#It's also ngl a bit funny to cite my own writing in these rambles. I wish I could just hand you the fic like that dr phil meme image but

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Oh there's still allot about the Wolf au (Thank almost two years of deranged scribblings for that) and I'm really happy that you're interested :D It's always a delight to see my selfindulgent projects garner someone's interest!

(another cut for obvious reasons)

It's admittedly a bit hard to decide what I could talk about next. There is a remarkably fine line between explaining important world building and counting down street names and their history/etymology.

But I think talking about religious aspects is a safe bet.

Wolf is mostly set in a medieval german country, so the religion at hand is a weird imitation of Christianity. It's Hatsune Miku as the god and the other cryptonloids as lesser ones.

The religion is admittedly simple at its core. Miku created the world through song, constructing it in melodic order etc. etc.

Everything revolves around that really, especially the calendar which I loosely based of geocentrism

We have Empyreum as January, Terra as February, Luna as March, Mercurius as April, Venus as May, Sol as June, Mars as July, Iupiter as August, Saturnus as September, Astra as Oktober, Zodiak as November and Purgatorio as December

The order follows a loss of sanctity in a way. Starting from Empyreum(Purity) then going Earth (being born) experiencing the various pleasures and troubles of earthly live inbetween Luna and Mars, followed by Iupiter where the Thunderfestival symbolizes repentance and separating the good from the bad (the bad being saturn) then the final travels to return to sanctity through the stars and purgatory starting it all over.

Every Month has one big event, that has some sort of lightmotive I desperately want to convey in my writing. For example Sol has soft glass bells, Zodiac has nightly songs played by the organ, Iupiter has the thunder of countless pots and pans being bashed together and Astra the song of merry people meeting each other. They all then get featured in the grand orchestra of the Empyreum festival, where a new year gets celebrated.

But with that purity theming there's also what makes the main conflict of Wolf. The queer, the strange, the others.

With defined borders of what is and isn't holy. It's a us vs them world, the ones and the others. (the others are a generalized term for anything not made by Miku or not following Miku. It includes Fea/Fairy/Wolves/Owls/Pagans/Apostates and other things)

A good chunk of what makes Sekai is making those borders clear. Knighthood is a very prominent tool for that, since as Airi described (rough translation) "Knights only serve to move and defend these arbitrary mortal lines" so to hinder the others from mingling with what is pure and precise. (the arbitrary is more because Airi is speaking from the perspective of a semi-imortal)

But hey I'm a prsk fan on dungle.com, I am nothing but a fan of the queers (pretending like I'm not very queer myself)

(Trying my best not to get lost in a side tangent)

I also conveyed that black and white thinking in other parts of world building. The Tenmaepos is built from it really, but there are other tales. In the Shizuai wip the most prominent is the lynx and the hound, a story I used to explain the two accepted roles of the other. It's about a lynx trapped in a snare having a conversation with the hound. At first the beast tries to be on even ground, calling the hound his brother, but eventually it just becomes a "Why are you serving man?" discussion. Both points are presented neutrally, the wild beasts in the forest and the domesticated hound are both accepted roles, the issue is that the lynx has to die, because he can neither be free nor kept.

In the same fic Tsukasa has a play where he basically restates that moral (Tsukasa isn't the best ally pre bloodmoon. He likes his dazzling tales and hasn't had them challenged yet) It's about a poor fisherman who saved a sea fairy forcing her to help him. It went fine when they were on uneven grounds, but the second equality hits he dies. "Man can only be apart from the others or make them subservient, but it's best to kill the vile than have them on your side" that's the moral (some conservative ass message pff)

The Mizuena fic has some tales aswell. We have the purple beast, that's more of a "behave well or 'x' monster gets you" Mizuki mentioned as a joke. In the same chapter there's a mention of "the small Oliver" (Mizuki named a cat after Oliver) that's about a boy that went into the forest and got kidnapped.

There are multiple stories, because this tale was some random taletellers weekly project, but the short version is: Lala makes friends and finds 12 magic objects. Mia is there aswell, a trickster fae who initially worked for the Faeking. She betrayed him to help Lala. She dies in that story. Her death is depicted in complete neutrality. Well she is one of the others yk?

A bigger one would be the fanatstical story of the cursed Lala, obviously based on the Anime Mizuki liked lmao. The premise is Lalas parents promiseda Faeking, that if they'll make it through the winter they'll give him their unborn child. They in the end tricked him (with a trick I'll never gonna mention, cuz Ena didn't want to hear Mizuki gush about it >:( ) saving their child, but well making the king mad. To punish such a thing the faeking went "Fuck you! Now nobody can have the child!" Cursing Lala so that she can't be with her parents until she finds something to make up with the Faeking.

WHich segways into a currently disputed topic (the despute is between I,me and myself)

One major difference between humans and the others (the humanoid kind) is that the others have no soul. That's basic nordic myth, but needs to be considered with some kind of understanding of what having a soul means.

In some way having a soul means true immortality. The others mostly have a very long lifespan (Airi for example is older than the mountain on which the Hinomori forest grew. It was a fun lil imitation of some mythological animals going "Well I witnessed the life of the tree from which acorn this elder oak grew from") but if they die it's over. In comparison humans die faster, but since they have a soul they have true eternity waiting for them.

There is the additional thought that maybe immortality could be portrayed as someone being remembered. So that the appearance of the others vanish from ones memory. For example: I've been thinking of making Nagi the beast of rad weekend. And well after being slain the actual Nagi died, but two shadows remain. Nagi the knight and Nagi the beast. The true memory turns vague almost fading and a legend fills it's place. Like a vacuum exposed to air. It gets filled, but with other stuff.

The death of the others is such a interesting thing tbh. It's the most fucked up form of oppression. Cuz if the others stay away they may live forever, but one wrong move and it's over. So the second way out is sharing the soul with a human, meaning to do the big bad of mixing with the ones.

jeeesh that's another long one it's been... 5h??????

It could be even reasoned that changelings happen because of that. Oooh don't let me ramble about changelings for this au, this would swiftly turn into a thousands world long collection of me going "born in between!" sniffling and sobbing....

Talking about this au is like jumping into a wormhole, like wtf (I am actually really happy, since sundays usually only contain me being a sad blob of inactivity)

There's still soo sooo much more I could talk about, I have older rambles in the #wolf au on this blog, but they still don't all contain all my thoughts and ideas lmao

Inside of you there are two wolves: