I will happily mash on a creators work for entertainment here as I don't have to worry about making people feel a certain way. But, I still feel bad that Bubs got burned that hard. Whatever the reason is, he cut complete ties with the writing team and that's not something you generally a person would do without sufficient reason. Everybody needs somebody in their corner.
That soulbound sucks in general. If you compare the kitsune soulbound to the valkyrie one it's night and day. Large dialogue variations, multiple events that don't happen unless you're a valkyrie, a few chunks dedicated to it's existence, etc.
Comparing that to the foxes where you get slight dialogue changes and some middling powers is rather lackluster. Given the borderline xenophobia you'd think there'd be at least a mini plot thread instead of nothing.
Alypia really did a good job and hopefully won't lose steam.
Kitsune soulbound option is not unlike the kitsune in general.
There's the furry races like Lupines, Marefolk, Leothran or w/e they're called, and Minotaurs.
If we're to raw numbers however? There's far fewer of them than there are kitsune, bees, harpies, elves, and centaurs. All of your party members save 1 wouldn't count either I imagine. Hmm. Never really thought about this. I've always only ever went where the characters with character are.
There's more than Gytha. Hell if I can remember off the top of my head.
Just reminds me back to the days of CoC1 when it'd be easier to list NPCs that didn't take into account multiple genital's and like half of them had unique scenes for being a veritable tentacle monster. Izumi, Holli, Kiha, Helia, Scylla's support group, the forest kitsune, Isabella, Kell- actually you get the point.
Some NPCs added in either of the mods also take into account number and type and alter the scenes accordingly. Though I think most of them were only ever done by community writers though so obviously you wouldn't get that kind of energy here.