https://x.com/StubbyMuffin/status/2073821398112379352
Okay, so I know you've already seen this clip but like... imagine this clip but they realise they're soulmates halfway through 😗✌️
(also I see you reblogging SuzuField and yes, yes, yes, TASTE!)
first of all, i watch that clip a lot, so one more time is nothing, but also literal excerpt out of my ideas document:
in which they only realise after the game, but i like the way you're thinking, so i propose to you an omegaverse true mate au:
Ben presents at some point before the 2024 USA CHL Prospects Challenge. He's an omega, but he's determined to not let that sway him from any of his goals. He's still a damn good hockey player and he will make it to th NHL.
At the Prospects Challenge he feels weirdly drawn to the (still unpresented) Porter Martone, but the guy's his captain and projected top pick in the draft, so it's not particularily weird that Ben wants to be in his vicinity. Porter presents after the Prospects Challenge, but 18 is a normal age to present, nothing weird about it. (He's an alpha btw, if that wasn't clear)
At the draft, they don't really meet. They're in each others vicinity from time to time, sure, but everyone is wearing heavy duty scent blockers, running purely on adrenaline and also they have things to do. They don't meet again afterwards until they play each other in the playoffs.
NHL players are only mandated to apply scent blockers at the start of the game. Of course, players are welcome to reapply as much as they want, but it's completely their choice. The scent blockers get worn down by sweat (even the heavy duty stuff) so by the end of the game, there's a lot more scents flying around than at the begining but it's all one soup of scents.
Except for when you fight someone one-on-one and even initiate skin-to-skin contact. It makes your opposing players scent much more present, in a way. So when Ben's omega suddenly begins to scream 'Mate' inside of him when Porter rips at his helmet he just gets more angry, because Why is his life like this? And who does this guy think he is?. And Porter's alpha also tells him 'Mate', but his supposed mate is currently trying to punch him in the face and he won't stand for that, the alpha inside him be damned.
Ben goes through a breakthrough heat afterwards (it's like 12h long and they have an off-day anyways, it's fine) but he won't tell anyone why. He knows exactly why but he's prepared to take it to his grave. He's not gonna have a soulmate on the Flyers, they can wait with that until they retire.
Porter goes into breakthrough rut. He tries to play it off as shit happens, you know but he spills after 36h because he's a yapper and likes to use Denver Barkey as his soundboard. They both don't know what would be the right thing to do in this situation, so they just carry on as if nothing happened.
(I love suzufield, it's definitely one of my comfort ships because, like natecale, i can genuinely be chill about them.)
