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RITUALS:

I think that in order to get someone to actually be your Valentine you would form a faux-mating-bond that only lasts from around 10-72 hours depending on biological factors and how deep the relationship is.

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Of course for pups it would be different and they would just hand out candies and make some scented cards then play in the dirt or something childhood memories™

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Valentine's day is usually regarded as a time to celebrate your relationships and as a day where you cleanse by taking care of yourself and thinking about which relationships you would like to improve and which you would like to end. This goes for any relationship and not just romantic relationships.

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On Valentine's day packs go out for their bonding activities and some lonely people will go out to find mates if they don't want to spend time with their pack or family. Otherwise most people are indoors with their loved ones.

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Typically during Valentine's day people will decorate their house according to their and their mate's scent as a way to show that you care for the other person and to make the house feel welcoming and warm to the both of you.

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It's an unspoken rule that while you're decorating the house if you fight you probably shouldn't be with the other person, but if you both are able to coordinate and enjoy your time together your relationship will last for years to come.

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If you're single on Valentine's day it's usually seen as a time for self care or bonding with your pack.

Selfcare activities include:

• lighting candles that match your scent

• building a nest/burrow

• connecting with people that you have been meaning to catch up with or going out and meeting new people

• making comfort foods

• cleaning up your home to make it more appealing to potential mates or just because you want it to be pretty for the holiday

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Sometimes packs will all get together and throw parties. Usually during the parties everyone is expected to prepare and bring over one comfort food that they enjoy and the whole pack will do whatever they find fun as a bonding activity.

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When the day is over people will reflect on their relationships in ways that are typically personal to them. This usually leads to the following day being the day where most breakups occur because some people reassessed their relationships and what was good for them on Valentine's night.

2. James Cameron reads said manga

3. Cameron, hot off a successful movie run, is inspired while at the same time wanting to create a show

4. Creates and writes show Dark Angel, casting Jensen Ackles in a reoccurring supporting role

5. Show about genetically enhanced characters features “heat” as something characters go through

6. Show gets canceled after 2 seasons. Jensen Ackles is now unemployed.

7. Supernatural airs 3 years later, with Jensen Ackles as the main character

8. RPF becomes massively popular for the show to avoid the main incest pairing with canon characters

9. Fanfic AU inspired by Ackle’s stint on Dark Angel morphs multiple existing tropes, creating first official ABO (omegaverse) story for Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki

10. Omegaverse becomes wildly popular, spreading across multiple fandoms and variations

11. Omegaverse novels begin to get published, including by Addison Cain and Zoey Ellis who both wrote het omegaverse novels

12. Cain files DMCA against Ellis, with Cain claiming to have invented het omegaverse

Yessss! Nesting is utterly adorable. Thank you for the ask!

Context: I headcanon Japanese omegas as nesting less often than their Western counterparts, an adaptation that arose out of Japan’s disgustingly humid summers and the tendency for mold to grow anywhere and everywhere.

From the beginning to mid-pregnancy, the omega will have a habit of cleaning the nest up every morning, and dragging the sheets and laundry back into order at night. The omega is either:

a) very neat and clean, and cannot stand the nest just sitting there all day, filled with dirty laundry

b) feels guilty that they’ve stolen all the sheets, and their mate’s closet is dwindling because they haven’t done the laundry

It’s exhausting work, especially as they progress in their pregnancy. It gets easier when their family grows, though, because their pups and mate will help put everything away.

Omegas especially like to make a game out of it, to teach their pups responsibility and good habits.

Sometimes an omega will just curl up in frustration and maybe cry because they got it just perfect the night before, and now it’s just not right.

Their mate comes in, sensing their distress, and tries to help, but that only makes it worse.

They end up in a cuddle session, with the mate taking a stack of towels or clothes and rubbing their scent on it, then handing it to their omega to arrange in the nest.

Their foreign friends are all “Why all the stress?? Just leave it??”

Like, technically, in cities with apartments that have air conditioning, it’s not necessary, it’s just an engrained habit.

But out in the countryside. Oh, no. No air conditioning whatsoever, just fans. The idea of leaving it there is repulsive to many, who want a nice clean environment for when their pups are born.

Because less importance is placed on the nest, Japanese omegas are a little less protective of it. They’ll let anyone familiar just flop down in it without asking, at least until their last month of pregnancy.

For their first pregnancy, many omegas won’t start wanting to nest until the middle of the second trimester or later, and it worries the hell out of them because a lot of books say it should happen earlier.