Thoughts on the omegaverse genre?
Is it just me or whenever I read a manwha that has omegaverse in it, I just get the biggest disinterest immediately? Like I genuinely become iffy the moment I come across these - pheromones, heat cycles, Mpreg, all the like.
I usually avoid this whole bunch of can of worms, the only exception to this is if the manwha has a good story to offer and that's probably it. I see so many authors just creating the most horrid scenes known to man, for example using the "pheromones" trope to excuse the alpha being able to grape the uke just because he's released the most sickeningly-sweet apple pie crumble scent the alpha has ever smelled in his life and most of the time (or always) the uke will be taken advantage because he "OMG I can't breathe for some reason! What's this theatening aura?!"
Just why???
The first omegaverse and BL (probably) manwha I've read was Love is an illusion and the amount of confusion I got the first time was abysmal but just rolled with it.
Anyway, I'm curious if there are others with the same or opposite opinion as me, if so, I wanna hear your reasons as to why!!
i get *why* omegaverse is popular but i feel once authors try to like generally ~justify~ stuff outside of the smut it gets bad LOL. omegaverse is like very much a gender essentialist trope and once they try to subvert it, it always just reverts back to dominating alpha and submissive omega in sex scenes just because that's why omegaverse even exis......
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16 12,2023