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Ranboo was just casually lying on the couch alone in the Smith household. Tubbo’s parents were at work and the brunet himself had to drop his sisters somewhere hence leaving Ranboo all by himself. Not that Tubbo did it purposely, he had in fact asked Ranboo multiple times if he wanted to come with but the American boy himself had refused, insisting that he would be fine and didn’t mind being alone.
That was a while ago though and now the tall blond was bored out of his mind, he didn’t feel like playing video gamers at the moment, scrolling through social media or youtube didn’t seem to interest him either and none of his friends were available to talk, everyone seemed to be busy in there own things like an average Thursday, afternoon if you talk specifically about the UK.
Usually he could just talk to Tommy or hang in a vc while the Briton did his own thing but today even though he was busy, he had told them earlier that he would be on a stream with his friend Freddie aka Badlinu, he hadn’t specified what they would be doing though.
Wait, Tommy said he’d be on stream, they must probably be live right now then, he could just watch them, Ranboo thought, quickly opening twitch.tv on his laptop. Yep, he was right, there was Badlinu’s stream showing on his recommended as well as on his following list. “I forced Tommy to do my makeup.” Read the stream title, the teen did a double take at that. Makeup and tommy in the same sentence, and a stream title at that? He never thought he’d live to see the day.
Opening the stream the American boy was immediately greeted by the sight of Tommy dabbing a makeup sponge on Badlinu’s face and the latter seemed to be in pain
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“ow ow ow ow, can you be a little gentle tommy! This is my face not a stamp pad!” he yelped.
“I am being gentle, bitch!” Tommy shouted back before coming to a stop and carefully looking at his work, seemingly satisfied by it he announced, “okay it's done!”
Badlinu turned towards his stream to examine the blond’s work, “hmm it isn’t that bad chat, it actually looks fine. My face does feel numb now but it looks fine” he turned his attention to what his viewers had to say.
On the other side, Tommy gave the stream a smug look saying, “everything I do is ever so slightly above average. Excellent even.” Ranboo immediately felt a smile tug at his lips at that. He looked just so adorable with his proud little look of accomplishment. He also felt a twisting feeling in his gut, damn, was he missing him already? Didn’t he get to hang out with him not very long ago.
His attention was brought back to the stream when Badlinu started speaking, “someone in the chat just said ‘why is Tommy doing your makeup?’ well, the stream title already says that innit? Im forcing him to, like I said you all really enjoy all my makeup streams and I just thought that it’d be fun seeing him struggle with makeup. Also, apparently content is the only way we can get busy big man tommy to hang out now.” The chat just unanimously turned into a wave of corporateInnit.
“hey, that is so not true I literally spend so much time with you!” Tommy cried in protest, Ranboo felt his heart ache a little, he wished he could spend time with him. Badlinu began to clarify it being a joke, the American ignored both the feeling and the spoken words in favour of reading the subgoal instead.
‘Make Tommy wear eyeliner’, Ranboo almost choked on nothing. The Tommyinnit himself wearing eyeliner, it was like the majority if not the entire fandom’s wildest dream about to be served on a silver platter. He had never really put much thought into it, the idea never really entered his head before but now that it did he was curious and he just had to see it.
Tommy had a very pretty and alluring pair of eyes, Ranboo had finally came to accept and admit that after the number of times he had found himself getting lost in them, but with eyeliner? Well, the only thing that came to his mind was how he had never ever seen anyone's eyes get less attractive after applying eyeliner.
The subgoal was really close too, the American boy was very close to gifting the subs to make it happen but someone else beat him to it, the brunette was in the middle of explaining to Tommy about contour when he was alerted with a sub.
“thank you anonymous grifter for the 5 gifted subs! Thank you!-” he turned to check his total subs “Chat we reached the sub goal! You can't see it because my stream lab seems to be lagging. Let me just change it.”
“You are a shit streamer, Freddie.” Tommy commented light heartedly while his friend updated his subcount and sub goal.
“Oh come on. Your sub count lags sometimes too! Most times you don’t even notice you reached your subgoal. We clearly know who’s the better streamer here, right chat?”
“it's clearly me and when I do it its cool.” Ranboo giggled at that line.
“well, I hope you are ready for the eyeliner coz-”
“Oh absolutely not!” Tommy aggressively interrupted, “I will not do it! I do not consent to this in any way!”
“But that’s the sub goal! You agreed to it earlier. You are being a pussy.”
“No I am not, I am simply too cool for this shit!”
“Really? Look, the entire chat is going pussyInnit. You cant go back on your words now.” Badlinu said.
“You are all simply wrong. I am not a pussy chat!”
“Prove it then, or are you defeated by eyeliner?” Badlinu smirked. Tommy let out a groan before agreeing to it.
By now Ranboo felt quite eager to make his presence known. While Badlinu searched his makeup bag for his eyeliner, the American typed his words with swift strokes and pressed sent before rational thinking could make him stop, he decided against spamming though, letting the snitchy chat do its thing.
The moment his words appeared in the chatbox the entire chat went crazy becoming a unanimous wave of his name and “ranboo in the chat”s. As expected, Tommy was the first to notice it, his eyes widening a little as he leaned in closer to the screen, “Why are you all spamming Ranboo chat!” The younger blond said in his loud voice.
“Huh, What?” Badlinu too raised his head from his makeup bag and looked at his chat audience,”- Ranboo is in the chat? What did he say? Wait, let me pull up what he wrote."
Ranboo was considering spamming his message but the red haired boy had already found it and also VIP'd him "'Tommy pretty man arc?', hm, we can say that Ranboo. You should thank me chat,. I'm making him pretty."
"Shut up both of you! I am not fucking pretty! I am handsome and the mait manliest man ever!" Tommy yelled before pausing a little, "-not that I'm saying men can't be pretty, pretty men are also very manly and poggers. Especially you Ranboo you are a very beautiful man." He added with a grin before he stopped to reconsider again, "No, wait! Men are not poggers, men are terrible and awful and not poggers at all!"
Ranboo found himself giggling at that as a blush slowly crept onto his face, painting them a rosy pink, he could feel the growing warmth on his cheeks, "stooop" he shreked to one in particular. He felt all warm and happy inside, there was something about Tommy that always made him smile and feel nice, especially since he had started complimenting him so much. He tried to keep reminding himself he probably just did it for a bit but that didn't stop his heart from singing happy notes everytime.
Both Tommy's online persona and his real self were like the sun and who was Ranboo to be be immune to the sunshine boy's charm and not just naturally gravitate to him. He was so absorbed in looking at Tommy that he didn't even notice that Badlinu was done going through his makeup bag and now held the eyeliner in his hand, he was also done with a little monologue on what kind of eyeliner would suit him.
The American was only brought out of his daze when the dyed redhead placed his hand under the blond's chin ti turn his face and bring it closer to him, asking him to shut his eyes. He leaned in even closer to him as he slowly started doing his work.
Watching the scene unfold was doing something to Ranboo, he didn't know what but it couldn't have been anything good. It felt like acid burning through his insides and hot iron branding his heart. He tried brushing it off as a heartburn from the leftover curry he had for lunch that Tubbo's family had ordered last night. He kept watching as Badlinu finished lining the first eye and moved to the second eye, the unpleasantness growing slowly until it grew almost physically painful to watch, yep, still just a heartburn.
He is occupied himself with watching the viewer count, only because it was interesting watching it suddenly rising as people who weren't regular Badlinu watchers found out about the tommy with eyeliner situation from various social media platforms, yep, that's the only reason why the streamer found the viewer count more appealing than the said eyeliner situation.
The next time Ranboo finally turned his attention from the chat and viewer count was when the older British boy said something asking the chat's opinion on his eyeliner. At that moment he knew that the sight in front of him would haunt him for a long while. He was met with Tommy's bright blue eyes even more emphasised and accentuated around them. Badlinu had done an amazing job with the eyeliner, it was flared at the corner and thinning out as it reached the inner end, he had lined the top lid from the middle to the edge winging it only just a little, leaving the inner corners bare. It suited him so well.
Tommy looked absolutely stunning and Ranboo had quite frankly lost his breath, or rather had it stolen away. He knew eyeliner was like magic but he wasn't aware of its full power until now. The American boy was once again list in Britton's eyes, his mouth going dry and heart rate skyrocketing and before he was fully aware of what he was doing he already had a bunch of screenshots saved and he knew he was going to watch every single fan edit he could find of today. Yep, his friend was pretty, nothing wrong with admitting that.
"Why is he so damn pretty? Why?! This should be illegal!! Just, so pretty." Ranboo whispered to himself, there was this warm floaty feeling in his chest, he wasn't really unfamiliar with it, he had in fact felt it before but only in respect with tommy, like when his hair would look ever so slightly fluffier, or when he was the center of his attention, or when the blond would talk about something he was particularly excited about and his eyes would shine as if they held literal stars in them. Yeah, in fact he had felt it very often, he just never really bothered to think deeper about it.
The American was so engrossed in looking at eyeliner tommy that he almost missed whatever Badlinu addressed to him. Thankfully he was brought out of his trance-like state when he called his name, “- If you're still here, what do you think about Tommy, Ranboo? Do you think he’s anywhere near your pretty man?” he asked.
The moment those words left Badlinu’s mouth, Tommy’s face scrunched up in a confusion as he looked at him in suspicion, “What? Who are you on about Freddie?” he asked. Ranboo smiled at how adorable he looked with that expression on his face.
“Oh, he’s the eyeliner guy we met during yours and tubbo’s irl manhunt stream. Ranboo had been spamming the chat about him. It was all over twitter.” he casually explained.
Now, the pretty man thing was a long while back and he barely remembered it, and at this moment Tommy looked like the prettiest human being to exist on earth to Ranboo but, it was always Ranboo’s brand to say what is just the most funny thing to say at the moment, that was what he lived for. Also , he clearly wasn't calling Tommy the prettiest person on earth in front of thousands of people.anyways. “No one can match the pretty man” and “tommy looks okayish tho '' were the two messages he spammed in the chat. With the viewers almost doubling between his previous chat message and this one there was no way Badlinu could have found his message otherwise.
Just as he had expected, the moment the red haired blond read, his reply out loud, Tommy immediately took offense from it. He looked directly into the camera and, jesus, his stare looked so much more intense with the eyeliner, no one though they could get any bluer but they did, and started yelling, “fuck you Bitch, fuck you. I’m the prettiest man to walk on earth after Tom Holland! I look fucking awesime with eyeliner! I bet you can never pull off eyeliner as well as i do Ranboob.”. He got closer and closer to the camera with every sentence, only leaning back to his original spot when he was done talking and finished as he took a deep breath.
“Yeah right, that's why the girl from college rejected you.”
"Fuck you Freddie, I will pourposly ruin your make up and make you look ugly."
Ranboo was laughing at that, glowing a bit with pride over how well he knew Tommy to have predicted the right reaction. He did however double over with laughter when tommy saw the chat agreeing with the american and immediately pulled out his phone and started unlocking it while muttering loudly, "fuck you two and the twitch.tv/Badlinu chat members. I don't care about your opinion. I know tiktok agrees with me."
Staring at his phone camera, the Briton started filming, "Hello tiktok, I am wearing eyeliner and live on twitch.tv/Badlinu with my friend Freddie and his chat and Ranboo say that some "pretty man" is more beautiful than me. They are stupid and wrong. Like if you agree that I am the most beautiful man ever."
By the time Ranboo completely regained his composure, the bit was over already and the stream had moved on. Tommy was currently trying and struggling really hard with the eyeshadow. Soon enough the tall American was also back to being completely mesmerised by Tommy's as he concentrated very hard on getting the makeup right.
He was so engrossed in the stream that he didn't even notice Tubbo entering the currently shared living space. The short brunette realised the opportunity, taking the nerf gun and fired at the oblivious teen.
Ranboo let out a surprised scream filled with fear, turning to find tubbo holding the nerf gun, grinning evilly. "Tubbo man! You almost killed me with a heart attack."
"Honestly, it's your fault for not paying attention. What were you so invested in watching, boss man?" He asked, his eyes glinting with mischief and curiosity as of he just hadn't scared the living hell out of the boy.
"Just Freddie's stream. He's making Tommy do his makeup." He replied, still a bit baffled, trying to calm himself.
"Aww really? I thought you were watching some secret crush of yours or something." Tubbo's mouth into a frown with clear disappointment.
"Hm? Why would you just say that? Why was that just the first thing you assumed?" Ranboo said in a distressed tone, voice an octave higher than usual, seemingly unaware of the light redness that was dusting his cheeks and tips of his ears.
"Well,To be fair, you were staring at the screen with that totally lovesick look in your eyes like totally mesmerized,. As if you were looking at someone you had a really bad crush on."
oh. OH.