Fic: Homo Homini Lupus Est -- Epilogue

[neotoma]

"Daddy!" Jocheved yelled, and threw herself into his arms at the train station. Sakuntala toddled away from Maia, blessed, kind Maia, who had brought the children to meet their train, and pressed herself against his leg, smiling up at him gummily.

"Hello, sweetheart," he said.

"I was so worried! Did Mommy find you? Are you all right?"

"Yes, I am."

"Jo," Kali said, "Your father has something to tell you."

Jocheved looked up at him with worried eyes, another question already on her lips.

"I left my family, and changed my name."

"You left..? But we're your family, me and Mommy and 'Tala." Jocheved complained.

"My old family. My brothers and sisters," He explained. "I had to go up and say I wasn't being part of their family anymore, so that I could be with you and Tala and Mommy."

"Okay..."

"And I had to change my name."

Jocheved gave him a suspicious look. "You won't be 'Daddy' anymore?"

Kali snorted, and waved him off when he glared at her.

"No, I'll still be your Daddy. But I had a name of my own, you know."

"Daddy," Jocheved said in tones of aggrieved patience, "that is your name."

"No. My name was Gabriel," he said.

"Oh. You and Mommy have names? Like real people?"

"Yes," Kali said, suppressing laughter. "We do."

"What's your name, Mommy?"

"Kali Mahayana."

"Like me! You're Mahayana, like me, Mommy!"

"Yes, dear, I know." Kali said smiling.

"And Daddy?"

"Call me..." he looked up at Kali, who nodded, "Loki."

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Comments

[mistalagan]

It's up, congrats! The added scene was great (certainly made Sam more sympathetic), and on rereading I still can't get over the depth of your worldbuilding. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to beta for you!

homo est lupus, usually

[auroramama]

It was jarring to have Castiel be such a dick, with no apparent disapproval from Dean. It really brought home how unpleasant a family that was.

The whole thing was terrific fun to read, and Gabriel's more elective lovers were wonderful. Jocheved can meet her father Jo now, yes? Such an interesting family, with so many potential directions to link in. Extended is an understatement.

I'm still not entirely clear on the possible genders. Alpha is a male human with a male wolf... mHmW. Delta, fHfW. Beta, mHfW. If it's all right to be a Beta, what the heck is wrong with being a Zeta, fHmW? Urgh. It's a sexist thing, isn't it. Dandy. Now we've run out of human-wolf combinations, so Gammas and Epsilons are wolfless males and females respectively? Or is there a dimension I'm missing?

[wyntereyez]

I've been reading through the Gabriel Big Bang fics, and just finished this one. It was an excellent read, if not always a comfortable one. I found it to be fascinating, and rather horrifying (which is meant as a complement, because you really made Gabriel's family unsympathetic!) You did quite a bit of world-building, giving it a depth most AU's lack. You dropped a lot of tantalizing hints about backstory that made me wish I knew more. Also, your rank/gender system for the werewolves was particularly intriguing; I don't think I've seen anything like it before.

I was a bit shock by how... revolting some of my favorite characters were. Good job; it takes a lot to make me actually loathe characters I normally adore. Cas in particular left me feeling a bit ill. If he'd been as crazy as Lucifer when he'd done what he'd done, I wouldn't have minded, but he seemed so rational and didn't see anything wrong in his treatment of Gabriel... *shudders* (Apologies that this is a bit of a backhanded complement, but it is meant as praise!)

Anyway, if your other stories are as well written as this, I'll definitely have to give them a read!