emerald secret au where ein and aphmau are still siblings. aphmau calls ein ābrotherā like zane and lucinda did while under the potion and instead of the whole fiancee thing itās more about ein being able to achieve this twisted illusion of a family he never had, and he wants aaron to turn aph because einās obsessed with zachās ideal of a pure werewolf family. he sees zach abandoning them as somehow a failing on their part and thinks if aphmau can cooperate they two of them can be a family (also pdh s2 didnāt happen). we learn more about einās mom, she was decently well off but she had to work a lot to provide for ein and therefore wasnāt home a lot. she ends up falling super sick and goes to try some āexperimental health treatmentā (the forever potions in their first testing stages) and dies shortly after ein turns 18. aaronās family situation acts as a foil to einās because they had somewhat similar upbringings but aaron represents the resistance against falling into the worst parts of yourself due to trauma while ein couldnāt. the rest of emerald secret happens mostly just with circumstantial changes, except tatiana kills ein for good (furthering the theme of family by tatiana being a mother to her pack) and aaron is only stabbed instead of shoved off a cliff, and at the end when aaronās in the hospital, heās actually conscious. he tells derek to get lost and he does because after some contemplation and flashbacks he is an adult and he isnāt a prisoner of his bloodline (both his ultima powers and his abuse), and it ends with him calling melissa to reconcile.
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