WHAT YOU THINK OF THE NEW LOOK?
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WHAT YOU THINK OF THE NEW LOOK?
You didn't even realize it. Everyone on the train was wearing the same trackies and TNs. It didn't even occur to you that this morning, you put on a nice suit and dress shoes to go meet your boyfriend at dinner, but now both of you are in grey sweats and white TNs with chav cuts and piercings. You knew when you get back home, all your clothes will look just like this: used streetwear. Fuck dinner, lets go out to the pub and watch some footie, bruv!
On the Wall
The faint sounds of car engine and honking from above seeped through the thick layer of concrete. It had been a while since the last time Liam set foot on Cowper Street– or under it. Which was not that unusual: some parts of the city hadn’t been friendly to pedestrians since forever, and they would continue to be that way for years to come. Liam would’ve also gone some other route if his car didn’t break down that morning and circling around this subway to reach the tram stop would cost him another 15 minutes.
Dim outdoor light slowly gave in to a moodier one. Fixtures hanging where each wall met the ceiling illuminated the path, while patches of darkness sat broodingly in the corner. In a volatile and uncertain world, it’s lovely and delightful in a way to see that some things hadn’t changed much. This tunnel was one of those.
Smelly, dirty, full of graffiti, walkable.
Rinsing Your Top
The rain sheeted down, turning the pavement into a black mirror that reflected the sickly orange glow of the streetlights. Inside the bus shelter, the world narrowed to a wall of fogged glass and the incessant drumming on the corrugated plastic roof. Felix huddled on the narrow bench, his organic cotton jacket pulled tight around his slender frame. The air inside was cold, damp, and smelled of wet concrete and regret. He checked his phone again. 11:47 PM. The last bus was late. Of course it was.
A sudden, violent shudder of the shelter’s frame made him flinch. The door was yanked open, and a blast of cold, rain-lashed wind preceded the new arrival. He was a storm of noise and presence, instantly shrinking the already cramped space.
"Fackin' pissin' it down, innit!" the guy announced to no one in particular, his voice a loud, nasal tenor that seemed to vibrate in Felix’s teeth.
Felix kept his eyes fixed on his phone, the screen a feeble shield against the intrusion. But his senses were already under assault. The new scent hit him first, cutting through the petrichor: Stale Lager & Cigarettes - a flat, yeasty bitterness layered over acrid smoke. Cheap Body Spray - a cloying, aggressive wave of synthetic musk and fake ocean breeze, likely from a can of Lynx Africa. Wet Tracksuit – the damp, synthetic smell of cheap nylon and sweat. And underneath it all, the raw, hormonal musk of a young man who considered a quick rinse in a service station sink to be a full shower.
Out of the corner of his eye, Felix took him in. Early twenties, maybe. A wiry, coiled strength beneath a thin, grey tracksuit top with stains on the sleeve. A gold-plated chain glinted against his throat. His hair was shaved close on the sides, a matted, gelled tuft artfully messed up on top. His face was all sharp angles and defiant sneer, a constellation of acne scars across his cheeks. He was everything Felix found abrasive, loud, and utterly repellent.
The guy slumped onto the bench opposite, his knees splayed wide, aggressively claiming space. Felix could feel the vibration of his bouncing foot through the metal frame. He pulled a sleek, black vape pen from his tracksuit pocket. It was garish, covered in tacky decals. With a practiced click, a tiny LED glowed blue.
"Fackin' bus," the guy - Felix already thought of him as just ‘Chav’ - muttered, taking a long, deep drag. The device gurgled softly. He held the vapor in his lungs for a moment, then tilted his head back and exhaled.
It wasn’t a wisp. It was a cloud. A thick, dense plume of sickly-sweet vapour, the colour of cheap candy, that rolled across the small space with deliberate, invasive slowness. It hit Felix full in the face.
The scent was nauseatingly artificial. Blueberry Ice. But not the fruit itself; the concept of it, designed in a lab and pumped full of chemical sweeteners and cooling agents. It was saccharine, cloying, and cold, like a freezer-burnt slushie. It should have made him gag. It should have made him cough, wave it away, complain.
Felix held his breath, turning his face aside. But the cloud was too thick, too pervasive. His lungs, desperate for air, betrayed him. He inhaled a sharp, involuntary gasp.
INITIATION.
The effect was instantaneous. Not a cough, but a shudder that started in his throat and radiated outwards. The cold, sweet mist didn’t feel like smoke; it felt like liquid static, a chemical fog that seeped directly into his brain through his sinuses.
The world didn’t spin. It… simplified.
The complex, looping anxieties about his unfinished thesis, his looming student debt, the subtle politics of his friend group - they didn’t just fade; they were erased. Wiped clean. The humming, frantic energy of his intellect simply… powered down. A beautiful, blank silence descended in his mind.
The sensory input from the shelter sharpened into brutal, uncomplicated clarity. The drip-drip-drip of water from a leak in the roof became a rhythm. The garish orange light was just light. The smell of the chav’s body spray wasn’t cheap; it was effective. It smelled like confidence. Like availability.
He took another breath, deeper this time, actively pulling the blueberry ice cloud into his lungs. It was cold and sweet, and it carried with it the ghost of the chav’s own breath, the essence of his saliva, a direct line to his simple, uncomplicated existence.
“You alright, mate?” Chav’s voice cut through the fog. It didn’t sound loud and abrasive anymore. It sounded… direct. Honest. The accent, which Felix would have once mocked, now sounded like the only way real men spoke.
Felix looked up, his own gaze feeling slow, heavy-lidded. His carefully curated vocabulary - ‘problematic’, ‘nuanced’, ‘aesthetic’ - was gone. A single word formed in the new, empty space of his mind. It felt profound.
“Yeah,” Felix said. His own voice sounded strange. Deeper. Slower. The cadence was all wrong. It was a grunt.
Chav smirked, a flash of crooked teeth. “Looked like you was gonna choke on me cloud there.” He took another drag, this time blowing a series of perfect, smug O-rings towards the ceiling.
Felix watched them float, mesmerized. They were the most interesting thing he’d ever seen. He felt a low thrum starting in his body, a warm, buzzing energy that began in his core and spread outwards. It was a physical sensation of… dumbing down. A pleasant, heavy warmth replacing the cold spark of intelligence. His muscles felt looser, heavier. His posture on the bench began to change. His shoulders, usually hunched, pulled back. His spine straightened from its scholarly curve into a lazy, confident slouch.
“S’good, innit?” Chav said, gesturing with the vape.
“Yeah,” Felix repeated, the word now carrying more weight. It was an entire philosophy. Yeah. Acceptance. Agreement. Simplicity.
The music was the next thing to go. Chav’s phone, tinny and distorted through its speaker, was playing something Felix’s old self would have derided as mindless, misogynistic drill rap. The bass was too heavy, the lyrics aggressive and stupid. Now, the thumping beat bypassed his ears and went straight to his spine. His head began to nod, almost imperceptibly at first, then with more conviction. The aggressive lyrics didn’t sound threatening; they sounded like truth. They spoke of territory, of respect, of taking what you wanted. It made sense.
“You like that?” Chav asked, his eyes glinting with a challenge. “Proper tune, that.”
“Yeah,” Felix said again, his voice gaining a rough edge. “Banger.” The word surfaced from some deep, newly accessed part of his brain. It felt perfect on his tongue.
The warmth in his body intensified, becoming a hot, liquid pull low in his gut. It wasn’t just a loss of intellect. It was a gain of something else. Something raw and physical. His gaze wasn’t on the vape anymore. It was on him. On the sharp lines of his jaw. On the way his Adam’s apple moved when he spoke. On the confident, almost arrogant sprawl of his body. The cheap chain. The stained tracksuit. It wasn’t repellent. It was… powerful. Authentic. Sexy.
A powerful, dumb attraction, thick and undeniable as the vapour itself, flooded Felix’s system. It was a pure, hormonal surge that erased any last vestige of his old preferences, his ‘type’ (sensitive guys in cardigans who liked indie films). This. This rough, loud, uncomplicated bloke was all that existed. He wanted to be near him. He wanted to be him.
“What’s your name, then?” Chav asked, leaning forward, his knees bumping against Felix’s. The contact sent a jolt of that warm, stupid electricity through him.
“Felix,” he said, but the name felt flimsy, foreign. A name for someone who was disappearing.
“Felix?” Chav laughed, a short, sharp bark. “Posh name. I’m Kian.”
Kian. The name sounded solid. Real.
“I like Kian,” Felix heard himself say. The directness of it, the lack of subtext, was liberating.
Kian’s smirk widened. He saw the change happening. He recognized the look in Felix’s eyes - the glazed admiration, the dumb want. He was used to it. He exhaled another cloud, this time directly into Felix’s open, waiting mouth.
Felix inhaled it like a sacrament. This time, the change wasn’t just mental. It was physical. The chemical mist seemed to penetrate his cells, rewriting him from the inside out.
A deep, resonant HUMMMM started in his bones. His spine thickened, vertebrae settling into a new, more aggressive alignment. His shoulders, already pulling back, began to widen, the joints popping softly. The fabric of his expensive jacket strained across his back. His arms, previously slender, felt a surge of dense, functional muscle—the kind earned not in a gym, but in street scuffles and manual labour. His hands on his knees looked larger, the knuckles more pronounced.
His face felt strange. His jaw ached as it squared itself, his cheekbones becoming more defined beneath skin that was coarsening, losing its bookish pallor. A dark, prickling shadow erupted along his jawline - not a well-kept beard, but a rough, scruffy stubble that suited his new demeanour. His hair, previously soft and carefully styled, felt coarser, darker, as if it was sucking up the gel from Kian’s head through the air.
His thoughts were gone. Completely. Replaced by a single, driving imperative. Get closer. Touch him. Be him.
He stood up. The movement was no longer graceful; it was a powerful, uncoiling rise. He was taller. Broader. He loomed over Kian, who looked up, his smirk not fading but shifting into something more intrigued, more challenging.
“See somethin’ you like, posh boy?” Kian taunted, but there was an invitation in it.
The last of Felix dissolved. The man who looked down at Kian wasn’t Felix. He was someone new. Someone better.
“Shut it,” the new man growled. His voice was a low, commanding rumble, completely unlike Felix’s soft tones. It was edged with a confidence that came from nowhere and everywhere.
He reached down, his newly thick fingers calloused and strong, and grabbed the front of Kian’s tracksuit top, fisting the material. He didn’t pull him up; he yanked him forward, off the bench and into his space. Kian stumbled against him, a laugh caught in his throat, his eyes wide with surprise and excitement.
The new man’s free hand went to the back of Kian’s neck, grip firm, possessive. The scent of them mingled - blueberry ice, cheap body spray, rain, and now, Felix’s own new scent: a raw, potent musk of testosterone and dominance.
“I said, shut it,” he repeated, his face inches from Kian’s. Then he crushed their mouths together.
It wasn’t a kiss of romance or tenderness. It was a claim. A takeover. Aggressive, hungry, and wet. It tasted of chemical blueberries and lager and pure, unfiltered want. Kian resisted for a half-second, then melted into it with a muffled groan, his own hands coming up to grip the new, powerful biceps of the man who had once been Felix.
The new man - this dominant, chavvy top - walked Kian back against the fogged glass wall of the bus shelter, the impact rattling the whole structure. The world outside, the rain, the late bus, it all ceased to exist. There was only the heat of two bodies, the taste of the vape, the sound of rough fabric rustling and ragged breathing.
Clothes were torn at, not removed with care. His expensive jacket was shoved from his shoulders. Kian’s cheap tracksuit bottoms were yanked down. There was no finesse, only a brutal, desperate urgency. The new man was a quick study, every movement instinctual, possessive, dominant. He was where he belonged. On top. In control.
When it was over, a frantic, grunting, animalistic coupling against the cold glass, they slumped together, breathing heavily in the small, steam-filled space. The new man held Kian pinned against the wall, his larger body dwarfing the other’s. He nuzzled into Kian’s neck, inhaling the scent of sweat and cheap spray—his scent now.
Kian looked up at him, his expression one of dazed, satisfied shock. “Fackin’ hell, mate. What was your name again?”
The new man thought for a second. The name ‘Felix’ was a ghost, a whisper from a dream. A new name surfaced, something solid, common, strong. A name that matched the face in the fogged glass reflection - a face with a squared jaw, rough stubble, and a hard, confident glint in its eyes.
“Dean,” he growled, the name feeling right and true. “My name’s Dean.”
Kian grinned, slapping Dean’s chest. “Alright, Dean. You missed your bus.”
Dean looked out at the raining night, then back at the boy in his arms. A slow, arrogant smirk spread across his face, a perfect mirror of Kian’s own.
“Don’t need a bus,” Dean said, his voice thick with an ownership and a dumb, happy certainty. He pulled Kian closer. “I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”
The transformation was complete. The health-conscious student was gone, wiped away by a cloud of sweet, chemical vapour and replaced by Dean: a chavvy, dominant top, Kian’s perfect dom boyfriend. He was stronger, dumber, and infinitely more sure of himself. And as he leaned in to kiss Kian again, rough and possessive, he knew, with every fibre of his new being, that he had never been anyone else
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Connor – Behind the Station
When Connor first saw the listing, he could hardly believe his luck. “Freshly renovated period flat, oak floors, high ceilings, Victorian windows.” The price was almost laughably low. There had to be a catch. But after ten years in the same white-walled apartment in the Jewellery Quarter, after countless late nights and presentations about credit risk and interest sensitivities, Connor was ready for something new.
The area behind the station was rough. Streets lined with empty shop fronts, graffiti, shisha bars, pubs with flickering neon lights. The building itself looked run-down: the entrance smelled of urine, the stairwell of cheap grease and cigarette smoke. But the flat? Absolutely stunning. The bathroom and kitchen weren’t luxurious, sure, but overall far better than his old place. Connor didn’t hesitate for a second.
During handover, something caught his eye. On the windowsill, in the afternoon light, lay a half-open pack of cigarettes. Next to it, an ashtray and a cheap lighter. The landlord, dressed in tracksuit and flip-flops, didn’t even notice. Connor had never smoked—not at parties, not at uni. But suddenly, an urge hit him: to put a cigarette between his lips.
On the way back to his old flat, he bought a whole pack of Marlboros without thinking. While packing boxes for the next day’s move, he lit his first one. At first he puffed lightly, but by the third smoke, he drew it deep into his lungs and felt… alive.
The next morning, the first thing he did was light another cigarette. The smoke scratched and made him cough, yet it felt… real. Raw life. His shirt and tie, worn out of habit, suddenly seemed absurd. So he threw his suit over yesterday’s T-shirt, still slightly damp, smelling faintly of sweat and smoke. A thrill ran through him, chest and arms buzzing—a feeling he hadn’t had in years.
When the movers arrived, he intended to just watch. But the lads—stocky, tattooed, tracksuits and open jackets—were fascinating. They laughed, swore, spat on the floor. They talked about football, the gym, their girlfriends. Nobody asked about KPIs or funds. One offered him a cigarette, another clapped him on the shoulder. Connor felt… alive.
By evening, all exhausted but satisfied, Connor casually asked, “Fancy grabbing a pint?” Kieran, the ringleader, grinned. “Sound plan, Conna, mate!” He let Connor light his cig. By then, more than one cigarette had been trodden into the flat’s floor.
Jay, quiet, solid, cap and gold chain, knew a pub just around the corner—and a MMA gym nearby. Ty, the youngest, always laughing, sharp-tongued, teased: “Posh boy really down for a pint with us?” Passing a Turkish jeweller’s, he added, “Conna needs a diamond stud and a chain, mate.” Connor glanced at Jay’s massive chest—gold chain glinting. Not his build… yet. But the chain could be a start.
He went in. The piercing hurt like hell, but it was a declaration: no turning back. In his phone mirror, he saw someone he barely recognised—and liked.
Next day, he skipped the shower. Ran his hands through greasy hair, threw on an old T-shirt, ready for another day with the lads. He’d called in sick at the bank. His boss remarked his voice sounded blocked. Connor laughed, coughed, hauled up a thick globby lump and spat it into the toilet.
The mirror became an enemy. His once-perfect haircut looked like a costume. His old clothes still in boxes. He needed something to wear—something for the new him. He went to the Turkish supermarket across the street, picked up a hair clipper, tracksuit, and a few white vests.
“Mate, want a bigger chain?” the shopkeeper asked, grinning. Connor grinned back, casual now, “Yeah, mate, sounds proper.”
At home, he buzzed off his hair—millimetre by millimetre, the old life fell to the floor. When he was done, he finally looked like himself.
Three weeks later, Connor no longer worked at the bank. Instead, he moved furniture, helped at the shop, and hit the gym with his new mates. His flat was now shared with Ty—a bare fridge, mattress on the floor, beer cans by the window. But standing on the balcony in the morning, shirtless, cigarette dangling, tracksuit bottoms slouched low, he felt something he hadn’t in years: freedom.
Connor Ward, the banker, was gone. Conna had arrived—a boy from Birmingham, one of the real ones. And for the first time in his life, he was truly happy.
Yo, listen up, fam! Dis is me, ya proper little slag, spillin' da tea on how I serve me Chav Boss Ambrose. Innit tho? Man's a proper legend, rockin' dem Adidas trackies, gold chains danglin' like he's king of da ends. I wake up early, yeah? Brew 'im a strong cuppa tea wiv two sugars, none of dat weak shite. Den I polish 'is creps till dey shine brighter dan da sun on a council estate. Boss Ambrose rolls in, all swagger, callin' me 'is good boy' or whateva, an' I drop to me knees quick smart. Sort 'is breakfast – beans on toast, bacon sarnie, da works. Clean da gaff spotless while 'e's out hustlin', make sure da PlayStation's charged for when 'e wants to smash some FIFA. Even iron 'is Burberry cap, bruv! Evenings? Man's chillin' on da sofa, I fetch 'im cans of Stella from da fridge, massage 'is feet after a long day bossin' it. If 'e says jump, I say 'how high, boss?' An' yeah, sometimes it gets proper cheeky, but dat's between me an' me boss, innit? Loyal as fook, me. Wouldn't 'ave it any ova way. Who's got a boss like mine? No one, dat's who!
i'll clear a spot for you
Scally Boost Energy Drink
Barry was absolutely knackered. The last thing he wanted was a social obligation, but he couldn't bail on dinner now. Desperate for a pick-me-up, he’d grabbed a random can of 'Scally Boost Energy' from the newsagent before cramming himself onto the train. He just needed to wake up a bit.
The suit lay in a crumpled heap on the sticky train floor, right next to the empty can. He wasn’t 'Barry' anymore—that boring old bloke was history. Baz stretched out his legs, propping his bare, dirty feet right up on the seat opposite with zero shame. Flexing his tattooed arms, he caught the eye of a man shyly watching him and flashed a cocky grin. Reckoning he had time for a quick nosh, he jerked his chin, signaling for the bloke to come over and get on his knees.