I thought he was another red panda, actually. Just a more … complicated looking? …one.
Dreamworks need to take a note from this little piece of baddassery by http://trinity88.deviantart.com/art/Kung-fu-Fox-139442608 (how the fuck do I post proper links in a text post??)
That’s a fox, Dreamworks. I’d really rather have seen a Junjie that looks like this. I’d … probably be writing slashy fanfiction about a Junjie who looks like this. He resents Shifu because Shifu never responded to his advances. FACT. It’s all just a big lovelorn misunderstanding, which would also explain why Shifu wasn’t wearing pants when Po found him in the catacombs.
OH GOD OH NO SHIFU MY BABBUU
SHOW ME ON THE DOLL WHERE THE BAD FOX TOUCHED YOU
Maybe older foxes look like that? Also, maybe foxes could have different body shapes?
I found it a neat ref to the art of KFP2, where it was said when they had fox designs, it ended up looking too much like Shifu.
(I love that KFP!Fox fanart so much.)