otto

I thank you all for all the votes over the last many weeks.

And now we are at the pinnacle of it all.

Whoever wins this will be the official sexiest cube of Aphblr.

So, without further ado:

Apparently I'm in a mood to talk about Ein and Aaron today.

I so wish that their conflict had been less about Aphmau and more about each other. Like yes, use Aphmau as a tool, a weapon to hurt Aaron, but don't make it about her.

Make it about Aaron siding with humans and pretending to be one, hiding among the oppressors to save himself and ignoring how werewolves are discriminated against.

Make it about Ein having an understandable reason to be hateful towards humans but becomes what he hates by hurting those who never hurt him purely because of their race.

Make it about Aaron hating himself for his curse and wrongfully believing that humans are right to fear and hate werewolves and werewolves should be controlled.

Make it about Ein's own trauma-fueled actions making everything worse and only proving to people that werewolves are violent and uncivilized and need to be kept on a tight leash.

Make it about Aaron being angry at Ein for hurting the one person he feels truly safe with and trying to stop her from "fixing" the culture of the werewolves, something even Aaron believes in.

Make it about Ein being angry at Aaron—who holds the bloodline of the werewolves' very progenitor—for siding with humans who oppress them and allowing the suffering and erasure of werewolves.

Make it about Aaron blaming Ein as the cause for Aaron's isolation and misery—for making people hate and fear them—instead of the existing system of hate and fear that created Ein.

Make it about Ein blaming Aaron for his own trauma and wanting Aaron to suffer like he has, with no understanding of what Aaron himself has gone through hiding this secret.

Make it about the contrast of Aaron being so deeply ashamed of his werewolf heritage that he tries to completely erase it and Ein being so intensely proud of his werewolf heritage that it becomes his entire identity that he desperately clings to.