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Alpha/Beta/Omega

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.
* Males have penises; females have vaginas.
* 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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[I like the idea of both of those... but at what moment would we want them to interact? They both have huge potential but I think that'd depend on when we wanted to slot them in to this fast paced movie, either during the action or in a post-canon where they're able to interact not just through a cell wall?]

[The best potential moment I can see for Khan figuring out Kirk is a suppressed Omega would be on the bridge on the vengeance after he betrays them. The two of them have a little struggle and Khan does a neck-bite and Kirk stops fighting as a result. Outside that we could take more liberties with canon.

As for the second, I think that would definitely work best in a post-canon where Khan isn't on ice and is allowed some measure of freedom.]

[Irony of ironies, the put him back exactly where Marcus had left off; he's a Starfleet personnel, now, under his own name, serving the fleet to assure the continued safety of his people (who live quietly on a planet far away, without risk of interference) where he'd been performing the same work for the safety of their unconscious bodies a few short months before. This time his services are bought, rather than threatened; the leniency of the punishment is seen as justifiable due to the duress he'd been under when he'd committed his crimes to begin with. The only difference this time around is that when he's served his time, he gets to go home to them, and Khan is prepared tentatively to believe that this promise will be kept.

In the mean time, living on Earth, there remains the thought of Kirk.

Kirk is an enigma, mostly because in Khan's day and age suppressants were nowhere near what they are today. It shouldn't be possible for an omega to maintain a command position, never mind to fly so far under the radar that he'd missed it entirely. He missed it right up until the moment on the bridge of the Vengeance, where he'd grabbed him hard and bared his teeth at him, in a purely animalistic threat, and felt the slight give in his response. Anyone without his augmented senses might very well have missed it entirely, but all of a sudden Khan had simply known, and was hit with a wave of... something, and overcome with a sudden and almost violent need to drop him.

He doesn't like to wear alpha tendencies on his sleeve like this, the supposedly more 'active' sexual partner is just as much a victim of biology as the passive when it comes to losing their composure, but Kirk is infuriating in a way that just makes him want to react.

Khan doesn't give in to it. There's too much going on by far, and the need to protect his family overcomes any desire to explore the potential he quite frankly wants to lick. But somehow he expects that after it's all played out, he'll be seeing Kirk again.

Every day he works on Earth, he expects to be the one that bring the captain to his door.]

[Jim is grounded, stuck on Earth, and he really, really wants to be back in space. For some reason, no amount of distance seemed to be enough to make Jim stop thinking of Khan, and his teeth. He doesn't take alphas to his bed if he can help it, and even on his own ship only a handful of people know.

It's made worse because Earth, particularly San Francisco, he can hardly go anywhere without catching the scent of unsuppressed alphas. Even though he'd always avoided them, the smell of them was still enough to excite some more animal part of him. Now he just finds that when he comes across that scent he longs for the carefully filtered air of his ship.

But it's the day after the night when he finds himself completely uninterested in spending the night with anyone, despite ample opportunity at his bar of choice, that he goes to Khan. Whatever it was that had happened, they needed to work through it.

He presses the door chime and waits.]

Enter.

[He announces, lazily, looking up from the papers strewn over his desk to watch Kirk come in. The apartment is small, it is a prison, after all, though there are no locks on the doors. The windows have an open view of the devastation left of the bay, where he crashed the Vengeance, perhaps as a reminder.

He's watching Kirk like a hawk, the way he watched him in that cell. Only now, he's playing host, isn't he? So he rises, so they'll be eye to eye when Kirk gets up the courage to come inside.]

Hello, Captain.

[Jim's always been one to jump in recklessly and now that he's here, there's nothing to do but step inside. The view, as wonderful and horrible as it is, isn't worth his attention at all right now. Khan has been in here long enough now for the apartment to smell like him, and that makes the hairs on the back of Jim's neck stand on end.]

Khan.

['We need to talk' is what you say when it's time to escape from a relationship that was never meant to be serious anyway. Jim grasps for words.]

Back on the Vengeance...

I didn't tell anyone. I'm sure some of the old prejudices are alive and well.

[The door rushes shut behind him, and Khan murmurs the command for it to lock. No sense getting interrupted.

He takes a long look at him, and moves to go get him a glass of water. He looks like he needs it, and Khan always has the vague instinct to tend to the ones he meets like Kirk, the plucky, the complicated ones.]

You face enough without my complicating this any further.

[Jim sucks in a breath to protest about the prejudices, but they'd definitely complicated his life when he'd first hit maturity. He accepts the water and takes a drink, and gives Khan a look that's more studying and less confrontational.]

It's easier on the Enterprise.

[The Enterprise was his haven, his own little world, as much as Starfleet tried to remind him he couldn't in fact do whatever he thought was best. He lets out a little laugh, trying to lighten the situation.]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone look that surprised.

You were all elbows and punches one moment, then the next you were pliant and practically kittenish.

[He reminds him, smiling- quite unconsciously showing him his teeth. Yes, he wants to do it to him again, and more besides, but not at the expense of scaring him off, so he just gestures for him to take a seat.]

It wasn't a moment I'll forget easily.

Yeah. I've been in a lot of fights, but no one's ever tried to bite me before.

[Aggressive biting was a huge taboo. Jim had known about the response biting brought, but it was still alarming after the fact. He keeps himself from shivering at the sight of Khan's teeth, but just barely.

He sits down before he has a chance to think that maybe he should be asserting himself more, but Khan had an opportunity to do... well, anything Jim might be worried about having done to him. Talking to Khan is much easier than he expected, too.]

It's not something I'll forget any time soon either.

I've been reading about suppressants. They existed in my time, but they weren't something available for public use. Your world, you fight as though anyone might be an omega, with your teeth away. In my time, we all knew one another instantly, so there was never any need.

[He explains this, with the faintest wince. He can see the merit in the assumption now, because even with everything he feels he has to add;]

I wouldn't have done that to you without your consent if I realized.

[Because between him, and an omega, it amounts to a sexual act, and though he's done many things in his life that isn't a line he's ever deliberately crossed.]

For that, more than any other thing, I think I owe you an apology.

Living in a city must've been unbearable.

[It makes sense now that he thinks about it, that people in Khan's time wouldn't have been trained from an early age not to bite, either for play or as a show of dominance.

Jim cannot imagine a life without the suppressants to keep his cycles in check. The knowledge that Khan wouldn't have bitten him if he'd known makes him relax a little bit, and despite how Khan is an expert at saying what needs to be said to get what he wants, Jim believes him.]

You sent me back to my ship after, you didn't do anything else, and you didn't know.

Unbearable? No. We were accustomed to it, we were trained for it- and anyways, back then, I think sex was a little less frightening.

[He looks Kirk up and down, thoughtfully.]

You've never been through a cycle, have you? They're so far out of fashion, you probably can't imagine the power you have in those moments.

[The question about his cycles has Jim making a face. He's very accustomed to people thinking he's a beta and not asking.]

I've seen other omegas go through them.

It doesn't look like power to me.

It does look that way, doesn't it?

[Murmuring, leaning forward to draw in a deep breath of him, trying to chase the little taste he'd had on the bridge, to tell just how far suppressed he is. His instincts insist he could just push him down and bite him everywhere until the heat came on. In reality, that isn't how it works, but instinct doesn't listen much to reason about matters like these. His tongue darts out, wetting his bottom lip.]

You don't think you have a kind of power over me, Kirk?

[This time, Jim does shiver, and he realizes that Khan has been just as distracted, just as preoccupied, since biting him. He wanted to lean in and nuzzle Khan. He has to take another drink, because his mouth is dry.]

If you're going to seduce me, you should call me Jim.

[Jim wants more, and he's not sure why that doesn't disturb him, but Khan is right; Jim could use Khan's alpha instincs, that need he saw in Khan's eyes. There is some twisted measure of power.]

Jim.

[He agrees, because yes, he intends to seduce him. He smiles again, no teeth, just subtle and small.]

I think it would do us both good to finish what we've begun.

[He wants to put him on his knees, so very badly. He doesn't, doesn't want to scare him off.]

We should.

[Jim leans forward to initiate a kiss, forceful and hungry. He wants this, wants Khan in a way he's never wanted someone. Before it was always just about getting off, and anyone would do. Khan tastes as delicious as he smells.

It's not quite the action his instincts are urging him to, but Jim has a life-time of experience in putting that aside.]

[He reaches up, and wraps a hand deftly around his throat, a not so subtle way of controlling him into the kiss, keeping him still while Khan takes over the kiss with comfortable ease.

He could kill him with just a twitch of his fingers, but instead chooses the moment to nip his bottom lip, a hint at what's to come.]

If you say stop, if you become overwhelmed, we stop. The romantic myths of alphas and lusts are all well and good, but for here, for today, I won't go so far we can't let you breathe for a moment. Tell me you understand.

[What's meant to be a growl at the hand around his neck and Khan's dominance in the kiss comes out as more of a groan than he intends. It's both incredibly thrilling to the part of him that craves an alpha, and frustrating to the part of him that's been working to be in control of everything.

Jim shivers at the feel of teeth on his lip, and the hand keeps him neatly in place while Khan pulls back to speak.]

Yes. I understand. Now shut up and kiss me again.

[Khan has never had to control smiling into a kiss before. Sex doesn't tend to be particularly joyoys, but he is now, while he takes Kirk again and pulls him the rest of the way over, urging him to come straddle his lap while they kiss.

It's been far too long, his body supplies him, and perhaps he'll need to work on his control a little more than he thought.]

[Jim has never given much thought to controlling himself. That's what the suppressants were for. He's reminded how much stronger Khan is when the other man moves him over like he weighs nothing, but it doesn't register as even remotely alarming or worth more than a moment of consideration.

Any time he thinks about trying to assert himself, he decides against it, and instead settles onto Khan's lap. The instincts are there, and he wonders how much more intense they would be if he was in heat.]

[Heat is one thing, but Khan is entirely curious to see how Jim takes to it when he turns his head, and noses down the side of his throat. One arm slips around his waist, the other comes back to cradle the nape of his neck, holding him still and pulling him down a little so that when Khan sits up, he can find the place on his throat where he'd bit him on the bridge. He just tests the spot with his lips, first, reminding him what he could do.

A few cruel seconds of that, and then he gives in and sinks in with his teeth.]

[He fidgets a little in Khan's lap as he's moved around.]

I'm not done kissing.

[It's a weak protest, born out of his stubborn denial of his instincts. Khan nuzzling his neck makes his heart beat faster in his chest.]

Khan.

[The teasing is enough to draw the plea from Jim, although he's not entirely sure what it is he's pleading for at that moment. The bite on his neck makes Jim relax in Khan's grip. It hurts, just a little bit, but it also feels very, very good. He has to wonder why he put off coming to see Khan for so long, because suddenly the time between the bridge and now makes little sense to him.]

There you are- you're so good.

[He promises him, very quietly, before biting him again, lower on his shoulder this time, arms still right there to keep him steady as he feels him relax. This is exactly what he wants from him, and he makes carefully sure to radiate and rumble approval to him, while he continues to make good use of his skin.]

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beautiful. I will go from here.

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