#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I'm trying to imagine myself as a fitting-stereotypes alpha and laughing about it a little. (It's great worldbuilding! It's just amusing imagining it transposed onto real life.)

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Anon who mentioned AB above

Same, but I sorta see AB suiting me. And I'm RH positive, which I guess would make me stereotypically sometimes alpha and sometimes beta?

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm, if you're including "AB," are you then including all the genotypes? So, then instead of just A, you'd have people who were either AA or AO.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily, since AB is a separate blood type and AA and AO both collapse down to A. That could be interesting, though. How would AA and AO differ? Is it like being intersex, or does it just affect your chances of having an alpha or omega child?

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

For AO or BO, I think it might play into something like having low testosterone as a RL comparable. Not having as pronounced A/B traits, but clearly still there. Less pronounced secondary (or tertiary or quaternary?) sexual characteristics.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Would that mean some time in the past, people were very wholly against mixed-dynamic pairings of any type? Perhaps AB people were considered unnatural and a warning against mixed breeding (because AO and BO are phenotypical to AA and BB, a whole lot more was happening then you thought, but still).

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

This would mean alpha/beta pairings would be discriminated against and beta/omega pairings wouldn't be (because BO is phenotypical to BB, as you said). That could have interesting cultural connotations.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly I want more omega/omega pairings. I'm not fond of treating betas as a separate but closely related species that some fics.

Can you imagine in the past, how scared an AO/BO couple would be in the event of a pregnancy, only to find out they had an OO child?

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really like how betas are dealt with in ABO fics in general. I guess there isn't a handy gender equivalent for them, but making them be the "normal" ones is boring to me. Why not have them treated like agender or genderfluid people instead?

I wonder how they'd reason that out. Act of god, or thinking something is up with one or both of them? Maybe both, depending on the time period it happened in.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Not saying you shouldn't feel how you feel, but I actually really like betas as a sort of, hmm, control case for the universe? And I like fics that go into how even if beta biology matches the real world, their socialization really doesn't, and they really aren't, as people, just people from our world transplanted into an a/b/o one.

I think there's tons of really interesting things that can be done with betas. OTOH the very first a/b/o fic I ever read was beta/omega fic, so I imprinted on them early.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Fair point, but a lot of times they don't seem socialized differently, other than the baseline acceptance of alphas and omegas as normal. Maybe I just haven't read enough fics that do something interesting with them; a lot of time I see them used as the disposable love interest before the ultimate alpha/omega get together, which just makes me roll my eyes hard.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Most a/b/o fics don't depict betas more differently than us with maybe a side of "sterile" or "drone/caretaker" and "maternal/parental."

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I've read a *lot* of abo, and I think that they aren't treated as less normal than alphas and omegas, more often they're treated as the default with alphas and omegas being more rare depending on the plot. It's true they don't get focused on very much, but that's because the kink is about the things that make them different from the real world--what makes a beta different in-universe is usually a different kind of story. /2¢

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

A the AYRT RT

I really love this idea.