~A gypsy boy, later part of Regin Faolan's war party.

~Namia Faolan and Willa Lore raise Fox from early childhood. Namia assigns him the formal name, Keegan, believing a strange name like 'Fox' to be inappropriate for one living in an aristocratic environment. She takes her adoration for her son, Regin, to a bit of an extreme and speaks of him incessantly in his absence. In his precariousness, Fox becomes aware of his role as Namia's diversion from depression. He absorbs everything she says, and lets her glorified portraiture of Regin (a perception heavily clouded by a mother's bias and an impossible level of ideality to achieve) shape his own behavior.
Upon Regin's return home, he finds acquainting himself with Fox to be rather difficult. At his insistence, Fox is called Fox, and not Keegan--a name Regin finds too disconcertingly similar to his own. Fox, who's known Regin only as a distant icon for most of his life, is unsure how to approach him. He generally keeps his distance until circumstances force the two of them to be in continual contact. With his inherent desire to please, Fox reacts the best way he knows how and devotes a substantial amount of energy to attaining some kind of recognizable approbation from Regin--something that, in it's ineffectiveness, becomes a major source of frustration.

Cassy, on the other hand, is perplexedly amused by Fox's grim seriousness. She's never quite as fascinated by him, though, as he is by her. She is, by most standards, his complete opposite-frivolous and lively. Captivated by her childish disposition, Fox depends on her as a sporadic but necessary distraction from the weight of the burdens he habitually carries.

~Fox was probably the most difficult character to mold a discernible personality for-even naming him turned into a problematic ordeal. I think all the considering and contemplating paid off, though. He went from being vague, two-dimensional, and typical to highly specific (at least in my own head) over the years that I've been working on this project. I count him as one of my favorites because I can relate to him a bit. I think there are too many people out there who carry things around on their shoulders far longer than the minor gravity of the issues call for…myself included. I think that's also why I like his eyebrows-my favorite part of his design--they give him that unavoidable look of concern that, I believe, make quite a bit of his overly-sensitive personality apparent on his face.
Several people have expressed their dislike for the name Keegan to me. I chose it, though, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it rhymes with Regin…which, oddly enough, is a plot point. I also liked that the name denotes an ardent personality-which I think applies rather well to Fox's talent for finding things to fixate on. Nevertheless, it's not the name most of the characters know him by. Fox is his actual name--in reality, it was just a temporary nickname that he had while I looked for a more conventional name. I grew so used to it, though, that it stuck.