About a year ago, I had a very sudden realization about the omegaverse genre. One that changed my perspective about how the omegaverse truly worked. I've been wanting to share this for a while, so here goes nothing. The people in the omegaverse are not wolf people but are instead insect people. Let me explain. In the omegaverse genre, it is common for things like scent to be used in order to communicate one's readiness for sex, this is not a trait that wolves, or even most land animals, have. This is, however, a trait that insects have. It's called pheromones, and it's something that almost all insects have. Next is how breeding works in the omegaverse, namely how betas and omegas can't breed with each other. You see omegas can only breed with alphas. Now, this wouldn't be so big of a deal, but alphas themselves cannot effectively breed with betas. An alpha can't get a beta pregnant. This, to me, signifies some type of special differiation one not found in wolves or any mammals for that matter. A special differiation that would make more sense for insects rather than mammals. And I think I'm right cause A/B/O societal structures kind of supports this. Alpha and omegas are meant to be together in order to make more offspring. Omegas are fertile, and Alphas are well dominant. Omegas are the queens of the hive, and Alphas are the males breeding with the queens and keeping the hive running. Now, what does that make betas? Workers, of course, they are are the most common and normal out of the three, so it makes sense for them to just be everyday people working under a hive. It all makes sense, and it makes even more sense when you realize that real-life wolves don't even act like this. Wolves live in familiar packs, aka a family unit. While there are variations, I doubt it gets that varied. If we're being honest here, the structure presented in the Omegaverse genre is more like hyenas than anything else. But even hyenas don't have this much differiation between the ranks, so it makes more sense for them to be insect people above all else. So yeah, that's my argument.
(On an actual serious note, I always thought the Omegaverse rules were weird, like it really does feel like the Alphas and the Omegas are just not human and like betas are just add-ons. Like I get that you just want your silly little shipping fantasy, but can you at least not make it so painfully obvious that the only two group types that actually matter are the OwO babies and toxic badass, lol).