The Dark Mage

Chapter 31: Finnigan Fennec

   After hearing what had happened to Natalia and Buck from both Fr. Victor and Todd Reddington when Finnigan asked them over the phone, Finnigan knew what he was going to do. He was going to free them from Inari's comfortable captivity, and now it was just a manner of how. He too was very much hated by Inari for being friends with Tanukis and treating them like people and having no respect for Kitsune culture he believed didn't serve what he thought made sense or see in actuality. He also intentionally vandalized part of the ancient okami Inari shrine in Inari city that belonged to Inari's family for 4000 years out of spite and pissed on the graves of nobles, some of which were Inari's ancestors whom he blamed as collectively responsible for making his country a hell hole and therefore didn't deserve any respect. And even though Inari had him publicly beaten for this, he had no regrets about what he did.

     Finnigan also knew that there wasn't a chance he could take on all the Protogen guards in Inari's palace nor was there a chance Inari would let him go if she captured him too. But this was for Natalia and Buck whom he knew did nothing wrong and didn't deserve what was happening to them and was willing to take a risk and rescue them. And despite the Kitsune clan being the country of his birth, Finnigan was a red-blooded American Fennec Fox and had no feelings for the Kitsune clan after all the evil it did in stealing his youth and a prosperity he would never experience himself.

      He was born on February 7, 1923 during the Long Depression (1921-1948) and the collapse of traditional Kitsune culture that was destroyed shortly after. He also at that time, along with his generation, were regularly insulted and derided by the older generation for daring to ask for the basic opportunity to earn the necessities of life only to be told, "work harder", "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", "get some marketable skills", and so on and so forth by a generation that was already established and hoarded their wealth for themselves and left Finnigan's generation with less than nothing. And they weren't lazy or incompetent either and were willing to do what it took to improve their situation yet for all their efforts it would never amount to anything, because there was never a means for their efforts to have a meaningful impact on their lives while only enriching the nobility and corporate overlords. And seeing the wealthy elite hoard their wealth while the masses suffered and the mass exploitation of workers in all the main industries of Kitsune society all for the marginal increase of capital, Finnigan was radicalized and became a member of the Communist party. He did this because the Communists were some of the only groups that attempted any collective action against the abuses of the capitalist class of industrialists, nobility, and corrupt clergy.