#average omegaverse

[deceivinglyalpha]

Headcanon,

Alpha gas station attendants are allowed to work through their pre-rut all the way to full rut. Depending on the type of station.

You can feel it in the way your teeth ache.

It’s not even 20 minutes into your shift when the pre-rut symptoms start edging in. Symptoms that give you more energy than you need.

As far as your instincts can tell this little cubicle of a gas station is your den. Which isn’t wrong with how many hours you’ve spent inside its walls.

But still, your employer might not take kindly to you bearing teeth at the asshole littering..

But there’s not much you can do, when it is peak. Where you are stuck in this box for the next, oh seven hours.

Later, when peak is melting into something manageable, you take a breath.

There is extra energy still wound up but you’re conserving that for closing chores. Short bursts are managed by record breaking refunds and subsequent staplings.

Positively, it doesn’t seem like your patrons noticed, with interactions barely lasting a minute. But you’re cautious in keeping the sliding glass closed and your wrists scent glands inside.

Not everyone wants a nose full of active pheromones. Yourself included.

So you’re grateful, as the flow slows to a trickle.

It gives you time to grind aching molars together in a mockery of claiming. For you to stomp out the aggression that’s been slow cooking all day. To further resist the urge to scent this “den”.

[deceivinglyalpha]

Alpha Scent Studies

Because humans have naturally weaker senses of smell compared to their animal counterparts. Across our species, we evolved scent glands.

Which correspondingly produce stronger, more intense scents. To compensate weaker senses.

Both Alphas and Omegas share an intense change upon presentation. Beyond scent glands. The senses themselves become stronger!

Not inhumanly so but just enough to differentiate the subtleties reflected in human scents. Such as, the difference between frustration and anger.

Where a betas, relatively, weakened sense can only smell anger from either emotion. Alphas can discern sharply between the two.

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Originally scientists speculated, the change in sense between both Alpha and Omega sexes must be linked to mating. With Alphas adapting to sensitive Omegan changes.

But slowly a new thought rolled into the outdated scientific community, as Omegas joined it force. The thought that these changes were actually evolved due to societies.

That alphas tend to be natural leaders due to the insight led by those enhanced senses of smell.

Through controlled experiments, researchers realized alphas don’t just react to scents consciously. They react unconsciously as well.

On a chemical level, alphas are preemptively reacting to minute changes in designations.

An alpha placed with an alpha might unconsciously overcompensate their scent. Broadcasting the scent in a way that the other alpha could find irritating and therefore react. However, when placed within a group of familiar alphas, the scents stayed relatively muted. Sharing a rare harmony, even rarer seen outside of close pack dens and nests.

Curiously, an alpha placed with a beta produces a stronger scent, which the betas weaker senses are able to pick up on. (See also Omega groups) Including pitches in emotions that allow even a betas weakened sense to differentiate easily. Including the earlier example of frustration vs. anger, an alphas pitch up can help a beta sense.

Controversially, an alpha placed with an omega does not weaken their scent in proximity. Interestingly similar to an alpha, alpha the scent of the alpha is overcompensated. Though it does have subtle changes more betan scientists cannot sense. Where an alphas scent softens becoming almost sweeter in a subtle cocktail of pheromones.