May schedule is going up now because I'll be on vacation and traveling during the last week of April and the first week of May and can't guarantee my internet situation during that time. Plus I've now figured out what I'm doing for MerMay, so the schedule has already been figured out.
April 3 - Presenting, ch. 7
April 10 - Double, Double, Toil & Trouble, ch. 3
April 17 - Hybrid, ch. 1 (Dragel/Teen Wolf crossover)
April 24 - Soul's Scream, ch. 31
May 1 - Ripple Effects, ch. 9
May 5 - A Heart Well Worth Winning, ch. 1 (Dragel fic)
May 8 - A Splash of Chaos, ch. 1 (Dragel fic)
May 12 - A Heart Well Worth Winning, ch. 2
May 15 - A Splash of Chaos, ch.
May 19 - A Heart Well Worth Winning, ch. 3
May 22 - A Splash of Chaos, ch.
May 26 - A Heart Well Worth Winning, ch. 4
May 29 - A Splash of Chaos, ch. 4
Presenting Rusty Allen
or more aptly
Rusty Allen Presenting *
Image by Bunny Yeager
c.1950's
Presenting
n. animal behavior in which a female turns its back toward a male and raises its posterior, which allows the male to mate.
- APA Dictionary of Psychology
(American Psychological Association)
I've seen people make Betas have heats and ruts like Omegas and Alphas but they're less intense, and I've seen people say that Betas don't present at all.
I used to be in this last group, but I've came across some headcanons in the past that have quite interested me. So if you were to ask do Betas present in most of MY verses, my answer would be: In a way.
In my more recent verses Betas present in a couple of key ways. Much like their Omega and Alpha counterparts their "presentation" happens in puberty.
The key signs the Teenager in question is a Beta is the presentation of these factors:
- Nose bleeds
- Migraines.
- Sporadic synesthesia.
- Light sensitivity or temporary night blindness.
The reason for the above is because in my more recent verses Betas have some senses heightened in comparison to Omegas and Alphas. Mostly their scent and sight are better than the other two Dynamics'.
So Betas have a normal human's sense of smell and sight before presenting, but when they present their bodies have a little bit of a period of adaptation and discomfort and confusion when it comes to their new senses.
Fortunately for Betas this is something that only happens in the first months of presentation and it does not extent to their whole adult, fertile lives like it's the case with ruts and heats.
Spouse and I were spitballing abo nonsense to horrify our teenager (the rule is everyone gets an opportunity to hyperfixate an equal amount and she had just finished 2 hours on cat game of thrones) and landed on "could presentation be an epigenetic adaptation" and "could presentation be a product of environmental factors".
I'm idly curious if there is a commonest take
I'm not sure but here's my two cents.
Yes. Presentation can be a product of adaptation and or environmental factors. Now exactly which factors or why isn't under any sort of consensus as far as I know.
But! Who would I be if I couldn't provide you with some options? So here are two.
In response to fertility problems, the human population evolved a new fertility system that allowed men and women to get pregnant and impregnate their partners.
Humans evolved from a mammalian form that needed dynamics to survive in their environment. In this case, the cause isn't necessary, it just happened. (Think of your appendix or your tailbone or that one bone in your arm that I can't remember the name of).
I tried really hard to come up with a third but it's simply not happening. Peanut gallery, if you've come across any interesting takes PLEASE let. us. know.