#male omega? female omega? doesnt matter you're a boy now
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worldbuilding thing I've been wondering about:
how do you handle gender identity, gender expression, and/or gender stereotypes, within your omegaverse writings?
this goes for ocs and for fanfics!
if alphas are physically male in the way we'd consider a human to be physically male, that's a statement on their sex, yeah? not their gender.
you can have the body parts implied there and still be a gender that is not "man". so how's that work for omegaverse? especially if alphas can be male or female.
how do you describe gender within your omegaverse? is it based more around dynamic / secondary? (alpha/beta/omega) or around sex? (male/female/others if they apply)
do people get gendered expectations assigned to them based on their sex, on their dynamic, on the combination of both?
(ex: is there a difference between the gender roles given to a female omega versus a male omega? are the stereotypes for a male beta like or unlike those of a male omega?)
could there be such a difference between female alphas, female betas, and female omegas, that only some female people are considered women, while others are labeled with some other term due to their dynamic? or are all female people considered to be women? (assuming they're all cisgender...but if you've got trans headcanons I wanna hear those too!)
I'm curious about this because it's reasonable to say something like "our image of what is masculine appearance / behavior is shaped by our society and time period," right? (since male doesn't have to equal man or masculine, but there's often some connection)
but that structure wouldn't be built from the same stuff in omegaverse. since behaviors and such could be associated with different groups.
so...if a male alpha is seen as a feminine presenting person, what does that mean in your verse?
are masculine and feminine less about what exists in your verse and more about the limitations of our own language?
is it something else altogether?
#omegaverse#sfw omegaverse#omegaverse worldbuilding#omegaverse headcanons#everyday the temptation to use neopronouns in omegaverse grows stronger#why would there be 2 genders if there's 3 dynamics and the dynamics are almost more important to the story than the 2 sexes are?#assuming that the dynamics are secondaries and not primaries#gonna throw gender markers into a blender#and throw them at the secondaries and see what sticks#i wanna read a story where being an omega is male coded#male omega? female omega? doesnt matter you're a boy now#simply because the instinct is to code omegas as feminine and turning stuff upside down is neat#i might try it if i can ever stop throwing random tropes into the blender with omegaverse ones to see if its tasty#see previous post#meanwhile my brain: monster taming tropes? plus omegaverse? it would work#also my brain: alpha becomes a magical girl. do it. it would work.#also my brain: mecha series where the pilots start to form a pack bond as they increase their teamwork enough to control their combo mech...#also my brain: i hear you saying that there's no need for a/b/o mh but why not? hunters are already regular people!#...meant to write irregular people in that last tag and too lazy to fix lol
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