Heh. The approach I'm taking is more that there are various hormonal impulses are laid on top of everyone, regardless of orientation; most people operate in a "baseline beta" mode, and then there are about 10% of the population who are "baseline alpha" and another 15% who are "baseline omega", but everyone can potentially experience swings which are either tied to various biological functions or to various stimuli. So, a fairly common one might be athletes who are baseline beta but who experience alpha swings during competitions, but then swing back into beta mode when they're not. And that also opens up a lot of interesting areas looking at how the A/B/O dynamics work in conjunction with orientation.
So, in the scene I'm toying with, I have a lesbian woman who operates in a baseline alpha mode, and then ends up unexpectedly saddled with a man who operates in baseline beta mode but is experiencing a traumatic omega swing and attendant heat. And the woman in question experiences an arousal – but not a sexual arousal. It's an intensely visceral and compelling urge, but it's more on the possessive/protective end of things and goes nowhere near her libido. (Which is fortunate, because the man in question is apparently heterosexual so far as canon has it – or at the very least, he exists in the unmarked state wrt: his sexuality – but he's also experiencing a bunch of dysphoria because he's never experienced an omega shift before.)
Which is the sort of snarly tangle of dynamics that appeals to me, really, where everyone is pushed a little out of both their own comfort zones and the zones of what you'd expect from people in that sort of situation.
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So, in the scene I'm toying with, I have a lesbian woman who operates in a baseline alpha mode, and then ends up unexpectedly saddled with a man who operates in baseline beta mode but is experiencing a traumatic omega swing and attendant heat. And the woman in question experiences an arousal – but not a sexual arousal. It's an intensely visceral and compelling urge, but it's more on the possessive/protective end of things and goes nowhere near her libido. (Which is fortunate, because the man in question is apparently heterosexual so far as canon has it – or at the very least, he exists in the unmarked state wrt: his sexuality – but he's also experiencing a bunch of dysphoria because he's never experienced an omega shift before.)
Which is the sort of snarly tangle of dynamics that appeals to me, really, where everyone is pushed a little out of both their own comfort zones and the zones of what you'd expect from people in that sort of situation.