#and Gylfie gets to be a wolf because that's gonna be the fun part for me sdfgkhjgfds))

[disillusionedjudge]

wolf's rain au

Legend says that, when the world is dying and about to end, the gates of Paradise will open to a world born anew. It says that only wolves can open the gates to Paradise - guided by a Lunar Flower. But it is a legend dismissed as a legend and nothing more. The world is not dying. Lunar Flowers do not exist.

And wolves are extinct.

But not everyone believes it to be merely a legend, and there are those who know wolves still exist. They are well hidden - both Hume and wolf - walking amongst the other races without anyone the wiser. To find Paradise is in their blood, and when the time comes, they will be the ones to find Paradise. To open the gates and usher in a new world - one better and full of life. And the existence of wolves - the promise of Paradise - is something House Solidor is eager to claim.

The wolves of House Ynarra have pledged their loyalty to House Solidor since the first Solidor took the throne of Archadia. In turn, their loyalty is rewarded with protection, riches, and reputation. That each the firstborn Ynarra in each generation will become Judge Magister and remain close to the Emperor for as long as they remain loyal, and as long as they ensure House Solidor will be able to get into Paradise promised. It is something that has not changed for generations, and something Takrin is ready to instill in his son. His son who is of his blood and a wolf like him. His son who will be his successor as Judge Magister, and his son who will continue such loyalty.

Gylfie is not of his blood. Not completely, at least. By half through his mother, but his mother was not a wolf. Nor was her mother, nor her father. Or so it was believed. Herewynn had wolf blood in her veins, even though it did not show, and so it was passed to her son and her granddaughter - the half-niece of Takrin. The bastard child of his half-brother he was forced to raise to keep Alsga at his side. A wolf he did not know he was raising.

Like the rest of House Ynarra, Gylfie hid the fact she was a wolf to everyone around her - including Takrin and Silas, sworn to secrecy by Alsga in a desperate attempt to keep her safe. She hid who she was from those she fully trusted, and denied who she was even to herself. Wolves were extinct for a reason - hunted down out of fear and hate. It was safer to be Hume, and leave the nickname the Wolf of Archadia as nothing more than an unofficial title. But she would take that title as her rightful place as firstborn, even though she was not Takrin's daughter, because she was still a Ynarra. Because she was always more wolf than woman, no matter how hard she tried to fight it.

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Gylfie has black fur as a wolf, and both the scar along her neck and her metal choker stick around in both forms.