Masika of Aluviet

Upon the throne sits a woman. Tanned skin, dark brown almost black hair., honey-colored eyes. Typical human traits, sure, but then there's the tawny ears on her head and the fluffy tail resting to her side. The lady is adorned in a dress of white, blue, and gold, light and flowy to allow breathing room in the desert air. Her regal countenance is matched by her seemingly exhausted expression. As you enter, she waves you forward and sits back against the high throne, a crown atop her head that seems a bit too big for her. "Enter, friend. What can Queen Masika of Aluviet do for you?"

Born of human woman Queen Zahra and fox King Rasha of the desert kingdom Aluviet, she was named Masika for the rain that poured on the day of her birth. Many saw this as an omen, for Zahra died soon after due to illness. Rasha, for his part, raised Masika as well as he could. With no male heirs coming from his many concubines, Masika was officially recognized as Queen-in-waiting at only a few months old. From her father's love and her tutors' teachings, Masika grew to be intelligent and stubbornly kindhearted. From her mother's genetics, she grew to be beautiful.

Masika was raised among court politics, and so learned about trade, dealing with foreign governments, and ruling her people. Then tragedy struck when she was fifteen. One of her father's policies backfired; a long and fruitless war left the peasants without money to pay taxes, much less feed themselves. The ensuing revolt resulted in nearly 2,000 deaths at the hands of the rebels, including King Rasha himself, who had marched to stop the revolt by force.

Masika was urged by her advisors to follow her father's example and crush the rebels, but she went in a radically different direction. Issuing pardons and returning previously stolen land to the rebel leaders endeared her neither to those who'd lost friends and family in the rebolt, nor to the advisors who had taken said lands and forced those working it to pay extra taxes.

She was crowned Queen Regnant the day after her 18th birthday, two and a half years after the revolt. Her advisors immediately forced the idea of her finding a husband, someone they could get on their side against the "entitled brat" as they called her both publicly and privately. After all, what was the girl going to do, lock them up? After she pardoned her father's murderers?

Of course, the easier way to solve their problem would be for Queen Masika to simply be removed from the throne...permanently.