What is Omegaverse / ABO? A Quick Guide for New Viewers of ABO Desire.

 LotusRayne:

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I'm just wondering. Are there any authors or novels within the genre which have a heavy emphasis or even an exclusive focus on the world-setting/ political side of things? I don't mind if this is at the expense of romance, even. Desire caught my attention for its unique setting and world-building, and I love the author's creativity here. The ABO virus and the business subplot really caught my attention in the first episode, what can I say?

I think I read somewhere in the comments that the author wrote the story as she couldn't find many stories with intricate world-building (it's been a few days, so the comment is long buried now lol). Just curious if there are any like that since she wrote the novel (if not, I'd be somewhat tempted to try my hand at writing one like that myself).

This is a fanfic (an omegaverse Merlin fanfic, at that) on AO3, and it was left unfinished for years, until there was a chapter more or less tying up the story this year. But it explores a lot of the omegaverse dynamic pretty in-depth from a sociological perspective, which I haven't seen done in the same way anywhere else (though granted, I'm not a very voracious reader of omegaverse). Anyway, this is the link: Heart in a Headlock