Feel the heat

[quickied]

THE IN HEAT/IN RUT AU MEME


There's no need for elaborate backstories for this AU. You go into heat, rut, whatever you'd like to call it. You've always done so since you were of age to do so. It's a socially accepted norm, and people have gotten used to the difficulties that come with the mating seasons. Life goes on.

Isn't this alpha/beta/omega, then? No, not at all. In this meme, there are no gender-variant genitalia unless your character comes prepackaged with those. No giant cocks - again, unless your character is already packing - or self-lubricating assholes or anal wombs, and no knotting. Unless that's your thing. There's also no set in stone roles with regards to dominance and submission, and some people do not even feel the inclination towards either. Still, there are a few similarities, mainly being that the pheromones of others can put someone into heat that was not in it before and the bond between mates. In addition, some humans/human-stand-ins have created packlike dynamics in response, but this is not universal.

In this meme, it's just regular old human...oids feeling the urge for sex. And by "urge," we of course mean all-consuming drive. If characters choose to ignore that urge, it will backfire on them. The more they put it off, the more they will lose their control, becoming more irritable and aggressive, and eventually be nothing but a rutting animal until the need to mate is satisfied. Not all heats call for mating, of course, and most people can just relieve themselves, but when you do mate, you feel the urge to stay by their side and essentially "nest." These desires don't always pan out into offspring, and mating isn't forever unless it's mutually decided upon. However, impregnating your mate is said to be one of the most euphoric experiences a person can have, even if some people only mate because they want to utterly possess someone, as mates are bonded for a while.

If there's anything that's to your fancy that's been left out, go ahead and add it in. Play it how you'd like!

HOW TO PLAY

• Comment with your character and preferences.


• Include what you're interested and not interested in.


• Respond to others!

PROMPTS

1. first heat: Baby's first heat. YOU'RE A TEENAGER/LATE BLOOMER AND WHAT IS THIS?


2. old hand: You've done this a million times, but it never gets any easier.


3. happen to be here: You're not picky. You can't afford to be. You'll take anybody who's nearby.


4. old faithful: You're going to the person you always go to in order to relieve your problem.


5. worked something out: The two of you aren't involved. You just help each other out.


6. unexpected: You never expected to rut with this person, but here you are.


7. forbidden: AKA the obligatory incest or age difference option.


8. volunteer: You've offered yourself up out of the kindness of your heart.


9. tribute: This isn't your offer. You're the offer from others, a gift for someone powerful to sate their appetite.


10. mating: You've decided to go one step further and make your relationship deeper.


11. nesting: Aaah, (temporary) domestic bliss. And lots of fucking. Lots and lots of fucking. Like, you'll barely be able to stand.


12. bonding: The bond, which is mildly psychic and intensely physical, makes sex even more intense.


13. the natural conclusion: Heat calls for pregnancy. Get someone pregnant.


14. already pregnant: Unfortunately, being knocked up doesn't abate your partner's desires. Or yours.


15. mates for life: Now you're absolutely certain that you want to be with no one else. Of course, this means you'll be in synch with their heat for the rest of forever.


16. save you: You've been saved from the advances of an undesired mate by someone who may be much more suited. Show your gratitude?


17. cockfight: Two people want the same mate. That won't do. There are ways to figure that out, not always involving fists.


18. increase in dominance: Exactly what it says.


19. increase in submission: Again, exactly what it says.


20. unexpected dominance: No one expects you to ever be dominant. Prove them wrong.


21. protect: You want to protect your mate from others, and that means putting your scent all over them.


22. set off by someone else: You were doing fine until you got a whiff of someone else's pheromones.


23. resisting temptation: Your heart belongs to someone. You want to stay out of this "heat" thing. You want to rise above it. Whatever it may be, you just have to not take the bait. Easier said than done.


24. all worked up: You're beginning to lose control and yourself. Quick, do something before you're jumping anything that moves.


25. pack: As mentioned prior, some people, especially those far out from civilization proper, have formed packs that hold to the more traditional alpha structure. Of course, these packs come with their own rules when it comes to heat and mating.


26. suitable partner: The desire for certain mates can come from a subconscious level, and you can find yourself aroused by someone showing how strong they are (they can protect you), how curvaceous they look (that must mean they're fertile), or any other number of traits that can benefit you.


27. desperation: You'll take anyone! Anything!


28. final release: You've reached your breaking point and your mindless. At least you'll get relief.


29. fighter: Part of your process is seeing who's worthy of you by testing their mettle. That, or you want to fight anything.


30. off your meds: It's fairly rare, but some can get blockers for their heat. What if those blockers run out? Why, it makes your heat ten times worse!


31. noncon: They don't want this. You don't want to stop this.


32. dubcon: You say no, but your body says yes and you can't stop loving it.


33. calm you down: Whether it's to fuck or to fight, you're going mad, and they have to bring you back down to Earth.


34. territorial: How dare someone look at what belongs to you? You'll have to make things right.


35. odd man out: For some reason, you don't go into heat. Never have. Being with you is pretty relaxing, and some find it appealing to not have to deal with pheromones that aren't theirs. You do have to learn how to appreciate their problems, though.


36. WILDCARD

Comments

Jessica Jones | Jessica Jones/The Defenders | F/M

[assholic]

[No for 14, 31, 32. Cast/crosscanon good, prefs in permissions. Open to mixing in A/B/O as well. Will be Alpha. A/A and A/O scenarios welcome. Willing to AU her into canons I'm familiar with. I'm also very open to combining this with werewolf AUs or a monster mash scenario. Anything else? PM or comment.]

Dorian Storm | Critical Role | OTA

[makingmyway]

(( AU where Genasi have heat cycles yes please ))

Maria Renard | Castlevania Nocturne | OTA

[summonbeasts]

[No noncon please.]

[fursploding_since_95]

[A slightly late comment, but I was wondering if you'd be interested in playing against a younger partner? Kevin here is 15 years old, and relevant to Maria's canon he's a werewolf, adding another fine layer to the messy situation that heat provides. Now we don't have to involve the wolf-form at all if you'd rather not deal with all that, but I figured I could start with cards on the table and see if you were interested in that- or I could bring out an older character, if you'd prefer to not play against someone younger than her in the first place :) ]

max guevara | dark angel

[revvedup]

[ not interested in pregnancy or noncon. this happens to her canonically, if you have any questions let me know. ]

Helena Blackburn | Original | F/M

[wolfishwander]

[Info + kinks. Helena is a wolf shifter, standoffish in nature and at times more wolf than human in temperament.]

zagreus | hades | ota

[boonty]

[ kinks. vibing hard with 1, 7, 21, 27, 29, or 33. not interested in 14 or 35, happy to chat about other options. ]

excuse how I have some old icons and accidentally posted early

[terminating]

[ They'd been pacing around one another for a while, haven't they?

How awkward it was of Death to put forth his interest in the form of games with Zagreus. Still, the work never stopped. It only stood to reason he put forth a challenge he could feasibly make his responsibility while still, somehow, support Zagreus' endeavors to make it out of Hades.

One night, Thanatons ends up perching on the edge of Zagreus' bed, as if on the way to head out himself. He leans on the shaft of his scythe. ]

Is it really so horrible here, Zag?

xue yang - the untamed - ota

[ill_intent]

dedue molinaro | fire emblem: three houses | ota

[guardenian]

( Quick preferences in journal. No 14, 31. Also, I'm a big fan of 35; for castmates, for example, maybe going to heat is a Weird Fódlan Thing™ and Dedue just has to deal with this being an issue for everyone around him. )

nito nazuna | ensemble stars! | ota

[pyonpyon]

( most prompts a-okay sans 14, 17 and 31! )

Miranan de Riva | Dragon Age | OTA

[somethingseething]

[ irritated, prickly elf experiencing... AU elf-heat?? sure, let's roll with it. open to any of the prompts. Miranan is afab trans masc, more info on journal. ]

Fizzarolli || Helluva Boss || M/M

[brightshinybrandbaby]

[ castmates preferred! ]

leon kennedy | resident evil (remake) | m/m

[condorone]

( not interested in 17 or 22. love working bonding in. would also love to do something with tribute with Leon being offered up to someone (bonus points if it's cult adjacent) and always a sucker for rookie cop Leon having his first heat. always happy to do omegaverse with omega leon or working in other mechanics like monsters or werewolves. )

Caleb Widowgast | Critical Role l ota

[born_in_flame]

[Trent was really a dick and not all his experiments were magical in nature.]

Rauru * Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom * M/F

[majesticglowup]

[Why even play a 9 foot tall goat/dragon-man, even if he IS a sweetheart wife-guy, if you're NOT gonna do weird animalistic sex-stuff with him?

Anyway- prefer to have his partners be his chosen wife or a friend he knows and is comfortable with rather than something forced or casual, but I'm open to most things here! Down for all prompts but if we're doing stuff like 5, 7, 9, 27, 31 and 32 run it by me first and I see if we can work out a scenario first.]

ingellvar / rook ( dragon age )

[crypta]

[ basic prefs in journal! ]

Evan "Buck" Buckley | 9-1-1 | OTA

[toomanyevans]

dorothy gale | emerald city

[ginghamed]

[ no noncon or pregnancy please. ]

akito sohma ― fruits basket

[possessiveness]

( ooc | would prefer to skip 27, 30, 35. permissions + kinks. ota cross-canon/medium, happy to write a starter. )

wildcard!

[pestilenced]

( The blossomings of a fever belie something stranger and darker than merely a sweltering sickness, laid low by the bout of exhaustion, her bones aching and heavy, her body weighed with salt and blood and all manner of medicines, pills and liquids that she must swallow, spoonful by bitter spoonful, in order to be well. But Akito is very much not well, not when she rises from the crumpled bedding of her futon, spoiled and stained with salt-sweat patches of perspiration, the urge to vomit stomach acid roiling in her trembling, empty stomach. For a moment, everything is as it ought to be: a plate of cold supper laid on the low table, a lacquered bowl of mushroom-miso soup and a belly of pink salmon, untouched—the house is still and silent in the late hour, even the summer wind dares not to stir the chimes hung upon the patriarch's window, and the mirror—

Wait. Akito's flesh rises, tightens, erupting in crops of gooseflesh, because no mirror had been installed in the room, no looking-glass of identical reflection. And yet, the figure before her is hers. Her very own, the bony jut of ginger bones over paper-thin skin, the dry, coarse, dark hair chopped at a haphazard angle, the oil-dark gaze gleaming in contemplation, even the same plain, white yukata, and her lungs tremble, expanded and caught with captured air, for she cannot remember having first drawn breath after having first beheld the figure. It is profane, it is obscene, it should not be there. It is herself, outside of herself, and Akito swallows her sour spittle.

No, such a thing could not be. Must not be. She must still be ill, hallucinating!, a damning side-effect from one of her new medicines. The cold film of stale sweat that had once more begun to roll down her cheeks, gathering in the hollow of her throat, her knobby thighs, warms once more with the realization. It is but a dream, a vision.

Nothing more, and Akito regards her twin with a kerosene-damp gaze, face still tightened—but with pain, rather than alarm. She does not greet herself, for such a gesture would be absurd, in a dream.

But if it were a dream, and of course it is—where are the thriving wet gardens, lush with rain and grape-hued hydrangea bushes with their glossy, thick leaves? Where is the man—but once a boy—cradling her close in her arms while she wept? Is this the conjuration she deserves? Akito exhales a short, dismissive breath from narrow nostrils.

It takes her a moment to realize, but she burns, and not just from fever. Not simply contented to be cursed by fate and old gods, the Sohma clan is also blessed with heats and ruts, biological imperatives that cannot be denied, that which can only be sated amongst their own kin, their own blood, just as the curse does not affect the embraces between the cursed.

Akito realizes belatedly that, not only is she sick and hallucinating, she is in a rut. A horrible one, fierce and June-strong and cloying, dampness at the juncture of her thighs. She glowers at the figure, as if her present condition were its fault. )

Don't just stand there gawking.

( She chastises, as if the conjuration were a servant. )

sparkle ✦ hsr

[girlfail]

( sorry to literally anyone who decides on her in advance. )

[pink_is_back]

(ooc: Where does futa fall within your prefs?)

venus // we know the devil

[wingstosee]

[ transfem, with a dick unless otherwise noted. ota, though i'm not interested in 35 for her. ]

[malison]

[ becoming the devil isn't a process without its difficulties; the end result, though, is worth any amount of discomfort in the transforming. that's what Ashtar had believed. he could be the cruel one, keeping Venus pinned in place during the growing pains, even if she kicked and screamed, until she finally hatches into something new.

she's grown beautifully so far. but looking at her now, feverish and tangled in sweat-soaked sheets, her eyes glazed over with – pain? illness? – he is afraid, for the first time, that this might all go wrong. ]

Hey, pretty girl.

[ he's straddling her hips, bent over her to push her damp hair back from her forehead. is this the best way to treat a sick person?? definitely not, but the need to be closer to her matters more. ]

Does it hurt? You need anything? Tell me.

[ whatever is happening, he wishes he could just—draw it out like a poison. pull it from her, even if it hurts, so that she would be better again. ]

satoko hojo // higurashi no naku koro ni

[loopsbian]

[ ota! played at seventeen, so fair warning. ]

cw: incest

[mykingdomfor]

[ this isn't right. he'd known from the beginning that it had been wrong, for so long he'd tried his best to refuse her even when she pleaded with tears in her eyes. but his sister had always been everything to him, the radiant sun that brought light to his drab life. she always deserved so much more than the circumstances that they'd been born into, more than the ostracism they'd faced, the series of cold stepmothers, the violence of their aunt and uncle. they'd both been strange kids, and in his weaker moments he had to admit that he relied on her as much as she on him.

he'd done everything he could to keep her safe. so why, once their cycles started, once adulthood began to peek its vulgar, sneering head out into the daylight, did he have to face this trial too? he was on the precipice of doing something unforgiveable, of letting his Satoko, his shining sun fall into the grip of unnatural desires, dragging her down with his own miserable weight.

on the first month, he'd simply run away. cursing himself, swallowing down bile as his sister begged him to stay, to soothe the fire then burned in her (but did it not burn in him, even stronger, even more wickedly?), wrestling out of her grip as she sobbed and cursed him. it had been hard coming back those few days later. in the weeks that followed, she'd been withdrawn and resentful. it had been days before she'd even been willing to say a word to him. the hurt in her eyes tore at him, and all the while the witch, the horrible witch mocked him for what he really wanted, for the ache when he remembered the scent of her on that fever dream of a night. the witch was a nightmare, and she refused to let him out of grip since then, always sneering in the corner of his eye, and whispering her poison into his ear. it was unbearable.

he should have prepared. he should have thought of something. but it happens again this month, as it will happen every month. he comes home with his ears flat, and his tail restlessly lashing as he feels the awful onset of their linked cycle, as his sister approaches him with desperate, half-spiteful need in her eyes. his breath catches as he tries to just push into the kitchen, put the groceries away. The witch cackles, sharp and coarse. ]

It's... we can't. It's not right. We can find a way through this, we can, I'll go to the clinic this time, they've got medicine for it.

[ but all he can think about is how she smells as she draws near, so rich and intoxicating, the animal hunger that suffocates him, the flush of her cheeks, the stiffness of his cock. It's enough to make him sick. ]

Please... I can't let you... do this to yourself, Satoko.

Nico Acosta | OC | OTA

[anoranza]

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA

[la_bonne_chose]

Amelia Atwater | OC | OTA

[good_at_heart]

Charles Desjardins | OC | OTA

[tendrement]