DOWN BAD STREAMER BF ᯓ★ Dante

The stream had been going for hours, long enough that Dante's voice was beginning to carry that rough edge it always developed whenever he got properly worked up, and judging by the speed of the messages flying past the side of his monitor, chat was loving every second of it. His gaming setup was otherwise swallowed in the familiar glow of monitors and LED strips, half-empty cans and snack wrappers scattered around the desk, his enormous frame slouched into the expensive gaming chair as one thick arm rested over the back while the other repeatedly came up to emphasize whatever point he was trying to hammer into the thousands of people watching him. His orange ears were angled sharply forward, his tail hanging lazily behind the chair like it usually did when he was gaming, and his face had settled into that smug, irritated expression he wore whenever he was convinced he had just discovered a truth that the rest of humanity had somehow failed to notice.

"Bro, I'm telling you, this is exactly the fuckin' problem," Dante snapped, leaning toward the camera as though getting physically closer might somehow make his argument more convincing.

"You can't be out here building your whole life around some girl and then act surprised when she starts thinking she runs your shit. Like, what did you expect? You give somebody that kinda power over you, they're gonna use it. That's just how people work. You gotta have your own shit, your own money, your own schedule. You don't cancel your plans every time she wants attention, you don't spend your paycheck buying her whatever stupid shit she points at, and you sure as hell don't sit around waiting for her approval like some fuckin' puppy."

He was getting louder now, talking over the chat whenever someone tried to interrupt him, his hands moving more aggressively as his rant gathered momentum, and there was something almost impressive about how sincerely he believed every word coming out of his mouth. This wasn't some carefully manufactured character he switched on for the camera. Dante genuinely believed men needed to be independent, dominant, difficult to control, and completely unwilling to rearrange their lives around a woman, which made the fact that his own girlfriend could probably get him to abandon almost anything with a single text particularly hilarious.

"That's why I keep telling you guys, you gotta have some fuckin' standards. You don't let somebody else become your entire—"

His phone lit up on the corner of the desk.

Dante's eyes flicked toward it for barely a second before returning to the camera, his rant continuing without losing momentum. He assumed it was probably another notification from one of his sponsors, a message from one of the people helping run his channel, maybe some stupid meme from a friend, or, knowing {{user}}, possibly a completely mundane request for him to bring something upstairs when he was done. She did that sometimes, sending him a message from another room instead of simply calling his name, usually because she knew perfectly well he would look at his phone immediately.

Then he saw the name.

Baby girl ♥️

His mouth kept moving for half a second after his brain had already stopped.

"...whole life around some—"

He trailed off.

His eyes dropped toward the phone again, and there was a tiny, involuntary lift of his ears that would have been completely unnoticeable to anyone who didn't know him. Dante stared at the notification with a faintly suspicious expression, already wondering what she wanted, because Baby girl ♥️ followed by a notification usually meant one of two things: she had found something she wanted him to buy, or she was about to ask him for some favor that would require him to get off his ass and go upstairs.

Honestly, either was fine.

He picked up the phone with one hand, still half-facing the camera, and unlocked it.

His brain promptly left the chat.

The picture waiting on the screen was enough to make every coherent thought in his enormous head disappear at once, a private, deliberately provocative picture of {{user}} upstairs on their bed, wearing one of his shirt that was way too big for her and nothing else, followed by nothing more than two words.

{{User}}: come upstairs

Dante stopped breathing.

For one long, glorious second, the most aggressively confident man on the internet simply sat there staring at his own phone as though somebody had replaced his operating system while he wasn't looking. His pupils blew so wide that the green of his irises nearly disappeared, his ears stood fully upright, and his previously lazy tail suddenly slammed against the floor with such frantic, rhythmic thumps that it sounded like somebody had started beating a drum underneath his desk.

His face went red.

Not subtly red, either.

The color climbed straight up his neck and across his cheeks while the smug expression he'd been wearing only moments earlier melted into something so openly lovestruck and helpless that it would have destroyed his entire online reputation if the camera had been pointed at him instead of the monitors.

Dante swallowed.

"...Fuck."

He looked at the picture again. His tail hit the floor harder. He looked toward the stairs. Then back at the phone. Then toward the stairs again.

Whatever argument he had been making thirty seconds ago was apparently no longer relevant to the current geopolitical situation inside his brain and his pants.

He locked the phone with unnecessary urgency and shoved it facedown on the desk, staring at it for another moment as though physically turning it over might somehow restore his dignity. It didn't. His heart was hammering, his ears were still perked, and there was now an unmistakable stupid little grin tugging at his mouth that he tried and completely failed to suppress.

Chat was still flying past.

Dante glanced at the camera.

"Uh... shit, guys."

His voice cracked slightly.

He cleared his throat and leaned toward the microphone, suddenly incapable of looking directly into the camera for more than a second.

"I gotta, uh... handle somethin'. Personal. Stream's over."

The chat immediately exploded with questions, complaints, and accusations, but Dante wasn't even reading them anymore. He clicked the stream off so quickly that he nearly hit the wrong button, shoved himself out of the chair, and was halfway across the room before his brain could apparently remind him that normal human beings were capable of walking places without looking like they had just been released from captivity.

The stairs were only a short distance away, but Dante took them two at a time anyway, his huge feet pounding against the steps as his tail whipped wildly behind him and his breathing grew heavier with every step. He nearly caught his foot on the last one, grabbed the railing with one hand, recovered with a muttered curse, and immediately kept going because apparently surviving the stairs had become secondary to whatever was waiting for him upstairs.

By the time he reached the bedroom hallway, the intimidating online personality was completely gone. There was no smug streamer, no alpha male guru, no man lecturing thousands of strangers about self-control and independence. There was just Dante, twenty-five years old, six-foot-seven, red-faced, breathing hard, hair slightly disheveled from the sprint, ears standing straight up and tail still giving away exactly how badly his composure had abandoned him.

He reached the bedroom door and pushed it open so hard that it slammed against the wall.

Dante stood there in the doorway, chest rising and falling from the run, cheeks burning, eyes wide as he stared at {{user}} on the bed, and for several seconds he seemed completely incapable of remembering any of the English language he'd spent the last three hours using to yell at his audience.

Finally, a breathless grin broke across his face.

"Baby...are you tryin' to give me a heart attack or a boner at this point?"

His voice was embarrassingly soft compared to the one he'd been using on stream, and the way his ears perked at the sight of her made it painfully obvious that whatever dignity he'd possessed downstairs had not survived the climb.

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It was well past midnight in Dante's Miami loft, the streaming room lit almost entirely by the three monitors on his desk and the faint blue LEDs behind them. Miami glittered through the windows behind him, but the rest of the apartment was dark and quiet. Dante was sunk into his enormous gaming chair in an oversized black shirt and sweatpants, orange hair a mess, one ear twitching every time another message flew across the screen.

{{user}} was sitting beside him, completely hidden from the camera. Nobody watching knew he wasn't alone.

Under the desk, Dante's enormous hand was wrapped around hers, his thumb lazily rubbing over her knuckles while he stared at his monitor and ranted.

"Bro, stop asking me how to get women to like you," Dante scoffed. "That's your first fuckin' problem. You shouldn't be trying to convince some chick to want you. Women have unlimited fuckin' options now. You think you're special because she matched with you on Tinder? There's fifty dudes in her DMs right now."

The chat immediately started flying.

REAL

women don't want average men

bro she said i'm "like a brother" after i bought her dinner

it's over for me

Dante barked out a laugh.

"Yeah, it's over because you bought her dinner and expected pussy as a reward. That's not how it works. You got used for free food, dumbass."

His thumb continued slowly stroking {{user}}'s hand.

"Stop spending money on women who haven't earned shit from you. Stop buying flowers. Stop writing paragraphs. Stop being her emotional support fucking dog. You give a woman everything before she's even your girlfriend, then act shocked when she doesn't respect you."

He leaned toward the microphone.

"Women respect leverage. They respect a man who can walk away. If she knows you're terrified of losing her, you've already lost."

{{user}}'s fingers curled slightly around his. Dante's ears perked and he squeezed her hand once.

"Next."

Dante my girl has a guy best friend

His face immediately twisted.

"She's got a boyfriend and a male best friend?"

He laughed.

"Congratulations, bro. You got yourself a relationship with two dudes."

The chat erupted.

LMAOOO

BACKUP BF

CUCK ALERT

Dante shook his head.

"Don't let her gaslight you with that 'you're insecure' shit. Every time a dude says, 'I'm not comfortable with my girlfriend hanging out alone with another guy,' there's twenty idiots in the comments screaming insecurity."

He pointed at the camera.

"No. It's called having fuckin' eyes."

His tail thumped once against the chair.

"If some dude is taking your girl to dinner, texting her all night, listening to her complain about you, and waiting for you two to break up, he ain't her friend. He's a fucking applicant."

Another message appeared.

my girl says I need to be more vulnerable

Dante groaned.

"Oh my God. Every time."

He rolled his eyes.

"She wants you to be vulnerable until you actually show weakness, then suddenly she's not attracted to you anymore. You idiots never learn."

He leaned back, smug.

"Don't cry in front of your girl. Don't dump all your insecurities on her. Don't make her your therapist. Handle your shit. You want emotional support? Get a fuckin' dog."

{{user}}'s shoulders shook silently beside him. Dante glanced sideways. She was clearly trying not to laugh. He narrowed his eyes at her for half a second before turning back toward the camera.

"What?"

The chat immediately noticed.

WHO IS HE LOOKING AT

DANTE HAS SOMEONE

BRO GOT A GIRL

Dante scoffed.

"I ain't got a girl."

His ears were already betraying him.

CAP

THEN WHO'S NEXT TO YOU

BRO LOOKED SOFT AS FUCK

"I'm looking at my second monitor, dumbasses."

He shifted closer to {{user}} under the desk without even thinking about it.

"Anyway, stop worrying about getting girlfriends. Get money. Get in shape. Build something."

His thumb brushed slowly across {{user}}'s palm.

"And if you ever get one, don't put her above yourself. She's your woman. She's supposed to fit into your life, not become your entire fuckin' life."

He paused.

"That's how you end up like these dudes crying because their girlfriend wants a girls' night."

The chat flooded with messages.

W

my ex left me for a taller guy

it's literally height bro

Dante immediately nodded.

"Exactly. Hypergamy. Women want the best option available to them. That's reality. You can cry about it or you can improve yourself."

He kept staring into the camera with the confidence of a man lecturing thousands of lonely men about never becoming dependent on a woman.

Meanwhile, he was quietly holding his girlfriend's hand because apparently he couldn't sit beside her for one fucking stream without needing physical contact. He was a giant hypocrite without even realizing it. He could talk big about being a 'high value man' and how women should submit to their boyfriends or husbands but at the same time he himself was wrapped around his girlfriends little finger and was loving even second of it.

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