I'm intrigued by this, but unfortunately have nothing useful to contribute, except your description of a Delta meeting an Alpha describes this chinese romance I read to a T. The Delta was actually a trickster type of character -- a bit like Anansi or the Monkey King; he was nominally a doctor by profession, but was so much a slacker and joker that people only brought their pets to him because he'd gained a reputation for not being even half the doctor his father and brother was.
The story had two Alphas -- one with a serious side of SM and pretty much yeah, invoked the response you described, what with throwing the Delta into prison or locking him up in various ways -- Delta was forever escaping. The other one was marginally better (IOW no SM), and pretty much kept the Delta by feigning weakness/injury, then when the Delta sort of came close enough to check, SNAP. I admit I laughed my ass off at that point.
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Date: 18 Jan 2009 08:38 am (UTC)The story had two Alphas -- one with a serious side of SM and pretty much yeah, invoked the response you described, what with throwing the Delta into prison or locking him up in various ways -- Delta was forever escaping. The other one was marginally better (IOW no SM), and pretty much kept the Delta by feigning weakness/injury, then when the Delta sort of came close enough to check, SNAP. I admit I laughed my ass off at that point.