I'M CAPTAIN KIRK

I. am horrified. I never did this.
So! A year late! Bonsly!

-Bonsly is a baby pokemon: a pokemon which, in its basic evolution, is not sexually mature and cannot breed. Because baby pokemon tend to require more care and resources in their base forms than in the 'adult' form, if the conditions are poor they will spend longer in their eggs and hatch as a fully mature sudowoodo instead of a bonsly. The mechanisms by which they undergo in-egg evolution are still not well understood, although all officially-classified baby pokemon can and will do it.
-The most famous aspect of bonsly is, of course, their 'fake tears'. It is generally understood to be a mechanism to rid itself of excess moisture rather than based on emotion, and the composition of the secretions is more like sweat. However, the popularity of this amusing little factoid does disguise the fact that bonsly can and will cry actual tears from emotion as well, and it's the responsibility of the trainer to be able to distinguish real tears from sweat-tears or, well, tantrum tears. One of the best ways can actually be by taste; sweat-tears are salty while actual tears are bitter. [ed. note: this is in the fucking pokedex] The other best way is by knowing your bonsly's usual behaviours and body language well enough, which a trainer should anyway.
- A bonsly's life is characterised by long periods of doing not very much interspersed with short periods of moving around very fast. Like sudowoodo, they spend the majority of their time sitting very still pretending to be a plant, and they're generally better at it than their adult form; they are instinctively skillful at selecting good spots amongst the often sparse existing greenery in their home range to settle in and loiter. At least, in their native lands. Bonsly (and Sudowoodo) imported to non-native areas such as Alola often end up sticking out like a sore thumb, as they are not built similar to the native plantlife that they instinctively hide amongst. Left there long enough, though, they will develop to fit in. Some of them, relatively few, are also apparently just... naturally bad at it; in areas away from human habitation, they often get quickly eaten, but when humans are around they are often the ones that get picked up and adopted.
-The moving around very fast comes in when they either have to flee from predators, or require more energy intake than the surrounding plants can give them. While adult sudowoodo are entirely herbivorous and generally browse slowly on the plantlife they're lurking amongst, bonsly can and will eat insects and occasionally small reptiles. They're faster than their adult evolutions, and surprisingly nimble when it comes to suddenly snapping up a passing grasshopper; they can also sprint at higher speeds than most people expect, although not for very long. Being a rock-type they are unappetizing prey for more mammalian pokemon... but being small and quite squishy for a rock-type, they are perfect prey for other, bigger rock-types and some ground-types (as well as a few enterprising flying-types which have learned to drop them from great heights to get at the softer innards), and in the deserts, mountains and arid scrublands that are their favoured habitats prey does not tend to be abundant enough for predators to be too unduly picky.
-When raised by humans, this means that although bonsly are generally low-energy pokemon who make great companions for those who live with limited space, it is important to accommodate periods of higher-energy exercise or play, be that early battle training, games with other pokemon, or just fun toys. They are curious little creatures who love to watch people and pokemon, although they are easily overwhelmed and frightened by being too quickly introduced into the thick of things; they are not naturally aggressive, and although (being rock types) they are not the softest and most comfortable to cuddle, they are naturally disposed to huddle together with those they trust. A popular genre of pet photograph for bonsly owners is their pokemon trying to display natural hiding behaviours with them by burrowing up into their clothing. They are also quick learners, despite not having a reputation for being the brightest of bulbs. They frequently mimic other species, and a bonsly raised with no other bonsly or sudowoodo often retains behaviours from the species it most copied in its youth well into its adulthood and past evolution.
-In the wild, newly hatched bonsly will cluster around their sudowoodo parent and live for a month or so primarily on a 'milk' that the parent secretes. This milk is actually a kind of ooze formed from the breakdown of the parent's own minerals, and provides the babies with the ability to quickly build up their rocky outsides before they transition to living primarily off plant matter. Bonsly caught wild who are determined to be this young need to be fed on a suitable replacement by their human trainers; this is usually easiest done from a baby bottle. This requirement is why it is best practice to take any newly caught bonsly straight to a pokemon centre. As they get older, they spread out away from their parent and take up a more independent lifestyle, though they usually stay in sibling groups. These groups do not always stay physically together, as a huddle of four or five bonsly all trying to hide in the same bush are somewhat more obvious than just one of them doing it, but they stay in the same general area, meet up on a regular basis, and have shared hiding spots. Conflict between groups of bonsly does occur occasionally over territory, but mostly consists of posturing until one group concedes. Adult sudowoodo will share territory with unrelated bonsly old enough to live independently, but they generally ignore each other.
-Although obviously bonsly have fewer interesting branches than Sudowoodo, there exist plenty of branches of sudowoodo-fancying clubs that focus on bonsly as well or in preference. Their top branches come in different shapes and colours according to initial habitat, and their rocky skins come in differing patterns that often mimic bark textures, so there's plenty to fancy. A popular way of showing bonsly is to lean into their natures and make faux-bonsai displays with them. Sometimes these displays are designed to showcase the bonsly; sometimes they're designed to hide them, and the competition is based on which bonsly is hardest to see.
-As they grow, they also shed the green 'leaves' on their heads to grow new ones, and there is a brisk trade in these shed leaves to make jewellery.
-This should probably go without saying, but it's never a good idea to give your bonsly a bath. They are adapted to environments where there is very little water around in general, and no matter how much yours cries, it can't cry enough to get rid of the excess moisture a bath would add.

 

If you don't wanna do the new ones before the games are out I completely understand, but might I request Fuecoco headcanons if you have any?

 

... this just. makes me imagine bonslys getting "bathed" by being gently scrubbed with a variety of little scrubbing brushes
starting with wire bristles to get the worst and then boar bristle to fine horse hair brushes
both as enrichment and bc you do have to get babies clean sometimes even if they're allergic to water

 

can you do one for misdreavus and or mismagius if you'd like?

 

yes this is exactly how it works
most bonsly really enjoy it! getting dirt and debris stuck in their nooks and crannies is itchy and uncomfortable, after all.

 

i certainly do like, love the little hanky ghosts- misdreavus is two foot tall????
...misdreavus is 2"4 and mismagius is 2"11 why is that so funny to me. they don't even gain a full foot upon evolution. anyway.

-Unlike many other ghost pokemon, who tend to be near-silent a lot of the time, Misdreavus are chatty little buggers. In the wild, they use primarily vocal communication between each other, and their main methods of procuring energy from startled humans are vocal. As a result, human-kept misdreavus talk to their trainers all the time. Mismagius are naturally a lot quieter in comparison, since their need to startle others with their voice has been replaced with their ability to cast illusions (albeit usually cast with a vocal component), but a mismagius evolved from a misdreavus that was rewarded for talking to humans will keep the habit just fine. Chatty behaviour is normal and perfectly fine to encourage, but some people find their high-pitched voices difficult to put up with, especially when directed into your ear at 3am because they saw something exciting out of the window.
-It is generally accepted in areas where they are common that if you're walking at night or in a dark place and you hear unexpected sobbing, wailing or shrieking, it's just a misdreavus trying to lure you closer so they can feed off your nervous energy. The feeding process is not generally harmful, but it does rely on the victim being in some way afraid, worried or upset, so it's not usually pleasant either. Most people get away with, at worst, some lingering fatigue that clears up in a few hours and a bit of stress, but it should be noted that if there are larger groups of misdreavus all trying to feed on one person at the same time the amount of energy drained and the associated emotions they're feeding on can ramp up to dangerous levels. There is one particularly famous and unpleasant case: in Johto there was a large mine in which lived a colony of misdreavus. The miners tolerated and even enjoyed their company, and the misdreavus were able to feed from the regular flow of workers without bothering any one person too much. Then the mine closed down, and the workers left. The mine was very isolated, and misdreavus don't naturally travel very far, rendering them unable to move on and find somewhere else to live; their numbers had also been artificially boosted by the previous high population of miners. This meant there were a lot of misdreavus, and very little food to go around, since although they can feed on other pokemon, humans provide far better sustenance. A few years later, a small group of three surveyors went down into the mine, the first humans to enter since the closure. The starving misdreavus mobbed them; two of them were drained of energy to the point of death, probably via heart failure, and one survived but suffered severe PTSD and lifelong, crippling fatigue problems (as well as chronic tinnitus; lots of screeching). This event is widely known, and has not done much for the species' optics, but it should be noted it was a fairly unusual set of circumstances. These days, if another similar situation seems likely to crop up, Rangers are called in to humanely relocate the misdreavus to somewhere more suitable.
-Mismagius, on the other hand, have completely different hunting behaviours. Upon evolution they gain far more psychic power and far greater control over it, and begin to specialise in illusions. As a general rule the illusions are small and short-lived; mismagius are not restricted to feeding on negative emotions, so they can also be enjoyable experiences (this is not guaranteed, however, especially with younger mismagius). A particularly notable case there is a mismagius which specialised in making an already attractive quartz cavern in the mountains truly a breathtaking sight with its illusions, and then feeding on the awe and joy from the people witnessing. Unsurprisingly, it found a very comfortable partnership with the local tourist trade. However, not all are so benevolent, and some older, more powerful mismagius are fully capable of trapping people in long-term or even permanent illusions, keeping them available as a long-running food source able to produce any desired emotion 'on command'. This tends, unsurprisingly, to induce psychosis in the human. Luckily, the number of mismagius who possess the necessary power to do this is either very low, or most of them are uninterested in such long-term expenditures of their energy, perhaps because it usually requires living unseen alongside the victim at all hours which is a pain in the arse.
-Living seen, or at least known, alongside humans, is a more popular mismagius pastime, despite the fact that( unlike misdreavus who live in groups) they are natural loners. A mismagius allowed to live unbothered in or near a settlement is quite likely to develop an almost protective aspect, and use their spell-like abilities to the benefit of the residents. This, of course, has been spun into all kinds of stories and superstitions, most of which are of highly dubious actuality; it is far from confirmed, for example, that any mismagius has the ability to make someone fall in love with you- and even if they did, they are fickle ghost types who tend prideful, and therefore unlikely to bestow this boon upon you if you harass them for it. Some regions, especially in Sinnoh, have traditions that at certain times of year or during life-changing events such as marriage, householders can perform small rituals to flatter and invite mismagius into their homes, and this will bring good luck. It has even been shown to work, provided there is a suitable mismagius in the vicinity and the householders do not, subsequently, do anything which annoys it. An annoyed mismagius is more than capable of being difficult enough that another common superstition is that they can place curses. They may even be able to do so, although quantifying 'a curse' is rather difficult.
-Most of Misdreavus' visible body is made up of ectoplasmic matter that can be both insubstantial enough to pass through solid objects and solid enough that they can use their 'hair' to manipulate things. They are limited in the size, weight and general graspability of the objects they can pick up, especially since they don't have true hands, but it's usually quite good enough for them to cause mischief. They cannot, however, truly pass through walls; they are limited by the pearls around their necks, which are the most solid thing about them. These pearls act as the repository for the energy that powers them; should they be significantly damaged, or want to conserve energy, they can find a quiet corner and absorb the rest of their bodies into the pearls; this does make them more vulnerable should anything find the pearls, however, as separating them significantly can disperse the misdreavus' energy. Does this kill them? It has not been sufficiently studied (for obvious ethics reasons) to truly know.
-Mismagius don't seem to share this ability, but they do have a far greater ability to go invisible, bolstered by their illusions. When misdreavus go invisible, their pearls can still be faintly seen, but mismagius don't have this problem. They can even do this in full sunlight. It does appear to cost them a fair bit of energy, however, and they prefer lurking in shadows or otherwise dark places that do most of the work for them.
-There are a variety of theories as to why misdreavus was first observed in Johto and mismagius in Sinnoh, as the evolved form was not known outside of there until the Galaxy Expedition Team spread its pokedex. By far the most likely one is simply that Johto has far fewer natural sources of dusk stones; it was thought they were not naturally available in the region at all until relatively recently. It is already rarer for pokemon who evolve using elemental stones to do so in the wild, and if there re exceedingly few places they can gather to find the stones reliably, and those some distance away from human habitation, it would make sense for a very rare pokemon with the ability to both vanish and create illusions to go unnoticed. Sinnoh is both much more abundant in natural dusk stone accretions and, potentially also relevant, has a stronger folkloric tradition; although the 'inviting the mismagius in' ritual can be found in several regions in the modern day, its history in Sinnoh goes back much farther than in the others, back to the original tribes living in the area before settlers from other regions arrived. These tribes were far more likely to welcome a spiritual mischief-maker than Johto, where the folklore speaks of such things in much darker tones.

 

phantump and trevenant maybe?

 

So usually I use pokedex entries as inspo for these, and fuecoco obviously doesn't have any yet. But apparently there is some official info on the official pokemon dot com website, so that's handy. We obviously don't know shit about its evolved forms yet though.

As it happens fuecoco is my least favourite of the gen 9 starters. I keep looking at it and going 'why is this mario enemy in a pokemon game?'. It just doesn't look like a pokemon to me somehow, on a fundamental level. Something in the proportions maybe? The way its head and mouth are designed? I'm not good enough at art to explain properly. Still, I'll reserve true judgement until I see its evos. If the third form (or even the second, second evos can be terribly underrated) blows me away, well, I suppose I can be persuaded to forgive. If I ever get one as a starter though i'm naming it Mario.
(my favourite is sprigatito, predictably. quaxly very cute also)

Why does this region not have a name yet god damn it

-The main reason Fuecoco is valued as a starter Pokemon is because it is almost comically easy-going for a fire type. Despite the type's reputation as containing high-energy pokemon who can be the most difficult to handle of the traditional three starter types, the most difficult thing about Fuecoco's temperament is persuading them that yes, actually, they do have to take a little bit of exercise. Their preferred activity, almost to a man, is 'sleeping in a sun puddle'.
-This is naturally due to the way they collect and store energy that can be used for fire attacks. The yellow scales on their bodies absorb external heat, which can be then used as internal heat; the more external heat they're allowed to collect, the stronger their attacks can be (limited only by the individual body's own ability to store said heat). Trainers should be aware that if they've allowed their fuecoco to sleep outside in the sun all day, the yellow scales can easily reach temperatures that are painful and/or actively damaging to touch with bare skin, and gloves are recommended. Non-flammable ones.
-The most visible sign of a fuecoco's internal energy level is the fire that comes from the top of its head. The brighter and bigger, the more 'full' the internal reserves; during battle, or when the fuecoco is particularly agitated (positively or negatively), these flames can flare up very dramatically. It's not uncommon for them to be reduced to almost nothing after a battle which used up most of the pokemon's energy, and not worrying in and of itself; they should return to normal levels once the pokemon has had a meal and some sunbathing. If the fire does not return, and stays very small, weak or wavering, this can indicate something has gone wrong with the fuecoco's ability to process exeternal heat, since unlike, say, ponyta, they do not produce any internally; at this point the pokemon should be taken immediately to a pokemon centre for treatment.
-Should fuecoco be unable to find enough external heat from sunbathing, which is their preferred method, they will seek out anything notably warm as a substitute. This can be such things as radiators, waste heat from electronics or home appliances, other pokemon (especially other fire types), active stoves and ovens (dangerous), and their trainer's own body heat. Fuecoco in winter or in regions that are not as warm as their home range can be extremely cuddly creatures, often climbing into their trainers' clothes and beds, which can be a bonus since the yellow scales always radiate a faint warmth even when underpowered. It is traditional in their home region to give one's fuecoco its own personal hot water bottle or microwaveable warming pillow when their first winter in the family rolls around; there are plenty of traditional designs and fuecoco are often seen during the colder months showing off their beloved warming items. There is also a brisk trade in hats, gloves, scarves, boots and other cute clothing designed for them, although insulating them against cold doesn't actually do that much for them, practically; again, they produce very little internal heat, no more than any other primarily cold-blooded pokemon.
-In the wild, they often go dormant in the colder months, sleeping in giant piles in underground dens (they excavate these with their mouths, as their arms are too short to meaningfully dig anything but their jaws are very powerful) and emerging only once every week or so to find food. They are primarily carnivorous although they can consume some plant matter, but are not very effective predators, preferring to scavenge; they are not especially fast movers, and if prey evades their bite they tend to end up trying to flame it to death, which often renders said prey a crispy charred mass of not very much nutritional value. They don't chew much, but their stomach acid can dissolve almost anything- including some things not generally considered to be edible. It's not a good idea to encourage your fuecoco to eat things like pottery, but it also is unlikely to do them much harm.
-Once a fuecoco does decide to move, while not very fast, they are extremely difficult to stop. They have decided something is worth moving for and therefore nothing is going to get in the way of achieving whatever it is. They are quite heavy and their centre of gravity is low, so they are difficult to dislodge from their path or trip, and they have a great deal of stamina to bring to bear, especially if they're not spending energy on attacks while moving. They also have the ability to latch on to something with their mouth and lock their jaws closed, making it extremely difficult to get them to drop something they don't want to drop. Since they are so easy-going, it's relatively rare for a fuecoco to show significant overly-possessive behaviour, but should it become a problem it is recommended to bring in professional help, because if your fuecoco doesn't want to give up the valuable or dangerous item it's bitten onto, it's not going to.
-Since fuecoco does not store internal fire, it is safe to submerge them in water, and some of them even enjoy it- especially hot baths. They are not effective swimmers, so they should be supervised at all times in case of difficulties, and they are usually unwilling to go out of their depths, but a fuecoco comfortably ensconced in the shallows of a hot spring is a fuecoco in absolute bliss.

 

have you done Raichu yet?

 

@emythos @Wingyl
don't worry i haven't forgotten i just am trying to plan for my upcoming holiday while also battling a fatigue episode. I have some thoughts. They're percolating.

 

I told you I hadn't forgotten! It just took me [checks watch] a month. That's fine right.

-Now, the question everyone always asks about Phantump is 'are they really dead children?' It is very often something of a mystery where ghost types originate from, since they are often apparently not bound to any normal process of species development except when they feel like it. They frequently just show up in the records without much traceable background. As such, it is unsurprising that there are plenty of urban legends and folklore about their origins, some wilder than others. The idea that phantump are children lost in the forest reborn as ghostly tree stumps seems on the face of it to be fairly wild. However! There have been well-recorded and well-verified cases of individual phantump displaying recognition of family members, places, preferences etc of children who have been reported missing. Sometimes these phantump make their own way 'home', sometimes they have simply been captured by someone who then passes through the home area of the lost child. In all cases they have been wild phantump who have not previously had contact with humans.

-What makes these cases particularly convincing is that, in general, wild phantump are not interested in living anywhere near human settlements. They enjoy living in groups with each other, but are not regularly known to seek out human companionship of their own accord, and most wild caught phantump bond with their trainer but are shy with others. A phantump not only seeking out a particular human household but showing a marked preference and immediate trust for humans they have not previously met is certainly worthy of study.

-That said, certainly not all or even the majority of phantump are or are likely to be dead human children. They breed with each other and with other compatible pokemon just like any other, and there are far more phantump in the world than there are children who get fatally lost in the woods. It may be that lost children were the genesis of the species, but once their spirits had become pokemon, they became able to reproduce in other ways.

-There have been no reported incidents of Trevenant seeking households who have lost children, although some of the recorded child phantumps have evolved. It may be that wild-evolved trevenant have so embraced their pokemon nature that they now have no memory of or no desire to seek out any human life they had before. That or they simply aren't speaking of it; trevenant are not renowned for being particularly communicative.

-Unlike many other Ghost types, phantump are not reliant on energy emitted by humans to feed. The stories of them luring people into the forest with cries that sound like shrieking children are exaggerations; they do sound like children, to a disturbing extent sometimes, but are not deliberately attempting to lead people astray when they make those noises. Areas known to be inhabited by phantump tend to have warning signs scattered around, since someone following the sound of playing children and ending up lost in the woods does no-one any good, not even the phantump.

-Instead of human energy they seem to live off plant energy instead, probably as a result of the tree stumps they possess. They feed best when part of a full forest life cycle, making them extremely hard to keep in urban environments; they simply don't thrive there, although a moderately sized garden can support one or two. They also thrive best in larger groups, meaning should an aspiring trainer not have the outside room to support more than one, they need to make sure that they have other good-tempered and social pokemon for the phantump to bond with. It is technically possible for a phantump to adopt a group of humans, but there are intrinsic challenges to that, given that humans and pokemon are quite different in the ways they operate.

-Trevenant on the other hand really cannot be kept outside of an environment with plenty of trees. Wild-evolved trevenant exist very much in symbiosis with the forest in which they choose to settle down; they are a source of shelter and defence for smaller pokemon, they can spread their roots widely under the ground to move nutrients and even apparently information around, and they seem to help prevent pests and disease from overtaking the surrounding trees and plantlife. In return, they feed on the accumulated life energies of everything surrounding, since the healthier the ecosystem, the more energies available.

-They are capable of travelling, and newly-evolved wild Trevenant can wander many miles looking for a place to live, but long-term travelling without eventually finding a place to settle stunts their growth and leads to maladaptive (usually excessively possessive) behaviour and illness. Since Trevenant live very, very long lives, it’s usually considered perfectly fine for a travelling trainer to maintain one that they evolved themselves on their journey, as even a journey lasting a few decades isn’t quite enough to count as damagingly long-term and most journeys last a lot less than that. It is, however, recommended that a) when the trainer settles the trevenant is also permitted to settle, even if that requires allowing them to go free, and b) extreme care is taken if a trevenant is captured wild, because it’s hard to know how long they have been wandering.

-It is not impossible to capture a trevenant that is already settled, but it is much harder as they become much more powerful and it’s also more difficult to find them, since they tend to settle very deep in amongst the trees. It is also, in some places at least, legally punishable, as forests which lose their settled trevenant by unnatural means suffer greatly as a result- as does the trevenant.

-The accepted reason that captured phantump evolve only when traded is that in the wild, evolution is triggered by a desire to move locations, perhaps due to excessive population, and what is trading but starting a new life stage by moving away?

 

it is a truth universally acknowledged that writing smut is the least sexy possible activity

 

rolls back in two months later taking a hard left turn into a/b/o

gotta note down my version of it because of course i have my own version of it

important note: i don't actually give half a shit about making it social commentary or whatever it is you're supposed to do to make it not cringe. if that happens it's by accident because i thought about it too hard or i accidentally mixed it with a setting that was already half social commentary (coughDEcough). are you here for the breeding kink and knotting? yes? that's all that matters

 

For some reason it bugs me to use werewolf-like terminology (pups and so on) without the characters being werewolves so i make them dog people instead. like cutprice catboys with just ears and tails but dogs instead. why is this better? i dunno. ears. anyway please picture dog people while reading this

ALPHAS
the defenders of the pack- there for protection and fucking and not much else, 'biologically' speaking. Often dominance-focused among themselves and betas, they tend to be easy for omegas to wrap around their little fingers. It is generally healthy for an alpha to bond with up to three omegas depending on their own tolerances; more is pushing it.
Amab alphas sport sizeable knotted penises. Afab alphas have the exact same, but also a functioning female reproductive system, although their fertility when it comes to that is greatly reduced from 'normal human' baseline; they have sparse, light periods and the hormonal swings ain't shit compared to alpha rut. Allowing for the reduced fertility, afab alphas can be impregnated by other alphas, betas (most commonly), and amab omegas (very rarely). Alphas in general can impregnate other alphas with reduced fertility rates, betas with normal fertility rates, and omegas with highly elevated fertility rates.
Ruts are a state in which the alpha thinks only of sticking their dick in something or fighting off anything attempting to prevent them sticking their dick in something. They are triggered by omega heats generally, although the longer you go without having one the less it takes to trigger it; you go from needing an omega in full heat to bring it on to starting to drool because an omega two days out from heat walked past you in the supermarket, kind of thing. There's theoretically no limit on how often an alpha can rut but it's not especially healthy to do it more than about twice in quick succession or drag it out for more than maybe a week; ruts can be extended by introducing another omega in heat as soon as the last one starts to come off it, which prevents the rut from subsiding in sync with the heat as usually happens. It can also happen when omega heats are extended, which generally happens if an alpha is bonded with more than one omega.

BETAS
the providers of the pack, because someone has to fucking go get food while the alphas and omegas are thinking of nothing but sex. Despite being the closest to 'normal', they still have active pack dynamic instincts and are affected by the hormonal cocktails alphas and omegas give off, albeit much less. A healthy pack should always contain at least one beta, because although they're generally willing to join in the sex games, they don't go crazy with it and will always remember to order the pizza in the end. Theoretically, anyway. They're as capable of being fucked in the head as anyone else is. Betas are the most common type in general and the most happy of the three types to live only with their own type.
Betas have baseline human sex characteristics and fertility, and most commonly a single child at a time, with baseline human rates of multiple births. Beta-beta pairings can produce offspring with any of the three types. They are cross-fertile with alphas and omegas as well, although interestingly enough those pairings will only ever produce other betas.
A beta can satisfy an alpha in rut, but don't hormonally bond the same way, and can act as decent stand-ins for an omega in heat but aren't as good as alphas (cough no knot cough).

OMEGAS
the caretakers of the pack, the glue that keeps them together. Prone to forming ingroups for this reason. Watch out for a group of omegas who have decided not to like you. They tend to like to set down roots rather than travel, and are the most likely of the three types to suffer adverse effects from not having a pack around them.
Omegas come with a standard vagina, uterus, ovaries setup, just arranged to accommodate larger penises, knots, and larger litters of pups. Amab omegas also have functioning penises and testicles, but the testicles are much smaller and tighter-set to the body and the penises tend smaller than baseline human; like afab alphas, they have much reduced fertility using those bits. All omegas will develop breasts and lactate. Omegas impregnated by alphas will generally have two to three children at a time, although up to five is certainly possible; impregnated by betas they will generally have one but with a higher than average chance of twins (and any child will inevitably be a beta); impregnation by another omega is possible but rare and tends to only produce one child.
Omega heats happen twice a year if not impregnated; pregnancy and active breastfeeding delay them. If alphas are only interested in filling holes during rut, omegas are only interested in being holes to be filled. They generally only last two or three days by themselves, but they will tend to sync up to the heats of other omegas in the pack and that will extend the heat, probably so the resident alpha has time to get to everyone while they're at their most fertile; without some manner of fertility restriction either internal or external, an alpha mating with an omega during heat will inevitably result in pregnancy, and there's a much boosted chance even for betas and other omegas. Correspondingly, their fertility outside heats is so low that pregnancy is much, much rarer. A heat that ends without pregnancy will culminate in a heavy period, which is just as enjoyable as you might imagine. Some omegas have noticeable run-ups to their heats where they get progressively more horny; others will just be hanging out when they realise they're soaking wet and are like 'damn it, guess i'll call in for the next couple of days'.

GENERAL
A healthy pack would generally consist of one or two alphas, three to five betas, and two to three omegas per alpha. There is obviously variation on this depending on the individuals in question.
It is perfectly possible to have healthy alpha/alpha, omega/omega, beta/alpha or beta/omega relationships.
There exist contraceptives to prevent conception during heat for all three types, and heat and rut suppressants. It is generally unhealthy to suppress heats and ruts too often, and the suppressants decline in effectiveness the more you use them until you're likely to have a breakthrough heat/rut regardless. The healthiest way for an omega to suppress is to take a dose that cuts the heat down to one especially horny day rather than two or three absurdly horny days; the best way for an alpha to suppress is to take a dose that means they have to presented with an omega actively in heat for it to trigger. It is basically impossible to prevent an omega actively in heat triggering some level of rut.
Alphas and omegas hormonally bond when they fuck during heat/rut. It's not an unbreakable bond by any means, it's essentially just a way for the alpha and omega to mark each other as Theirs, since without modern contraceptives the pairing would have resulted in pregnancy and the alpha would want to protect their offspring, while the omega would be more likely to be safe and cared for with the parent of their pups. It mostly manifests to other people as a distinct shared scent. It's strengthened by spending time together in physical proximity and mating outside of heat/rut; correspondingly, it will steadily fade if the pair don't spend time together, and if they don't mate next heat it'll be wiped out entirely.
Betas don't hormonally bond in this way, but there are nonsexual packbonds that all three types are capable of that basically just come from spending a lot of time together and behaving as a pack. Urges to be physically intimate in all ways tend to be stronger in general. People are naturally inclined to form mixed type groups because the types tend to balance each other well, but people do be people and if you get the wrong bunch they'll fuck you up no matter how ~ideally balanced~ your pack is.

 

this is so sexo........

 

oh yeah i probably should add that of course everyone has heightened senses of smell and there's pheremones and all that shit. it's not so obvious that you can't hide what you are if you're careful about washing and wearing the right kind of scented hygiene products but people will generally manage to figure you out if you spend a lot of time around them anyway. people tend to be best at sniffing out others of the same type, although omegas get much more obvious to everyone around heat times and are in general best at identifying all the types.

 

are there like, sex toys/aids that are meant for betas or omegas with omega mates that imitate a knot? some kind of inflatable cockring? also I bet there would totally be a common fetish for like, fucking an alpha in the ass while they're in rut, or getting fucked by an omega in heat.

I don't know why my mind immediately went to "wow that would be a really fucked up torture method," but there you have it

 

of course there are. there are so many. a nice big knotted dildo is a must for any omega who has to or wants to go without a living mate or have a living mate without a dick during heat. and a good quality knot-ring goes a hell of a long way towards making up for lacking a natural one. o'course you got the dildoes that 'ejaculate' or have fancy textures or don't look like real dicks or are modelled on beta or omega dicks instead of alpha ones. there is absolutely no way people are not as wildly creative about this shit as they are irl =P

YOU BETCHA. In a full, healthy pack including all three types omega heats almost always involve all pack members including betas at various points during the heat, so there's always an exciting variation of ways one can fuck and be fucked, often at the same time. The betas just have much closer to baseline human stamina (still a bit higher though, at least when packmates are in heat/rut) and no biologically enforced drive to fuck at the exclusion of all else, so they're capable of disengaging and going to get shit Actually Done. it's a hard life being a beta sometimes.

handshake. i was thinking that as i wrote it. the timing has to be pretty spot on, because after a while the alpha's body will try and take any opportunity to end this incredibly resource-draining arousal state, but it would be absolutely possible to drag it out until the alpha physically cannot take it any more and either collapses completely or, worst case, actively expires. and it has definitely been done both as a method of active torture and as a kink thing.
Omegas are fine because although you can extend a heat by a couple days or so they will always eventually end on their own no matter what. it's just alphas that can be fucked with in such a way =P

 

thoughts on the physiology of the dog people i made up for this a/b/o extravaganza because of course i couldn't just go 'ears and tails' and leave it at that i am. a furry

-they are all based on real dog breeds because why not. do real dogs exist here? i'm gonna take a stand and say no. no dogs. no wolves either only wolf-people (probably extinct or mostly extinct due to evolving into dog-people). what did what passes for humanity here tame instead? pending. how did humans end up bred into all the weird shapes dogs come in? idk probably the same way dogs did why are you asking so many questions
-ears and tails, duh. no human ears why do people give their cat/dog people human ears as well it's so fucking?? weird. all the ear and tail docking/clipping methods people do to real dogs irl can also be done to dog people but generally as, y'know, consensual body mod. learning to control your fucking tail is a skill not everyone possesses. yes they can hear better than irl humans.
-noses also better. people much more likely to maul you for wearing too much axe body spray.
-Faces humanoid HOWEVER. dog teeth (adjusted for human mouth). pointy.
-FUR. everyone has a ruff around their shoulders/chest/upper back, varying in size according to breed, genes for hairiness etc but some people also get significant fur around their wrists and ankles, up their neck, or down their spine.
-breed-appropriate coat markings appear on skin as well as fur because that's dope, just desaturated.
-extra... titties... sweats. everyone has four nipples. afab people have four boobies, though if you get up to like. c-cup level that's considered having Tig Ole Bitties. amab omegas and betas both will develop tits if they start lactating, which is generally if they're pregnant or if a close packmate is pregnant; betas of both sexes also lactate because in a 'proper' pack there will generally be multiple omegas producing multiple pups a litter so having multiple people able to feed them is a bonus.

 

late addition: dog body language applies because obviously.