Hey there. Posting anonymously here, but I'm 36and40 on AO3.
This was my first time reading a story in this genre/world, so I really appreciated the set-up at the start! The rules were pretty clear and that made the whole thing make more sense. At first, I thought I liked how quickly it moved along, but after thinking about it for a few days, I feel a bit cheated! You set up a great world and there should be MORE. There should definitely be a part 2 where they navigate this new relationship, Sam joins the resistance and what's THAT like for an alpha?...there should be some super-painful confrontation with John at some point. Just more more more! You set up interesting characters and an interesting situation and then only scratched the surface.
Now, I loved your Sam. He was very "Sam" even in this world. Thoughtful, caring, very aware of everything around him. I liked this version of Dean too. VERY intuitive when it came to people (he'd have to be in that line of work), a realist (love that he's not wallowing in self-pity in spite of his hard life) and just crazy attracted to Sam. In this world; that part was fun; seeing them trying to do the right thing...Sam holding back and Dean trying to stick to his own "rules" until it all flew out the window. Yup, even rather weird man/dog sex was hot. Quite hot. I tend to like anything where there's an undeniable...slightly-hard-for -the-characters-to-understand intense attraction and this had tons of that.
I also kind of like it when John's a complete asshole, but even there you give us something of a convoluted reason why. Doesn't excuse his behavior at all, but it hints that this could be even more in-depth.
The whole "kicking the omega out of the house" thing instantly read to me as "family rejects gay son afraid it will 'rub off' on the other child"...don't know if you meant it that way, but that was extremely sad to me since it instantly read that way to me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I didn't think I'd like this genre and the fact that I do like this story quite a bit makes me feel strongly that it merits more attention and more exploration of the characters (PART TWO!!!).
I want this story to be more in-depth!
This was my first time reading a story in this genre/world, so I really appreciated the set-up at the start! The rules were pretty clear and that made the whole thing make more sense. At first, I thought I liked how quickly it moved along, but after thinking about it for a few days, I feel a bit cheated! You set up a great world and there should be MORE. There should definitely be a part 2 where they navigate this new relationship, Sam joins the resistance and what's THAT like for an alpha?...there should be some super-painful confrontation with John at some point. Just more more more! You set up interesting characters and an interesting situation and then only scratched the surface.
Now, I loved your Sam. He was very "Sam" even in this world. Thoughtful, caring, very aware of everything around him. I liked this version of Dean too. VERY intuitive when it came to people (he'd have to be in that line of work), a realist (love that he's not wallowing in self-pity in spite of his hard life) and just crazy attracted to Sam. In this world; that part was fun; seeing them trying to do the right thing...Sam holding back and Dean trying to stick to his own "rules" until it all flew out the window. Yup, even rather weird man/dog sex was hot. Quite hot. I tend to like anything where there's an undeniable...slightly-hard-for -the-characters-to-understand intense attraction and this had tons of that.
I also kind of like it when John's a complete asshole, but even there you give us something of a convoluted reason why. Doesn't excuse his behavior at all, but it hints that this could be even more in-depth.
The whole "kicking the omega out of the house" thing instantly read to me as "family rejects gay son afraid it will 'rub off' on the other child"...don't know if you meant it that way, but that was extremely sad to me since it instantly read that way to me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I didn't think I'd like this genre and the fact that I do like this story quite a bit makes me feel strongly that it merits more attention and more exploration of the characters (PART TWO!!!).