WHAT IS THE CAKEVERSE?
The Cakeverse is an alternate universe trope created by a Korean twitter/x user called rune_communicat back in 2016. The Cakeverse as a concept was inspired by the Omegaverse trope and, more specifically, how Alphas tended to get "obsessed" with an Omega's pheromones/scent and vice versa.
While the Cakeverse was originally inspired by the Omegaverse it has also taken on a life of its own as it has grown in popularity over the years. Like the Omegaverse there are commonly three classifications (or "designations") a person can fall into. Which is a Fork, a Cake or a Plate — Plates are also called Normals.
A Fork is someone who has either since birth, or over the course of their life, completely lost their sense of taste and the only thing they're able to actually taste is the "sweetness" of a Cake. Forks are usually met with suspicion and disgust because of their percieved cannablistic tendencies when it comes to Cakes, and many choose to hide their status in fear of any hate or discrimination received. Though, like in all societies, there are the minority who revel in the hate and are commonly known to attack, r@pÄ™ and even eat Cakes.
A Cake is a person whose flesh and bodily fluids tastes particularly sweet or, well, like cake to a Fork, but unlike Forks who are aware of their status as a Fork, Cakes can live out their entire lives never knowing or even realising they're a Cake, because only Forks can scent and taste the "sweetness" of a Cake.
Plates don't lose their sense of taste nor do they taste sweet to a Fork, basically they're regular plain old humans like you and me just watching the insanity that is Forks and Cakes.
Again, while the Cakeverse has been inspired by the Omegaverse, the Cakeverse in itself doesn't have the other basic elements that makes up the Omegaverse like secondary genders, estrus cycles (heats and ruts), special "features" (knots, locks etc.), pair and pack bonds and dynamics, scent matches (or destined mates), mating (and mating bites), glands and neither are there any type of hierarchy system in the Cakeverse like in there is in the Omegaverse.
Beyond the fact that Forks have absolutely no sense of taste — some stories describing Forks to have razor sharp teeth — and Cakes being the only thing a Fork can actually taste, the Cakeverse and the Omegaverse have no other major similarities.
The Cakeverse, even as it has grown in popularity over the years, is a blank slate (more or less), that you can put your own spin into if you'd like.
Heck, you can even incorporate the Cakeverse into your Omegaverse and make something of that. The sky is the limit and beyond having the basics of the cakeverse (Forks, Cakes and their (kinda) cannablistic relationship), you can do whatever your imagination desires.
Fun fact: when the creator of the Cakeverse had been asked why she went with cakes, she had apparently responded with "she just likes cakes".
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