Honestly? Half anime, half literature.
See, I'm weeb trash (though a lot better than I was as a kid, lol), so I've always had a love of kitsune, and as an extension, foxes. My imaginary friend for a lot of my childhood was a fox. I loved books and shows and movies involving anthropomorphic animals, from Redwall to Balto.
But, something always rubbed me the wrong way; that foxes are always the evil animal. Their cleverness is always associated with maliciousness in media. Foxes of First Dark/Hunter's Moon was the first piece of literature I had read that didn't paint foxes as evil--smart, adaptable, yes, but not evil, having only seen Fox and the Hound as my first piece of good fox media. I've spent a lot of time looking for stuff in a similar vein, but it's very few and far in between. Redwall's foxes are evil, Warriors basically takes a huge dump on foxes (to the point where RPers will assume EVERY fox is a bloodthirsty killer), any other Disney fox is basically the sly trickster that ruins everything...Even Zootopia follows this trope (though Nick does get better, ofc).
So, long story short, I got sick and tired of always seeing the fox as the bad guy. I wanted to throw off the chains of that trope and make other animals the "bad guys". So I started taking my fox characters and building them a universe where they could live fruitful lives. I wanted Hunter's Moon, but taking elements and lore from the kitsune and combining them. So that's what my webcomic is: taking that trope and destroying it.
I think high school me would be rather proud of what I'm working on; I'm basically writing and drawing all this for her.
