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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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?

Re: homo est lupus, usually

[neotoma]

Castiel is often a dick, especially early on when he's still obeying Heaven, so I tried to translate that into the AU. In canon, he and Dean sometimes feed each other's dickishness, mainly because they make assumptions and don't actually talk to each other. I was trying to make them come across as a married couple who are completely devoted to each other -- sometimes to the detriment of people around them.

Jocheved might decided to meet her father when she's older. She's only 7 now, and Gabriel wouldn't take her north. When she's grown, she can decide if she wants to risk it herself.

It is a sexist thing -- based a little bit on the Ancient Greek idea that the best friend/life partner for a man is another man, and isn't it a pity that we have to have women to have children... and a bit off the Roman idea that a woman who acted as a man was a monster.

Gammas and Epsilons are male and female non-werewolves, right.