I've been on an omegaverse kick as of recently and now I'm thinking about omega Bruce being unable to nest like at all after Jason's death coz his nests don't smell like his pup anymore. Like his heats stop happening, he can't nest, his scent changes fundamentally and he's just not the same anymore.
When Jason returns and keeps antagonizing Bruce he doesn't realise that Bruce is unable to do the things that would usually calm/destress an omega, so it's just pain upon pain upon pain. And once they, well maybe not reconcile but when Jason can stand to be in Bruce's presence without starting a fight (they have started to try) he starts to get sad/mad that Bruce isn't attempting to ask for something scented for his nest.
Except Bruce can't nest anymore and probably never will be able to coz Jason's scent changed drastically as well.
Usually when I think of omegaverse I imagine Jason dying before he presents and he's supposed to be a beta but the pits either turn him into an alpha with a too aggressive scent or a null. Well maybe Jason figures it out finally and FINALLY realises that yeah, Bruce did mourn him like crazy, he mourned him so much his body is irreversibly altered to his detriment, and maybe he's justified in his anger but in the face of such profound grief what can he do so he like. Goes and talks to Bruce and leaves behind a scarf and a worn out book both heavily scented and it's a hopeful ending. Maybe Bruce will get to nest in the future after they have reconciled and Jason's new harsh scent settles right next to his sweet just presenting beta scent in his mind.
I'm having vivid hallucinations of Bruce getting his first heat after Jason's death and just being absolutely miserable unable to calm down thrashing in a jumbled pile of clothes that don't smell right, they don't smell like pup, they don't smell like *home* and no matter what Alfred tries he can't help Bruce and then he goes on to have these painful debilitating heats until his body stops his heats as well and Tim arrives around this time so he's so confused why there isn't a pack nest in the manor?
And maybe maybe he asks Dick about it and when he comes around also angry Bruce is just miserable and tired coz it's around his heat time but his body *won't go into heat* and he can't make a nest that feels right and Dick is horrified and angry and maybe a bit jealous coz Bruce never felt so bad when *Dick* left but then he feels horrible coz he can't believe he just thought that about *his father grieving his dead brother*. And he's sad too coz those little moments where Alfred still asked Dick for scented stuff for Bruce's heat, specifying that Bruce asked for em was one of the few ways he knew Bruce still cared for him and considered him part of the pack even when they were fighting and no contact and now they don't have that either. And whenever Bruce tries to make a nest for Dick's ruts and stays with him to get the young alpha to rest Dick also feels like something isn't right and Dick is hit with the absolute guttural feeling that his brother is dead and Bruce is sad and he is sad and his dad won't be the same anymore and Dick can't help him coz his *brother* is *dead*.
Just two people mourning their loved one together.
