Do you do ABO verse? or would that be something your interested in?

So, as a general rule I'm not a big fan of ABO. I find a lot of it really reductive. I don't wanna yuck other people's yum, but I also hate the way it perpetuates a binary and reinforces gender stereotypes that I'm not a fan of.

However, all that being said, I've come across some really great ABO fics that play with all that stuff in a really satisfying way. I tried my hand at one a million years ago, but never got very far in it sadly.

I guess part of the problem at least is that, when we're talking about queer men, it would make more sense for two Alphas or two Omegas to be in love, regardless of their secondary sexual characteristics. So generally, I think that's the route I'd like to explore.

With Klive, specifically, I've had a couple of thoughts, NGL. Primarily an Alpha/Alpha or Omega/Omega situation. But I also thought it could be really interesting to explore what might be the reasons a person presents as an Alpha or an Omega. You know, with such radically different pseudo-science explanations/lore floating around, how some suggest that the body undergoes an actual physical transformation at a certain age, and before then has the potential to be either, and therefore outside influences or stressors could impact which way it goes. While it might not be common, one of the factors could have to do with finding your soulmate before either of you have presented. In which case the dynamic you have might inform which of you presents as which.

So Klaus and Five are childhood sweethearts, and everyone just knows Five's going to turn out to be the alpha, and Klaus the omega, just based on their personalities and preferences and physical attributes. Except then Five disappears. Five still becomes an alpha in the apocalypse, but in his absence, I had this idea that maybe Klaus becomes an alpha, as a way of coping. That without Five, his body just wasn't willing to make itself vulnerable in yet another way. Then, Five comes back in his younger body, and is surprised and maybe a little disappointed that Klaus is an alpha too. Except then when he starts to go through the whole presenting a second time, his body responds to the fact that Klaus is his soulmate, so he presents as an omega.

I think it could be a lot of fun to explore the difference in experience from the first time around. How maybe he's uncertain or even upset about it at first, but eventually comes to find that actually? And how alpha/omega isn't this black and white thing, how many of the traits that are associated with one or the other don't actually have anything to do with the secondary sex. Five is still a crazy, feral little psycho if you threaten his family. Klaus is still all hippie, peace and love. But Klaus will fuck up anyone who hurts the people he loves, and Five gets to be soft and enjoy Klaus taking care of him.

IDK. I don't know if I'll ever get around to it, with the long list of fics I'm already actively working on or thinking about. I will say that Klaus in general gives me gender feels, and in my Danger Days AU he has both sets of parts, male and female. And while I often feel like Always the Opposite Gender fics don't work because of how people are socialised, I do think that the Umbrella kids present a unique opportunity, where the circumstances around their upbringing wouldn't have really changed, and the didn't spend enough time around people outside of the manor to get that socialisation, so AAG!Klaus or AAG!Five are also pretty plausible, and in particular I think it could be really fucking cool to see how AAG!Five might do in the real world, after living in the manor and then the apocalypse, and how being treated at all like she's lesser than or incapable might set her off on a murderous frenzy. Because she'd be the exact same Five we know, just different pronouns.

Hiiiii!! so in the Bridgerto. Isekai AU you mentioned one spouse knowing how the original story goes and I have an inkling its Pen maybe through her Whistledown connections she hears of people talking about the future or doing things that are simply not of this timeline and etc but thinks its all wives tales or maybe notices that the timeline keeps getting messed up or in time loops and she doesn't know what's happening or what to do then suddenly the Isekai!Bridgertons pop up and redos the stories. And Penelope is so confused but intrigued because why are the Bridgertons suddenly going feral over the 2nd leads and not their hero/heroines??? Why is Eloise suddenly wanting to become her best friend??? And everytime Colin does or says something romantic she thinks its a fluke because surely her and everyone around her have been struck with some kind of curse and she's afraid that all of them are gonna fall in love with the Bridgertons (again) only to have the universe play a joke on them and have the bridgertons end up with the original main leads?

Lmao i dunno where I'm going with this but anyway love your AUs! 💖

Thank you so much! Three asks in one day, I'm so happy!!

You were right it is Penelope however, when I say Pen remembers, she remembers EVERYTHING. That also means she recalls how the original story was supposed to go the Agatha Danbury had written but the thief changed.

Originally, everyone (Bridgertons and spouses) had memories of the original timeline but they'd enter a mental fog that, when they were free from it for moment, found that things had changed. It was like they were puppets on a strings, unable to control themselves.

Anytime one of them tried to go off the new plot, everyone would wake up on the day of the debut once more.

As time went on, more and more just resigned themselves to this new path, resulting in them losing their memories of what the original timeline was. Colin and Penelope were the last two standing, fighting to be together as, out of all the Bridgertons, Colin knew his spouse the longest.

They've tried breaking the cycle each time but no matter what they do, the fog overtakes them and they are forced to play their roles. Penelope stopped keeping track of how many times she has woken up in her seventeen year old body, the morning of her debut. She's honestly tired and believes that this is a sign that fate is pulling them apart and her ever growing distant memories of the original timeline are but a dream.

"I'm sorry Colin but I can not do this anymore! We've tried, lord knows we've tried but it always ends the same! We should have given up and accepted our fates like the others," sobbed Penelope after Colin had returned from his honeymoon, desperate to be with the woman he loved and assure her that their love is real.

"You are my soulmate Pen! We've known this for years! We're just not doing something right. Maybe we missed something from the original-"

"Well maybe those memories are wrong! If we were meant to be it would happen. Perhaps it's time we start listening to the universe Colin," she whispered, stepping away from him as the tears fell down her face. Already she could see the world once more growing dark around her and as she watched Colin reach out for her, crying out her name she let the darkness overtake her, ready to finally accept her fate.

So when she wakes up in her seventeen year old body once more, ready to play out her part, she realizes that things have changed.

She's best friends with Eloise Bridgerton

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Colin is looking at her so similarly to the way HER Colin does when they are free from the fog that it scares her.

Penelope at this point is tired and has had to have her heart broken over and over and over. So Colin is going to have his work cut out for him because he's only aware of the messed up timeline and not the real one. So he has no idea why Penelope suddenly looks so scared. Out of all the spouses, she will the most difficult to win over.

The other spouses regain their memories gradually throughout as well, as the Bridgertons unintentionally set the timeline right again.

But one thing neither group is aware of the fact that even at that moment, the thief author is writing a spin off series, where the original spouses find their happy endings. Not if the Bridgertons have anything to say about it!

I hope this answered your question!

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