I just finished binge reading Mind Games. I enjoyed it a lot and can't wait to see what you have next! I do have some questions though. Do Supers also have a hatred towards Alphas, or would they only turn them in because that's what the government and Advocacy tells them to do? How come the government only sought out to eliminate Alphas? Surely, there had to be some Supernatural kinds that didn't want to be weaponized?
Hi, there!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it <3 This might be a bad time to tell you, there is a planned rewrite coming that will (hopefully) make it even better! I love lore questions! Lezzgo!
So, Supers do not have an innate hate for Alphas; in fact, there's a kinship kind of relationship there! Supers have to hide their existence from the world, just like Alphas do now. Also, unless the Super is a Tracer or is explicitly told, MOST can't tell an Alpha from just another weird Super. Alphas do smell different, but the mass majority of Supers haven't encountered enough Alphas to actually tell their scent apart from just like... a Super species they haven't encountered before.
The government only sought out to eliminate Alphas because 1. Alphas are far easier to discover back when they started popping up (Supers have kept to their own population since medieval times, whilst Alphas come from human parents; harder to hide if you aren't born into a family knowing how to) and the majority of the human population isn't aware of the existence of Supers, and 2. Alphas were failed at being militarized twice in history; once in the 1970s during the Korean War, and secondly in the 1990s when the Cold War was heating up again for a few years. When the USA couldn't militarize them (ie control them), they settled for all out extermination. And... many other countries followed. Supers, however, have never been militarized; the Advocacy are peacekeepers and employers to Supers, and also their ruling iron fist, in some cases. But never militarized... not by humans, at least. Other Supers, now that's a whole other can of worms.
