In my rewrite the werewolf wedding gets started a little differently. Most importantly, the gang don’t get turned into meifwa.
It just always felt a little weird to me. There doesn’t seem to be any actual lore connections between the werewolves and meifwas, beyond a surface level “tee hee cats vs dogs”, and with meifwas solidly confirmed to be a minority racial group in this setting, it felt extremely off to me to have human characters turn into them for the sake of cute cat ears and tails.
In my rewrite, Fenrir’s tribe instead has a prophecy about a union between one “touched by the sun” and one “touched by the moon” which I think plays a lot better with the duality theme of the werewolves. Fenrir is considered touched by the sun due to his albanism, and Aph slots into being touched by the moon because of her birthmark but it would also work well for rebirth Aphmau with her crescent shaped markings. Which is a big hint that the whole prophecy is bullshit, because Aph is the most sun-coded person that’s ever walked the earth.
I really like making Fenrir a parallel to Garroth if he had never left O’Khasis. Especially cause Aph is missing him a lot at that point. He is kind but ultimately cowardly, and isn’t able to defy his father even when he knows what he’s doing is wrong. If he had been braver, he could’ve helped them escape, and they would have made sure Abby was safe. Instead, he watched his tribe be decimated by Laurance, setting him down a dark path of revenge.
