Due to the amount of flames I've received over the last chapter, I am now considering putting this fic on hiatus.
There will be a poll up on my profile, or you can message me stating whether you think I should keep writing, or stop all together.
But a few things must be addressed. I don't know why people were particularly surprised by how dark this fic can get at times, given how the last series ended. Frankly, I don't know why someone would read a fic based around Deucalion (or Peter Hale) and expect them to immediately conform to social norms. This is a redemption fic, it's supposed to be about growth; for both Deucalion and Isla.
The fact that so many people blame Isla for what Deucalion did turns my stomach. I've gotten quite a bit of flames (I call them flames because they were in no way constructive criticism. At times they were incredibly vulgar, mean spirited and in one case…well, I'll address that down at the bottom) over her actions and her choices, but nothing has been said about Deucalions'. It's classic victim blaming and while it's gross, it's sadly unsurprising, it's not what pushed me over the edge.
No. My limit has been met when several minutes ago, someone compared Isla and Deucalion's relationship to that of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. For those of you who don't know, Bernardo and Homolka were a married couple who notoriously raped and killed at least three women.
As a Canadian woman, and a human being general, I want to address a number of things: first of all, how fucking dare you compare two real life monsters to a fucking werewolf on an mtv show. Second, anyone who thinks Karla Homolka was some innocent wife who 'wanted to change Paul Bernardo through love' is a fucking idiot.
Read a goddamn book and think about what you just said in an effort to shame a fanfic writer on the internet.
It is so insulting to victims everywhere that you would call Homolka, who was actively and enthusatically involved in the rape, assault and murder of her own sister, someone who was simply hoping to find the best in a bad man. I'm sickened. Genuinely sicken.
So I didn't want to do this but I'm going to leave the future of this fic up to you. You can write me a message or vote on my page if you want me to keep writing it because at this point I've got so much negative feedback that at the very least I'm going to be turning off anon reviews (all of the flamers were too cowardly to use their username, but that's fairly standard).
Hoping to get some feedback, good or bad (remember, constructive criticism is always good, being an asshole is bad),
-liz