#that is probably all nonsense I honestly don't understand ABO at all but I gave it the good olde college try

[katytheinspiredworkaholic]

I’m curious, what are your thoughts on ABO verse and would you ever write it for Heid? I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea so no offense taken if it’s not your thing!

Hello Anon! I am sorry to say I am one of those people where ABO verse isn’t my cup of tea. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the physical changes it is supposed to cause, outside of like a werewolf AU (I have read a bit of ABO when I was going through my Teen Wolf hyperfixation) and even then it’s just not my scene, I’m sorry to say. I have heard great things about the fics on ao3 surrounding it, though, so all the props to all the writers making the 100k fics so many adore.

But I can still give you my (probably very incorrect) thoughts on it <3 because I like to remind myself to be open-minded about genres, and it is very -- very -- easy to see how an ABO verse would play into a Heid story. 

I don’t know all the rules, because I can never find all the rules, so I just kind of play it off like wolf pack dynamics (I blame TeenWolf) 

So we all know immediately that Hotch is an Alpha and Reid would be an Omega -- because that’s just the best trope ever and even I can’t deny that.

I’d be very into scenting and marking, I think, because I do that in my fics typically anyway. Wearing each other’s clothes, using each other’s shampoo or body wash, just making it so they smell like each other is really intimate and sweet and I adore it.

Bite marks. Need I say more. So many hickeys Hotch all but spells his name on Reid’s neck. 

This is probably super incorrect for ABO or whatever, but I feel like Reid would be a little pleased when he ‘accidentally’ marks up Hotch in return. Like scratch marks down his back. It wasn’t on purpose, but anyone would know who left them there and that makes him secretly very proud.

A jealousy storyline would basically write itself. With how often they travel for cases? And how many Alpha personalities there are in police and sheriff stations all across the country? I honest to God don’t know the rules on Omegas, but I know they are supposed to kind of... smell sweet? Almost create an airborne intoxication, of sorts, where others lose their sense of self and if anyone came up on Reid like that -- especially after they’d been called in to work on a case -- oh Hotch would lose it. 

I guess in that same vein, maybe it isn’t the bureau’s habit to hire Omegas for field work like that, because this kind of thing happens, but Reid’s knowledge and skill sets are too important not to, and they’ve made an exception with him from the start.

But once Hotch and Reid are together, it’s no longer a formality obligation that makes Hotch lash out at anyone sniffing around Reid. I’m talking like near irrational outbursts, such a powerful force it makes everyone in the room cower. So overprotective it interferes with their work, sometimes. Gets him into trouble with Strauss, but every single time he doesn’t even flinch at the reprimands of consequences. It is always worth it, protecting what’s his. 

#that is probably all nonsense I honestly don't understand ABO at all but I gave it the good olde college try #I hope at least some of it is entertaining #but thank you for asking anon I'm always willing to discuss stuff even if I'm like 160% lost #asks #HotchReid #Heid