These are the types of discussions I like!
I do have world building ideas for A/B/O fics, but I admittedly didn’t think of quite all these details!
A) Being an omega is generally dominant for women and recessive for men, while being an alpha is dominant for men but recessive for women. This naturally results in far more omega women and alpha men respectively.
B) As with some sex swapping species, an alpha or beta man with a recessive omega gene can potentially become an omega under the correct circumstances (what is crassly called ‘Bitching’) while an omega or beta woman with a recessive alpha gene can potentially become an alpha (I believe this is called ‘Studding’).
(I imagine the “correct” circumstances being having a mate reproductively compatible with the change, and/or being in an environment lacking in compatible dynamics.)
C) Alpha women and omega men are what in plants is referred to as ‘dichogamous’ meaning they can both be impregnated or impregnate, but at different points in their reproductive cycle.
In light the other two posts above, I’m now imagining all the societal effects that might result from my point B:
First, there are the absurdities people would definately get up to trying to change an “unfortunate” presentation.
Naturally they wouldn’t quite understand the genetic component, and there would undoubtedly be some intersex conditions that only cause further confusion: For instance there’d be a rare handful of men and women who start out presenting in line with what would ordinarily be considered recessive genes, who then potentially end up swapping the other way.
There would definitely be families comfortable enough with the comparative rarity of omega men and alpha women (especially if their own bloodline had coincidentally lacked them up to that point) that they set up alliances assuming their children would grow up compatible.
Then they get a surprise presentation, and start making the poor kid drink dubious concoctions, or suffer through peculiar rituals.
That or they hide the presentation with carefully tailored clothes and perfumes, hoping the mating bite will conveniently fix the situation. (They’ve heard stories of alphas biting their male lovers and somehow getting an omega out of it!)
Alternately, even if one could theoretically suss out possible alpha women and/or omega men at birth, it also could be that girls with alpha genes that will remain recessive, and those that really will be alphas, look identical at birth (same with recessive omega boys, and ones that really will be omegas).
This would make birth identifications far more complicated, as while they could occasionally tell that certain infants will certainly be omega or beta women, or alpha or beta men, there would be others that could easily end up being any secondary dynamic… and may or may not be able to change it as well!
With regard to point A, I really wish I had the knowledge to replicate or adapt the simulation system used by Primer on YouTube.
I want to know how rare female alphas and male omegas would actually be if those genes were recessive for their particular primary sex!
I’d love to try all sorts of different starting scenarios, partner preference settings, and fertility ‘rules’ just to see what sort of population ratios would result.
For Example: If initially half of all men were betas (BB) and half were alphas (equal parts AA and AB) while half of all women were betas (BB) and half were omegas (equal parts OB and OO) and partner selection was entirely random (aside from only “allowing” reproductively compatible pairs)… What would the demographics look like several generations in?
Now suppose I add in fertility settings of some sort as well, with adding some average kid count for beta pairs, alpha/beta or beta/omega opposite sex pairs, alpha omega opposite sex pairs, and so on, what might the results be then?
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