Okay, then I'll tell you honestly that I think your characterization issues probably would be better solved if you did have Dean put into re-education, because I can't really see much other explanation for how relaxed Dean has been about this change in circumstances; arriving in Ariel. I'll just dot-point the issues, but I think you really should have a thorough canon review. In particular, I would recommend watching the episode...I don't recall the name or which season, but it's the one where Sam and Dean take on a Djinn and Dean gets put into the fantasy world of what his life would have been like without the tragedy. And see how hard he fights that fantasy, because everything in his life has taught him to do so.
1. Basically, I can't see anything of a Hunter in Dean, and it should be there because Ariel is exactly the kind of too-good-to-be-true fantasy that Dean has been canonically shown to reject. There's no fight in him, no distrust, no pro-active attempts at investigation, no need to understand this new place he's in.
2. In particular, I think this -- http://cityofariel.dreamwidth.org/15223.html?thread=1543287#cmt1543287 -- is a very OOC response for Dean. There's no way he would trust someone he was so newly introduced to to just agree to something like that with no questions. No asking who the other person involved would be? No stating limits to be sure he knew what he was getting in to?
Although here's where I concede that part of the influence was probably from the troubles you were having with modding, and wanting to shortcut to the fun sexy times without putting in the effort to justify it with better characterization, and from a certain standpoint, I can't blame you for that. You deserve to have fun too. I just want to point out that it was pretty OOC for Dean, who should be a hell of a lot more wary, and definitely not so willing to put himself in a vulnerable position.
3. Now in discussion the log between Sam/Dean -- I'm not objecting to the incest, because hell, those kind of kinks are what this game are for, and I have no issue with it personally -- but it really should have affected Dean a hell of a lot more in regards to sex because he would interpret that as hurting his little brother which is something Dean would revile himself for. That alone should have prompted a really violent reaction from him, because Dean is extremely protective of Sam, and regardless of who instigated, he would blame himself and he would also blame the city/the powers that be for screwing him up so badly to do something that he should consider really taboo and damaging to his little brother. The fact that he pretty much continues after that as if it's business as usual just feels really off, and frankly, it's sort of a let down to put him through that with basically no interesting or profound consequences. Again, it feels like short-cut roleplaying.
I would actually recommend that you ret-con some re-education for Dean, perhaps for right after things happened between himself and Sam, because that would at least partially explain why the incest didn't provoke a stronger reaction from him (pleasure is pleasure, etc) and have taken some of the fight out of him in regards to not being more demonstratively against the city. Otherwise, his ambivalence and acceptance just don't feel in-character at all.
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1. Basically, I can't see anything of a Hunter in Dean, and it should be there because Ariel is exactly the kind of too-good-to-be-true fantasy that Dean has been canonically shown to reject. There's no fight in him, no distrust, no pro-active attempts at investigation, no need to understand this new place he's in.
2. In particular, I think this -- http://cityofariel.dreamwidth.org/15223.html?thread=1543287#cmt1543287 -- is a very OOC response for Dean. There's no way he would trust someone he was so newly introduced to to just agree to something like that with no questions. No asking who the other person involved would be? No stating limits to be sure he knew what he was getting in to?
Although here's where I concede that part of the influence was probably from the troubles you were having with modding, and wanting to shortcut to the fun sexy times without putting in the effort to justify it with better characterization, and from a certain standpoint, I can't blame you for that. You deserve to have fun too. I just want to point out that it was pretty OOC for Dean, who should be a hell of a lot more wary, and definitely not so willing to put himself in a vulnerable position.
3. Now in discussion the log between Sam/Dean -- I'm not objecting to the incest, because hell, those kind of kinks are what this game are for, and I have no issue with it personally -- but it really should have affected Dean a hell of a lot more in regards to sex because he would interpret that as hurting his little brother which is something Dean would revile himself for. That alone should have prompted a really violent reaction from him, because Dean is extremely protective of Sam, and regardless of who instigated, he would blame himself and he would also blame the city/the powers that be for screwing him up so badly to do something that he should consider really taboo and damaging to his little brother. The fact that he pretty much continues after that as if it's business as usual just feels really off, and frankly, it's sort of a let down to put him through that with basically no interesting or profound consequences. Again, it feels like short-cut roleplaying.
I would actually recommend that you ret-con some re-education for Dean, perhaps for right after things happened between himself and Sam, because that would at least partially explain why the incest didn't provoke a stronger reaction from him (pleasure is pleasure, etc) and have taken some of the fight out of him in regards to not being more demonstratively against the city. Otherwise, his ambivalence and acceptance just don't feel in-character at all.