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that's it. that's the post.

thanks to the invention of the internet, betas desirability as partners has surpassed BOTH alphas and omegas. Turns out all of your favorite historical figures were betas, shocker. All of your least favorites were alphas, and frankly omega PR has rested too heavily on "ease of birthgiving" with no additional work put in. Lazy!

betas have it going on. They're poets, they're singers, they're actresses.Every famous person you know is a beta. They're easy to work with, great to have as friends, and RELIABLE. They're not going to ghost you for a week and blame it on a heat, in fact thanks to their keen sense of smell they might be able to tell if you're rut is incoming. They'll probably bring you soup.

They've got the 'equipment' you're looking for, with all sorts of surprises in store. Those in intimate relationships with betas are never dissatisfied, that's all I'm saying. EVER. They've got everything you need and more!

Studies show that individuals with beta partners report higher need satisfaction, and experience more benefits of bond marks. They're natural communicators, have you ever heard a love song? It was written by a beta, and it was likely performed by a beta too. They can get things done.

The amish community, for example, has been beta dominant for centuries and is mostly comprised with betas. Have you ever appreciated amish craftsmanship or homecooking? Of course you have.

They come in all shapes and sizes, they are always looking good. Somehow they've got impeccable fashion sense? Is that genetic? Jury is out. They're for the people. Research is very clear, beta politicians are the most reliable and fulfill their promises. They don't care about power - yes sure, some billionaire betas are getting plastic surgery to become alphas, but betakind renounced those folks eons ago!

Do you hate how moody your alpha partner is all the time? Want a partner that will actually listen and remember what you say? How about someone so thoughtful it makes you tear up? Is your omega partner obsessed with their own attractiveness and hopelessly vain? Try a beta.

Beta's have the best cardiovascular health, the least likely to struggle with addiction, and some say they have the cutiest babies. Studies are inconclusive but promising.

it's an alpha + beta x beta + omega relationship! from a currently untitled world [World X]

how does it work?

the betas are the core (anchors) and they are the primary coupling. In this world, betas are on the top of the food chain and have all the power. they've graduated from such inconveniences as giving birth or siring their own children.

which is why you've got the + relationship. Ties - a beta who is "tied" to an alpha/beta of their same gender (male, female, other) who acts on their behalf as their breeder. Every beta who is anchored, is also tied.

which leads me to echos - the relationship between an alpha and omega brought together by the anchoring of their ties. They reproduce with one another, and those children then belong to the family/foursome but legally the beta anchors.

everyone is put together via assessments and exams. Tied pairs are established first, and then the betas are matched into anchorpairs.

there is no such thing as an alpha x omega relationship outside the context of a beta x beta relationship.

alphas and omegas work inside the home, while the primary beta works outside the home. The secondary beta may do either. It is possible for all four to work outside the home, but they'd have to be very wealthy to support that much hired help.

to children - the names such as "mother" or "father" would be reserved for their beta parents. alpha and omega parents would be addressed differently depending on the culture and depending on the family.

only betas have voting rights, but they are supposed to vote in agreement with their ties as well. both primary and secondary betas in a family can vote.

a beta can be tied with either an alpha or omega, as long as they share the same gender. That tiepair can now only be anchored with a pair with a tie with the opposite dynamic. ex: beta + alpha can't anchor with beta + omega (priority is reproduction).

So, usually in omegaverse there's the idea that only alphas and omegas have ruts or heats (hereon referred to as "cycles") while betas have nothing. Sometimes, in situations of high, prolonged stress, those cycles will either activate prematurely/unnaturally, or cease for as long as the stressful situation lasts (and a bit after that)

My idea was that betas could have something similar!

Betas in packs (that part is very important! It doesn't happen to packless betas) that have been neglecting or ignoring them will suddenly go through a faux-heat/rut. Their scent will change, they will display physical as well as emotional symptoms, and after long enough they may just go into a dissociative or near catatonic state.

It basically acts as the brain/body calling out for the packs "hey! Pay attention to me! I'm unwell and I want love and care :((( !!" It's meant to make the pack come to the beta's aid in order to diminish that feeling of neglect. If the pack doesn't come, there are two possibilities- one, the beta dies- the catatonic state is never undone and the fatal consequences come calling. Two, the beta survives, but they become emotionally/psychologically affected by the experience (as in, it literally changes the way their brain would work and affect areas of the brain) and usually for the worse.

There's also the possibility that a non-pack member may help the beta, in which case the brain will inmediatly develop an intense and nearly codependent bond with that person as a sort of "no one else cares about me except you, therefore making you happy is the best way for me to survive". This can be used for good or for ill

As a last detail, this condition isn't very well known- most healthy packs aren't going to neglect their betas like that, and unhealthy packs are unlikely to notice or may dismiss it as someone else- it's not a formal diagnosis and you have to either be really lucky or know what you're looking for to find information on it. There's also a lot of neglect and dismissal regarding betas because they're considered "not as strong as alphas, not as nurturing as omegas" and generally thought not to have anything to distinguish them which leads to a sort of dismissal of betas as being important- they are, quote literally, the middle child if the trinary, forever ignored.

Writing out all this bc I'm gonna be writing a fic with this concept and I need to talk to someone about it

howdy! love it when I get to hear more about other people's aus! You can talk to me about it anytime :)

Here are some thoughts I had while reading this, op you can disregard these entirely if you want, it's just literally things I would think about if I were considering something like this in one of my aus. But if it helps someone in the peanut gallery rock on!

The purpose of a heat/rut is reproduction first and i guess bonding second. When I read fics that have sudden onset/traumatic situation heat/ruts it normally makes me roll my eyes, because no way! Of course, this is by it's very nature a fantasy world so do whatever yall want, BUT irl people would observe decreased reproductive capability, not increased.

Instead of a faux heat/rut, could it be a unique third thing? This would make betas seem more like their own entity and not a non-option/between option.

In the faux heat/rut situation, who gets which one? Which betas gets heats and which get ruts? Is it based on reproductive capability? If so, in that case how are they fundamentally different from alphas/omegas?

How long does a beta have in this faux-stage before they go catatonic? If they do go catatonic and fall into a coma, how can they ever wake up?

^wouldn't this potentially make the death rate for betas in packs extremely high? At that point, is it worth the risk for betas to join packs at all if they are living happily without one because there would be no risk of this happening?

Are there ways for the individual to "go back to normal" that don't involve sex? Can a person in a coma even consent? What if the individual was underage?

Are there multiple types of packs in your au @not-someone-who-matters? What if the beta was in a non-romantic/non-sexual pack? Would this still happen?

Say a beta finds themselves in an unhealthy pack and knows the risks, can they leave/sever ties so that this condition doesn't happen to them? How does that work?

If the beta doesn't die following the event and finds themself in the second group - living with chronic illness/brain damage/mental illness/etc... who is responsible for this? Could the beta's parents take the entire pack to trial for abusing their child? Is this considered abuse?

If being a beta sucks in this au, and they live as second class citizens, what's the point at all? Are they the minority or the majority? If they are the minority and nobody really cares about them, why don't people just let them die off?

I like the parallel between real life when @not-someone-who-matters mentions that betas may run into the open arms of someone who doesn't have their best interest at heart. May people who have suffered any number of different kinds of abuses do the same thing, and that would be an interesting plot to explore.

Why does this only happen to betas? What happens to alphas/omegas if their heats/ruts aren't satisfied?

Why have betas in packs at all if this isn't something that befalls alphas/omegas?

Can a beta "save" another beta? Is this something that could happen in an all beta pack?

Is there some sort of detriment to the whole pack if a beta came down with this condition, other than the risk of loosing them? Would they feel pain through their pack bonds, all become sick, etc? That might make it more frightful for someone amongst them to contract this.

hahaha there are so many people who have such fire for betas around here, it's a really good question.

It's probably because most people see betas as "neutral" or "normal", and in erotic spaces the name of the game is often to push things to the limits. I'd love to read a beta x beta romance, but those are very few and far between, because "what's the point".

Betas celebrities are mostly driven by work or pursuing art, if their work done, they'd continue their way looking for one another jobs or take a break. These goes the same to those who are pursuing for fame. In general, they're very work-life balance as well, in terms.

Manager has to be very detail-oriented with every schedules, which at a certain point most Betas are familiar and often will be criticized for not being able to do so. In past, there are cases of a few Beta celebrities being power-abused by their personal manager and team, which later spark up a debate. Now, while you can see newly debuted Beta celebrities has their own personal manager carefully picked out, sometimes, they still run off on their own, the old generation would be all around running around with their schedules, and they're comfortable it.

While Betas celebrities are often without managers, they're all included into under a nonprofit self-run industry studio, and only the Betas and known managers are in it. This is not run by any the Alphas or Omegas, as it is solely one Beta-family business, even though there are Alphas and Omegas coworkers.

If one Beta celebrity really does have an Alpha or Omega manager, they'd have to pass through a series of mock test, need to be interview by the studio, before the industry determine they're suitable for the said celebrities (the manager are often picked by the celebrities themself)

This is solely for my own fun when I think of what would it be like if our world is ABO, I'm very interested to see other ideas. I didn't put any on Alpha and Omega because at current I'm only interested in the Betas only

Its common for alphas to bite omegas nape out of instinct. In some head cannons omegas got their pheromones glands on their nape.

But what about betas ?? Is it ok for them not bite an omega or do they still have to. Specially when a beta are married to an omega.

Kissing and biting the nape of your mate is instinctual no matter what dynamic you are or they are. It's often highlighted within alpha/omega relationships to reinforce the power dynamics that are often associated with that narrative.

A beta married to an omega would still be attracted to the glands on their neck - but the omega would be attracted to the same glands on the neck of their beta as well.

Happy 7-11 day!

In my au, yes they can - all dynamics are sexually compatible with all others. The main reason for this is everybody's favorite tool, the punnet square. If some dynamics were incompatible, some genes would die out.

Think of it this way. if Alphas have the alleles AA, Betas BB, and Omegas OO, the B allele might become rare as it has less opportunity to get passed on compared to A and O. This would lead to a significant decrease in the beta population if not the total decimation of betas all together. [I'm simplifying this a lot because who has the time!]

And if the case with omegas is the same I supposed, then how do alphas and omegas make the affection between each other factible if they both prefer different types of affection?

Here's that post for reference -

I'd actually argue that betas are the ones who might prefer soft [not soft as in ticklish/grazing, but soft as in light pressure] touch as I'd theorize their sensitivity to scent also extends to the other senses as well.