this is surtur, swanning off

and some reiaru

local matchmaker losing it over yet another unrealistic demand from the clientele 🤣🤣

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we

except solaria is really fucking hot. downright unbearable when in heat, especially when you're used to cooler temperatures like resident white boy olivine. and also dante ISN'T used to being around omegas in heat because he's been so isolated for so long. and dante offered to house olivine at his residence because there's a lot of rooms he's not using and what, is he going to make an acquaintance stay at an inn? do you doubt the sun lord's hospitality??

and also like. dante is respecting the practices of the church by not questioning olivine’s rather… open scent during his heat.

they both think they can muscle through it (which they probably could!!!), its just. miserable. and they’re both so polite to each other too OTL… they’re friends, but they’re officials first.

so they’re having Intensely Normal and Polite conversation over lunch while olivine is trying to make sure slick doesnt leak through his robes and dante has to meticulously position his shawl so His Holiness cant see his massive boner through his stupid tight pants. dante definitely doesn’t have any feelings about how deeply olivine drinks his water or the flush across his face.

also!!! like!!! olivine wouldn’t even let himself masturbate. he’s a guest at dante’s home; surely, dante would be disgusted if he saw him or heard him being so shameless. he can’t spoil dante’s hospitality to him…

meanwhile, dante has no such reservations about pleasuring himself in his own home, but!!! he thinks jerking it to olivine, an ally who is in vulnerable straits, is weird! it’s not bad, persay. he just!! feels a little weird about it. (he probably does it anyways because, at a certain point, he can’t help himself. he’s strangely stiff with olivine later and olivine thinks dante might have cottoned onto the fact that olivine is having ~thoughts~ about him.)

i think. eventually. there has to be some kind of tipping point. like they keep making horny compromises to themselves. dante jerks off to olivine. olivine likes bathing after dante because he noticed there was cum left on the tile one time and he can allow himself just a taste of shameful intimacy, can’t he? perhaps some laundry stealing, but they’re both such tightly controlled individuals that it’s hard to imagine they’d allow themselves to do that, hehe.

one path to endgame banging is olivine premptively apologizing and confessing his indecency to dante (esp. if he feels like dante caught him and felt disgusted)? like… he’s not usually such a prude about his own instincts, but he can’t help falling back to feelings of shame when he’s acting so improperly. and dante is like (blink blink). because, if dante did catch him, dante definitely just ran away to jerk off shamefully himself.

I think the church bans heat suppressants, but scent masking incenses and perfumes are still allowed... but solaria is so hot. and so olivine ends up sweating it all off before he even realizes it. and dante is too polite to comment on it because he thinks this is part of the church ban on suppressants. and olivine's usual SR uniform is so stifling, with the way the high collar rubs and presses against his tender scent glands... (actually how come everyone except Quincy have SR fits with high collars...)

olivine is having these crazy wet dreams and dante is waking up every day with raging morning wood and neither of these facts are helped by the cloying scent of arousal hanging in the air. dante wakes up to morning wood and oftentimes he just ignores his morning wood because he's got stuff to do but then he catches a whiff of olivine's scent in the air, thick and enticing after olivine woke up from his own wet dream, and dante just resigns himself to a late(r) start to his day. tries to fantasize about not-olivine but it's hard when his scent is in dante's nose.

and olivine... isn't fully jacking off, per se. but he knows he leaks a lot. so he brought plugs. and it's kind of a huge mistake because he's sitting at lunch with dante and dante smells crazy good and olivine has to make sure he eats instead of just grinding on a plug that isn't big enough to satisfy. and he can smell dante's arousal and it's driving him crazy, but surely it's just a physical reaction. an alpha getting turned on in the presence of an omega in heat doesn't necessarily mean the alpha wants to have sex. it doesn't stop olivine from huffing dante's laundry when he goes in to bathe after dante, but it does stop him from stealing the laundry.

on shame, I think it does depend on where in the timeline this sits... but also olivine is someone whose self-perception is influenced by how other people respond to him. the feelings of shame would kick in harder if he (falsely) picks up on feelings of disgust or discomfort from dante... and if dante gets stiff from feeling weird about his own behaviour then olivine might interpret it as "oh I've been improper and should apologize". tsundere to earnest miscommunication...

BIG AGREE!!! they're both such prime examples of their respective dynamics (as long as you don't look too close) and who they are/who they present to be is so carefully crafted. the tendency i see often when there's like an alpha's alpha or an omega's omega is that they tend to give into their instincts or start acting super out of character (<- there's appeal there! but it's kinda boring for me). like you said, with dante and olivine, they're constantly circling and trying to remain respectful of one another, whiteknuckling through it. im imagining them getting lulled into occasional intimacy with one another. they both get a little relief from being around each other (at the cost of immense horniness). olivine gets a hit of alpha pheromones and dante gets olivine's company, which is quite soothing in its own right. like... it wouldn't be crazy for them to sit next to each other (gasp!) and maybe touch hips. maybe lean into each other... get a real taste of what they've been yearning for. the further they get on autopilot, the worse they both feel (despite liking it)! (PUBLIC CUDDLING ON THE CHAISE LOUNGE... they might even kiss...) (they aren't in dante's room or olivine's guest room because that level of casual intimacy might be... overstepping...) the moment is crazy atmospheric too. lit candles because they're meeting in the evening after all their duties are done. comfy pillows and the view of the courtyard outside. the cold night air wafting against their shared warmth... maybe some wine? dante might offer alcohol if he undergoes ruts regularly. he probably gets stressed as hell during them, so something to take the edge off is nice. it seems fair to offer something to olivine as well, considering the man doesn't have the luxury of suppressants. the whole moment is probably very... picturesque? storybook-like... i think sometime after bloodkey would be an interesting place for this to settle on the timeline! they both definitely trust each other. there's an unspoken wariness about what they know about each other, but maybe also a comfort? like there's nowhere to go but up... and then the whole 'respecting each other's boundaries' gets another level because last time they saw each other, their boundaries were kind of eviscerated (even if eiden was there to patch things up a tad). in the end, i think they both probably apologize and also reject each others apologies. a little moment where they bare themselves, of their own will. and then realize that maybe they can get what they want! and fuck nasty!!! i feel like they probably fuck in dante's room because its more personal and comfortable. it smells like alpha all over and that does something for olivine while he's getting railed into dante's sheets. also, dante would find out quick how to tug and pull on olivine's nipple chains (after a introductory moment of being baffled and so horny he gets lightheaded). also, the imagery of olivine pulling out his little plug between his slick-covered thighs is very nice... also!! a thing i think would be fun for them is like... recognizing each other's scent. like they usually smell traces of other clan members on eiden. and then, with them having sex together, there's kind of a recognition and connection? like, despite it all, they're basically in a pack together? this probably comes up within a few days of them getting hit with each other's horniness. they could smell each other before. but it's a little different i guess? the fucking and intimacy definitely plays a part in recalling eiden to their brains. afterwards, it would be cute for them to exchange little scent handkerchiefs. to ease each other's instincts and its just... nice...

post blood key is so interesting for their dynamic because. they're not friends, really. but they know each other's darkest secret, had their privacy violated together in that way. theirs is a tentative allyship, a hesitant trust forged in fire. I don't know you but I know that I can trust you. I have to. neither of us can take back what we know.

I feel like Dante is the sort of person who doesn't nest much out of the notion that it's childish, but he also doesn't not nest because there's only so much you can fight instinct, and he certainly could use the comfort, even if he doesn't consciously acknowledge it. Olivine comes into his room and gets railed into the sheets but also within the day Dante has a proper nest to roll around in. which is. a luxury he hasn't allowed himself in years.

the idea of them smelling traces of other clan members on Eiden does very much make me think of when you go someplace with interesting smells and then come home and your dog goes nuts sniffing you. I think it'd be very fun... how oddly comforting, to find a familiar scent in someone you don't know that well. I knew your scent before I knew you. Eiden is, as ever, the connecting piece between them.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

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