The Shape of His Desire: Ch. 4
CHAPTER 4 - THE FIRST CHANGES
Ethan’s always been proud of his body hair. It was part of his presence — masculine, natural, a little wild. He was the kind of guy who wore it like a statement. It set him apart. So when he starts to notice some shedding that evolves into massive hair loss across his body, he begins to feel like he’s in for some kind of involuntary metamorphosis that leads him to become a bit more dependent on Nick emotionally.
His Feet. It starts in the morning — nothing special. Ethan sits on the edge of the bed, pulls off his socks after a morning run, and pauses. He notices it: a light scattering of fine black hairs inside the cotton. Not just a few — a small clump, curled and loose, like shedding fur. He frowns, brushes it off his foot, and leans forward.
The tops of his feet, once covered in dark, confident hair, look… odd.. His toes, once proudly woolly, now hairless and soft. He flexes them. Rubs his big toe between two fingers. It used to feel rough — masculine. Now, his fingers slide easier. The skin there feels almost silky. Reaching for his other sock, he finds that one has hairs in it too.
He tells himself it’s just from running. Friction. Maybe new detergent. But that night after his shower, he steps out, wipes the mirror, and bends over to check again. The tops of his feet are smooth, oddly pretty. His ankles too — bare, like he’s shaved them. An image crosses his mind, it’s an ankle bracelet, pure silver, made up of carefully carved flowers, the initials N+E are engraved on it, “that would look nice on my pretty ankle, maybe Nick will get it for me”, Ethan thinks to himself. A thought like this had never been in his mind before.
His Legs. A day or so later, Ethan goes to scratch his leg and notices the back of his calves — soft to the touch, almost slippery beneath his fingers. Hours later, he notices the same thing on his thighs. In the shower, he notices the hair is detaching from his skin and washing down the drain, not just on his calves or thighs, but everything from his ankles to his waist. He stands under the showerhead and watches the water bead and slide down his now bare skin, the follicles gone. He used to feel rugged and loved showing off his hairy legs, ever since they grew in. Now there’s a glossy smoothness to him — like he’s been waxed. The feeling is foreign, sensual, and feminine. Ethan is feeling awkward about this particular change because it’s more public, it will certainly be noticed when wearing shorts, the world will notice how fresh and smooth his legs look.. Will they think he’s doing it for Nick? Maybe Nick likes a smooth boy?
The thought of Nick enters his mind, particularly his legs, covered in that thick golden hair… so masculine. Ethan becomes jealous thinking about Nick, how he gets to show off those furry limbs to the world and present in such a mannish way. Then his emotion shifts, he begins to feel desire, he desires to caress, massage, and tangle those hairy legs of Nicks with his own. Yes, only then can he feel what he has lost.
His Groin. This is where it gets personal. Ethan used to keep it wild and natural. But now… he notices the hair around his pelvis has thinned. The dark masculine curls beneath his navel are gone. His balls look exposed, no hair on them at all. When he touches them, his fingers glide, nothing catching, no friction, just silky skin. In a way, it kind of seems nice, it feels clean, light, and naked down there. “Maybe this particular change isn't so bad” he thought to himself as he pulled on his black boxer briefs. A moment later Nick walks in, completely in the nude. Ethans eyes immediately dart down to Nick's dense patch of coarse, honey-blond hair that adorns his manhood. It is so natural and thick. Ethan places a hand over his own groin remembering how he too recently sported the same masculine trait - oh how good it felt to scratch, to let poke over the top of his waistband as a way of showing off and letting the imagination of others roam, and the smell… how the hair absorbs the sweat and odor while emulating an intoxicating scent, the scent of a man. Now, it’s all gone.
Nick catches Ethan glancing down at his handsome honey haired manhood and begins to feel more power over Ethan, “it’s finally happening”, Nick thinks to himself, “he is finally jealous of something I possess - this will surely lead to further insecurity and eventual submission.”
His Pits. His Chest, His Arms. Ethan got home late. Long day. Too many meetings. His dress shoes come off with a practiced sigh, dropped neatly by the door. He loosens his tie with one hand as he moves through the apartment, heading to the bedroom to change. He doesn’t even notice it at first. The automatic part of the evening begins — unbutton the shirt, roll the sleeves, unbuckle the belt. The routine. The rhythm. He slips the dress shirt off, reaches to hang it—then glances at the mirror and stops dead. His arm freezes mid-air. His reflection is… wrong. He turns slowly toward it, the shirt hanging limp in one hand. And there it is. Undeniable. Complete.
His chest is bare — not a single hair left across the once-dark plane between his pecs or the sides where it used to fan out proudly. His armpits are bald — clean as glass, the skin beneath them glowing slightly under the bedroom lights. It’s not just the absence of hair—it’s the strange, supple sheen. Like he’s been lotioned. Maintained. Softened. And his arms, god—his arms used to carry a dusting of dark hair, nothing too thick, but confident. Masculine. Now? They look shaved. No, worse than shaved. Feminized. There’s nothing left.
His skin is still olive, still lightly tan from outdoor runs and city walks, but now it glows unnaturally — flawless, almost artificial. Like something manufactured, not earned. He stares at himself in disbelief. Runs his hands across his arms. His torso. His pits. There’s no bristle. No roughness. Just that faint silkiness, that too-perfect texture.
“What the hell is happening to me…” Then, he hears the door open. Nick’s home. Ethan scrambles to grab a T-shirt but freezes again as he hears Nick’s footsteps coming down the hall. And when Nick enters, dropping his bag, pulling off his own hoodie — it only makes everything worse. Because Nick still looks like the man Ethan used to be. His chest is dusted with rich, thick hair. His armpits full, dark. His forearms strong and coated in a healthy blond-gold that catches the light. He’s radiant in his roughness, his untouched masculinity. And he smells like it, too — all warm sweat and confidence. Nick’s eyes find Ethan, half-dressed, still staring at himself.
“You okay?” says as if Nick had no idea what was going on. Ethan swallows. “It’s all gone.” “What is?” “Everything. The hair. My chest. My arms. There’s nothing left.”
Nick glances him up and down, slow and deliberate. Then, in a voice that’s just a little too satisfied: “Yeah, I noticed recently. You’re getting… smoother, I thought you might have just been experimenting with some grooming.” Ethan looks away, burning with a mix of shame and confusion. Nick steps closer, brushes his fingers up Ethan’s now-bare arm. “It suits you, though. All that soft skin… you look good. You look clean.” Clean. Again with that word. Nick leans in, kisses the side of Ethan’s neck, then walks past him toward the shower, peeling off his clothes as he goes — revealing even more fur, more manhood, more of what Ethan isn’t anymore. Ethan stays behind, staring at himself in the mirror again. The stubble on his face is all he has left — and even now, he’s not sure how long that’ll stay.
His Face. Ethan woke up like he always did: tangled in sheets, half-facedown in his pillow, the morning sun drawing soft lines across the floorboards. He yawned, stretched, blinked the sleep from his eyes. Instinctively, he reached for his jaw — fingers dragging up to give his usual morning scratch across his stubble. But instead of the familiar rasp — the coarse bristle, the proud grit of three-day growth — his fingers met something else. Nothing. He froze. Then tried again — slower this time, running his fingertips along his cheek, his chin, under his jaw. No resistance. Just skin. Warm, soft skin. Like polished silk. “What the…” He bolted upright, throwing the blankets off, heart pounding. Bare feet slapped the floor as he stumbled to the bathroom mirror, flicking on the light with a shaky hand. And there he was. Clean-shaven. Completely.
Not even a shadow of hair remained on his face — no sideburns, no jawline grit, no upper lip fuzz. Not even that faint trace of darkness under the skin that showed his beard was coming in. Just smooth, olive-toned skin, fresh and delicate. Boyish.
His lips looked fuller. His jaw somehow narrower. He leaned in, squinting. “No. No, no, no!” He rubbed furiously at his chin, hoping for that familiar scratch. Nothing. It was like he’d been waxed. Or worse—like he’d never grown facial hair at all. He reached into the medicine cabinet, pulled out his beard trimmer in a panic. Switched it on. Held it under his jaw. No sound. No resistance. The buzzing head skimmed over his skin like it wasn’t even touching a man. The silence was deafening. This isn’t just hair loss. This is erasure. He stared at his reflection — his face looked years younger. Softer. Less like him. It wasn’t rugged. It wasn’t mature. It wasn’t masculine.
He heard Nick’s footsteps approaching behind him and quickly turned the water on, pretending to wash his face. But he knew Nick would notice. How could he not? Nick entered, leaned on the doorframe, watching. “Morning, babyface.” Ethan didn’t turn around. Nick walked up behind him, wrapping his arms around Ethan’s now-bare torso, pressing his hairy chest to Ethan’s smooth back. He kissed Ethan’s freshly hairless cheek and whispered: “You’re getting cuter by the day.” And Ethan, for the first time, didn’t know what to say.Because he didn’t feel cute. He felt stripped.
By this point, Ethen feared the worst. He knew something major was happening to him. He feared some type of freak illness or condition, drop in testosterone, and even humored the idea of a possible curse. He does a brief internet search but comes up with a bunch of information that seems even more confusing or unlikely. He decides to make an appointment with his doctor to seek out medical advice or even a cure (if that’s what was even needed). Nick offered to help (since he normally scheduled such things for them both) but lied to Ethen saying his doctor wasn’t available until next month. Ethan suggested seeing someone else who might be available sooner but Nick told Ethan to just wait. Oddly enough, Ethan listens to Nick, feeling a strange need to obey and honor him.
His Hair. The morning was already strange enough without the silence of the razor or the eerie smoothness of his face. But as Ethan stood in front of the bathroom mirror, adjusting his collar and combing his hair, something else caught his eye. A glint. A shimmer. He froze. Right at his temples — just above the ears — a soft wash of pale blonde had appeared. Not new growth. Not roots. The actual strands of his thick black hair were just… lighter. He leaned in, rubbed at it like it was dust. It wasn’t. “No way…” It wasn’t a highlight or a trick of the light. It was his hair — just bleached. Naturally. Quietly. Like someone had slipped peroxide into his bloodstream overnight. He considered calling in sick. But what could he say? "My hair is changing color on its own and I have no idea why?" So he went in, wishfully hoping no one would notice. But of course they did. By 9:30 a.m., after his second meeting, two coworkers had already said something.
“Hey, new look, Ethan?”
“Dude, are you going blonde?”
“Kinda makes you look younger!”
By noon, the blonde had spread — not just at the sides now, but crawling across the top of his head in subtle streaks. A brownish-blonde, soft and warm, completely at odds with the dark, authoritative black he once had. His reflection in the conference room window looked… foreign. He kept tugging at his hair, checking his phone camera every chance he got. But by the time he was pulling into the driveway after work, the sun caught his reflection in the car window and he nearly gasped. His hair was now a clean, bright blonde shade. Unmistakably twink-coded. It framed his smooth, youthful face, clashing violently with the image of himself he’d spent years curating — confident, sharp, masculine. He stepped out of the car slowly, still staring at his reflection in the window.
He looked like he’d gone through a phase — like some 22-year-old figuring himself out at gay clubs, still learning what it meant to be a man. And worst of all, people would just assume it was intentional. Some bold new aesthetic choice. But he knew the truth.He hadn’t chosen this. As he walked up the path to the apartment, a neighbor glanced up from their garden and called out: “Love the new color! Feeling flirty, huh?” Ethan forced a smile, waved, and kept walking. His hands were shaking as he reached for the doorknob. He didn’t even feel like he was walking into his own home anymore.
Feeling overwhelmed and defeated, Ethan collapsed on the couch for a bit. He began to contemplate the changes he’d experienced over the past few days, particularly with his hair. Everything that occurred was a tough and shocking adjustment. He felt less masculine, less confident, and insecure in himself. The smooth body and bleach blonde hair wasn't him at all - it was a prison he now lived in. He never felt attracted to men like this nor imagined he’d one day become one.
Deep down, Ethan felt it, this was a new version of him, the changes unstoppable and eerily irreversible. His intuition told him this was something more than a medical crisis or condition, it might be the universe reshaping him.
Continuing to get lost in his thoughts, Ethan leans into what remains of him. At least he still had his lean yet muscular physique, strikingly handsome face with a strong jawline, he was still tall standing at 6 '2, and of course he still had his impressive 9” dick complete with a matching set of heavy, low-hanging balls. He was still a man with qualities that commanded respect and attention. Sure the world might see his soft, hairless skin, youthfully clean face, and beach boy hairdo, but that didn't mean he was any less of a man - maybe just a preppier one. A man who is confident enough in himself to smooth out some of his rugged edges and polish up a bit. And besides, Nick was his other half who possessed the wildly hairy qualities he no longer possessed, so at least there was that. Not to mention how supportive Nick has been regarding my changes. Happier even. And there is nothing better than the feeling of earning your man's praise and happiness.
Little did Ethan know what lay ahead for him. These recent changes? They were just the beginning of a much larger plot — meticulously calculated, silently unfolding, and utterly inescapable. What seemed like harmless quirks of biology were, in truth, the first quiet waves of a complete redesign. Piece by piece, inch by inch, the man he thought he was… was being rewritten. He just doesn't know it yet.
