Fox and Knight (RP)

Fox and Knight is an ongoing roleplaying session between Stephánus Tavilrond and Mika Hinari. The full RP logs can be read in the article RPG:Fox and Knight - it is in the English language.

Plot
Stephanus Tavilrond is tasked with retrieving a stolen artifact in a forest near an unspecified Etrandish village, as well as killing some large spiders. In the process of killing the spiders, he gets poisoned, and the slow-action poison threatens to kill him - incapaciated, he is saved by a mute forest-dwelling fox-girl in the person of Mika Hinari, who uses her healing magic to cure his wounds and sucks out the poison. Out of gratitude, Stephanus gives her food, and returns to the village. In the village, returns the stolen artifact to the contract, and tells tales to the locals of being saved by a fox-girl. The locals believe that Mika is a demon, but Stephanus - a paladin who claims to be educated on demons - quickly admonishes them for the superstitious beliefs, informing them that demons are red-skinned and have animal horns. The locals go silent - their village is isolated, they are extremely superstitious, their village lacks a proper church or even a priest, for all intents and purposes they are de facto pagans. A local barmaid named Maggie - who is not from the area - tells Stephanus about Mika's true identity, and implores him to take her out of the forest, somewhere else. The knight does just that - in the process of riding out of the forest and the village with Mika on horseback, the duo gets stones thrown at him.

Upon returning to Fort Redlight, Stephanus is debriefed by grandmaster Gaius Frostang - in addition to going through the debriefing on the mission, Stephanus also reports what he saw in the village to Gaius, and informs him that he brought a strange girl named Mika with himself. Gaius sends a report to the Inquisition to pay a visit to the village (to eradicate their superstitions and re-educate them in the Ways of the Light violently, if necessary) and offers to hire tutors to teach Mika on Stephanus's behalf. Stephanus spends the next days teaching Mika some of the basics of living in a civilized society, trying to teach her how to read and write using a wax tablet, as well as taking her to Grandfolk to feed her (in the Left Hand of Salashi), bathe her (in a bathhouse) and buy clothes for her.

Months pass, and Mika gets tutored by someone far more qualified to teach a mute girl than Stephanis. She learns how to read and write - and receives her own wax tablet as a gift from Stephanus. She learns how to count - and receives a gift abacus from Stephanus. She also learns about behaving in polite society, and various other things. As Mika is mute, she has to rely on the wax tablet to write her answers to verbal questions - when that's not an option, she relies on a mixture of body language and simplified sign language.

On the field, Stephanus asks Mika how she feels about him - she replies "You make me feel happy". Stephanus then proceeds to confess his feelings of love for her, and they kiss. They then go to the Left Hand of Salashi to have a dinner. The two of them further discuss their feelings for each other, with Stephanus asking Mika "How do you imagine your future?", and Mika replying "With you". The two of them run into an old friend - Miss Maggie - who have come to Grandfolk after the inquisition visited her village. Maggie is happy to see Mika dressed up nicely, smiling and in good hands, but nevertheless still teases Stephanus by telling him "I hope you are not exploiting Mika" - which causes Stephanus to stand his ground by anouncing his desire to marry Mika and make her his wife. This makes Maggie judge Stephanus hard, thinking that it's too early after just a couple of months. Stephanus gives her the cold shoulder, and the couple continue with their dinner, until they head upstairs to an inn room to rob each other of their virginities. The following day, Stephanus takes Mika to the marketplace, where they agree to tempoarily split up to buy different things. Stephanus buys an engagement ring and jewelry for Mika, while Mika buys a new green dress for herself. Reunited after some separated shopping, Stephanus proposes to Mika, who says yes.

The following week is spent preparing to the wedding. Miss Maggie apologizes to Mika and Stephanus and gives her blessings to the marriage, becoming Mika's best maid. As Stephanus's master Hlaford Paratus is dead, his closest living equivalent to a mentor - Bourn Garibald (unnamed in the roleplaying session) - gets to have the honour of being his best man. The wedding ceremony is held at the local church, then the dinner at the Left Hand of Salashi, at which there is a dance after the dinner, followed by Stephanus and Mika moving upstairs to their room to consumate their marriage.

One week later, they also buy a new house and begin moving into it. Stephanus and Mika gradually adjust to their day-to-day life, with Mika slowly learning how to cook from Maggie, growing quite the sweet tooth. While their relationship is loving, they still have to endure the occasional tribulations, such as Mika getting kidnapped on a fateful day, only to be rescued by Stephanus, who kills all her kidnappers in the process. Mika's newfound depression is quickly diminished when she first feels the child growing inside her kicking - later, it turns out, that she is expecting twins. Mika and Stephanus hire a midwife named Agnes and monk named Brother Mickaelus to make sure thait the childbirth goes down without complications - eventually, Mika gives birth to two healthy babies: a girl named Mythela (named after Queen Mythela of Etrand) and a boy named Corlagon (named after King Corlagon I of Etrand). They celebrate this with a feast, giving a happy ending to that chapter of their life, and looking forward for the next chapter.

Tropes

 * : The ending.
 * : Mika Hinari, through and through.
 * : Mika's past before becoming a (and later getting rescued by Stephanus) was one of  trauma involving  and being bullied for her looks by superstitious villagers who thought she was a demon.
 * : Stephanus and Mika, after their wedding.
 * : Stephanus and Mika during the wedding night, despite having robbed each other of their virginities a week before.
 * : Mika Hinari.
 * : Happens several times, but mostly notably skipping Mika's months of being tutored and learning how to read and write (and understand the Etrandish language), the week between Stephanus's proposal and their actual wedding, and the week between their wedding and moving into their new house.
 * : Stephanus shames the local peasants in the village for their heretical and heathen superstition.
 *  / : Stephanus and Mika to each other after Stephanus's confession.
 * : Mika Hinari starts out as this. She ends up getting socialized by Stephanus and an unnamed tutor who is never mentioned after the first big.