wishing to stay with her and his duty to his family, who desperately need to escape the cruel countess they serve.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Red-Vixen-The-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00A09WLJE/ Shadow of the Red Vixen]]'': Rolas' sister Lady Sallivera Darktail has decided she's recovered enough from the trauma her horrific ex-husband inflicted upon her to leave the homeworld for a lengthy vacation to Earth and other worlds, but her family insists that she take a bodyguard. While initially unwanted Alinadar soon proves her worth and Salli finds herself grateful for her presence, too bad Ali's true mistress has her own plans for Lady Salli.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Her-Sins-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00IEA5XQY Shadow of Her Sins]]'': Once an orphan, then a slave, then a pirate, Alinadar has seemingly found peace in her life serving as Lady Sallivera's bodyguard on a quiet colony world. But that peace is shattered as the sins she committed just to survive come back to haunt her.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Fought-Claw-Won-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00FEDIIUW/ I Fought the Claw and the Claw Won]]'': Taking place in parallel to the second half of "Captive", though containing spoilers to "Shadow". Marturari Greycoat is just an average foxen mercenary pilot earning a living escorting freighters through deep space, until that brings him between the Red Vixen and her savage rival Bloody Margo.
!!Includes examples of:
* AirVentEscape: Attempted by Rolas in "Captive", but he finds a note from the Red Vixen and a trap waiting at the grille above the lifeboats. Greycoat in "Claw" also tries it with slightly more success, but comes out in Ali's cabin.
* BodyguardCrush: Alinadar develops one on Lady Sallivera, though it's not requited [[spoiler: until "Shadow of her Sins"]], and had another unrequited one for her previous mistress [[spoiler: The Red Vixen]]. It turns out towards the end of "Shadow of the Red Vixen" that [[spoiler: Melanie was trying to invoke this when she hired Ali to be Salli's bodyguard.]]
* ChainedToABed: Implied in the epilogue to "Captive".
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
* DistressBall: Alinadar and Sallivera trade it back and forth in the "Shadow" novels.
* DistressedDude: Rolas and Greycoat at certain points.
* DomesticAbuser: Lady Sallivera's ex-husband, Lord Kev Highglider, who beat her for two years, eventually gouging her eye out. Thanks to his mother's influence Kev was only declared violently insane and committed to an asylum, while Salli was so traumatized that she hid herself away for years before her family found an off-world psychologist (foxen psych is very undeveloped) to help her.
* TheDreaded: Bloody Margo
* ElectronicEyes: Lady Sallivera Darktail's right eye is prosthetic thanks to her ex-husband's abuse, she can make it look like a natural eye of any color but halfway through "Captive" she turns off the camouflage to signify that she's no longer going to hide what happened.
* EroticDream: In "Captive of the Red Vixen" Rolas has a dream of being BoundAndGagged by the Red Vixen and his current girlfriend, Lady Melanie, who are holding leashes tied to his manhood and tugging it towards them. Also about as explicit as it gets in the series.
* FantasticCasteSystem: Foxen are divided into Nobles, Commoners, and Military. Though it seems that everyone is required to serve some time in the military regardless of caste.
* FeudalFuture: Foxen society, though the highest level of government appears to be a Council of Countesses and the only noble titles listed below Countess are Viscount(ess) and Lord/Lady.
* FingerlessGloves: Alinadar's signature item of clothing, they allow her to use her claws in a fight and are loaded with buckshot so her punches have more impact.
* GildedCage: Rolas' cell on the ''Scarlet Claw'' resembles a luxury cruise ship cabin, with entertainment center, AutoKitchen, [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums weights and treadmill]].
* GoGoEnslavement: Male version with Rolas.
* GroinAttack: When teaching her to fight Alinadar tells Lady Sallivera that a knee to the groin is one of the more effective moves to use on males. Then Salli tries it on Ali and it turns out to be pretty effective on females too.
* HappinessInSlavery: Alinadar did not like her service to Bloody Margo but she was practically attached to [[spoiler: The Red Vixen, who was much kinder. And leads Melanie to believe that she needs a "mistress" who then sets her up with Sallivera when she plans to retire from piracy.]]
* HostageVideo: Rolas makes one to his parents when first kidnapped by the Red Vixen.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: House Darktail thanks to Countess Highglider sabotaging their infrastructure out of petty revenge. Part of the reason Rolas was captaining their freighter himself, and why his family couldn't pay the ransom.
* IndenturedServitude: Indentured servants are mentioned multiple times, [[spoiler: and Alinadar is sentenced to hard labor for her crimes, albeit doing the same job she was doing at the time of her arrest.]]
* InstitutionalApparel: Rolas initially gets the orange jumpsuit during his imprisonment, before his captor decides to start playing dress-up.
* LizardFolk: Wazagans, one of the more widespread species along with humans.
* LongLostRelative: In "Shadow of Her Sins" Alinadar meets her long-lost older brother, Commander Lu Blacksailor from the Allied Patrol. [[spoiler: But their relationship doesn't stop him from arresting her when he finds out she was a pirate, he does put in a good word for her though.]]
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Red Vixen's crew only use stunners when boarding, only take the cargo and sometimes the captain for ransom, and leave the ship intact enough to call for help. [[spoiler: And even when she starts on her vendetta against House Highglider she allows crews to escape in lifeboats before blowing their ship up.]] Her rival Bloody Margo, as her name suggests, is far more brutal.
* NoMedicationForMe: Inverted for Sallivera, who shows a drastic improvement when she starts on anti-anxiety meds.
* PettingZooPeople: Foxen, an alien race that resemble humanoid foxes.
* PirateGirl: The Red Vixen, naturally, and her far more brutal rival Bloody Margo.
* PoweredArmor: Used by the Red Vixen's boarders, part of how they're confident enough to only fire stunners.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Marturari Greycoat from "I Fought the Claw...", a mercenary SpaceFighter pilot who was hired to guard House Highglider's freighters, which got him in the middle of the Red Vixen and Bloody Margo's feud.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The series as a whole and half the individual titles refer to the Red Vixen, a character with very little actual screen time [[spoiler: and most of it as her AlterEgo Lady Melanie]] and the story is never told from her perspective.
* SecretIdentity: The Red Vixen is really [[spoiler: Lady Melanie]]
* SettlingTheFrontier: House Darktail's plan to escape Countess Highglider's petty revenge was to save up enough to buy a fleet of colony ships for themselves and their loyal sworn commoners, which was why they couldn't afford to pay Rolas' ransom in "Captive". But [[spoiler: after the Red Vixen helps expose the Countess's crimes they get her lands and the plan is sidelined. Up until Salli claims the planet Bloody Margo was using as a secret base in the "Shadow" books and they start a colony there.]]
* ShockCollar: When captured Rolas is given one that triggers if he goes through his cell's door (but not the vents) without the Red Vixen's permission, or if he gets more than five meters away from her when she takes him for a "walk." Ali is fitted with an ankle bracelet that does something similar when she's arrested.
* SpacePirates: Seems to rely a lot on knowing where freighters will drop out of superluminal.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Red Vixen's outfit is usually a piece of cloth around the waist, a bikini top, and a gun belt
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "No. No, of course not. Lady Melanie Lovejoy has nothing to do with the Red Vixen."
* ThereAreNoTherapists: On Foxen Prime anyways, foxens are supposedly more mentally stable on average than humans so they have very little experience helping those who do develop mental illnesses, House Darktail has to import a psychologist from Earth to help Salli.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: "I Fought the Claw and the Claw Won" starts with Greycoat about to be spaced and reflecting on how he ended up like that. [[spoiler: In the end Melanie decides to indenture him to a brothel instead.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Countess Highglider becomes explosively unhinged towards the end of "Captive" in the end ranting that the Council of Countesses are commoner sympathizers and how she wants her son back, [[spoiler: in front of the entire Council, who unanimously vote to have her committed to the same asylum where her son was incarcerated.]]
* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Rolas' ransom was to the amount of 5 million GSA credits.
* WigDressAccent: Or in the Red Vixen's case colored contacts, fur dye, heavy perfume, and less clothing than her civilian alter ego.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
The current novellas include:
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Red-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B005G0JL36 Captive of the Red Vixen]]'': The first novel. Lord Rolas Darktail finds himself a captive of the infamous Red Vixen, but soon finds himself torn between wishing to stay with her and his duty to his family, who desperately need to escape the cruel countess they serve.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Red-Vixen-The-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00A09WLJE/ Shadow of the Red Vixen]]'': Rolas' sister Lady Sallivera Darktail has decided she's recovered enough from the trauma her horrific ex-husband inflicted upon her to leave the homeworld for a lengthy vacation to Earth and other worlds, but her family insists that she take a bodyguard. While initially unwanted Alinadar soon proves her worth and Salli finds herself grateful for her presence, too bad Ali's true mistress has her own plans for Lady Salli.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Her-Sins-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00IEA5XQY Shadow of Her Sins]]'': Once an orphan, then a slave, then a pirate, Alinadar has seemingly found peace in her life serving as Lady Sallivera's bodyguard on a quiet colony world. But that peace is shattered as the sins she committed just to survive come back to haunt her.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Fought-Claw-Won-Vixen-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00FEDIIUW/ I Fought the Claw and the Claw Won]]'': Taking place in parallel to the second half of "Captive", though containing spoilers to "Shadow". Marturari Greycoat is just an average foxen mercenary pilot earning a living escorting freighters through deep space, until that brings him between the Red Vixen and her savage rival Bloody Margo.
!!Includes examples of:
* AirVentEscape: Attempted by Rolas in "Captive", but he finds a note from the Red Vixen and a trap waiting at the grille above the lifeboats. Greycoat in "Claw" also tries it with slightly more success, but comes out in Ali's cabin.
* BodyguardCrush: Alinadar develops one on Lady Sallivera, though it's not requited [[spoiler: until "Shadow of her Sins"]], and had another unrequited one for her previous mistress [[spoiler: The Red Vixen]]. It turns out towards the end of "Shadow of the Red Vixen" that [[spoiler: Melanie was trying to invoke this when she hired Ali to be Salli's bodyguard.]]
* ChainedToABed: Implied in the epilogue to "Captive".
* ChildSoldiers: Alinadar was a child "pirate" after Margo killed her family and enslaved her when she was six. [[spoiler: At her trial the judges cite historical precedent of child soldiers and acquits her of all crimes she committed as a minor under duress. And give her a fairly light sentence (lifetime of hard labor, under her present employer and lover) for the twenty-eight counts of interstellar piracy committed as an adult.]]
* DistressBall: Alinadar and Sallivera trade it back and forth in the "Shadow" novels.
* DistressedDude: Rolas and Greycoat at certain points.
* DomesticAbuser: Lady Sallivera's ex-husband, Lord Kev Highglider, who beat her for two years, eventually gouging her eye out. Thanks to his mother's influence Kev was only declared violently insane and committed to an asylum, while Salli was so traumatized that she hid herself away for years before her family found an off-world psychologist (foxen psych is very undeveloped) to help her.
* TheDreaded: Bloody Margo
* ElectronicEyes: Lady Sallivera Darktail's right eye is prosthetic thanks to her ex-husband's abuse, she can make it look like a natural eye of any color but halfway through "Captive" she turns off the camouflage to signify that she's no longer going to hide what happened.
* EroticDream: In "Captive of the Red Vixen" Rolas has a dream of being BoundAndGagged by the Red Vixen and his current girlfriend, Lady Melanie, who are holding leashes tied to his manhood and tugging it towards them. Also about as explicit as it gets in the series.
* FantasticCasteSystem: Foxen are divided into Nobles, Commoners, and Military. Though it seems that everyone is required to serve some time in the military regardless of caste.
* FeudalFuture: Foxen society, though the highest level of government appears to be a Council of Countesses and the only noble titles listed below Countess are Viscount(ess) and Lord/Lady.
* FingerlessGloves: Alinadar's signature item of clothing, they allow her to use her claws in a fight and are loaded with buckshot so her punches have more impact.
* GildedCage: Rolas' cell on the ''Scarlet Claw'' resembles a luxury cruise ship cabin, with entertainment center, AutoKitchen, [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums weights and treadmill]].
* GoGoEnslavement: Male version with Rolas.
* GroinAttack: When teaching her to fight Alinadar tells Lady Sallivera that a knee to the groin is one of the more effective moves to use on males. Then Salli tries it on Ali and it turns out to be pretty effective on females too.
* HappinessInSlavery: Alinadar did not like her service to Bloody Margo but she was practically attached to [[spoiler: The Red Vixen, who was much kinder. And leads Melanie to believe that she needs a "mistress" who then sets her up with Sallivera when she plans to retire from piracy.]]
* HostageVideo: Rolas makes one to his parents when first kidnapped by the Red Vixen.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: House Darktail thanks to Countess Highglider sabotaging their infrastructure out of petty revenge. Part of the reason Rolas was captaining their freighter himself, and why his family couldn't pay the ransom.
* IndenturedServitude: Indentured servants are mentioned multiple times, [[spoiler: and Alinadar is sentenced to hard labor for her crimes, albeit doing the same job she was doing at the time of her arrest.]]
* InstitutionalApparel: Rolas initially gets the orange jumpsuit during his imprisonment, before his captor decides to start playing dress-up.
* LizardFolk: Wazagans, one of the more widespread species along with humans.
* LongLostRelative: In "Shadow of Her Sins" Alinadar meets her long-lost older brother, Commander Lu Blacksailor from the Allied Patrol. [[spoiler: But their relationship doesn't stop him from arresting her when he finds out she was a pirate, he does put in a good word for her though.]]
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Red Vixen's crew only use stunners when boarding, only take the cargo and sometimes the captain for ransom, and leave the ship intact enough to call for help. [[spoiler: And even when she starts on her vendetta against House Highglider she allows crews to escape in lifeboats before blowing their ship up.]] Her rival Bloody Margo, as her name suggests, is far more brutal.
* NoMedicationForMe: Inverted for Sallivera, who shows a drastic improvement when she starts on anti-anxiety meds.
* PettingZooPeople: Foxen, an alien race that resemble humanoid foxes.
* PirateGirl: The Red Vixen, naturally, and her far more brutal rival Bloody Margo.
* PoweredArmor: Used by the Red Vixen's boarders, part of how they're confident enough to only fire stunners.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Marturari Greycoat from "I Fought the Claw...", a mercenary SpaceFighter pilot who was hired to guard House Highglider's freighters, which got him in the middle of the Red Vixen and Bloody Margo's feud.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The series as a whole and half the individual titles refer to the Red Vixen, a character with very little actual screen time [[spoiler: and most of it as her AlterEgo Lady Melanie]] and the story is never told from her perspective.
* SecretIdentity: The Red Vixen is really [[spoiler: Lady Melanie]]
* SettlingTheFrontier: House Darktail's plan to escape Countess Highglider's petty revenge was to save up enough to buy a fleet of colony ships for themselves and their loyal sworn commoners, which was why they couldn't afford to pay Rolas' ransom in "Captive". But [[spoiler: after the Red Vixen helps expose the Countess's crimes they get her lands and the plan is sidelined. Up until Salli claims the planet Bloody Margo was using as a secret base in the "Shadow" books and they start a colony there.]]
* ShockCollar: When captured Rolas is given one that triggers if he goes through his cell's door (but not the vents) without the Red Vixen's permission, or if he gets more than five meters away from her when she takes him for a "walk." Ali is fitted with an ankle bracelet that does something similar when she's arrested.
* SpacePirates: Seems to rely a lot on knowing where freighters will drop out of superluminal.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Red Vixen's outfit is usually a piece of cloth around the waist, a bikini top, and a gun belt
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "No. No, of course not. Lady Melanie Lovejoy has nothing to do with the Red Vixen."
* ThereAreNoTherapists: On Foxen Prime anyways, foxens are supposedly more mentally stable on average than humans so they have very little experience helping those who do develop mental illnesses, House Darktail has to import a psychologist from Earth to help Salli.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: "I Fought the Claw and the Claw Won" starts with Greycoat about to be spaced and reflecting on how he ended up like that. [[spoiler: In the end Melanie decides to indenture him to a brothel instead.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Countess Highglider becomes explosively unhinged towards the end of "Captive" in the end ranting that the Council of Countesses are commoner sympathizers and how she wants her son back, [[spoiler: in front of the entire Council, who unanimously vote to have her committed to the same asylum where her son was incarcerated.]]
* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Rolas' ransom was to the amount of 5 million GSA credits.
* WigDressAccent: Or in the Red Vixen's case colored contacts, fur dye, heavy perfume, and less clothing than her civilian alter ego.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In "Shadow of her Sins" Bloody Margo makes [[spoiler: Alinadar]] gouge out [[spoiler: Lady Sallivera's natural]] eye to prove that she's sincere about wanting to come back to her crew. Instead [[spoiler: Ali stalls long enough for her brother to line up a shot at Margo.]]
