#caztalk

The omega condition is a rare one inflicted upon random sinners when they get sent to Hell. Recessive genes cross wires during the making of your new body and suddenly you're no longer on the "mammals without estrous cycles" short-list.

Meaning Vincent was a regular human and had to adapt to all this mess when he fell down, on top of the TV head and the general sense of doom from eternal torment.

Pheromones/scent are excreted by special glands commonly found under the silicone skin around his joints, although the biggest one is in his nape, which he has covered with a protective casing.

I'm leaving who can sense his pheromones/scent, who can't, and how badly it affects them up to the sinner's own biology and strength of will. Organic demons like Valentino are highly receptive to it wheras objects-people like Velvette, less so.

Vox is on specialized medication/suppressants (as in: tailored just for him) because of his half organic, half robotic body.

The meds block off all weird quirks his body has ; mainly the scent/pheromones secretions and heats (whether the cyclical ones or the ones that would be triggered by outside influences).

His violent volatile mood swings and general unpredictability would be even worse without the meds, so funnily enough they help with his terrible temper as well.

A break of a couple weeks once a year in the medication has to occur otherwise he gets sick, or worse--they stop working.

Because he blocks everything off with meds, when he gets off them all symptoms come back full force and he's in heat in a couple days.

When that arrives he methodically arranges to take his "two weeks annual off-radar vacation" to go lock himself in a bunker somewhere. Which he of course hides from everyone else.

No mpreg or "bonding that can't ever be broken" stuff. Someone biting his glands would 'only' trigger their activation, even on meds but nothing else (or maybe an unplanned heat), which is why he has the biggest one covered.

He still has some omega instincts despite the medication, like territoriality over their turf and particularly the VVVTower ; as well as the whole den/nest thing which is basically the surveillance room. But that could also be put on the general Vox manic personality.

The itchy back during pre-heat is the body making sure he rubs his scent on every surface available, to mark territory and attract whoever can pick it up and is interested in it.

As for the pressure in the back, it's a relief point he can press to trick his body into thinking he had intercourse. Vox abuses it during pre-heats and there comes a point where it stops being effective.