#abofttt

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Okay, @graveformydarling kindly said I could muse at her about how Tutor could find out Fighter is an Omega so here I go! (Disclaimer: I only have the crash course education on ABO, so forgive me for mistakes/assumptions I make about this universe, I’m a rookie)

Part of me really loves the “stupid way”, as the anon put it, of Tor just finding the suppressants carelessly left out by Fight (a la the condoms moment in ep9) but also I can’t picture Fight being that careless with something he still doesn’t want Tor to know, so this makes me think, does Fight do something careless or does he purposefully decide to just… not take his suppressants for a day to satisfy his curiosity about what he thinks he’s feeling for Tor?

Because like, what you said in your first ABO ficlet here Mel got me thinking: “Fighter never experienced a full heat, never had his senses trained on the particular scent of an alpha, much less  learned the difference between regular alphas and those that were a perfect match for you. He had been living pretty much as a beta all his life, blissfully unaware.”

Plus what the anon was saying about Tor feeling something around Fight but he doesn’t know what it is. So my big question is, can an Alpha feel that an Omega is the perfect match for them even if that Omega is on suppressants—but they can’t identify that feeling, they just know there’s something?

So what I think would be interesting is if Fight knows that some Alphas and Omegas are a perfect match for each other, but he has never experienced any attraction to an Alpha as an Omega because of the suppressants, and part of him is just dying to know what that would feel like with Tor, now that he knows Tor is an Alpha.

What if Fight took just half the dose of a suppressant for a day? Idk how suppressants are seen to work in this verse, but if a half-dose has some effect but not the full effect, Fight might be tempted to try that. And it’s the day that Fight protects Tor from the creditor in the rain. (Or, another possibility because I remember how damn forgetful I was taking meds as a college student—still am forgetful—Fight could just forget to refill his prescription and only have half a dose left or NOTHING left and he just risks it because he’s been studying with Tor for weeks and what’s the worst that could happen lolololol)

But this brings up another question—I feel like going off suppressants is a lot like going off certain types of meds (birth control, SSRIs—which I’ve taken and gone off both) and you can tell that you’ve been off suppressants even for just one day (this is definitely true for some SSRIs). Fight has to have forgotten a dose at least once before meeting Tor, I mean he’s only human. So he thinks he’ll be okay, just a bit on edge, like has happened before. But usually being off them for one day isn’t enough for Alphas to notice? Maybe? Shoot me down if I’m wrong.