Alec would lose his fucking shit <3 if you ever want to see Alec go full ballistic, that would do it. Scorched earth on whoever did it if he can find them. As for how he would feel...honestly, mostly angry and deeply upset that he wasn't able to prevent it. Powerless, in a sense, which would make him all the more possessive of Isabelle and determined to seize and exercise power where he can. There would also be a teeny little bit of grief in there that he would force to present as yet more anger, or else in intimate moments as tenderness with Isabelle. He would never fully get over it.

Alec always knew that if he had children he would probably sexually abuse them, simply because he knows himself and how much of a selfish, ruthless bastard he is, not to mention that he and Bertrand already broke the incest taboo when they were children. So he sort of assumed from the start with Isabelle, long before he was attracted to her. This plus his obsession with her starting when she was five led to years of grooming and eventual sexual abuse from age twelve upwards. He raped her for the first time when she was fourteen.

Omega!Alec would be similar to trans man!Alec in the sense of feeling even more intensely than in canon a deprivation, a sense that his body could be more powerful and more suited to his drives. He would be sexually frustrated at all times, and this would come forward in how sadistic he would be with his partners. He would love torturing alphas and keeping them enslaved to him through drugs, blackmail, manipulation, love, or more literal imprisonment. He would also have himself sterilized as soon as possible, probably in his mid to late twenties, to prevent pregnancy.

So, as always, evil man. He'd just have a more specific set of targets, although he'd torment his share of fellow omegas and betas as well.

Probably not as horrible as you think, but definitely not problem-free. A massive part of why Lynn is with Alec in the first place is because he's a bad person. She's not surprised he committed yet another sexual crime. Because she's not in love with him the way she was with Cy and their relationship is a lot more casual, the emotional impact his actions have on her is a lot less, and easier to dismiss. It also helps that she knows that Isabelle isn't in Alec's life anymore and that Lynn is disinterested in punishing Alec after the fact.

Still, Lynn would be disappointed in herself for once again feeling this attraction towards an awful man, even if she does ultimately continue the relationship because she can't find a reason to stop more powerful than her own horniness. I could see it being something that comes up in her mind during her spates of self-loathing.

Alec would be more unsettled and upset by Lynn finding out. He treasures his memories of being with Isabelle and would find exposure both violating and a relief. Although he's glad Lynn takes it...relatively well so he doesn't have to kill her, he's left with a sort of rage that she knows about something so private and intimate, but also takes some comfort in someone knowing after years of secrecy.

As for how it happens, it's actually fairly likely that in all the homemade porn Alec and Lynn watch together, one day he simply forgets that he left an Isabelle tape in the VCR. Lynn would recognize Isabelle from pictures she's seen before in a family context.

Alec would probably find it cute, and he's pretty good at sweeping shy people off their feet, so it wouldn't be a deterrent. Depending on the situation he'd either be charming and warm or more seductively charismatic until he gets what he wants.

The family tends to favor French food, partially because Viola's a ouiaboo and it's some of the rare rich food she'll allow herself. They get it cooked at home often. However, Alec specifically has a lot of nostalgia for Indonesian food from his time in Bali, and will go out of his way to try new Indonesian restaurants.

Oh thank god someone actually read that fucking essay I wrote to the end. Thank you! Yeah, it's honestly a distinct possibility. I don't think f!Alec would want another child at her age (she's probably between 44-47 when they start having sex) but she's also very bad at saying no when m!Isabelle wants to come inside her. He starts begging mid-fuck and she says yes before he's even got the words out.

Assuming we're talking cis swaps here, there's actually a pretty drastic difference between a swap for just Alec and Viola vs a swap for the whole family! But I'll talk whole family.

Alec...honestly almost makes more sense as a cis woman. The favoritism shown to Bertrand, the religious abuse, the emphasis on the need to control her emotions and present a perfect facade to the world....all of these things would have a more gendered tint. As a result, Alec would be a very femme woman who takes pains to present as humble, self-effacing, compassionate, and charitable while internally still being the rampant egotist and unrepentant sadist we know and love. Also, like canon Alec, she would enjoy crossdressing and would probably be something of a leather daddy. The main difference here is in how she presents herself to the world.

Viola, meanwhile, would lack the unshakeable confidence of his canon counterpart. He would be angrier and more frustrated by his insecurities around his masculinity. His wife is older, more powerful, and physically larger, and babytrapped him when he was eighteen; Viola walks around with a chip on his shoulder feeling like people see him as less of a man than he'd like. Like canon Viola, he copes with both control and the loss thereof—he runs a tight ship professionally and in the household, and is a more involved parent, but also indulges in substance abuse. He finds both shame and pleasure in how Alec dominates him.

Now if we're talking Isabelle also being a boy, the family dynamic is very different. Alec projects her dead twin Bertrand onto him (assuming Bertrand wasn't also swapped) and Viola projects himself onto him, so both parents are very strict and maintain high standards for their son. Viola would be more involved and would prioritize academic success. Alec would be less indulgent than in canon, although no less affectionate, and would prioritize public image and perfect obedience.

Isabelle himself would still be nonbinary, I think? Just AMAB and more male-leaning. He would be better at blending in socially but paradoxically feel more alien, since he can tell he's faking. To try and escape this he would spend a lot of time by himself, and would usually be found in his room composing. Both inflicting and withstanding pain would help him feel relief, and he would embrace his sadism more. He would feel less guilt about Alec's sexual abuse of him and I think would have a deep rooted belief that, if he gets a sibling-child from her, he'll finally feel less alone. Her age doesn't deter him.

Huh! Wild thought. If it did happen, I think he would kill her in a very prolonged, ritualized way, paying tribute to all their time together and how much she once meant to him. One last enormity before they part ways, or before her way ends.

Any situation I want to put Alec in tends to go immediately on my to-write list! Part of why it's so long. But here are a small selection of favorites: -Alec betting Isabelle or Viola while gambling -Alec and Viola both tormenting the same twink -Alec killing Bertrand

This conversation takes place after Isabelle has already left the household, so she wasn't going to get anything anyway. Viola would probably make a provision for some inheritance if Isabelle actually shows up to claim it, though.

At his least realistic, which tends to be when he's on drugs in his twenties, Alec thinks immortality is either attainable or already in his grasp. However, even someone as fit as Alec isn't immune to the realities of aging, so as they start to set in during his late middle age Alec simply decides not to think about it. One day he sits down with Viola and tells her to draft a will for him, that he will leave everything to do with his death and the time after to her, and then from then forwards he does his level best to ignore it. He doesn't handle it well.

"I must say I resent your referring to Isabelle as a hobby. Excluding her, because I don't think she fits the definition, I really enjoy torture. There's just nothing like it. Consensual or not, sexual or not, within the bounds of sanity and sense or well beyond in the blood soaked far reaches of human capability...it's just good old-fashioned fun. Nothing else scratches that nasty little itch in my psyche so well. I do consider it a way to celebrate, especially at its extremes, and the impracticality of really delving into it means it's hardly something I can do every week. It tends to be special."

Alec is good at dancing, but it's not his favorite thing. He pretty much does it as demanded in social situations or when he's got restless energy at an event that permits it; for instance, if he's full of cocaine and at a club. For me to answer what his favorite dance to do is, I would have to know any ^^; Sadly I do not, so I'll just say he likes grinding.

Alec's criteria for submissives are much more loosely held than his criteria for victims, and have changed more over the years as his social life evolves and as Isabelle unfortunately becomes the person he would consider his One True SubmissiveTM. Alec's initial interest is usually in people who are dissatisfied in their current relationships, who are younger and less experienced than him, often those who have some sort of Societally Inappropriate characteristic (feminine men, mentally ill women, anyone isolated)...basically, people he thinks he can lead around by the nose.

Of course, Alec is willing to take on much more assertive or experienced submissives if they meet other points of interest for him. He has two physical types he's interested in: elegant, sophisticated-looking individuals with long dark hair; and people who look as much like Isabelle as possible. He also has a need for interesting conversation for a relationship to have any staying power, and he favors cynics, artists, and academics.

To be sexually compatible with Alec is easier than you might think, because the slut sleeps with so many people that if he's not getting it from one partner he's definitely getting it from somewhere else. All he really needs is for his sexual partners to be willing to indulge at least one of his particular sexual fixations, which can be as extreme as his sadomasochism or as relatively vanilla as crossdressing or his passionate love for eating people out. He does not, however, like brats as submissives...although he'll happily take them as victims.

Loving all the Bertrand questions! Unfortunately, if Bertrand wasn't killed when Isabelle was an infant, the strain between him and Alec would only lead to more distance and it would only be a matter of time before it came to a head—probably with Bertrand trying something with Isabelle and Alec either killing him then or asserting dominance in a way that would make it very clear he's not the pushover little brother anymore. Bertrand doesn't have it in him to submit and would struggle to accept equality. Their relationship would never be as close as it once was, and the power struggle would either force them apart or turn very destructive.

It occurs to me that that would be a great setup for Alec moving to the US....

Of course, they were babies together before anything else. The bond they formed in their, well, formative years, was the foundation for everything that came after. They were always, always there for each other, no matter what else. Bertrand took the role of leader very very early, from about four years old onward to adulthood, just because he was apparently (lmao not really) better at emotional regulation than Alec.

When they were six or seven, Bertrand got tired of Alec always being guilt-ridden and angry and in trouble with the adults around them, so he started teaching Alec how to get away with things and trying to convince him that guilt was a useless emotion best discarded. Eventually this worked. In secondary school the two of them were fucking terrors, getting away with everything short of murder. Those were sort of their golden years, in their late teens. They were best friends, lovers, and partners in crime.

Then, when Alec was eighteen, he was caught standing over their mother's corpse with a stained statuette in his hand and blood all over him. He was exiled, and Bertrand refused to come with him, and so for the first time in his entire life he was alone. The next ten years alone were crucial in Alec's character development: he learned to be his own person in the face of a lot of trials, and emerged...honestly, more mature, capable, and self-possessed than Bertrand had ever been.

And so comes the final phase of their relationship: the rift. The two years Alec spent with Bertrand after being reitnroduced to English high society at age twenty-eight. Alec had changed and grown in ways Bertrand refused to acknowledge, wanting to still be the big brother and the dominant one in the relationship. With Bertrand patronizing him and taking him for granted, Alec only grew more resentful that Bertrand hadn't come with him, and finally after an insult too far, Alec killed him. He considers himself freer for it.

I don't think I'd describe Alec as transphobic in general, but he is insanely selfish, and he wants a daughter rather than a son for reasons that have to do with his issues around his twin brother who he murdered, as well as societal sexism and Alec's own preference for women.

He's comfortable using masculinity as a carrot in the whole carrot/stick thing he has going with Isabelle. For her tenth birthday she wanted a suit, and he gave her one; when she's sixteen he takes her hunting; things like that. But at the same time he would never allow a form of gender expression that contradicts his desires. When he wants Isabelle to wear a dress she'll be punished if she tries to wear anything else and medical transition, if Isabelle wanted it, would be completely out of the question. She's his daughter because he wants a daughter, and that's final.

It's worth noting that Alec doesn't know what Isabelle's gender identity actually is, and neither does Isabelle. With my canon taking place somewhere unspecified in the 20th century, both of their knowledge is a little limited, especially Isabelle's. Alec knows that trans people exist but if he had to guess what's going on with Isabelle gender-wise, he'd describe her as a bisexual woman who wants to be butch.

Oh, for sure. Sadism, low empathy, a tendency to stir the pot and experiment with their conversational partners, a detachment from humanity and fundamental belief that they themselves are not human...Isabelle takes after her father in many ways. These negative traits are tempered by her capacity for compassion and her sub-zero self esteem, but they're still very much present and occasionally destructive. More benignly, both of them are very moved by the arts, especially by music. They both also have strange senses of humor and are kinda oddballs.

Since early childhood, Alec had the idea that he wasn't exactly human. This delusion was brought about by hallucinations and vivid dreams, as well as his mother's abuse and his general alienation from everyone around him, other than Bertrand...although sometimes he found it hard to connect to Bertrand as well.

As Alec got older and embraced his worse tendencies, he started leaning into the idea that he was better than everyone else naturally, and that he deserved to get whatever he wanted and whatever he could achieve. This sense of superiority became entwined with his previous delusions. However, this didn't bloom into a full on god complex until after Alec's exile in Bali and his induction into the criminal underworld. The power he had access to, not to mention his drug use, sent these previous tendencies into overdrive. The more he got away with the worse he became.

And then Bertrand died, and Isabelle became the Messiah through which Alec's god complex could be realized. Alec was free of his most shameful vulnerability in the form of Bertrand, and here was this being Alec had created over which he had total power. So to answer your question, it was gradual over 30+ years! Far from built in a day, but it wasn't really "finalized" until Bertrand was dead. I plan on writing a short fic of Alec at Bertrand's funeral with baby Isabelle to illustrate all this.

Alec was always physically abusive to Isabelle in ways that, given their time period and social standing, could be excused as discipline. A tight hand on the back of her neck, an occasional slap, et cetera. However, the first time he actually full-on beat her was both more notable and less normalized to her, and was a major turning point in their relationship.

Alec had been grooming a teenage boy who worked with his father on the estate for some time, and Isabelle had seen the boy around and thought of him as a family friend. So when one day she, seven years old, found the boy tied up in Alec's car parked at the edge of the house, she acted on compassion without really thinking and set him free. He took off running, and Alec barely returned in time to shoot the boy before he escaped.

Alec then beat Isabelle, broke her legs, and dragged his still-living victim back to her just so he could kill her in front of him. Alec told her that the boy was already dead, that the type of people who are victims might as well be born dead, and that her actions had just accelerated the process. He told her her real crime was doing something that could have led to his arrest.

This laid the groundwork for many things in Isabelle's life. It was the first time she truly understood the reasons behind the fear people had of Alec, and it was the beginning of what would later be her Cotard's syndrome as she came to conceptualize abuse victims as the dead. The love that she had held for Alec before then became inextricably intertwined with fear, and in the emotional aftermath, where Alec barely spoke to her during her recovery, she developed a great fear of abandonment. This is also her physical disabling incident, so it haunts her the rest of her life.

I'm unsure if you mean "kinks they have" or "kinks they're meant to appeal to" so I'll answer the former! If you mean the latter, please ask again, because that's a whole different can of worms that requires a longer response.

Alec's core kinks are sadism (both physical and psychological), corruption/manipulation, and dubcon/noncon. He's also extremely into blood, gore, and death. Viola is dom4dom with Alec, the defining sexual relationship of her life, and likes co-dominating with him. She's also a raging hybristophile (fetish for crimes committed by her partner) and a sadomasochist. Isabelle is an extreme submissive, masochist with a dash of sadist, and a rope bunny. She's also got a major thing for guns and weaponry.

So funny you should ask! I've written that for RPs before. Alec would kill Viola and make it look like a suicide, and then we'd get the usual intense search for her. He would miss Viola, but never regret it for even a second. His loathing would be strong enough to override whatever you want to call his previous feelings for her.

Less than you'd expect! There are tumultuous periods, but Viola is only somewhat more tolerant of Alec's bullshit towards her than she ever was, so it doesn't devolve into domestic abuse or anything. She's actually more of a source of stability and comfort for him, and they grow closer without Isabelle as a thorn in their relationship, even if some things will never be fully forgiven or forgotten.

For Alec it's Isabelle's eyes, and for Isabelle it's Alec's hands. Alec finds the idea of picking just one vaguely sacrilegious though, and he could just as easily say mouth, hair, or neck.

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