Pluto

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20 || eng/esp || sometimes nsfw MDNI || #1 caitlyn glazer || ILI sx549 LFEV || https://plutosspace.carrd.co

vi helps cait tape for the first time. a little gender (gnc4masc caitvi) for @childofplut0.bsky.social thanks for donating! 💙🙏

When she steps out of the bathroom it is to the sight of Vi holding a pair of small scissors and staring quite intensely at what looks like a cotton pad in her hands. That isn’t strange in and of itself, Vi being still rather than in motion, but it is certainly rare. The frown too, on Vi’s brow. That she hasn’t seen since well, since they’d last missed that caravan out in that jaunt to Freljord two years ago. Or maybe since the last time Vi tried to learn to make a brand new noodle without consulting the chef.
It’s endearing.
She clears her throat lightly.
Sure enough, Vi’s eyes light up as she turns, holding the cotton pad up. 
“Oh great,” says Vi. “Don’t move. I need to—”
Cait raises her eyebrows now that she’s figured out exactly what it is that had Vi stumped.
“Don’t say it,” Vi grumbles, shuffling closer to get a better estimate of the size. “I know, I know I should know but I just- I want to be extra sure.”Cait smiles watching Vi make short work of the cotton pad, then another, to get it the right size. It’s  She steps closer, feeling the cool air on her skin. She leans over and sees the tape with the corners already rounded, the two cotton circles suddenly making everything feel a lot more real, like this is actually happening.
“You’ve viewed the diagrams?”
She nods, fingers trailing gently over the soft material, envisioning how it’ll go on her skin, how she’s to—.
“Hey—” Vi’s hand closes over hers “—we’re just trying this.”
She nods.
“It’s easy to take off, a little oil, a little waiting, voila.”
She nods again.
Vi squeezes her hand gently. “It’s going to be alright.”
Caitlyn chuckles. It never ceases to awe her just how well Vi knows her, just how well Vi can read her, just how much Vi cares.
“That’s not what I’m worried about,” she says.
“I know,” says Vi.Caitlyn’s smile wobbles. She can feel it wobbling. She can feel her breath tremble in the air of her bedroom.
“It’s going to be alright no matter what happens,” Vi says.
No matter what happens.
“You’re going to be ok,” says Vi. “We’re just going to learn a few things about you. That’s all. No pressure. No expectations. No matter what it is we learn. It’s going to be ok.”
It feels a little insane. She knows logically that it will be ok. She knows that she is not the first to try this, not the first in her family, not even the first in her marriage. She knows that this will change nothing between them, knows that this will change very little of how Vi sees her, knows that this is a thing people do.
But knowing that people do this is different from doing it herself.
It’s different.
It’s scary.
What if she likes it?What if she likes it? What if she likes it so much that life becomes unbearable without it? What if she likes it so much that when she looks into the mirror she’ll never want to see anything else ever again? What if—
Vi’s hand wraps gently up, curves around the warmth of her cheek, cups the soft parts of her soul, pulls her down into a kiss that is slow and devastatingly tender. Caitlyn sinks into it, sinks straight into the deep end, lets Vi be the one to hold her close and hold her gentle.
“Cait,” says Vi, lips a hair’s breadth from her own, words whispered in the space between them. “Take the leap.”
Caitlyn swallows.
“I’ll catch you wherever you land.”
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caitvi as that one silly couple doing the rasputin dance commission for azulatara on twt thank you sm i had so much fun they're so silly and full of joy and whimsy together

Full body drawing of Vi and Caitlyn dancing and being silly together. Vi is wearing a white shirt with a tie, black pants and black shoes. Caitlyn is wearing a light blue dress and black sandals. They're looking at eachother with the biggest grin and a loving gaze. The background is white with an ochre square in the center, small stars and hearts around them.