Maybe I’m overthinking this, but I feel that with the added gender components, Omegaverse needs its own Sexual and Romantic Orientation terms.
According to my post (that I updated/edited a little bit) I’m dealing with six cis gender options.*
I made a whole (colour coded) spreadsheet that you can download here, if you wish. The gist is this: I’ve made up new terms to describe orientations**, because I found the ones we already have lacking. If you ask me, there are so many permutations of attraction in reality, there were bound to be even more in Omegaverse because of added gender components – even when you only take cis genders into account.
Within Omegaverse, I imagine the assignments Alpha, Beta, and Omega to be the Primary Gender, and Male or Female to be the Secondary gender.
What a fun list! I go through processes like this one when I build an omegaverse world—but they’re not all the same, so I have to customize things each time.
I like that this has a/b/o as the primary gender and male/female as secondary. In stories I usually see it described as the other way around but that’s not usually how it works in the story.
Honestly, though, in a world where both men and women have a/b/o characteristics, the thing I can never get around is why male and female would even exist in the first place. In a world with a/b/o, male and female as sexes are just completely useless. As genders, they might be more interesting, but as it would be a world where people would naturally parse gender in at least three dimensions rather than two (and probably more, as at least some cultures would recognize genderless and different combinations of intersex), I can’t see the logic of splitting it down along only two axes at all.
I mean, I write it, because the amount of work it would take to reconstruct the world and character psychologies thoroughly enough to make up for a change like that would be more work than I feel like doing. But it doesn’t make sense.