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Personal care between couples: gimme that good shit

The Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme

Personal hygiene is just that - personal. By the time we've come to a point in our lives where we notice that the concept exists and we should be prudent about it, we can take care of ourselves. There are also many practical reasons why we don't involve other people in this process. We're not too keen on showing off parts to be cleaned that are private in most contexts, and there's definitely an ingrained aversion to showing so much soft, fleshy skin. Hot water or a sharp razor could spell dangerous with a capital D should they come into the hands of someone with a vendetta against you. No need to be extra vulnerable.

So, if you're involving another person in your cleansing routines, it must be someone you trust. Not only that, but it's most likely someone you're comfortable with and likely at least somewhat open to being intimate with. You may not be dropping all your clothing in front of them, but it's still you opening yourself up to touching and closeness unparalleled in more "usual" moments.

Established and burgeoning couples (or not-so-couples) can bond through this showing of care and good faith. Will you like being pampered and find the attention endearing? Or will things go terribly, terribly wrong?

...you never should have let them near that shaving cream.

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Comfort: You've decided to pitch in a helping hand to get your partner to unwind, and warm water or suds may do the trick.
Romantic: The sole purpose of this endeavor is to set a lovey-dovey mood. No shame here!
It Started Out Platonic...: What a good pal you are, volunteering to give your friend a good scrub. Of course, you didn't count on the cute way she squirms as you scrub her back or how he blushes when you shampoo his scalp.
No Choice: Currently, you're unable to clean yourself up. That means that you need assistance, and it might as well be the person you lov- tolerate the most.
Open: You have trust issues. Actually, you have backlogs of trust issues. Still, you want to show the person you love that you're willing and trying to change for them, and what better way than letting down your walls and having the assist in your grooming?
Shave: Whether it's your face, your legs, or...your other places you've decided to shave, there's a certain intimacy involved in letting your lover do it for you. Let's hope they won't leave you looking like you got into a battle with a book with the paper cuts to prove it.
Reluctant: They want to get you clean. You don't want to show off your body at all. It's injured, it looks weird, what if they don't like it...
Forced: You love them, you really do, but you won't kiss them if they continue to look like an unwashed hobo clown. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if they won't take action, you will.
Beat Up: You've been trampled in a fight. Your partner isn't about to let you wallow around in your own mud and blood.
Hair: Some find that there's nothing quite as soothing as getting their hair washed or brushed. Of course, those with more luxurious locks may find any hair care a burden, so the assistance is appreciated.
Make Up: They think you're beautiful already. See how they'll paint you up when they get the chance.
Unique: If you're not human, you probably have your own proceeders you have to do to keep all spiffied up. There are wings with stray feathers to pluck, horns on heads to polish, scales to shave down, all sorts of tasks! Introduce your ignorant (and most likely human) boyfriend or girlfriend to your world...and your pain.
Accommodations: Those with disabilities or prosthetics may also have their own routines, and anyone who wants to be with them should learn how to pitch in.
Sponge Bath: You don't have enough water to do this right or you just want to give them a nice rub and scrub with a gentle sponge or wash cloth.
Wound Care: In order for wounds to heal, proper care must be taken. Bandages have to be changed and cuts cleaned out. It's certainly easier when you don't have to do it all by yourself.
Together: You're both cleaning up, taking a bath, splish splash, in the same tub because there's no where else to go. This is the most likely smut option, even if, again, it starts off "platonic."
Clothing: Don't forget that clean clothes are an important part of personal hygiene. Always make sure your partner has a nice, fresh outfit, even if it's to your taste and not theirs.
I've Made a Terrible Mistake: Somehow, everything's now shit. This little experiment went haywire and you may be sporting anything from the worst hairdo of your life to a Columbian necktie.
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( castmates and cross-canon welcome, gen or ship. adventuring together, hurt/comfort, two aristocrats getting dolled up or cleaning up after becoming unkempt, preparing for a cultural ceremony, and/or martial arts buddies are easy catalysts for this! gen or ship is fine; m/m for ship, peers in age (Xingqiu is estimated at 16-17) or older parties equally loved. if ship, especially fond of 3 being mixed in with anything else.

open to all prompts except for 8! questions or plotting, please PM! )

[ Wolves don't wear clothes.

It's such an obvious thing. Maybe it's foolish that Razor clung to his lies about himself for so long after realizing that simple fact - that he was bare-skinned, not covered in warm fur, and so he needed false extra layers to drape over himself. To keep from burning too badly in the summer, to keep warm in the winter. To protect his skin while climbing rough-barked trees and while on all fours.

It's clear, by now, that Razor is human. But what that really means, he's still not sure. He struggles with it daily - how the more he learns the Common tongue, the more his conversations with his pack feel like they almost lack something. How the more he sees of humans the more he realizes that their fake-fur, their clothes, are all a bit different from each other. Mondstadt people look different from Liyue people - by the time Razor had seen this new person from another far-off city, he'd been able to recognize the difference all on his own.

'Water boy,' he'd addressed him as after their sudden meeting; a mutual fight against a wandering tribe of hilichurls they'd chanced upon disturbing in the woods while also disturbing each other. 'Not from here. From land with orange rocks.' Razor likes them, has seen them a few times. He forgets the word.

Water boy, or Xingqiu as Razor later learns he's called, had laughed and then agreed, with words that flowed so fast and foreign that Razor almost thought he was speaking a new language. No, it turns out Xingqiu just likes lots of words, different ones, ones you don't always use. Like his clothes - fancy, old. Detailed.

Razor likes them. And he tells him that once, and maybe he sounds as sad as he feels, because Xingqiu tells him he has other clothes like what he's wearing, that they're not so different in size...

Razor is in a house for one of the first times in his life, and he's sitting on a bed staring at himself in a mirror while Xingqiu sits behind him, legs crossed. Razor's legs extend out and hang off, not quite touching the floor, the bed so high up he's too short for that - why have all this height off the ground inside if it can't flood, if there's no creatures to come bother you? maybe everyone just likes feeling extra safe when they sleep - and Xingqiu has already very very carefully untangled the infinite knots that lie in Razor's mane of hair.

Razor is now watching him pull it back into the style Razor had pointed at earlier at the market - long, twining braids. It reminds Razor of vines crawling up the branches of a large bush, twisting and wild. ]

...Thank you. [ Razor finally speaks up again. He's never felt self-conscious about being dirty - it just happens, outside. But here in Xingqiu's house he can't help but notice that his own footprints, from the door to the closet and back to the bed, are the only spots of dirt he can see in this room. He feels small even though they're about the same size. ] It's pretty. [ Not Razor, himself, but...what Xingqiu is managing with his hair. ]

Like Xingqiu.

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