For the vampires in ENHYPEN’s original story DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR and the werewolves in &TEAM’s DARK MOON: THE GREY CITY, their stories begin with losing their families or their homes and moving their lives to Riverfield and Greyville, respectively. They share the same pain—the loss of someone, or something, important to them—but the trajectory of their stories change in accordance with themes related to vampires and werewolves. Time means nothing to vampires, for example, so the narrative of BLOOD ALTAR revolves around moving between places instead. For some of the places they visit on their journey—from Vamfield House to Riverfield, Printanier and Estival, passing through Automnal, then from Hivernal (significant to their past) and back to Riverfield—they stay only a few days; in some cases, they’re returning for the first time in hundreds of years. The pack of werewolves in GREY CITY, meanwhile, have to build out their own territory within the expansive area of land, and protecting their home is both their greatest focus and the core of the story. They fight to protect Greyville, the new home they settled in after they couldn’t protect their families or their true home, Mahaba Steppe, leaving them with no place to go back to.

Other than that they were all knights in their past lives, the vampires are all different in their abilities, personalities, and appearance. However, they all believe that, when it comes to battle, “their duty was to give their lives to protect the person they served,” and each of them “wouldn’t mind sacrificing himself” to save his brothers (BLOOD ALTAR, pt. 73). The werewolves, on the other hand—living in a pack whose members are all the same species—are well aware that their brothers all live for each other so they don’t recklessly sacrifice their own lives for some misguided sense of honor (GREY CITY, pt. 66). But whether or not they’re willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the pack comes down to one question: Even if “the chances are always low,” they ask themselves, “Can I protect (them) this time? Can my brothers and I survive this time?” (BLOOD ALTAR, pt. 65). In the end, then, asking whether or not they can find happiness shows how DARK MOON is a story about boys who pull through in order to protect one another (GREY CITY, pt. 80).
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