Out of the Shadows: A Devil May Cry x Beastars AU

At Cherryton Academy, fear is a death sentence. But for some, the real monster hides in the bloodline.
Vergil Sparda is a timber wolf carrying a lethal secret. Heir to an ancient, devastating demonic lineage, he has spent his entire life behind a mask of absolute, freezing discipline. To survive in a world fractured by the fragile peace between predators and prey, he must keep his inner beast locked away in a monochrome void of isolation.
Until he catches her scent.
Enter Celeste Noctis. A dwarf rabbit who defies every biological stereotype, Celeste is the warm, bubbly, and literally explosive sun to Vergil's dark moon. Armed with martial arts gauntlets, a heavy rifle that pierces the dark with beams of light, and a volatile solar bloodline that sparks when she's excited, she doesn't hide from predators-she burns them to ashes.
When a brutal campus murder plunges the academy into a state of hyper-vigilant terror, Vergil's hyper-fixation on the tiny rabbit fractures his legendary control. To the school, they are an impossibility. To the law, they are a danger. But as the psychological pressure rises, Celeste's blinding warmth becomes the only anchor capable of keeping Vergil's inner demon from consuming him entirely.
Meanwhile, in the wings of the drama club, the academy's undisputed star-a charismatic red deer named Dante-is playing a dangerous political game of his own. Alongside Pandora, a sleek, razor-witty midnight-black cat who refuses to let him win, they must claim the mantle of the next Beastars before a corrupt rival academy muzzles them all.
From the high-stakes stage of the school theater to the gritty, neon-soaked alleys of the Black Market District, the war for the city's underbelly is about to ignite. Can a dark wolf and an exploding sun rabbit find a flawless harmony, or will the shadows of their own bloodlines consume them both?