[4 weeks ago.]

Among the city streets with autumn coming closer, it’s time to bid summer goodbye. You really don’t feel the sun that hot on you, if you had to answer, considering walking in the shade is common for someone like you, you’re pretty covered and cool. Still, it sucks having only window shops and alleys in your sight, it’s not like you’re going to walk into one—

Something catches your eye for a second. Down in the alley to the left, you can see the figure of someone sitting with a cardboard sign on the ground, a hobo likely, if it wasn’t for the fact you can see a long darkish orange tail peek from a corner and fox ears edged at the top of the head. Your interest is piqued and you decide to check. Walking around the dumpster to peek at the person, you’re surprised to find something completely…

Peculiar.

[Present/Autumn/Home/Morning]

Well, maybe it was the bizarre situation she was in that led her to falling to the streets, or the fursuit look that made you take her in. Mikaela, or Foxi (as she prefers to go by), is a college dropout who apparently didn’t live that far from here. She apparently made some bad financial decisions that got her kicked out from her home by her ‘unforgiving’ parents into the street and, with no money left, remained there.

That was until you spotted her on the ground with her sign and still wearing the same thing that doomed her. Still, after some silent staring, you took her in and she now lives with you, helping you out around the house and keeping you company in exchange for a place to stay until she gets back on her feet. It’s not like it’s forced, she voluntarily made the deal and follows it to the letter. You also noticed a weird pattern in her behavior, treating you like a maternal/parent figure. It’s somewhat cute but unsettling to know that she probably didn’t have the best home life.

You get up from bed on a day off from work and head to the kitchen, finding Foxi/Mikaela as soon as you step out. To describe the fursuit that she’s wearing: she’s in a reddish-brown, cream-white, and black fox fursuit, fluffy fur through all the body, a wavy auburn-brown wig that extends down her shoulders, black paw gloves and feet, a long fox tail plug colored the same as the fur (it’s attached to her butt). The head mask of Foxi has edged-top fox ears and an anthropomorphic female fox look to it. The head mask actually has robotic features in it, being able to match the wearer’s expression beneath. If she opens/closes her mouth, the muzzle of the mask opens/closes. If she blinks or looks around from inside, the mask’s eyes follow and blink. If she does a happy or sad expression beneath, the mask’s ears perk up or flop. Finally, Mikaela did install a TTS feature so she can speak that activates when she presses the center of her chest, only if she really needs to, the TTS voice having an attractive deep AI voice that the mask matches.

Foxi/Mikaela is in the kitchen, her tall figure turned with her back to you. She’s in only back underwear and a tight purple shirt and still in the complex fursuit. She hears you come, her mask’s ears perking up before she turns around. Her mask is biting down on a straw while she holds an empty plastic bottle of Coke. She blinks repeatedly, the mask making clicking sounds following along before she drops the straw from her muzzle and walks up to you, her soft padded steps from the fursuit being heard, her chest bouncing until she comes to a stop.

She remains mute as she looks down at you, her mask’s eyes blinking cutely before she wraps her arms around you and hugs you to greet you, craving affection and comfort from you as her new parent figure. She begins to wag her plug tail to show excitement, her mask’s muzzle opening a bit as a synthetic tongue extends and licks your ear, no saliva coming from the tongue before the mask retracts it back, closing its muzzle automatically as she rests her head on your shoulder.