Both the vampires of BLOOD ALTAR and the werewolves of GREY CITY live among humans by hiding their identities, and it’s there in their new cities that they meet Sooha and Mika, respectively—the first two humans the creatures have ever revealed their secrets to, and the first to ever understand them for who they are. But there’s a fundamental difference between the stories with Mika, who is the only one to accept these outsider werewolves who have to leave Greyville to keep a threat at bay, and the one with Sooha, who somehow feels a connection with the socially integrated vampires because she had been connected to them in their previous lives. For the werewolves, meeting Mika “taught me that I’m not alone” and “that you and I are changing to ‘We,’” like in &TEAM’s song “FIREWORK.” But it’s just a memory—one that they can neither return to nor let go of, like the flowers, pictures, and cake they hold on to. As for ENHYPEN’s vampires, Sooha comes to them as “Fate,” allowing them to uncover forgotten memories, realize “all the power and authority comes from” her and “grew out of the eternity” they “will soon return,” and so they devote their “eternity” to her again. She’s also the one they find “irresistible”—the one they “dare” to “want” (“Still Monster”).

In an act of love, the immortal vampires work together to protect others (BLOOD ALTAR) and the werewolves—with their human lifespan—escape in order to be protectors (GREY CITY). They follow different trajectories, but they eventually come to the same conclusion. The human concept of personal eternity lasting only one lifetime, for example, is but a fleeting moment to immortal vampires. By contrast, werewolves can have but one companion in a lifetime, meaning they leave their mark on a blip in human history while living out their lives. Whether that moment is fleeting or lasts an eternity, a vampire or werewolf, once they fall in love with a human, have to live out their lives in the service of that love just like it’s fleeting. So when Enzy (EJ) professes his love in part 81 of GREY CITY, he reveals the mindset behind someone nonhuman who falls in love with a human—about how, even when that human leaves that moment and their whole life behind, disappearing from the world, that love goes on; some distant time in the future, you can look back to this time in your life—this exactly moment—and know that you had someone there who truly adored you.