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Will Graham knows there’s a wrong type of weird and a type of weird that gets the cops called on you
Naturally any smart person opts for the former
So he’s weird for certain reasons - being brought up as a beta, imagine it’s awkward cos the unspoken expectations do not include stuff like pregnancy birth etc
Imagined his dad treated him exactly like you raised boys in the 70s/80s
Make them do stuff like sports or in this case, help you tinkering with engines

Always imagined a young 7 year old Will standing there awkwardly as his dad literally used a beat up hammer to iron out the bump in the back of the pick up, cos he doesn’t believe in shelling out money to a mechanic, handing him tools and getting exasperation cos how the hell would a seven year old know what tool is what
He didn’t grow up with endlessly stacks of plastic/wood block enrichment toys so he can use a fake purple wrench on a fake piece of machine for kids to use


BASIC OMEGA FACTS
Heat starts around 15
It’s once a year, late summer to early winter usually, bracketing the time when food is plentiful basically so they’ll be in early trim 1 during winter, and giving birth in summer when food is plentiful
It just makes survival sense for a fictional sexual reproduction heat season to be matched to human food access since food production has been an issue for most of history
Male and female omegas all have hidden reproductive genitalia
It opens for business during heat, but it is still functionally protective
It makes non-con very obvious, physically able to be seem
And thus makes non-consent very easy to punish — you cannot bruise an omega through consensual sex, even if it gets a bit rough, their bits made for sex, it’s all internal and slick
You have to really push through when it’s not open for business
When it’s open for business, it’s suppose to stretch to accomodate knotting
So there’s kind of no excuse for any kind of damage
Even if it’s someone familiar with the omega, if they don’t relax, are saying no with their body, their baby chute will be closed for business
Anal sex would probably be more comfortable than trying to force your way in
It’s probably where the concept for omegas have Aegis (a shield/ their own authority) comes from


In RTD’s ABO world, where omegas were historically always part of the ruling class — first, cos ancient Greeks, probably saw the best examples of alphas and omegas as proper descendants of mythic bloodlines
The male omega was probably their ideal beauty
Alpha females probably had a good time in Athena and Sparta

Rtd world - omega male was probably their ideal of beauty in various Greek city states
Outwardly male, not a giant phallus like male alphas (a big dick was a sign of barbarism to the Athenians)
Masculine functions - except once a year they can procreate
And the various Greek states had a great deal of impact on western civilisation
So I can imagine that seeping into the Gaul/Celtic/Goth/Viking cultural foundations of Europe once the renaissance swings into being

Since most of the ruling class depend on omegas to create their next generation, they’d be pretty important — alpha females are hit or miss when it comes to reproduction
Beta females equals beta offspring
Omegas guarantee to give birth to only alpha and omega

Like a recessive trait
AA is not viable, AO is an alpha
BB is viable and a beta, BA is a beta, so is BO
So only OO is omega
That makes omega recessive
Hannibal is an xy-AO, Will is a xy-OO
Combos possible
Xy-AO, xx-AO, xy-OO, and xx-OO
There’s always a 2/3 chances for an alpha and a male
And the non viable AA and yy

I can just imagine that this stat being obvious and omega males being very popular mates for alpha royalty/nobility in the long history

Think Henry 8 who basically screwed shit up to get a legitimate male heir
In Rtd verse, he’s probably such a poor excuse for an alpha, that no one really wanted to marry him
This is a verse where you cannot force an omega to just reproduce as you please
Heats come once a year
They can be delayed due to lack of resources, mental and emotional state, they can be empty heats where no actual ovum is there, the omega can simply chose someone else — final mate selection has always been in their hands even if the family or circumstances might steer them to a set group of alphas to select from

There’s probably some pheromone interaction going on
Something that tells an omega they like how an alphas smells
Vice versa
To help with picking the right partner

In general alphas ruled and needed progeny and partners they could trust — a competent alpha would make a good match with an omega, an incompetent one would either struggle to make a match, fail to win the omega over once they are married (but not mated — thus an annulment could happen)
The expectation is omegas, and probably esp the male omegas, would be co rulers

Regarding inheritance laws —
Some cultures would have gone with alpha firstborn, even if a female
Some cultures would have prioritised alpha male firstborn over female
Some cultures would have given the right to rule to whoever was best suited among the alphas and omegas
And some would have given it to a male child, alpha or omega

Eventually Europe probably went;
Oldest alpha A1 inherits title and main title related properties, male or female
If they die without issue or don’t have legitimate children (alpha or omega children basically, which means born of an omega parent ) then it goes to the next alpha sibling A2
Then it goes to their omega sibling, male over female O1 and O2
Omegas were probably always legitimate children, even if born out of marriage — probably goes back to the whole various ancient cultures never enslaved omegas


And in the 20th century omegas remained moneyed
Mainly cos alphas went from feudal landlords to getting involved in government, the military, academia, industry— and they would still be seeking omegas as mate, due to preference as well as tradition, having omega children, who then marry other wealthy alphas etc

The second and third born alphas of traditional nobility and gentry branching out — the colonies are full of these cadet lines
This is where beta born omegas and alphas became more common
Who would then until recent times seek to mate an omega or alpha usually

Rich betas - the new middle class of early industrialisation
Seeking out alpha wives and if they’re rich enough and important enough and somehow manage due to being able to adequately manage an omega, getting an omega spouse
Probably an beta born omega spouse

(most beta born omegas in the beginning are probably born from alpha grandmother and beta grandfather’s BO marrying another BO, and somehow they hit the 1/4 combo of OO)

I imagined omegas were like the prince and princesses who got married off young
And as long as they didn’t drop dead of plague or were assassinated, would be like married off to someone way older when they’re like 10 -15, be widowed, marry again
Some would be young enough when they get locked down that they basically don’t even get to consummate before the alpha drops dead
So then they find someone among the alpha’s siblings - in some cultures maybe whoever the omega picks will be the next in line
Either way the new ruling alpha needs to wait until the omega is in heat to seal the deal

Now if she is a female alpha, this is medieval times, there is no IVF - if the omega is a male and somehow produces viable sperm, if she somehow have viable ovum, then maybe they can procreate
But it’s most likely she can’t get kids on the omega
She might get help — find an uncle, an alpha male to help out maybe ?
It’s likely that if she cannot reproduce, the mating is annulled, only married long enough to legitimise her rule — whether she lives or dies, that omega is now wide open to offers

And the omega gets passed onto the original alpha’s child
Their step child
Who probably, whether male or female, is still somehow about 10 years older than the omega
And the omega would be able to procreate here
Am I basing this somewhat on actual historical records? Yes

And then there’s the occasional lucky omega who marrying at 15, has a heat, pops out 5 kids
Has the alpha die on them at year 15
Then being 30, marries another old alpha who doesn’t have surviving kids
Pops out 2 for them before the second husband dies when they’re still just 36
Moves onto husband no 3 who is probably the same age and also only has one surviving child and proceeds to then give birth to another 4 kids
Is widowed at 50 and moves onto another alpha, has 2 more children, widowed again
Spends rest of life acting as regent for one grandchild or another
Probably made his or her original family rich with all the stuff they got given every time the omega was married off
Is this based on historical accounts I’ve read - yes



I imagined this is a world where Will Graham, born in 1977, is born into a very ordinary working class family
Where he realized something about himself in school, when he would have stuck out like a sore thumb among all the beta kids as his public elementary school
He would have been uncomfortable if people said things - kids being mean and wanting to see what an omega is, kids joking that they heard you can put your entire arm up inside of an omega (basically without medical context )

And when he goes to the fancy middle schools and high schools, he probably read wildly outside the curriculum and found out and so read about these medieval omegas who seemingly spent their whole lives reproducing, a baby every 2-3 years, from 15-55 years, having up to 18-23 children
Probably read about them being passed from alpha to alpha brother to alpha aunt to alpha cousin


Technically I don’t need to think about any of these things
It’s just a fic and it’s set in the 21st century
But somehow my mind just keeps running the background