#it's very possible that mgv people have jacobson's organs.... i was thinking about it last night

[marc--chilton]

hi tis me again

"oopsie babies" yes lmao. he does not want to like them. and yet.

police fining you for being outside during rut/heat indeed would be awful. like. what if you're irregular. and suddenly it's "oh crap this is happening and my house is bereft of groceries better fix that" and then some cop is like "you smell icky give me money and go home".

do the pheromones make everyone go crazy, or do they just smell? is it like someone wearing overly strong perfume or having really bad BO in that it makes everyone deterred or is it like someone smelling ridiculously good and while bystanders aren't going crazy they are being drawn in like a dog who smells a particularly interesting pissed-on fire hydrant? is there a reason or is it just sexism? is there even sexism in mgv?

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the scent of someone in their cycle isn't necessarily a good or bad smell, it's more just a cue that this person's in prime babymaking mode. some people don't mesh so their senses will enforce this incompatibility by making their scents unpleasant to one another. scents themselves aren't like perfumes in that you can pinpoint things like citrus and cedarwood or whatever as having a scent is mostly informational. as having a scent is part of the autonomic nervous system, people can control what scents they put out to a small degree, otherwise being as basic as having a heartbeat and breathing.

information carried in the scents are like cues that detail the state of the person in a single second. ex: when house's leg acts up, his scent sours with frustrated/hurts/not okay/mad that he couldn't hide if he wanted to. so someone in heat or rut will put off notes to clue others in to how receptive they are. as a whore (affectionate) wilson eats up the attention others give him when he's nearing rut, made worse by his scent giving everyone interested in him signals of 'maybe this one' (this adjusts accordingly once house and wilson are bondmates; he still likes the attention but his scent will decline for him as he's not interested in cheating on house of all people)

a person's scent does get stronger for their cycle, and that makes their scent carry more like perfume; oderous and having a range to spread before it dissipates as a signal that this person's Ready.

doctors, btw, are required to wear scent blocking patches as PPE and are strongly encouraged to do so during work hours anyway. house tends not to as some cases require his scent as an omega to test theories and symptoms -- because of course some of their cases in mgv would be directly tied to the fact that this takes place in the mgv -- buuut if he's feeling particularly exposed (particularly around his heats) he'll wear one for himself. wilson's much better about it but he's not putting himself or his patients in distress by scent as the worst it can do is make someone undergoing chemo nauseous the same way even the best food can make you sick if you have a stomach bug. princeton-plainsborough is still full of medical malpractice don't worry the main characters will get excuses to do their own thing just like they do on the show