Male albino bat monster x reader (sfw, mutual pining) (Patreon)

Slender to the point of emaciated, covered in creamy fluff that did little to disguise his bony frame, with no hands but only the claws on the thumbs of his wings, he wasn’t exactly the first person you’d think would be good at chemistry, but ever since you’d been partnered with him, your lab sessions had got just that much brighter. 

His blood red eyes were quick and interested, and he usually seemed so focused on the class that you could snatch glances here and there without being too obvious. He was unusual and strange and almost ethereal, but he was also extremely intelligent and one of the gentlest and most empathetic souls you’d ever encountered. 

One day when you slouched into class feeling rougher than you had during freshers’ week, where the new students had been hazed or taken out every night on the town by the second years for a solid week, he glanced up and his big, circular, white-chocolate coloured ears swivelled backwards in concern. 

“Hey,” he chirruped, his squashed, pink nose twitching slightly too. “You alright?”

“Yeah,” you grunted. “Didn’t sleep too well. What are we even doing today?”

“I got you covered,” he grinned. “Don’t worry. You just sit there and look like you’re taking notes or something.”

“I don’t know what I did to deserve a lab partner like you, but I’m so glad I’ve got you,” you said, your tongue slightly looser for once, perhaps from your exhaustion and lack of sleep. 

His ears flicked upright and he chittered softly before laughing and turning to take another measurement. You stared at his bony back, beneath the soft-looking ruff around his neck, and saw that he had the tiniest little tail too. Just when he couldn’t have got any cuter…