Scenario A: Maid Marian is born to fox parents. One of their siblings marries King Richard. Richard, being both a king and a lion is allowed to marry whomever the fuck he wants.
Scenario B: Marian is orphaned, and Richard adopts her, and she refers to him as her “uncle” because she was old enough when her parents died that she felt Richard was more of an uncle than a new father to her.
Scenario C: Marian’s parents aren’t dead, but Richard is such good friends with them that she calls him her uncle purely as a term of affection.
That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are other fully plausible configurations.
D, in a world with anthropomorphic animal people cross breeding can lead to recessive generic traits that allow a fox to appear when two lion presenting lion/fox parents have children.
Scenario A: Maid Marian is born to fox parents. One of their siblings marries King Richard. Richard, being both a king and a lion is allowed to marry whomever the fuck he wants.
Scenario B: Marian is orphaned, and Richard adopts her, and she refers to him as her “uncle” because she was old enough when her parents died that she felt Richard was more of an uncle than a new father to her.
Scenario C: Marian’s parents aren’t dead, but Richard is such good friends with them that she calls him her uncle purely as a term of affection.
That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are other fully plausible configurations.
D, in a world with anthropomorphic animal people cross breeding can lead to recessive generic traits that allow a fox to appear when two lion presenting lion/fox parents have children.