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NSFW Tier - The Contemplative Man 1/41

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This week we're starting the new NSFW level omegaverse hannigram comic I promised; it will have two parts with a break between for a different comic :)) I'm uploading extra pages this week to give you guys more of a taste of it before the month rolls over, so next month I might have to skip a week; I'll keep you guys updated~

For more explanation, content warning list, omegaverse info etc, continue reading my tl;dr below...

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Synopsis

Basically, this story takes place in the latter half of season 2, Will's "seduction" of Hannibal, canonically figurative, but here, literal. It will follow most canon events from that season, and it's gonna have a bad end. However, I've already written and thumbnailed a follow up comic which will borrow from the second half of season 3, and leave things in a less ambiguous place. Murder husbands will be a thing by the end of it. I don't like bad endings~

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So, I've been debating internally how much or little info I should write up about this comic before you start reading. If you haven't really heard of or read any omegaverse before, this doesn't do a great job of setting it up, so you might be a little lost, and if you have read it before, this violates a bunch of the rules anyway, so, you might be a little lost. Heh. So, uh, I wrote a lot. But you don't have to read it all.

Below, I've broken things into 3 sections: a content warning list, a basic omegaverse primer, and a more personal omegaverse primer particular to this comic. If you don't want spoilers, are familiar with ABO, and aren't easily triggered, feel free to skip all of it. If you want to go in fully prepared, then I'll try to condense all this info as much as possible.

1) Content warnings (contains spoilers):

-omegaverse
-alphaHannibal/omegaWill
-dark content (canon level)
-sex pollen/heat sex trope
-self lubrication/knots (alternative anatomy)
-animalistic behavior
-anal sex
-rough sex
-lying/false pretenses
-mention of rape (no rape happens or has happened though)
-blink-and-you'd-miss-it mpreg (text only, not visual)
-miscarriage from trauma
-the trauma is hannibal's fault
-canon events of violence
-canon events of gore
-bonding
-also a lot of fucking porn
-hannibal loves will
-will is conflicted
-angst
-bad end (there will be a part 2)

2) Omegaverse general primer

Okay. The first thing you should know is that omegaverse is problematic. Super problematic.

First, there is the issue of the alpha knot, which is borrowed from canid anatomy (because the trope evolved from werewolf pack dynamics) and animalistic dicks squick some people out. Then there is the whole heat issue, which is essentially dubcon/noncon, in which the person is (or both persons are) in a state where they literally can't say no to sex. Some people also argue that ABO "heterosexualizes" formerly homosexual relationships, by adding additional genders that make it okay or encouraged for two men or two women to be together. Finally there are a whole load of societal issues with people being essentially owned by other people. There are fics where the problematic aspects of these issues are removed, but those fics are fairly uncommon. Personally, I'm a fan of these uncommon fics, but I'll get into that in the next section.

The very very basics that you need to know are that there are additional genders (alpha, beta, omega) to the main male/female genders; you can be female/alpha, female/omega, male omega, etc. Omegas are pretty much biologically designed to be bottoms, while alphas are generally tops; also, male omegas are generally capable of getting pregnant, and female alphas are generally capable of impregnating. Also, in almost all universes, omegas experience heats, which last anywhere from a few hours to a couple weeks, where they feel a powerful urge to have sex (in male omegas, to be the recipient in anal sex). Bonding is also usually a thing, where two people can biologically imprint on each other; this imprinting is usually permanent or difficult to break.

There are also a load of world building and societal factors that come along with it; a lot of omegaverse fics present omegas as rare and desirable, and having a lower status than other people, to the point where many omegas in fics are hiding their second gender with illegal drugs in order to escape being bred and owned by an alpha and forced to give up everything just to bear children the rest of their lives. In many fics, the world is less advanced, with society embracing these archaic ideas about gender. Other fics, more rarely, present a more free world similar to ours today, but with old prejudices and stereotypes still present.

Here are some primers others have written on omegaverse, or ABO dynamics. Note, everyone has a bit of their own opinion on the standards of omegaverse, so some of these contain content I don't really agree with. Tw for some weird content, if you're not a weirdbeard like me you might be in for a ride:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Alpha/Beta/Omega
http://archiveofourown.org/works/403644/chapters/665489
http://puppylover857.deviantart.com/journal/Omegaverse-Explanation-and-Guide-441250200
http://wordsplat.tumblr.com/post/54479162682/aboguide

And here are some of my favorite fics that utilize the trope; I haven't read some of the Sherlock ones in a long time but if I bookmarked them then they should be alright haha~ (sorry for the ugly url)

http://archiveofourown.org/users/reapersun/bookmarks?bookmark_search%5Bfreeform_ids%5D%5B%5D=272593&bookmark_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bquery%5D=&bookmark_search%5Brec%5D=0&bookmark_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&bookmark_search%5Bwith_notes%5D=0&commit=Sort+and+Filter&page=1&utf8=%E2%9C%93

3) Omegaverse personal primer

So basically, about half of that problematic stuff I mentioned earlier, I'm not a fan of. I'm not a fan of reading about societies where people are owned, unless there's a real bloody revolution about halfway through. I'm not a fan of noncon (and on this page, I won't be posting dubcon either). I'm not a fan of fics where the author dangles the possibility of a character being trapped in a bond with or impregnated by the "wrong" person as a dramatic device. And I'm not a fan of following a template. The moment I read "rare unbonded omega", the most common protagonist in omegaverse fics regardless of fandom, in any fic I'm already backing out. In my opinion, too many omegaverse stories follow the same exact formula and don't challenge the trope in the same way they did in the very early days when it was first becoming popular. People found what they liked and stuck with it. I like some of these ideas, but I don't like reading the same story over and over.

So, here is a rundown on some of the differences present in the verse of this comic; there are a lot of other things that I like to see in ABO fics and would add if I could, but they don't really come up in this story, so I'll leave them off this list:

-society pretty much matches the show canon; all genders are legally considered equal, although there are still many prejudices/stereotypes that people struggle with
-hormone/pheromone suppressants and birth control are readily available and even required for some professions
-humans regard their base ABO instincts as remnants of a more primitive time; people who revel in them are considered deviant or even mentally ill
-omegas experience heat bi-yearly, and while powerful, they don't lose coherence and can still make choices
-omegan heat pheromones induce alphas into rut, putting them on equal levels of need; they are a little less level headed but still reasonably capable of choice
-members of any gender can bond during intercourse by biting glands in their partner's neck, which means they will only react sexually to their partner
-bonding is difficult to break and broken bonds have long reaching consequences, so it's not particularly common, and should be considered seriously over a long period of time (most people, even happily married couples, never bond at all)
-anatomically, male alphas have knots, and male omegas have an internal reproductive system and no testicles

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That's all for now! Btw, if you wanna discuss any of this stuff further, I'm up for it! I find a lot of the aspects of omegaverse pretty interesting in a more academic way, even the stuff I personally dislike; it's interesting how something about this verse appeals so greatly to so many people, to the point where it has become its own trope with thousands of fics in hundreds of fandoms. If you super disagree with me on some of these points then feel free to add that too!

I hope you guys enjoy this story :))