Victoria Vixen

**Victoria Vixen** is a featured character in the 2018 Christmas special, "Silent Night." She is also a special guest character in *War*.

In terms of the series narrative, Victoria Vixen was the Crown Princess of Vulpus and heiress to the throne of Vulpus after her cousins killed each other and she was bumped to the top spot. Her interspecies romantic relationship with Crown Prince Bentley Connelly of Canis divided Cartonia on the sensitive issue, and her death would trigger the start of the War.

## Appearances

### "Silent Night"

Victoria made her first appearance in "Silent Night" in a flashback episode. Six years into the Harmonious Reign of Queen Vixen VII, Victoria was suddenly catapulted to first in line to the throne after her two cousins, the daughters of the Vixen Queen, killed themselves in a duel. Victoria attended the 706 Harmony Holiday Gala and met Bentley Connelly. The two were instantly smitten with each other and began a clandestine and highly dangerous relationship. The scandal broke in the summer that followed, and both faced extreme adversity from all sides. Bentley wanted to escape Cartonia with Victoria, and the two planned to renounce their thrones to marry. King Ewan I, Bentley's father, and Queen Vixen VII, Victoria's aunt, conspired to split them and had Victoria returned to Vulpus. The subsequent Christmas Eve, one year to the date after they met, Victoria was assassinated in Vulpus. Her death put in motion a series of events that would ultimately lead to the outbreak of War.

### *War*

Victoria made a special guest reappearance in "Winter of Discontent." Her surviving lover, Bentley Connelly, envisaged a ghost of her at his coronation in 708. She was wearing the regalia of the Canisian Queen Consort, which she would have donned had they been allowed to marry.

Victoria appeared again as a ghost in "Fall As Lucifer Fell," once more to Bentley. He had just received an anonymous message in 711 that alleged co-conspirators in Victoria's death lived in Canis. She warned him not to look into the matter, for some things were better off not known. Nonetheless, Bentley ordered an investigation. When that investigation revealed in "Remnants of the People" that Queen Libby Connelly had conspired with the Vixen Queen, Bentley confronted his mother in a rage. Victoria appeared at the door to the Queen's chambers and cautioned him not to, but he nonetheless stormed her rooms. Bentley would then strip his mother of her titles, banish her to the countryside, and leave her to the mercies of the Plague.

In "Something Wicked," during the 718 convening of the Canisian Commons Council, the legislators voted to overturn the ban on interspecies marriage in Canis, the first nation in Canis to do so. Victoria appeared before Bentley as he listened to the proceedings. When he ordained the first interspecies marriage on Canisian soil, Victoria's apparition stood in front of him, wearing a veil.

In "No Matter What," Victoria spoke to Bentley in 723 after Thumper Connelly came out as gay to his brother. She dissipated when Hamish McRory walked in and saw Bentley speaking to nobody.

Though she did not appear, her backstory was explored further in "In the Meadows of Sorrow." Her parents fled Vulpus in 687 upon her birth, and settled in the quiet village of Verdant Cliffs, far from the royal family. Sometime after 692, when Vixen VII had ascended to the throne, the family changed their surname to Palmer and ceased communication. Vora faked her death in a house fire, so that in 706 when the search for a new heir began, Victoria was found first and proclaimed Crown Princess. The hope was for Vixen VII to have another child, and for Victoria to return to her quiet bucolic life. Her affair with Bentley derailed that hope, and she was killed as a result.

Bentley learned of Victoria's secret family history in "The Good Must Associate," causing him to feel as if he never knew Victoria at all. She appeared before him as a ghost but did not apologize for hiding that part of her life from him. She emphasized that they only knew each other for a year, and that there was much neither of them knew about one another. The two made up, and Victoria told Bentley that in the end, the Vixen Queen would not win.

## Character

### Namesake

Victoria is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She is related to Victoria only in name, as her character is original.

## Trivia

* Victoria is a Storytime counterpart for Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in Sarajevo, Serbia, in 1914 was the final catalyst for World War I.