Hi could you please do some genderfluid Marco feeling dysphoric and Tom helping him feel better please plus I love your blog;)
Ahh! Thank you so much! You’re icon is adorable btw! I hope you like the story! I write this bacause I saw a lot of makeup shaming going around recently. People calling my others “Shallow” and such. So I just felt like this would be nice. You have a right to wear whatever you want to make yourself feel happy and confident! Your body is yours!
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“Marco! I got you something!” Tom exclaimed. He jumped into Marco’s room looking very excited. Marco grinned and gave the demon a kiss.
“You spoil me too much.” He giggled. Tom rolled his eyes.
“Oh please, I don’t spoil you enough, and besides, most of this stuff is from the castle anyway, so all it would do is hang up there with no purpose.” Tom assured. Marco smiled and took the box.
“Well as long as I’m giving it a use.” He decided. Tom laughed a bit at Marco’s concern and sat down, excited for him to open it. Marco took the lid off and his immediate reaction was ecstatic! But it quickly faded to anxiety. Tom sat up.
“What’s wrong?” He asked. Marco took the burgundy dress out of the box. “Do you not like it?” Tom asked. Marco shook his head frantically.
“No, no! I love it!” He assured. “I just… I’ve been thinking I should stop wearing… girl stuff.” Marco added. Tom smiled.
“Don’t worry! The dress does not have a gender. It’s just clothe and I think sequence.” Tom assured, very much serious. Marco face palmed.
“You don’t understand earth gender roles do you?” He asked. Tom shook his head. “It means some things are just for boys, and others are just for girls… and here dresses tend to be just for boys.” Marco explained.
“But you love dresses, you looked so happy when you first opened it.” Tom explained. Marco sighed.
“I was… and I am but… I feel like because I’m technically a boy I should wear boy clothes.” Marco added.
“But you aren’t technically a boy. You told me you were gender fluid… so the other thing doesn’t matter.” Tom was actually confused. Some of these things didn’t make sense to him, but he was trying his best.
“But what if I don’t look… I don’t know, what if I just don’t look right? I don’t feel right no matter what I wear. I feel like I’ll always be the gender I’m not expressing.” Marco sighed and lay back on the bed. Tom did as well so he would be right next to him. Tom smiled at the human.
“It’s okay to feel like that. You just need to take some time for yourself! To dress however you want and make yourself look good, so you can feel good.” Tom explained. Marco smiled a bit.
“I guess so, but I feel like I’m just gonna keep trying and I won’t look right.” He said again. Tom pressed his forehead to Marco’s and purred.
“You look perfect, you’ll always look perfect.” Tom promised. “How do you want to look today?” He asked. Marco thought for a minute.
“I’d like to try on the dress you got me… and I’d like to look really pretty, like Star does.” Marco admitted shyly. Tom handed him the dress and smiled.
“Then put this on! And I’ll make you look as pretty and feminine as you want! And then you’ll see how perfect you are!” Tom assured. Marco smiled and nodded.
“Okay… I’ll give it a try.”
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“Tom, stop pulling.” Marco complained. Tom rolled his eyes and kept doing Marco’s hair.
“I have to!” He explained. “You said you wanted the extensions, so I have to put them in at the root, and I kind of have no clue what I’m doing here so stop squirming.” Tom told him. Marco laughed a bit and held still.
“Can I see now?” He asked. Tom shook his head.
“Not till I’m done.” He insisted. Marco grumbled and Tom went around to look at his face.
“Okay look up.” Tom told him. “I’m gonna put on makeup now.”
“Can you do makeup?” Marco asked. Tom nodded.
“I did Star’s makeup all the time when we were dating.” He told her. “Also there was this younger demon who lived behind me, and he liked it when I did his makeup too. Sometimes I would just put on eyeliner, but sometimes he wanted me to paint his whole face like a dragon or something.” Tom explained. He did Marco’s makeup and then pulled away.
“Okay, you can look now!” Tom exclaimed. Marco turned around and looked in the mirror, he could hardly believe he was looking at himself. He looked so pretty! He felt really pretty! He looked like himself, but feminine enough to be comfortable in how he was feeling on that day. “What do you think?” Tom asked. Marco spun around and tackled Tom in a big hug.
“I look amazing!” He exclaimed. Tom grinned and twirled Marco around.
“I told you that you’re perfect.” Tom smiled. “You’re allowed to wear makeup and jewelry, anything you want to make yourself feel nice. You don’t need to conform to these earth gender norms just because you think you have to, or you think you won’t look good in the other one.” Tom told him. “Just… do what makes you happy. I wish I could offer more understanding for this, but to be honest it’s all a little confusing.” He admitted. Marco nodded.
“I understand. Thank you for trying.” He admitted. “And you did make me feel beautiful today.” Marco assured.
“I’m glad I did.” Tom smiled. “I hope you’ll come to me anytime you feel like you look wrong, I’ll do anything to help you. Make sure you have everything you need to make yourself look anyway that makes you happy ad feel good about yourself.” Tom promised. Marco grinned.
“I love you for that Tom.” He smiled and gave the demon a kiss. “I love you for that so, so much.”
