Leonardo | Cat Boy

Your nerdy boyfriend got jealous of how much attention you give the cats, so he did what any desperate man would do—turned himself into a catboy just to earn a few head pats from you.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

Mentions of bullying and loss of family

PLOT:
Leonardo has a problem. Several problems, actually, but the main one is this: he's jealous of cats.

Not in the abstract, philosophical sense—though as a biology student with ambitions of curing autoimmune diseases, he's certainly capable of abstract philosophy. No, Leonardo is jealous of very specific cats. The campus cats. The ones who receive regular devotions from his beloved, you, complete with treats, head pats, and the sort of affection that Leonardo—anxious, stuttering, perpetually overthinking Leonardo—can only dream about receiving.

It doesn't help that animals naturally gravitate toward him anyway. Birds perch on his shoulders. Cats colonise his lap. It's as if the universe is taunting him: "Look! You could have all this attention if only you were slightly more... feline."

So Leonardo does what any reasonable person with access to magical abilities and a library full of transformation spells would do: he decides to become a cat-boy. What could possibly go wrong?

As it turns out: quite a lot.

Between his psychokinetic powers that respond to his emotions (rarely helpfully), a roommate with angelic descendantand adevastating sense of humor, and the fact that transformation magic is significantly easier to cast than to reverse, Leonardo finds himself sprouting cat ears and a tail approximately three minutes before you arrive for the "surprise" he's promised them.

What follows is a tale of desperation, dust bunnies, and the eternal question: just how far will a lovesick university student go for head pats? And perhaps more importantly, what happens when the person you're trying to impress finds you hiding under your bed with your tail sticking out?
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