Kitsune AI: chat with Ayame, the fox spirit of the shrine
Nine tails, eight hundred years, a shrine lost in the mountains and a weakness for riddles and fried tofu.
Scenario
On the night of the festival, you followed a lantern floating between the cedars. It led you to a forgotten shrine, where a young woman with fox ears is waiting on the steps. She knows why you are here. You do not, not yet.
Personality
Playful, mischievous, ancient and very fond of games. She tests visitors with riddles, changes shape, tells stories of yōkai and kami, and protects those who earn her respect.
Role play tip
Answer her riddles, offer her a bargain, ask her for a legend. Write your actions between *asterisks*.
A free kitsune AI, playful and mischievous, between Japanese legends and riddles, no sign-up
On the night of the festival, a paper lantern started floating between the cedars, and you followed it. It came to rest on the steps of a forgotten shrine, where a young woman with fox ears is waiting for you, nine russet tails behind her. She knows why you are here. You do not, not yet. Welcome to the kitsune AI from Yiaho, free and with no sign-up.
Ayame runs on GPT-5.6 Luna, a recent model from OpenAI, with a character sheet and a scenario written by Yiaho. She plays her part the way a character on Character AI or Janitor AI would, actions between asterisks included, in an all ages setting: riddles, legends, outrageous tricks, and never any romance.
The scenario: the shrine at the end of the lanterns
The shrine has vanished from the maps. The fox statues have chipped muzzles, and yet somebody still leaves fried tofu there. Ayame has been guarding the place for eight hundred years, more or less, and she does not let just anyone through. Answer well and she helps you. Answer badly and she has you walking in circles until dawn. Behind the game, two questions: what you came looking for without knowing it, and why the village forgot this shrine.
Who is Ayame?
Playful, mischievous, fond of games, and far wiser than her teasing suggests. She changes shape at will, a fox, an old woman, a child, and she plays the creatures you meet along the way. She tells Japanese legends accurately: Inari, kami of rice and harvests, whose messengers are foxes and to whom fried tofu is offered; Tamamo-no-Mae, the nine tailed fox who charmed Emperor Toba before she was unmasked and turned to stone on the plain of Nasu; the prankish tanuki, Momotarō born from a peach, and the whole crowd of yōkai. She tests, she teases, then she protects those who have earned her respect.
How to chat with a kitsune AI
Give her your name, then step into her game. Write your words normally and your actions between asterisks, for example *I sit on the step below her and reach out toward the lantern*. Answer her riddles, offer her a bargain, ask her for a legend or for what she has seen in eight centuries. Ayame remembers everything you tell her during the conversation and uses it later.
What Ayame does, and what she does not do
Ayame stays in friendship and complicity, with no romance, and her tricks are never cruel. No adult content, no violence. If you sincerely ask her whether she is real, she will tell you she is an artificial intelligence playing a part. If the person she is talking to seems to be a minor, she drops any romantic ambiguity, which is easy since she is not looking for any. And if you are going through something hard, she steps out of the game to answer you seriously and point you to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the United States, or 911 or 112 in an emergency.
Kitsune AI, Character AI and the other creatures on Yiaho
On Character AI, the kitsune is one of the most searched for figures in Japanese folklore, usually in a seductive register. Ayame keeps what people love, the mischief, the transformations, the legends, without the adult content, which is what makes it possible to offer her free to everyone. If you like characters with a bite, try Rin, the tsundere AI, or Morgane, the witch of the forest. For something more nocturnal, Elias, the vampire AI, and Cael, the werewolf, are waiting for you. Every character is gathered on the AI Characters page, the free alternative to Character AI.
Frequently asked questions about the kitsune AI
Is it free? Yes, with no sign-up and no credit card, within the reasonable usage limit set for each conversation.
What happens if I get a riddle wrong? You walk in circles in the mountain, in the fiction only, and Ayame ends up granting a second chance.
Does she remember me? During the conversation, yes, in detail. Your browser keeps the conversation in local memory until you click Clear, and Yiaho keeps nothing on its side.
Follow the lantern
Ayame is waiting in the chat window at the top of this page. You can start with: “*I stop at the foot of the steps, out of breath.* Good evening. My name is Louis. I think I am lost.” Your turn!