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bakerstreet2013-06-15 04:32 pm
memeliscious) wrote in bakerstreet2013-06-15 04:32 pm
Alpha/Beta/Omega
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: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!
Fanlore on the Alpha/Beta/Omegaverse
Alphas, Betas and Omegas: A primer.
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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Spencer shifts a little awkwardly as he faces Will. He wants him, and that's such a foreign feeling that if he weren't drowning in heat it would have taken him entirely by surprise. As it is, all he can do is watch him, breathe in his scent, and try and resist the urge to press his face into the crook of his neck and breathe him in. It's almost overwhelming, the way he smells like an Alpha. Spencer has never experienced this, never actually had to know what it feels like when there's someone else to complicate this.
Before this heat had just been securely locking himself in home alone, with books he couldn't manage to focus on and a lot of icepacks and cold showers and the inevitable masturbation that hardly took the edge off at all.
He likes Will, maybe a little more than he likes most people. Because Will is smart, and the way he sees the world is something that Spencer can understand, and that's a preciously rare commodity. But they weren't close, nothing that changed Spencer's dislike of touch, contact, of being close to people. He looks at him as Will says he wants to help -- it makes Spencer breathless and he finds himself nodding, agreeing because he can't help himself.
"Please.."
He should ask for something else, but he can't. There's a needy little whine as Will steps in closer, letting himself be edged back into the stall while staying close. It's proximity that any rational part of his mind would judge too close, but there's nothing rational about this. The heat is drowning out logic, slowly smothering everything except the raw, primal need that Spencer tries so hard to pretend he's not victim to.
He reaches out, slowly, a little awkwardly, curling fingers in the man's shirt, holding on like an anchor, and the touch sparks fire through his nerves.
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Despite himself, Will shudders when Spencer takes a hold of his shirt, glancing down at his pale fingers, back up, nervous. The begging, more than the touch, goes right through him, and what kind of sick fuck does that make him? But he needs to separate himself from the guys who mutilate omega bodies and leave buckets of DNA samples at the scene. He's not that kind of Alpha.
Will places both his hands on Spencer's shoulders to steady them both, hold him separate (to give him the leverage to haul him in.)
"Tell me what you need." He meant it to be a question, but it comes out with gruff command. He winces, looks to the side. Someone's graffiti'd a phone number into the wood of the stall, 4 A GUD TIME. Maybe Spencer could borrow his cell and call it. They'd probably be better at this than Will is. "I mean, is there someone you want me to get you to?" Because he doesn't know Reid well enough to guess at his personal life. For all he knows there's a lover in the picture, though his dick is praying that's not the case.
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He almost answers that demand before Will follows it with a question. Spencer bites his bottom lip and slowly shakes his head, deep blue eyes cast down for a moment. They slowly drag up to the other man's face, and he sucks in a gasping breath before he manages to answer. "No, nothing like that, I... There's no one." No one in his life like that, never had been anyone in his life.
His body is so hot he feels like he's burning alive, and he can't help the plaintive near-whine that hums on his soft lips. He was aching for it, and a part of him almost hated how much he needed to be touched, to feel Alpha pressing against him, that scent clinging to his pores. He needed Will, and he was leaning into those hands on his shoulders. "Will you really.. help me?" He asks it softly, his blue eyes dark with desire as they search Will's face, and Spencer smells like need, propriety and distnce lost under how his hormones flare.