DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR with ENHYPEN is a currently ongoing Fantasy Webtoon Original created by HYBE. It is based on the fictional universe of Dark Moon which was first established through ENHYPEN's music and music videos. It was released on Line Webtoon in English on 16th January 2022.
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Welcome to Riverfield, where the most popular boys at two rival schools happen to be vampires and werewolves. When a mysterious new student, Sooha, transfers to Riverfield, the rivals find themselves inexplicably drawn to her. As horrible incidents start to shake the town, the boys’ forgotten pasts slowly start to unravel … and their world turns upside down.
The webtoon shares a universe with the Sister Series DARK MOON: THE GREY CITY, which features characters based on members of &TEAM. Two spin-offs, CHILDREN OF VAMFIELD and THE BLOOD OF VARGR and a second season titled TWO MOONS are planned to be released in 2024.
This page contains tropes for the webtoon only.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the serial and currently active nature of this work, do not edit in changes that apply to episodes that can only be read with the Fast Pass system at the time. Only edit in what has been officially released to the general readers.
Tropes
- Action Girl: Sooha with her supernatural strength. She's been shown to be capable of carrying entire beds, lifting up chunks of concrete rubble, bodyslamming people much taller than her and stopping someone travelling at superhuman speed, among other things.
- Ambiguously Human: The main cast of vampires and werewolves look human in most situations but when they get aggressive, their inhuman features like scary long nails, prominent incisors and glowing eyes show up. Sooha as well, due to having superhuman strength, speed, and telepathy.
- Angry Eyebrows: Jaan is first introduced to the readers as a very fierce and angry-looking character with sharp, angry eyebrows. Given his ability of Super-Strength and de facto role as the muscle of the vampire group, it fits him.
- Arrogant God vs. Raging Monster: Jakah and Najak's almost-duel in Episode 6 can be read as this, although it can also apply to the vampire-werewolf rivalry in general.
- Badass Normal: It's been emphasized by the vampires themselves that Sooha is not a vampire, and yet her supernatural abilities are powerful enough to surprise even the vampires and werewolves.
- Band of Brothers: The vampires regard each other as brothers even though they are not related by blood. In their shared struggle to survive as vampires they've pretty much become as close as siblings.
- Bash Brothers: Jakah and Noa. They're first introduced to the audience in Episode 3 as the most competitive members of the nightball team and later have their proper character establishing moment in Episode 6 by confidently instigating a fight with the werewolves using their supernatural abilities. It gets even more impressive when you know that they're actually the youngest members of the vampire group.
- Berserk Button: The main cast of vampires and werewolves are generally decent, nice people as seen in their interactions with Sooha. However, all of that changes whenever they happen to run into each other.
- Betty and Veronica:
- Heli is the Veronica to Khan's Betty for Sooha's Archie. However, their dynamics are more complicated, as while Heli fits some of the Veronica archetypes, such as being popular at his school, having a more cold and mysterious allure to him, and being the one Sooha is attracted to, his personality is more similar to a Betty's, being nothing but very compassionate, kind and friendly to Sooha. Khan meanwhile has more Betty archetypes as he is friendly and devoted to Sooha while she unfortunately doesn't reciprocate his feelings for her yet he also is the Veronica as he's from a different world (and school) and tends to be more aloof and cold than Heli.
- Played straight where Heli's the Betty to Dardan's Veronica for Sooha's (and Selen's) Archie, which was more apparent in their past lives, as while Heli was as protective and loyal as he ever was to Sooha for Selen, even if she would someday marry someone else other than him, Dardan was Ax-Crazy and entitled enough to kill millions including her.
- Beware the Nice Ones:
- Heli's shown to be widely popular among the students due to his good looks and overall friendliness and helpfulness. In his interactions with Sooha he's also been shown to be nothing but caring and understanding with her. However, his blunt yet quietly seething interactions with the werewolves in Episode 7 imply that something darker and scarier may lurk beneath the nice-guy exterior.
- In Chapter 11, cheerful and friendly Jino unhesitatingly scorched a vampire's throat to get information from him after he attacked Sooha.
- Big Bad: Dardan, who either disguised himself as Chris or is Chris.To be specfic as revealed in episode 61, Chris's body was replaced by his.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Starting from episode 42, violence becomes increasingly graphic.
- Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The vampires. I mean ... just look at the promotional poster.
- Clique Tour: Heli, Jino, Jaan, Shion and a not-so-willing Solon give Sooha an impromptu campus tour as she's the new student.
- Conveniently an Orphan: The vampires are all orphans, which only makes them more enigmatic to both Sooha and the readers.
- Cursed with Awesome: Sooha's attitude towards her abilities. As seen in Episode 6, they're actually pretty awesome.
- Custom Uniform: Jaan doesn't wear his jacket and rolls his sleeves up. Jino and Shion wear grey sweater vests, and Noa wears a black turtleneck sweater instead of their ties.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Sooha has been ostracized by people for being a vampire her entire life, lost her only childhood friend to a vampire and has been forced to run from place to place to escape suspicion from others. Needless to say, she arrives at Decelis Academy with a troubled past. This is also implied with the vampires when Heli tells Sooha in Episode 3 that all of them are actually orphans.
- Death by Origin Story: Chris, Sooha's childhood friend in Episode 1. Which may be been subverted as of Episode 18 with him reappearing.
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: The vampires and werewolves level threats of destruction at each other during their confrontation in Episode 6, with Jakah saying that the werewolves normally didn't stand a chance again them and Khan saying that the werewolves looked forward to crushing the vampires in the upcoming nightball match.
- Doom Magnet: Sooha has been implied to be a bringer of bad luck to the towns she has travelled to or lived in.
- Duality Motif: Solon has different-colored eyes. He's actually a vampire-werewolf hybrid.
- Elevator School: In the Decelis Academy brochure which was released as an insert in ENHYPEN's ''DIMENSION: ANSWER'' album◊, the academy offers programs ranging from elementary to graduate level.
- Establishing Character Moment: All of the characters get their notable moments of introduction but the most ironic one has to be Heli's. Sooha encounters him face-to-face in the school hallway just as a school staff member tells her that she won't encounter any vampires on campus.
- Expressive Hair: Solon's hair, particularly when he's angry. Also Heli's hair when he nearly gets into a fight with the werewolves in Episode 7.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Heli, Jaan and Solon all have an earring on one ear only.
- Family of Choice: The vampires regard each other as brothers even though they aren't related by blood. However, they grew up together in the same orphanage and went through so much hardship as a group that they might as well be family.
- Fictional Sport: Nightball appears to be a combination of rugby and American football except that the ball glows and the goalposts move, making it quite a different sport altogether.
- Flashy Protagonists, Bland Extras: Any extra seen is realistically colored compared to the more uniquely colored main characters. The vampires and werewolves are more understandable, though Sooha is more questionable. The contrast is reflected when Sooha, Heli and his brothers are seen amongst their fellow Decelis Academy schoolmates.
- Fun Personified: Shion and Jino appear to be the happy-go-lucky ones of the group and are nearly always smiling whenever we see them.
- Fur Against Fang: Played straight with the plot. Essentially the crux of the inter-school rivalry between the vampires and werewolves.
- The Gadfly: Shion teases Solon a lot, from calling him silly to saying his special ability is whining and complaining. When the vampires planned a date with Sooha at the town square, Shion tricked them by making them think the time to meet up was 7 o'clock while he secretly met up with Sooha at 5 o'clock, two hours ahead.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Used in certain situations to highlight that the vampires and werewolves are not quite human.
- Great Big Book of Everything: The old book that Heli came to the storeroom to look for is implied to be an example of this, given his evasiveness when Sooha asks him twice about it and his hurried explanation that a student needs special permission to borrow the book.
- Great Big Library of Everything: The library in Decelis Academy is impressively huge.
- Hair-Trigger Temper:
- There is rarely a moment where Solon isn't angry. This might have something to do with his hybrid nature, as vampire-werewolf hybrids are said to have an amplified temper.
- Jaan is short-tempered (though not to Solon's extent) as well. He even has the eyebrows to match!
- Harem Genre: Reverse harem as it's Sooha with seven (or eleven, if you count the werewolves) male characters.
- Hybrid Monster: Solon is actually a mix between a vampire and a werewolf. How is currently unknown.
- Limited Wardrobe: Probably unintentional, but the main cast always seem to be wearing their school uniforms at all times of the day. This is Justified, as it seems to be a requirement to wear the uniforms. Averted in Chapter 10, where they all wore casual clothes for the first time.
- Magical Accessory: Given the emphasis that's been placed on Heli's cross-shaped pendant earring, it's possible that the earring may be magically significant.
- Meet Cute: Heli and Sooha's first meeting in Episode 1 and 2 is awkward and yet incredibly endearing to read.
- Men Can't Keep House: The old, secluded storeroom where the vampires hang out is shown to be extremely messy, with clothes and books strewn all over the floor and even an overturned bed. Sooha gets assigned to use it as her dorm room on the first day of school.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Sooha is petite and slim-built in comparison to the taller vampires and bulkier werewolves but can punch above her own weight, even taking down the strongest members of the werewolves in Episode 6 all by herself.
- Naïve Newcomer: Sooha is one on her first day at school as she's just recently transferred to Decelis Academy when the story starts.
- Nice Day, Deadly Night: On her first day at Decelis Academy, Sooha is advised by one of the staff to stay indoors at night for her own safety as a murder had taken place nearby.
- Our Vampires Are Different: The main characters are vampires, but they only need to drink blood once a year on a blood moon. This is because they're genetically complete and perfect vampires that Dardan is seeking to duplicate and manipulate the power of.
- Perpetual Frowner: Solon, especially after the vampires started acquainting themselves with Sooha.
- Playing with Fire: Jino is a pyrokinetic with the hair color to match.
- Protagonist Without a Past: Solon states in Episode 8 that none of the vampires remember how they came to exist or why they even exist at all.
- Quivering Eyes: Sooha has these when she's about to cry after Solon told her to stay away from the vampire group.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Heli's eyes glow red when he's about to fight the werewolves in Episode 7. Sooha gets a feeling that something bad will happen and stops him in time.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: While they have worn other clothes like their Nightball uniforms and casual clothes, everyone in the story that goes to school wears their school uniform for a majority of the story.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Enzy's the only member not to visibly lose his cool during the confrontation between the vampires and werewolves in Episode 6. He even calmly reminds Tahel to back down.
- Smoky Gentlemen's Club: The vampire friend group appears to be one given that it is secretive and exclusively closed-off to newcomers. The vampires do not seem to want to associate too closely with humans or other members of the student population. Not until Sooha arrives, at least.
- Starring Smurfette: Sooha is the only female character in a main cast of male characters.
- Super-Speed: Jakah's ability. Sooha describes his speed as so fast that it felt like he was teleporting in Chapter 10, when Jakah saved Sooha from a bunch of low-level vampires that were after her.
- Telepathy: Heli's ability. The other vampires also seem to have this ability as well, which results in scenes of them having entire conversations without speaking at all.
- Tsundere: Solon. He's been cold and standoffish to Sooha but allows her to take his seat in class, pulls her back to prevent her from getting hit by a flying nightball, wishes her goodnight and even straight up tells her that his attitude towards her is not because he hates her. In Episode 8, Enzy offers an amiable handshake to Solon after finding out that he's part-werewolf and Solon actually reaches out to return it.
- Urban Fantasy: This is a world where it is normal for supernatural creatures like vampires and werewolves to exist alongside humans.
- Wall Crawl: It's assumed that Shion can do this in addition to hanging from ceilings as he states that he is able to stick to walls.
- Wham Episode: Episode 26 to the fullest. We learn about the past of the vampires and their significance, how they are all Macguffin superpeople being chased by a vampire lord, were transported to the future by their cruel but well-intentioned orphanage caretaker, and have a duty to protect Sooha since she's the key to Dardan giving all of his vampires complete power.
- Wild Hair: Solon's hair is longer, messier and more outlandishly colored than any of the other vampires. This foreshadows the later reveal in Episode 7 where we find out he's half-werewolf.
