Susan

Susan Félicie Somerstien (née Renarde) is a fennec fox who is best friends with Kiki and Mei Ling. She loves doing ballet and is very graceful. She is voiced by Kath Soucie, who gives her a French accent in the English dub.

## Susan Somerstien

### Aliases

Cute vixen (Kiki), La Renarde (herself), Chérie (Poppy), My dear (Alesya), Sweetiepie (Maxine)

### Relatives

Elsa (sister), Michael (brother), Leroy (father), Jessica (mother), Fifi (daughter), Franz (husband)

## Notable info

Due to being born in France, Susan's native language is French, although she can speak English and German among others. Susan's mother Jessica is a prima ballerina just like her. When Susan was seven years old, she was introduced to ballet. She was a very fast learner excelling in every ballet lesson at ease and even mastering pointe techniques. Susan is also a very flexible contortionist with flexibility levels that are exactly the same as her friends Melissa, Tamara and Eniko. Susan married Franz Somerstien in 2022 and gave birth to her daughter Fifi on March 7th, 2023.

Her English actress - Kath Soucie, gives her a French accent in both English dubs.

Susan is changed to speak English in the French dubs, Hebrew in the Ukrainian dubs and Ukrainian in the Spanish and Icelandic dubs.

Even though Susan is seen wearing a blue dress in public, she is sometimes seen wearing a cancan dress, which is a possible factor that she performs as a dancer at a saloon as well, although Susan is mostly seen doing ballet at a theatre wearing a magenta, later pink tutu.

Susan is sometimes depicted with a deep blue pedicure when seen bare-pawed, but only after Susan becomes a prima ballerina.

Susan was originally going to wear a yellow, later cream tutu, a yellow one-piece swimsuit and a gold and yellow, later gold and blue PVC catsuit. This was changed so that Susan's attires wouldn't camouflage with her fur. For instance, the tutu became pink, the one-piece swimsuit became blue and the PVC catsuit became blue all over.

## Talents

Susan has quite a few talents, especially for a fennec fox.

Ballet dancing: Susan is a prima ballerina like her best friends and is super graceful, most likely referencing Anna Pavlova. She also performed as Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and the lead role in Delibes' Sylvia among others. Susan wears a pink tutu, white tights, cream pointes and a gold tiara with sapphires in it when she is seen doing a ballet dance.

Contortion: Susan is quite a supple fennec fox and is able to do a quadruple fold, some very deep frontbends, do a Ruppel backbend and even twist her torso 180 degrees in both directions and do splits up to 540 degrees among others. Susan is also mainly a frontbender when she does contortion, and wears a blue PVC catsuit when doing contortion.

Gymnastics: Susan is very acrobatic and is able to do flips, somersaults and other gymnastics maneuvers with ease.

Swimming: Susan is a very good swimmer and is able to hold her breath underwater for 10 minutes.

Another thing though, Susan is a really skilled self-taught accordionist too. Her accordion is of a Hohner make and has played songs from Felix Arndt's Nola to Dizzy Fingers by Zez Confrey without a single glitch.