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A holiday bonus means you can finally get a VR headset and start playing one of those hub like chatting games like VR chat. You originally pick a default girl avatar that you like the most, she had cool hair but none really spoke to you. With time and knowing the community you pick out more avatars to play as and start getting really into it, losing any jetlag you originally had when wearing the console for long periods of time. Of course, you're still responsible, go to bed on time and all, but it becomes a fun hobby of yours to meet other people.

One day while looking at models online, you find a male avatar that you think looks absolutely incredible. The modeler's style is great, the clothes he's in and his hairstyle is right up your alley, and he's got just the perfect body to gawk at in one of those mirror rooms you like to hang out in. But, he's a boy model, clearly. You think about if it would be weird to put this on, but you've seen dudes playing as E cupped furries as wide as they are tall. You've seen grown women playing as NPC slimes from Dragon Quest. You once saw a guy with a Snoopy avatar pulled from a PS2 game who was incredibly committed to the silent bit; to say the least you quickly reconciled that in VR other people won't care about what skin you have on, male or female.

Maybe it's because it's your first time playing as such an attractive character, maybe it's the allure of people hearing your high pitched voice come out of his mouth, but that night you talked to so many new people and made so many new friends. After all, the avatar is really hot. Your hair color is the same, his is in a short but shaggy style that you'd worry about being able to pull off though. It's fun to watch your movements translate to his, how you can twist your hands and snap your fingers through his bigger and broader hands. You don't have full body tracking in your setup, as you enjoy sitting and blissing out while you play, but with strangers coming up to you asking to be stepped on it may have to be something you consider.

You have so much fun, he becomes your go to avatar. It's just a model, it's not like people will start acting like you're a boy! As time passes, you spend less time playing normal games and more time in VR. Forget about leaving the house, you've become so addicted to the attention you get in your VR community that you try to minimize human contact as much as possible. People stop seeing you, they probably would be shocked at how badly you're keeping yourself. 'A demure young woman shouldn't dress like a slob,' they'd say, probably. They didn't know how handsome the people online say you are.

They don't know how with time, less and less players recognize you as a girl. Your username is largely ambiguous, but you overhear he's and hims tossed about in reference to you all the time. You don't correct it, that takes time and effort, and it's not like they're misgendering you to attack you. You play as a boy, they call you a boy, you should reason that you had this coming. Sometimes, you try to sell it to fuck with people, throwing your voice down or using a filter to mask it. Sometimes, you forget to turn the filter off for days, it's not like it makes that big of a difference right? It just makes your voice sound a few tones lower.

Your online identity wins you compliments all the time, people constantly IM you thristing and fiending for a chance to RP or hangout. You reject what doesn't suit you and hang out with the degenerates who treat you fairly. They go one about how you're the hottest man they have ever met, and you remember for just a moment that you aren't supposed to be. God, you're a girl, this has to be a lie, what are you doing?

You wake up the next morning and stumble into the bathroom. You look yourself over in the mirror, your eyes are a bit worn and tired from the extended gaming sessions. Besides the fact that you had breasts, you weren't any sort of shining example of what a "woman" could be. Not to say that you had to maintain yourself to have some self-worth, but taking yourself in in this state felt wrong. Something about the image before you felt, uncannily, completely wrong.

You go to the kitchen, take a pair of scissors, and run back to the bathroom. You've dedicated many play hours to staring at your favorite avatar, surely you can replicate his haircut in the mirror by now.