the way irl fraternities are named going into an elaborate(or perhaps straightforward?) omegaverse bit is so obvious that like yes of course that’s what they are doing

HOWEVER

and here comes my big hot take okay I never liked omegaverse because it is Just shitty werewolf pack dynamics based on that longstanding misunderstanding of how wolves Work and a number of the associated furry kinks that go with that… but with the furry Essence completely taken away! like okay I haven’t attempted to read anything omegaverse since like… a pokemon BW fanfic in 2015 maybe? so I’m sure the genre Evolved but it felt So much like “these furries are onto something but furries are Icky and Gross so let’s just tone things down a little” and omegaverse is not the only thing of that nature I’ve seen get all the Weird Furry Essence sucked out of it but I think it unwise to go into that even if it would bolster my argument… but my point is. These are… okay I’m not gonna get my chart bc I’m on mobile but sayrs are (from what I can tell anyway) a ~50/50 split creature which is a grey area which puts them More than kemonomimi (except for some older anime examples that are a style you never see anymore but I’m making note of just to be thorough) but less than what is typically expected as “furry” However this gray area is generally welcomed into furry subculture with open arms (and sometimes adding a bit more Creature into renditions. think of how there are like cutesy mermaids for kid shows and then ones that ppl design that incorporate more fishy elements, or the endless debate on what even Is the wolf form of a werewolf or similar shifter/were type thing). I PROMISE IM GETTING SOMEWHERE I JUST keep feeling the need to explain and add contex. So basically there’s too much Animal-to-Human trait ratio for me to expect the image of omegaverse works I have in my mind and that if/when this is ever explained it’s going to be Wackier and Weirder and put some of that furry essence back in. this idea I think is further strengthened by the fact that this is a homestuck work. Homestuck which perhaps infamously was so Weird but also Just Vague Enough about alien reproduction that people went absolutely specbio (or Xeno if you rather) sicko mode. Like Homestuck being probably The most furry-in-practice fandom I have ever been in like genuinely it’s 5x moreso than Splatoon. I have been routinely disappointed in what the Splatoon fandom offers in regard to shoving weird little species based quirks into fanwork . surreal.

basically i don’t think they are gonna play it straight (heh) and even if they do i have full confidence that once the OCs come pouring in the fans sure won’t.

(also I wish I had a better way to describe these phenomenon than “lacking furry essence” or being “furry in practice“ because it’s less about being Anthropomorphic Creatures and more about the subculture itself and how it approaches these things which is so hard to put into words.(I guess maybe it’s kinda like how you could tell a lot of 100gecs fans never touched furry EDM in their lives bc of how they kept going on about how Weird it is but there’s So much shared dna (is that even in any way a relatable experience)))