#asks:

i was trying to distinguish the general traits of each designation, but i feel like the more i dig into it, the harder it is to differentiate between alpha and omega for certain traits beyond basic dominance and submission. like being protective.

how do you generally assign traits when you write?

Hi! Thank you.

For me, it's not so much about giving them traits as it is about emphasizing certain things.

The thing about the omegaverse is that it is built up from the ideas of that wolf study (that's been debunked) about how alphas are the dominate leader of the pack, and omegas are effectively the runt of the litters and therefore at the bottom of the pack. Which is probably why when you went digging "alphas are dominate and omegas are submissive" is all you found, because at it's core that's all it is. The other important thing about omegaverse, is---as I understand it---that the omegaverse AU was a way to give men women's problems. Example from F1: discrimination in the workplace; women can't drive turns into omegas can't drive. And think about it: omegas can get pregnant and give birth. If they give birth then they will have maternal instincts, and if they mate with an alpha that alpha become the father and paternal instincts. Thus, I would argue that "alpha traits" would be that of a 50s husband, and "omega traits" are that of a 50s wife. 50s, being the 1950s American Dream Nuclear Family. And if we know anything about that dynamic: (say it with me now) dominance and submission!

As we well know, those gender ideals are simply that: ideals, culture, not genetic predispositions, and people are just people.

So I make them people.

And from there it's all about framing. It's society and culture that makes "being an omega" mean anything. Like, think about the courting aspect of the omegaverse: is not that just historical romance plot points? The man (alpha) gives gifts to the woman (omega) is hopes that she'll return his affections?

And so, like, in MNTR, I don't really deal with those problems. It's mostly just alpha = paternal and omega = maternal in the way I go about framing "taking care of the family."

I love your writing 😍

A nest more navy then red is like one of my favourite series of works❤️❤️❤️

Thank you.

Your writing is great as well! Keep it up.

that being said, i’ve recently come across fics where the normal world shifts into a/b/o out of nowhere. suddenly everyone is presenting and no kne knows what’s happening, total chaos. and it obviously got me thinking about your au and how it would go if the same thing happened

i don’t really know where i was going with this, sorry if it isn’t appropriate to put here and feel free to delete!

Gang we have got to get less apologetic about existing.

Hi Anon! Welcome to the Ask Box, make yourself comfortable. Thank you so much for not only reading by stuff, but coming to tell me how much you enjoyed it. I am delighted to have become your default omegaverse setting.

I know where you were going with this: would you ever consider writing something like this? Right this second? No, but it is going into the ideas doc, and thank you for sharing this with me.

Let it be known to all anons across the land---and yourself---that "I think a fic like this could be cool" is both appropriate and acceptable to send to me.

Now back to your idea. Genuinely the only thing I can think about right now is all of the poor social media admins that are going to have to do a teamwide/factorywide seminar on the omegaverse in order to explain what the fuck is happening.

Sunday after the race is when everybody starts presenting

By Tuesday Max is in the factory for an emergency all team meeting where the social media girls are telling them about that fanfiction thing that he's not supposed to read and how there's this trope called the omegaverse and that's what's happening to them.

He's not allowed to leave until they get a chance to diagnose him with his second gender: Alpha.

On Wednesday he gets a reading list of Supernatural omegaverse fanfictions in his email. He gets through two

On Thursday he smells Charles in the paddock and his regular crush immediately turns into the need to breed. Which he shoves right the fuck down because what the fuck.

He reads a couple more of this stories.

But they aren't helpful.

He emails the social media team: has this stuff been written about me?

Team: Yes. Most of them are ship fics, so you are dating one of the other drivers. If you want to see some please don't look it up yourself, I will curate something for you.

Max: Please.

Team: sends him a bunch of Lestappen things cause that's the biggest ship so there's some not smut stuff. (also my fics so I can just quote myself directly about the shit Max is reading and reflecting on)

These are more helpful. Because they tell him exactly how he is supposed to act as an alpha.

Sunday after the race Charles is calling asking Max to come to his hotel room because his nest doesn't smell right, and Max blanks.

Charles is clearly picking up being in the omegaverse better than Max is

And then we either end in cuddles or Charles is in fact in preheat, and Max has to quickly go find the stuff on Ao3 that's actually going to be useful right about now.

Oh that little thief

Doesn’t he know that Charlie had the worst weekend of his life, he needs that!

No I did not know, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I'm gonna be honest, I don't actually know what "freak4freak" means, so I'm just going to do my best. Also, word of warning about the way I rec: I don't actually link anything, and I only maybe know what I'm talking about.

Onwards!

First thing that comes to mind for Landoscar is "We Met On Reddit" or something to that effect by Han.....q... Yup. Great fic. Piss kink. Therefore I assume freak4freak.

There's also an anon collection by someone I want to call CBox. CxBox. C... I know... Maybe it's just CX. They have a tumblr somewhere. If you go on Ao3 and search "tentacle" with Landoscar there will be two fics in the same series called something like 'CX's Fics" and that series is probably freak4freak. I haven't read it in a while, but it's full of Landoscar smutshots.

Lestappennnnnn. I'm going to rec "Fire + Sound" by one of my friends. It's Venom!Max and Driver!Charles. And they're very sex-crazed about each other.

Oh! The egg fic. Oh my god I forget who it's by. Lady_Something? Maybe? It's fae!Max. Max asks Charles---who believes they are fwb---to host his egg, which Max has to pop out during his monthly mating cycle.

Speaking of maybe Lady_Something, there was a stalking fic that released recently but I thiiiiiiiink them. Stalker!Max x In_To_It!Charles. And if Charles is into it then it kind of has to be freak4freak. There's like, a primal play element to it.

There's another stalking fic by guyfaliure there might be two ys, but that one also gets into drugging. And it's only sort of mostly implied that Charles is into it as well.

Also! "Tear out your tenderness" or my tenderness or something close to it by hadjct........24. That's not the username I will tell you that right now. Those letters are all maybe in it. It's Werewolf!Max x Vampire!Charles and there's some blood soulmate stuff going on.

Do I have another Landoscar one? Piss kink. Tentacles. Wait how do I knot have any omegaverse on here. Oh what is it called. There's a duology where Lando gets lock-knot and Oscar helps him get it down. I don't remember what it's called, or who it's by or anything else about it, other than I love it.