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A/B/O

THE ALPHA/BETA/OMEGA MEME

In our world, sexual roles are commonly defined by genders -- male or female or other, by sexualities -- gay or straight, bi or asexual or in-between. But what if they were defined by something else entirely?

Alpha/Beta/Omegaverse is a fusion of fanfiction tropes and animalistic behavior. In this world, sexual roles are divided into three categories: the Alphas (the dominant, the protective and the aggressive), the Betas (ordinary humans) and the Omegas (submissive, fertile and able to carry children).

RESOURCES:
Fanlore on the Alpha/Beta/Omegaverse
Alphas, Betas and Omegas: A primer.

CONTENT WARNING: Below the cut contains descriptions of animalistic sexual behavior as applied to humans, situations of dubious consent, explicit situations, mpreg, and scenarios of societal oppression. Click with caution!

ROLES:
1 - The Alpha.
* Stereotypically type A personalities.
* Anatomically: Males have a penis; females may have a penis in addition to a vagina.
* Alphas knot their mates, meaning that the base of the penis swells and locks them inside their mate while they produce copious amounts of semen in an effort to breed.
* Strong sense of smell.
* Near an Omega in heat, they experience a compulsion to mate that is almost impossible to overcome.
* Alphas may go into rut, which is their equivalent of Omega heat, and drives them to mate.

2 - The Beta.
* Ordinary human being.
* Lack of altered genitalia.
* Can mate to anyone.
* Might be able to smell hormones of Omegas and Alphas, but will not be overwhelmingly affected by them.

3 - The Omega.
* Stereotypically submissive, quiet, intelligent and less physically able.
* Female anatomy is similar to Betas; males are self-lubricating and may have either an external or internal vaginal setup.
* Regularly go into heat, which involves being overcome by the urge to mate. They are unable to consent while in heat.
* May be made compliant by a bite to the neck. However, that may also induce a mating bond.
* Often regarded as second-class citizens or prizes to be won.

SITUATIONS:
1 - Bonding - Love at first sight. You've spotted your soulmate. You can smell them, you can feel them, you know that they'll be with you until the end of your days. Unless there's something between the two of you. It could be age - maybe one of you has to wait until the other has reached maturity. It could be that the bond is one-sided, and the other has yet to fall in love. It could be an unwanted bond, or society could have divided you into different places. Is your love strong enough to conquer?

2 - Heat/Rut - The need is coming on you strong. Everyone for a half-mile around can smell it. Better find someone to ride it out with, or hole yourself up in a room with a few bottles of water and a durable sex toy. And you'd better hope that there isn't someone out there who will take advantage of your pliable state. Best case scenario, there might be a Beta who can take care of you, or fend off anyone too predatory.

3 - Pregnancy - Whether through a heat or not, you're pregnant. Congratulations - or condolences. Is it time to start a family, or time to start panicking?

4 - Suppressants - You're using suppressants to keep yourself on an even hormone cycle, skipping heats, or maybe pretending to pass as a different class of society. After all, Omegas might want to be in the military, where they're not usually allowed - or an Alpha might want to take a job in a university or as a nurse. Shouldn't they be allowed to, if their hormones are suppressed? Just hope that you don't miss a dose.

5 - Mistaken Identity - That friend that you always thought was an Alpha, or an Omega, or a neutral Beta, turns out to be something entirely different, and your world is turned absolutely upside down. Does it challenge your preconceptions? Or does it just ruin the balance between you two?

6 - Unlikely Pairs - After all, there's no actual reason that Alphas have to mate with Omegas. Maybe two Omegas can satisfy each other. Or two Alphas. Or your intended mate could easily be a Beta. Maybe this is just about breaking out of your pre-established role and becoming something new.

7 - Manifestation - In some cases, an individual may not know they are Omega, Beta or Alpha until their first heat/rut/manifestation, usually happening in early teen years. It may take you by surprise; it may be a blessing, or may be a deep disappointment.

8 - Other - Adventures in getting jobs, making families, fighting bad guys, and anything else you can come up with!

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[ The hot sting of rejection constricts tight around his chest as he stands there with the water pattering over his skin. He stands there even when her groan rings out, lighting his nerve endings on fire, as instinct screams at him to get out there, to hold her tight, to remind her that he's here to make her feel better, to make it all better.

But she doesn't want it and she made it clear enough, though it's completely beyond him why she would choose misery over him and everything he can give her. He can make her happy. He can do anything she wants him to do, and they can take on the world together.

Except the sane part of him reminds him that she's walking away from him, walking out of his home when they're sharing the most vulnerable part of themselves together. She's choosing to leave and that thought makes his jaw clench tight as he furiously stays in the shower. He needs to get her out of his head. ]

You're a cocksucking piece of shit, you know that?

[She's yelling at him from by the foot of his bed, not quite able to leave, something stirring in the pit of her stomach that isn't just that heat trying to crawl back in. Something desperate and lost.]

Why couldn't you just be a fucking adult and call and cancel? Why the fuck would you have me come all the way out here?

[ Her voice tears through his thoughts and he feels a growl rip up from his throat. He's moving before he even realizes it, stepping out of the shower, slamming the glass door, snatching a towel from the heated rack to wrap around his waist. Either way, he still drags water all across the tile and flooring as he barks back: ]

Are you fucking kidding me, Jess?

[ He rounds the corner, completely wet and naked in front of her, chest pinching at seeing her fully dressed and ready to leave. ] If you're implying I planned this, you’re fucking delusional. Listen, you’re the one who stayed, okay? You’re the one who wouldn’t leave when I told you to, and you’re telling me this is my fault?

Because you answered the door all stupid and lazy and didn't actually say anything. Why'd you let it get to that point? I drove here from New York. You couldn't have fucking texted me "Hey, my dick's acting up, fuck all the way off"? No. You let me come all the way out here because the idea of thinking of anyone but yourself is a foreign concept to you.

[He smelled clean and male, that rut still wrapping around him in an enticing odor that had her leaning in. But she covered that by prodding at his chest. Poking him. Pushing him back.]

Planned? Nah, that's giving you too much credit. But not thinking of someone other than yourself? Completely valid.

Oh please, cry me a fucking river! [ Her fingertip against his chest hurt, and he steps back, snarling. ] ‘Cus I’m supposed to tell another fucking Alpha that I’m gonna need to go lock someone down for the next couple of days so they better watch out they don’t suddenly turn into an Omega?

[ A derisive laugh twists his expression as he shoves her finger away. He forgot about their appointment. He truly forgot, so her point stands, not that he’ll admit it, but up until this point, he hadn’t thought of it as such a bad thing. ]

You were supposed to be able to tell goddammit! You can smell me from a fucking mile away but oh, you’re special, right? So it doesn’t affect you the same ‘cus you get to do whatever you fucking want and walk out whenever you decide it’s over.

How the fuck was I supposed to be able to tell? You think I run around with my nose up in the air, sniffing out what each asshole smells like when they're in a mood so I know to avoid them?

[Her status change was messing with her, and while it wasn't his fault, it was easier for her to make it his fault for now. It was his scent that had done it, after all. 30 plus years and this one asshole Alpha is the one that turns her life upside down. Fucking figures.]

Don't blame me because you're pissed you're going to have to go through the effort of calling someone else out here to powder your pampered ass. Because you have it so hard.

[Poor spoiled baby. He wasn't the one who'd had his entire life and status flipped upside down out of nowhere. He wasn't the one who was trying not to be afraid and lost at walking out his door. If she could get her goddamn feet to move.]

[ She's different--that much is clear. So different from everyone he's ever met. Of course she's supposed to sniff out 'every asshole', to be aware of the people around her. He thinks it's common sense, and that she doesn't think it's necessary makes him want to shield her from it.

But that's the last thing he'll say in this moment.

Instead, he scoffs as she calls out his privilege. Everyone seems to have a gripe about that with him, but that she does too--he's mad that it stings as it lands coming from her. ]

It's not hard, sweetheart. [ He's pissed because she's walking out, he's pissed the thought of losing her hurts, that sex with her had been so good that he instinctively knows it means more and that pisses him off. ] I can call whoever I want and have whoever I wanna have powder my pampered ass and they'll show up at my doorstep within the next hour. [ Though the thought of it sickens him, though he can't fathom anyone else except for her. ]

Don't blame me because you walked into this, alright? I didn't do anything wrong here. In fact, what I did was nice. I'm getting you through this shit and you're mad at me?!

[That newly woken part of her is aching. Hurt. It wants to take back all the words, make her shove them back in her mouth so he stops being mad. But she's spent so many years with this shield up, this barrier between her and the world because she's had to, and she doesn't know how to make it stop. There's a part of her that's tearing in half and she doesn't know what to do about it.

But that part also awakens a new feeling inside her at his admission of being able to call someone else out. Jealousy. It flames to life inside her and she gives him a shove.]

See? I fucking knew it. You whisper all this sweet bullshit when your dick's getting wet, but as soon as someone's not catering to your specific whims, you're going to call 1-800-DIAL-A-HO. You prick.

[She knows he's right about some of it, but it's not like she had a baseline to go off of. She'd been around Alphas in rut and had just done her business and left when necessary. How the hell was she supposed to predict this clusterfuck?]

[ He stumbles back another step and hisses at the cold pane of window that hits his damp back. The sensation sends another jolt through him, flaring up everything in his body, the anger, the heat, the animalistic desire to pin her down and show her exactly how much he wants her and not anyone else, to tell her how much he meant that sweet bullshit. He grabs her hand on his chest as his scent spikes and pulls her hard towards him.

She's wearing way too many clothes. ]

[She's caught up in a heat fury, an Omega being denied her mate, but she has no idea what the hell is going on and just thinks she's being psychotically mad for no reason. But his hand is on her wrist, circling it and tugging her in and there's this odd moment of peace. Yes, touch me, want me, have me, runs through her head, and when he pulls her in, she pulls back, yanking him with her and twisting to push him back towards the bed. His lair. Her instincts tell her it needs to smell more like her.

That towel needs to go.]

[ A strong bolt of arousal spikes through him when she yanks him, when he has no choice but to move as her strength catches him off guard as he's shoved towards the bed. He manages to keep his grip on her wrist, as he stumbles, dragging her with him as the edge of the bed hits the back of his knees.

So this is what she wants? Fine. He'll find the back of her neck, will sift fingers through damp hair and pull her down against him and find her mouth with his, overwhelmed with the need to taste her, to prove to her. As for what he's trying to prove? The answer escapes him. ]

[The only thing she hadn't put on was her jacket, which was still downstairs somewhere. He pulled her in against him and she felt heat bloom again. That need spiked, and any intention she had of going elsewhere washed away as soon as his lips were on hers.

She felt his hand in her hair, felt herself pulled in and her free hand moved down to tug at his towel. She might have a lot of conflicting feelings about him, but one thing she was completely certain of; she liked him naked.]

[ So long as she's against him, she's not leaving, and this is much better than having to think about what it means when she leaves. So he welcomes her hand and tips his hips up against hers so she can pull the towel off. See? He's very cooperative.

As long as he gets what he wants, too, which is her clothes off. His hands are just as desperate as he searches out the waistband of her pants, wedging in the tight spaces between them to work on the button, on her fly, pushing his straining erection against her thigh. It's like the edge they just took off comes roaring back, egged on by her fury and spitting words.

Everything becomes a blur again but it all feels suddenly right again. He breathes in her scent everywhere, loves seeing her in his soft sheets, enjoys her skin against his as they tumble together, ensconced in the heat of together again. ]

[Trish would bring up something about soulmates, or perfect bonds, and Jess would laugh about it. But Trish wasn't there, wasn't witness to the hot flush of arousal or the way no matter what position they wound up in, they just fit, everything clicking into place like they'd been actually made for each other.

She has him pinned down now, his hands over his head as she sinks down on him, not letting him touch her, not letting him do anything but be taken by her as that dominance that had made her believe herself to be an Alpha bled into that Omega nature. She was his. Fine. But he was hers too, and if he wasn't going to bite her and make it official, she'd make him regret every moment of his stupid stubbornness by imprinting the fact that she was the best he'd ever have on him.

Nevermind that cut both ways, and she knew that no matter how many people she slept with, none of them would ever come close to hitting all the buttons he did. Not by half.]

[ She's got one thing right about him (among others): he's stewed in privilege and entitlement. He knows what he wants and what he likes and settles for no less. He knows that the last thing he tolerates is a boring Omega who wants to put their ass in the air and be taken care of, like he's the only one with anything to give.

So when she pins his arms over his head, he welcomes it with a sharky, self-assured grin, like he's fine no matter how she wanted to hold him down and fuck him, to take away control with her strength.

Still, it's a heady feeling when tests her grip by pushing his arms against her hold, faltering with every roll of her hips, straining hard and realizing it's so hot being pinned to place at her mercy. Is she mad that he likes it? That he's fucked many an Alpha, totally confident in giving up control, totally safe in his mental distance? A kind of distance that's impossible to keep with her, that is. ]

[She can feel him try to flex, but with the leverage of being on top and that supernatural enhancement she has, he's not going anywhere unless she says so. She can see it in his face, that moment he both gives in and challenges her for more. Of course he'd like it. He was an indulgent jerk. But she liked it too, watching him strain under her and knowing he was hers. All that was hers.

She finally let him go, but only so she could touch him elsewhere, nip at his shoulder, tease him with a shallow bite to the curve of his neck. Just an inch away from where she wanted to bite him. A promise. A threat. She wasn't sure which, but goddamn, she had some weird urge to have him wear her mark, just like she wanted his. His bed was messed. His clean self was a mess again. She was leaving traces of herself everywhere.

But that new part of her wanted to leave something that would make it impossible for him to forget her.]

[ It suddenly fills him with want, pooling in his stomach, wetting his mouth, and he parts his lips to gasp when her teeth sink into his flesh so close to where he wants it. He strains up against her when his breath fans out in a heavy moan, arms wrapping around her to grip her, one hand finding the back of her head to keep her in place.

More, more, more. ]

Yeah--you want me to be yours?

[ He lifts his head and tips his chin up against the plush pillow, giving her more room, the impulsive need to bear her mark driving every rational thought out of his mind. He's never known when to stop. ]

[It's permission. It's a direct response to that need that's clawing inside her to have and to belong, and she's never felt something so intensely as how right it is when she looks down at him and sees that bare stretch of his neck pulled taut. His hand is in her hair, urging her to do what it seems like they both need.

Jessica can't stop to think or reason anymore. She just makes an inarticulate sound that's pure desire as she moves to clamp her teeth down on that tempting curve, marking him in a way that she never thought she would do to anyone. Hers. Her body squeezes around him as she leaves her mark and she feels a rush of pure satisfaction go through her when she draws back. Mine.]

[ What sears through his veins when her teeth break his flesh can only be described as euphoria. It explodes sharp and painful from her bite, then prickles on his skin, gathers behind his shut eyes while filling every gap in his soul. It's shocking and it's everything he instinctively knew it would be: truly, simply happy.

Pure bliss is desperately tipping his head to seek out her sweet musk. His nose skims her gland before his teeth do, and without another beat of hesitance, he marks her.

A satisfied groan mutes into her neck as he bites hard and tastes iron. He tastes how she smells and feels pleasure flood every one of his senses. It feels like falling, knowing you'll be caught, like sailing among the waves, mercy to the wind, like drowning with his air stolen clean out of his lungs. Simultaneously, his body sets alight and the orgasm crashes hard through his every cell.

She's his.]

[For once, Jessica doesn't think any of this is wrong. There's no conflicting emotions, no anger, no confusion. Just pure bliss and welcoming and belonging. It's enough to have tears pricking the backs of her eyes. She hasn't felt like she's belonged anywhere in... god. Even before her family died, she'd been the odd one out in her family. Too dark. Too jaded. Too much trouble.

But the pain that turned instantly into a molasses-dripping sensation of pleasure that dripped down into her body from the point of his teeth puncturing that gland... Jesus. This is what the whole process was about. Why people mated. Why any of it. A soft whimper left her, feeling that jerking motion of him fucking up into her before she let her mouth crash on his; the blend of his blood and hers in that kiss just adding to the mingling fusion of them.

She was so fucked.]

[ The kiss is a heady swim through warm waters that ricochets to a burn. Everything burns where they touch, as if he was skinning, shedding who he was, skin raw while coming into who he will be. The bullshit they hype up is real, and thank fuck for it, thank whatever lord doesn't exist for this peaceful bliss, for this taste, for her.

Her weight comfortably presses over him as he finds himself soothingly running a hand through her now mostly-dry hair. His other is settled at the small of her back. The two of them are the only pieces of calm and peace in the whole bedroom. Her clothes are scattered everywhere again and the sheets are sliding half-off the bedframe, but the only thing he can focus on is her against him, and the new presence in the back of his mind. It feels like a telephone wire, the kind that was in Harlan's house that would stretch out long then wind up tight as he paced through long conversations in his study. ]

You feel it too, don't you? [ He sounds breathless, even to his own ears. ]

[She's panting, breathing slowly, trying to gather herself back together, but not quite. Usually, she tucks her shields up instantly, bristling against any contact that wasn't necessary. But she didn't have to do that with him. Didn't want to. She didn't even have to ask him what he was talking about, because she knew immediately. That line that thrummed, connecting her to him. She could feel his pleasure through it, that comfort and bliss from initiating that bond.

A part of her thought she should be more upset about it, be upset at all. But she couldn't work herself up. He was her mate. Of course they should have a connection.]

Mm... It should be weird, shouldn't it?

[ He gives a quiet huff of a laugh that she'll feel more than hear, and presses a kiss to the curve of her jaw. ]

Who says it's not weird, [ he teases, with no bite as he takes another breath and feels her melt back against him on the exhale. ] Pretty sure we've spent more time fucking than talking.

Talking's overrated. I like fucking.

[Clarification; she liked fucking him. Sex with him had been a whole new experience, and one she didn't feel inclined to quite end any time soon. Which brought up a question that had her lifting her head a bit, turning it towards him.]

How long does this... this last? I only have textbooks to go by and what other people have mentioned. Does it go by your time or mine?

What? [ It's gotta be the rut making him stupid, because he hears what she asks and doesn't understand any of it. Instead, he just thinks about how beautiful she is, how her mussed dark hair frames her face perfectly, how the curve of her nose is the cutest thing he's seen, how those large, doe-eyes look like pools of warmth.

He's in deep. So so deep with no hope or desire to get out. ] What's this? Use your words, sweetheart.

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