Kitsune Bothan is without a doubt the heroine of the Saga.

Origins of the Kitsune
The scene takes place during the very last period of the Decay part of the Saga, during the last years of the great war between the Dogma and the Rogues. Earth is condamned by the massive usage of nuclear strikes, and only the biological weapons called Omegas (humans-like) could survive in such a hell, while humans were in some sort of bunkers.
During a mission, Aesir, the Alpha at the origins of all the male Omegas, find a Kitsune in a scientific complex. That was Bothan, called 801 a her experiment code name (her tatoo on her nape on the neck if you have noticed that detail). Aesir senses at that moment her fear about her twin, so he search and find the second Kitsune called 801 almost dead. Aesir takes care of the two Kitsune, giving a bit of his power to help Daji. For some unknow reasons, Daji can't use magic powers like her sister Bothan, and always was the weakest Kitsune...

The childhood of the Kitsune
The Decay part
The two Kitsune, Daji and Bothan, were quite smart, and learned everything, specially about war, in a short period, while Aesir and Freya go to any mission the Dogma gives to them. But for some politicals reasons I just can't explain here (too long, too difficult), the Alphas were condamned to death by their own users, the Dogma. That was during a face-to-face that Aesir died against his own sister Freya, under the view of the two Kitsune sisters. Bothan screams at that moment that Freya would pay for her sin.
Decay III relates the Bothan's war campaign on Earth, eliminating all the Omegas in sort of revenge, while Daji continue to learn about war's art, becomes sort of a expert in tactical mission. Just after she and her sister had to follow the exodus in space, leaving the Earth for centuries...

The vendetta of the Kitsune
The Freespace part
Daji becomes easily a high graded officer, and has an important role in the Dogma's Concil. She and her sister Bothan believe that a fleet of her own conception, called Armada, could be the best answer to the repeated assaults from the rogue fleets. Daji suggested to be sort of an unknown forces, like aliens, so Dogma's could raise war funds without reasons.
That strategy had another reason : to give the Kitsune sister an entire liberty to chase the Alpha remaining, Freya.
I'll not explain the entire Freespace part, but it has a lot of splotlines.
Daji becomes the grand-admiral of the Armada, the secret fleet of the Dogma, while her sister Bothan becomes the grand-captain Neige. Bothan is just a captain according to her way to fight, directly in a space ship despite his sister Daji who prefers to lead cruisers.
Centuries later... Dogma betrays the Armada and forms an alliance with the former rogues, charging the Armada of the ancients sins of the Dogma. While Dogma believe that Bubastis, the main base of the Armada (which is by the way the new empire of the Furry), is without defense due to the apparent betray of the grand-admiral Daji who steals the admiral juggernaught Judgment and sends several fleets into an elaborate and deadly trap, Daji and Bothan lead an assault to the Earth major base and crush the army in a difficult space dogfight.
Bothan tries to convince her sister not to do so, but without results. There is no other way to save the humanity than to fight against her own sister...
Finally, she defeats her sister, but too late. Human-being is condamned, and she's the only life-being left on Earth. . Hands full of blood, she convinces herself to build another human-being from the very same way the first generation of Omegas was built, from the cloning cells... She sleeps just after this in a sort of cryogenisis stasis, with just a way to wake up : if one of the Alpha ressurects...

The redemption of the Kitsune
So here we come, the Cursed part actually drawn.
Finally, after centuries of sleeps, Kitsune Bothan wakes up. She senses a great thirst of blood, of revenge, from a human in this world.
She has a primary goal, to insure humanbeing against destruction, and she believes that she has to stop the Alphas to crush them... But Aesir - the male Alpha - seems to be reincarnated into Arès' corpse, and...
... She may have not to kill him after all, Arès seems to keep Aesir out of the control of his body. But he's dying slowly... Having an Alpha reincarneted in your body is quite too much for a simple human, like a cancer... Finally, she fall in love with him, the only one to be so kind with a freak like her. She loves him, but he'll die in less than a year...
She can't find any alternative to this...

To be continued


Voilà, l'héroine incontestée de toute la saga démesurée que j'ai écrit... Kitsune Bothan.

Dans Decay
Bothan est une version spéciale d'un type particulier Omega, appelé Furry.
Puisqu'elle est un type particulier d'Omega, il n'est pas peu dire que les Alphas peuvent être considérés comme ses parents légitimes.
Elle est une des rares survivante de la classe Kitsune avec sa soeur jumelle Daji, sauvée in extremis par Aesir lors d'une mission de routine pour l'Alpha. Elles n'auront de cesse de le considérer comme son père par après...

Dans Freespace
Elle est avant tout avec sa soeur un duo infernal, chacune se complétant. Il est difficile de dire qui des deux est l'impitoyable grande amirale, chacune se donnant un quelconque crédit pour chaque victoire de l'Armada. Par défaut il est établi que c'est sa soeur Daji qui a hérité de ce grade prestigieux, menant d'une main de fer l'Armada pour le compte du Dogma, mais avant tout pour sa vendetta personnelle...

Pour une quelconque raison, Bothan se fait appeler de divers noms, refusant de garder le prénom donné par Aesir. Elle devient ainsi la Grande Capitaine Neige. Elle peut seconder sa soeur si besoin est, et peut à sa guise mener le champ de bataille d'un point de vue stratégique, ou d'y fourrer directement son museau et assouvir ainsi ce "besoin d'adrénaline" qu'elle tient de son héritage d'Omega/Alpha...

Dans Cursed
Dans un premier temps elle essayera de tuer Fox Arès, l'homme qu'elle estime être comme la principale menace de l'humanité, mais se ravisera par après, jusqu'à en tomber amoureuse. Elle apprendra à se détendre, loin de toutes ces guerres relatées dans Decay ou Freespace. Plus calme, elle s'ouvrira aux petites bonheurs que peuvent apporter une vie normale, mais son passé comme ses crimes la rattrappent, et elle sera bien vite obligée de reprendre le chemin de la guerre.
Malgré sa destinée, elle sera plus joyeuse et souriante dans Cursed que dans n'importe quelle autre partie de la saga si ce n'est que les aléas de l'histoire la feront pencher vers la rancoeur, et même jusqu'à la haine la plus aveugle envers les humains...

Dans le futur?
Elle reviendra...

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Kitsune Bothan © Amiral Aesir
Watercolors, the 9th September 2007.