Not really entire functioning reproductive system, he doesn't go into heat and his womb still developing (I forgot)... And when Rut their pheromones clashed that it hurts both of them
He gets pregnant… like people who get period pain still has a fully functioning uterus. The other things are not part of the reproductive system. Also technically by what you’re describing he shouldn’t be able to get pregnant. And one cannot have heat and a period in the same individual etc (not that he has either, but without any kind of cycle you can’t get pregnant unless the sperm migrate up the fallopian tube and that can be dangerous). Anyway, the point was that it’s mentioning too much by bringing in statistics that it creates disbelief
Jumping in on this, as I know we have to suspend reality with this stuff anyway, but your tenacity reminds me of my one big urk of the genre.
Omegaverse started adding same sex female background/side characters before starting into the yuri genre. My problem: How do you have a son? There are only X-chromosomes. Are we saying the second sex trait can make whatever primary gender they want? Or are we saying it's a bunch of people with Kleinfeld syndrome? (XXY) I can reason same sex males having a higher rate of boys than average (since a lot of the time we get to see the baby, it is male.) But two women do not make a boy between them.
So it's the same with the 99/1% thing being dumb. 1% doesn't mean the equipment is there and ready on demand. At least in other stories like this, the uke alpha has a family trait of switching or the other alpha has the ability to change their partner. It also takes more time for this to happen. That's enough to suspend reality. But 1%? I am 1% of everything that touches the Baltic sea (except one which ends up being a third of my DNA) but I just can't go to those countries and demand citizenship based on just that. 1% is an excellent error margin in most cases.
Yeah, like I’d understand if it was “there is a 1% CHANCE of this to happen”, but not “I am 1% omega” that’s just weird and silly.
And as you said we have to suspend disbelief a lot in this genre, and that’s cool. Sometimes I end up in the same thought process as you with the way all of this should not work. But most of the time they don’t mention chromosomes so I can just think “maybe everyone has a different set of chromosomes” or “since they’re not a binary gendered species there must be something else at play”, especially in stories where people spontaneously change their sex (they’re not transitioning with the help of medicine). Late presentation is understandable, or mixed presentations even. A lot of people in our world don’t actually know their ”actual sex” or reproductive health. It’s when authors start medicalising things and mention things that are just plain wrong that I have a hard time with the story.
Yes he gets pregnant after spending rut with ml and have 4 child together
Well it's a fiction so they can pour their imagination in it..
Well obviously, but that doesn’t mean we as readers cannot discuss literary analysis like “suspension of belief” etc. Anyone can create anything, that doesn’t mean a certain thing in a certain story can’t be executed well. Obviously it’s a fun premise, I just said I would have preferred it if they didn’t specify, as the specification makes it not work. I have no problem with the actual story or premise, just one singular line which took me out of the story.
THATS NOT HOW SEX CHARACTERISTICS WORK EVERYONE HAS A MIX OF SEX CHARACTERISTICS. Still gonna read this but it’s so unserious when they try to medicalise something that they don’t understand. It really damages the “suspension of disbelief” in the story. They could have just said he was intersex, or have a mixed presentation, heck even a mutation would have made it SciFi and resuspended the disbelief, instead of trying to quantify sexual characteristics. If having an entire functioning reproductive system is 1% what are the other 99%? (TT°TT)