Slimav & Slice omegaverse! AU.
Some bits and pieces about beta! Ice/omega! Sli with a bit of alpha! Mav. Hurt/no comfort. For now, at least.
Inspired by 冷たい頬 (Tsumetai hoho; Your Cold Cheek) by SPITZ.
@aki-draws-things Another omegaverse work! Thought you might enjoy it 💗
So…SPITZ. They are a Japanese band. They are so good at making both warm fuzzy tingly lovey-dovey stuff and angsty, potentially dark lyrics. 冷たい頬 in particular, is all about unrequited love that slowly infests the protagonist’s soul and sanity before they represses their feelings so that they won’t hurt their crush/lover/obsession. Let me share some of the lyrics and explore the unrequited love of Mr. Iceman (I’m so sorry Ice I love you. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH LIKE AHHHHHHHHH BUT HES SO SO FUN TO HURT!!!!!!!!!!! sorry) shall we?
Translations are made by me so please forgive any mistakes or my lack of poetic knowledge. I wrote a poem in English like once when I dated an American girl and she was like that’s not how rhiming works and I just. let that slide and never touched poetry ever agai
ふざけすぎて恋が幻でも
構わないといつしか思っていた
壊れながらきみを追いかけてく
近づいても遠くても知っていた
それが全てでなにもないこと
時のシャワーの中で
My love may be a mirage, a false fantasy
But I guessed it was alright, fooled around too much
I run, run, after you, getting broken as I go
Even when I get closer, or even when you’re so far away,
I just know it’s everything, it’s just for nothing,
In this stream of time.
Not gonna lie, feels Slice to me! Maybe hurt no comfort! Again because I’m terrible!!
This is Ice’s perspective, crushing and obsessing hard over his RIO—who’s ultimately unavailable for him to claim, mark him as his and protect and shield him forever. That’s not what a beta is supposed to do—even if he loves Ronnie so much and he can’t think of anyone doing a better job than him, having witnessed the abuse his Ronnie had to endure. He’s fought tooth and nail to protect him, not just once. He would definitely shield him in social occasions at TOPGUN which inevitably include alphas. And he definitely doesn’t approve Mav getting closer to Slider—even though he notices how Slider has changed, for the better, perhaps. After Mav started actively learning about omegas and becoming an ally. After Slider allowed him to be closer than most alphas.
“Leave him be,” Mav tells him at some point—to him, he’s just straight up violating his autonomy sometimes; he’s just too protective for his own good, assuming that everyone is against Sli—which, in his opinion, doesn’t make sense.
Maverick likes Slider. He likes how intriguing he actually is, underneath all those cocky facade. They’ve come to spend time together more often lately (I’m kind of struggling to create a proper background as to realize Slimav in this AU—maybe Mav becomes interested in learning about omegas after he’s encountered Sli experiencing a bad heat? Or maybe they can get close before he learns about Sli’s secret identity. Which do you prefer? Do you have any ideas because I’m running out!). He admires how precise and strong he is up in the air, and he adores he’s as idiotic and goofy as he is on the ground, laughing their asses off together.
“Don’t assume he’s some powerless damsel in distress if you love him so much, man. Why can’t you just believe in him? Do you want to fucking cage him until he wilts away? Why? Why do you want to fucking take it all away from him?”
And Ice just, snaps.
No, he doesn’t understand. Alphas never understand. Alphas are the takers, they take and take and take until nothing is left in the omegas—their autonomy, their dignity, their souls, everything. At least where he and Sli grew up. At least what he was exposed to and what Sli had to endure has proven him correct. He must protect him, even though he can’t quite understand from what, or from whom, anymore.
Love—maybe it’s love. Long-repressed yet it’s still there. Betas can’t have omegas. The stigma of association is still strong, and in fact, their incompatible biologies are painful for both sides; betas can’t end their omegas’ rut, and if they are to have pups one day—the chances of having biological ones are slim. Their bodies are incompatible. He hates it not because Ronnie’s incompatible, no, NEVER, whatever people have said, but because he is incompatible. Or maybe the fact Maverick is compatible—an alpha he can’t trust, an alpha who is too dangerous for his own good, an alpha who could break Ronnie.
Ice doesn’t just snap his teeth at him, or hit him with some witty yet on-point comebacks—he actually fights Mav, grabbing and punching him. So hard and sudden that Mav collides onto the surface of the locker, banging his head with a loud sound as his short body hit the ground.
Love. Maybe it’s love. But Ice calls it an obsession. Futile, yet still so harmful—judging by the way Maverick groans on the floor, his hand covering his nose, blood slowly dripping through his fingers. Rage. Ice expected rage flaring up in his eyes, ready to kill, ready to take. But confusion and fear are all he can see. It was then he realized Mav was defenseless, unarmed, not trying to put up a physical fight, not to mention their obvious height differences.
Oh, God.
Ice takes a step back and slams into the wall, barely being able to stand. His body suddenly feels limp as his blood runs cold.
And the hurt doesn’t just end here;
さようなら僕のかわいいシロツメクサと
手帖の隅で眠りつづけるストーリー
風に吹かれた君の冷たい頬に
ふれてみた 小さな午後
“Goodbye, my sweet clover”
The story rests in the corner of my diary
On your cheek, cold in the wind,
My touch lingers, in this little afternoon.
This is the closing line of the song which never fails to make me cry. Oh God the repression. And the subtle gesture of affection. The blurry line between platonic and romantic is just so on point—touching and caressing someone’s cheek.
Ice knows, without being told by that goddamn alpha who doesn’t understand shit, that there’s no forever for him and Ronnie. No matter how much he loves him. No matter how much he cares. Ronnie has long been Slider, a strong, precise pilot that he used to dream of as a child. Maybe his existence itself is a burden for Slider, Ice wonders as he feels his breath gets shallow. Someone who knows his secret identity, someone who knows exactly what he’s been through—someone who’s dangerous. Maybe he’s making excuses. Maybe it’s just an intricate play to tie him down. Maybe—maybe it’s just him trying to prey on him while pretending to protect him.
Ice almost chokes at the thought of him forcing himself on Ronnie, pinning him down as he tries to flee, or be too stunned to even do anything, taking advantage of him. But who knows? He showed himself capable of hurting someone, knocking them down and make them bleed, just like his father used to do to him and his mother, who was an omega.
Or maybe, just maybe, he can be there for Ronnie forever, just not in the form of reciprocated romance. Whenever Ice thinks of the possibility, he remembers their adolescence—a fleeting memory of sitting on the bank of the river in April. He would caress Ronnie’s cheek, cold from the wind, with so many excuses. Just because. He didn’t want him to get cold (“It’s just my cheek, Tommy.” Ronnie would giggle. “You have to warm my neck if you really want.” Although Ice didn’t know how is that possible—without choking him—he wanted to if he allowed him to). There was something on his cheek (breadcrumb was his favorite excuse because his mom usually fed them some sandwiches). And in some unfortunate occasions, he wanted to soothe the pain from being hit by Ronnie’s unstable mother.
Ice doesn’t know if it’s still the same, lying on the carpet of clovers together, laughing as their bodies get tangled up. It was before Ronnie’s first heat happened when he was 15. He was a late-bloomer, his mom told him, and it usually meant he’d have it rough. Cuddling started to hold a different meaning, or so Ice thought. Hoped, even, perhaps. He hoped it was the same while wishing it would be different.
Maverick opens his eyes, finally regaining his composure again. His head still feels like it’s spinning and he can taste the blood on his tongue. Damn, that bastard was strong—he shifts against the locker and feels the ground tilt.
He looks up at Ice, his gaze hazy and wandering from the impact. Maverick expects some sort of hostility, glare, smirk, whatever, or maybe another blow, smashing his skull for good this time. He sits up as if to prepare for the inevitable crash—only to be met with Ice’s empty gaze.
“…What,” Maverick mutters hoarsely. He hates how he sounds confused and defensive, even though he knows he is. “What do you…what do you want?”
Ice’s fingers are firmly pressed against his lips, and the force seems to only increase as the silence grows stronger in the stifling room.
“Ice?”
“Sorry,” He finally speaks as he drops his hand and clenches his other arm strong enough to bruise. “I’ll…I’ll get you some towel, alright?”
Maverick wants to ask what’s happening—or rather, what compelled him to smash his head against the cold metal, only to go radio silent afterward—but Ice has already left the room before he can say anything.
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