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Not knowing about ABO existance seems incredulous
It's pretty strange that Phatsa doesn't even know secondary genders exist.ABO is clearly a normal and accepted part of this world, maybe leaning towards a medical condition (clearly reproduction) (maybe as we treat ADHD). We clearly have specialised medical facilities, but also people can immediately recognise someone's secondary gender and nobody treats it as something secret or taboo. And we also have a pretty awesome origins story clearly well known by the ABO community. If that's the world they've built, then ABO wouldn't affect only relationships and medicine. It would naturally shape education, employment, public policy, and everyday life... it would simply be part of general knowledge.
Moreover, Phatsa would be the last person to be clueless about something this fundamental, since he’s presented as smart, accomplished, and generally someone who's good at almost everything he does. Then there's the world around him. Wouldn’t his family or classmates have mentioned it? Wouldn't children make crude jokes about it? Routine checkups in childhood, university housing policies, social media, or even military screenings... all plausible enough to at least bump into this concept at least once (no need for more than once, ABO will standout to anyone).
Even Ongsa, one of his closest friends who's completely open about being a Beta, somehow never lets anything slip, only to casually explain the entire ABO world to him later, including the possibility that Phatsa himself could present as an Alpha.
The same outcome could've been achieved with a little more care. They could've established that Phatsa always believed he was a Beta because childhood tests were inconclusive. They could've made him an exceptionally rare late bloomer, given him a medical condition that masked the usual biological markers, or simply explained that he grew up isolated from society. Any one of those would've made his ignorance feel completely believable while still allowing the audience to discover the ABO world alongside him.
Without that explanation, it feels a little too obvious that his ignorance exists purely as a way to introduce the audience to the omegaverse, and that takes me out of the story a little.
As is, the ABO origins is built beautifully, but Phatsa's ignorance of ABO existence feels ridiculous. I think there were cleaner ways of achieving the same result while keeping the worldbuilding more believable.
Nonetheless, it's honestly not something I feel particularly strongly about because, in the end, it doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the story. If anything, it allows us to discover this version of the omegaverse alongside Phatsa, and him not knowing anything about ABO dynamics naturally creates opportunities and tension for him and Nakhun to bounce off each other, learn together, and slowly fall in love.
I’m still really excited to see where the story goes in the next episodes! o(≧∀≦)o
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