I have been trying to avoid the temptation since this cutie was released. I've failed. DX
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Keter
'Keter' is a Hebrew male name meaning 'crown'. I though this was fitting, because of the large amounts of gold on his body. But this is not, in fact, the reason I chose this name. There's a much more subtle reason to it than that.
Mai-Mai-Mari, your jokey comment about a cowbell made me think of one of my favourite horror games — certainly my favourite to watch a certain Let's Player play on YouTube — SCP Containment Breach. In the archive of mythos behind this game there is a object called SCP-513, 'A Cowbell'. It is just a ordinary cowbell, kept suspended in a gel. The archive states that a note was found with the cowbell:
You’ve seen it. Now he can hear you.
You’ve touched it. Now he can see you.
Never ring it. If you hear it, he can touch you.
Basically, ringing the cowbell makes a tall figure appear to you and follow you and just be generally creepy. Like most of the things in the archive. It made me think of the Japanese Yōkai, and the fact they often possessed objects and used them to trick people. The SCPs in the archive are divided into 4 main types, ranging from the least dangerous to the most. Decommissioned, Safe, Euclid and finally Keter. Keter is defined as being 'assigned to subjects that both (a) display vigorous, active hostility to human life, civilization, and/or spacetime, and (b) are capable of causing significant destruction in the event of a containment breach. Such subjects must be cataloged, contained according to special containment procedures, and destroyed, if possible.'
Now, 513 is classed as Euclid, but since Keter seemed a more fitting name, I decided to make this Kitsuneko seem slightly more dangerous.
Male
Dusk, and the faint golden shimmer of an object on a high shelf was, for a brief moment before it vanished, the only light in the room. A dark-haired woman rubbed the bridge of her nose tiredly, her bleary eyes and otherwise dishevelled appearance suggesting a lack of sleep. She squinted up at the shelf, rising from her sitting position on the still made-up bed to raise a hand to the object of her interest, an large-ish ornate carved statue of... was it a fox? The animal's graceful pose suggested a mysterious nobility; the delicately painted details suggested it was of Egyptian or Arabic origin. As her hand neared the statue, she suddenly found herself about to grasp... nothing. The statue was gone, or had it ever really been there? Shaking her head in weary frustration, the woman returned to her sleepless pose atop the bed, continuing a fruitless search for the origin of the unsettling feeling that had been keeping her awake for many nights.
Carefully nestled on the dresser in the hall amid a quickly fading golden glow, sat the statue, green slivers of eyes narrowed seemingly more so than before and teeth bared in what could almost be a grin.
Keter had watched this woman for a while now. All her habits; every nervous tic and her preferred bolt holes, the foods she ate in certain moods — they were all known to him. He knew she had sensed something was wrong. And by process of elimination (namely that she hadn't left the house for three days), he could tell that something was him.
The Kitsuneko couldn't help but be slightly impressed. None of his targets had ever even thought to search for the source of the unsettling feeling he worked so hard to create. A few had been superstitious, and realised right away that the object they had found was not to be kept, but never before had someone kept the object and worked out it was not the source.
The object he thought of was, of course, part of his methods. A slightly tarnished golden bell, easily visible when the light struck it and oddly intriguing to humans. It had a habit of turning up in strange places, aided, of course, by a certain green-eyed yōkai. Whoever picked it up he would follow as if they had found a kitsune's Hoshi no Tama. He had no such ties to the object, of course (he sometimes wondered), but the strange pull it had to humans made it ideal for his tricks. He briefly considered if it had had the same drawing effect on him, but quickly shook that idea off. Yōkai were not usually affected by what humans considered 'magic'. They were the creators of such things.
The woman had finally managed to fall asleep, still sitting upright on the bed. A mischievous smirk crossed the face of Keter and he vanished from his place on the dresser with a familiar glow, reappearing on the bedside table with his unsettling stare firmly fixed on the sleeping human. The bell was exactly where she had left it besides her bed, so he picked it up in his teeth, stifling the ringing sound as best he could. He had grown tired of toying with this one human.
When she awoke, an ethereal glow surrounded the object she knew to have started this, despite not being the source of the strange feeling she kept getting. But more disturbing by far was the fact it had been placed exactly in front of her. There was no way she was keeping it any longer; not since she had been unable to identify the real source. It was clearly linked to it some way, and whatever the real source was wasn't planning on leaving it alone. Almost by some scared reflex, she threw the bell as hard as she could out of her bedroom window, surprised to not hear the thud of it hitting earth.
But when she looked, it was completely gone.
Time to find a new target. It was a process he had repeated many times in his life. The cold wind buffeted the cloth that draped his back and tail, making it hard to walk. Maybe he would choose somewhere hotter next time. He always had liked warmer climates. The bell still held firmly in his mouth, Keter trotted swiftly onwards, favouring teleporting every few steps to actually walking. It added a certain mystery to him, he thought. It made a trail harder to follow, as well. He tuned everything out in favour of simply travelling, somehow knowing the path he should take.
Once he began to pay attention to his surroundings again, it became obvious that whatever had lead him here had heard his wish for warmer lands. It was the thick of night, and scrubland advanced into the horizon as far as the eye could see. It had an almost desert-like feel to it, isolated from civilisation except for the single, two-storey house and the road that ran through the landscape like a black river, shimmering as the heat from the Tarmac rose from its surface. Yes, this was a perfect place to acquire his next human.
As the sun rose, a solitary young man walked through the dry bushes from his house, restlessness leading him to take an early morning walk. He was unsure of why he had come out to this place, but the best he could do to describe was that he had been feeling a strange pull coming from the scrubland, drawing him outside. It wasn't as if there was anything out here, or rather anything of interest to hi—
He paused mid-thought, spotting an unnatural shimmer against the sand-coloured dirt, and bent down to get a closer look.
A golden bell, its surface slightly tarnished by age. Intriguing... How had it got here? It somehow entranced him, drawing him closer, inviting him to pick it up. Was this what had drawn him out here? No, what magic could such an object possibly hold? Reaching out, he carefully lifted it to eye level to better observe it.
As it was raised, the bell rang; an oddly foreboding note.
Sitting still and silent behind a dead bush, a fox-like figure smirked, narrowing yellow-green eyes.

Keter is a trickster of the worst kind, truly befitting his Kitsune ancestors. Though not necessarily cruel, his desire to mess with people has led some humans to a state of madness. He is cool and sharp-witted, incredibly curious and unpredictable around others of his kind, acting hyper one minute and reserved the next. He spends a lot of his time somewhere between the human and spirit worlds, following humans around like a ghost in a way that all they ever see is the golden glow of his markings and jewellery. He's a small Kitsuneko, standing at just above the minimum height of 1'6" at the shoulder, which makes it easy for him to sneak into places in order for him to further follow his targets; making his way onto shelves in bedrooms and living rooms and pretending to be a statue during the night. Whenever his target looks directly at him he will use his foxfire mutation to disappear and reappear just out of their range of vision. Keter has never given a reason for his bizarre ways, merely shrugging the question off and disappearing elsewhere, but his intentions have never appeared directly malicious, just unsettling.Keter is generally seen in or around the company of an old bell, presumably a cowbell, which is golden in colour and assumedly made of the precious metal due to its weight. However the surface is tarnished and suggests against it being genuine. This bell seems to have some kind of spell on it, capable of entrancing humans with a low-level compulsion to take it home. Whoever finds this bell will also, unknowingly, bring Keter back to their house as well, where he will proceed to terrorise them until they try to dispose of the bell then leave to find his next target. He thinks very highly of his own abilities, but not quite to the point of arrogance — he's far too cautious for that. This Kitsuneko Chimera lives for mystery, loving to create an aura of intrigue around himself with certain characteristics and movements, such as using his fire to teleport rather than walking. It is lucky that he has been doing this sort of thing from a very young age, as he would have accidentally killed himself through energy drain otherwise, what with the crucial role his foxfire plays in his lifestyle and how often he uses it for menial things.
He is, rather predictably, obsessed with all things horror. Occasionally, his tricks have led humans to desert their homes for a bit, and it was on one of these such days that he discovered the existence of video games and movies... Specifically, horror games, and horror movies. In his anthro form he is often found playing and watching them.
Teleportation flame
Allows wielder to teleport to any visible location within ~5 meters
I thought it fit, since 513 was the inspiration for me trying for this creature. 513-1, the tall monster that follows people once the cowbell has been rung, can appear to them anywhere, and I can see Keter using this to great effect to mess with people.
I have tried so many times to draw something... And I have tremendous art block for anything not YouTuber fanart related at the moment XD So this will, unfortunately, remain empty. Good luck all!