David Gonterman



David Gonterman, aka Daveykins, FoxFire, or David Foxfire, is a fan-fiction author and artist who is known mainly for the controversial "American Kitsune" fan fiction story and the furry themed "Fox Fire/Scarlet P.I." webcomic series.

Dating back to 1995, he has produced a number of mind-numbingly convoluted fan fiction X-Over stories. His stories involve Sailor Moon, Power Rangers, and Sonic the Hedgehog series, which in his fan-fiction universe all take place at the same time. King of the self-insert fan fic, he was one of the first Sailor Moon fan fiction writers to insert himself as Serena's one true love. He also gained infamy among fans of the show's gay cast members; in one of his more infamous stories ("American Kitsune"), they died at his character's hands while his insert character made a homophobic rant justifying their deaths. He is also notoriously thin-skinned (he once wrote a story where he beat up poor Mary Jo Pehl of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame, who had the misfortune of being a stand-in for his legion of critics).

He has also created a furry-themed webcomic series called "Fox Fire", which was later retooled into "Scarlet P.I." He also created a guest strip for It's Walky!.

He seems to attend the Shoji Kawamori school of continuity, i.e. pick and choose whatever you want from the previous stories and throw the rest out. As such, readers of his work should expect Kudzu Plots.

Easily as notorious in the 90s and early 2000s as Christian Weston Chandler is today, he's managed to fade from the public eye, mostly by growing up substantially in the intervening years and just being outright outdone by the aforementioned...individual.

The Davey Crockett Trilogy
A trilogy of tangentially linked stories incorporating the character of David "Davey Crockett" Kintobor into the world of Sonic the Hedgehog.

The Piasa Monster

Blood and Metal

Sailor Moon: American Kitsune

The most infamous story of his works. Sailor Moon meets Power Rangers meets Sonic the Hedgehog meets anything else Gonterman could think of at the time. Davie meets Sailor Moon and the Power Rangers and rants about how he hates gay people while gleefully murdering the gay villains from Sailor Moon.

Scarlet P.I.
Two separate but interrelated strips. The first series, which was named FoxFire, ran for 240 strips before being dropped without a resolution. After a recent comic convention, Jim Goodlow comes home to find a package with a female fursuit in it. He's surprised to find out that it's a sentient creature and needs to a symbiotic relationship to survive. Hilarity Ensues as the suit (originally named Susan, before being changed to Scarlet) becomes Jim's crime fighting alter ego as he continues his career as a professional cartoonist. Things get a little confusing from that point on.

In 2004, a total Retool and reboot was started under the name of Scarlet PI, with there being 123 strips. Jim Goodlow reappears, but is changed from a cartoonist to a prodigy cop that can't get a job. (Interestingly enough, he's also Invisible to Gaydar, but it instead just feels like repentance on Gonterman's part.) After failing to find a job, he happens upon a box dumped near his apartment. It contains an advanced prototype female fox fursuit, which was created by a corrupt corporation (not an Alien Invasion this time, Benevolent or not). Of course, he leaps right into it due to wanting to seduce men, investigating the corporation as an obligatory exchange.

The Packbellverse
These stories and comics initially seem unrelated, but they are set in the same universe- there are many crossovers of the various characters in other stories. Most of them incorporate the character of Adam Packbell, if at least only tangentially.

Lost Boy Found

A self-published Peter Pan fanfic about a Lost Boy named Adam Packbell. The advertising blurb claims that it is "equal parts autobiography, adventure story, and Shrek-style parody of every recent novel set in Neverland including the official sequel". Adam Packbell is a central character in many of the Planewalker-verse comics and books.

Night Soldiers

A Sailor Moon inspired story about a young witch in a southern community. After Sue "comes out of the broom closet", life goes well for her as everybody accepts it. However, her lifestyle is threatened: when a succubus attacks and kills a couple people, she is the only one able to stop it. It abruptly ends before she starts her journey, so what happens is unknown. Like Fauna Force, this was meant to steal the audience from its source of inspiration.

Baka Breakers

The plotless adventures of a robotic foxgirl and her boyfriend. Difficult to describe.

Livewire Latte

A continuation of Baka Breakers, with Adam Packbell (See Lost Boy Found- it's the same character) running a coffee shop in a small town roughly 70 miles from Vegas, or 'Sin City' as Gonterman loves calling it. Primarily a Slice of Life comic, except for the android Catgirl Tara and the anthropomorphic mice running around; as well as the hints to Adam's magical side. Arguably half-decent for the first three dozen pages or so, precisely due to its less ambitious, slice-of-life style... at least until the Token Minority Japanese girl comes in.

Planeswalker

An original story based loosely on Magic: The Gathering done in a Magical Girl style. In ancient times, a portal between Earth and Dominaria was briefly opened and then sealed off, leaving behind artifacts which contained the souls of mages. In modern times, a young girl named Jamie came in contact with one of these books and was infused with a spirit of a Planeswalker. The symbiotic creature now acts as a paragon of justice... when not just being a giant Jerkass. Adam Packbell appears in a Yu-Gi-Oh!-esque tournament based on Magic, and Richard Kronos and Sue from Night Soldiers appear in the audience.

Other Gonterman Works
Fauna Force

Gonterman's response to Sonic the Hedgehog, Fauna Force starred Johnathan Brisby, originally introduced in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers/Secret of NIMH crossover story The Rangers of NIMH. Johnathan, an accomplished street magician, stumbles upon the Animaster, an evil lion who has recently turned a small cadre of humans into animals via a process known as 'furricization' (a none-too-subtle play on roboticization from the Sonic universe) and takes them in to form a team that can fight against the Animaster. It was intended to "steal" the audience from Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog...

The Kissing Contest

An inept Disney Script Fic of sorts, which includes Gonterman's self-insert being praised by Disney executives as an insightful genius for portraying Pocahontas as a "donamatrix" in his fanfiction and a paragraph-long sidenote about how none of the Disney characters actually died in their films.

Kitsune .44

Scott Trucker, a Texas Ranger, gets sent back in time to Feudal Japan after a tornado scoops him up. He becomes part of a war against another time traveler that has taken over a sizable portion of Japan. As the site hosting the comic points out, the self-insert isn't named after Gonterman this time, but the hairstyle is a dead giveaway.

NiGHTS: The Third Dreamer

A rare Gontercomic about NiGHTs: Into Dreams, ostensibly a spinoff from Archie's own NiGHTs miniseries.. The plot does not seem to exist until about two pages before the comic abruptly stops, when the titular 'third dreamer' is revealed. Notable for containing the most strangely rugged Gonterman insert known to date. Who beats Charles Barkley in a one-on-one basketball game and dunks right over his head. Seriously. He also has an uncanny resemblance to Ali Al-Saachez of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 fame. Hide your women, lock your doors and get in the Gundam!

NiTRO

David Gonterman gets fed up with the MSTs of his work, creating a reactionary comic in which he defeats brutally kills his most vocal opponents and takes over the Satellite of Love. Also includes a bunny Sex Bot for no real reason but Author Appeal. The source of the infamous "Clinton Jobs".

The Rangers of NIMH

Medical equipment is being stolen by Nimnul. After meeting up with Johnathan Brisby, the Rescue Rangers go out to stop him. Pretty much the gold standard for both blind trust in the spellchecker and absolutely no proofreading whatsoever, its first sentence reads "The Ranger's where flowing a leaded of break-ins." Usual tripe that wouldn't be too exceptional except for the fact that it created Johnathan Brisby, who became Gonterman's mascot of sorts.

Sailor Moon USA

After the US cancellation of Sailor Moon, David ends up catching said character after an explosion in Japan launched her across the Pacific. An Adaptation Distillation of Sailor Moon: American Kitsune. Note: link is to a "Fan Art" MST, since the unaltered artwork is generally considered to be lost.

Sally Protest

A reactionary comic made when he discovered Archie Comics' plan to kill off Sally in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic continuity. After assigning his own sense of outrage at the idea to, uh, everyone else in the world, David consoles an outraged Sally, offering a solution. Famous that it got Ken Penders' attention.

The Mobius Chronicles

Sort of the follow-up to Sally Protest, The Mobius Chronicles is an alternate continuity that diverges from issue 47 of the official Sonic the Hedgehog comic book. Naturally, Gonterman promptly makes himself the main character. MSTed here, here and here.

Audiobooks and Dramatic Readings of Gonterman Works

 * American Kitsune, chapters 1-3 (Andrew Cook)
 * American Kitsune, chapters 4-6 (Andrew Cook)
 * The Piasa Bird (Franzie von Karma)
 * The Piasa Bird (Pamachu)
 * Excerpts from Foxfire (puppetchaos)

Websites detailing Gonterman's work

 * FoxFire Studios - The official David Gonterman website.
 * DaveykinsFoxFire on DeviantART - The official DeviantART page maintained by him.
 * The Gonterman Shrine - A website that compiles some of Gonterman's more infamous older works. It hasn't been updated since May 2001, but it feels just as current now as it did back then. Contains the entire published texts of Blood and Metal and Sailor Moon: American Kitsune, amongst others.
 * This section delves deep into Gonterman's psyche, analyzing and exposing his mental and life issues to the entire world.
 * MSTron - An Mystery Science Theater 3000 style website that includes FoxFire, Night Soldiers, Baka Breakers, and Planeswalker. Officially dead, but a mirror remains.
 * The 'Viewtiful Gonterman' chain at Lard Pirates, which is "picking up where MSTron left off."
 * An Interview With David Gonterman. An online interview with the Gonterman himself.
 * The Sisto Files, a collection of Space Ghost themed MSTings that also include some of Gonterman's early works, Sailor Moon USA and Sonic: The Mobius Chronicles. Note that this is mirrored from a Geocities site that no longer exists and many of the non-Gonterman links are now dead. Gonterman-related content also mirrored https://web.archive.org/web/20140807103319/http://raelbunny.deviantart.com/.